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  • Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2016
The Escape Pod buys a stake in Digital Studio ORA Interactive
Norm Bilow, Managing Director, The Escape Pod
CHICAGO -- 

The Escape Pod, an independent advertising agency in Chicago, today announced that it has purchased a stake in ORA Interactive, a digital experience studio headquartered in the city’s West Loop neighborhood. The expansion of The Escape Pod’s full-service offering will accelerate the agency’s speed to ideas while driving cost-efficiencies for clients.

“We bring our clients’ brands to life in the most powerful manner possible—whether through broadcast, digital, social or experiential. By bringing ORA’s digital firepower in-house to enhance our full suite of services, we now have the ability to concept, produce, program and build anything we can dream up, faster and at a better cost for our clients,” said Norm Bilow, Managing Director, The Escape Pod. 

The strategic partnership between the two agencies is a natural fit based on similar cultures and complementary offerings. “The Escape Pod is known for bringing a sense of energy and excitement More

  • Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2016
Jimmy Fallon set to host 2017 Golden Globe Awards 
In this Jan. 12, 2014 file photo, Jimmy Fallon poses in the press room at the 71st annual Golden Globe Awards in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File)
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) -- 

Jimmy Fallon will be in charge of the 2017 Golden Globe Awards.

Fallon will host the three-hour ceremony that's scheduled to air Jan. 8 on NBC, the network said Tuesday.

Fallon, host of NBC's "Tonight Show," has a playful humor that's a good match for the "spontaneous and uninhibited" awards show, NBC Entertainment Chairman Robert Greenblatt said.

Fallon takes over from last year's host, Ricky Gervais, whose biting style of humor brought groans as well as laughs.

  • Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2016
P&G tops forecasts as company cuts costs, steps up marketing 
This July 9, 2015, file photo, shows signage outside Procter & Gamble corporate headquarters in downtown Cincinnati. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)
CINCINNATI (AP) -- 

Procter & Gamble reported a quarterly profit Tuesday that topped Wall Street expectations as the world's biggest consumer products company worked on slashing costs and pruning its product lineup to offset slow growth.

The maker of Tide detergent, Charmin toilet paper and Pantene shampoo said its sales declined for its fiscal fourth quarter, hurt by unfavorable currency exchange rates. But when excluding such factors, organic sales rose 2 percent, boosted by higher volume.

P&G has been trying to transform its struggling business to better focus on bigger brands with growth potential. The company has already shed more than half the 105 smaller brands it says collectively contribute little to its operating profit.

For its flagship brands, P&G is trying to drive sales with new products that bring in more money. In laundry detergents, for example, the company introduced a "Tide and Downy Odor Defense Collection" this year More

  • Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2016
Investigation Discovery joins forces with author James Patterson 
In this Oct. 18, 2012, file photo, James Patterson attends a screening of "Alex Cross" in New York. Investigation Discovery channel is joining forces with bestselling author James Patterson, who will write and executive produce a six-part scripted series for the network. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP, File)
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) -- 

Investigation Discovery channel is joining forces with bestselling author James Patterson, who will write and executive produce a six-part scripted series for the network.

The series will be based on ID-branded true-crime stories written for Patterson's new line of novella-length "BookShots." The portfolio of "BookShots" will be released in conjunction with the on-air 2017 premiere of this series.

Henry Schleiff, Group President of Investigation Discovery and other Discovery networks, called Patterson the network's "partner in crime." Patterson has sold more than 355 million books worldwide.

Each thriller, roughly 150 pages in length, will be available for less than five dollars.

The announcement was made Monday at the Television Critics Association meeting.

  • Monday, Aug. 1, 2016
Starz CEO bemoans Emmy snubs of network's "award-worthy" shows 
In this April 1, 2015 file photo, Starz CEO Chris Albrecht attends the mid-season premiere of "Outlander" in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)
By Frazier Moore, Television Writer
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) -- 

Starz network has found an avid audience targeting what its boss regards as "underserved" viewers like women and African-Americans with high-quality series.

But much to Chris Albrecht's exasperation, Emmy doesn't notice.

"I was part of the team that invented how to campaign for Emmy awards," the Starz CEO told TV writers Monday at the Television Critics Association meeting. "Trust me, it's not a level playing field. I spent years inside the TV Academy, working it. It took a lot of money, and there's a certain momentum that goes along with that."

Starz, which has won audiences and critical acclaim for such series as "Outlander," ''Power" and "Ash vs. Evil Dead," routinely gets the cold shoulder from the Television Academy.

It is happening again this year. Starz' only 2016 Emmy nods amount to four technical nominations.

"We couldn't be more proud of the work that is being done by the people on these shows," said Albrecht More

  • Monday, Aug. 1, 2016
Miami Film Industry Advocate Robert Parente Dies At 62
Robert Parente
MIAMI -- 

Robert Parente, who served as Miami’s film czar from 2002-2010, died last week after a long battle with cardiac disease. He was 62.

A beloved industry figure, Parente did much to attract and retain filming in Miami, spanning assorted projects ranging from commercials to features and TV. In the latter arena, he was instrumental in the long run that Miami enjoyed with the filming of USA Network’s Burn Notice spy thriller series. He also had a hand in developing a production incentive program (which expired this year) as well as a unified film permitting system called FilMiami.

A life celebration ceremony will be held 4-8 p.m. today at the Van Orsdel chapel at 4600 SW Eighth St. Funeral services will be at 10 a.m. on Tuesday at Saints Peter and Paul Catholic Church, 900 SW 26th Rd.

He is survived by his mother and his four siblings.

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  • Monday, Aug. 1, 2016
HLN's 3 female hosts speak out against sexual harassment 
Robin Meade
By Frazier Moore, Television Writer
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) -- 

Three female anchors on cable's HLN channel saluted Gretchen Carlson, the former Fox News Channel newswoman who recently sued the network's chairman alleging years of sexual harassment. Carlson's lawsuit resulted in the departure of Roger Ailes, who had founded Fox News Channel two decades before.

"Maybe I'm lucky, but I haven't witnessed it and I haven't been subjected to it" during her career, said Robin Meade during a session Sunday at the Television Critics Association conference. "But it's infuriating that somebody would allegedly try to make you feel that your talent wasn't enough, that somehow you needed to supplement that."

"It takes a great deal of courage to do what she did," Michaela Pereira said. "I commend her for having the chutzpah to be able to speak up. She represents, unfortunately, a lot of women in the country that are dealing with that kind of discrimination in the workplace."

"I hope that what comes out of this More

  • Saturday, Jul. 30, 2016
Couric, National Geographic team on gender documentary 
In this May 12, 2016, file photo, Katie Couric attends the premiere of her documentary, "Under The Gun", hosted by The Cinema Society in New York. (Photo by Christopher Smith/Invision/AP, File)
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) -- 

Katie Couric and National Geographic Channel are teaming up on a documentary about the science and culture behind gender.

Couric is the executive producer and host of the two-hour film, described as an in-depth look at factors involved in gender fluidity, including genetics, brain chemistry and modern culture.

The film, with the working title "Gender Revolution," will premiere globally on National Geographic Channel in January 2017. It will be timed to the release of a gender-themed issue of National Geographic magazine, the channel said Saturday.

"It seems that every day, there's a new story and a new vocabulary around gender that's challenging our long-held attitudes and preconceptions about what makes us who we are," Couric said. The documentary will go "beyond the headlines to examine the why, the how and what it all means, with intimate stories of the people who are at forefront of this new frontier."

Earlier this year, More

  • Saturday, Jul. 30, 2016
Sarah Jessica Parker goes thrift shop in new HBO comedy 
Sarah Jessica Parker, left, and Thomas Haden Church participate in the "Divorce" panel during the HBO Television Critics Association summer press tour on Saturday, July 30, 2016, in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) -- 

In "Sex and the City," Sarah Jessica Parker's wardrobe was all about the look and the label. In "Divorce," her new HBO comedy series, it's more about emotion.

Parker, back on HBO a decade after starring as the single Carrie on "Sex and the City," plays a wife and mother who decides to end her marriage. She stars opposite Thomas Haden Church.

Clothing is part of "the whole person in a much more subtle way. You see it in everything: in Thomas' character, in the children's clothing," Parker told TV critics Saturday. "The family is isolated in a period without it being a period piece. We thought a lot about that, a lot."

She was inspired by the look of 1970s film, Parker said, and most of what her character wears is from vintage or thrift shops. Costume designer Arjun Bhasin, who has worked with filmmaker Ang Lee, is in charge of the wardrobe.

Asked if she had to distinguish her "Divorce" character, Frances, from Carrie, Parker More

  • Saturday, Jul. 30, 2016
"Game of Thrones" to end after season 8, but 7th still ahead 
In this undated image released by HBO, Lena Headey appears in a scene from "Game of Thrones." (HBO via AP, File)
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) -- 

HBO has confirmed what "Game of Thrones" fans never wanted to hear: The fantasy-thriller phenomenon will be coming to an end after Season 8.

Recently HBO renewed the series - adapted from George R.R. Martin's novels - for a shortened seventh season consisting of seven episodes.

The eighth season will bring the saga to a close. The number of episodes for that last cycle has not been determined, HBO programming chief Casey Bloys said Saturday at the Television Critics Association's summer conference. "We'll take as many as the (producers) will give us," he said.

After that, a spinoff remains a possibility.

"We're open to it, the (producers) aren't opposed to it, but there's no concrete plans right now," Bloys said.

"Game" won't be back with its seventh season until next summer, missing the deadline for the 2017 Emmy competition, which it routinely dominates. Last year, "Game" scored a dozen Emmys.

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