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U.S. TV Turns to God, Feds, GIs & Superdudes For 2017-2018

While the U.S. is currently at that point in the year where summer shows are taking over the TV screens usually big-ticket items (…)

By |June 13th, 2017|Categories: WaterCooler|0 Comments

The TV Season, As Told by the U.S. Press

The New York Times’ opening salvo on Monday, May 15, declared that “Viewers’ Eyes May Drift, but Marketers Are Sticking With Broadcast Television.”

The next day, The Los Angeles Times seemed (…)

By |June 8th, 2017|Categories: WaterCooler|0 Comments

Q and A with JP Bommel Ahead of NATPE Budapest

NATPE Budapest will take place June 19-22 at the InterContinental hotel in Budapest (its returning home after relocating from Prague last year). VideoAge, which will have a large presence (…)

By |May 30th, 2017|Categories: WaterCooler|0 Comments

L.A. Screenings Review: A Busy Market For Indies

Before the start of the L.A. Screenings 2017, it was begining to feel like like deja vu from the L.A. Screenings 2008, which was affected by the writers’ strike that (…)

By |May 23rd, 2017|Categories: WaterCooler|0 Comments

New U.S. Series Announced — NBC, FOX, ABC and CBS’s New Scripted Shows

It’s broadcast network upfront week. We’re covering all the network announcements, and bringing them to you right away. In our upcoming L.A. Screenings issue, we’ll publish the new series by international (…)

By |May 15th, 2017|Categories: WaterCooler|0 Comments

L.A. Screenings Preview in VideoAge

The indie portion of the L.A. Screenings will get under way in the Century City area of Los Angeles starting on May 16, and at the same time in New (…)

By |May 9th, 2017|Categories: WaterCooler|0 Comments

Cameras In the Courtroom:  Let ‘Em Roll

By Royal F. Oakes*

One of the time-honored excuses for continuing to exclude broadcast cameras from federal courtrooms is the notion that if proceedings are televised, that will change (…)

By |May 2nd, 2017|Categories: WaterCooler|1 Comment

William (Bill) J.  Peck In VideoAge’s Hall of Fame

Reviewing Bill Peck’s 56-year-old career for the June-July Issue of VideoAge, is to not just go over the accomplishments of the first British International TV Distribution Hall of Fame honoree, (…)

By |April 25th, 2017|Categories: WaterCooler|9 Comments

How To Be Listed in VideoAge’s Two L.A. Screenings Editions

With the L.A. Screenings fast approaching fast and VideoAge’s two editions (LATAM and Studio) being prepped for printing, all exhibitors and buyers alike are requested to send in screenings information for (…)

By |April 19th, 2017|Categories: WaterCooler|0 Comments

Banjiro Uemura in the Int’l TV Distribution Hall of Fame

“Banji,” as Banjiro Uemura likes to be informally called, can be described as the entertainment industry’s Japanese cultural ambassador to the world, and the world’s cultural ambassador to Japan.

Now, Uemura’s (…)

By |April 10th, 2017|Categories: WaterCooler|0 Comments