WaterCooler

While this week’s Water Cooler is being posted, foot traffic at MIP-TV in Cannes is slowing down, and the disassembly has begun, with workers already tearing down the (…)

The U.S. TV industry has already kicked off its cable upfronts, and the digital and broadcast network upfronts are about a month away. By mid-May, we’ll know all the brand (…)

With less than two weeks to go until MIP-TV 2014 opens its Palais, we chatted with Laurine Garaude, head of Television at Reed MIDEM, to find out what’s in (…)

The recent crackdown by the CRTC, Canada’s communications regulator, of three adult channels because they didn’t show enough Canadian sex, gave the Vancouver-based Fraser Institute (FI) a reason to diss (…)

The fourth edition of DISCOP Istanbul concluded in Turkey last week, and organizers Basic Lead report that attendance figures rose by 33 percent compare to last year.

There was (…)

The New Europe Market (NEM),  to be held June 10-13 in Dubrovnik, Croatia, brings together media professionals to discuss a wide variety of hot topics relevant to all (…)

At the 2014 Kidscreen Summit in New York City, the opinion of Italian children’s TV executives in attendance was that this year’s edition was not on par with (…)

With the release of  (the entire) season 2 of Netflix‘s political drama House of Cards, many U.S. television viewers are spending the week binge-watching episode after episode of (…)

There’s a new TV studio on the block, and this one is run by David Ellender, former CEO of London-based FremantleMedia. On Thursday Ellender announced the launch of Slingshot Global (…)

Hollywood is again in the middle of pilot development season. Usually, the industry waits with bated breath for the U.S. broadcast network Upfronts in New York City in mid-May, to (…)