More cord cutting news for all you crazy, zany refugees from the tyranny of satellite and cable TV, from Luke Bourna at CordCuttersNews. FWIW, Roku still doesn’t move us – too many mandatory add-ons, in our experience, and a service as underused as YouTube TV raising its price? Sheesh, doods, get a clue:
Thanks to Lionsgate, students at Howard University in D.C. are getting a
chance to learn the entertainment business through paid internship programs. Lionsgate is the first entertainment company to join forces with Howard University to start the educational institute’s program that has allows six to 12 students to learn the filmmaking and television businesses. This particular program was launched by UCLA’s Anderson School of Management.
The idea for this came from Sen. Kamala Harris, who is a Howard alumni and mentioned to Lionsgate that intern programs with higher education could increase diversity across the entertainment business. “She was one of the catalysts to help raise awareness around this opportunity,” Jay Tucker, Exec Director at the Center for MEMES (Media, Entertainment & Sports) at UCLA told Deadline. “It really helped to get the ball rolling.”
(UPDATE: Bear with us. This gets complicated. Shortly after we prepared the article below for publication, Starz tweeted an apology and explanation to TorrentFreak.) You can find it HERE.
(Maybe this is over now. Or maybe it isn’t? Guess we’ll have to see.)
Yesterday, we ran an article from TorrentFreak about leaks about several TV shows including Starz’s American Gods. Guess who immediately demanded that a TorrentFreak tweet on the subject be taken down pronto?
Know that article we ran about how Disney is going all out to make its new Disney+ streaming circle the best of the best? In addition to all the idealistic and altruistic reasons that we are absolutely certain have figured into the launch, turns out there’s also this:
This week, The Information wrote an expansive story about Disney and Netflix as Disney gets ready to launch Disney+.
Who’d a’thunk that Disney’s upcoming streaming service would appear so darned inviting? The way this TVWriter™ minion sees it, if Disney+ fulfills a quarter of its potential, it could – and should – put half the cable networks in the world out of business.
Today, the Walt Disney Company rolled-out their plans for their upcoming streaming service Disney+ during an Investors Meeting. Now that we finally know more of the details for this service, here’s a round-up of all the original television series announced and rumored for the service.