“I was Dick Donner’s assistant for four years, where I just constantly asked him about Superman,” confessed Geoff Johns, chief creative officer of DC Comics. “And The Goonies. He told me once that if he’d done another Superman movie, he would have made it about Brainiac, and I was just like, ‘Aw, man.’” There is no pain like fanboy pain, especially when it comes to knowing how your favorite characters were this close to coming to life in the movies or on TV before The Man stepped in to ruin the fun. But Johns, who develops TV series for DC and exec produces The CW’s upcoming hybrid cop show/superhero serial The Flash (based on a comic book series he wrote for several years), is pretty much The Man now. DC premieres three shows on broadcast TV this fall: The Flash on Oct. 8, NBC’s Constantine on Oct. 24 and Fox’s Gotham on Sept. 22. (CW’s Arrow kicks off its third season on Oct. 8, too.) Each of the pilots is filled with callbacks to the DC universe, and each of those nerdy moments represents another arc—maybe even a series. “We love Easter eggs, but we really want to try and do more than Easter eggs,” Johns said. “The fact that Doctor Fate’s helmet is in there is a plot line. Same with [super-intelligent evil gorilla] Grodd [in The Flash]. We’re introducing Jim Corrigan [The Spectre] in Constantine.” Geeky? Sure, make fun. But that’s how The Flash got its start (the character guest-starred on three episodes of Arrow). And Johns is playing for keeps: Starting out at... Continue reading at 'AdWeek'
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Open Mike Productions, the production company behind “Live at the Apollo” and “The Last Leg”, has optioned journalist James Felton’s 52 Times Britain Was A Bellend (Sphere) for a comedy TV series. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-11-12 05:26:52 UTC ]
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The team who launched the "Twilight" and "The Hunger Games" franchises have acquired the film and TV rights to Rules for Vanishing (Walker) by Kate Alice Marshall. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-11-06 02:34:37 UTC ]
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As connected TV usage continues to skyrocket, linear and digital viewing is blurring like never before. New streaming services are rapidly accelerating the evolution of the TV industry. At the Convergent TV summit, Adweek editors spoke with the innovators and leaders at the forefront of this... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2019-11-05 23:00:52 UTC ]
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August 29th. French cultural magazine Les Inrockuptibles is throwing its traditional end of summer party, also known as “le cocktail de rentrée littéraire.” On the intimate patio of the Musée Bourdelle, on the Left Bank, the big shots of France’s literary world exchange anecdotes about their... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2019-11-04 09:49:09 UTC ]
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I have no idea how one goes about adapting a poetry collection into a TV series, but it looks like I’ll find out soon—AMC Studios is creating an Afrofuturistic anthology series based on Eve L. Ewing’s debut collection Electric Arches. According to Shadow and Act, “The Electric Arches anthology... Continue reading at Literrary Hub
[ Literrary Hub | 2019-10-31 17:27:27 UTC ]
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The Nielsen company says the five games so far of the Washington-Houston matchup is the least-watched World Series ever Continue reading at ABC News
[ ABC News | 2019-10-29 21:44:42 UTC ]
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Looking for your next favorite book? Check out these new historical fiction books, full of beautiful prose, dynamic characters, and captivating settings. Continue reading at Book Riot
[ Book Riot | 2019-10-25 10:39:52 UTC ]
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Are you interested in checking out some manga that inspired shows from the 2019 fall anime season? We've gathered them in one convenient list! Continue reading at Book Riot
[ Book Riot | 2019-10-24 10:42:41 UTC ]
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Insurance group Direct Line dumped a large chunk of its digital media for TV in 2017 and could move even more over. The company is one of the largest TV advertisers in the U.K. As Direct Line upped its spending on TV, the business cut the number of display and programmatic online video ads it... Continue reading at Digiday
[ Digiday | 2019-10-24 04:00:05 UTC ]
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Bloomsbury has signed a book from Yale professor Eckhart Frahm for the first comprehensive non-fiction account of the rise and fall of what historians consider to be the world’s very first empire: Assyria. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-10-23 07:38:23 UTC ]
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Anheuser-Busch InBev is putting more marketing muscle behind Natural Light Seltzer as the brewer tries to make up ground in the hot-selling category dominated by White Claw and Truly. The line extension, which hit stores in August, will run its first TV ads starting this weekend during college... Continue reading at Advertising Age
[ Advertising Age | 2019-10-18 21:39:48 UTC ]
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One of them, Jason Reynolds’s middle-grade novel “Look Both Ways,” is a National Book Award finalist. Continue reading at The New York Times
[ The New York Times | 2019-10-18 21:16:26 UTC ]
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WH Smith has announced it is to buy US indie travel retailer Marshall Retail Group (MRG) for $400m. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-10-16 21:24:24 UTC ]
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Trapeze has snapped up a “celebration of love” reflecting stories from women of colour in a one-book deal. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-10-16 10:22:40 UTC ]
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"Newsnight" broadcaster Emily Maitlis' book Airhead: The Imperfect Art of Making News (Michael Joseph) will be adapted into a TV series to give viewers a glimpse of “what making news is really like.” Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-10-16 09:50:10 UTC ]
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This week YouTube kicks off its book club series with a Malcolm Gladwell roundtable interview on Booktube. The MLB playoffs continue, and Netflix has a slew of new series. Movie fans can stream Hobbs & Shaw or snag Scarface in 4K on Ultra HD Blu-... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2019-10-15 02:05:00 UTC ]
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These new science fiction and fantasy titles will be your perfect fall companions. Continue reading at Book Riot
[ Book Riot | 2019-10-04 10:36:35 UTC ]
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One of the first originals you'll be able to stream on Apple TV+ is M. Night Shyamalan's Servant, a psychological thriller that'll likely feature a few twists and turns in true M. Night fashion. Apple has revealed at New York Comic Con that the serie... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2019-10-04 08:15:00 UTC ]
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Nielsen unveiled an expansive overhaul of TV measurement in its 208 local markets that will substantially expand its audience panels while also adding out-of-home measurement in several markets. The company said the local TV overhaul, which has been in the works for three years, will deliver... Continue reading at AdWeek
[ AdWeek | 2019-10-03 10:00:35 UTC ]
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Welcome to Ad Age’s Wake-Up Call, our daily roundup of advertising, marketing, media and digital news. If you're reading this online or in a forwarded email, here's the link to sign up for our daily newsletter. You can also get an audio version of this briefing on your Alexa device. The FBI’s... Continue reading at Advertising Age
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