Author 'really thrilled' that American Gods and Anansi Boys will finally reach the screenTwo Neil Gaiman books are to hit the small screen at last – his 2001 novel American Gods and the sort-of follow-up Anansi Boys.Gaiman confirmed on his journal that American Gods – which up to last November was due to be adapted by the American TV cable company HBO – was now in the hands of FremantleMedia's North American arm, while Anansi Boys will be made by acclaimed UK production company Red.American Gods won a string of awards including the Hugo, the Nebula and Bram Stoker. It follows ex-con Shadow as he discovers incarnations of ancient gods from pantheons of the Norse, Greek, African and more locked in a power-struggle in the modern-day United States.Gaiman says: "As to where you will be able to see it, who is going to be in it, who will be writing or show-running, none of these things have yet been settled. But it already looks like it's going to be a smoother run developing it than it had at HBO, so I am very pleased."He added of the failed HBO deal: "HBO had an option on American Gods for several years. It went through three different pilot scripts. HBO has a limited number of slots and, after a while, passed it to Cinemax, who are in the HBO family, who decided eventually they didn't want to do it, and the option expired, which unfortunately meant we couldn't work with Tom Hanks' production company Playtone any longer, as they are exclusive to HBO."According to... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'
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Conde Nast has greenlit a half-dozen series for IGTV designed to anchor ad programs that will sew many different Facebook ad products together at once. The post How Conde Nast plans to make money from Instagram TV appeared first on Digiday. Continue reading at Digiday
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After Hearst Connecticut Media reported on a lawsuit alleging past sexual abuse at the Boys & Girls club in Greenwich, Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
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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
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An international manga bestseller, The Drops of God is often credited with spurring wine sales in the regions it has been published. The post Panel Mania: ‘The Drops of God’ appeared first on The Millions. Continue reading at The Millions
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Film director Richard Curtis has signed a deal with Locksmith Animation to create an animated feature based on his festive children's books, in a project described as "Love Actually for kids". Continue reading at The Bookseller
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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
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Shannon Pufahl’s “On Swift Horses” weaves an entanglement of attractions in postwar California. Continue reading at The New York Times
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On the sanitization of the Yu-Gi-Oh! manga for the kid-friendly anime adaptation, and the ethics of drastically modifying the story for marketing. Continue reading at Book Riot
[ Book Riot | 2019-11-04 11:42:51 UTC ]
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A debut novelist delves into a boy’s life in inner-city Chicago with 'Everywhere You Don’t Belong.' Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
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Nicholas Lemann traces the effects as corporations changed from paternalistic to ruthless. Continue reading at The Washington Post
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Review of 'The Case for Nationalism: How It Made Us Powerful, United, and Free' by Rich Lowry Continue reading at The Washington Post
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Review of 'The Case for Nationalism: How It Made Us Powerful, United, and Free' by Rich Lowry Continue reading at The Washington Post
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Review of 'The Case for Nationalism: How It Made Us Powerful, United, and Free' by Rich Lowry Continue reading at The Washington Post
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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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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
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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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Gail Collins tells the stories of those who made their mark in middle age and beyond. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2019-10-18 13:47:38 UTC ]
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W&N has triumphed in a seven-publisher auction for Aztec historian Caroline Dodds Pennock’s untold story of the Native Americans who discovered Europe. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2019-10-16 19:15:44 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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