Alex's series looking back at the film careers of actors who've played the Doctor finishes with Matt Smith and Peter Capaldi...
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Read the previous part in this series: the film careers of Christopher Eccleston and David Tennant, here.
By 2009, the new version of Doctor Who had become not only an integral part of Saturday night television and a huge Christmas ratings winner but also an international success all over again. David Tennant, who had played the Time Lord since 2005 and was, arguably, more popular than any Doctor since the mighty Tom Baker hung up his scarf in 1981, had announced his resignation from the part he loved in October 2008. Many wondered how the incoming showrunner, Steven Moffat, would follow Tennant and what kind of show would emerge.
Tennant spent much of 2009 on stage in Hamlet and was only able to devote small amounts of time to Doctor Who. Occasional specials...
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Read the previous part in this series: the film careers of Christopher Eccleston and David Tennant, here.
By 2009, the new version of Doctor Who had become not only an integral part of Saturday night television and a huge Christmas ratings winner but also an international success all over again. David Tennant, who had played the Time Lord since 2005 and was, arguably, more popular than any Doctor since the mighty Tom Baker hung up his scarf in 1981, had announced his resignation from the part he loved in October 2008. Many wondered how the incoming showrunner, Steven Moffat, would follow Tennant and what kind of show would emerge.
Tennant spent much of 2009 on stage in Hamlet and was only able to devote small amounts of time to Doctor Who. Occasional specials...
- 6/4/2014
- by louisamellor
- Den of Geek
Seacrest Global Group is expanding its marketing practice. It's Civic Entertainment, a strategic marketing agency that Sgg scooped up in 2012, has acquired Nate Schreiber’s marketing and PR firm Culture Shop. The company will merge its operations into Ceg, with a plan to maintain Culture Shop as a specialty practice within to be able to provide the agency’s clients access to research and analysis of the latest marketplace trends. The combined entity will be jointly lead by Schreiber and Ceg co-founders and CEOs Stuart Ruderfer and David Cohn, with Ryan Seacrest available to provide content, platforms and access to
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- 5/8/2014
- by Lacey Rose
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Ryan Seacrest is looking to expand his reach yet again. His newly launched Seacrest Global Group has made its first acquisition by purchasing a majority stake in New York-based strategic marketing agency Civic Entertainment Group. The firm, which will continue to operate under the leadership of co-founders Stuart Ruderfer and David Cohn, is behind such high-profile, experiential promotional efforts as The CNN Grill at both 2008 National Conventions and SXSW. In addition to funding, Seacrest, who earns a reported annual income of nearly $60 million and has a Rolodex that's the envy of the industry, will be able to provide content, platforms
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- 12/5/2012
- by Lacey Rose
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Journalist David Cohn is a self-described "liberal, intellectual, communist, media-elite, Jew-bastard from San Francisco." And yet, unlike most of his "media-elite, Sf, communist bastard friends," he never missed Glenn Beck's show on Fox News. At least, not for the last year or so. Cohn says he wasn't seeking out evidence for a liberal indictment of Beck, nor was it all a blogger's stunt. "I’ve always been open to varying opinions. In fact, I seek them out," Cohn writes. "This is not me on a journalism high-horse. It’s genuinely who I am. I don’t necessarily like arguing (I’m not a comment troller that goes around picking political fights) but I like to try and understand people and their motivating factors."...
- 7/1/2011
- by Mark Joyella
- Mediaite - TV
When Current TV was started by Al Gore in 2005 it was made up primarily of viewer content. And while leadership shifts and the state of the industry has seen changes in the network's format, they still actively engage viewers in the conversation. Recently they succesfully launched Bar Karma, a show that relies on viewer input for stories and characters. Now the forward thinking network is taking the viewer-as-creator thing one step further and hiring a fan with great creative ideas to work in the programming department.
Utilizing the Bar Karma StoryMaker tool, network execs are asking fans of the show to pitch themselves instead of a story or a character. All you have to do is tell them what you would do your first day on the job at Current TV. The writer of the best pitch will win a six month gig in the network's programming department and a $40,000 pay check.
Utilizing the Bar Karma StoryMaker tool, network execs are asking fans of the show to pitch themselves instead of a story or a character. All you have to do is tell them what you would do your first day on the job at Current TV. The writer of the best pitch will win a six month gig in the network's programming department and a $40,000 pay check.
- 3/2/2011
- by Pop Culture Passionistas
- popculturepassionistas
Will Wright, creator of video games "Sims," "Sim City" and "Spore" will co-produce a new TV series called "Bar Karma", aka 'A Mystical Watering Hole At The End Of The Universe', for Al Gore's Current TV.
Anchored by technology that Wright developed exclusively for Current TV, the series will enlist viewers to join an online global community @ "Current TV's Creation Studios."
At this virtual online studio, users will participate in the development of all creative/technical aspects of the show's production, communicating directly with producers of the show.
Albie Hecht, former President of Spike TV and President of Entertainment at Nickelodeon, is Wright's co-creator on the project and will executive produce the series for Worldwide Biggies. David Cohn, former General Manager of MTV2, will serve as executive in charge for Current TV.
"I have always been excited by innovation and what we are creating is unlike anything on television,...
Anchored by technology that Wright developed exclusively for Current TV, the series will enlist viewers to join an online global community @ "Current TV's Creation Studios."
At this virtual online studio, users will participate in the development of all creative/technical aspects of the show's production, communicating directly with producers of the show.
Albie Hecht, former President of Spike TV and President of Entertainment at Nickelodeon, is Wright's co-creator on the project and will executive produce the series for Worldwide Biggies. David Cohn, former General Manager of MTV2, will serve as executive in charge for Current TV.
"I have always been excited by innovation and what we are creating is unlike anything on television,...
- 10/16/2010
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
The man who showed us the glee in forbidding little virtual people from peeing is bringing his game design philosophy to cable television, thanks to a new partnership with Current TV. Will Wright, creator of the "Sims," "Sim City" and "Spore" will be co-producing a new program's called "Bar Karma" for the Al Gore-founded channel. The series will craft the episodes' plots according to input from the audience. The network's official press release reads:
Anchored by technology that Wright has developed exclusively for Current TV, the series, tentatively titled Bar Karma, will enlist viewers to join an online global community at a special web destination entitled, "Current TV's Creation Studios." At this virtual television studio, users will participate in the development of all creative and technical aspects of production and communicate directly with the producers of the show. Current has also signed Albie Hecht, former President of Spike TV...
Anchored by technology that Wright has developed exclusively for Current TV, the series, tentatively titled Bar Karma, will enlist viewers to join an online global community at a special web destination entitled, "Current TV's Creation Studios." At this virtual television studio, users will participate in the development of all creative and technical aspects of production and communicate directly with the producers of the show. Current has also signed Albie Hecht, former President of Spike TV...
- 10/15/2010
- by Evan Narcisse
- ifc.com
This is a recap of the second episode of A&E’s new television program, Teach: Tony Danza. There has never in the history of television been a more serious show that is more difficult to take seriously. This show is way not joking. You know that feeling you used to get on your second day of school? It’s that feeling where your first-day nerves have calmed down and you finally are able to come to terms with how the rest of your school year might turn out. That is what the second episode of Teach: Tony Danza is like. And, wow. What you end up coming to terms with is that this sh*t is for real; the stakes are actually very high. The terrible idea of having Tony Danza teach high school English in order to provide television entertainment is actually being done, and Tony Danza is actually these kids’ teacher,...
- 10/11/2010
- by Noah Garfinkel
- BestWeekEver
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