The free, ad-supported streaming service Samsung TV Plus on a smart television set. Samsung TV Plus is a finalist for several 2024 StreamTV Awards. (Courtesy photo)
Questex’s media industry event StreamTV Show has unveiled the finalists for its annual StreamTV Awards.
The StreamTV Awards saw 200 percent more applications for consideration this year compared to 2023, according to Kevin Gray, the Vice President and Market Leader at Questex Technology Group.
“With 200 percent more applications than 2023, we’re thrilled with the growth of our annual StreamTV Awards program,” Gray said in a statement this week. “As a result, this year’s finalists are as deserving as any in the history of the competition. Congratulations to all finalists, and thank you to our esteemed judges for their hard work in making this year’s program a success.”
The finalists include the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), Samsung TV Plus, DirecTV, Cleeng, Plex, Amagi Corporation and Wurl,...
Questex’s media industry event StreamTV Show has unveiled the finalists for its annual StreamTV Awards.
The StreamTV Awards saw 200 percent more applications for consideration this year compared to 2023, according to Kevin Gray, the Vice President and Market Leader at Questex Technology Group.
“With 200 percent more applications than 2023, we’re thrilled with the growth of our annual StreamTV Awards program,” Gray said in a statement this week. “As a result, this year’s finalists are as deserving as any in the history of the competition. Congratulations to all finalists, and thank you to our esteemed judges for their hard work in making this year’s program a success.”
The finalists include the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), Samsung TV Plus, DirecTV, Cleeng, Plex, Amagi Corporation and Wurl,...
- 5/9/2024
- by Matthew Keys
- The Desk
Helldivers 2 was a tremendous success for Arrowhead Game Studios and Sony Interactive Entertainment. Reaching a million copies sold in the first three days alone, the developers were unprepared for the positive reception which is rightfully deserved. Fans have spent hours and hours fighting aliens, space bugs, and more that threaten Earth, it is the ultimate sci-fi shooter any gamer could ask for.
The original Helldivers was released in 2015, the developers did everything a perfect follow-up should, also changing things up a bit like being a third-person shooter rather than top-down, and then some.
For a game that tackles combat and uncontrolled mayhem, destruction should be also over the top. Built on a discontinued engine known as the Autodesk Stingray, players begin to wonder if their request for realism is too big of an ask for the game’s engine.
Helldivers 2 Was Built on a Discontinued Engine
The player count for...
The original Helldivers was released in 2015, the developers did everything a perfect follow-up should, also changing things up a bit like being a third-person shooter rather than top-down, and then some.
For a game that tackles combat and uncontrolled mayhem, destruction should be also over the top. Built on a discontinued engine known as the Autodesk Stingray, players begin to wonder if their request for realism is too big of an ask for the game’s engine.
Helldivers 2 Was Built on a Discontinued Engine
The player count for...
- 3/1/2024
- by Rouvin Josef Quirimit
- FandomWire
Helldivers 2 has burst onto the scene with an unprecedented amount of success. More so than even developer Arrowhead Game Studios could imagine. The co-op shooter has blowed through over 450,000 concurrent players on Steam, and last weekend, Arrowhead reportedly 700,000 concurrent players across PC and PS5.
Among all the server issues and complaints about waiting times, though, some intriguing information about Helldivers 2‘s game engine has come out. Most games today run on either Unreal Engine or Unity, but Arrowhead’s latest hit runs on something bafflingly archaic.
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Helldivers 2 Runs On “Abandonware”
The origin of Helldivers 2’s engine is unexpected (image credit: PlayStation)
Remember those obscure Swedish indie games of the early 2010s, built on a little-known engine called Bitsquid? Well, you might be surprised to...
Among all the server issues and complaints about waiting times, though, some intriguing information about Helldivers 2‘s game engine has come out. Most games today run on either Unreal Engine or Unity, but Arrowhead’s latest hit runs on something bafflingly archaic.
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Helldivers 2 Runs On “Abandonware”
The origin of Helldivers 2’s engine is unexpected (image credit: PlayStation)
Remember those obscure Swedish indie games of the early 2010s, built on a little-known engine called Bitsquid? Well, you might be surprised to...
- 2/26/2024
- by Viraaj Bhatnagar
- FandomWire
With gritty combat, an absolutely chaotic vibe, and insane co-op possibilities, Helldivers 2 dives deep into what makes a multiplayer game so much fun. The game’s success has garnered the attention of many players, and the online community has been sharing its experiences through entertaining gameplay footage.
One such video showcases the game’s impressive physics engine and how it can make for some incredible moments. It’s truly worthy of a laugh and a nod to the studio’s hard work at keeping the game’s chaotic environments so lively.
Helldivers 2’s Physics Engine Makes Everything More Fun Unexpected twists and turns are just part of the game’s physics engine.
In a clip shared by shrimp_rider on Twitter, viewers can spot exactly why some spontaneous moments in Helldivers 2 are so much fun. The video was originally posted by user okbuddyfellas on TikTok, giving a glimpse into the...
One such video showcases the game’s impressive physics engine and how it can make for some incredible moments. It’s truly worthy of a laugh and a nod to the studio’s hard work at keeping the game’s chaotic environments so lively.
Helldivers 2’s Physics Engine Makes Everything More Fun Unexpected twists and turns are just part of the game’s physics engine.
In a clip shared by shrimp_rider on Twitter, viewers can spot exactly why some spontaneous moments in Helldivers 2 are so much fun. The video was originally posted by user okbuddyfellas on TikTok, giving a glimpse into the...
- 2/18/2024
- by Tanay Sharma
- FandomWire
A history of the most underrated British science fiction of the 1970s is, largely, just a history of British science fiction of the 1970s. It gets a bad rap. Think “1970s British Sci-Fi” and your mind will be flooded with associations of dodgy special effects, less-than-perfect gender politics, and so much knitwear. That, and a certain time traveller with a predilection for scarves and jelly babies.
But the truth is the 70s was a golden age for British science fiction stories with ideas and ambition, completely unrestrained by any concept of production values. While even the most pedestrian attempt at modern science fiction telly feels it has to go toe to toe with the MCU’s latest CGI eyeball-blaster, a year after Star Wars was on our screens the Doctor was still routinely facing off against dressed like this, and it was better for it.
Blake’s 7 (1978 – 1981)
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But the truth is the 70s was a golden age for British science fiction stories with ideas and ambition, completely unrestrained by any concept of production values. While even the most pedestrian attempt at modern science fiction telly feels it has to go toe to toe with the MCU’s latest CGI eyeball-blaster, a year after Star Wars was on our screens the Doctor was still routinely facing off against dressed like this, and it was better for it.
Blake’s 7 (1978 – 1981)
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- 1/5/2024
- by Louisa Mellor
- Den of Geek
Trekkies and sci-fi nerds in the early 1990s were riding high. The original "Star Trek" cast wrapped up their final movie together with "Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country," and "Star Trek: The Next Generation" was striding through its best period. Most importantly, the Sci-Fi Channel launched within nerds' cable packages in 1992, and a panoply of riches opened up. Some previously inaccessible shows were suddenly regularly rotated through the Channel's calendar, and classic sci-fi movies were finally gathered under one umbrella. About 30 years ago, the Sci-Fi Channel slate was embarrassingly good, containing "Planet of the Apes" movies, "Star Trek" reruns, "The Incredible Hulk" reruns, airings of "Starman," and curious documentary shows like "Mysteries from Beyond the Other Dominion" and "Inside Space." Kids got to enjoy "Transformers," "Stingray," and "Space: 1999." Adults got to watch "Night Gallery" and "Tales from the Darkside." 1992 Sci-Fi Channel was truly TV at its peak.
Barry Schulman...
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- 12/4/2023
- by Witney Seibold
- Slash Film
In George Lucas' 1977 sci-fi/fantasy film "Star Wars," the roguish smuggler Han Solo (Harrison Ford) claimed to have the fastest starship in the galaxy. Named the Millennium Falcon, the ship was said to have "made the Kessel Run in less than twelve parsecs." Clearly, Lucas hadn't yet grasped that a parsec is a measure of distance (about 19 trillion miles) and not time.
When it comes to its design, the Millennium Falcon is more or less a flying saucer. It carries a radar dish on its dorsal region, two fork-like protrusions on its bow (called loading arms), and its cockpit rests protruding from its starboard side. Otherwise, it's flat and plate-shaped. Like many of the vehicles in "Star Wars," it is encrusted with textured plating and scads of ineffable machinery that only the most devoted Starwoids could accurately explain. It's a small ship, too, only able to house about a half dozen people comfortably.
When it comes to its design, the Millennium Falcon is more or less a flying saucer. It carries a radar dish on its dorsal region, two fork-like protrusions on its bow (called loading arms), and its cockpit rests protruding from its starboard side. Otherwise, it's flat and plate-shaped. Like many of the vehicles in "Star Wars," it is encrusted with textured plating and scads of ineffable machinery that only the most devoted Starwoids could accurately explain. It's a small ship, too, only able to house about a half dozen people comfortably.
- 11/4/2023
- by Witney Seibold
- Slash Film
Robert Swan, “The Untouchables” actor and founder of Harbor Country Opera, has died of liver cancer. He was 78.
His death was confirmed by a family friend, who said his dream was to turn his award-winning screenplay about Samuel Johnson, the man first credited with creating the modern dictionary, into a movie.
Swan was known for his work in several feature films, including his role as a Mountie captain in Brian De Palma’s “The Untouchables” (1987), which starred Kevin Costner and landed Sean Connery an Oscar. He appeared in Oliver Stone and Quentin Tarantino’s 1994 “Natural Born Killers” as Deputy Napalatoni.
Additionally, he was featured in the 1984 Emmy-nominated Jane Fonda-led TV movie “The Dollmaker” and as a coach in the 1986 David Anspaugh-helmed feature “Hoosiers.” His further credits include “Backdraft,” “Somewhere in Time,” “Heart of Steel,” “The Twilight Zone,” “Stingray,” “Who’s That Girl,” “All My Children,” “Missing Persons” and “The Owner.
His death was confirmed by a family friend, who said his dream was to turn his award-winning screenplay about Samuel Johnson, the man first credited with creating the modern dictionary, into a movie.
Swan was known for his work in several feature films, including his role as a Mountie captain in Brian De Palma’s “The Untouchables” (1987), which starred Kevin Costner and landed Sean Connery an Oscar. He appeared in Oliver Stone and Quentin Tarantino’s 1994 “Natural Born Killers” as Deputy Napalatoni.
Additionally, he was featured in the 1984 Emmy-nominated Jane Fonda-led TV movie “The Dollmaker” and as a coach in the 1986 David Anspaugh-helmed feature “Hoosiers.” His further credits include “Backdraft,” “Somewhere in Time,” “Heart of Steel,” “The Twilight Zone,” “Stingray,” “Who’s That Girl,” “All My Children,” “Missing Persons” and “The Owner.
- 8/9/2023
- by McKinley Franklin
- Variety Film + TV
Gerry and Sylvia Anderson are known as legends in the field of science fiction television series, and rightfully so. While they are probably most famous for their live action series Space: 1999 and the puppet series Thunderbirds, they have been responsible for a lot more titles. The British distributor Network is now releasing these older titles as lavish Blu-ray boxsets, and these are a sight to behold. If this paragraph so far feels familiar, I'm flattered, because it means you've read the article I wrote for Network's pimped Blu-ray release of Fireball XL5, back in April. In that article, I called that edition "magnificent". Well guess what? Their release of the aquatic science fiction puppet series Stingray is even better. Switching from black and white...
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- 9/10/2022
- Screen Anarchy
Filmed In Supermarionation Filmed In Supermarionation, Netflix, from Wednesday, August 10
For those who grew up watching Thunderbirds, Stingray or any of Gerry Anderson's puppet adventure shows, this documentary is a real treat. The title is a portmanteau word from "super" "marionette" and "animation" that Gerry created for their work. Featuring extensive interviews with those who knew him, including his wife and collaborator Sylvia - immortalised as the voice of Lady Penelope - Stephen La Rivière tackles Anderson's back catalogue chronologically, offering detail on his lesser known work as well as the big-hitters. Although Anderson died two years before this film was made, he has a strong voice within it, not just in the recollections of others but via a wealth of archive interviews. While anything could happen in the next half hour after you've watched it, chances are you'll find yourself trawling Youtube looking for some old favourites.
Hot Fuzz,...
For those who grew up watching Thunderbirds, Stingray or any of Gerry Anderson's puppet adventure shows, this documentary is a real treat. The title is a portmanteau word from "super" "marionette" and "animation" that Gerry created for their work. Featuring extensive interviews with those who knew him, including his wife and collaborator Sylvia - immortalised as the voice of Lady Penelope - Stephen La Rivière tackles Anderson's back catalogue chronologically, offering detail on his lesser known work as well as the big-hitters. Although Anderson died two years before this film was made, he has a strong voice within it, not just in the recollections of others but via a wealth of archive interviews. While anything could happen in the next half hour after you've watched it, chances are you'll find yourself trawling Youtube looking for some old favourites.
Hot Fuzz,...
- 8/8/2022
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Anthony Hayes in ‘Danger Close: The Battle of Long Tan’.
Anthony Hayes has been acting since he was nine. While there is no danger of him giving up that stellar career, for the present he is concentrating more on his other passions: writing and directing.
In the past five or six years he has been in the fortunate position of choosing roles he really wanted to do – in the movies Cargo, War Machine and The Light Between Oceans and TV’s Mystery Road and Seven Types of Ambiguity – rather than just for a pay cheque.
Now his primary focus is writing and directing, starting with Gold, a thriller in which he will co-star with Sam Worthington about two guys who discover the world’s biggest gold nugget in the Australian desert. After that he hopes to make Stingray, a crime thriller he wrote and was set to direct in 2016 until the financing fell through.
Anthony Hayes has been acting since he was nine. While there is no danger of him giving up that stellar career, for the present he is concentrating more on his other passions: writing and directing.
In the past five or six years he has been in the fortunate position of choosing roles he really wanted to do – in the movies Cargo, War Machine and The Light Between Oceans and TV’s Mystery Road and Seven Types of Ambiguity – rather than just for a pay cheque.
Now his primary focus is writing and directing, starting with Gold, a thriller in which he will co-star with Sam Worthington about two guys who discover the world’s biggest gold nugget in the Australian desert. After that he hopes to make Stingray, a crime thriller he wrote and was set to direct in 2016 until the financing fell through.
- 5/22/2019
- by jkeast
- IF.com.au
Production scheduled to start in South Australia in September.
Sam Worthington will star in the upcoming Australian thriller Gold, which Saboteur Media represents worldwide and has introduced to Cannes buyers.
President of distribution Mark Lindsay has begun talks on the Croisette on the story about two men travelling through a remote desert who stumble across what they believe it the biggest gold nugget ever found.
They hatch a plan to excavate the treasure. One leaves to secure equipment while the other stays behind to protect the discovery.
Anthony Hayes (Animal Kingdom) also stars and the producers aim to announce more cast in Cannes.
Sam Worthington will star in the upcoming Australian thriller Gold, which Saboteur Media represents worldwide and has introduced to Cannes buyers.
President of distribution Mark Lindsay has begun talks on the Croisette on the story about two men travelling through a remote desert who stumble across what they believe it the biggest gold nugget ever found.
They hatch a plan to excavate the treasure. One leaves to secure equipment while the other stays behind to protect the discovery.
Anthony Hayes (Animal Kingdom) also stars and the producers aim to announce more cast in Cannes.
- 5/15/2019
- by Jeremy Kay
- ScreenDaily
Saboteur Media has launched sales in Cannes on thriller Gold, which is set to star Avatar’s Sam Worthington and Anthony Hayes (Animal Kingdom).
Pic centers on two men traveling through the remote desert who stumble across the biggest gold nugget ever found and hatch a plan to protect and excavate the gold. One leaves to secure equipment while the other stays behind to protect the discovery.
Script is from Hayes and Polly Smyth and the film will be directed by Hayes. The film is being produced by John Schwarz (The Hunter’s Prayer) and Michael Schwarz (Killerman) through their company Deeper Water Films and Hayes via Rogue Star Pictures. More cast is due to be announced during Cannes.
The Australian production was developed with the assistance of Screen Australia, South Australian Film Corporation and Film Victoria and is due to commence principal photography in September in South Australia.
Mark Lindsay,...
Pic centers on two men traveling through the remote desert who stumble across the biggest gold nugget ever found and hatch a plan to protect and excavate the gold. One leaves to secure equipment while the other stays behind to protect the discovery.
Script is from Hayes and Polly Smyth and the film will be directed by Hayes. The film is being produced by John Schwarz (The Hunter’s Prayer) and Michael Schwarz (Killerman) through their company Deeper Water Films and Hayes via Rogue Star Pictures. More cast is due to be announced during Cannes.
The Australian production was developed with the assistance of Screen Australia, South Australian Film Corporation and Film Victoria and is due to commence principal photography in September in South Australia.
Mark Lindsay,...
- 5/15/2019
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Ryan Lambie Jun 2, 2017
Inspired by James Cameron's The Abyss, the late 80s brought with it a wave of brilliantly cheesy undersea horrors, Ryan writes...
Hollywood studios occasionally have an uncanny knack of announcing almost identical film projects at the same time. In the 1980s, we had rival police dog movies K-9 and Turner And Hooch. The 90s saw the release of rival eruption movies (Dante's Peak and Volcano), opposing killer space rock pictures (Deep Impact and Armageddon) and duelling insect comedies (Antz and A Bug's Life). We provided a detailed run-down on these rival movies back in 2015.
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Around the year 1989, meanwhile, film producers briefly fell in love with a curiously specific genre: undersea sci-fi horror. Between January 1989 and the spring of 1990, no fewer than five films all came out with a similar theme - DeepStar Six was first, followed by Leviathan, Lords Of The Deep,...
Inspired by James Cameron's The Abyss, the late 80s brought with it a wave of brilliantly cheesy undersea horrors, Ryan writes...
Hollywood studios occasionally have an uncanny knack of announcing almost identical film projects at the same time. In the 1980s, we had rival police dog movies K-9 and Turner And Hooch. The 90s saw the release of rival eruption movies (Dante's Peak and Volcano), opposing killer space rock pictures (Deep Impact and Armageddon) and duelling insect comedies (Antz and A Bug's Life). We provided a detailed run-down on these rival movies back in 2015.
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Around the year 1989, meanwhile, film producers briefly fell in love with a curiously specific genre: undersea sci-fi horror. Between January 1989 and the spring of 1990, no fewer than five films all came out with a similar theme - DeepStar Six was first, followed by Leviathan, Lords Of The Deep,...
- 5/31/2017
- Den of Geek
The Cinema Audio Society (Cas) announces the nominees for the 51st Annual Cas Awards for Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing for 2014 in six categories and the Cas Technical Achievement Award Nominations. Cas President David Fluhr congratulates each of "the nominees on a job well-mixed.. Clever!
The rest of the press release revealed that:
Final balloting for both the Outstanding Sound Mixing and the Cas Technical Achievement Awards will open online Wednesday January 21st and end Friday, February 6th.
The Awards will be presented at a sealed envelope dinner on February 14th in the Crystal Ballroom of the Millennium Biltmore Hotel. During the awards the highest honor of the Cas . the Cas Career Achievement Award will be presented to Production Sound Mixer David Macmillan, Cas. Doug McIntyre, host of Kabc Talk Radio.s McIntyre in the Morning, will be returning as the Master of Ceremonies
Here's the complete list of nominees...
The rest of the press release revealed that:
Final balloting for both the Outstanding Sound Mixing and the Cas Technical Achievement Awards will open online Wednesday January 21st and end Friday, February 6th.
The Awards will be presented at a sealed envelope dinner on February 14th in the Crystal Ballroom of the Millennium Biltmore Hotel. During the awards the highest honor of the Cas . the Cas Career Achievement Award will be presented to Production Sound Mixer David Macmillan, Cas. Doug McIntyre, host of Kabc Talk Radio.s McIntyre in the Morning, will be returning as the Master of Ceremonies
Here's the complete list of nominees...
- 1/14/2015
- by Manny
- Manny the Movie Guy
Nominations have been announced for the 51st annual Cinema Audio Society Awards, and as ever with this group lately, there are a few surprises. For instance, "Unbroken" made the cut despite being mostly ignored by the guilds and industry groups so far, and Marvel's "Guardians of the Galaxy" showed up as well. The biggest jaw-dropper might just be that after months of being the poster child for sound complaints, somehow, some way, "Interstellar" ended up in the mix (no pun intended). There are always one or two that drop out, however. Last year, for example, another Marvel movie — "Iron Man 3" — was chalked up here. But it fell out in favor of "The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug" with the Academy. I find myself wondering if "The Battle of the Five Armies" could make the cut this year as it's even more of an action/sound film than the last.
- 1/13/2015
- by Kristopher Tapley
- Hitfix
The relative success of The A-Team and 21 Jump Street has led Hollywood to consider what other Stephen J. Cannell TV series it can reboot, now that Cannell is dead and can’t poke his goatee into the proceedings. NBC has already called dibs on Wiseguy, William Katt’s persistent phone calls have only soured them on The Greatest American Hero, and Stingray and Silk Stalkings were both merely elaborate pranks created to serve as ironic references 20 years later, so that pretty much leaves The Rockford Files, which Universal is now developing as a feature film. Deadline reports that ...
- 4/17/2012
- avclub.com
An adaptation of 60s series The Man From U.N.C.L.E has been trapped in development hell for years. Ti charts the spy show’s tortuous journey to the big screen...
For those of you that were kids or teenagers during the 1990s and were into cult TV, you will know that The Man From U.N.C.L.E. was a staple of Friday nights.
Although it was made in the 1960s, during the 1990s, BBC2 would show the likes of Thunderbirds, Captain Scarlet and Stingray at 6pm on a Friday night, and each time they would be followed by an episode of The Man From U.N.C.L.E.
As such, the phrase “Open channel six”, the catchy theme and the agents’ yellow triangular badges signifying their rank in the organisation became very familiar...
For those unfamiliar with the series, it followed global spy force U.N.C.L.E (The United Network...
For those of you that were kids or teenagers during the 1990s and were into cult TV, you will know that The Man From U.N.C.L.E. was a staple of Friday nights.
Although it was made in the 1960s, during the 1990s, BBC2 would show the likes of Thunderbirds, Captain Scarlet and Stingray at 6pm on a Friday night, and each time they would be followed by an episode of The Man From U.N.C.L.E.
As such, the phrase “Open channel six”, the catchy theme and the agents’ yellow triangular badges signifying their rank in the organisation became very familiar...
For those unfamiliar with the series, it followed global spy force U.N.C.L.E (The United Network...
- 11/18/2010
- Den of Geek
On Friday, October 1, 2010, veteran television show creator, producer and screenwriter Stephen J. Cannell passed away from complications arising from melanoma. He was 69 years old.
Throughout the 1980s there wasn't a mainstream television viewer that didn't know his name. If you watched The A-Team, 21 Jump Street, Hardcastle & McCormick, Hunter, Wiseguy, The Commish, The Greatest American Hero, Silk Stalkings, Street Justice, Stingray, Tenspeed and Brownshoe, Booker, Black Sheep Squadron, and you watched the show through until its end credits, you saw his name and face appear on your screen. His production company's credit block was him working away on a typewriter and then pulling out the page, tossing it into the air and watching it resolve into the C. for Stephen J. Cannell Productions.
Cannell's TV shows were based in the action genre, but that's not to say that each of them were the same. The A-Team and Hunter could be seen as less based in reality,...
Throughout the 1980s there wasn't a mainstream television viewer that didn't know his name. If you watched The A-Team, 21 Jump Street, Hardcastle & McCormick, Hunter, Wiseguy, The Commish, The Greatest American Hero, Silk Stalkings, Street Justice, Stingray, Tenspeed and Brownshoe, Booker, Black Sheep Squadron, and you watched the show through until its end credits, you saw his name and face appear on your screen. His production company's credit block was him working away on a typewriter and then pulling out the page, tossing it into the air and watching it resolve into the C. for Stephen J. Cannell Productions.
Cannell's TV shows were based in the action genre, but that's not to say that each of them were the same. The A-Team and Hunter could be seen as less based in reality,...
- 10/4/2010
- by Patrick Sauriol
- Corona's Coming Attractions
Omg! I was so saddened to hear this news this afternoon. One of the greatest television creators, Stephen J. Cannell, has passed away today at 68 due to complications associated with melanoma. Here is a statement his family made to the press:
“Aside from being a legendary television producer and prolific writer, Stephen was also a devoted husband, loving father and grandfather, and a loyal friend. Mr. Cannell is survived by his high school sweetheart and wife of 46 years, Marcia, their three children, Tawnia, Chelsea and Cody and three grandchildren. Stephen was the pillar of strength within his family and he touched everyone he met. He will be most deeply missed. The family asks that in lieu of flowers donations be made to the American Cancer Society or The International Dyslexia Association. Details regarding his memorial service will be released.”
Cannell was renowned for his creations of shows like 21 Jump Street,...
“Aside from being a legendary television producer and prolific writer, Stephen was also a devoted husband, loving father and grandfather, and a loyal friend. Mr. Cannell is survived by his high school sweetheart and wife of 46 years, Marcia, their three children, Tawnia, Chelsea and Cody and three grandchildren. Stephen was the pillar of strength within his family and he touched everyone he met. He will be most deeply missed. The family asks that in lieu of flowers donations be made to the American Cancer Society or The International Dyslexia Association. Details regarding his memorial service will be released.”
Cannell was renowned for his creations of shows like 21 Jump Street,...
- 10/1/2010
- by Kevin Coll
- FusedFilm
Stephen J. Cannell, the indefatigable writer-creator-producer who was among TV's most prolific suppliers of primetime programming, died Thursday of melanoma at his home in Pasadena. He was 69.
His credits are so numerous that it is nearly impossible to tabulate all his work, which ranged from writing episodes of "Ironside" in 1970 to a producer credit on this year's feature "The A-Team," based on the 1980s series Cannell co-created and executive produced.
By intelligent count, he wrote or co-wrote more than 300 TV scripts and produced or executive-produced more than 520 episodes.
"I am deeply saddened by the passing of my great friend and mentor Stephen J. Cannell," said Peter Roth, president of Warner Bros. Television. "His extraordinary talents both as a writer and an industry leader made him, deservedly, enormously successful in the entertainment business, but it was his character, generosity, kindness and humanity that separate him from all others. The industry and...
His credits are so numerous that it is nearly impossible to tabulate all his work, which ranged from writing episodes of "Ironside" in 1970 to a producer credit on this year's feature "The A-Team," based on the 1980s series Cannell co-created and executive produced.
By intelligent count, he wrote or co-wrote more than 300 TV scripts and produced or executive-produced more than 520 episodes.
"I am deeply saddened by the passing of my great friend and mentor Stephen J. Cannell," said Peter Roth, president of Warner Bros. Television. "His extraordinary talents both as a writer and an industry leader made him, deservedly, enormously successful in the entertainment business, but it was his character, generosity, kindness and humanity that separate him from all others. The industry and...
- 10/1/2010
- by By Duane Byrge
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
There are so many channels now, and so many celebrities. It seems like everyone will get a TV show at some point. But there are still some TV stars that no longer have TV shows but really should. For example, someone like Tom Selleck should have a weekly series again, and luckily he is going to return to TV in a new show on CBS.
If not for that recent announcement, Selleck would have been number one on the list that follows after the jump: five stars I'd like to see on a regular TV series again.
1. Nick Mancuso. Mancuso starred in one of my favorite TV shows, 'Stingray,' and he has had a rather interesting career since then. He's been in a couple of TV shows and a slew of movies (including the 'Under Seige' films), but these days it seems like he's very content focusing on his artwork,...
If not for that recent announcement, Selleck would have been number one on the list that follows after the jump: five stars I'd like to see on a regular TV series again.
1. Nick Mancuso. Mancuso starred in one of my favorite TV shows, 'Stingray,' and he has had a rather interesting career since then. He's been in a couple of TV shows and a slew of movies (including the 'Under Seige' films), but these days it seems like he's very content focusing on his artwork,...
- 4/10/2010
- by Bob Sassone
- Aol TV.
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