The owners of New York's Comedy Strip nightclub, which has featured such comics as Jerry Seinfeld, Chris Rock and Eddie Murphy in its 35 years in business, are suing the producers of a documentary entiled Eat, Drink, Laugh for allegedly breaching an agreement to work together during all phases of production. Letterbox Productions is the defendant in the case along with Brent Nemetz, who won an Emmy for PBS' Souls of New York and Abby Russell, who directed MTV reality series Pageant Place and was a producer on The Next Food Network Star. According to the lawsuit filed in New York Supreme
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- 2/16/2012
- by Eriq Gardner
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Evolution Media, whose credits include such series as Bravo's The Real Housewives of Orange County and MTV's Pageant Place, has inked a development deal with psychiatrist and brain expert Daniel Amen, M.D.
The company is planning to develop a TV series project around Amen, who is CEO and medical director of Amen Clinics Inc. and teaches at the University of California, Irvine, School of Medicine.
Evolution founder and president Douglas Ross said that Amen's "revolutionary techniques have helped the lives of thousands of people and through the TV show will help many more. We'll be able to witness firsthand the struggles and triumphs of people with severe brain dysfunction and for whom Dr. Amen is the last hope."...
The company is planning to develop a TV series project around Amen, who is CEO and medical director of Amen Clinics Inc. and teaches at the University of California, Irvine, School of Medicine.
Evolution founder and president Douglas Ross said that Amen's "revolutionary techniques have helped the lives of thousands of people and through the TV show will help many more. We'll be able to witness firsthand the struggles and triumphs of people with severe brain dysfunction and for whom Dr. Amen is the last hope."...
- 2/14/2008
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Wall Street doesn't always pay close attention to TV ratings trends, but in the case of Viacom's cable networks, viewership is a key factor of financial performance, and resurgent U.S. ratings trends have been in particular focus this year.
As 2007 comes to a close, more analysts have stopped wondering whether MTV Networks has still got it and are increasingly confident that the company has started turning ratings at key channels around thanks to such new shows as Pageant Place and Shot at Love With Tila Tequila, as well as strong returns from The Hills and The Real World.
"Ratings are definitely a key driver of revenue performance for companies like Viacom Inc. and CBS Corp.," Stanford Group analyst Frederick Moran said. "Other broader-based media conglomerates have other businesses overshadowing ratings."
For Viacom, ratings trends -- and in turn, advertising revenue -- have been looking up as of late, even though programming investments have somewhat held back the bottom line of the networks unit.
"Ratings stabilization and easy comps should be a tailwind for 2008," Goldman Sachs analyst Anthony Noto said in his third-quarter earnings review. "Investments in better content, which should continue, are starting to show some results."
For example, Viacom reported third-quarter organic advertising revenue growth in the U.S. of 4% year-over-year, a slight improvement compared with the 3% gain in the second quarter.
Said Moran: "The difficult period for Viacom has passed, and comparisons and growth outlook should improve in the fourth quarter and in 2008, which could be a year, if the ad market allows for it, they benefit from their (program) investments."
In the final quarter of 2007, things also have been going well.
As 2007 comes to a close, more analysts have stopped wondering whether MTV Networks has still got it and are increasingly confident that the company has started turning ratings at key channels around thanks to such new shows as Pageant Place and Shot at Love With Tila Tequila, as well as strong returns from The Hills and The Real World.
"Ratings are definitely a key driver of revenue performance for companies like Viacom Inc. and CBS Corp.," Stanford Group analyst Frederick Moran said. "Other broader-based media conglomerates have other businesses overshadowing ratings."
For Viacom, ratings trends -- and in turn, advertising revenue -- have been looking up as of late, even though programming investments have somewhat held back the bottom line of the networks unit.
"Ratings stabilization and easy comps should be a tailwind for 2008," Goldman Sachs analyst Anthony Noto said in his third-quarter earnings review. "Investments in better content, which should continue, are starting to show some results."
For example, Viacom reported third-quarter organic advertising revenue growth in the U.S. of 4% year-over-year, a slight improvement compared with the 3% gain in the second quarter.
Said Moran: "The difficult period for Viacom has passed, and comparisons and growth outlook should improve in the fourth quarter and in 2008, which could be a year, if the ad market allows for it, they benefit from their (program) investments."
In the final quarter of 2007, things also have been going well.
- 12/18/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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