
We’re starting a new feature for NewTeeVee today, where every week we ask a noted figure from the online video world five questions about the industry and their work in it. First up is Ben Relles, founder and creative director of NextNewNetworks’ Barely Political. According to Relles’s official bio, “Ben Relles is the creator...
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Good news for online Australian sci-fi fans: The upcoming fifth season of British Doctor Who, which will premiere Sunday, April 18 on ABC1, will actually make its first Down Under appearance two days earlier on iView, the Australian Broadcasting Company’s iPlayer equivalent.The one-day head start that online Aussie fans are getting probably won’t do...
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The Tribeca Film Fest, the festival co-founded by Robert De Niro, is going virtual, according to a post on its blog, offering film fans around the country a chance to engage online with the films and filmmakers being feted.Beginning April 23, those who purchase a Virtual Premium pass will get “full backstage access” to...
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Photo by The Bui Bros. (thebuibrothers.com)Ah, the Sci-Fi Channel original movie. Even the channel’s recent name change to SyFy can’t keep Saturday nights from being must-see TV for B-movie fans who like their snakes mega-sized and their spiders on ice.A pretty wide range of actors have done their time fighting CGI-rendered monsters, and...
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And the Oscar for the industry’s best drama goes to… ABC. The Disney-owned broadcaster reached a tentative agreement with Cablevision minutes into the telecast of the Academy Awards, according to a New York Times report.ABC and Cablevision had been embroiled in a very public dispute over the right to carry New...
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Are you just chomping at the bit for everyone’s favorite college basketball tourney to kick off? Well, you got a week or two to wait yet, buddy. In the meantime, though, Hulu is running its own bracket — one where you get to vote on the winners, even.The five-week Best in Show...
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Julia Allison, Meghan Asha and Mary Ramblin. Photo from the TMI Weekly blog.It’s a quiet afternoon when my phone rings with an unknown number. I don’t get a lot of phone calls from unknown numbers, especially from people who have been the focus of both the New York Times and fierce reblogging sites,...
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Apple Wants to Store Your Video in the Cloud; the company’s representatives have spoken with some of the major film studios about enabling iTunes users to store their content on the company’s servers. (CNET)Three TiVo Premiere Mysteries; a few images in the company’s press kit might reveal some interesting new features that have yet...
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Another day, another broadcaster headed for a showdown with the local cable company over retransmission fees. This time it’s Disney’s WABC-7 in New York, which is threatening to yank its signal from Cablevision’s pay-TV service. Like many battles that have come before it, this one will likely end in a last-minute compromise — but...
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Exterior of the house, with product placement by Ford.Behind a tall, white gate on a quiet Beverly Hills cul-de-sac, a private mansion is about to become anything but. Starting tomorrow, when the live-streaming of 19 Entertainment’s If I Can Dream begins on Hulu, 56 cameras will be broadcasting the adventures of five...
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