Netflix CEO Reed Hastings said this morning that one of the things he’s most proud of is beating BitTorrent, at least in the U.S. Now, he says, the challenge is to beat copyright infringement in places like Korea, where it runs rampant. Read More »
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Good news for TV musical fans: Netflix is expanding its on-demand streaming service to include the first season of Glee, in addition to shows like Sons of Anarchy, Ally McBeal and The Wonder Years from 20th Century Fox. Read More »
The celebrity tweet: good or bad? For the wildly popular television show Glee! it’s been a great success, though Fox VP of Innovation Hardie Tankersley admits that companies need to tread carefully in the Twitterverse. Read More »
So it appears that Primetime Emmy voters are not cord-cutters — of the six shows nominated for Best Drama this morning, only two streamed online last year. The awards appear focused on the mainstream this year, but there are some bright spots in today’s nominations. Read More »
The new Glee Superfan player incorporates a number of social features that aren’t included in the normal Fox video player, including the ability to check out character bio pages, connect to your Facebook and Twitter profiles and view a stream of Twitter chat about the show. Read More »
While we’ve written extensively over the last year about Glee, several recent episodes demonstrate that the show’s writers have an innate awareness of how web video affects pop culture. Unfortunately, though, the same can’t be said about its marketing and online distribution. Read More »
In this Five Questions With… installment, we have new media agent Brandon Martinez of Abrams Artists Agency. Martinez’s clients include The Crew‘s Brett Register and Compulsions creator Bernie Su. In response to our queries, he talks about the problems plaguing online content creators. Read More »
Are you a musical theater nerd who watched the Fox series Glee this fall and thought to himself in a very Chorus Line-ish way, “I can do that?” Well, MySpace says put your money where your mouth is.
With Tom Hanks, Will Ferrell, Beck, Steve Carell and Neil Young, Conan O’Brien had a star-studded lineup for the final episode of his show last Friday, and the Twittersphere thanked him by making the Tonight Show the most-twittered show of last week, according to new data … Read More »
Even if he doesn’t have the support of NBC, Conan O’Brien has the support of the Internet, leading the charge as the most-talked-about television personality for the past week, according to Trendrr. Conan collected 215,145 tweets for the week, with a peak of 51,843 … Read More »
Sectionals! Regionals! Will the Glee madness ever stop? Not on Twitter, according to recent stats from Trendrr, where Glee continued to top the charts as the most talked-about show for what feels like the 100th week in a row. It’s so predictable that we … Read More »
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