The Reality of the Fantasy Series "Outlander," Regulations Under Scrutiny, The Radius Strategy for VOD, Richard LaGravenese on "The Divide"

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Connect 2 Media & Entertainment, which launched in 2013, is a resource to help you as a media professional keep up with developments not only in your own business segment but across all industry sectors. Find out what's happening in TV, radio, digital media, film, event spaces, enterprise, and much more by visiting www.c2meworld.com each day. TELEVISION "Outlander" Showrunner: Finding the Reality Within in a Fantastical Premise Explains showrunner Ron Moore, "'Outlander' has time travel and mystical elements that propel the central character, Claire, into the past, so it's more of a fantasy series, but it's mostly about historical time periods and the people she encounters, with the time travel as the catalyst into the story." Read More» TELEVISION Mergers? No Thank You, Programmers Say It would seem that the media industry's merger fever has broken, based on the comments made by top executives at programming companies during earnings calls in the past few days. Read More» RADIO NAB To FCC: Market Has Changed, Regulations Must Too This week, the National Association of Broadcasters continued its years-long drumbeat for a recognition by the FCC that times and marketplace competition has changed, while regulations have not. Read More» FILM "The Dog" Directors Capture a Singular Personality for Their Documentary Allison Berg and Frank Keraudren's documentary "The Dog" centers on the life of John Wojtowicz, the Brooklynite bank robber who served as the inspiration for the classic 1975 film, "Dog Day Afternoon." Read More» RADIO The Mobile Mind Shift Mobile strategy is one of the biggest priority discussions in company boardrooms all across the country. As we continue to evaluate the seismic shift in the world around us, the "mobile mind shift" is clearly occurring and the radio industry is without a doubt heavily involved. Read More» FILM Radius Releases VOD Numbers: "It Makes a Statement" The Weinstein Co.'s Radius has been taking an aggressive approach to releasing films on VOD, most recently releasing Bong Joon-ho's critically acclaimed sci-fi epic "Snowpiercer" only two weeks after its theatrical debut. Last month, the Radius also became the first film distributor to release weekly VOD grosses. Read More» TELEVISION Will "The Divide" Be WE tv's "Mad Men"? WE tv's first foray into scripted programming is "The Divide," a legal drama that focuses on a prosecutor who may have wrongly indicted a man on death row. "The great thing about TV is that it's this living, breathing thing that keeps evolving as you're working on it," says the series co-creator Richard LaGravenese. Read More» More Articles & Insights The Dominant Medium: Television » The Trouble With 4K: Where's the 4K Content, and Will It Be Any Good When It Gets Here? » Dish's Charlie Ergen: In the Future, Most TV Viewing Won't Happen on TV » Time Warner Chairman and CEO Jeff Bewkes Bewkes: We're Open to OTT » Cord-Cutting "Slows To A Crawl" » FCC and Verizon: There Is a Technical Solution » Is Faster Always Better? CableLabs Effort Focuses On Reducing Broadband Latency » So You Think It Is Only Radio? » Explore the Next Generation of News Tech at the News Technology Summit » Register Now: Virtualizing Video Webinar, August 21 »
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