副 Talks Cable TV Programming at Brief NewFront Presentation
在今年的 副 NewFront, the talk was entirely about cable TV. 这是不寻常的, since newfronts are for publishers to show their upcoming online video programs to advertisers. But there's nothing usual about a 副 NewFront. 一方面, 肖恩·史密斯, 副's co-founder 和 CEO, was inebriated at the start ("My assistant tried to cut me off,”他说。, 和去年一样, 也. For another thing, the event felt like a long open bar interrupted by a brief announcement.
There were two things on Smith's mind this year, not counting the open bar. One was the company's recent expansion of its HBO news show. Announced in late March, 副 has a new four-year contract with HBO that will exp和 its weekly news show to five days per week, 也 as a number of specials. Smith called the deal the biggest episode buy in HBO history.
"We can do whatever the **** we want to do for news for HBO. Never been done before. **** yeah," Smith noted.
Smith called 副 creative director Spike Jonze to the stage to talk about programming for 副's upcoming cable channel. 新闻 broke days ago that 副 will launch a channel reportedly in early 2016, 和 that it will take the place of A+E's H2 network.
"We're doing TV because we have a company full of amazing creative voices," Jonze said. He 和 others have created 20 shows in the last 6 months, 和 8 of them have started production. All have a point of view 和 are personal, he said. "That's the intention—to make television that feels personal."
The brief newfront ended with a reel showing clips from the produced shows, which include Black Market With Michael K. 威廉姆斯, 副 World of Sports, 副 Portraits With Marc Maron, Fashion Week International, Gaycation With Ellen Page, 黄的世界 (hosted by chef Eddie Huang), Noisy, Motherboard, Weediquette, 和 ****真好吃.
Then the announcement was over, 和 it was back to the party.
Spike Jonze 和 肖恩·史密斯 at the 副 NewFront.
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