The Broadcast Television Journalists Association, one of the organizers of the annual Critics’ Choice Awards, has named MediaVillage editor Ed Martin as its new president. He replaces Joey Berlin, who has topped the organization since it was founded a decade ago. The appointment was made by the Bjta executive committee. Martin is editor and chief television and content critic at MediaVillage and has written about TV and Internet programming for several Myers publications…...
- 11/14/2017
- Deadline TV
Anderson Cooper and President Donald Trump surrogate Ed Martin got into a heated debate over the Russia probe during Wednesday's Anderson Cooper: 360...
- 9/21/2017
- by Joe DePaolo
- Mediaite - TV
Ed Martin is the latest contributor at CNN to provide full-throated support for the embattled presidency of Donald Trump. He’s made a number of appearances over the past few days and weeks, but last night he seemed to settle in as the latest to play the very important role of “Trump Surrogate” on AC360, hosted by Anderson […]...
- 8/24/2017
- by Colby Hall
- Mediaite - TV
The decision of the Broadcast Film Critics Association and its sister organization, the Broadcast Television Journalists Association, to seal an exclusive partnership with Entertainment Weekly may have permanently damaged the credibility of the Critics Choice Awards.
The surprise decision, announced Tuesday morning, gave Entertainment Weekly exclusive rights to announce nominations for the 22nd Annual Critics’ Choice Awards. The TV categories will now be revealed on EW’s website on Nov. 14, followed by the movie categories on Dec. 1.
The Critics’ Choice Awards will also now award EW’s “Entertainer of the Year” (featured in the magazine’s annual Best and Worst issue) on the telecast, which airs live on A&E on Dec. 11. A red carpet show will air beforehand on A&E, and will also be streamed on EW.com.
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The surprise decision, announced Tuesday morning, gave Entertainment Weekly exclusive rights to announce nominations for the 22nd Annual Critics’ Choice Awards. The TV categories will now be revealed on EW’s website on Nov. 14, followed by the movie categories on Dec. 1.
The Critics’ Choice Awards will also now award EW’s “Entertainer of the Year” (featured in the magazine’s annual Best and Worst issue) on the telecast, which airs live on A&E on Dec. 11. A red carpet show will air beforehand on A&E, and will also be streamed on EW.com.
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- 11/2/2016
- by Michael Schneider
- Indiewire
Exclusive: A party of producers from the eastern province of Newfoundland & Labrador will attend the Efm.
Paul Pope of Pope Productions, Barbara Doran of Morag Loves Company, Jill Knox-Gosse of Odd Sock Films, Allison White of Away Films and Ed Martin of Best Boy Entertainment will travel to Berlin from February 5-12.
Media consultants MediaXchange will provide match-making services to arrange meetings.
The mission is led by the Newfoundland & Labrador Film Development Corporation (Nlfdc) with executive director and film commissioner Chris Bonnell and manager of programmes Dorian Rowe in attendance.
Event partners include the Producer’s Association Of Newfoundland & Labrador, the Atlantic Canada Opportunity Agency and the Department Of Innovation, Business And Rural Development.
The Nlfdc administers two main programmes: the Equity Investment Program and the Newfoundland and Labrador Film and Video Tax Credit.
Paul Pope of Pope Productions, Barbara Doran of Morag Loves Company, Jill Knox-Gosse of Odd Sock Films, Allison White of Away Films and Ed Martin of Best Boy Entertainment will travel to Berlin from February 5-12.
Media consultants MediaXchange will provide match-making services to arrange meetings.
The mission is led by the Newfoundland & Labrador Film Development Corporation (Nlfdc) with executive director and film commissioner Chris Bonnell and manager of programmes Dorian Rowe in attendance.
Event partners include the Producer’s Association Of Newfoundland & Labrador, the Atlantic Canada Opportunity Agency and the Department Of Innovation, Business And Rural Development.
The Nlfdc administers two main programmes: the Equity Investment Program and the Newfoundland and Labrador Film and Video Tax Credit.
- 1/29/2014
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Ed Martin proclaims Sunday's episode of "The Good Wife" as "the most exciting hour of drama" seen on broadcast television this season. He calls it the best episode in the show's five-year history and even compares it to the acclaimed "Whitecaps" season four finale of "The Sopranos." Titled "Hitting the Fan," the plot involves a long build-up over several segments where some members of the Lockhart/Gardner law firm (including Emmy winner Julianna Margulies) have been secretly starting their own firm. Huffington Post. The character of Edna Krabappel, the chain-smoking fourth grade teacher on "The Simpsons," will be retired following the Friday death of actress Marcia Wallace. Executive producer Al Jean said that "she was beloved by all at 'The Simpsons' and we intend to retire her irreplaceable character." She won an Emmy for Best Voiceover Performance in 1992. Wallace was also known for her six-...
- 10/28/2013
- Gold Derby
All My Children's Susan Lucci says, "It seems fitting to me that the show would be broadcast online." Julia Barr judges a Fur-Free Fashion Show. Ed Martin thinks General Hospital "showing signs of renewed life across much of its canvas." Welsh actor Huw Ceredig has died. Awol Korean soap actress is willing to return to the set. ostume designers Lizzy Gardiner and Tim Chappel won the Tony award for "Priscilla Queen of the Desert" and say they are in love with their craft. Backstage turmoil continues at The Talk.
Susan Lucci: Fitting the show would be broadcast online
The production company Prospect Park is having "genuine and earnest conversations" about putting it on the schedule of their online network. "It seems fitting to me that the show would be broadcast online," because Ms. Lucci explained, the soap opera has always played by its own rules.
All My Children...
Susan Lucci: Fitting the show would be broadcast online
The production company Prospect Park is having "genuine and earnest conversations" about putting it on the schedule of their online network. "It seems fitting to me that the show would be broadcast online," because Ms. Lucci explained, the soap opera has always played by its own rules.
All My Children...
- 8/17/2011
- by We Love Soaps TV
- We Love Soaps
WWE Wants To Hire More Soap Opera Writers
"There are people in WWE who are very interested in bringing in experienced soap opera writers to join the company’s creative tam. One of the big reasons behind this push is that the soap opera industry is in very bad shape and they can likely sign some talented writers for much less than they could have 2-3 years ago. According to the Wrestling Observer Newsletter, WWE wants to improve its storylines and present compelling personal conflicts. An example of this would be the Vince McMahon – Triple H segment that ended this week’s Raw."
The Emmy's Rocky Race Relations
The blatant snub of Treme (and The Wire before it) reveals a troubling truth about the academy's obliviousness to actors of color.
The website Black Voices noted that by 2010, only 36 black actors had won an Emmy in the 62-year history of the...
"There are people in WWE who are very interested in bringing in experienced soap opera writers to join the company’s creative tam. One of the big reasons behind this push is that the soap opera industry is in very bad shape and they can likely sign some talented writers for much less than they could have 2-3 years ago. According to the Wrestling Observer Newsletter, WWE wants to improve its storylines and present compelling personal conflicts. An example of this would be the Vince McMahon – Triple H segment that ended this week’s Raw."
The Emmy's Rocky Race Relations
The blatant snub of Treme (and The Wire before it) reveals a troubling truth about the academy's obliviousness to actors of color.
The website Black Voices noted that by 2010, only 36 black actors had won an Emmy in the 62-year history of the...
- 7/22/2011
- by We Love Soaps TV
- We Love Soaps
Watching soap operas in Kabul
If you truly want to understand what a nation is thinking, look at what it’s watching on TV. An especially clear example has emerged in Afghanistan, where broadcast television was banned after the Taliban took power in 1996. Since the regime fell in 2001, however, television has flourished.
Wazhmah Osman, an Afghan native who came to the United States when she was 10, wrote a chapter about Indian and Iranian soap operas on Afghan TV, titled ”Trashy Tastes and Permeable Borders,” that was just published in a new book, ”Soap Operas and Telenovelas in the Digital Age.”
Katie Couric: Challenges To Come
Ed Martin writes: "Katie Couric certainly has her work cut out for her during the year ahead. Launching a new daytime talk show is a difficult enough task under the best of circumstances. To do so on a network at a time when its...
If you truly want to understand what a nation is thinking, look at what it’s watching on TV. An especially clear example has emerged in Afghanistan, where broadcast television was banned after the Taliban took power in 1996. Since the regime fell in 2001, however, television has flourished.
Wazhmah Osman, an Afghan native who came to the United States when she was 10, wrote a chapter about Indian and Iranian soap operas on Afghan TV, titled ”Trashy Tastes and Permeable Borders,” that was just published in a new book, ”Soap Operas and Telenovelas in the Digital Age.”
Katie Couric: Challenges To Come
Ed Martin writes: "Katie Couric certainly has her work cut out for her during the year ahead. Launching a new daytime talk show is a difficult enough task under the best of circumstances. To do so on a network at a time when its...
- 6/10/2011
- by We Love Soaps TV
- We Love Soaps
Get used to seeing Twitter hashtags on your TV screen
Glee this week put a "#Glee" at the bottom of the screen to urge viewers to tweet with one unified word.
Daytime Disaster! Did ABC Have to Kill All My Children and One Life To Live?
Ed Martin writes: "As for the all too convenient excuse of low ratings, I'm not buying it. Ratings for daytime and primetime programming are, at best, inaccurate. Further, there are many other compelling reasons to keep programs alive beyond numbers, accurate or otherwise. If there weren't, most of NBC's primetime shows would have been canceled years ago, most basic cable networks would run only movies around the clock, and The CW would likely have been terminated during its infancy!"
Our Dying Soap Operas Deserve Public Funding
David Ozanich says, "I would like to suggest that the federal government step in and subsidize this art...
Glee this week put a "#Glee" at the bottom of the screen to urge viewers to tweet with one unified word.
Daytime Disaster! Did ABC Have to Kill All My Children and One Life To Live?
Ed Martin writes: "As for the all too convenient excuse of low ratings, I'm not buying it. Ratings for daytime and primetime programming are, at best, inaccurate. Further, there are many other compelling reasons to keep programs alive beyond numbers, accurate or otherwise. If there weren't, most of NBC's primetime shows would have been canceled years ago, most basic cable networks would run only movies around the clock, and The CW would likely have been terminated during its infancy!"
Our Dying Soap Operas Deserve Public Funding
David Ozanich says, "I would like to suggest that the federal government step in and subsidize this art...
- 4/21/2011
- by We Love Soaps TV
- We Love Soaps
AMC Officially Greenlights Season 5 Of 'Mad Men' For March 2012 Premiere
The upcoming fifth season of Mad Men is now slated to debut in March 2012. That is 17 months from the series' fourth season finale. While the protracted negotiations between Mad Men creator/ exec producer Matt Weiner and AMC/Lionsgate TV led to the series' pushed production start and, in turn, caused the show to miss its original July premiere date, the new March return date is not directly tied to the contract talks. According to sources with knowledge of the negotiations, Weiner had been actually pushing for a shorter gap between Seasons 4 and 5 and had stated that he could get Season 5 produced and delivered on budget for a 2011 premiere.
General Hospital Tragedy: Has This Soap Finally Gone Too Far?
Ed Martin writes: "The current Death of Jake Webber disappointment is another matter entirely, and it comes at a time...
The upcoming fifth season of Mad Men is now slated to debut in March 2012. That is 17 months from the series' fourth season finale. While the protracted negotiations between Mad Men creator/ exec producer Matt Weiner and AMC/Lionsgate TV led to the series' pushed production start and, in turn, caused the show to miss its original July premiere date, the new March return date is not directly tied to the contract talks. According to sources with knowledge of the negotiations, Weiner had been actually pushing for a shorter gap between Seasons 4 and 5 and had stated that he could get Season 5 produced and delivered on budget for a 2011 premiere.
General Hospital Tragedy: Has This Soap Finally Gone Too Far?
Ed Martin writes: "The current Death of Jake Webber disappointment is another matter entirely, and it comes at a time...
- 3/29/2011
- by We Love Soaps TV
- We Love Soaps
Clearly, producing the Oscar show presents something of a conundrum. I mean, look at six separate pieces that occupied the entertainment page of the Huffington Post on Monday night: all six found fault with the Oscars, but all six did so in dramatically different ways. "Mediocre but not a disaster," said Michael Russnow, who thought that having presenters do two categories instead of one impacted the show's star power, and didn't like giving Lena Horne a separate tribute. Ed Martin said "there was nothing particularly big or important or exciting about...
- 3/1/2011
- The Wrap
Video: Days Of Our Lives on Good Day La
Kristian Alfonso, Suzanne Rogers and Molly Burnett appeared on the show on Monday to celebrate Days' 45th anniversary.
The Bold And The Beautiful Offers Hope for a Dying Genre
Ed Martin writes: "It seems to me that the producers and writers of the other five soaps could learn a lot by watching B&B these days. At a time when so many stories on the remaining daytime dramas have so little to offer, even as entertainment, B&B is single-handedly proving that soap operas can still have enormous value on many levels. All things considered, that’s a minor miracle."
Glee has been building up to tonight's Kurt bullying episode for 1 1/2 years
"It's a big story that we're following through the whole year," says Ryan Murphy, "and it has tentacles that will touch on all the characters. Right when we finished writing this,...
Kristian Alfonso, Suzanne Rogers and Molly Burnett appeared on the show on Monday to celebrate Days' 45th anniversary.
The Bold And The Beautiful Offers Hope for a Dying Genre
Ed Martin writes: "It seems to me that the producers and writers of the other five soaps could learn a lot by watching B&B these days. At a time when so many stories on the remaining daytime dramas have so little to offer, even as entertainment, B&B is single-handedly proving that soap operas can still have enormous value on many levels. All things considered, that’s a minor miracle."
Glee has been building up to tonight's Kurt bullying episode for 1 1/2 years
"It's a big story that we're following through the whole year," says Ryan Murphy, "and it has tentacles that will touch on all the characters. Right when we finished writing this,...
- 11/9/2010
- by We Love Soaps TV
- We Love Soaps
Republicans just can’t help themselves. They get in front of a live microphone and within a few sentences are rocketing down the swiftest and most direct route to the all-you-can-eat comedian-and-talk-show-host buffet. Ladies and gentlemen, from the great state of Missouri, it’s congressional candidate Ed Martin! In a recent interview with radio host Gina Louden, Mr. Martin claimed that not only his opponent Russ Carhanan but also President Obama were taking away American’s freedom to find salvation! “We’re great because we created a place and space where people can be free,” said Martin. “And they can choose Christ, they can choose to be faithful. They can worship, and they find their way to the Lord.”...
- 7/14/2010
- Vanity Fair
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