Hulu is taking a page from the broadcast and cable TV playbook, setting a three-hour live stream of an aerial plane maneuver.
The Red Bull branded event on Sunday, April 24, will go live at 7 p.m. Et and will be on YouTube outside the U.S. It brings to streaming the phenomenon of live events — a tightrope walk across the Grand Canyon, brain surgery and more — designed over the past decade to compel audience tune-in in a time of seemingly limitless on-demand choice.
During the plane swap, two members of the Red Bull plane swap will each solo pilot an aircraft, put them into a vertical nosedive, jump out and skydive into each other’s planes. The companies say the move, happening at 14,000 feet, has never before been attempted.
“Plane Swap is the natural progression and culmination of my life’s work as a professional, both in the air as...
The Red Bull branded event on Sunday, April 24, will go live at 7 p.m. Et and will be on YouTube outside the U.S. It brings to streaming the phenomenon of live events — a tightrope walk across the Grand Canyon, brain surgery and more — designed over the past decade to compel audience tune-in in a time of seemingly limitless on-demand choice.
During the plane swap, two members of the Red Bull plane swap will each solo pilot an aircraft, put them into a vertical nosedive, jump out and skydive into each other’s planes. The companies say the move, happening at 14,000 feet, has never before been attempted.
“Plane Swap is the natural progression and culmination of my life’s work as a professional, both in the air as...
- 3/16/2022
- by Dade Hayes
- Deadline Film + TV
Hulu is presenting Red Bull’s latest death-defying aerial stunt as the exclusive U.S. livestreaming partner. The opportunistic rights pickup shows how Disney is hunting for new head-turning opportunities to help Hulu stand out in the crowded streaming market.
In Red Bull’s Plane Swap event, set for Sunday, April 24, skydivers and pilots Luke Aikins and Andy Farrington — each piloting single-seat Cessna aircrafts to 14,000 feet in the skies over Arizona — will put their planes into a vertical nosedive. They’ll then jump out in midair at 140 mph (leaving the cockpits empty) and attempt to skydive into each other’s planes as they hurtle toward the ground.
The never-before-attempted Plane Swap stunt will be livestreamed on Hulu beginning at 4 p.m. Pt on April 24. Hulu is the exclusive streaming partner of Plane Swap in the U.S. (available to all subscribers) and Red Bull TV is the broadcast platform for rest of the world.
In Red Bull’s Plane Swap event, set for Sunday, April 24, skydivers and pilots Luke Aikins and Andy Farrington — each piloting single-seat Cessna aircrafts to 14,000 feet in the skies over Arizona — will put their planes into a vertical nosedive. They’ll then jump out in midair at 140 mph (leaving the cockpits empty) and attempt to skydive into each other’s planes as they hurtle toward the ground.
The never-before-attempted Plane Swap stunt will be livestreamed on Hulu beginning at 4 p.m. Pt on April 24. Hulu is the exclusive streaming partner of Plane Swap in the U.S. (available to all subscribers) and Red Bull TV is the broadcast platform for rest of the world.
- 3/16/2022
- by Todd Spangler
- Variety Film + TV
This “Party” is over.
Fox has opted not to make any more episodes of “Party Over Here,” the network’s most recent attempt to get back into the sketch comedy game. The show, which aired earlier this year, came from the Lonely Island and showrunner Paul Scheer.
Ten episodes of “Party Over Here” ran on Saturday nights this spring. The show starred Nicole Byer, Jessica McKenna and Alison Rich.
Read More: ‘Alone Together’ Pilot from Andy Samberg’s Lonely Island Ordered by Freeform
“It was an effort to try to do something interesting at a low price point with content creators who we like a lot,” said Fox TV Group chairman Dana Walden. “We were hopeful that little elements of the show might go viral.”
But launching the show late in the year proved to be challenging, particularly with so much attention focused other late night shows. “It’s just really hard,...
Fox has opted not to make any more episodes of “Party Over Here,” the network’s most recent attempt to get back into the sketch comedy game. The show, which aired earlier this year, came from the Lonely Island and showrunner Paul Scheer.
Ten episodes of “Party Over Here” ran on Saturday nights this spring. The show starred Nicole Byer, Jessica McKenna and Alison Rich.
Read More: ‘Alone Together’ Pilot from Andy Samberg’s Lonely Island Ordered by Freeform
“It was an effort to try to do something interesting at a low price point with content creators who we like a lot,” said Fox TV Group chairman Dana Walden. “We were hopeful that little elements of the show might go viral.”
But launching the show late in the year proved to be challenging, particularly with so much attention focused other late night shows. “It’s just really hard,...
- 8/10/2016
- by Michael Schneider
- Indiewire
Skydiver Luke Aikins has made history by successfully jumping from 25,000 feet above California’s Simi Valley without a parachute. Aikins landed in a 100 feet by 100 feet, two-tiered net set up to catch him. Accomplishing the feat with a 120 mph terminal velocity. Congratulations @LukeAikins!! #history #StrideHeavenSent pic.twitter.com/1IdyRiXG71 — Heaven Sent – 7/30 (@HeavenSentAPE) July 31, 2016 […]
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- 8/1/2016
- by Khoreen Eccleston
- Uinterview
Skydiver Luke Aikins made history last night when he jumped from an airplane flying 25,000 feet above the surface of the Earth and landed safely — without using a parachute. Aikins performed this seemingly impossible feat on a live television special last night, airing on Fox, freefalling from the sky for about two minutes before […]...
- 7/31/2016
- by bfurdyk
- ET Canada
[[tmz:video id="0_9pwep5rv"]] You read the headline correctly ... skydiver Luke Aikins landed a 25,000 foot jump in California yesterday ... With No Parachute!!! The 42-year-old spent nearly 2 minutes in a chute-less freefall -- hitting speeds up to 120 mph before landing in a massive 100x100 foot net. Aikins called it the "Heaven Sent" jump. He's lucky it didn't work out the other way around. Read more...
- 7/31/2016
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
A skydiver has made history by becoming the first person to jump 25,000 feet without a parachute - and he did it all on live TV. Millions tuned into Fox's special called Heaven Sent to see professional skydiver Luke Aikins, 42, jump out of an airplane with only the clothes on his back, freefall for about two minutes and successfully land in a 100 ft. by 100 ft. net. The daredevil then climbed out of the net and embraced his wife, Monica, who was among family and friends, including their 4-year-old son, anxiously watching from the landing site in the outskirts of Simi Valley in California.
- 7/31/2016
- by Stephanie Petit, @stephpetit_
- PEOPLE.com
The death-defying skydiving stunt that aired live tonight on Fox went off without a hitch – but not without a hiccup. Renowned skydiver Luke Aikins became the first man to jump from an airplane at 25,000 feet without a parachute and land safely in a giant net. The stunt, performed on a branded program called Stride Gum Presents: Heaven Sent, went perfectly, but it almost didn't go off as planned. In the days leading up to the jump, SAG-aftra informed the production…...
- 7/31/2016
- Deadline TV
Don't try this at home, ladies and gentlemen. Luke Aikins had millions of viewers on the edge of their seats Saturday night when he performed his latest daredevil stunt on Fox's Heaven Sent special. The 42-year-old sky-diver decided to jump out a plane without a parachute in hopes of landing directly into a net 25,000 feet below him. You can now open your eyes because Luke completed the stunt safely and successfully. "I'm almost levitating. It's incredible, this thing that just happened," Luke shared surrounded by family and friends after the "perfect landing." "The words I want to say I can't even get out of my mouth. Baba booey." Minutes before...
- 7/31/2016
- E! Online
SAG-aftra has dropped its safety objections and will allow its members to work on Stride Gum Presents: Heaven Sent, a branded, live stunt show that airs tonight on Fox. During the death-defying show, renowned skydiver Luke Aikins will attempt to become the first person to jump out of an airplane at 25,000 feet without a parachute or a wingsuit and land safely in a giant net suspended 200 feet above the southern California desert. The program, says a Fox spokesperson, is…...
- 7/30/2016
- Deadline TV
“‘It’s not for me.’”
To be fair, that’s how 99.9999% of humans would respond to someone asking them if they’d like to jump out of a plane, traveling at 25,000 feet. With no parachute. And no wingsuit.
Yet, two years after the idea was first broached to him, that’s exactly what Luke Aikins will do on Saturday as part of Fox’s live “Stride Gum Presents Heaven Sent” event.
It’s there that Aikins will look to join a succession of escalating televised shows of athletic daring that has its DNA in the Evel Kneivel jumps of the ’60s and ’70s and that has continued through another massive televised event like Felix Baumgartner’s 2012 Red Bull Stratos dive. Aikins worked with Baumgartner as part of the training staff that prepared him to jump from the outer limits of space, nearly 25 miles from orbit to landing on Earth.
“I...
To be fair, that’s how 99.9999% of humans would respond to someone asking them if they’d like to jump out of a plane, traveling at 25,000 feet. With no parachute. And no wingsuit.
Yet, two years after the idea was first broached to him, that’s exactly what Luke Aikins will do on Saturday as part of Fox’s live “Stride Gum Presents Heaven Sent” event.
It’s there that Aikins will look to join a succession of escalating televised shows of athletic daring that has its DNA in the Evel Kneivel jumps of the ’60s and ’70s and that has continued through another massive televised event like Felix Baumgartner’s 2012 Red Bull Stratos dive. Aikins worked with Baumgartner as part of the training staff that prepared him to jump from the outer limits of space, nearly 25 miles from orbit to landing on Earth.
“I...
- 7/28/2016
- by Steve Greene
- Indiewire
Luke Aikins remembers laughing the first time he was asked to jump out of a plane with nothing but the clothes on his back. "Like any normal, sane person I said, 'Thank you but no thank you I have a wife and a son and I've got a life to live,' " Aikins, 42, tells People. "Then, two weeks went by and I kept waking up in the middle of the night thinking, if somebody said you had to do this how could it be done?" he continues. A third-generation skydiver with 18,000 jumps under his belt, Aikins is more than just a daredevil.
- 7/26/2016
- by Tiare Dunlap, @tiaredunlap
- PEOPLE.com
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