T.V.

Off to sports

Carol | March 16th, 2013
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Globosat created a new channel that focus on what viewers seek the most: to disconnect from their busy lives and connect with nature and activities that make them slow down. In only one year of existence, the OFF channel has become a reference in action, adventure and adrenaline, as well as idyllic scenery, depicting a lifestyle rarely seen on TV before. Read More

Esquenta!

Carol | March 15th, 2013

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Regina Case is a well known face in Brazilian television, but her latest venture, the Esquenta (translating as ‘warm up’), reaches the end of the third season with a great share of the audience, continuing on Globo’s schedule indefinitely from now. Read More

Everybody Loves Daniel Craig

Kuma | December 13th, 2012

Oh Daniel Craig. You came back and we’re all the better for it, especially the ladies.

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Attractiveness Makes Me Anxious

Marissa | December 10th, 2012

Goodlookin People Havin Fun Without You

I’m not an artist, but what I gather from artists of any format, be it fashion designers, painters, or even actors, is that the need to create is bigger than them. This is what they were meant to do and if they didn’t generate art they’d go crazy. Read More

FEEL the entertainment industry

Patricia | October 27th, 2012

FEEL, the Latin American Entertainment Trade Show, has evolved into an essential exhibition for the entertainment industry, as it gathers most of the relevant Latin American commercial suppliers, and it additionally provides the opportunity for Colombian artists to promote themeslves in front of them. Read More

Network would be a TV series today

Paul | September 25th, 2012

 

I recently saw Network, the 1976 film about a TV stations war for ratings directed by Sidney Lumet. Read More

Suits

Guillaume | July 27th, 2012

The other day on the french public radio website, I was listening to a french scholar named Severine Barthes who suggested that it was a typical french thing to rave about one or two series like Mad Men while rejecting the idea of being into TV series as a whole. Read More

Charming, Old-Fashioned TV

Dicky | April 14th, 2012

Who hasn’t been watching Downton Abbey? Ages ago, it seems, my friend was telling me that he had this new British TV show he was watching about a manor house in England, and how wonderful it was. Read More

Mzansi Magic, a boost for local film and TV

Jamal | February 3rd, 2012

It’s been just over a year since M-Net and DSTV launched Mzansi Magic. In that time the channel has impressed me, especially with the broadcast of rare and historical South African content. Read More

Agreement between Canana and Netflix

Jorge Pedro | January 27th, 2012

The agreement is for digital distribution, and includes all Latinamerican countries. The Mexican production company founded by Gael García Bernal, Diego Luna and Pablo Cruz has focused on opening doors to Latin-American talent through films, and lately through television series such as Niño Santo and Soy tu fan. Read More

It’s not ice, but it also melts!

Patricia | January 9th, 2012

I’ve been overwhelmed by anything that involves chocolate before, but this has been the only time that I’ve completely refrained myself from eating it.

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Grimm

Marissa | December 29th, 2011


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one of the newest television shows to NBC cautions you – “remember the fairy tales your parents used to tell you before bedtime? Well, those weren’t stories, they were warnings”. Read More

Indie Federation

Guillaume | December 19th, 2011

A few years ago, the main French electronic music magazine, Trax, was bought by a new company and the former editorial team went on to set up a new magazine named “Tsugi”. Read More

Gangsta rap from a French girl point of view

Guillaume | December 15th, 2011

Sandy Lakdar is one of her kind. As a young French girl fantasizing about gangsta-rap, she could have just kept on blasting mixtapes and talking about it, online & offline.  Read More

Weird TV

Paul | November 16th, 2011

In the mid 90′s some Canadians moved to California and started a pop culture TV show that was syndicated by Fox. I always thought TV in the mid 90′s was pretty tame, but in retrospect that was the era of TV Nation and the Word, and Weird TV is very much in the vein of those shows.

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