

HBO Max has signed daytime talk show host Ellen DeGeneres to a four-series deal.
The upcoming streaming service from WarnerMedia has given a straight-to-series pickup for three of DeGeneres’ shows, with a fourth one in development. The three series ordered already are: “Ellen’s Home Design Challenge,” “First Dates Hotel” and “Little Ellen.” The docu-series “Finding Einstein” is the one in development.
“Ellen is a singular talent, and a powerhouse, creative triple-threat that we are lucky to have now bringing her talents to bear on behalf of HBO Max,” said Kevin Reilly, Chief Content Officer, HBO Max and president, TNT, TBS, and truTV. “Ellen’s flair for home design and matchmaking will most certainly inspire and delight – but HBO Max is full service, so as not to leave the kids out she’s bringing them back to the hilarious misadventures of her childhood in an imaginative animated series.”
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The upcoming streaming service from WarnerMedia has given a straight-to-series pickup for three of DeGeneres’ shows, with a fourth one in development. The three series ordered already are: “Ellen’s Home Design Challenge,” “First Dates Hotel” and “Little Ellen.” The docu-series “Finding Einstein” is the one in development.
“Ellen is a singular talent, and a powerhouse, creative triple-threat that we are lucky to have now bringing her talents to bear on behalf of HBO Max,” said Kevin Reilly, Chief Content Officer, HBO Max and president, TNT, TBS, and truTV. “Ellen’s flair for home design and matchmaking will most certainly inspire and delight – but HBO Max is full service, so as not to leave the kids out she’s bringing them back to the hilarious misadventures of her childhood in an imaginative animated series.”
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- 9/27/2019
- by Tim Baysinger
- The Wrap


Ellen DeGeneres is substantially expanding her producing portfolio.
The multi-hyphenate, who signed a three-year extension to her daytime hosting gig earlier this year, is behind four new shows coming to HBO Max, three of which have been handed straight-to-series orders, and one of which has been put in development.
DeGeneres announced the pickups on her talk show and, in typical Ellen fashion, also surprised her audience with a two-year HBO Max subscription in celebration of the news. The three series orders in question are for design competition show “Ellen’s Home Design Challenge,” dating show “First Dates Hotel,” and 2D animated children’s series “Little Ellen.” The show in development is a docu-series titled “Finding Einstein.”
“I’m very excited to bring my new shows to HBO Max. I don’t know who Max is, but I can’t wait to work with him,” DeGeneres joked.
All four series come...
The multi-hyphenate, who signed a three-year extension to her daytime hosting gig earlier this year, is behind four new shows coming to HBO Max, three of which have been handed straight-to-series orders, and one of which has been put in development.
DeGeneres announced the pickups on her talk show and, in typical Ellen fashion, also surprised her audience with a two-year HBO Max subscription in celebration of the news. The three series orders in question are for design competition show “Ellen’s Home Design Challenge,” dating show “First Dates Hotel,” and 2D animated children’s series “Little Ellen.” The show in development is a docu-series titled “Finding Einstein.”
“I’m very excited to bring my new shows to HBO Max. I don’t know who Max is, but I can’t wait to work with him,” DeGeneres joked.
All four series come...
- 9/27/2019
- by Will Thorne
- Variety Film + TV
Amazon Studios will test adding more content to its ever-growing slate of kids’ programming. The streaming video platform and online retail giant has ordered six new pilot episodes for children’s series set for release on Amazon Instant Video in summer 2015.
The greenlit children’s pilots will debut this summer on Amazon Instant Video as the newest round of the platform’s kid-based pilot seasons. As is the case with all of Amazon’s pilot seasons, the e-commerce giant’s upcoming slate of episodes for kids will allow Amazon customers to give feedback about which pilot episodes they want to see turned into an Original Series on Prime.
Amazon’s first pilot is for the animated The Adventures of Knickerbock Teetertop, aimed at preschool children. Knickerbock tells the story of the titular character who wants to be an adventurer just like his grandpa. Amazon’s second animated pilot, Lost in Oz,...
The greenlit children’s pilots will debut this summer on Amazon Instant Video as the newest round of the platform’s kid-based pilot seasons. As is the case with all of Amazon’s pilot seasons, the e-commerce giant’s upcoming slate of episodes for kids will allow Amazon customers to give feedback about which pilot episodes they want to see turned into an Original Series on Prime.
Amazon’s first pilot is for the animated The Adventures of Knickerbock Teetertop, aimed at preschool children. Knickerbock tells the story of the titular character who wants to be an adventurer just like his grandpa. Amazon’s second animated pilot, Lost in Oz,...
- 5/11/2015
- by Bree Brouwer
- Tubefilter.com


Could reality TV have found its newest stars? That’s what the animated family of The Potts is hoping. In the first episode of the series, the reality tv-obsessed Potts clan attempts to tape an accident for an America’s Funniest Home Videos-style program. Surely nothing could go wrong with this plan. The pilot from FishBowl Worldwide Media was written and produced by How I Met Your Mother executive producer Chuck Tatham, with animation from David & Goliath founder and illustrator Todd Goldman. Video: Jim Carrey's 'Cold Dead Hand' Clip Breaks Funny or Die Records “The Potts captures today’s hunger
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- 4/4/2013
- by Aaron Couch
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Well it is not as cold as we all thought it would be, but there is snow everywhere. My first rented car was not a 4 wheel drive and so I could not drive up the unpaved, snow-packed road to my host's large house in the Wasatch mountains. I got lost and the sun set, a beautiful pink sky over white mountains, really spectacular. The highway patrolman was kind enough to lead me up the dark mountain road to where my host awaited me and my hostess laid out a delicious meal of vegetarian quiche, green salad and cherry pie which we ate after a good shot of scotch and where we got to know each other a bit. Their home accommodates their 7 grown children and their 14 grandchildren. Since no one is visiting now, we have a third of the house for ourselves. It is surrounded by snowy acres of land where deer, elk and moose roam. My hosts are friends of my friend and former Sundance roommate from the early days in the 80s at Sundance when he, Todd McCarthy and I used to share a condo in Deer Valley. Harlan Jacobson of Talk Cinema invited Peter and me to stay with him again. I just saw him last month in Cuba at the Havana Film Festival, and this continuation is perfect. However so far, I am alone here in Sundance, driving unfamiliar cars up unfamiliar roads, because my partner Peter was felled by the flu and had to stay home. We hope he gets better so he can join me on Saturday. Job One on Day One was to return my car and find a 4 wheel drive somewhere, which I did online from Budget, so I returned to the airport, returned my first car at one company and went to the other, took the car and got lost again returning to Park City. I thought I would reach Nebraska as I realized I was driving on the I 80 East way too far. Saw some spectacular mountains until I turned off at Castle Rock, read about the Mormon's migration through the area and found my way back where I registered with the festival with very little trouble. I thought I had plenty of time for the 6:00 pm press screening of the Marc Silver-directed, Gael Garcia Bernal-produced documentary, Who is Dayani Cristal? except my car got stuck in a snowbank and I had to wait for Aaa to tow me out. However, I still made it to this beautiful and very sad film about the too well known story of young migrants coming from South and Central America to North America in pursuit of the American Dream. Those that die in the Arizona desert (the numbers of deaths per year has reached 2,000 in spite of increasing the size of the border patrol and building a wall between Mexico and USA which cost billions of dollars to build – money that could have better been spent on human beings seeking a better life from countries our own country has exploited for the past two centuries. An anonymous body found in the desert sparked the beginning of a real-life human drama as a group formed to track down the identities and seek the families of those who die so anonymously found his home in Honduras, the former Banana Republic and the poorest of all Latin American countries. The human face this documentary puts on this cycle of human migration, like salmon spawning upstream, was inexplicably beautiful and deeply moving. With an hour to kill, I went to my favorite sports store near the Holiday Village (where my films are showing) and bought me a sleeping shirt with the motto, "My second bike is a bike", listened to a funny story of the salesman about a colleague, and then went to stand in line for an hour for the next film. What's great about these cattle lines you must stand in for an hour (I'll send a picture next time) is you see people and actually can catch up with news. Richard Lorber of Kino Lorber and several other brands of showcase films was my partner in line, and I got to hear news not only from him but all the friends also lining up five deep. Richard picked up 129 films last year. Discussions with peers are so valuable as they are all about the new forms of distribution, theatrical and digital, that are quickly evolving by being tested, some working well, others being discarded, and mostly being shared among distributors and theater exhibitors. The previous day I had attended the Arthouse Convergence, now in its 6th year and grown from 20 to 350 attendees. The energy was incredible, again with sharing among all the arthouse owners of what works or does not work and what are the new challenges they are all facing. I attended only one session on Day Three, to hear my much admired colleague, Ula Sneigowska the Director of Programming for The American Film Festival in Wroclaw, Poland and Us in Progress (for films in post). Us in Progress is held in November during The American Film Festival and also in July in Paris! I was lucky to be on all 3 editions' jury. Only in its second year, it can boast of 3 films here in Sundance which were in post production when I last saw them -- The winner in Paris: A Teacher, and last November in Wroclaw: Milkshake and I Used to be Darker. All are in the next section of the festival and it looks like a good relationship between Us in Progress and Sundance is beginning. Ula previously curated an arthouse theater in Warsaw for ten years and so was an authoritative speaker on behalf of Cicae, the International Association of Arthouse Cinemas on a panel moderated by David Bordwell from the University of Wisconsin in Madison. The panel, The Digital ArtHouse: Lessons and Experiences from Europe, composed entirely of women, included Sophie DeVinck, a senior researcher of iMinds-smit, a think tank based at the Free University Brussels (Vrij Universitat Bruxelles), devoted to studying digital challenges facing the European film industry; Fatima Djoumer, head of international relations for Cinemas Europa, an association of theater owners throughout Europe and extending to the Americas, Asia and Africa, and Ann Overbergh of Bam Art (www.bamart.be), the Flemish (Belgian) institute for the audiovisual and cinema, visual and media arts dedicated to keeping these creative sectors informed and knowledgeable in contemporary programming, work and business models. The audience left feeling upbeat to hear there is more than merely adversarial relations possible between the distributors and the exhibitors. In Europe the age-old rivalry, akin to "the farmer and the cowboy" syndrome in America seems to have been resolved when it comes to digitizing all the theaters and even keeping 35mm projectors working. To return to Day One at Sundance, Ula and Karolina Pasternak, a Polish film journals and I exited Crystal Fairy with mixed feelings which we discussed as we proceeded to the annual Indiewire Chili (cooked by Dana Harris herself!) party and then to Sundance's official Day One party for filmmakers and the press. Crystal Fairy's director Sebastian Silva (The Maid) and his two Chilean brothers, Juan Andres and Jose Miguel are wonderful to watch, dryly funny, infinitely patient and totally accepting of the two young, naïve Americans who go on trip with them seeking mescaline. Ula loved the film and the funniness of the Americans; Carolina and I both were put off by the typical American naiveté of the two young people. I was especially peeved and even embarrassed by their neurotic self-centeredness. It is only now, the following morning, as I write this that I realize the title Chrystal Fairy means much more because of the revelation of Isabelle which was witnessed by the others. Now I love the film and once again congratulate Chile on what this new generation of filmmakers is bringing to the world. Everyone is aware that Chile is outpacing Argentina in producing new and interesting films in Latin America. But watch out for Peru which is gaining on them from what I hear. Certainly another prize winner from Palm Springs which first played in Havana, The Cleaner (El Limpiador) is a great beginning for its director, Adian Saba. El Limpiador will next be in Guadalajara Film Festival in March.
The parties were filled with good people we knew and new acquaintances like Jacques Telemaques of Filmmakers Alliance and Todd Goldman (www.WestRimPictures.com), finally realizing this feature film worked on for the past 17 years (!), Melissa a beautiful young actress caught in the drama of the house she and three other couch-surfers are staying and many others and Roger M. Mayer of Brooklyn Reptyle Films from Studio City California and here with his second film. Coincidently, Melissa said as we were cruising the room at the Day One Party, her three roommates are also Polish. Just as she said that, they appeared. Three Lodz University graduates, these young women are at Sundance with their short, On Suffocation. The director Jenifer Malmqvist (www.tangramfilm.se) turns out to be Swedish, her producer is French and their star is actually Polish. This international mix of talent, even at the primarily American indie Sundance Film Festival, is so on the mark for me about why I love the film business. The international mix of films and people creates an excitement and belief that films can and do change the world. See you tomorrow!
The parties were filled with good people we knew and new acquaintances like Jacques Telemaques of Filmmakers Alliance and Todd Goldman (www.WestRimPictures.com), finally realizing this feature film worked on for the past 17 years (!), Melissa a beautiful young actress caught in the drama of the house she and three other couch-surfers are staying and many others and Roger M. Mayer of Brooklyn Reptyle Films from Studio City California and here with his second film. Coincidently, Melissa said as we were cruising the room at the Day One Party, her three roommates are also Polish. Just as she said that, they appeared. Three Lodz University graduates, these young women are at Sundance with their short, On Suffocation. The director Jenifer Malmqvist (www.tangramfilm.se) turns out to be Swedish, her producer is French and their star is actually Polish. This international mix of talent, even at the primarily American indie Sundance Film Festival, is so on the mark for me about why I love the film business. The international mix of films and people creates an excitement and belief that films can and do change the world. See you tomorrow!
- 1/19/2013
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Exclusive: Vin Di Bona and Bruce Gersh’s FishBowl Worldwide Media has hired Shaleen Desai as Svp Comedy Development. He will be responsible for scripted comedy development for television and digital distribution, reporting to Evp creative affairs Susan Levison. For the past year, FishBowl’s scripted development was overseen by Jennifer Gwartz, Svp scripted development, who recently left to run Dan Lin’s Warner Bros TV-based company. Instead of going for a straight replacement, FishBowl has opted to split the job into comedy and drama development; a drama executive is expected to be appointed shortly. Desai most recently served as VP Programming at BBC Worldwide Prods. Before that, he served as VP Development for fox21, where he was active in digital media. Desai’s resume also include stints in the comedy department at the Fox network and David Letterman’s Worldwide Pants. FishBowl most recently announced Web series pilot The Potts,...
- 8/24/2011
- by NELLIE ANDREEVA
- Deadline TV
FishBowl Worldwide is a Los Angeles production shop helmed by multi-Emmy Award-winning Vin di Bona, the television producer behind such hits as MacGyver, Entertainment Tonight, and America’s Funniest Home Videos. CuteWinFail was FishBowl’s first big foray into digital media. The weekly series is a kind of reboot of America’s Funniest Home Videos for the YouTube generation meets Tosh.0 hosted by long-time YouTube star Toby Turner and produced in association with PhillyD’s DeFranco Inc. Each installment features a trio of user-submitted videos which Turner then dubs (you guessed it!) cute, win, or fail. It’s popular, garnering 180,00+ YouTube subscribers and 27+ million views in just over a year of programming. It’s good, too. You should give it a look. FishBowl Worldwide’s second big foray into digital media was just announced. The company has begun production on a pilot episode for the original animated web series The Potts.
- 8/11/2011
- by Joshua Cohen
- Tubefilter.com


There's a rash of new content heading toward the Web. Two new episodes of Lionsgate's first web series from producer Hud:sun Media’s Max Benator and creator Todd Goldman, the raunchy animated Trailer Trash, debuted exclusively on Hulu this week (clips below). The hope, always, in this transmedia age, is to capture enough attention from viewers that the real revenue producing venues--television and movies--come calling. Also online this March are a new Michael Cera CollegeHumor.com web series Bad Dads and a new twist on gender-bending, The Girls on Film (videos below). The dark comedy series Bad Dads, which launched March 2, showcases new comedy work from Cera, who is supported by Will Hines (Upright Citizens Brigade), Elaine Carroll (Very Mary-Kate), and Brian Gallivan (Sassy Gay Friend). ...
- 3/30/2011
- Thompson on Hollywood
Lionsgate Digital has partnered with artist and entrepreneur Todd Goldman in a web series whose message seems to be that watching movies can get you killed … at least if you're a family of trailer-dwelling, gleefully moronic low-lifes. But the flip side of the message, and the reason Lionsgate is venturing into a new arena with "Trailer Trash," is that the entertainment company thinks there's significant money on the internet -- that it's not just as a means to promote film and television properties, but as a way to develop and...
- 3/29/2011
- The Wrap
Lionsgate is set to bow its first original web series next month, and the early teasers for their redneck animated sendup Trailer Trash are already popping up on Hulu. Nine of these 30-second “Family Moments” teaser clips are out so far, serving to intro viewers to Billy Bob (Stephen Kramer Glickman) and his down home hick cohorts. The whole world comes out of the altered mind of writer Todd Goldman, most known for his clothing line David & Goliath. Naturally, we’ve already confirmed that a Trailer Trash merchandising line is in the works. We also confirmed that YouTube star Philip DeFranco has been tapped to voice a handful of yet-to-be named characters in the series. Other confirmed cast include country singer Laura Bell Bundy as Peggy Sue and Sam Riegel as Billy Bob’s brother Lite Beer. hud:sun Media’s Max Benator, who recently launched Genuine Ken on Hulu, is creatively producing.
- 2/16/2011
- by Marc Hustvedt
- Tubefilter.com
The TBS network just released their show line up for the upcoming season, and we first discovered that The Wayans family is in the mix. Up first from The Wayans is a project titled The Black Family which is a animated series ab out a blended interracial family, the Blacks. The show will be executive produced by Keenan Ivory Wayans, Marlon Wayans and Shawn Wayans. No word yet if they will lend their voices to the show. Also involved in the show is executive producer/writer Ali LeRoi (of Everybody Hates Chris fame), executive producer/artist Todd Goldman, and executive producer Rick Alvarez from Ice Cube's Cube Vision camp.
We also discovered Jamie Foxx is also in the fall line-up with TNT as he will take a shot at dramatic TV as he will executive produce and write a new show titled Miss Philly, which will be set in...
We also discovered Jamie Foxx is also in the fall line-up with TNT as he will take a shot at dramatic TV as he will executive produce and write a new show titled Miss Philly, which will be set in...
- 5/20/2010
- by noreply@blogger.com (The Humor Mill Magazine)
- Humor Mill Magazine


New York -- TNT on Wednesday unveiled 11 original series for the 2010-2011 TV season and announced projects in development with such big-name talent as Don Cheadle, Jamie Foxx, Mark Gordon, Mark Burnett, Ridley Scott, Tony Scott, Steven Bochco and Dean Devlin.
This summer, TNT will air seven new or returning originals: "The Closer," "Saving Grace," "Dark Blue," "Leverage," "Memphis Beat," "Rizzoli & Isles" and "Hawthorne." Later this year, "Men of a Certain Age" returns.
In 2011, the network will debut a new series from Steven Spielberg and starring Noah Wyle called "Fallen Skies," with "Southland" returning as well. It has also in recent days picked up buddy lawyer series "Franklin & Bash." starring Mark-Paul Gosselaar and Breckin Meyer.
Among the development shows are:
* An untitled Don Cheadle medical show:
With Cheadle as an executive producer, it focuses on 1971 Los Angeles, where a group of idealistic doctors open an urgent-care clinic in hopes of...
This summer, TNT will air seven new or returning originals: "The Closer," "Saving Grace," "Dark Blue," "Leverage," "Memphis Beat," "Rizzoli & Isles" and "Hawthorne." Later this year, "Men of a Certain Age" returns.
In 2011, the network will debut a new series from Steven Spielberg and starring Noah Wyle called "Fallen Skies," with "Southland" returning as well. It has also in recent days picked up buddy lawyer series "Franklin & Bash." starring Mark-Paul Gosselaar and Breckin Meyer.
Among the development shows are:
* An untitled Don Cheadle medical show:
With Cheadle as an executive producer, it focuses on 1971 Los Angeles, where a group of idealistic doctors open an urgent-care clinic in hopes of...
- 5/19/2010
- by By Georg Szalai
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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