The "Hubris or Foolishness" of "Fargo," Fusing the First and Second Screens, "Sunday Night Football" Production, Forecasting the Online TV Future

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April 18, 2014

Connect 2 Media & Entertainment, which launched in 2013, is a resource to help you as a media professional keep up with developments not only in your own business segment but across all industry sectors. Find out what's happening in TV, radio, digital media, film, event spaces, enterprise, and much more by visiting www.c2meworld.com each day. FILM Wally Pfister on Transitioning from Cinematographer to Director for "Transcendence" "First and foremost, I want to entertain the viewer, but I also want to give them some pause for thought," Wally Pfister tells Brent Lang about his decision to direct "Transcendence." "I enjoy large action films, but I find the greatest entertainment comes from something that's thought-provoking." Read More» LIVE & PUBLIC SPACES NEP Launches "Sunday Night Football" Truck NEP announced the launch of ND1, a new mobile television production unit designed and built primarily to support NBC Sports' coverage of "Sunday Night Football," the most-watched U.S. primetime show each of the past three years. Read More» PRODUCTION/POST/SOUND "Fargo" Showrunner on the "Hubris or Foolishness" of Adapting the Coen Brothers Tim Kenneally writes, "With FX's series 'Fargo,' showrunner Noah Hawley had the daunting task of adapting the beloved 1996 Coen Brothers film for the small screen. While the series employs different characters and a different storyline than the film, the frigid, folksy shadow of the original still sets high expectations." Read More» TELEVISION Social TV: Hot or Not? Still a Work in Progress It's not so much that "Videocracy" producers can make a TV series "ripped from social media," as they say, but rather that an entire network can be built as "the first TV home for the social media generation." Read More» PRODUCTION/POST/SOUND Music for "True Detective": T Bone Burnett Digs Deep for Eerie HBO Drama The music for "True Detective" is almost like another character--or a whole bunch of characters--in season one. Creator Nic Pizzolatto could not have made a better choice to helm the music: Producer/musician/songwriter T Bone Burnett has an innate sense of how to employ music in the service of visual storytelling. Read More» DIGITAL MEDIA Lifetime Brings the Second Screen to the First Screen Lifetime is experimenting with bringing second screen to the first screen: Three of its "Project Runway" shows ("Project Runway," "Project Runway: All Stars," and "Project Runway: Under the Gunn") now prominently feature online poll results onscreen throughout the premiere broadcast. Read More» More Articles & Insights Is It Time for Ultra High Definition TV? » NAB 2014: Affordable 4K Cameras, Boundary-Pushing Plug-ins and Drone Domination » More Pixels, More Picture: Is It Time for an Ultra HD TV? » Who Is Winning the Online TV Wars? » Watch NAB Show Session: "Original Programming in the World of Online Video" » New Study Points to Correlation Between YouTube Views and TV Ratings » MSNBC Launches NowThis News 15-Second News Series » CNN Targets Mobile and Social Generation »

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