Genre Trends Nov 30, 2016 media & entertainment movies music streaming TV ... . The in-depth exploration of such real-life events is an evolution of reality television that not only satisfies a voyeuristic curiosity but also provides historical information. In an effort to improve themselves while consuming pop culture, youth are turning to this new wave of edutainment as a learning opportunity. True crime content has made the shift from a grisly guilty pleasure to a culturally relevant form of educational entertainment, with the widespread success of Serial, HBO’s The ...
Pop Politics Mar 02, 2016 marketing media & entertainment social consciousness celebrities politics ... OLIVER British comedian John Oliver came to fame during his time on The Daily Show, but now hosts HBO’s Last Week Tonight, his own late-night talk show on which he examines politics, news, and current events through his characteristically satirical lens.MOHAMMED RASOOL A trio of VICE News journalists were arrested and detained by Turkish authorities while reporting on clashes between police and separatist Kurdish groups for VICE News this past August. While two of them, British journalists Jake ...
Green Rush Jun 16, 2015 food & beverage health & wellness drugs ... quite successfully. And, while on-screen hilarity does go up in smoke at moments, these leading edge pot consumers have also been careful to normalize weed, fitting it into characters’ lives in both casual ways akin to having a glass of wine to unwind at the end of the day and in serious contexts as depicted in an episode of Vimeo-to-HBO series High Maintenance about a cancer patient. Even athletes are now looking to marijuana as a natural part of their training regime, as demonstrated by the ...
Transgender Activists Mar 17, 2015 gen z gender activism civil rights LGBT transgender ... womenTHREE SUITSLena Dunham is producing a documentary for HBO called Three Suits about the transgender clients of a Brooklyn tailor.THE ART OF BEING NORMALThe recently released YA novel The Art of Being Normal is an emotional depiction of a teenage boy who identifies as female. - Gen Z Transgender Activists - JAZZ JENNINGSFourteen-year-old Jazz Jennings was named one of Time’s Most Influential Teens of 2014, as one of the biggest advocates for trans rights and the co-author of I Am Jazz, a children’s ...
POP Trends Jun 12, 2014 media & entertainment retail books music TV ... Detective (HBO, directed by Cary Fukunaga)Untitled Rock ‘N Roll Drama (HBO, directed by Martin Scorsese)The Cosmopolitans (Amazon Studios, written and directed by Whit Stillman)Believe (NBC, created by Alfonso Cuarón)Utopia (HBO, directed by David Fincher)The Knick (Cinemax, directed by Steven Soderbergh)Wayward Pines (FOX, directed by M. Night Shyamalan)SUPERHEROES Superheroes on television are not unheard of (see: Batman of the 1960s or Smallville of The WB-turned-CW golden years), but their feats of ...
Fans Forever Jun 10, 2014 media & entertainment movies TV ... 24 in the form of a 12-part series called 24: Live Another Day, set four years after the series’ original ending. Next year, NBC will air a 13-part miniseries based on the cult show Heroes, aptly titled Heroes Reborn. An Entourage movie will hit theaters June 2015 as a follow up to the HBO show. ...
POPulism Jun 05, 2014 media & entertainment news politics TV video ... latest political news as well as a range of funny PSAs that star major comedians and actors, who encourage practical political actions like voting or securing health care. Daily Show alum John Oliver hosts the new satirical news series Last Week Tonight with John Oliver on HBO.The Flipside, which will premiere this fall, has set out to be a conservative alternative to The Daily Show.As SplitSider reports, Onion-esque “fake news sites” are proliferating in local districts across the globe, driven by ...
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Digital Trends Dec 19, 2013 communication marketing media & entertainment social media ... , the service allowed fellow students to watch live TV on their laptops using only Web access and a college email address. Tivli launched with just six channels, but it went viral on the Harvard campus immediately. Creators Nicholas Krasney and Tuan Ho realized that they could be on to something bigger, and the Harvard iLab-incubated startup has since raised $6.3 million from investors including HBO. Now rebranded as PHILO, in an ode to television pioneer Philo Farnsworth, the service is avail- able ...
Social Studies Dec 18, 2013 media & entertainment content marketing social media ... service called See It that allows users to tune into TV shows directly from tweets. When users come across a See It button in their tweets, Comcast subscribers can log in to control their set-top boxes (while nonsubscribers are directed to other websites such as Hulu, NBC, and HBO Go). Through this deal, Comcast lets Xfinity TV customers change the channel, set their DVR, and play a show On Demand from an expanded tweet. Moreover, See It will enable tweeters to buy movie tickets through ...