Panel: Sync It or Leave It! - Midem 2014

In association with A&R Worldwide/MUSEXPO
Sync placements are a growing revenue stream, providing great opportunities to advance artists, with prominent placement in TV shows, films, video games or commercials. Preeminent music supervisors explore the nuances of pitching to specific media.

Moderator:
Sat Bisla, Founder & President, A&R Worldwide/Musexpo (USA)

Speakers:
Nis Bøgvad, Creative Director & Music Supervisor, Music Sales Group (Denmark/Norway/Sweden)
JT Griffith, Music Supervisor, Nike (USA)
Kyle Hopkins, Head of Music Supervision, Microsoft (USA)
Tim Riley, VP, Music Affairs, Activision Blizzard (USA)

Reality TV: How To Get A Development Deal

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How to Write a Television Script

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Television writing is a difficult business and requires a lot of hard work, but the good news is that script formating and basic storytelling structure are things anyone can learn. This video guide will show you how.

ABC's 'Lost' finishes on top

Series finale nabs best numbers in two years

By RICK KISSELL

Despite airing late and on a special night, the series finale of ABC's "Lost" dominated the ratings race on Sunday, delivering its best numbers in more than two years. NBC's "Celebrity Apprentice" finale hung in there opposite it, logging its highest scores in more than a year.

According to preliminary nationals from Nielsen, the 2 1/2-hour conclusion to "Lost" averaged a 5.8 rating/15 share in adults 18-49 and 13.5 million viewers overall, with its final half-hour -- which won't count in the net's averages because it aired outside of primetime -- averaging a 6.4/19 in the demo and 15.3 million viewers overall. These are the best scores for the island adventure mystery since February 2008, and reps a roughly 30% gain over its fifth-season finale a year ago. It was also up 35% from the series' penultimate episode last Tuesday.

Kicking off the night in fine fashion for the Alphabet was the two-hour retrospective "Lost: The Final Journey" (4.0/13 in 18-49, 9.8 million viewers overall), which won its final half-hour by 6 shares in 18-49. Excluding the Academy Awards, ABC hasn't done better in the 7-9 p.m. slot on a Sunday since November 2007.

At NBC, "Celebrity Apprentice" (3.4/9 in 18-49, 9.3 million viewers overall) grew by nearly 50% week to week to place a potent second to "Lost" from 9 to 11. It came in about 10% above last season's finale and delivered the show's best demo score since last season's premiere in March 2009, and its largest overall audience for an episode since the previous season's finale in March 2008. The reality show jumped sharply from its "Minute to Win It" lead-in (1.7/5 in 18-49, 5.6 million viewers overall), which itself built from newsmag "Dateline" in the 7 o'clock hour (1.1/4 in 18-49, 5.2 million viewers overall).

Fox seemed affected by the "Lost" programming, as the finales of "Family Guy" (3.2/8 in 18-49, 6.4 million viewers overall in a special 9:30 p.m. firstrun timeslot and 3.0/8 in 18-49, 6.1 million viewers overall in its regular 9 p.m. time period), "The Simpsons" (2.5/8 in 18-49, 5.7 million viewers overall) and "The Cleveland Show" (2.3/7 in 18-49, 4.9 million viewers overall) were all down by double-digit percentages vs. the previous week.

CBS started slowly with "60 Minutes" (1.0/4 in 18-49, 9.4 million viewers overall) and then did OK with its two-hour special "Academy of Country Music Presents Brooks & Dunn: The Last Rodeo" (1.8/5 in 18-49, 10.1 million viewers overall), which the net clearly positioned as an alternative on the busy night.

Also a factor on the night was TNT's coverage of Game 3 of the NBA's Western Conference Finals between the Los Angeles Lakers and Phoenix Suns -- although in the host cities, the game was over prior to the start of the night's top entertainment series. Ratings for the game will be released by Nielsen on Tuesday.

Preliminary 18-49 averages for the night: ABC, 4.8/15; NBC, 2.4/7; Fox, 2.2/6; CBS, 1.5/4.

In total viewers: ABC, 11.4 million; CBS, 9.1 million; NBC, 7.4 million; Fox, 4.7 million; Univision, 3.1 million.

Source: Variety

Comcast to Make Your IPad a Giant Remote

By Marco Tabini

Thanks to its small size and weight, the iPad's place is not on our desks, but at our side--a constant companion that augments and enriches our daily lives. This seems to be inspiring all sorts of innovative apps that take advantage of everything our beloved tablet has to offer in new and exciting ways.

One such example comes from the labs of U.S. cable giant Comcast, which demoed a prototype of its new Xfinity Remote, an app that can be used to access and control the company's on-demand and TV-recording services.

Judging from the press release, "remote" may be a bit of a misnomer for this app, considering the slew of features it comes with. In addition to controlling your TV viewing experience, Xfinity allows you to share your favourite shows with your friends and invite them to watch them in real time, thus adding a whole new social dimension to your living room entertainment experience.

There's no word on when--or if--the Xfinity Remote will be available to consumers. In the meantime, Comcast Labs has published a video of a demo that was shown at this week's NCTA show.

Source:

http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/196194/comcast_to_make_your_ipad_a_giant_remote.html

Authors Copyright Termination Right: Regaining Rights In Your Content?

The Copyright Act actually gives content creators the powerful right to regain ownership despite what a contract may say about transferring rights. As with everything, the devil is in the details, but if you are an artist, actor, producer, production house or other creative person or company, especially from the late 70's or early 80's because the first test of this right is soon, you need to know your rights.

Meet the Chairman: Dana Walden

NATPEtv presents "Meet the Chairman" with Dana Walden, Chairman, 20th Century Fox Television.

''The Simpsons'' Undergo Makeover For African Continent Debut

No, there's nothing wrong with your eyes. These are the Simpsons - just a little less yellow than usual. For the first time in more than two decades, Homer and his family have been given a make-over.

At the behest of advertisers, the family have been turned into Angolans ahead of the shows first airing in the African continent.
Don't have an elephant, man: The Simpson family have been turned into Angolans for the launch of the show in the African continent
Angolan advertising agency Executive Center have taken an original animated promotional shot of Bart, Homer, Maggie Lisa and Marge sitting together on a couch and altered it to show them as Africans.

Their yellow skin has been replaced with a much darker brown skin while Marge's blue hair has been switched for a jet black afro hairdo. Lisa's hair is now braided and the entire family are shown wearing Angolan-inspired clothing and flip flops.

The family cat has completely disappeared from the new shot. Also missing are a lamp, table and telephone which have been replaced by huge stereo speakers.

And the picture on the wall of a yacht on the ocean is now a picture of Serengeti elephant scene.

Underneath the family are the words: 'The Simpsons now in Angola.'

However, it is believed the family will keep their traditional yellow look when the series airs on digital service DStv next month.

Now a massive franchise, The Simpsons is broadcast in more than 90 countries and has been translated into more than 45 languages since it started in 1989. 441 episodes have currently been made.
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