Christa Robinson and Lance Frank will take on expanded roles for CBS’ division built around CBS News, local stations and syndicated programming, all put under the aegis of executive Wendy McMahon in August of last year.
Frank, who has been with CBS News since 2011, has been elevated to executive vice president, communications for CBS News & Stations and CBS Media Ventures, a new position. Frank will oversee projects tied to McMahon’s central team, including talent relations and events across the division. He will continue to oversee publicity for “60 Minutes,” and add “48 Hours” to his portfolio. Frank will report to Chris Ender, executive vice president of communications for CBS, along with McMahon.
Robinson, an industry veteran who has led communications for CNN Worldwide and Tribune Media, will continue as executive vice president, leading CBS News and Stations with an expanded role in the stations business. She will have oversight for national...
Frank, who has been with CBS News since 2011, has been elevated to executive vice president, communications for CBS News & Stations and CBS Media Ventures, a new position. Frank will oversee projects tied to McMahon’s central team, including talent relations and events across the division. He will continue to oversee publicity for “60 Minutes,” and add “48 Hours” to his portfolio. Frank will report to Chris Ender, executive vice president of communications for CBS, along with McMahon.
Robinson, an industry veteran who has led communications for CNN Worldwide and Tribune Media, will continue as executive vice president, leading CBS News and Stations with an expanded role in the stations business. She will have oversight for national...
- 19/1/2024
- de Brian Steinberg
- Variety Film + TV
As audiences tune in to “Jeopardy!” to watch James Holzhauer’s impressive winning streak, the game show has nabbed the No. 1 spot in syndication ratings for two weeks straight.
Ratings have steadily increased from 9.6 million viewers during his early April appearance, to 12 million by the end of the month. Those numbers were enough to dethrone reigning syndication ratings champ “Judge Judy.” “Jeopardy!,” now in its 36th season, grew by 12% in households each week and 27% more than the same week last year.
“In the fourth week of James Holzhauer’s record-breaking streak, ‘Jeopardy!’ ratings continue to skyrocket,” CBS executive Leslie Ryan said in a statement.
Holzhauer will be taking a break for the game show’s teacher competition. He will return May 20 and attempt to beat Ken Jennings’ all-time record of $2.5 million, set in 2004. Holzhauer’s current winnings amount to 1.6 million.
The show’s long-time host Alex Trebek recently won a...
Ratings have steadily increased from 9.6 million viewers during his early April appearance, to 12 million by the end of the month. Those numbers were enough to dethrone reigning syndication ratings champ “Judge Judy.” “Jeopardy!,” now in its 36th season, grew by 12% in households each week and 27% more than the same week last year.
“In the fourth week of James Holzhauer’s record-breaking streak, ‘Jeopardy!’ ratings continue to skyrocket,” CBS executive Leslie Ryan said in a statement.
Holzhauer will be taking a break for the game show’s teacher competition. He will return May 20 and attempt to beat Ken Jennings’ all-time record of $2.5 million, set in 2004. Holzhauer’s current winnings amount to 1.6 million.
The show’s long-time host Alex Trebek recently won a...
- 7/5/2019
- de Mackenzie Nichols
- Variety Film + TV
Oprah Winfrey’s last show, scheduled for May 25th, will score $1 million for each 30-second TV ad. Which means the Black Eyed Peas better be making an appearance and Aaron Rodgers better be scoring some touchdowns. While the prices for commercials are high for any hit TV show finale, media analyst Brad Adgate says this is a record for a daytime, non-sports broadcast. CBS spokesperson Leslie Ryan says, “The final episode of Oprah--in fact the final weeks of Oprah--will be a TV event,” but she declined to comment on the $1 million ads for the...
- 12/4/2011
- Hollyscoop.com
Gardens of the Night
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BERLIN -- Films about social issues usually exude the deadly aura of good intention and earnest edification, but Damian Harris zones in on his characters in Gardens of the Night. The film gives vivid reality to those photos of disappeared children on milk cartons by letting us peek into the lives of two abducted children subjected to sexual abuse and then prostitution.
The writer-director shuns sensationalism but does sentimentalize the friendship between the two youngsters, seen as children and then as thoroughly messed-up teens. The strength of the film lies in acting performances that make everyone human, even the monsters.
More festival exposure is assured, but only a brave distributor will take on such a tricky subject. The film might be better suited to home entertainment markets.
Reportedly, Harris spent years researching and writing his script, and it shows. The small details feel right, leaving us to accept the utter horror of the larger details. In quiet, subtle ways, his story shows how such things happen and why children gradually lose the will and ability to call out for help. While a screaming child and Movie of the Week fiends might have made a slicker, safer product, Harris takes pains to keep it real. The truly sick thing here is how nice the villain is to the children.
Alex (Tom Arnold in a performance of considerable nuance) and his much rougher partner Frank (Kevin Zegers) clearly spent time laying a trap for their young victim. Leslie Ryan Simpkins), a lovely, blond 8-year-old, is too bright to simply get into a stranger's car. A level of trust and seeming familiarity are carefully built before the two kidnappers can spirit her away from her East Coast home.
Leslie finds herself sharing space with a black youth her age, Donnie Jermaine Scooter Smith), who believes his institutionalized mother sold him to Alex. Leslie, who can read while Donnie can't, uses children's storybooks and her own imagination to create a fairy-tale world into which the two youngsters can retreat, a "jungle" where they feel safe from an adult world that has grown frightening.
The two cling to each other, forging an indissoluble bond. This has become their greatest resource when the film leaps ahead nearly a decade to San Diego, Calif. Now veteran street hustlers, the two live on the streets while selling their bodies or scamming potential clients.
Leslie (Gillian Jacobs) is the rock of Donnie's (Evan Ross) shattered existence, the one sustaining force in his life and only source of affection. Those who would further exploit the two see a need to drive a wedge between them: Leslie, now a beautiful young woman who can project a tarnished innocence, is a valuable commodity. She also could help recruit younger girls to the trade, putting her in the exact same position as Uncle Alex. Donnie, meanwhile, is viewed as a "loser."
By the time Leslie comes to her senses, Donnie has vanished. Then a wise counselor (John Malkovich in an unflashy cameo) at a shelter for runaways and homeless kids goes to the trouble to investigate Leslie's story. She honestly believes her parents are dead, but he locates them.
Can Leslie really go home again? And how many abducted kids ever get that chance? Harris raises such questions within this tragedy without ever mounting a pulpit. He lets connections get made and themes to emerge through the interaction of the two youngsters and how they perceive a hostile world. The only thing he slightly sugarcoats is that interaction, but his actors give level-headed, sincere portraits of youngsters whose value systems have been turned on their head: Vice is virtue and love perverse. They are still, in some ways, children, susceptible to the blandishments of adults and gullible about the facts of their lives. Even if they do survive, how will they ever free themselves from these distortions?
GARDENS OF THE NIGHT
Sobini Films and La Nuit Americaine present a Fastback Pictures Films, Station 3 and Shoot Prods. production
Credits:
Screenwriter-director: Damian Harris
Producers: Pascal Franchot, R.D. Robb
Executive producers: Mark Amin, Todd Olsson
Director of photography: Paula Huidobro
Production designer: Bradd Fillman
Music: Craig Richey
Costume designer: Rhona Meyers
Editor: Michael Shemesh
Cast:
Leslie: Gillian Jacobs
Donnie: Evan Ross
Alex: Tom Arnold
Michael: John Malkovich
Young Leslie: Ryan Simpkins
Young Donnie: Jermaine Scooter Smith
Frank: Kevin Zegers
Running time -- 107 minutes
No MPAA rating...
BERLIN -- Films about social issues usually exude the deadly aura of good intention and earnest edification, but Damian Harris zones in on his characters in Gardens of the Night. The film gives vivid reality to those photos of disappeared children on milk cartons by letting us peek into the lives of two abducted children subjected to sexual abuse and then prostitution.
The writer-director shuns sensationalism but does sentimentalize the friendship between the two youngsters, seen as children and then as thoroughly messed-up teens. The strength of the film lies in acting performances that make everyone human, even the monsters.
More festival exposure is assured, but only a brave distributor will take on such a tricky subject. The film might be better suited to home entertainment markets.
Reportedly, Harris spent years researching and writing his script, and it shows. The small details feel right, leaving us to accept the utter horror of the larger details. In quiet, subtle ways, his story shows how such things happen and why children gradually lose the will and ability to call out for help. While a screaming child and Movie of the Week fiends might have made a slicker, safer product, Harris takes pains to keep it real. The truly sick thing here is how nice the villain is to the children.
Alex (Tom Arnold in a performance of considerable nuance) and his much rougher partner Frank (Kevin Zegers) clearly spent time laying a trap for their young victim. Leslie Ryan Simpkins), a lovely, blond 8-year-old, is too bright to simply get into a stranger's car. A level of trust and seeming familiarity are carefully built before the two kidnappers can spirit her away from her East Coast home.
Leslie finds herself sharing space with a black youth her age, Donnie Jermaine Scooter Smith), who believes his institutionalized mother sold him to Alex. Leslie, who can read while Donnie can't, uses children's storybooks and her own imagination to create a fairy-tale world into which the two youngsters can retreat, a "jungle" where they feel safe from an adult world that has grown frightening.
The two cling to each other, forging an indissoluble bond. This has become their greatest resource when the film leaps ahead nearly a decade to San Diego, Calif. Now veteran street hustlers, the two live on the streets while selling their bodies or scamming potential clients.
Leslie (Gillian Jacobs) is the rock of Donnie's (Evan Ross) shattered existence, the one sustaining force in his life and only source of affection. Those who would further exploit the two see a need to drive a wedge between them: Leslie, now a beautiful young woman who can project a tarnished innocence, is a valuable commodity. She also could help recruit younger girls to the trade, putting her in the exact same position as Uncle Alex. Donnie, meanwhile, is viewed as a "loser."
By the time Leslie comes to her senses, Donnie has vanished. Then a wise counselor (John Malkovich in an unflashy cameo) at a shelter for runaways and homeless kids goes to the trouble to investigate Leslie's story. She honestly believes her parents are dead, but he locates them.
Can Leslie really go home again? And how many abducted kids ever get that chance? Harris raises such questions within this tragedy without ever mounting a pulpit. He lets connections get made and themes to emerge through the interaction of the two youngsters and how they perceive a hostile world. The only thing he slightly sugarcoats is that interaction, but his actors give level-headed, sincere portraits of youngsters whose value systems have been turned on their head: Vice is virtue and love perverse. They are still, in some ways, children, susceptible to the blandishments of adults and gullible about the facts of their lives. Even if they do survive, how will they ever free themselves from these distortions?
GARDENS OF THE NIGHT
Sobini Films and La Nuit Americaine present a Fastback Pictures Films, Station 3 and Shoot Prods. production
Credits:
Screenwriter-director: Damian Harris
Producers: Pascal Franchot, R.D. Robb
Executive producers: Mark Amin, Todd Olsson
Director of photography: Paula Huidobro
Production designer: Bradd Fillman
Music: Craig Richey
Costume designer: Rhona Meyers
Editor: Michael Shemesh
Cast:
Leslie: Gillian Jacobs
Donnie: Evan Ross
Alex: Tom Arnold
Michael: John Malkovich
Young Leslie: Ryan Simpkins
Young Donnie: Jermaine Scooter Smith
Frank: Kevin Zegers
Running time -- 107 minutes
No MPAA rating...
- 11/2/2008
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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