Livewire! 11/3
Colbi: It's time for...........
Your news......with sass. Presented by chocolate brownies. Yummy. Now from the newsroom, it's Pierre Kelly!
Me: Hi everyone, good afternoon from the Pacific Bay area and TGIF! Hope you are well. And if you aren't well, well........
PEACOCK DEBUTS OFFICIAL TRAILER FOR NEW ORIGINAL SERIES "LOVE ISLAND GAMES"
Love Island Games Begins Streaming Wednesday, Nov 1 at 6PM PT / 9PM ET, Exclusively on Peacock
https://www.peacocktv.com/stream-tv/love-island-games
ABOUT THE SERIES
SERIES DESCRIPTION
Set in Fiji, the first season of Peacock's Love Island Games will bring together fan-favorite Islanders from various Love Island series across the globe - USA, UK, Australia, France, Sweden and Germany - for a second shot at love as they compete in a brand-new format to be crowned champions of Love Island Games. In this cheeky new iteration, romance will meet reality as fan-favorite Islanders are faced with both team and couples' challenges, all while navigating dating, eliminations, recoupling, dramatic arrivals, and new competition twists and turns that help control the game like never before. Maya Jama will host the new Original series alongside UK comedian Iain Stirling who reprises his role as narrator.
David Walliams‘ lawsuit against the producer of Britain’s Got Talent has detailed work, including a Channel 4 show, he claims to have lost after his derogatory remarks about contestants were leaked to the press
Walliams is suing Fremantle for allegedly breaking data protection laws and breaching his privacy after The Guardian published what he argues were private remarks about people auditioning for Britain’s Got Talent.
The Guardian saw a transcript of comments made by Walliams in 2020. The newspaper said he made the remarks while sitting at the Britain’s Got Talent judges’ table and they included him referring to a pensioner as a “c***.”
The legal document listed offers of work that had been “withdrawn,” including a “travelogue across India on Channel 4.” The project was said to have been canceled “entirely.”
Channel 4 declined to comment, though it is understood that the early-stage development was not taken forward for reasons unconnected to Walliams’ Britain’s Got Talent remarks.
Walliams also claimed that the BBC withdrew part of its funding for an animation series based on his children’s book Gangsta Granny, while he said that Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Really Useful Group ended its involvement in a musical based on the same novel.
The High Court document estimated that Walliams’ loss of earnings from “appearances and performances” totaled nearly £1.8M ($2.2M) since The Guardian’s article was published. This included a withdrawn £1M contract for appearing in the 2023 season of Britain’s Got Talent.
“Anyone expecting a polite, apologetic version of Survivor will be completely surprised,” the EP behind the BBC‘s rebooted reality series has proclaimed.
Speaking to Deadline a few days prior to launch, reality TV vet Paul Osborne said Survivor’s producers have leaned into high-production values and high-stakes gameplay in a similar vein to the U.S. team behind the Emmy-winning CBS smash, which has run for 45 seasons and 650 episodes over two decades.
“It feels a long time coming,” Osborne said of the UK version, which is hosted by Masked Singer presenter Joel Dommett and launches on Saturday. “I’m hugely excited to see how the audience responds to British gameplay which they might not necessarily expect. Anyone expecting a polite, apologetic version of Survivor will be completely surprised.”
This month's recipent
This month's recipent: Blockbuster_Chick.
You are the Twitchhead of the month for November of 2023. You get an imaginary plaque to hang on the wall, bragging rights and what else, Colbi King?
Colbi: A used Blockbuster Video membership card. Remember the days when you had to rent VHS cassette tapes with this used Blockbuster card. Pierre, please remind me to return these movies when you're done with the show.
Me: Okay I will. Next month, we will crown the 2023 Twitchhead of the year at the Game Show Live! honors. Be here for it.
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It's a Fact.
One step forward, more steps back for women on the small screen: the latest Boxed In report from San Diego State University's Dr. Martha Lauzen says that more females showed up as contestants on reality programs and game shows than on series during the 2022-23 season.
Women made up 50 percent of the contestants but only 43 percent of characters on comedy and drama series. The study released today tracked over 3,500 characters and more than 4,500 behind-the-scenes credits on both the broadcast networks and streamers.
When it came to inclusivity, the percentage of Black female characters declined from 27 percent in 2021-22 to to 23 percent in 2022-23. The percentage of Latinas remained steady at a (mere) 7 percent.
Regardless of the platform, the report says, female characters experienced a "steep decline" in numbers as they age from their 30s to their 40s. On the broadcast nets, the percentage of major female characters dropped from 47 percent in their 30s to 14 percent in their 40s. The drop was from 38 percent to 17 percent on the streamers.
Another little factoid that should surprise no one: women 60 and over continue to be "dramatically underrepresented." Those women made up just 3% of major female characters on broadcast and 4% on streaming.
"The percentage of female characters hasn't changed substantially on broadcast TV in over a decade," said Lauzen, the executive director of the Center for the Study of Women in TV and Film at SDSU. "In 2007-08, females comprised 43 percent of all characters. In 2022-23, females accounted for 44 percent of all characters. The story is much the same for streamers. Females accounted for 44 percent of characters in 2016-17 and 45 percent in 2022-23."
Behind the camera, 32 percent of those working on both scripted and reality fare were women. But scripted series were more likely to hire female directors versus unscripted programs while women in general were more likely to work for unscripted shows versus scripted ones. Women were also more likely to be employed as producers on unscripted programs (47%) than on scripted programs (41%).
In other roles, the differences were slight for creators (26% scripted, 25% unscripted), executive producers (33% scripted, 34% unscripted), editors (20% scripted, 19% unscripted), and directors of photography (6% scripted, 5% unscripted). Over the last 26 years — from 1997-98 through 2022-23 — the SDSU study has monitored over 56,500 characters and more than 70,000 behind-the-scenes credits as a way to monitor women's representation and employment in TV.
Sipur and Heroes Formats, a division of production company United Heroes Group, have joined forces on a new cooking competition series "SUPERmarketCHEF."
Teased as a "fast-paced" show, it will "celebrate delicious and simple meals prepared by the best home cooks from diverse cultures," it was revealed. Recruited at neighborhood supermarkets, unsuspecting shoppers will have to audition to become a national culinary star. The standout chef will be then whisked away from each location to compete on a supermarket soundstage, where they must craft "familiar, delectable dishes at affordable prices."
Later, if they impress the viewers – as well as professional judges – they might go on to vie for the title of Supermarket Chef and a significant prize.
Presented at MipCom by Heroes, "SUPERmarketCHEF" will be the first series under a new unscripted co-development and co-production pact between Israeli and Ukrainian companies.
"Out of these dire circumstances, we hope to bring some much-needed light to the world," said Pavel Cherepin, co-founder of Heroes Formats. In April, he also presented "Weekend Without Parents" at MIPFormats International Pitch.
"It is so entertaining, addictive and fun, and hits on a universal theme that cuts across all cultures: our stomachs and shared desire for delicious, home-cooked, economical food served by the best chefs in the world – everyday home cooks," he noted.
Sipur's head of unscripted formats, Zipi Rozenblum, added: "This partnership stems from our mutual love of this project, respect for each other and our complementary creative abilities, as well as our successful track records in this space."
Kelly Clarkson has no reason to come back to Los Angeles following her New York City move.
The American Idol winner packed her talk show studio and headed East to the Big Apple where she now hosts her daytime program.
With Clarkson's move to NYC to be closer to her family, the singer's future as a coach on The Voice was in doubt as the singing competition films out of L.A.
In a new interview, the "A Moment Like This" singer is seemingly done spinning in her chair. "I've learned a lot about what I'm capable of handling, and also what you should not handle. That was me saying 'bye' to The Voice and having this big move," Kelly told USA Today. "I love that family, but I was like, 'I'm struggling. I can't smile anymore. I don't feel like smiling.'"
Before we go, here's a nugget of joy from panel show trancemaker, Franki Love.
Weekend wish for everyone:
— Franki Love (@FrankiLoveMusic) November 4, 2023
What you think you can’t survive you divinely make it through & become even stronger. 🌟
Then you know it's time for Livewire! Until next time, play on playas.
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