“Act Your Age” earns another win for Alyson Fouse and Bounce TV.
The sitcom starring Kym Whitley, Tisha Campbell, and Yvette Nicole Brown opened to an audience of 2.14 million total viewers with its two-episode back-to-back premiere on March 4 on Bounce TV, according to figures from Nielsen. Thus, making it the most-watched half-hour series launch in Bounce history.
The initial airing was also pushed with a special presentation on Bounce’s sister network, Ion.
“It’s the storytelling. It’s wonderful and I think there needs to be something said about how it really well represents black women in America today. That’s a real breath of fresh air,” said executive producer and David Hudson. “It’s fun, it’s funny, it’s engaging, it’s reflective. I think it has real broad appeal for a lot of women, men as well.”
Hudson adds: “Straight off the bat as we started...
The sitcom starring Kym Whitley, Tisha Campbell, and Yvette Nicole Brown opened to an audience of 2.14 million total viewers with its two-episode back-to-back premiere on March 4 on Bounce TV, according to figures from Nielsen. Thus, making it the most-watched half-hour series launch in Bounce history.
The initial airing was also pushed with a special presentation on Bounce’s sister network, Ion.
“It’s the storytelling. It’s wonderful and I think there needs to be something said about how it really well represents black women in America today. That’s a real breath of fresh air,” said executive producer and David Hudson. “It’s fun, it’s funny, it’s engaging, it’s reflective. I think it has real broad appeal for a lot of women, men as well.”
Hudson adds: “Straight off the bat as we started...
- 3/9/2023
- by BreAnna Bell
- Variety Film + TV
Hey, it's Stanley Kubrick's birthday. As it happens, the BFI has just posted an edited extract from the introduction to the new collection, Stanley Kubrick: New Perspectives. Also in today's roundup: Madison Brookshire on Josef von Sternberg and Jack Smith by way of Gilles Deleuze; interviews with Pedro Costa (conducted by David Barker and Matthew Porterfield), Bruno Dumont, Barbara Kopple, Paul Schrader and "illustrator, concept artist and visual futurist" Syd Mead; Anna Shechtman on James Ponsoldt's The End of the Tour and the David Foster Wallace Industry; news of Fatih Akin's next project; and remembering producer Pierre Cottrell. » - David Hudson...
- 7/26/2015
- Fandor: Keyframe
Hey, it's Stanley Kubrick's birthday. As it happens, the BFI has just posted an edited extract from the introduction to the new collection, Stanley Kubrick: New Perspectives. Also in today's roundup: Madison Brookshire on Josef von Sternberg and Jack Smith by way of Gilles Deleuze; interviews with Pedro Costa (conducted by David Barker and Matthew Porterfield), Bruno Dumont, Barbara Kopple, Paul Schrader and "illustrator, concept artist and visual futurist" Syd Mead; Anna Shechtman on James Ponsoldt's The End of the Tour and the David Foster Wallace Industry; news of Fatih Akin's next project; and remembering producer Pierre Cottrell. » - David Hudson...
- 7/26/2015
- Keyframe
Cyrus and Jeff, Who Lives At Home filmmaker Mark Duplass will return to South by Southwest to keynote the 2015 edition of the annual Austin film conference, organizers announced today. Like 2014’s popular keynote speaker Lena Dunham, Duplass is making a homecoming of sorts to SXSW where he launched his career in 2005 by winning the SXSW Audience Award with brother Jay for The Puffy Chair. Last year at SXSW he and director/co-writer/co-star Patrick Brice debuted their microbudget horror Creep which Radius-twc and Blumhouse Tilt jointly acquired.
Also stopping by the Austin fest held from March 13-21, 2015 will be Bollywood actor and director Shekhar Kapur (Elizabeth, The Four Feathers), who will lead a Conversation session. Over 150 keynotes, conversations, panels, and mentor sessions are in the works for the annual confab, which has yet to announce its full lineup.
As for film panels, I’ll be talking shop at “So You...
Also stopping by the Austin fest held from March 13-21, 2015 will be Bollywood actor and director Shekhar Kapur (Elizabeth, The Four Feathers), who will lead a Conversation session. Over 150 keynotes, conversations, panels, and mentor sessions are in the works for the annual confab, which has yet to announce its full lineup.
As for film panels, I’ll be talking shop at “So You...
- 10/21/2014
- by Jen Yamato
- Deadline
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