YouTube is expected to announce Friday that it has partnered with several big names to present TV-style channels that will feature professionally produced shows, The Hollywood Reporter reports.
Although YouTube has been known to be a hub for amateur-produced fare such as wacky cat videos, makeup application tutorials, backyard stunts or personally recorded greetings, the video-sharing site is looking to branch out with programming that will compete with satellite and cable TV providers.
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NBC will launch its search for the next big designer with a new reality competition series, Fashion Star.
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Fashion Star will feature 12 unknown designers, who will be put through a variety of business and design challenges each week. Notable fashion designers and buyers from big retailers will serve as judges and will also bid against each other to purchase the work from the contestants. When each episode concludes, viewers can purchase the winning designs showcased that night.
Super model Elle Macpherson will host.
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Ben Silverman is back in business with NBC.
The former co-chairman of NBC Entertainment and Universal Media Studios has sold Party People, an ensemble comedy script, to his old network home, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Described as a modern-day Taxi, Party People revolves around entertainers who perform at children's parties. Silverman will executive-produce ...
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Electus founder and CEO Ben Silverman and his girlfriend Jennifer Cuoco are engaged, the New York Post reports.
NBC boss Ben Silverman to vacate post at Peacock
The lovebirds celebrated Saturday night with close friends including...
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CBS Entertainment President Nina Tassler has outlasted NBC's Ben Silverman at the top of a network — and she isn't above a little gloating.
Silverman, the departing co-chairman of NBC Entertainment and Universal Media Studios, once said that other network executives were "basically D-girls" — industry slang for young, attractive female development executives with little pull.
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Tassler was asked during a panel at the Television Critics Association's fall press tour Monday what she thought about Silverman's departure, and quipped, "I'm really just a D-girl, so I wouldn't comment."
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