Credit: Rodney Ho
Credit: Rodney Ho
Decatur's Omari Hardwick has some job security for another year.
His new Starz drama "Power," which debuted last Saturday, was given the green light for a second season just a few days after the debut, which drew about 2 million viewers, including re-airings.
The show is set and shot in New York City and production is expected to resume this fall.
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Rozonda "Chilli" Thomas is always on the hunt for new TV gigs. Her latest: judge on a new TruTV show called "Fake Off" where people re-enact famous pop-culture moments.
How they do so will include Kabuki theater, acrobatics, dance, costume, and illusion. She joins Harry Shum Jr. ("Glee") and Michael Curry, a world-renowned visual and conceptual designer who has worked for Cirque du Soleil.
Eight episodes are set for sometime this fall as part of Atlanta-based TruTV's continued push for a younger audience.
Credit: Rodney Ho
Credit: Rodney Ho
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Want to watch old episodes of "Real Housewives of Atlanta" when NeNe Leakes and Kim Zolciak were still friends and Sheree Whitfield was still a cast member? Hulu has bought the rights to all the "Real Housewives" old episodes. You can watch them here. Hulu will offer three episodes at a time for free. You'll need a monthly Hulu Plus subscription to see all of the first five seasons.
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Reports are out that Time Warner is seeking a major investment with Vice which may involve Atlanta-based HLN. Vice runs a lot of edgy short-form programming. If you have HBO, you might be familiar with their 30-minute investigative show "Vice."
If Vice were to gain control of HLN, the channel would almost certainly have to be unbundled from CNN. That could be messy, as pay-TV providers could seek to cut CNN's carriage fee, or decline to carry HLN. If HLN were to continue to be bundled with CNN, Vice wouldn't be able to capitalize on carriage fees, which would still be tied to CNN. All in all it would be a messy transaction.
The story is so vague, it's hard to tell what would happen. It is a lot of supposition and does not address what would happen to HLN in Atlanta, where most of the employees are still based.
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A driver in a Mercedes Benz drove his car straight through the entrance of CNN Center at 4 a.m. this morning off Marietta St.
"Breaking" news at CNN Center - a driver crashed into our lobby! Fortunately no injuries - NA-08FR and RE-12FR pic.twitter.com/2T1WleFizU
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