Mr. Kate finds a home at Maker Studios
The Disney-owned MCN signs the YouTube lifestyle and D.I.Y. expert (real name: Kate Albrecht), whose first book is due in June.
April 8, 2015
Disney-owned Maker Studios announced on Tuesday it has signed lifestyle and do-it-yourself expert Kate Albrecht, a.k.a. Mr. Kate, to its multi-channel network.
Albrecht’s YouTube channel has racked up more than 314,000 subscribers and 22.4 million views. Her programming has ranged from branded
Style Challenge videos for Target to the series
A Hollywood Home, both of which co-starred her husband Joey Zehr, the former drummer for The Click Five. In 2013, she signed a licensing deal with Lamps Plus for her own line of lampshades, and now she’s penned her first book
Take a virtual tour of the Grammy Museum
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Share: While we re practicing social distancing, nothing can bring us together like the power of music, said Michael Sticka, President of the Grammy Museum in Downtown Los Angeles. While our doors may be closed, our mission is not. So the Grammy Museum was able to, almost within a 48 hour period, pivot and create a digital museum. And it s entirely free.
The new Grammy Museum at Home portal features new artist public programs, education and virtual exhibits. The museum will also be surfacing content which has never been released before, including exclusive interviews with the likes of Billie Eilish and FINNEAS, Andrea Boccelli, Los Tigres del Norte, Brett Young, Brandi Carlile and Greta Van Fleet.
Amazon’s Transparent grabs 2 Golden Globes
The streaming space s coming of age continues with Kevin Spacey also picking up a Globe for Netflix s House of Cards.
January 12, 2015
Amazon didn’t receive a single Emmy nomination last year for its initial round of series offerings, but it came back strong at the Golden Globe Awards on Sunday night with
Transparent, which went 2 for 2 in the categories it was nominated in.
The dramedy about a father who comes out to his family as transgender, which debuted last August, won for best TV comedy, while Jeffrey Tambor won for best actor.
Accepting the award, Tambor thanked Amazon, calling the company his “new best friend.”