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ABC/Randy HolmesThose "six degrees of Kevin Bacon" are about to get a lot shorter for contestants on a forthcoming quiz show. ABC Audio has confirmed the famously-connected actor will headline and co-produce Lucky 13, from the creators of the one-time...
Multiplatform entertainment news network LIT has launched on AVoD platform Samsung TV Plus. Adrian Woolfe The 24-hour channel is already available on NBCUniversal-owned SVoD service Peacock and launched on AVoD platforms Vizio SmartCast and Plex in February. It also has a daily programming block on Indonesian streamer Kaskus TV. LIT and parent firm Studio 1 Entertainment were founded by UK execs Adrian Woolfe and Claudia Rosencrantz, who are co-CEOs of the new venture. The pair met over 20 years ago while working on ITV gameshow Who Wants to be a Millionaire?. Rosencrantz commissioned the se...
Broadcast Tech about launching an OTT entertainment channel over the past year. “We never planned to launch in a pandemic,” admits LIT co-CEO and co-founder Adrian Woolfe. “We had been looking at launching in LA last summer, but then we had to leave the US on the 12 th March just before it closed its borders.” However, the OTT entertainment news channel hasn’t let the past year slow it down too much. Today LIT announces its first UK distribution deal, with Samsung TV Plus to host a free 24-hour channel on its service. This comes after LIT has launched in the US earlier this year, wi...
OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE LIT Tom Boland has been named Chief Marketing Officer of Studio 1 and LIT. Starting today, Boland will lead marketing, brand partnerships, and ad products across the Studio 1 portfolio, including LIT, a rolling entertainment news network with a global audience of over 70M across a growing list of leading OTT providers, including Peacock, VIZIO Smartcast and Plex. Boland, a veteran WarnerMedia executive, was Turner’s Vice President of Social Strategy and Solutions for Sports, News, and Entertainment. In that role, he led the paid social strategy for CNN, Bleach...
LIT, the multi-platform entertainment network aimed at what the company describes as the social media generation, has launched on VIZIO SmartCast and Plex. The ...