“My Frank and I can overcome anything as long as we’re together,” the very well-to-do Nancy Teagarten avers. Whether that includes going broke without their college-bound daughter or nosy neighbors knowing about it is debatable.

Here’s the first trailer for Drunk Parents, starring Alec Baldwin and Salma Hayek as the…

Producer/director Bart Peters, former head of programming, production and development at AT&T’s Audience Network, has launched Big Branch Productions. The company, which has offices in Los Angeles and Nashville, plans to produce original content across all genres and platforms for film, TV and live-audience events.

The…

EXCLUSIVE: ReachMe TV, a multi-channel, multi-platform network that has reach to 100 million total viewers in hotels, airports and retail stores, is launching a dedicated sports division.

ReachMe Sports will aim to go “beyond the game,” in the words of ReachMe founders Lynnwood Bibbens and Ron Bloom. The new division h…

Approached by MGM Television and Skydance Television for a television adaptation of Sydney Pollack’s classic thriller Three Days of the Condor, Jason Smilovic and Todd Katzberg initially were reluctant to do so, finding the notion of adapting the film sacrilegious. But looking at the film more closely, the producers…

Grey’s Anatomy alumna Tessa Ferrer is set as a series regular opposite Jack Huston in Season 2 of AT&T Audience Network's breakout series Mr. Mercedes. Production begins next month in Charleston, SC, on the Sonar Entertainment-produced Stephen King adaptation.

The second season will be based on King's best-selling Bill…

Boardwalk Empire alum Jack Huston and Maximiliano Hernandez (Sicario) have joined the Season 2 cast of AT&T Audience Network’s breakout series Mr. Mercedes. Production begins next month in Charleston, South Carolina on the Sonar Entertainment-produced Stephen King adaptation for premiere this summer on DirecTV, AT&T…

DirecTV/AT&T Audience Network programming chief Chris Long just announced that he is exiting the company after almost two decades. Long, who started at Audience when it was owned by DirecTV and remained at the helm following the DirecTV/AT&T merger, is stepping down on the eve of AT&T’s acquisition of Time Warner.

Long…

AT&T Audience Network has released the trailer for The Volunteers, Ricky Schroder’s latest unscripted documentary, which follows cameraman River Rainbow Hagg on a humanitarian mission to witness firsthand the war being waged against ISIS in northern Syria.

The docu details River's experiences with a coalition of Kurdis…

One day ahead of its Season 1 finale, Mr. Mercedes has been renewed for a 10-episode second run next year on AT&T Audience Network. David E. Kelley again will write the script and Jack Bender is directing the Stephen King adaptation starring Harry Treadaway and Brendan Gleeson.

Produced by Sonar Entertainment, summer s…

Mouna Traoré (Murdoch Mysteries) and Ellen Wong (GLOW) are set to recur opposite Max Irons in Condor, AT&T Audience Network's 10-episode straight-to-series drama produced by MGM Television and Skydance TV.

Inspired by Sydney Pollack's 1975 political thriller Three Days of the Condor, and written by Jason Smilovic and…

Production has begun on Season 2 of AT&T Audience Network's drama series Ice, with five new cast members and returning stars Cam Gigandet, Jeremy Sisto, Ray Winstone, Audrey Marie Anderson and Judith Shekoni.

Joining Season 2 is Jocelyn Hudon (The Strain) as a new series regular playing Willow Green. She replaces…

Audience Network’s new comedy Hit The Road,  closed out today’s panel presentation at the TCA confab in Beverly Hills. Starring Jason Alexander, the comedy follows a chaotically dysfunctional family of would-be rock/pop stars traverse the country in a cramped second-hand tour bus, seeking Partridge Family-esque fame.

H…