Posts with tag ifc
Posted Aug 22nd 2007 7:02PM by Adam Finley
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Programming
Well, no wonder I missed this news: it was buried in some Variety article with "R. Kelly" in the title. You might as well slap a "poison" label on a jar of Skippy and expect me to open it. Seriously, people.
Anyway, yes, The Whitest Kids U Know will be heading to IFC for its second season after completing its first season on Fuse, IFC's sister channel. IFC has also acquired rights to the first season of the series. Fans of the series should be happy about this move for two reasons: IFC does not censor anything, and, it's commercial-free. The troupe is currently shooting the second season.
Continue reading Whitest Kids U Know move to IFC for season two
Posted Aug 4th 2007 11:00AM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Industry, Programming, Web, Celebrities
Posted Nov 8th 2006 7:59PM by Adam Finley
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, Cable, Celebrities
Sarah Silverman is returning for her second year as host of the Spirit Awards, which is the award show I watch instead of the Academy Awards. I understand that just because a film is independent doesn't mean it's any good, but I prefer the laidback atmosphere and free spirit of this broadcast over the stuffy, surgically-altered humanoids who give golden idols to whoever made the least crappiest mainstream film that year.
The award ceremony for the Spirit Awards will air on IFC on February 24, 2007, and nominees will be announced on November 28. The Spirit Awards have been around since 1984, and they've been a great way for me to find out about movies I hadn't heard of. It was because of them I found out about Donnie Darko, which quickly became one of my favorite movies.
Posted Sep 15th 2006 12:55PM by Joel Keller
Filed under: Industry, Programming, OpEd, NYTVF

When I got back from my NY Television Festival activities on Wednesday, I was so damned tired that I decided to sleep in again. I had two choices of places to go early yesterday: Some pilot screenings or the finals of the One-Minute Pitch Contest. Since my oh-so-kind colleagues here at TVS are reviewing the pilots for me, I decided to go to the Pitch contest instead. So I walked through the rain, bagel in hand, to the IFC Center in the West Village, where the contest was being held.
The contest, held by the IFC channel in conjunction with the festival, invited people to record one-minute pitches and send them in. Fifteen finalists were chosen, and they were given two minutes to describe their first episode to a panel of three judges, who get to ask one clarifying question. Then five ideas are chosen to go through a second round of questioning. Finally, a winner was chosen from the remaining five. Who was the winner? I'll give you that information -- and pictures -- after the jump.
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Posted Aug 24th 2006 11:31AM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Premium Cable, Industry

Earlier this summer,
we told you about how the
New York Television Festival was taking pitches from the public for a new television show. Well, festival folks have narrowed the pitches down to the best 50 and now you can watch them and vote for your favorite over at
MSN Video. But hurry! They're only available for viewing through tomorrow (Friday) and you have to have Internet Explorer to do so.
The top two vote-getters each day will be finalists who will get to pitch their ideas to development executives. Only one person will get $8,000 to make a pilot out of his/her idea. The contest is in conjunction with IFC, which presumably can choose to pick up the show.
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Posted Aug 15th 2006 5:31PM by Adam Finley
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Cable, Celebrities
I wouldn't call myself a huge fan, but I've always had an admiration for comedian Laura Kightlinger. She's popped up from time to time on the TV screen on shows such as Saturday Night Live and Loveline, as well as Will and Grace, on which she was also a writer and producer. She's very funny, and this interview she did with USA Today's Whitney Matheson proves it. The two ladies talk about Kightlinger's IFC series The Minor Accomplishments of Jackie Woodman, which Anna first mentioned in May and is yet further proof that I need a better cable package because there are just too many channels with too many good shows I'm missing. At least, I assume the show is good since she's involved with it. Perhaps it totally sucks, but I wouldn't know. That's my point.
Posted Jul 18th 2006 9:18AM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Premium Cable, Industry

The Independent Film Channel (IFC) is holding a nationwide pitch contest for the best idea for a television show. You just have to sit in front of a camcorder for one minute and pitch your idea. It has to be one, continuous take that is no longer than one minute. The videos are due by August 4, but IFC is only accepting 10,000 entries so it could end before that date. IFC will choose ten finalists who get to fly to NYC to pitch their idea live to a panel of industry folk and celebrities (oh my God) and then the winner receives a whopping $8,000 development deal that hopefully only covers the pilot but the rules don't really say.
Click here to learn more and enter the contest.
*The contest is also sponsored by the NY Television Festival. (Sorry for the oversight, Ben)
Posted Jun 11th 2006 1:57PM by Adam Finley
Filed under: Other Reality Shows, Cable, Celebrities
Tomorrow night at 9 p.m. EST Jimmy Smits will narrate a documentary on the relationship between the United States and Puerto Rico titled Yo Soy Boricua, Pa'que Tu Lo Sepas! (I'm Boricua, Just So You Know!). The documentary, which will air on IFC, is the directorial debut of Rosie Perez, and will delve deep into the history of the country, including its often rocky history with the United States. Subjects it will focus on include the Spanish conquest, forced sterilization in the 30s, and the Nationalist movement that took place in the 1950s. Perez is also hoping to use the documentary as a way to look into her own family history and where she came from.
Posted May 24th 2006 11:05AM by Anna Johns
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Premium Cable, Programming

IFC, aka Independent Film Channel, has added two new half-hour programs to its summer line-up. The first, called
The Minor Accomplishments of Jackie Woodman, is about two best friends who are struggling to make it in Hollywood. One is a screenwriter and the other is an aspiring producer. Laura Kightlinger, head writer of
Will & Grace, created and stars. The second series, called
The Business, follows the bumbling cast of a previous series called
The Festival as they try to make a movie.
Also this summer on IFC, June is Pulp Indies month, including
Pulp Fiction,
Dirty Pretty Things and the director's cut of
Dawn of the Dead. And July is Queer Month, featuring an IFC original documentary,
Fabulous! The Story of Queer Cinema.
Posted Mar 17th 2006 2:30PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Cable, Industry, Programming, TV on DVD

Damn, I truly loved this show. Jon Favreau invites four
industry pros to a restaurant and they eat and talk about the business and they film it. Simple, brilliant concept.
Sadly, the show has now stopped production. IFC is doing more scripted shows, and Favreau is much too busy with
new projects (he's prepping
John Carter Of Mars, a TV show, and a new movie, possibly with Vince Vaughn). If
you check out the
Dinner For Five site, you'll see a note from
Jon, and he says he has created his own
My Space page so we can keep
track of what he's up to. And die-hard D45 fans can still talk about the show on their forums.
The first
season of
Dinner For Five is available on
DVD. Hopefully the other
seasons will be coming soon.
Posted Aug 16th 2005 6:06PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Cable, Talent, Programming
The Independent Film Channel web site now has the first episodes of both Greg The Bunny and Hopeless Pictures online. You can watch them uncut, for free. You can also see a clip from another new show, The Festival.
Greg The Bunny and Hopeless Pictures air Friday nights at 10 starting this Friday, while The Festival airs at 10:30. (The shows also air at other times during the week but this is their regular time slot.)