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The story of MTV is set to be rolled out in a new podcast series hosted by former VJ Dave Holmes.

Audacy Podcasts is launching Who Killed the Video Star? The Story of MTV, an eight-part series that launches today, March 27.

“MTV is still on the air in 2024, and it’s still profitable, but my nieces and nephews know it as a logo on an Urban Outfitters t-shirt. I wanted to know what happened, and where the spirit of MTV exists now,” said Holmes.

The series will explore the cultural history, impact, legacy, and phenomenon of MTV and looks at what it turned into.

Holmes, who previously hosted Waiting for Impact, the wild story of boy band Sudden Impact, is hosting with guests including former VJs such as Julie Brown, Damien Fahey, and Kevin Seal, former MTV News correspondents Gideon Yago, Chris Connelly, and Suchin Pak, former Viacom Music and Entertainment Group president Doug Herzog,...

In the late 1980s, a group of grumpy music journalism vets and fresh-faced 20-somethings came together for a radical media experiment: the launch of a cable news division programmed for, and largely run by American youth. On May 9, 2023 — 36 years after its inception — Paramount announced that the fruits of their labor, MTV News, had been shuttered for good.

The Hollywood Reporter reached out to many of MTV News’ star reporters — Kurt Loder, Tabitha Soren, John Norris, Alison Stewart, Chris Connelly, SuChin Pak and Gideon Yago — and visionary executives Doug Herzog and Ocean MacAdams to reminisce about the glory days of the outfit, where one day you might be hanging backstage with Prince in Paris, the next chasing a pre-White House Bill Clinton through the snowy streets of New Hampshire.

For each of them, it was a bittersweet journey they were more than happy to take.

Alison Stewart I tell my nieces,...

Thirty-six years after MTV News was created to expand the stable of programming that defined the cable channel MTV, it is no more.

MTV News was shuttered this week as part of larger layoffs at parent company Paramount Global.

What launched as a single show in 1987 (The Week in Rock, led by correspondent Kurt Loder) eventually became a bona fide news outlet for Gen X and older millennials who found that traditional TV programming on the broadcast networks and CNN wasn’t cutting it.

Correspondents like Loder, Tabitha Soren, SuChin Pak, Gideon Yago, Alison Stewart and others covered music, pop culture, politics and other topics with an eye toward the younger generation that was tuned to MTV, rather than the network evening newscasts.

Along the way MTV News created some pop culture moments itself, perhaps none moreso than in 1994, when President Clinton appeared on MTV’s Enough is Enough, a...

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Jigsaw Productions has optioned the upcoming nonfiction book Tracers in the Dark: The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Cryptocurrency and is developing adaptations in multiple media forms, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.

The Doubleday title, penned by Wired senior writer Andy Greenberg, follows a group of investigators that developed means of tracing cryptocurrency and exposed a previously hidden criminal underworld using the currency, prompting a wave of criminal cases. Jigsaw Productions, documentary filmmaker Alex Gibney’s company that is under the umbrella of Imagine Entertainment, is developing the book as a scripted adaptation, a documentary and a podcast, with creatives attached to lead those efforts.

Jigsaw Productions evp of scripted content Kevin Plunkett is set to executive produce the scripted adaptation alongside The Newsroom and The Mosquito Coast writer and producer Gideon Yago, while Elizabeth Holmes doc The Inventor: Out for...

In the beginning, there was only the video camera and the birthday party.

Long before the endless album delays and perpetually in-progress tracks, before the eclipsing-the-main-event listening parties, before the beautiful dark twisted fantasies, before the tabloids and tantrums and meltdowns and fashion lines and presidential bids (but not before the ego trips — let’s be honest here), he was just a young dreamer from Chicago with a mouth retainer, mugging for the TV crew. As for the guy behind the camcorder asking him questions, that’s Coodie Simmons, a...

Federation Entertainment has partnered up with production company Paypermoon on “Don’t Leave Me” (“Non Mi Lasciare”), an Italian thriller series written by Leonardo Fasoli and Maddalena Ravagli, the pair behind “Gomorra,” and Gideon Yago.

Founded by Pascal Breton (pictured), Federation Entertainment is set to co-produce and handle international sales (except Italy’s first window rights) on the series which will comprise 8 one-hour episodes. “Don’t Leave Me” is being developed by Paypermoon Italia and Rai. Paypermoon will lead produce the series which will shoot in Venice and Rome during the fall and winter.

Besides Fasoli, Ravagli and Yago, the other writers on board for the series are Ivano Fachin, Giovanni Galassi and Tommaso Matano.

Set in Venice, “Don’t Leave Me” is a crime story following Elena Zonin, a deputy commissioner who is a single mother who has just returned with her son to Venice, her hometown, where she manages the homicide department.

Based in the Us for the past three years, Kieran Darcy-Smith had not seen the Jack Irish telepics when he was offered the gig as set-up director of the spin-off series starring Guy Pearce as a former criminal lawyer turned private investigator and debt collector.

After watching the telepics and reading the scripts for the 6-part ABC series by Andrew Knight, Matt Cameron and Andrew Anastasios, Darcy-Smith readily agreed.

In his first TV drama assignment, the director whose breakthrough was Wish You Were Here is directing two episodes and Mark Joffe and Daniel Nettheim are each helming two. Essential Media and Entertainment.s Ian Collie is the series producer.

.The scripts are sensational; this is as good as TV drama gets,. Kieran tells If as shooting is underway in Melbourne to be followed by a week in the Philippines. .I am working with the A-team..

The plot is under wraps so Darcy-Smith is circumspect,...

A24 has fast become one of the most interesting studios today, working with young or otherwise interesting directors on a vast array of projects, from coming-of-age tales to western thrillers to highly experimental sci-fi and more. One such film, A Most Violent Year, saw the studio team up with J.C. Chandor, and apparently the experience went so well Chandor is working with the studio again on his next project, The Liar's Ball. According to The Hollywood Reporter, The Liar's Ball will be adapted by Gideon Yago ("Newsroom") from Vicky Ward's book of the same name, which centers on the history of New York's famed General Motors Building from before it was built to the present. amz asin="B00NJ38NRM" size="small"Ward's book peers into the world of commercial real estate in New York City, namely the dealings of industry titan Harry Macklowe and his battles to own and...

J.C. Chandor may have dropped out of making Deepwater Horizon but he has found a new project. Chandor will team with A24 Films to adapt Vicky Ward's non-fiction book The Liar's Ball. Chandor will work with writer Gideon Yago (The Newsroom, Manhattan) and executive producer Zachary Quinto, who produced and starred in Chandor.s Margin Call. Ward's book may not have seemed like the most cinematic story out... Read More...

The cutting-edge distributor has taken another stride into development, teaming up with Chandor and long-time producers Neal Dodson and Anna Gerb on the story behind New York’s G.M. Building.

A24 will distribute the film and develops and produces alongside Dodson and Gerb and director Chandor. The company recently distributed Chandor’s A Most Violent Year .

Eva Maria Daniels of VisionChaos Production, for whom A24 will distribute a slate of projects the companies are jointly developing, also produces. Separately, A24 recently announced it was developing a father-son drama with Cary Fukunaga.

The Liar’s Ball is based on Vicky Ward’s non-fiction account of the ferocious battle to control one of the crown jewels of New York real estate. Gideon Yago has just closed a deal to adapt the book and has commenced research and writing.

Zachary Quinto, who produced and starred in Chandor’s Margin Call, will serve as executive producer.

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We were all pretty disappointed when J.C. Chandor, the terrifically talented helmer behind last December’s A Most Violent Year, fell off oil rig explosion drama Deepwater Horizon, but it appears that the director may have settled on a new project. Reteaming with A24, he’s producing and has plans to direct an adaptation of Vicky Ward’s book The Liar’s Ball, about the history of New York’s famed G.M. building.

Neal Dodson and Anna Gerb, both long-time collaborators of Chandor’s, are also producing the pic, which focuses on the furious battle between industry titans over the coveted area, which faces the southeast corner of Central Park. The script, which will be written by Manhattan and The Newsroom scribe Gideon Yago, heavily features Harry Macklowe and explores his fight to own and redevelop the G.M. Building over the last two decades. Apple’s famous glass...

Nothing says power and prestige like having your name inscribed on a building. One can only imagine that's a primary reason Harry Macklowe purchased the Gm Building in Manhattan, and that story will serve as the backdrop for a potential new film by J.C. Chandor. Read More: Interview: J.C. Chandor Talks 'A Most Violent Year,' Sandy Hook Influence, Violence On FIlm And More  A24 has announced today that the "A Most Violent Year" director will adapt Vicky Ward's non-fiction book "The Liar's Ball." Gideon Yago ("The Newsroom," "Manhattan") will pen the script, and Zachary Quinto, who starred in "Margin Call," is among the producers on the project, which includes Chandor, who will be eyeing it to direct. Here's the book synopsis:  Harry Macklowe is one of the most notorious wheelers and dealers of the real estate world, and Liar's Ball is the story of the gamblers and thieves who populate his world.

J.C. Chandor has signed on to produce with an eye to direct the film adaptation of Vicky Ward’s The Liar’s Ball for A24 (Ex Machina). The book was optioned with Chandler in mind to helm. Screenwriter Gideon Yago (The Newsroom) has just closed a deal to adapt and is researching and writing now. The story, written by the former Vanity Fair contributor, follows industry titans fighting it out over one of the crown jewels of New York City real estate. Much of the story in the…...

J.C. Chandor is teaming up with his “Margin Call” star Zachary Quinto and distributor A24 to produce a movie adaptation of Vicky Ward’s book, “The Liar’s Ball,” which Chandor is eyeing to direct. The “Most Violent Year” director will serve as producer alongside long-time producers Neal Dodson and Anna Gerb as well as producer-financier Eva Maria Daniels of VisionChaos Productions. Quinto will executive produce. “The Newsroom” writer Gideon Yago has closed a deal to write a screenplay based on Ward’s non-fiction book, which tells the full history of New York’s famed G.M. Building from before...

He leapt out of the director’s chair for Deepwater Horizon, but A Most Violent Year’s J.C. Chandor isn’t sitting around twiddling his thumbs. He has several projects in development, and has added another, making a deal to produce and potentially direct the adaptation of Vicky Ward’s book The Liar’s Ball.Ward’s non-fiction tome chronicles the struggles and tactics of real-estate titan Harry Macklemore, who fought to own and develop the Gm building in New York during the 1990s and early 2000s. Although he lost that fight, he would go on to run his own property empire, with the former Gm structure replaced by the glass cube of Apple’s flagship New York store.Gideon Yago is aboard to write the script and has thrown himself into research for producers including Chandor, Eva Maria Daniels and Zachary Quinto, who co-starred in and helped Chandor’s Margin Call become a reality.

Producers J.C. Chandor, Neal Dodson and Anna Gerb have optioned Vicky Ward's acclaimed non-fiction book "The Liar’s Ball" with an eye for Chandor ("All is Lost," "A Most Violent Year") to direct.

The story follows the full history of one of the crown jewels of New York City real estate - the G.M. Building (which faces the southeast corner of Central Park). The story runs from before it was built to the present.

A24 and VisionChaos Productions will produce the project which Gideon Yago has signed on to adapt and Zachary Quinto will executive produce.

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Australian actor/filmmaker Kieran Darcy-Smith ("Wish You Were Here," "Animal Kingdom") is set to direct "Blackwater" for Warner Bros. Pictures.

The true story tale deals with the private military company which became an important part of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Specifically it deals with four former security guards turned private contractors currently on trial for a 2007 incident that left 14 Iraqi civilians dead and 18 others wounded.

Gideon Yago ("The Newsroom") is writing the screenplay, whilst Jon Peters is producing.

Source: Deadline...

Always seeking to strike while the iron is hot, Warner Bros. is moving forward with Blackwater – a dramatic feature based on the rise of the privatixed military organixation Blackwater USA/Worldwide/Bsc, founded by former Us Navy Seal, Erik Prince in 1997. The security firm is currently receiving a lot of news coverage, due to the trial of four of its former operatives, accused of the killing of Iraqi civilians in 2007. Producer Jon Peters has set Australian filmmaker Kieran Darcy-Smith (Wish You Were Here) to direct the film.

As the first feature script from Gideon Yago (The Newsroom), the film looks set to tackle a subject that has proved to be highly controversial for many years – namely, the existence and use of what is essentially a private military force. Founder Erik Prince has stated that it was the Yugoslav conflicts of the early 1990s that led him to conclude there was...

Exclusive: Warner Bros has tapped Australian actor/filmmaker Kieran Darcy-Smith to direct Blackwater, a fact-based story that is being scripted by Gideon Yago. Jon Peters brought the project into the studio and is producing. Blackwater is the true story of the rise of Erik Prince’s privatized military company Blackwater Worldwide, which became a controversial yet key player in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Four former guards from the security firm are facing trial in the killings of 14 Iraqi civilians and the wounding of 18 others in bloodshed in Baghdad that inflamed anti-American sentiment around the globe in 2007. The […]...

Starz is developing the coming-of-age drama series "Airborne".

Set at the dawn of the Vietnam War, the story follows a young helicopter crew as they fight for survival, sanity, their souls, and each other in a country — and war — that are descending into chaos.

Scribe Gideon Yago ("The Newsroom") and "Spartacus" executive producer Rob Tapert are onboard the project.

This is not to be confused with that other Vietnam War project in development at FX which Stephen Gaghan is producing.

Source: The Live Feed...

Former MTV News personality Gideon Yago is developing a new series for cable network Starz with "Spartacus" Executive Producer Rob Tapert, centered around the Vietnam War.

On Tuesday, the network confirmed Yago (who was a writer on Season 1 of HBO's "Newsroom," the Aaron Sorkin drama) was teaming up with Tapert for the "coming of age story."

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Starz is going to war with its latest project. The network is developing a new drama series, "Airborne," from Gideon Yago (pictured), a writer on the first season of HBO's media drama "The Newsroom," Starz said Tuesday. Also read: Starz Developing Ballet Project From Lawrence Bender, "Breaking Bad" Co-Producer The project is billed as "a coming of age story set at the dawn of the Vietnam War" that "follows a young helicopter crew as they fight for survival, sanity, their souls, and each other in a country – and war – that are...

Veep‘s Reid Scott has landed a guest spot on the upcoming second season of Perception, TVLine has learned exclusively.

Scott will drop by the TNT drama as a brain surgeon who helps determine the mental stability of a self-proclaimed murderer. What’s more, he’ll have electric chemistry Rachael Leigh Cook‘s Agent Moretti.

Related | Perception Season 2 Casts Ray Wise

Veep, meanwhile, launches its Season 2 Sunday, April 14 on HBO.

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Former Newsroom writer and MTV News correspondent Gideon Yago will write a drama for Starz, the network announced today. Airbone is about the early days of the Vietnam War as seen through the eyes of the young men in a helicopter unit, and according to Starz's statement, the show will be "both surreal and stylized." Spartacus's Rob Tapert will executive-produce, so perhaps "surreal and stylized" is just code for "basically endless dude nudity."...

A&E has formally picked up the drama series "Those Who Kill," starring Chloe Sevigny ("Big Love") as a young detective who hunts serial killers.

The formal announcement comes a week after news of the series order leaked. A&E president Bob Dibetetto stresses that the show is not a crime procedural but rather a "deep serialized character portrait of two compelling yet damaged individuals coming together through the revelation of their dark past." James D'Arcy ("Hitchcock") stars opposite Sevigny as a forensic psychiatrist who helps her character in her investigations.

Glen Morgan ("The X-Files") wrote the pilot, which is based on a Danish series, and will serve as showrunner for the series. It's set to begin filming in the fall and premiere next year.

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Continuing its expansion of its original programming lineup, Starz announced today that it is developing a new original drama series with former "The Newsroom" writer and Peabody Award-winning MTV News journalist Gideon Yago.Set during the early stages of the Vietnam War, "Airborne" is described by the network as a coming of age story following a young helicopter crew trying to make sense of the war "as they fight for survival, sanity, their souls, and each other." Starz regulars Rob Tapert and Aaron Lam ("Spartacus") will produce the series, with Yago taking primary writing duties."Even though we are using Vietnam and the early days of air cavalry as a backdrop, our hope is to bring the audience timeless stories about what makes a hero and how a group of young people fight to retain their humanity in the midst of a surreal and terrible conflict," said Yago.In addition to "Airborne,...

Starz is turning its lens on the Vietnam War. The network announced Tuesday that it is teaming with former Newsroom writer Gideon Yago to develop Airborne, a drama set at the dawn of the Vietnam War. The potential series also hails from executive producer Rob Tapert (Spartacus) and producer Aaron Lam and revolves around a young helicopter crew as they fight for survival, sanity, their souls and each other in a country -- and war -- that are descending into chaos. Story: 'Departed's' William Monahan Developing 'Crime' Drama for Starz (Exclusive) Former Peabody award-winning journalist and MTV News/CBS News writer and

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Starz has put in development Airborne, a drama series from writer Gideon Yago (The Newsroom) and Spartacus executive producer Rob Tapert. Airborne is a coming-of-age story set at the dawn of the Vietnam War. It follows a young helicopter crew as they fight for survival, sanity, their souls, and each other in a country — and war — that are descending into chaos. “Even though we are using Vietnam and the early days of air cavalry as a backdrop, our hope is to bring the audience timeless stories about what makes a hero and how a group of young people fight to retain their humanity in the midst of a surreal and terrible conflict,” said CAA-repped Yago, who will write the script. He is a former MTV News and CBS News writer and correspondent. “Airborne will capture the human story of war — a story of love, loss and sacrifice,” said Tapert, who will executive produce,...

Starz announced today that it will develop a new original drama series from "Newsroom" writer Gideon Yago with Executive Producer Rob Tapert. "Airborne" is a coming-of-age story set at the dawn of the Vietnam War. The series follows a young helicopter crew as they fight for survival, sanity, their souls, and each other in a country - and war - that are descending into chaos. The new original series will be produced by Starz with Executive Producer Rob Tapert ("Spartacus," Evil Dead, "Xena: Warrior Princess," "Hercules: The Legendary Journeys.") and Producer Aaron Lam. "Airborne" will be written by Gideon Yago, an Emmy and Peabody award-winning journalist and former MTV News and CBS News writer and correspondent. Yago has...

What do Walter White and Phil Dunphy have in common? They’re both at the center of the TV shows most honored by the Writers Guild of America today. The group just announced the nominees for its annual awards, which will be handed out Feb. 17 at simultaneous ceremonies in Los Angeles and New York. Breaking Bad garnered five nods; Modern Family drew four. Here’s a list of all the primetime and late night series in contention for the event’s biggest prizes:

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Boardwalk Empire, Written by Dave Flebotte, Diane Frolov, Chris Haddock, Rolin Jones, Howard Korder, Steve Kornacki,...

ABC has put in development City Hall, a political drama executive produced by Bob Sertner. Written by Gideon Yago (HBO’s Newsroom), the project is being described as St Elmo’s Fire meets The West Wing set in the East Bay of San Francisco. It follows the mayor of Oakland and her irreverent City Hall staff of twenty- and thirtysomethings who take on the political and social establishment of a city in crisis while trying to maintain their own personal and social lives. Sertner will executive produce with former MTV host Yagofor for ABC Studios. For Sertner, exec producer of ABC’s summer series Mistresses, this marks the second sale this season. He also has faith-based procedural The Centurion set up at CBS with Chris Morgan and Immortals writers Charley and Vlas Parlapanedes. Sertner, who was an exec producer of ABC Studios’ ABC series Revenge and NBC pilot Beautiful People,...

ABC is getting political. The network has given script orders to City Hall, a drama from Newsroom's Gideon Yago, The Hollywood Reporterhas learned. More TV Development News Yago will write and executive produce the ABC Studios drama, which revolves around a city mayor and her staff -- all in their 20s and 30s -- who take on the political establishment while juggling their personal and social lives. Revenge consulting producer Bob Sertner will executive produce the project. Story: HBO's 'The Newsroom' Overhauls Writing Staff for Season 2 Yago, a former MTV News and CBS News writer and correspondent, was let go from

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HBO has renewed "The Newsroom" for a second season, but that doesn't mean that everyone involved in the making of the divisive drama will be coming back. The Daily reports that Sorkin has laid off most if not all of his writing staff: Most of the writers on the cable drama about a Keith Olbermann-type television news demagogue have been fired, sources with knowledge of the show told The Daily. "They're not coming back, except for Sorkin's ex-girlfriend [Corinne Kinsbury]," one source said. What this means for the show is unclear -- a look through the six episodes HBO has announced (four of which have now aired) reveals that Sorkin is credited as the sole writer on all of them, except the election-centered episode three, on which he shared credit with former MTV News host Gideon Yago. Sorkin, not exactly renowned for his collaborative nature when it comes to writing, told...

The Newsroom was hit by layoffs today: The Daily reports that Aaron Sorkin has fired most of his writing staff, which consists of under ten people. "They're not coming back, except for Sorkin's ex-girlfriend [Corinne Kinsbury]," said The Daily's source. Sorkin is known to be a very hands-on writer who scripts or co-writes every single episode, so it's unclear whether the laid-off staffers will be replaced or whether Sorkin will go it (mostly) alone. But what of Gideon Yago, we ask? Whither Gideon?...

After being at the helm of the series premiere, Greg Mottola returns back to the director’s chair of The Newsroom this week, which starts with yet another lengthy monologue. Will opens his programme with an apology for his previous broadcasts, claiming no excuse for their sloppiness in reporting actual news and outlining to his viewers the kind of news programme he and Mackenzie are now striving to make successful. However, as usual, the network bodies are getting in the way.

There’s a nice structural play which goes on in this week’s episode, Sorkin and co-writer Gideon Yago interweave the goings on of the newsroom with a meeting that is retrospectively looking over those events. In the meeting, Will’s boss Charlie Skinner is meeting with the ratings man Reece and his mother, the head of the company: Leona Lansing, played by the utterly brilliant Jane Fonda.

Alongside the speechifying,...

The names of the winners of the 2011 Tribeca Film Festival awards were announced on Thursday, April 28, after a brief awards ceremony at the W Hotel near New York's Union Square. The banquet hall was packed with filmmakers, talent, and industry, as Tribeca Film Festival Executive Director Nancy Schafer and host Gideon Yago stepped onstage at the Awards Show - an event Yago dubs one of his 'personal favorite rites of spring.' The Festival Jury's decisions may have been made public a few weeks ago, but we want to make sure you had the chance to experience the glitz and glam of the Awards Show for yourself. Tune into the Live From... channel on Tribeca (Online) to watch the archived video of the awards in its entirety. See awards presented by Tribeca Enterprises' Chief Creative Officer Geoff Gilmore, Tribeca Jury Member and comedian Denis Leary, Tribeca founders Jane Rosenthal...

The Tribeca Film Festival has announced its jurors who will be choosing the winning films, filmmakers and actors from the six competitive Festival categories. The thirty-eight jurors consist of award-winning filmmakers, screenwriters and notorious actors such as Whoopi Goldberg and Michael Cera. Winners will be announced at the Tff Awards Night ceremony on April 28, which will be hosted by Gideon Yago and streamed live on TribecaFilm.com. Below is the press release from Tribeca.

Please visit www.tribecafilm.com for more details. The 2011 Festival runs from April 20 – May 1.

2011 Tribeca Film Festival Jury Announced

David O. Russell, David Gordon Green, Dianne Wiest, Souleymane Cissé, Whoopi Goldberg, Paul Dano, Zoe Kazan, Rainn Wilson, Anna Kendrick, Michael Cera, Denis Leary,Atom Egoyan and Fran Lebowitz are Among the 38 Festival Jurors

New York, NY – April 18, 2010 – The Tribeca Film Festival (Tff), presented by American Express, the Founding Sponsor of the Festival, today announced its jurors...

Whoopi Goldberg The 2011 Tribeca Film Festival, which runs April 20-May 1, has announced its jurors. [Full list of Tribeca 2011 jury.] In the internationally eclectic list are found Malian filmmaker Souleymane Cissé, Your Highness' David Gordon Green, The Tillman Story's Amir Bar-Lev, Bullets Over Broadway's Dianne Wiest, The Cove's Louie Psihoyos, Ghost's Whoopi Goldberg, Up in the Air's Anna Kendrick, American Gigolo's Lauren Hutton, The Sweet Hereafter filmmaker Atom Egoyan, and Sleepless in Seattle's Nora Ephron. Also: Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work's Annie Sundberg, Little Miss Sunshine's Paul Dano, producer Christine Vachon, Little Children's Patrick Wilson, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World's Michael Cera, and curiously, Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales. All that talent will be divided among the Tribeca Film Festival's six competitive categories. The winners will be announced on April 28 at a ceremony hosted by Gideon Yago, which will be streamed live on TribecaFilm.

Sometimes it’s good to be called for jury duty.

The Tribeca Film Festival (Tff), presented by American Express, today announced its jurors – 38 lucky individuals, including award-winning filmmakers and screenwriters, celebrated actors, respected journalists and media pioneers divided among six competitive Festival categories.

Together, the six Tff juries will award $175,000 in cash and prizes. Festival winners will also receive a piece of original art as part of the Tribeca Film Festival Artists Awards program.

The Tff Awards Night ceremony on April 28 will be hosted by Gideon Yago, and streamed live on TribecaFilm.com.

Following is a list of all 2011 Festival jurors and their respective categories.

World Competition Categories:

The jurors for the 2011 World Narrative Competition are:

Souleymane Cissé: Noted Malian director; films include the 1995 Cannes Palme d’Or nomineeWaati, 1987 Cannes Jury Prize Winner Brightness and Tell Me Who You Are. Scott Glenn: Actor; films include The Right Stuff,...

Sometimes it’s good to be called for jury duty.

The Tribeca Film Festival (Tff), presented by American Express, today announced its jurors – 38 lucky individuals, including award-winning filmmakers and screenwriters, celebrated actors, respected journalists and media pioneers divided among six competitive Festival categories.

Together, the six Tff juries will award $175,000 in cash and prizes. Festival winners will also receive a piece of original art as part of the Tribeca Film Festival Artists Awards program.

The Tff Awards Night ceremony on April 28 will be hosted by Gideon Yago, and streamed live on TribecaFilm.com.

Following is a list of all 2011 Festival jurors and their respective categories.

World Competition Categories:

The jurors for the 2011 World Narrative Competition are:

Souleymane Cissé: Noted Malian director; films include the 1995 Cannes Palme d’Or nomineeWaati, 1987 Cannes Jury Prize Winner Brightness and Tell Me Who You Are. Scott Glenn: Actor; films include The Right Stuff,...

We hope you like a little sci-fi with your Emmy-winning drama, because that's exactly what AMC has in store for you.

In the wake of (ironic) The Walking Dead's run-away (also ironic) success, AMC has put its efforts into developing new science-fiction drama Voyage, which follows the "realistic" tale of an ambitious female scientist and her team at the Jet Propulsions Labratory making legitimate first contact with an Alien race.

Sony TV and Lynda Obst will produce the project, based on a script by Breaking Bad and The Vampire Diaries writer John Shiban.

Voyage faces competion from five other prospective series for AMC to pick up to pilot, including record-executive family drama The Man with the Golden Ears and political scandal-thriller The Fourth Estate, written by former MTV correspondent Gideon Yago.

If picked up, Voyage will join other high-profile science fiction series to hit the airwaves in the coming future,...

There is a lot of buzz building for three of the six AMC scripts that took part in the network's annual pilot script "bake-off" earlier this month: Voyage, The Man With the Golden Ears and The 4th Estate. In the "bake-off," six scripts identified by AMC brass faced off in a series of elaborate presentations, with the producing team for each project showing a promo reel and each creator pitching in detail the series beyond the pilot, including mapping out the first season. AMC brass are not expected to make a decision until the week of April 4, when they will probably pick up one or two of the scripts to pilots, but three of the six finalists have been getting a lot of buzz. Voyage, from writer/exec producer John Shiban, is described as a grounded look at human beings' first contact with extraterrestrial life seen through the eyes of...

Updated, 1/7: Each year, the five broadcast networks develop hundreds of scripted dramas and comedies in hopes they’ll become the next NCIS and Desperate Housewives, or the latest Modern Family and The Big Bang Theory. And like every year, a great deal of them are not worth mentioning here — mostly because they involve the bland types of cops, lawyers, and doctors who you’ve already seen fighting crime or sneaking a kiss on the way to the ER.

But fascinating projects continue to pass the first smell test at the broadcast networks. The key is whether the suits take...

Sure it's late, but we're up and you're up, so we might as well have a TV news nightcap together!

NBC ordered two more scripts from their comedy that could, "Community." That brings their season order up to 24 episodes. [Hitfix]

Emmy nominee for Lifetime's "Georgia O'Keefe," Joan Allen, makes her first foray into a TV series in HBO's "Luck." The series takes place in the seedy world of horse racing and stars Dustin Hoffman. [Deadline]

Remember Gideon Yago who delivered Generation Y's news on MTV? He's gotten into the TV development game, landing two scripted shows. "Fourth Estate," about the newspaper industry, goes to AMC. And Yago is doing a drama set at military school, West Point, called "Long Gray Line" for ABC. [Variety]

Comedienne, Bravolebrity, and actress Kathy Griffin has been tapped to host "VH1 Divas Salute the Troops" airing on Dec. 5 at 9 p.m. Et. [VH1] 

USA has picked up three more...

Tradition continues with Obama's youth town hall Thursday.

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Barack Obama at the MTV/MySpace town hall in 2007

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"If you had it to do over again, would you inhale?"

With that one question posed to then-Governor Bill Clinton, MTV officially announced itself as a player in the political process. That was back in 1992, when Clinton was still a White House hopeful and MTV had just launched its "Choose or Lose" campaign to inform, educate and encourage young people to grow from electoral spectators into active participants. During a network-sponsored forum, a young woman artfully posed that question of Clinton's prior marijuana use.

"Sure, if I could," the presidential candidate replied. "I tried before."

It was a disarming response from a talented politician on a hot-button issue. And it made clear that MTV could be a home for legitimate debate in a less stuffy, more youth-oriented way than was traditionally possible.

You don't need to be in New York City to catch all the dazzle and pizzazz of this year's Tribeca Film Festival. All you need is an Internet connection, where you can check out the Tribeca Film Festival Virtual, which kicks off on Friday, April 23. Whether you're looking for free goodies or taking advantage of all the films that come with the Premium pass, there's something for everybody! Nice Guy Johnny is the star attraction on Friday night, and Free users can check out the red carpet (which is expected to have actor/writer/director Edward Burns and stars Matt Bush and Kerry Bishe). The star-studded action starts at 8:00 pm, with hosting by journalist Gideon Yago. Premium users get to check out Nice Guy Johnny (the whole feature film) at 8:30 pm, and can stick around for the (again Free) live Q and A at 10:15 pm. It's a packed night of entertainment,...

We recently launched the Here Comes the Neighborhood campaign, where we share some of our favorite things about Tribeca - and now it's your turn! By answering this question, you'll be entered to win a Free Tff Virtual Premium Pass: Tell us your favorite thing about your neighborhood! There are two easy ways to enter*: (1) Tweet your response using the #Mytffv hashtag or (2) Email your response to [email protected] Winners will be selected at random every day through April 18 - one from Tweets and one from emails. For full contest rules, click here. What is the Tribeca Film Festival Virtual Premium? Beginning April 23, Tff Virtual Premium Passholders can watch a selection of Tff 2010 short and feature films, like the world premiere of Edward Burns' new movie, Nice Guy Johnny. Enjoy behind the scenes access to live red carpets (hosted by Gideon Yago) ...

MTV has a split-personality problem. When I turn it on, I never know which network I'm going to get: The sweet, socially conscious one that has brought me True Life, 16 and Pregnant, and those news specials Gideon Yago used to do? Or the bastion of vapidness known for The Hills, Jersey Shore, and hours of bafflingly watchable Spring Break coverage? Its new docu-series, The Buried Life -- which premieres Jan. 18 -- may just be the perfect blend of both. In it, four adorable, well-intentioned young guys travel across the country in a bus aiming to cross off stuff on their...

The Tribeca Film Festival has handed out its jury prizes, bestowing best narrative feature on Iranian Asghar Farhadi's "About Elly" and best documentary feature on Marshall Curry's Go-Kart doc "Racing Dreams."

Farhadi's tale examines a group of upper-middle-class Iranians on a seaside vacation and the relationships that form among them, while Curry looks at competitive Go-Kart racing among young people who dream of racing cars professionally.

The festival also gave its best new narrative filmmaker prize to Norwegian Rune Denstad Langlo, who directed "Nord," about a skier who has become a recluse, and its best new doc filmmaker award to Ian Olds, whose "Fixer" looks at the killing of an Afghani translator.

Best actor in a feature went to Ciaran Hinds for his role as a pensive widower in "The Eclipse." Zoe Kazan took best actress for her starring role in the John Hughes-esque coming-of-age dramedy "The Exploding Girl.

IFC has ordered a second season of its documentary series "The IFC Media Project,' which goes behind the scenes of how the news gets made.

Hosted by correspondent Gideon Yago, the five episodes will premiere in May and are produced by Meghan O'Hara and Nick McKinney ("The Daily Show," "30 Days").

"This is a truly important series that reveals what's really going on in our world today versus what the news media feeds consumers," O'Hara said. "In the new season we will take our exploration of news media even further as we venture across the globe to get the real stories behind current events, conflicts and disasters that may have made headlines, but the entire story was never told."

Season 2 will cover the conflict in Georgia, the "clean coal" debate and President Barack Obama's press relations and more.