Bob Verini

Binge-viewing is one of the most profound changes to hit the smallscreen business in memory, a revolution in the way TV is distributed and consumed. By Advanced Television's estimate, 70%...

What a nutty year it's been in the world of TV talkers. Hosts bit the dust -- some were expected; some out of the blue; one for the second time...

Crack scribes Betty Comden and Adolph Green were "work-spouses" for 64 years while married to others. Speculation on how such unconventional relationships can play out feeds into the new Old...

The Banff World Media Festival will use its 35th anniversary as an occasion to look ahead, according to fest exec director Ferne Cohen. "As with the industry in general we...

Stars are called stars because they shine brighter than anyone else. Every time Chazz Palminteri sashays into "Unorganized Crime" as Gotham mob scion Sal Sicuso, cool and sardonic, seething with...

Forget "those who can, do; those who can't, teach." Paul Stekler, Variety's 2014 Mentor of the Year, can, does and teaches. While chairing University of Texas at Austin's RTF (radio-television-film)...

Relativity School , an academic training offshoot of Relativity Media , is relatively well poised to enter an already-crowded field as a full service purveyor of media-oriented arts education. Any...

Chutzpah isn't the first trait you'd associate with the elegant, patrician Ruth Draper (1884-1956), intimate of Shaw and Henry James and creator of precisely observed monodramas on the female types...

"Harmony" confirms Barry Manilow's musical theater chops. The pop legend invests this biotuner of the Comedian Harmonists -- a real-life German male sextet, pre-WWII toasts of two continents -- with...

At its fiercest, Ayad Akhtar's "The Who & the What" bares some of the same teeth as his riveting, 2013 Pulitzer-copping "Disgraced." Both explore Pakistani-American tensions arising from clashes with...