THE BUZZ.Byline: - Wire Services On MTV's front burner: A biopic of Tupac Shakur, a drama starring pop singer Monica and a rap version of ``Carmen'' are among the original telefilms in development at MTV MTV in full Music Television U.S. cable television network, established in 1980 to present videos of musicians and singers performing new rock music. MTV won a wide following among rock-music fans worldwide and greatly affected the popular-music business. , the cable network announced Friday at the Television Critics Association The Television Critics Association (or TCA) is a group of approximately 200 United States and Canadian journalists and columnists who cover television programming. They meet in the Los Angeles area twice a year, in January and July, in conferences known as Winter and Summer press tour in Pasadena. MTV has nearly 20 projects in development, although it plans to air only four telefilms a year. The films will each premiere commercial-free in order to ``make them special events and to attract feature film talent,'' said Brian Graden, executive vice president of programming. Among the projects currently in development are: ``Tupac: The Early Years,'' produced by Jeff Olde (``BIOrhythm'') and Tupac's mother, Afeni Shakur. ``Love Song,'' in which Monica will make her acting debut as a young woman who rebels against her family after meeting a blues musician. The telefilm tel·e·film n. A film produced for television broadcasting. Noun 1. telefilm - a movie that is made to be shown on television will feature new music from Monica and will be produced in coordination with Handprint hand·print n. An outline or indentation left by a hand. Entertainment. ``Hip-Hopera,'' which will feature as yet unnamed rap stars in a reworking of the classic opera, ``Carmen Carmen throws over lover for another. [Fr. Lit.: Carmen; Fr. Opera: Bizet, Carmen, Westerman, 189–190] See : Faithlessness Carmen the cards repeatedly spell her death. [Fr. .'' Michael Elliot, executive vice president of the Source Entertainment, will write and executive produce. CNN CNN or Cable News Network Subsidiary company of Turner Broadcasting Systems. It was created by Ted Turner in 1980 to present 24-hour live news broadcasts, using satellites to transmit reports from news bureaus around the world. ramps up against CNBC CNBC Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition (artificial intelligence) CNBC Consumer News and Business Channel CNBC Congress of National Black Churches, Inc. : CNN is overhauling its daytime lineup with 3-1/2 hours of business and finance programming that will be simulcast over its financial news channel CNNfn. The cable news network, which announced its plans Saturday at the Television Critics Association press tour in Pasadena, also confirmed changes to its prime-time lineup that will eliminate the newsmagazine programs based on Time Inc. magazines. But CNN will continue to use the editorial resources of Time, Entertainment Weekly and Fortune for its new 10 p.m. Eastern time newscast that will air under the ``CNN NewsStand'' name. The new CNN daytime lineup takes aim at NBC's business news channel CNBC, which has experienced audience growth and increased name recognition in recent years because of broader interest in the stock market and personal finance. ``We look at business and finance as something we have to cover on a general-interest news network,'' said Richard Kaplan, president of CNN/U.S., who announced the changes Saturday. ``It's like the Cold War in the '50s. You just have to do it.'' |
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