News Roundup: Confederates, Cookies, and Cream

Statues taken down, Blue Bell returns, all is well

"...In this week's news roundup: A state judge declares that the Confederate statues..."

Aug. 31, 2015 News Post by the News Staff

ATX Fest Recap: Vice News On Attracting Younger Viewers

How the near-nightly news show draws in millennials

"...How can news be done well? According to Vice News Correspondent Alzo..."

June 10, 2019 Screens Post by Sarah Marloff

News Fit to Censor

Observer Among Media That Went After Real News

"...by The Texas Observer made project Censored's top overlooked news stories of 1996. This year's version of the annual..."

May 30, 1997 News Column by Lee Nichols

News Roundup: Cams, Carnage, & Climate

Zimmerman sides with Abbott over Adler

"...In this week's News Roundup: In opposition to Gov. Abbot's threat to block..."

Nov. 30, 2015 News Post

News Ticker: May 13

All the news that's fit to blog

"...deal with high gas prices. Inflation is on the News Ticker...."

May 13, 2013 News Post by Brandon Watson

News Roundup: TCAD Denies Rent Too Damn High

And where are all the voters?

"...In this week's news roundup: the trial begins for a man charged with..."

Nov. 2, 2015 News Post by the News Staff

Small Screen, Big News

'Revolution' comes to Austin, plus 'Modern Dads' and more

"...You've seen plenty of big-screen news in Film Flam and Trailer Park of late, but..."

May 13, 2013 Screens Post by Monica Riese

Give Us News, STAT!

Clooney's Cute, But Not After 10pm

"...it was. The September 25, 10pm edition of KXAN's news was truly a landmark low in the history of..."

Oct. 10, 1997 News Column by Lee Nichols

Film News

Terrence Malick drops a 60,000 pound Tree in Smithville

"...Prison Break episodes not lensed in Dallas. The worse news is that the cameras are still not rolling on..."

Feb. 22, 2008 Screens Column by Joe O'Connell

Film News

Beth Sepko brings home an Emmy, plus things are about to get horrific here

"...an Emmy-winning casting director for handling Austin casting for NBC's Friday Night Lights. In other words, she got major..."

Sept. 21, 2007 Screens Column by Joe O'Connell

Overall Breakdown of Austin's Evening News Broadcasts

"...News Promo/ Chatter Weather Sports Ads KVUE (ch. 24; ABC)..."

Feb. 20, 1998 News Column

Film News

Jennifer Aniston eyes Texas

"...hush-hush "Hollywood family film." A Wichita Falls Times Record News article says it's a boy from that area, whose..."

April 11, 2008 Screens Column by Joe O'Connell

Film News

Austin's hopping again, with TV and film projects set to shoot soon; plus, Smithville's got a Poop Bandit

"...looks almost certain to return as part of an NBC deal with DirecTV, the CW has given the green..."

March 28, 2008 Screens Column by Joe O'Connell

Film News

Local production heats up, and a UT professor makes it to the Oscar doc short list

"...$3 million to $6 million range. Speaking of Fridays, NBC will neither confirm nor deny rumors that if the..."

Nov. 30, 2007 Screens Column by Joe O'Connell

Film News

Austin Film: The SXSW CliffsNotes version

"...shoot a third straight season in Austin. Variety says NBC may at least partially farm it out to another..."

March 7, 2008 Screens Column by Joe O'Connell

Film News

Texas could be like New York

"...but in this case, Brian O'Leary, vice president of NBC/Universal, was talking film incentives – not Yankee pride –..."

March 16, 2007 Screens Column by Joe O'Connell

Channeling the News

Watchdog Group Grades Local TV Stations

"...Media Watch (RMMW) has passed judgment on local television news in the United States. And the verdict, unfortunately, is..."

Aug. 21, 1998 News Column by Lee Nichols

Heebie-Jeebie News

Local TV Feeds on Muck and Mayhem

"...waiting to find out if it is actually a newsworthy story?..."

Feb. 20, 1998 News Column by Lee Nichols

Media Watch: Local News

The Statesman and its suitors, and the TV shuffle

"...sale in August, along with 28 of its other newspapers. A family-owned operation saddled with heavy debt, Atlanta-based Cox..."

Feb. 20, 2009 News Feature by Kevin Brass

News/Print

Bestselling true-crime author Suzy Spencer is giving the Texas Department of Criminal Justice hell for the holidays.

"...to grant "book authors" the same access rights as news media. In a letter to Austin Rep. Todd Baxter,..."

Dec. 5, 2003 Books Column by Shawn Badgley

Film News

The Texas Motion Picture Alliance pushes an ambitious new incentives bill, to be sponsored by Rep. Dawnna Dukes

"...The bad news is that Friday Night Lights completed shooting its diminutive..."

Nov. 28, 2008 Screens Column by Joe O'Connell

Film News

Richard Linklater casts a boy wonder for an Isle of Man shoot in March

"...Kudrow (Friends), Vanessa Hudgens (High School Musical), Scott Porter (NBC's Friday Night Lights), Aly Michalka of singing sisters Aly..."

Feb. 8, 2008 Screens Column by Joe O'Connell

Film News

Forgiveness, All the Boys Love Mandy Lane, and more

"...efforts, the original The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and NBC's series Friday Night Lights, as well as John Hughes'..."

Aug. 10, 2007 Screens Column by Joe O'Connell

Film News Top 10 of 2006

The top Texas stories of 2006

"...1) Save our film industry The biggest news for the Texas film industry in 2006 will likely..."

Jan. 5, 2007 Screens Column by Joe O'Connell

Film News

I've got some good news and some bad news. Which do you want first?

"...could muddy the works. The best sign of good news came when NBC gave a similar nod to even..."

Nov. 17, 2006 Screens Column by Joe O'Connell

Film News

Solid reporting and decent rumors

"...the stream of extras-casting calls around town for the NBC series Friday Night Lights, call 707-7934, or e-mail fnl_extras@yahoo.com..."

July 28, 2006 Screens Column by Joe O'Connell

Film News

Reporting from the starting line of the SXSW marathon

"...aka former Robogeek of Harry Knowles' Ain't It Cool News and former assistant to both Guillermo del Toro and..."

Feb. 24, 2006 Screens Column by Joe O'Connell

SXSW News

"..."Dancing"'s Fastball watch(!), I didn't hear about anything particularly newsworthy concerning the band's actual showcase at Stubb's, but on..."

March 16, 2001 Music Column by Ken Lieck

Film News

Friday Night Lights gets renewed for two more seasons, and the House passes the incentives bill. Are things looking up for the Texas film industry?

"...It may be no coincidence that the NBC/DirecTV announcement of two more 13-episode seasons of Friday Night..."

April 10, 2009 Screens Column by Joe O'Connell

Film News

Changing of the guard at SXSW Film, the Alamo Ritz gets boozy, Austin Golden Hour wants nothing to do with its namesake, and more

"...Todd McMullen, cinematographer for NBC's Friday Night Lights, has optioned Godforsaken, a script based..."

April 25, 2008 Screens Column by Joe O'Connell

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