Turner Sports, CBS Sports and the NCAA today announced that NCAA® March Madness® Live, formerly March Madness on Demand, will now provide college basketball fans with more opportunities to watch every minute of every game of the 2012 NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship. Produced by Turner Sports Interactive, NCAA® March Madness® Live is a suite of live products presented across multiple screens, including online and as an iPad, iPhone and iPod touch app and, for the first time, on Android phones.
Next award season’s 19th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards has been scheduled for Sunday, Jan. 27, 2013 at the Los Angeles Shrine Exposition Center. The celebration of the year’s finest acting achievements will be simulcast live on TNT and TBS.
TBS has ordered 35 additional episodes of the top-rated sitcom Tyler Perry’s For Better or Worse, which finished its first season as basic cable's #1 sitcom of 2011.
TCM will open its third annual Road to Hollywood tour of free events on Thursday, March 1 in New York City with the world theatrical premiere of the newly restored classic To Kill a Mockingbird (1962). The beloved drama, which recently debuted on Blu-ray in celebration of the film’s 50th anniversary, will be introduced by TCM host Robert Osborne and acclaimed filmmaker Spike Lee.
NBA Digital, a partnership between Turner Sports and the NBA, today announced plans to deliver fans multiplatform coverage of NBA All-Star 2012 through the league’s broad portfolio of television, online, digital and social platforms, highlighted by the first ever “NBA.com Social Spotlight” that will feature the best fan tweets, photos and videos throughout All-Star in one convenient and easy place to view on NBA.com.
During NBA All-Star, NBA TV will deliver fans more than 95 hours of dedicated All-Star programming including interviews with LeBron James, Dwight Howard, Blake Griffin and many other NBA All-Star participants, and an exclusive live presentation of NBA Commissioner David Stern’s All-Star press conference on Saturday (Feb. 25).