‘ Sharknado’ Twitter Tempest Actually Just a Small Squall by TODD SPANGLER source VARIETY
Lloyd Webber turns political scandal into musical by SAPA-AP source SOWETAN
similar talks“ about two years ago,” according to The Wall Street Journal, but was unsuccessful in striking an agreement. If Google were to launch a web TV service, it would join an array of video products the company now has under its belt, including Google Fiber, YouTube original channels, Google TV, and Google Play Video.
Sharknado
‘ Sharknado’ Twitter Tempest Actually Just a Small Squall by TODD SPANGLER source VARIETY
SYFY’ S campy“ Sharknado” blew off the socialmedia doors as the most-tweeted TV program in primetime, but the one-off movie is a relative minnow compared with the biggest television events.
The pic, featuring all manner of shark species swirling in a twister over L. A., generated more than 386,000 social interactions to take No. 1 spot among TV programs, according to the Trendrr social-media tracking service.
At its peak, hashtag-friendly” Sharknado” captured 5,000 tweets per minute, according to Trendrr. It had very high engagement, too, with average 2.7 tweets per user. Syfy aired pic 9-11 p. m.( ET / PT) and re-aired it 1-3 a. m. Friday.
But“ Sharknado” falls well short of setting any kind of social TV record.
This year’ s Super Bowl XLVII on CBS, for example, drew 24.1 million tweets for the game and halftime show with Beyonce, according to Twitter. The 85th Academy
Awards telecast on ABC in February generated 8.9 million Oscars-related tweets, social giant reported.
Meanwhile, Discovery Channel’ s“ Shark Week” franchise, pulled in 1.6 million tweets last August, including mentions from Leonardo DiCaprio, Adam Levine and Ellen DeGeneres.
Still, Syfy’ s made-for-mockery creature flick earned rapt attention from many entertainment bizzers, including Mia Farrow, Michael Chiklis and NBC News’ Chuck Todd.
Previous shark-toplined entries from Syfy in the disaster-spoof subgenre include“ 2-Headed Shark Attack” with Carmen Electra— which Syfy re-aired following“ Sharknado”— as well as Roger Corman’ s“ Sharktopus,”“ Dinoshark” and“ Shark Swarm.”
Lloyd Webber turns political scandal into musical by SAPA-AP source SOWETAN
ANDREW Lloyd Webber is turning one of Britain’ s most notorious 20th-century political scandals into a musical.
“ Stephen Ward” tells the story of a major figure in the Profumo Affair, which rocked the government in 1963.
Ward was an osteopath and socialite who introduced escort Christine Keeler to War Secretary John Profumo.
They had an affair, but Keeler was also allegedly sleeping with a Russian spy. The scandalous mix
Christine Keeler
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