This 12 months’s San Diego Comedian-Con is getting a highlight although a journalistic lens through award-winning web site Comics Beat and OTT app and FAST channel ElectricNOW.
The comics information website, run by longtime comics journalist Heidi MacDonald, has partnered with the division of the media firm created by Dean Devlin to supply Con Every day Powered by ComicsBeat on ElectricNOW. It’s a each day information present supposed to offer viewers entry to high expertise attending Comedian-Con and a rundown of each day occasions.
Comedian-Con is North America’s largest annual popular culture pageant, attracting over 135,000 attendees in addition to the centered consideration of Hollywood, with studios and streamers spending hundreds of thousands on hyping their motion pictures and reveals.
Devlin, who made his identify with big-budget spectacle motion pictures earlier than changing into an exec producer on current journey reveals resembling The Ark and The Librarians, stated one purpose was to convey the present to those that couldn’t attend.
“I recall going to early Comedian-Cons to advertise my movies resembling Independence Day and Stargate, lengthy earlier than it turned the mainstream sensation it’s right this moment,” Devlin stated in a press release. “I all the time felt the particular sense of neighborhood the conference dropped at fantasy and sci-fi followers. Now, collaborating with the award-winning web site ComicsBeat, permits me to offer viewers at residence who can not make it to the present with an up-close and behind-the-scenes expertise.”
Con Every day will consist of 4 particular episodes to premiere after every day of Comedian-Con, hosted by high-profile on-line personalities Yael Tygiel, identified for his post-show podcasts, comedic content material creator Reagan Yorke, online game trade voice Celia Schilling, and geek tradition reporter Kari Lane.
Every episode will stream solely on Roku and ElectricNOW, with each day updates hitting YouTube as properly.
The present will function one-on-one interviews with celebrities, casts, and popular culture influencers. Every episode will finish with a no-holds-barred panel that includes Con Every day correspondents giving a round-up of occasions on the present and the day’s information.
The present might be produced by Lucas Thompson of ElectricNOW and directed by Patrick Meaney, identified for his documentaries resembling Grant Morrison: Speaking With Gods, Neil Gaiman: Dream Dangerously, Chris Claremont’s X-Males and The Picture Revolution.