Schmooze | Sept. 23, 2019

Moderator Tim Hanlon (l.) of The Vertere Group and Mike Keyserling, chief operating officer, Philo TV, during the opening lunch keynote of the OTT & Video Distribution Summit in Santa Monica, Calif.

On the OTT & Video Distribution Summit’s “Premium Video’s ‘TV’ Moment” panel (l. to r.): Eric Berman, Ellation; Richard Cusick, College Humor’s DROPOUT; Griffin Gmelich, Whistle; Jim Bennette, Applicaster; Croi McNamara, Condé Nast Entertainment; and David Bloom, TV[R]EV.

B&C sister pub Multichannel News honored the inaugural group of Multichannel News Wonder Women in Streaming at the Loews Santa Monica Beach Hotel (top, l. to r.): Julie McNamara, CBS All Access; Heather Moosnick, Hulu; Julia Veale, Showtime Networks; Diana Pessin, HBO; Dina Weisberger, Google; and Sarah Lyons, WarnerMedia. Bottom row (l. to r.): Anne Aaron, Netflix; Kelly Abcarian, Nielsen; Lori LeBas, ESPN; Alison Hoffman, Starz; Soumya Sriraman, BritBox; and Thea Ellis, Sony PlayStation Vue.

At the press day for Hallmark Channel’s Kitten Bowl VII (l. to r.): Beth Stern, Kitten Bowl host; Bill Abbott, president and CEO, and Michelle Vicary, EVP, programming and network publicity, Crown Media Family Networks; and Boomer Esiason, commentator.

In the Tennis Channel suite at the U.S. Open in New York (l. to r.): Chris Ripley, president and CEO, Sinclair Broadcast Group; Martina Navratilova, tennis hall of famer and TV analyst, and Ken Solomon, president, Tennis.

(From l.): Actors Holt McCallany and Anna Torv and director/executive producer David Fincher of Netflix’s Mindhunter at a PaleyFest Fall TV Previews event in Beverly Hills, Calif.

Actors Mark-Paul Gosselaar (l.) and Tika Sumpter at the PaleyFest Fall TV Previews event for ABC’s Mixed-ish.

Actors Marg Helgenberger (l.) and J. Alex Brinson of CBS’s All Rise at the 13th annual PaleyFest Fall TV Previews at the Paley Center for Media in Beverly Hills, Calif.

(From l.): Hip hop artist Ja Rule, WE tv president Marc Juris and hip hop artist Irv Gotti at WE tv’s celebration for Growing Up Hip Hop: New York and Untold Stories of Hip Hop at Lavo in New York. 

Marking the launch of Tamron Hall across all of Hearst Television’s stations in New England (l. to r.): Jeff Bartlett, WMUR, Manchester, N.H.; David Abel, WMTV in Portland-Auburn, Maine; Tamron Hall; Bill Fine, WCVB Boston; Emerson Coleman, senior VP, programming, Hearst; and Justin Antoniotti, WPTZ/WNNE, Burlington, Vt./Plattsburgh, N.Y. 

(From l.): Actors Hannah John-Kamen, Keegan-Michael Key, Donna Kimball, Jason Isaacs, and Nathalie Emmanuel at a screening of Netflix's The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance at the Museum of Moving Image in Long Island City, N.Y. 

Executive producer/director Jonathan Krisel and actors Louie Anderson and Zach Galifianakis at the series finale event for FX’s Baskets at Neuehouse Hollywood.