Author Archives: Karen

SPACE is Awarded $250k to Regrant to Artists and Announces Three Board Additions

Grant guidelines and deadlines for interested artists will be made available in January and February by SPACE. SPACE, the multidisciplinary arts nonprofit, will receive the funding through the National Endowment for the Arts award. In turn the monies will be regranted to artist projects throughout the state of Maine. This sub-grantmaking program was announced as […]

Portland cartoonist’s ‘Big Nate’ makes his TV debut next month

The animated TV series “Big Nate,” based on the long-running comic strip by Lincoln Peirce of Portland, will debut Feb. 17 on Paramount Plus, the streaming service announced Tuesday. Nickelodeon, which is producing the series, first announced its plans to make a “big Nate” series in February 2020. Peirce said Tuesday he’s excited that the strip […]

NATPE Cancels Miami Conference

Events planned for January 18-20 scrapped amid nationwide COVID surge. NATPE said Saturday (January 8) it has canceled the upcoming NATPE Miami Conference and Marketplace, slated for January 18-20, after weighing health and safety concerns and the experience of an event that would no doubt have diminished attendance amid the latest nationwide surge of COVID-19.  The […]

TikTok taps Atmosphere to bring TikTok videos to out of home screens in commercial venues for the first time

TikTok — the hugely popular mobile video app with more than 1 billion users — has been taking its first steps to break into a new screen, the TV screen, launching and integrating a new app called TikTok TV first with Amazon Fire TV, and then Google TV and other Android TV OS devices, LG Smart TVs, […]

Actress who grew up in Waldo – without TV – now starring in a Hallmark Christmas movie

Heather Hemmens says her off-the-grid childhood helped her get the roles she has now, in Hallmark Channel’s ‘Christmas in My Heart’ and on the CW Network series ‘Roswell, New Mexico.’ Lots of people can recite lines from their favorite holiday special or movie that they watched on TV every year growing up. That’s not the case […]