The Human League have announced details of a 2024 UK Arena tour.The legendary ’80s synth-pop band will tour the UK in late 2024 with their ‘Generations 2024’ tour hitting Cardiff, Manchester, Birmingham, Brighton, Bournemouth, Glasgow, Leeds and London.Tickets for the event will go on sale on November 3 from 10am here.Check out the full list of UK dates here:DECEMBER 5 – Utilita Arena, Cardiff 6 – Utilita Arena, Birmingham 9 – Brighton Centre, Brighton 10 – Windsor Hall (BIC), Bournemouth 12 – Ovo Hydro, Glasgow 13 – First Direct Arena, Leeds 14 – OVO Arena Wembley, LondonThe new wave band formed in 1977 and achieved huge success in the ’80s with hits including ‘Don’t You Want Me’, ‘Mirror Man’ and ‘Tell Me When.’ They won a BRIT award for Best British Breakthrough Act in 1982.Lead singer Philip Oakey has been the band’s consistent member since 1977 while keyboard players Martyn Ware and Ian Craig Marsh both left the band to form Heaven 17. The group now consists of Oakey and long-serving vocalists Joanne Catherall and Susan Anne Sulley.The band have been covered by numerous artists over the years, including Blossoms last year who performed a rendition of ‘Don’t You Want Me’ at Truck Festival.Towards the end of their 18-track set, Blossoms treated the crowd to their own spin on the 1981 anthem ‘Don’t You Want Me’ and later shared footage of the cover on Instagram.
A Former CBS Executive Suggests TV Schedulers Are Becoming Irrelevant. Is He Right?
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During a summer visit to Los Angeles this year, Jim McKairnes — a former senior vice president of planning for CBS who’s spent the past 13 years teaching TV history at the college level — had dinner with a fellow TV executive who shared concerns about the streaming world and how “viewers and the experience of watching and loving TV seemed to take a back seat to algorithms and optimizations.”
Around the same time, news broke that Kevin Levy was stepping down from his role as EVP, program planning, scheduling and acquisitions at The CW. That’s when it dawned on McKairnes that the role of a scheduler, “the crafting of a 22 hours a week, 35-weeks-a-season prime-time line-up worth jillions of dollars, just isn’t a thing anymore.”
So McKairnes sat down and wrote a piece for Medium called Scheduling a TV Memoriam: An RIP Of Sorts for a Once-In-Demand Television Industry. Along with offering a history lesson on how TV scheduling came to be, McKairnes said “[scheduling is] the word that’s slowly becoming irrelevant to the medium, having less and less meaning as television itself comes to mean more and more,” McKairnes wrote. “Broadcast television revenues still pivot on the whens and wheres of a primetime grid, but in this our streaming world they’re connected to so much more now. As evidenced by Levy’s full former title, it’s about content strategy and acquisitions, too. In an era of digital windowing, Mondays at 9 is so last century. After all, who needs a meal to be scheduled when all the food is self serve?”
Though he has only a handful of followers of Medium, the column immediately found an invested audience, particularly among former broadcast TV schedulers like Preston Beckman, Kelly Kahl and Andy Kubitz — showmen who
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