LifetimeTV.com Teams with Paltalk to Launch Weekly Online Chats with Popular Medium/Clairvoyant Lisa Williams Beginning Friday, October 12 from 10-11pm (EDT/PDT)
Immediately Follows Telecast of 'Lisa Williams: Life Among The Dead' on
Lifetime Television, Fridays From 9-10pm (EDT)
NEW YORK, Oct. 11 -- Lifetime Networks is teaming with
Paltalk, the leading real-time, video-based community, for an online weekly
question and answer program with medium/clairvoyant Lisa Williams of
Lifetime's popular series, "Lisa Williams: Life Among the Dead." Available
only on LifetimeTV.com, the chats premiere Friday, October 12 from 10-11PM
(EDT/PDT), immediately following the second season return of the television
series on the Network at 9PM (EDT/PDT).
"Lisa Williams: Life Among the Dead" becomes Lifetime's second series
to utilize Paltalk's interactive video community bringing fans together
with the Network's on-air personalities. Recently the stars from "Blood
Ties" (returning for its second season Friday, October 12 at 11PM),
Christina Cox and Kyle Schmidt, participated in a live chat hosted by
Paltalk, which produced more than 5,500 posts in an hour and thousands of
unique visitors.
Viewers can log on to http://www.lifetimetv.com or
http://www.paltalk.com/lisawilliams and participate in a live video session with
Williams from her studio. Viewers can ask questions, discuss the topics
covered on that evening's TV broadcast, as well as interact face to face
with Williams and each other via voice, text, and video.
Last season's Lisa Williams text chats were extremely popular,
resulting in LifetimeTV.com's most trafficked single hour in history.
"Lisa Williams: Life Among the Dead" explores Williams' abilities to
see and speak with the dead and in some cases possibly transform the lives
of the people she meets who are seeking to connect with their dearly
departed. Throughout the series, Williams shares stories of people wanting
to be reunited with someone who has died, while offering personal
observations and insights. In each episode cameras follow a typical day in
the life of the young clairvoyant which includes among other things, Lisa
giving readings to scheduled clients and occasionally people she randomly
meets.
"By joining with Paltalk, we are be able to provide our viewers with a
new way to engage with many of our most popular personalities and with each
other," said Dan Suratt, Executive Vice President, Digital Media and
Business Development, Lifetime Networks. "We were extremely pleased with
the turnout for our kick-off Blood Ties live chat event earlier this month
and are looking forward to the same success on the Lisa Williams Chats. As
the leader in women's television programming, we are always looking to
enhance the experience of our audience and LifetimeTV.com's community of
more than 2 million members, and so are very excited about this
collaboration."
"As we've seen with our previous partnerships with CBS Radio and 1010
WINS, traditional broadcast media is embracing the ability to build
community and encourage audience participation with interactive online
video," said Joel Smernoff, COO and President of Paltalk. "We look forward
to bringing our unique interactive platform to Lifetime's thriving digital
community, and to
continuing our work with traditional broadcast outlets to drive the
convergence of content and social media into a new viewing experience."
About Paltalk
Paltalk is the premier real-time, video-based community pioneering the
new socialcasting movement. Paltalk's platform brings together traditional
broadcasting media, social networking, user-generated content and video
chat. With more than 4 million active users, Paltalk hosts the world's
largest interactive video community offering thousands of users the ability
to watch and interact with online video programming, including serialized
shows, live events, and user-generated content, as well as interact with
each other through real-time voice, text and video chat.
Paltalk's diverse programming includes Paltalk original shows including
regular programs with celebrities, radio personalities and newsmakers such
as the radio jocks Opie and Anthony and Diana Falzone. The company also
broadcasts live interactive video chat events such as musical performances
and comedy variety shows. Paltalkers can interact with the featured hosts
and performers in real-time as well as other members in the room. Paltalk
also offers its users the ability to create and share their own
user-generated video content with each other and to the broader community.
About Lifetime
LIFETIME is the leader in women's television and one of the top-rated
basic cable television networks. A diverse, multi-media company, LIFETIME
is committed to offering the highest quality entertainment and information
programming, and advocating a wide range of issues affecting women and
their families. LIFETIME Television, LMN, Lifetime Real Women and Lifetime
Digital (including LifetimeTV.com) are part of LIFETIME Entertainment
Services, a 50/50 joint venture of The Hearst Corporation and The Walt
Disney Company.
SOURCE Lifetime Networks
http://www.lifetimetv.com
http://www.paltalk.com/lisawilliams
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