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User experience (UX) is a big deal in online fundraising, with campaigns often having to convey a lot of information to multiple demographics. Following the principles of media richness theory can be very successful, as delivering content through a combination of text, images, sound and interactivity will only serve to improve UX.
Creating good video content ticks all the boxes, so producing a charity film that delivers the right message can become a key part of your strategy, whatever objective you have in mind. Let's consider a few examples of how videos can engage different stakeholders:
Objective 1 – Informing service users
Together for Short Lives could have presented themselves directly, covering points expressed on their homepage and introducing their work from their own point of view. This would have been informative, but perhaps not very engaging; it would have been about the charity, not necessarily about its service users – and those are the people for whom this content was intended.
Instead, the video uses real-life stories, demonstrating how a service user found their way to the cause, and exactly how the charity was able to help them. This narrative allows the potential service user watching to project themselves into it; it also lends a feeling of authenticity, with the video coming across as a user testimonial rather than a corporate promotion. The approach worked, and the video has been recognised multiple times, most recently at the 2015 Media Innovation Awards.
Objective 2 – Influencing and sparking debate
The International Union for Conservation of Nature had a specific aim for its video: it was designed to sway the discourse at the United Nations Climate Change Conference, which took place in Paris last year. The video had to convince global-level decision makers that there were serious environmental problems (or to reinforce their existing opinion that this was the case, and provide simple evidence for them to use in convincing others). It also had to posit the nature-based solutions which IUCN advocates, and make a convincing case for them.
The complex issues involved in this debate are represented here with stark, imposing visuals, which explicitly refocus the debate away from the global environment and into intimate, realistic mini-narratives. These are easier to understand than grand-scale arguments and abstract scientific statements, since they demonstrate problems and solutions on an individual, human level. The video fits its target audience into the narrative that it presents, thus guiding them toward the desired action.
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Straight-out asking people for money seldom works – that's why charity fundraisers tell a story, present a problem, evoke some sympathy, and then ask for money. Even then, the direct approach can sometimes turn people away. Asking potential donors to do something else for a cause, and raise money through activity can often be more engaging. It make supporters feel like they're part of the process, and not just a wallet on legs.
In this video by One Girl Australia, the opening text directly links a social problem with the desired action – there's no mention of money or transaction, just 'do this to do that'. This link is directly restated before anyone speaks, and even then, the vox pop interviewees are all agreeing to carry out the action: to do something while wearing a dress. This repetition, through image and sound and displayed text, emphasises the outcome rather than the problem or the sacrifice. The examples shown are all fun – lighthearted discussions, sponsored activities – creating the positive emotional resonance that's vital to good video marketing.
Social video is said to achieve 1200% more shares than text and images alone, so integrating video content into online marketing efforts has become increasingly key to success.
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As an independent candidate who received 1% of votes for a California Congressional seat, I am fighting the state over its top-two primary system
As an independent candidate who received 1% of votes for a California Congressional seat, I am fighting the state over its top-two primary system.
I am Marvin "Knife" Sotelo, a minister of the Sinagogue of Satan and write-in candidate in the crowded primary race for California's 40th Congressional District. Being a 'write-in' means I applied to replace Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard (D) after missing the deadline to appear on the ballot.
In many ways, I'm a typical candidate for elected office in California. A former Computer Integrated Systems Designer, I'm looking to reform public schools, reduce the state's mass incarceration rates, cut politician pay in half and create more jobs.
Yet a few things set my ballot apart. Being a Democrat candidate is not unusual, but being an avowed LaVeyan Satanist and Satanic Temple member is somewhat exceptional (and probably makes me the only candidate in the country to embrace both atheism and the tenets of modern-day Satanism).
You won't be seeing 'Sotelo' or my colleague Steve Hill (who intended to run for a senate seat) on a Californian ballot anytime soon. In fact, no third-party or independent candidate will appear anywhere in the California general election.
All were eliminated by the 'Top Two' rule, a new electoral system ushered in by Proposition 14 in 2010. It excludes all but the top-two candidates in the primary election, creating a two-party race which ignores more diverse political groups and write-in candidates: a right Californians had enjoyed since 1850.
In short, a valid write-in candidate like myself can only move on to the general election proper if they/I are one of the two most popular primary candidates. a candidate must file a written statement declaring him or herself to be an official write-in candidate for a particular election. Write-in votes cast for someone who has not filed as an official write-in candidate will not be counted.
Theo Milonopoulos (a PhD student at Columbia University who ran for California's 33rd District) filed a lawsuit against the Californian Secretary of State and the Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder, arguing that this provision infringes upon his right to run for office, as well as the state's citizens' rights to vote for their preferred candidate.
"If I don't like the top two candidates who emerge from the top-two primary, I have no choices," said Milonopoulos in an interview with The Washington Post.
Although the provision was meant to keep major parties from packing an election with extra write-in candidates (who wouldn't make it past the primaries), the prohibition on write-ins can present problems in certain situations, including the death of a candidate.
Finishing third in the Californian primaries with 1% of all votes (according to data from the California secretary of state's office), I will not be on November's Californian ballot. Only Roman Gabriel Gonzalez and incumbent Lucille Roybal-Allard (D) will be available for voters to choose from in California's 40th District U.S. House seat: a narrowing down of electoral choice which needs to change in one of America's largest states.

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I was also surprised that Kevin, with his passion for facts and figures, didn't try to dismantle Mallaby's evidence, but instead proclaimed that since Bush has screwed the unions and the working class, it's OK to make Wal-Mart a target.
Mallaby cited two studies to support his position. One, by Jason Furman (a John Kerry economic adviser), says that Wal-Mart offers health benefits comparable to other employers. The other, by a pair of researchers at the National Bureau of Economic Research, says that big box-stores reduce the average family's food bill by 25% and save American consumers around $200 billion per year.
Unfortunately, I haven't had time to read the papers yet, but if you have, please weigh in below and tell me what you think of their arguments.
UPDATE: Last December, Kevin linked to the same paper by Jason Furman that Mallaby cites. In the same post, Kevin also linked to three other liberal arguments in favor of Wal-Mart. Kevin offered no criticism then, but also no praise. (20) opinions -- Add your opinion
Am I the only to think that Kevin seems increasingly unconcerned about making arguments for whatever position he wants to take?
Furthermore, it is hard for me to imagine, from my vantage point in the heartland (Wisconsin), how WalMart-bashing is going to be a vote-winning strategy. Sometimes it just looks like the Dems will do anything to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
Zogby claims that 85% of weekly Wal-Mart shoppers voted for Bush in 2004. I find that completely unbelievable. There are a lot of Wal-Marts in black areas of the South, for example. And a lot of Hispanics shop at Wal-Mart. 85%? No way. However, if that statistic is true, then it makes perfect sense for Democrats to go after Wal-Mart. What do they have to lose? If they were to force Wal-Mart to unionize, offer better health care, and consequently higher prices, then the only people who would seem to suffer would be cultural right-wingers in the exurban and rural South and Midwest who vote Republican. Sounds like a good strategy then. We are talking politics, after all.
Leftists hates any institution/power structure they don't control. Ever notice how the MSM gave Abu Ghraib more attention than all recent soldiers who have won medals combined, times a hundred. Since you don't comprehend or acknowledge that basic fact it's no surprise that you are surprised Kevin Drum is joining the "chorus."
No, I don't comprehend or acknowledge that basic "fact".
If one believes that morality and ethics are an integral component of American foreign policy, then the significance of Abu Ghraib is clear.
What happened to our detainees there and elsewhere is a challenge to all that America stands for.
"If one believes that morality and ethics are an integral component of American foreign policy, then the significance of Abu Ghraib is clear."
Yes it is. And my point clearly went over your head which is quite disturbing actually. Try reading again very carefully.
Actually, your point didn't go over anyone's head. You didn't make a point.
I looked on stripes.com and didn't see any articles on medals. Is stripes.com part of the Liberal MSM? None on RedState either. Damn, those Liberals are everywhere.
As for WalMart bashing - what else are the Dems offering progressives domestic policy wise? Dean's talking points this cycle are just classic Clintonian triangulation. You know, what he was supposed to put an end to.
This about bringing out the base to win an election, and Kevin Drum choose group solidarity over intellectual honesty. That's interesting, but is it surprising?
From a customer's perspective, the UK could definitely use a few big box stores to break up the cozy conspiracy of high prices that seems to dominate everywhere here. Why should identical objects on amazon.co.uk cost twice what they do on amazon.com or amazon.ca?
I'm a leftie and shop regularly at Costco.
They pay their employees a living wage and good benefits, while providing very affordable prices for the general public.
Also, their CEO is paid a good but not insane wage in proportion to the other employees (about $300K+ per year). He refused a bonus one year because although they turned a profit, "we didn't make our expected numbers and someone has to accept responsibility for that."
As for the first anonymous commenter, allow me to paraphrase Apocalypse Now:
I love the smell of hyperbole in the morning. It smells of desperation.
As I recall Costco principals are Democrat supporters.
Is Walmart so different from Costco. How many employees does Costco have.
How about some facts and figures relating to Costco.
Additionally, Costco' profit margin is the membership fee it charges.
Yesterday there was an article at http://www.tcsdaily.com/article.aspx?id=082906D which included a comparison of Walmart and Costco. It includes this paragraph:
"Costco has sales of $51 billion, 110,000 employees (45% part time, similar to WalMart isn't it?) and WalMart has sales (in North America) of $191 billion and 1.3 million associates. So Costco has sales of some $465,000 per employee and WalMart $147,000 per employee. That sounds about right to me, it's been a number of years since I lived in the US but Costco is the place where you drag that 50lb bag of rice to the door yourself, right? WalMart is the one where cheery souls are employed solely to bid you good day as you enter? So, in theory, we could in fact get WalMart to pay the same as Costco by making similarly efficient use of labor: that is, firing between two thirds and three quarters of their staff."
Two different ways of doing business. Which is fairer? Read the whole thing.
"I love the smell of hyperbole in the morning. It smells of desperation."
An appropriate description of the Left's bizarre animosity towards Wal-Mart.
Sometimes you're just silly. Costco's profit according to their 2005 annual report was $1,000,000,000. For the membership fee to be the profit margin, they would have to have 25,000,000 members.
An even better comparison would be between Sam's Club, and Costco. According to Walmart's 2005 AR Sam's club provides for 13% of their sales, about $37,078,860,000. Costco reports sales of $51,862,000,000 with fewer stores. Costco's stock closed at $47 today, Walmart at $44.
Who has the better business model here?
Let's keep the temperature down, OK?
Instead, let's celebrate great savings that both liberals and conservatives can enjoy at Wal-Mart and Costco. ;)
Thanks Randy. It's important to remember that Costco's business model resembles Sam's Club, not Wal-Mart. The comparison to Wal-Mart is Target and K-Mart, not Costco. Interesting that the Democratic head of Costco doesn't believe in paying himself so much, especially when he thinks the company has performed poorly. Accountability in the CEO's office? Impossible.
"... Ever notice how the MSM gave Abu Ghraib more attention than all recent soldiers who have won medals combined, times a hundred. ..."
I thought this crap sounded familiar. This is from Rumsfeld's American Legion speech on Tuesday where he says that war critics are like Nazi appeasers. Rumsfeld's crap was:
"When a database search of America's leading newspapers turns up 10 times as many mentions of one of the soldiers at Abu Ghraib who was punished for misconduct, than mentions of Sergeant First Class Paul Ray Smith, the first recipient of the Medal of Honor in the Global War on Terror."
Plagiarized crap.
There were 3 articles on stripes.com on Smith, including Rumsfeld's own speech. There were 204 articles mentioning Abu Ghraib.
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We were just starting to settle into a good daily nap/bedtime schedule when Eli fell sick and messed everything up! ;) It started with a high temperature for about 3 or 4 days. He did not show any other signs of illness, but we took him to the doctor yesterday to get checked out. The doctor suspected it was a teething issue since his gums were swollen and he did not have any other symptoms of illness. His fever finally went down yesterday, but he woke up this morning with a rash on his neck and all over his chest and stomach! Then the diarrhea started. Oh my. He had a major blowout during breakfast! It was all the way up to his neck, on his stomach, and down his legs. YUCK!!!! And, of course, today was Jason's first day back to work until the end of the school year so it was just me and Eli! I had to strip him down in the tub, getting poo all over me in the process, and spray him down in the shower. GROSS!!! Poor baby! I think he was saving that one up for a couple of days and just waiting to fully initiate his momma! It didn't take long for Dr. Mom to diagnose him with Roseola. He had all of the symptoms at this point. I still called the doctor and she confirmed it was just a virus so we have to ride it out. Thank goodness no more major blowouts, just little ones! So, Eli and I spent the day lounging on the couch. Little pea should be back to himself by the end of the week. Let's hope!! We at least got some updated measurements at the doctor's appointment! Eli is up to 25.9lbs and is 31 inches. That places him in approximately the 75th percentile for weight and length.
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A few days Ago I and my family went fishing in Crystal River is located in the central part of Brazil. There are many species of fish and we always get many of them. There are many types of fishing in the same place, but today I'll post some pictures of the place and some fish. My post are usually incompleted because most of the time we fished last around 5 to 6 days of fishing, if I were to put all the photos would not have room for both picture. rsrsrsrs
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"Let your heart decide" they say, and it is true: decisions made with the heart, when they are deeply felt, are always the right ones.
However, in order to feel with your HEART, the mind must be cleaned, purified and liberated. We have to stop lying to ourselves, in order to deal with our daily lives, as much as possible, with our heart.
We don't need sport, or a holiday, or to free ourselves from stress…the mind frees itself with a tool that is within everyone's grasp: forgiveness.
The black dots represent the negative that we experience every day … a tiff, disappointment, a 'no'… but also our unstoppable desire to appear better than others, our arrogance, judgement and ego.
In the logo our mind is represented as a dark and obscure labyrinth, dotted with black points, but forgiveness intervenes with its strength (colour) to protect our heart and leave it intact. (by Manuel Bottazzo)
A marvellous day greeted the 9.302 athletes from 64 countries. The Maratona 2015 was confirmed once again as even more of an international event. The theme of the race 'Forgiveness', demonstrated that it was a far-ranging event that touched all our sensibilities. There is no beauty without awareness. And the Maratona is a constant invitation to ride with strong legs and an open mind.
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Beacon technology enables mobile devices to react to the physical world. iBeacon and Eddystone Beacons, the two leaders in beacon technology, both serve as a valuable tool for companies to interact with their audience based on their precise location—whether at an event, walking through a shopping mall, or a host
Smart City Networks, the nation's leading provider of internet, Wi-Fi, cellular telephone and other digital technologies for the convention industry, has appointed Jacki Miller vice president of finance and administration. She will work out of Smart City's headquarters in Las Vegas. In her new position, Miller will be responsible
Partnership With Smart City To Enhance Visitor Experience, Generate Revenue The San Diego Convention Center Corporation and Smart City Networks are proud to announce a collaborative new digital advertising program at the bayfront facility. Smart City Networks, the nation's leading provider of internet, Wi-Fi and other digital technologies for
By Suzzane Ravitz, Smart City's Digital Marketing Manager at the San Diego Convention Center and Mark Thompson, Smart City's Digital Marketing Manager at the Orange County Convention Center In the ever-changing meeting and convention landscape, exhibitors and show managers should be on top of industry trends. They have to be
Smart City Networks is pleased to announce the newest launch of HOOPLA!, its digital signage network for convention centers and similar facilities, at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando. The network debuted in back-to-back conventions, the 2014 Grainger Show, which concluded Feb. 13, and the 2014 HIMSS Conference and
Smart City Networks has completed the installation of a permanent digital signage network at the Las Vegas Convention Center (LVCC) offering new opportunities for digital advertising at the center. The digital signage network consists of 12 video walls throughout the North, Central and South Hall public areas. The new digital


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It is taking me a while to get through all my photos from my trip. I feel like I did and saw so much! I'm getting a back log of photos, now. I already have photos from events since I have been home I need to upload, and write about. I'll get around to it, so now here are more photos and chit chat about the Rockabilly Rave.
After waking up about noon on Saturday, I got dressed and headed down to the vending area to see Fiona, "Straight Talking Mama" and bought a really cute pair of Pedal Pushers from her. I put them on with the shirt I bought from Rocket Originals.
I ran into Tommy and Clare, and also some friends from the Bay Area, Texas Steve and Jennifer Chance (wife of Dusty Chance). Jennifer was on a trip like mine, seeing sights around the UK with her girlfriend. We had a great chat about the things we were seeing.


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192 - I won some awards
I was lucky enough to win a couple awards two weeks ago. A national honorable mention from the Local Media Association for Features Writing, and a New York Press Association honorable mention for Front Page Design. Quite an honor! Here's a story about my personal haul, plus the amazing accomplishments of my talented co-workers.
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text: This Friday we are pleased to open Anne Fontaine's latest film, ADORE, at our Royal, Playhouse and Town Center theaters. Originally titled TWO MOTHERS and based on a Doris Lessing novella, it's about two life-long friends (Naomi Watts and Robin Wright) who fall in heated love with each other's young adult sons. As Watts says more than once in this recent interview, "there's nothing illegal going on here."


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15 Ways to Highlight Yard Landscaping, Outdoor Home Decorating with Flowers
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Fall, spring and summer decorating with flowers is a great way to highlight beautiful outdoor living spaces and add colorful accents to yard landscaping. Flowers create pleasant and attractive places for outdoor activities, make meals taste better on a patio and add an aesthetic pleasure to resting in a hammock. Flowers transform outdoor home decor and provide stunning centerpieces that beautify a view of a garden. Lushome shares a collection of ideas for decorating with flowers that turn outdoor living spaces into inviting and colorful oases in summer.
Decorating with flowers is one of the easiest ways to treat the outdoor living spaces and house extensions creating beautiful places that connect home interiors with the nature. By using flowering plants, shrubs and flowers you can accomplish bright and welcoming garden designs and highlight attractive yard landscaping ideas. Outdoor home decorating with flowers is versatile, easy, and relatively inexpensive.
Flowers bring interest and create drama. Flowering plants can add beauty to any backyard, porch or patio designs, and you can plant them anywhere. Outdoor home decorating with flowers beautifies garden designs and yard landscaping with unique shapes, aroma, texture, colors and green vegetation. Decorating with flowers can be used for filling in gaps or creating a wonderful backdrop to garden decorations. Decorating with flowers allow to change colors every season and create the real eye-catching centerpieces for yard landscaping.
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Decorating with flowers is amazing, relaxing, soothing and healing. Outdoor living spaces can be styled with a variety of different textures, colors and shapes. Garden design and yard landscaping ideas can be enriched with different heights of flowers and attractive containers. From a single color garden to a whole spectrum of bright colors, outdoor home decorating with flowers provide lots of options to personalize outdoor living spaces with flowers.
Fall, spring and summer decorating with flowers adds visual interest and create stunning views from your windows. Natural textures and colors, soothing green color shades and bright accents created with flowers turn outdoor living spaces into charming, calming and healing places.
Outdoor home decorating with flowers allow to experiment with creating unique focal points in your garden and highlight yard landscaping ideas in your own, original and surprising way. Formal and informal garden designs, rock garden and water garden, patio ideas and simple natural yard landscaping benefit from adding color with flowers.
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We contributed two casewstudies articles for The Times supplement to mark the MCA awards given the leading management consultants over the previous year. The awards were for projects that had given critical support to NHS hospitals, rebooted legacy blue-chip businesses and inspired public confidence in local police forces.
We told the story of two of those successes. PwC won the Digital Technology Award for the work it did helping Direct Line for Business attract customers from the small firms with 10 employees or fewer – plumbers, electricians and hairdressers who are are said to be the new nation of shopkeeprs. PwC partner Steven Gough told how he and his team worked with small firms to find out how to tailor a product to meet the specific challenges of this very complex market.
IBM won the Consumer Engagement award for helping Barclays reduce the attrition rate at the virtual branches that were being set up to replace a traditional call centres and which could dolve consumers' problems from end to end. Ron Collins, IBM's service line leader for data and analytics, used a study of 2,000 bank staff to see how long they stayed in a post, the reasons they left and what motivated them to stay.


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ASP.Net Ajax Control Toolkit
The AJAX Control Toolkit is a joint project between the community and Microsoft. Built upon the ASP.NET 2.0 AJAX Extensions, the Toolkit aims to be the biggest and best collection of web-client components available.
The Toolkit addresses three needs. First it gives website developers a place to get components to make their web applications spring to life, second it gives a set of great examples for those wishing to write client-side code, and third it is a place for the best script developers to get their work highlighted.
All of the controls in the Toolkit are built upon a set of classes that really help streamline the process of writing control extenders. These classes form a thin "glue" layer between the Toolkit controls and the ASP.NET AJAX classes as they exist today. While the AJAX Control Toolkit is focused primarily on providing great AJAX controls and extenders, it also includes a powerful animation framework which you can use to add awesome visual effects on your pages.
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Demo: http://asp.net/AJAX/AjaxControlToolkit/Samples/Default.aspx
License: Microsoft Public License


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Thanks to your prayers on behalf of the unborn, the organization, Planned Parenthood, is being stripped of state funding by the Trump administration until they cease all abortion services. However, the President has offered to grant the company federal funding as long as they only conduct non-abortive medical services.
In a recent New York Times statement, President Donald Trump told reporters, "I am pro-life…Polling shows the majority of Americans oppose public funding for abortion, even those who identify as pro-choice. There is an opportunity for organizations to continue the important work they do in support of women's health, while not providing abortion services."
Evangelical leader, Rev. Franklin Graham had this to say, "Good for President Donald J. Trump! I hope Planned Parenthood will take him up on his offer to provide funding if they will stop doing abortions." Franklin continued "A recent report said that 94% of Planned Parenthood's 'pregnancy services' were abortions in 2014-2015. That same year Planned Parenthood performed over 320,000 abortions—that's one every 98 seconds!"
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Scream Queens has been picked up in the UK by E4, following the successful premiere in the US.
The show is produced by Ryan Murphy, who created American Horror Story and wrote Glee.
The modern series will air on E4 this Autumn, staring Jamie Lee Curtis, Ariana Grande, Emma Roberts and Nick Jonas.
Channel 4 released a press statement:
"Part black comedy, part slasher flick, the hotly anticipated Scream Queens is coming to E4 this autumn. The series is a modern take on a whodunit in which every character has a motive for murder… or could easily be the next victim.
Kappa House, an American university sorority for girls has recovered from the catastrophic events of 1995 after a sorority party ended in tragedy, and is now the most sought-after sorority for pledges (for potential new members), ruled with an iron fist (adorned in a pink glove) by Chanel Oberlin (Emma Roberts, American Horror Story: Freak Show, Scream 4).
But all hell breaks loose when anti-Kappa Dean Cathy Munsch (Jamie Lee Curtis, Halloween, A Fish Called Wanda) decrees that sorority pledging must be open to all students, and not just the school's silver-spooned elite. To make matters even worse, a devil-clad killer begins wreaking havoc across the campus on the 20th anniversary of the party."
The show has received fairly positive reviews from critics, with many branding the show as "refreshing."
An exact premiere date has is yet to be confirmed by Channel 4, however it will most likely debut on E4 around Halloween.
The pilot of Scream Queens is scary, funny and gory, worth a watch if you enjoyed the likes of American Horror Story.