The world of television and streaming media has been, in recent months, notoriously brutal. And it doesn’t look like the landscape is going to get easier to traverse anytime soon. Showtime, MTV Entertainment, and Paramount Media Networks will be laying off 25% of its employees. Along with this news, it has also been announced that MTV News will be shutting down. This news comes after … Continue reading MTV News is Shutting Down!!
Taylor Sheridan‘s crowd-pleasing series Yellowstone is officially coming to an end with Season 5. The news comes just days after it was announced that Kevin Costner would be leaving the series, in a move that was expected, but still shocking considering the actor was the lead of the series. Costner is moving on to star in and direct his own western, Horizon, which has been … Continue reading ‘Yellowstone’ to End with Season 5!!
After being announced as a Paramount+ exclusive, the upcoming Yellowstone spinoff 6666 is moving from streaming to linear. According to Deadline, the change happens as Paramount defines the best strategy to ensure the Western universe created by Taylor Sheridan keeps reaching a growing audience. 6666 is expected to tell the story of the Four Sixes Ranch, one of the most famous real-life properties in the … Continue reading ‘Yellowstone’ Spinoff ‘6666’ Moves to Paramount Network!!
Big news Yellowstone fans: The Wall Street Journal reports that the hit Western series will be returning for an extended fifth season, splitting the upcoming episodes into two parts. ViacomCBS has just announced that Yellowstone’s fifth season will add four additional episodes, extending the upcoming season to fourteen episodes, which will be split into two installments, each consisting of seven episodes. The additional episodes and … Continue reading ‘Yellowstone’ Season 5 to Air in Two Parts!!
Paramount+ has announced that, starting in 2024, all Paramount movies will stream directly on the streaming service after their theatrical run is through. Several Paramount movies were released day-and-date on Paramount+ recently, including Clifford the Big Red Dog and PAW Patrol: The Movie. However, others were made available to stream on Paramount+ forty-five days after they were released in theaters, including A Quiet Place: Part … Continue reading All Paramount Movies to Head to Paramount+ After Theatrical Release From 2024!!
ViacomCBS is no more. Two years after merging to become a global media super company, the multinational conglomerate is changing its name to better represent its global brand. Starting February 16, the company will be known simply as Paramount and will trade on the NASDAQ as PARAA (Class A common), PARA (Class B common), and PARAP (Preferred Stock) starting on February 17. Paramount announced its … Continue reading ViacomCBS Officially Changes Corporate Name to Paramount!!
Paramount has announced that its neo-Western series Yellowstone is coming back for a fifth season. The news is not exactly a surprise, as the saga of the Dutton family remains the most-watched original show on Paramount+, with Season 4’s finale also breaking audience records on cable television with over 15 million total viewers. Yellowstone follows the struggles of the Dutton family, led by the patriarch … Continue reading ‘Yellowstone’ Unsurpisingly Renewed for Season 5!!
Paramount has finally debuted a new trailer for Season Four of Yellowstone starring Kevin Costner, and it looks like it’s going to be a doozy. Fans are finally getting a peek at the long-awaited new season of the drama, premiering on November 7 on Paramount Network, and it looks like no one’s making it out of this season without at least a few scars to … Continue reading ‘Yellowstone’ Season 4 Gets a New Trailer!! Check It Out!!
ViacomCBS Inc. and Comcast Corp. have announced that they are joining forces to venture into European markets, preparing to introduce a new streaming platform titled SkyShowtime to over 90 million households, one that hopes to rival such competitors such as Disney+ and Netflix. SkyShowtime is aiming to expand its services to 20 European countries. Comcast and ViacomCBS’s decision to team up was determined by the … Continue reading ‘SkyShowtime’: Comcast, ViacomCBS Launch Joint Streaming Venture for Europe!!
The cable television hit Yellowstone will make its two-episode return on Paramount Network on November 7th. Following Yellowstone, Paramount is planning a special simulcast event for two new series from Yellowstone creator Taylor Sheridan: Mayor of Kingstown and 1883. The teaser for the upcoming season of Yellowstone picks up at the very end of Season Three, showing Kevin Costner‘s John Dutton shot and bleeding out … Continue reading ‘Yellowstone’ Season 4: New Trailer Confirms November 7th as Release Date!! Check It Out!!
The Duttons are back and out for blood in the first teaser for Season 4 of Yellowstone, which will premiere on Paramount Network this fall. Additionally, there will be a marathon of all three seasons this weekend celebrating Independence Day, because what’s more American than some good old-fashioned violent neo-western? Yellowstone was created by Taylor Sheridan and John Linson, both with long histories in the … Continue reading ‘Yellowstone’ Season 4: New Trailer Reveals the Release Date!! Check It Out!!
Paramount+ is taking a page out of Netflix’s book and will be releasing one new original film per week on the new streaming service starting next year, according to The Hollywood Reporter. That’s 52 brand spanking new original movies for the platform, which was just rebranded earlier this year from CBS All Access. The streamer will also begin a new campaign — dubbed “Mountain of … Continue reading Paramount+ Set to Debut Original Movies Every Week in 2022!!
If you work in this industry long enough, you’ll see how cyclical it can be. Case in point, today’s announcement that CBS and Viacom have entered into a definitive agreement to combine in an all-stock merger, creating a combined company with more than $28 billion in revenue. The new entity, known as ViacomCBS Inc., will be led by Bob Bakish as President and CEO, with … Continue reading CBS and Viacom to Merge Once Again!!!
Although Cary Joji Fukunaga is at work on Bond 25, he’s not leaving TV behind completely. After directing Maniac and the first season of True Detective as well as developing The Alienist, he’s now teaming up with Watchmen director Nicole Kassell for a new adaptation of The Last of the Mohicans. James Fenimore Cooper’s 1826 novel is the second the Leatherstocking Tales pentalogy and is … Continue reading ‘The Last of the Mohicans’ Series in the Works!!!
What’s old is new again, especially on TV. Perhaps it’s thanks to the popularity of Netflix’s Stranger Things, or just revivals from 80s and 90s properties in general, but the 1985 film Explorers is now getting its own TV reboot on the Paramount Network — because starting with your own IP is always a savvy move. As Deadline is reporting, Cary Fukunaga and David Lowery … Continue reading ‘Explorers’: Cary Fukunaga and David Lowery Team for TV Pilot Based on the 1985 Film!!
The summer box office will go down as the second-biggest in history, but the wealth wasn’t evenly distributed. Instead, the results revealed a profound case of corporate income inequality. Two studios, Universal and Disney, gobbled up most of the profits after fielding massive hits like “Jurassic World” and “Avengers: Age of Ultron.” Together, their films made up seven of the 10 top-grossing domestic releases this … Continue reading Check out the Hits & Misses of Summer 2015!!
