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• The duo discussed ways their companies could complement one another. For example, each company's main streaming service — Paramount+ and Max — could merge to better rival Netflix and Disney+. • WBD could use its international distribution footprint to boost Paramount's franchises, while Paramount's children's programing assets could be essential to WBD's long-term streaming ambitions. • CBS News could be combined with CNN to create a global news powerhouse. CBS' crime dramas, such as "NCIS" and "Criminal Minds," could be combined with Investigation Discovery and TruTV. Paramount Global CEO Bob Bakish and WBD boss David Zaslav sat down on Tuesday at Paramount’s corporate headquarters in New York’s Times Square, a well-place source tells the media, “It was all rather preliminary,” the source said of the talks. Shari Redstone, CEO of Paramount’s controlling shareholder, National Amusements, “is on a bit of a listening tour to see w

For most of 2023, Paramount has been looking to sell BET. Reportedly, earlier this year, Paramount decided that the offers for BET were not worth it now though Paramount has decided to once again look at deals to sell BET. According to a report from Bloomberg, Paramount is in talks with multiple potential buyers, include BET Chief Executive Officer Scott Mills and Chinh Chu, a former Blackstone Inc. member. The deal will reportedly be for just under $2 billion. Originally this deal would reportedly include BET cable networks, BET+, a subscription streaming service, and BET studios. VH1 is now also managed by BET and would reportedly be included in this deal. Now though, it is unknown if VH1 will be a part of this new deal. Paramount in the past, was reportedly interested in a minority stake but is likely looking for ways to cut back on expenses and earn cash to pay down its debts. It is unknown if this deal will still include a minority stake in the channel. Paramou

The Simpsons: Night of the Living Treehouse of Horror is a platform game published by THQ on March 19, 2001, for the Game Boy Color. Developed by Software Creations, it is based on the Treehouse of Horror episodes of the animated television series The Simpsons. The game features seven side-scrolling levels in which the player controls the members of the Simpson family. Night of the Living Treehouse of Horror has received average reviews from critics, with praise directed at the design. Download Now

eExtra, a general entertainment channel operated by eMedia Investments that distributes content from Turkey, Asia and India will be rolling out their first series for the new year titled Eternal Love (also known as Three Lives, Three Worlds, Ten Miles of Peach Blossoms). Synopsis for Eternal Love: A free-spirited woman's soul inhabits the body of a timid woman from a different time. She must find a way to balance her double life when she falls in love with two different men. Based on the novel of the same name, it starred Yang Mi as Bai Qian/Si Yin/Su Su, Mark Chao as Mo Yuan/Jin Lian/Ye Hua/Zhao Ge, Ken Chang as Zhe Yan, Zhang Gong as Bai Zhi, Ma Rui as Fox Queen, Leng Haiming as Bai Yi and Yu Menglong as Bai Zhen. As of August 2018, Eternal Love had reached 50 billion views, becoming the most watched television series in the world. The series has also attracted large number of foreign fans, which was said to mark a new renaissance for Chinese television. Based on

Since 2022, eMedia Investments and MultiChoice had been undergoing a carriage dispute with the Competition Tribunal. After the pay-tv operated planned to remove these channels by March of that year was only fortunate enough to axe eMovies, eMovies Extra, eToonz and eExtra by the end of May. At the time, MultiChoice mentioned that they had been phased with transponder constraints and that eMedia's 4 channels didn't fit their 5 year content strategy. eMedia Investments showed that MultiChoice did have enough satellite capacity and that their channels do abide by local quotas. Following their cancellation, MultiChoice was met with severe backlash from various DStv consumers. Overtime, the pay-tv operator managed to supplement this offering with the expansions of KIX and PBS Kids alongside further new channels, DreamWorks and Movie Room. By August of that year, eMedia Investments had recieved numerous extensions for their 4 Openview channels. After MultiChoice was

During the week, it was reported that Peacock would be closing down in the UK by the end of 2023 . But that's not the only thing NBCUniversal plans to scrap of their bucket list as E! Entertainment is also slated to go dark on Sky and Virgin Media with further content on Hayu. Hayu serves as the digital counterpart of both E! Entertainment and Bravo which is also operated by NBCUniversal. From 2024, consumers wanting to watch shows like Keeping Up With The Kardashians and Below Deck Mediterranean would need to view it on the streamer. The news of its demise doesn't come as much of a shock following its closure in Germany by 2022 . At the time, it was outlined that the feeds in the UK and Eastern Europe were anticipated to continue but from what we can see that was short lived. If we had to guess why E! Entertainment was getting culled its probably similar to Disney's reasons for the terminating the FOX/Star general entertainment brand in parts of the world.

Peacock is an international streaming service operated by Comcast which features first run series and leverages a vast library of films and series from NBCUniversal. Similar to Showmax, it also featured third party content from the likes of UK's BBC and  ITV brands. Since it's inception, Peacock has been able to add roughly 30 million paid subscribers which is little compared to Netflix and Disney+ which we fortunate to accumulate over 100 million subscribers. It took over a year for NBCUniversal to just duplicate this in other regions. Due to some economic factors, Peacock never got a standalone service internationally or at least not by name. In parts of Europe, it is known as SkyShowtime which forms part of a joint venture with Paramount Global which also grants consumers access to Paramount+. In the UK, that's where things only worsened for the streamer as Peacock was "bundled' in a manner that Disney+ would bundle FX and National Geographic. Wit

SABC Encore was a general entertainment channel operated by the public broadcaster that was exclusive to MultiChoice's DStv alongside SABC News. It would broadcast content from the 1980s and 1990s including shows like Agter Elke Man and 'Sgudi 'Snaysi. Following its exit from the DStv platform, the SABC was looking to continue the channel on another platform and since then there had been no updates or at least from the SABC. On their DTT platforms, the public broadcaster still had its remains within the channel number. Often it would serve as a catch-up/pop-up channel to content viewed on SABC 1-3 (including Sports) . This channel would often stream on TelkomOne (now SABC+) for mostly the sporting content before being removed. During the year, the public broadcaster gave SABC Encore a facelift with the channel undergoing yet another name change, SABC Variety . As mentioned, the public broadcaster remained silent regarding the developments of this channel alo

A new short form series debuts on YouTube London’s Moonbug Entertainment and British toyco Toikido are embarking on a franchise-building partnership for a new short series called PeaKeeBoo.  The preschool project, featuring 2D animation with CG-animated backgrounds, will star three tiny creatures (Pea, Kee and Boo) who are enthralled by all of the sights and sounds of nature. Moonbug is producing a 30 x one-minute first season that’s already slated for a global premiere sometime in 2024 on its Moonbug Kids YouTube channel (10.4 million subscribers).   The companies are now working out a 360-degree franchise strategy for PeaKeeBoo, with plans to eventually launch toys, books, apparel, playsets and games.  Cape Town TV announces their first show for the year 'Side Hustle Susters – van passie tot profyt’ is an Afrikaans edutainment female empowerment show by women for women, created by Dee Theart (who is also the presenter of the show), in conjunction with Cape Town TV. The show co