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Following the news that talks for a merger with Skydance Media fell apart, Paramount Global co-CEOS George Cheeks, Chris McCarthy and Brian Robbins addressed the troops. While the Board “will always remain open to exploring strategic alternatives,” the execs said in a memo to staff, work is underway on three pillars: Transforming the company’s streaming strategy; streamlining the organization and reducing non-content costs; and optimizing its asset mix by divesting some businesses to help pay down debt. The company is holding a Global Town Hall – rescheduled from June 5 amid the merger noise – on June 25.
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Publicis Groupe is calling BS on AI. Starting June 17, the first day of Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity, the holding company will make its “BSBot” available to clients. The BSBot lets clients record audio or upload images and text from speeches, meetings, presentations, articles and press releases about AI. Immediately afterward, they will receive analysis that translates AI jargon into “real talk,” debunking myths and highlighting questions that should be asked. “The only thing more widespread than AI at the moment is the noise surrounding it,” said Publicis Groupe Chairman and CEO Arthur Sadoun. “We are at risk of trying to make AI everything, everywhere, all at once.”
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“Late Night With Seth Meyers” will not have a house band when it returns for its 12th season. The NBC talker is losing its 8G band, due to what band member Eli Janney described as budget cuts. In an interview with Vulture, Janney said, “Budgets everywhere have been cut and cut and cut. I liken it to a Spotify moment in music, where suddenly it’s like, Nobody wants to pay for music.” The band will still make music for the show, said Janney, but they won’t perform live.
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The Make-Up Artists & Hair Stylists set the timetable for the 12th Annual MUAHS Awards. The event will take place on Saturday, February 15, 2025, at the Fairmont Century Plaza Hotel in LA. Submissions open on September 23.
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USA Network ordered “The Rainmaker,” based on the 1995 John Grisham novel. The drama comes from writer Michael Seitzman (“Code Black”), Lionsgate Television and Blumhouse Television.
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FOX Soul has renewed “Portia” for season three. The half-hour lifestyle program will be available to stream back-to-back episodes on FOX Soul weekdays at 7p in the fall, and continue to air on FOX-owned stations in Atlanta, San Francisco, and Orlando, as well as on the Impact Network.
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Warner Bros. Animation, Cartoon Network Studios, and Hanna-Barbera Studios Europe announced three series greenlights during their Studio Focus presentation at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival. Heading to Cartoon Network are “Foster’s Funtime for Imaginary Friends,” from HBSE, and “Adventure Time: Side Quests” and an untitled “Regular Show” project from CNS.
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“Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom Protecting the Wild” has been renewed for a second season. The series, produced by Hearst Media Production Group, premiered in October 2023 as part of NBC’s “The More You Know” programming block and drew an average 1.1 million weekly viewers.
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Season two of Prime Video’s “Maxton Hall” has gone into production for season two. The upcoming season will be based on the second part of the bestselling novel series Save You by author Mona Kasten and published by LYX. Since its launch in May, the first season of the series achieved the largest first week global viewership for an International Original in Prime Video ever, reaching the number 1 spot on the Prime Video Charts in over 120 countries and territories.
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Good News Network Studios, Outlyer, Whalar Group and ReachTV are collaborating to create, develop, produce and distribute branded entertainment. Already in the works are “Good News First,” a social-first news show, and “Dream Fever,” a documentary that chronicles the journey of musician Emmanuel Kelly, born limb-different and abandoned in a box on a battlefield.
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The third and final season of “Vikings: Valhalla” premieres Thursday, July 11 on Netflix.
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“Fight Night: The Million Dollar Heist,” based on the true-crime podcast about an armed robbery on the night of Muhammad Ali’s historic 1970 comeback fight, premieres on Peacock Thursday, September 5.
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NBC Sports Next’s GolfPass series, “Pain-Free Golf,” tees off Thursday, June 20. The video series will chronicle several of “Big Break” reality show contestant Randall Hunt’s students as they strive to play and feel better.
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“Fox Saratoga Saturday,” a national showcase of the summer meet at Saratoga Race Course, returns to Fox this summer for six weeks, starting Saturday, June 20 at 5p.
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“Young. Wild. Free.” makes its BET+ debut on Thursday, June 17. The coming-of-age film follows a hot-tempered high school senior thrust in a dangerous direction after he’s robbed at gunpoint by the girl of his dreams.
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Game 2 of the Stanley Cup Final delivered an average audience of 6.8 million viewers across ABC, ESPN+, CBC, SN and TVAS, up 61% versus last year. In the US, the game drew 3.6 million viewers, up 46%.
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Combate Global’s first “Combate Female” Mixed Martial Arts event on Saturday, June 8, drew 639,000 P2+ viewers on Univision, including 277,000 viewers in the A18-49 demo.
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