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With FCC approval under its belt, Paramount Global announced that the company expects to close its $8 billion merger deal with Skydance Media on August 7. The new company will trade on the Nasdaq under the ticker symbol PSKY.
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Its current season four will be the last for USA Network’s “Resident Alien.” The sci-fi series debuted on Syfy in 2021, moving to NBCU sib USA for its current run.
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All ten episodes of the sixth and final season of “Solar Opposites” drop Monday, October 13 on Hulu. The series centers around a team of four aliens who are evenly split on whether Earth is awful or awesome.
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Season four of “The Morning Show” premieres Wednesday, September 17 on Apple TV+. The season opens in spring 2024, almost two years after the events of season three.
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Apple TV+ sci-fi drama “Pluribus,” from Vince Gilligan (“Breaking Bad”), kicks off Friday, November 7 with two episodes. The genre-bending series, in which the most miserable person on Earth must save the world from happiness, has already been renewed for season two.
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New Lifetime unscripted series “A Sorority Mom’s Guide to Rush!” makes its debut Monday, August 11 at 10p. The show follows mother-daughter duos as they navigate the path towards their chosen sorority.
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The eighth and final season of Starz drama “Outlander” will premiere in early 2026, it was announced at San Diego Comic-Con. The next series in gladiator drama “Spartacus,” “Spartacus House: Ashur,” is also set to debut in winter 2026.
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Another announcement at Comic-Con: AMC’s “The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon” has been renewed for a fourth and final season. Season three kicks off Sunday, September 7.
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Unscripted horror series “Guts & Glory” debuts Tuesday, September 9 on Shudder. The show blends the intensity of a horror film with the pressure of a survival game where contestants are confronted with their fears in various scenarios.
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“Family Guy” holiday specials are returning exclusively to Hulu,it was revealed during a Comic-Con panel, starting with Halloween special “A Little Fright Music” on Monday, October 6.
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AMC Networks is collaborating with guitar manufacturer Fender Musical Instruments to have four customized guitars featured in “Anne Rice’s The Vampire Lestat.” The instruments will be played throughout the music-themed season, returning next year.
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Warner Bros. Pictures film “Final Destination Bloodlines” will make its global streaming debut on HBO Max on Friday, August 1. The following day, HBO will air a marathon of all six “Final Destination” movies, starting at 12:10p. The film was released in theaters in May.
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Dorsey Pictures and 2500 Media announced the debut of Outdoor World, a VOD channel featuring over 1,500 episodes of hunting, fishing, self-defense and natural history programming from the Dorsey Pictures content library. The channel will launch in early August 2025 on the Roku and Sling TV platforms.
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LIV Golf announced Steyn City in Johannesburg is set to host the first-ever LIV Golf South Africa from 20-22 March 2026.
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Adult Swim has a new adult animated comedy on the way. In “President Curtis,” co-created by “Rick and Morty” Executive Producers Dan Harmon and James Siciliano, Keith David will reprise his longtime “Rick and Morty” role as President Andre Curtis. Stephanie Beatriz (“Brooklyn Nine-Nine”) and Jim Rash (“Community”) also star. “This is a series we would have greenlit even if it didn’t have anything at all to do with ‘Rick and Morty,’” said Michael Ouweleen, President, Adult Swim. “President Andre Curtis is just that good of a character.”
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Season four of Paramount+ series “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds” will include a puppet themed episode, featuring USS Enterprise crew members as puppets created by Jim Henson’s Creature Shop. The episode is directed by Jordan Canning (“Fraggle Rock: Back to the Rock”).
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New series “Letters to Addy,” centered in the world of addiction in America, is one step closer to rolling cameras with T. Rafael Cimino onboard as showrunner US and Allan Levine as showrunner Canada, Healy Lange as EP, creator/writer, Grant Harvey directing, and Wayne Craig, David Horchok and Matt Borlenghi as producers. Casting to date includes Borlenghi (“Cobra Kai”), Jen Nikolaisen (“Little Women”) and influencer Caroline Elizabeth Gregory already set.
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Season seven of “Love Island” racked up over 18 billion minutes on Peacock, making it the streamer’s most-watched original season ever. It was also the number one streaming original show in the US for the week of the finale and the number one streaming reality title for six consecutive weeks, according to Nielsen.
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ABC summer game shows “Who Wants To Be A Millionaire” and “Match Game” returned on Wednesday, July 23, as the No. 1 and No. 2 shows of the night, respectively, among Total Viewers, both rising to multi-year highs. “Millionaire” delivered 4.24 million total viewers, the best in four years, while “Match” drew 3.3 million viewers, a five-year best.
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The season four debut of FX’s “The Bear” delivered 917 million minutes of streaming time its first week out, down 24% from season three’s debut last June, according to Nielsen. That ranked the seventh most-streamed show in the US for the week, and the second-highest debut ever for “The Bear.”
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The “Hudson & Rex” season seven two-episode premiere on UPtv reached 546,000 viewers and ranked #14 in HH delivery for the 8p-10p time period among ad supported cable nets.
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WEEKEND BOX OFFICE
The Fantastic Four: First Steps – $118 million
Superman – $24.9 million
Jurassic World: Rebirth – $13 million
F1: The Movie – $6.2 million
Smurfs – $5.4 million
(Source: Box Office Mojo)
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