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Paramount launched a hostile bid for Warner Bros. Discovery on Monday, three days after WBD announced a deal with Netflix that had won the approval of both companies’ boards. Paramount circumvented the WBD board to offer shareholders what it described as a better offer: $30 per share in cash, valuing the company at around $108 billion, including debt. While Netflix’s deal was $83 billion for a large part of the company, Paramount’s offer includes all of WBD, including the Warner Bros. movie studio, the HBO Max streaming service and a portfolio of cable channels.
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Jimmy Kimmel has signed a one-year extension to his deal with ABC to host “Jimmy Kimmel Live!”. He’s now set to stay through May 2027.
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Also staying put is Anderson Cooper, who inked a new deal with CNN. Cooper joined the news net in 2001.
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Nominees for the 83rd Annual Golden Globes were announced on Monday. Netflix scored the most nods with 22, followed by HBO Max (15) and Apple TV (12). Up for Best TV Drama are “The Diplomat” (Netflix), “The Pitt” and “White Lotus” (HBO Max), and “Pluribus,” “Severance” and “Slow Horses” (Apple TV). Competing for Best Comedy are “Abbott Elementary” (ABC), “The Bear” (FX on Hulu), “Only Murders in the Building” (Hulu), “Hacks” (HBO Max) and “The Studio” (Apple TV). The awards show airs Sunday, January 11 on CBS; for a complete list of nominees, go here.
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YouTube’s Neal Mohan has been named Time’s CEO of the Year. “As mayor of the global megalopolis, Mohan knows one of his chief duties is to communicate a genial unflappability rather than a slick charm,” writes Time Editor at Large Belinda Luscombe. “He’s superior at it: uncle level…People who have known Mohan since he first arrived at YouTube have observed that interaction with the creators seems to be the part of being CEO he enjoys most.”
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HBO comedy “Rooster” is set to debut in March 2026. The 10-episode season, from Warner Bros. Television, hails from co-showrunners and executive producers Bill Lawrence and Matt Tarses and stars Steve Carell, who also serves as executive producer.
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Bravo’s “Summer House” is back for season ten on Tuesday, February 3 at 8p. Six new housemates join seven returnees on the Hampton-set reality show.
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“Alaska State Troopers” is back with a new home on Wednesday, January 7 at 8p. The docuseries has moved to A&E from Nat Geo, where it ran from 2009 until 2015, when Alaska’s Department of Public Safety decided to “focus on the job of providing public safety without any added outside distractions.” At the time, the DPS did not rule out beginning “another chapter” at some point.
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Season five of Acorn TV drama “My Life Is Murder” debuts Monday, January 5. The series stars Lucy Lawless (“Xena: Warrior Princess”).
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“Happiness,” described as “a feel-good musical comedy drama,” kicks off Sunday, December 14 at 8p on PBS. The series follows a theater group in New Zealand.
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Family drama “It’s Not Like That” premieres Sunday, January 25 on Prime Video. Scott Foley (“Grey’s Anatomy”) and Erinn Hayes (“Childrens Hospital”) star as newly single parents.
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US Ski & Snowboard and YouTube struck a partnership that calls for YouTube to produce creator-led content as athletes of the US Ski & Snowboard Team prepare for the 2026 Olympics and Paralympics in Milano Cortina, Italy. It’s the first partnership between YouTube and a US winter National Governing Body.(Source: Cynopsis)
“Great American Rescue Bowl” returns Sunday, February 8 at noon to celebrate rescue pets and the people who save them. No kill rescue and adoption organization North Shore Animal League America and animal advocate Beth Stern are partners for the two-hour, pre-Super Bowl event.
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UPtv had something to be thankful for during Thanksgiving week – 2.5 million viewers tuned into its Monday-Friday “Hudson & Rex” event. Household delivery for the five-day stunt peaked on Friday averaging 131,000 households and ranked #24, according to Nielsen’s Live+3 data.
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Last week’s episode of Food Network’s “Holiday Baking Championship”posted season high Live+3 ratings of .71 P25-54 / 0.90 W25-54, +58% and +41% respectively versus prior six-week benchmarks and ranked as the #2 non-news/sports ad-supported cable program for P25-54 and #3 for W25-54.
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