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‘South Park’ Creators Elaborate on Paramount+ Movies Plan, Reveal New Details (Exclusive)
Trey Parker and Matt Stone signed a $900 million ViacomCBS deal over the summer for 14 franchise projects specifically for the streaming service, two of which drop this year.
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Rovier Carrington Charged With Perjury Following Failed $50M Viacom Suit
Carrington is facing up to five years in prison for lying about fabricating emails in a suit that claimed Viacom covered up sexual exploitation by two execs.
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Charlamagne Tha God, Stephen Colbert Team for Comedy Central Late Night Show
Charlamagne will host the weekly series, 'Tha God’s Honest Truth with Lenard "Charlamagne" McKelvey,' which is being billed as a culturally fluent take on social issues, with a mix of deep dives, sketches and social experiments.
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Class Action Claims “Sweetheart” Deal Between Writers Guild, Viacom Over Streaming
Former 'Key & Peele' showrunner Jay Martel is leading a suit that alleges the WGA has breached its duty of fair representation with respect to royalties owed comedy writers like those who work on 'The Daily Show with Trevor Noah.'
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CAA Acquires Tandem Entertainment to Expand Branded Partnerships
The deal gets the Hollywood talent agency deeper into digital media partnerships and branded content.
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Former ViacomCBS CFO Christina Spade Lands at AMC Networks
Spade as CFO will oversee financial affairs for AMC Networks' assets like AMC, BBC AMERICA, IFC and SundanceTV.
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ViacomCBS Networks International Head David Lynn to Step Down
ViacomCBS Networks International head David Lynn is set to step down after 24 years with the studio.
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Streaming 2.0: What’s Coming Next to the Streaming World?
There’s no doubt that streaming video is the present (thanks, pandemic!), as well as the future of entertainment. But which platform will dominate the so-called streaming wars is still up for debate.
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One Year After Merger, ViacomCBS Has Wall Street More Optimistic
Staff reductions to the tune of more than 800 people, the exit of top CBS brass, new executives with digital expertise, deals, less investor worry about carriage deals, early streaming success, cash-generating asset sales, and all that amid the coronavirus pandemic – those were key themes of the first year of the recombined ViacomCBS.
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Discovery+ Streaming Reveal Gets Tepid Response From Wall Street
Discovery has entered a crowded global streaming arena and Wall Street analysts have reacted coolly to its lifestyle programming juggernaut set to launch on Jan. 4.
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What Better Ad Trends, Higher Sports Costs Mean for Hollywood Earnings Season
Hollywood's third-quarter earnings season will likely be a case of good news-bad news amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, with advertising trends improving, but the return of sports causing higher costs.
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Sam Smith, Doja Cat to Perform at MTV EMAs
Sam Smith, Doja Cat, and Zara Larsson are the first performers set for this year's MTV Europe Music Awards on Nov. 8.
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