Insiders say key supplies needed to build sets have shot up 10 percent in recent months as studios grapple with ballooning budgets: "Supply-chain shortages caused us to alter the way we build our stag...
On the last day of the turbulent 2020-21 television season amidst a year of pandemic and programming chaos, we have once again learned you don’t tug on Superman’s cape, you don’t spit into the w...
The long-delayed Tony Awards will air primarily on Paramount Plus on Sept. 26, but certain key awards will be handed out as part of a celebration of theater that will air on the streaming service and ...
What a difference a year (and a global pandemic) makes.
For the Big Four broadcast networks — ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox — May’s annual upfront presentations used to mean a focus on the fall schedul...
CBS has built its success of the past two decades largely on the back of its procedural franchises, including NCIS and CSI, and the network is doubling down on that strategy for the 2021-22 season.
C...
Hell Day 2021, as it turns out, was not so hellish after all.
The Friday before the annual upfront presentations tends to be the busiest decision day of the season for the five broadcast networks but...
The 2020-21 TV season isn’t over yet, but CBS has claimed the crown in total viewers for the 13th consecutive year.
The Eye network on Thursday projected it will end the pandemic-battered season wi...
After the arrival of four major new streaming services in late-2019 and early-2020, this year is when the competition is going global.
One of the newest worldwide hopefuls is a Stateside pioneer. Par...
The Daytime Emmy Awards will be broadcast on CBS in 2021 and 2022, as the Eye network struck a two-year deal with the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (NATAS).
That means this year,...
CBS will be the new home of Italian soccer in the US from next season after beating ESPN to the rights for Serie A and the Coppa Italia.
The deal runs for three years and will see Italian soccer’s ...
The National Football League (NFL) has confirmed long-term broadcast rights agreements with its domestic media partners CBS, ESPN/ABC, Fox, NBC and Amazon.
The new deals, which cover TV and digital p...
The NCAA men’s basketball tournament begins this week after last year’s cancelation due to the pandemic. CBS Sports and Turner Sports could bring in more than $1 billion in advertisement for the N...
The NCAA, CBS Sports and Turner Sports will debut a new design for their second-screen streaming platform during the 2021 Division I college basketball tournament. NCAA March Madness Live will feature...
For Friday’s episode, Colbert will welcome Dr. Anthony Fauci for his first 'Late Show' appearance.
As a year has passed since the novel coronavirus pandemic resulted in shutdowns and forced late-nig...
Oprah Winfreys explosive interview with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle drew a huge audience to CBS this Sunday evening, attracting approximately 17.18 million viewers throughout its two-hour broadca...
The National Football League (NFL) is close to signing a new rights deal that could see Amazon ‘carry many games’ exclusively on its Prime Video streaming service.
The deal could reportedly cost ...
Paramount+, the rebranded streaming service previously known as CBS All Access, has added more live soccer rights to its content offering ahead of the platform’s US launch on 4th March.
The ViacomC...
Another media company is returning to upfronts week, following Disney’s earlier announcement that it will resume the annual May tradition, which was canceled last year due to the pandemic.
A Viac...
CBS’ multiplatform broadcast of Super Bowl LV fell below the 100 million viewer threshold but set a record for streaming viewing on Sunday, according to Nielsen Live+Same Day fast affiliate ratings....
CBS Sports is expecting robust viewership for its coverage of the National Football League’s Super Bowl LV on February 7, despite a significant disruption to group viewership patterns due to the ong...
As with many other aspects of Super Bowl Sunday, this year’s advertising game-within-the-game has gone through some dramatic adjustments due to Covid-19.
The annual big-tent event on February 7 sho...
While several of the biggest traditional Super Bowl advertisers might be sitting out this year’s Big Game, that hasn’t put a dent in CBS’ advertising sales for Super Bowl 55.
The Feb. 7 game—...
The Super Bowl LV performers’ line-up is nearly complete after the latest reveal. Eric Church and Jazmine Sullivan will perform the National Anthem before the big game. Singer H.E.R. will also perfo...
ViacomCBS has set March 4 as the launch date for Paramount Plus, the company’s effort to join the direct-to-consumer streaming revolution alongside its larger rivals.
The subscription service will ...
ViacomCBS Kids & Family is combining its live-action production under a single team so that all Awesomeness and Nickelodeon development, current series and studio functions will now be handled col...
Nickelodeon’s kid-friendly broadcast of Sunday’s National Football League (NFL) wild card game between the New Orleans Saints and Chicago Bears averaged 2.06 million viewers, making it the most-wa...
On Monday, Discovery+ entered an increasingly crowded landscape of services vying to attract your eyeballs to their endless selection of programming.
Discovery+ features more than 55,000 episodes fro...
The COVID-19 numbers in Los Angeles County are dire, and hospital beds remain at worryingly low capacity, pushing Hollywood to delay when most L.A.-based television shows go back into production. At t...
Disney’s Hulu + Live TV subscribers will — finally — get Comedy Central, MTV, Nick, BET and other legacy Viacom cable channels as part of their lineup.
ViacomCBS announced a new multiyear distr...
CBS Sports and Nickelodeon are getting kids and families into the game with a special slime-filled presentation of the National Football League’s Wild Card game on Sunday, Jan. 10, at 4:30 p.m. (ET)...
ViacomCBS is launching a dedicated diversity and inclusion website that sheds light, for the first time, on the combined company’s workforce demographics following the merger of Viacom and CBS, Vari...
In the lead-up to its Paramount+ rebrand, ViacomCBS streamer CBS All Access has added a raft of kids programming from its Nickelodeon and Nick Jr. libraries, and launched new family features.
Nearl...
Fox currently pays US$660 million per year for those games, having taken over the contract in 2019 from rivals CBS and NBC, who previously split the coverage.
That deal expires at the end of the 20...
Two days before a summary judgment hearing in a crucial legal fight, a Los Angeles judge indicates his thoughts in a detailed tentative ruling.
Netflix is having some difficulty on the legal front wi...
Branded content doesn’t need to look like it; The NFL’s next TV deal will force broadcasters to make difficult choices; Time for sports to incorporate highlights into their business model.
For ...
The relatively well-selling Super Bowl ad inventory suggests marketers are not especially concerned with the chance of the big game not occurring due to upticks in COVID-19 that have caused postponeme...
Dave Chappelle had made it clear that he did not approve of ViacomCBS licensing his Comedy Central series, Chappelle’s Show, without paying him a dime. The comedian spoke about it during his recent ...
Pepsi, the NFL and Roc Nation have announced that The Weeknd will perform during the Pepsi Super Bowl LV Halftime Show on CBS.
For the full story, visit Variety - https://variety.com/2020/m...
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