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Star World to air news season of ‘Frasier’
Snob quotient is high on Star World. The snobbish, pompous yet incredible funny duo, the Crane brothers are back with their entourage for a new season of Frasier. Starting Monday, 23 February 2004 at 9:30 pm, Stars English entertainment arm will air the season seven.
The sitcom, starring Kelsey Grammer made history by becoming the first series, comedy or drama, to achieve a record five consecutive Emmys for Outstanding Comedy Series.
The show is all about the neuroses and tribulations suffered by an insecure and pompous psychiatrist, Dr Frasier Crane, host of a Seattle radio advice show, says a company release.
Adding to his comic misery is his gruff, ex-cop father, Martin (John Mahoney), Martin's pesky Jack Russell terrier Eddie, and a live-in physical therapist Daphne (Jane Leeves).
While his home is frequently visited by Frasier's snobbish and competitive brother, Niles (David Hyde Pierce), a fellow psychiatrist, at work, slightly jaded and man-hungry producer Roz Doyle (Peri Gilpin) keeps the sarcasms running.
In this season, audience can look forward to the impending marriage of Daphne and Donny that provides a recurring theme throughout the season culminating in the season ending finale. Other highlights of the serial include episodes where Frasier is mistaken for dead, Martin is mistaken for being gay, Frasier throws a raunchy bachelor party for Donny and Daphne recounts her disastrous bridal shower to her anger management counsellor.
Guest stars appearing this season include Rita Wilson, Bebe Neuwirth (reprising her role of Frasier's ex-wife Lilith), Jean Smart, Marg Helgenberger (CSI), and Robert Loggia, adds the release.
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Ellison takes his Paramount-Warner Bros case straight to theater owners
The Skydance chief goes to CinemaCon with promises and a skeptical crowd waiting
CALIFORNIA: David Ellison strode into a room packed with thousands of cinema owners and executives at CinemaCon in Las Vegas on Thursday and did something rather bold: he looked them in the eye and asked them to trust him.
The chief executive of Paramount Skydance vowed that his company would release a minimum of 30 films a year if regulators greenlight its proposed $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros Discovery, a deal that has made theater owners deeply, and loudly, nervous.
“I wanted to look every single one of you in the eye and give you my word,” Ellison told the crowd. “Once we combine with Warner Bros, we are going to make a minimum of 30 films annually across both studios.”
It was a confident pitch. Whether it landed is another matter. Cinema operators have already called on regulators to block the deal, and scepticism in the room was hardly concealed.
Ellison pushed back by pointing to recent form. Paramount, born from the merger of Paramount Global and Skydance Media last August, plans to release 15 films this year, nearly double the eight it put out in 2025. Progress, he argued, was already underway.
He also threw theater owners a bone they have long been chasing: all films, he pledged, would run exclusively in cinemas for a minimum of 45 days, drawing applause from a crowd that has spent years fighting for exactly that commitment across the industry.
“People can speculate all they want,” Ellison said, “but I am standing here today telling you personally that you can count on our complete commitment. And we’ll show you we mean it.”
Fine words. The regulators, however, will have the last one.
