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‘Amazing Race’ returns in July on CBS for fifth season
MUMBAI: Viacom’s US broadcast network CBS has announced that two of its reality shows Big Brother and the Emmy Award-winning The Amazing Race will kick off their new seasons on 6 July. In India, The Amazing Race airs on AXN.
Into its fifth season, The Amazing Race will pit 11 teams of American couples against one another in a race around the globe for a prize of $ one million. The show is executively produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and Bertram van Munster who co-created the series along with Elise Doganieri.
CBS has announced that it will launch a new reality show The Will. It has been produced by Mike Fleiss who was also responsible for The Bachelor, The Bachelorette. The head of a household with substantial assets will give away the family fortune to one of his or her potential heirs.
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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.
