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Discovery Travel & Living to premiere ‘Long Way Round Week’ on 16 January
MUMBAI: Lifestyle channel Discovery Travel and Living will telecast Long Way Round Week on 16 January. The channel will air the adventure show featuring actors Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman from 16 to 20 January at 9 pm.
Setting off in London, the three-month trip takes Ewan and Charley through some of the most beautiful, and at times dangerous, terrain the world has to offer. Crossing over into mainland Europe, they rode through France, Belgium, Germany, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Ukraine, Russia, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Siberia, Alaska, Canada before arriving at their final destination, New York City, USA, states an official release.
Riding motorbikes and surviving in the wilderness requires a tremendous amount of strength, energy and stamina. Self confessed couch potatoes, Ewan and Charley enlisted a personal trainer to get them as fit as possible and ready to go. Besides this, they undertook in-depth training courses and intensive route planning research to insure they were fully prepared for departure.
Other activities that they trained in included hostile environment training, advanced first aid/medical, bushcraft and survival training, bike maintenance and global positioning systems.
Close friends Ewan and Charley have also acted in many memorable films. McGregor is one of Britain’s most successful movie actors and his films include Star Wars I and II, Moulin Rouge, Big Fish, Down With Love and Young Adam. Charley has acted in The Bunker, On Edge, Cash in Hand, The Serpents Kiss, Cannes Man and Nemo.
Their on screen magnetism has already made the early footage from pre-event training compelling viewing. Following these five episodes, it will air every Sunday, starting 22nd Jan at 9 pm until March.
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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.
