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Fox Reality to air ‘American Idol 4’ with never before seen footage
MUMBAI: Fox Reality which is dedicated to being the hub of reality programming in the US will offer a recap of the fourth season of music based reality show American Idol.The presentation kicks off on 2 January 2006.
Every week following elimination shows, Fox Reality goes behind the scenes and follows the contestants America voted off. Reality fans will get up close and personal with the voted off Idol contestants, the competition, the families and their fans.
There will be RealityRevealed content. This gives fans the complete experience with never before seen content. Now viewers will have the opportunity to see the entire Idol aftermath through the eyes of the stars. There will be additional footage and interviews with the contestants. In this manner the whole Idol story unfolds giving fans more of what they want to know.
This initiative ends on 17 January 2006 which is the night when the fifth season of American Idol will kick off on Fox.
On its part as far as the fifth season is concerned Fox Reality from March 2006 will give fans American Idol original aftermath programming and counts down with America.
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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.
