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FremantleMedia seduces HBO with the sale of ‘Sex Inspectors’ in US
MUMBAI: Fremantle International Distribution (FID) has sold the hit talkback Thames show, The Sex Inspectors to HBO in the US.
FID managing director David Ellender announced the same stating that The Sex Inspectors will be a part of HBO’s late-night Real Sex series.
The Sex Inspectors: A Real Sex International British Import offers a frank and intelligent approach to sex. The program originally debuted on the UK’s Channel 4 and proved an instant success with soaring ratings among the key demographic (adults aged 18-34), and a second series of The Sex Inspectors launched in July.
In addition, a highly anticipated book following the series, The Sex Inspectors Masterclass: How To Have An Amazing Sex Life, debuted in the UK in August this year.
“With HBO’s loyal audience and traditional late night programming, The Sex Inspectors was a perfect fit for the network. Fremantle International Distribution’s access to a wide breadth of productions in a variety of genres allows us to provide our partners with the ideal content to complement any of their existing programming,” said Ellender.
With expert help, The Sex Inspectors looks under the bed sheets to help couples with their sexual problems and frustrations. In each episode a couple will be intimately observed by our ‘sexperts’ Tracey Cox and Michael Alvear, as they look for some practical advice on how to spice up their love lives.
Broadcasters in the Netherlands, Belgium, Sweden, Finland, Norway, Portugal, Denmark and New Zealand have already snapped up the bold and innovative series that is designed to improve people’s sex lives.
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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.
