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Justin Bieber turns 22; 5 TV shows that he was part of
MUMBAI: Canadian singer and songwriter Justin Drew Bieber turns 22 today. Born on 1 March in 1994, the pop star has broken many records with first place on charts. His debut full-length album My World 2.0 was released on 19 March 2010 when Bieber was 16 had gone platinum in several countries.
Led by a huge fan following, the Baby song singer has received huge amount of love and wishes on social media by his fans. #HappyBirthdayJustinBieber had about 13,000 likes at the time of this filing.
Bieber has also won various accolades for his work in the past and has also performed with many popular singers like Skrillex, Chances the Rapper, Nicki Minaj, Selena Gomez, etc. Wishing him many more billboard chart-busters, Indiantelevision.com has listed down a few television shows that featured the young vocalist in a special appearance.
1. Crime Scene Investigation (CSI)
The series premiered for a year starting from 2011 and starred William Petersen, Gary Dourdan and Marg Helgenberger. The plot sheds light on the murder of a police chief leading Willows and Brown (the lead actors) to Miami. Bieber was seen in season 11 of the series in episode 1 (Shock Waves) and episode 15 (Targets of Obsession)
2. Punk’d
Punk’d was an American hidden camera-practical joke reality television series that first aired on MTV in 2003. It was created by Ashton Kutcher and Jason Goldberg and starred Justin Bieber in one of its episodes. This series closed in 2012.
3. Ridiculousness
An American comedy clip show, it started airing from 2011 onwards. The show was hosted by Rob Dyrdek and co-hosted by Sterling Steelo Brim and Chanel West Coast. The show aired viral videos from the internet involving failed do-it-yourself attempts at stunts, to which Rob and his panellists added mock commentary. Currently in its 7th season with approximately 142 episodes, the show saw the Love Me singer in its second season.
4. The Comedy Central Roast of Justin Bieber
Several roasters, and the master himself Kevin Hart, made fun of Justin Bieber in this show that aired in 2015. Bieber was the youngest person ever to be roasted at a Comedy Central Roast.
5. The Graham Norton Show
This British comedy chat show airing on BBC hosted by Irish comedian Graham Norton saw Bieber with Dame Maggie Smith, Alex Jennings, Bradley Cooper and Sienna Miller as guests. Bieber also performed his famous single What Do You Mean on the show.
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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.
