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Star World brings Homeland-6; Quantico also in list
MUMBAI: Star World and Star World HD has launched a series of new TV shows to watch on the same day or close to U.S. airing. The shows include Priyanka Chopra-starrer Quantico, Empire, The Blacklist, How To Get Away With Murder, etc. The channel is also gearing up to bring the magnum opus show Homeland back to the TV screens in early January.
To celebrate its return, the channel is all set to air the entire series of Homeland starting 21 October weekdays at 8 pm.
Developed by Alex Gansa and Howard Gordon, the political thriller is based on the original Israeli series Prisoners of War by Gideon Raff. The series stars Claire Danes as Carrie Mathison, a Central Intelligence Agency officer with bipolar disorder and Damian Lewis as Nicholas Brody, a U.S. Marine Corps Scout Sniper.
The season 1 begins with Mathison following her strong intuition that Brody, who was held captive by Al-Qaeda as a prisoner of war before being rescued, was turned in by the enemy and poses a threat to the United States. The series delves into espionage, conspiracy and mystery that follow Mathison as she races against time to serve and save her nation against multiple enemies.
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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.
