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Star World’s ‘Desperate Housewives’ finale on 23 December
MUMBAI: Star World will air the final episode of the first season of Desperate Housewives at 10 pm on 23 December.
The finale episode will shed light on many of the mysteries of the show. Viewers will recall that the show kicked off way back in July with housewife Mary Alice killing herself. The episode reveals the reason for this.
The episode also looks at a new neighbour on Wisteria Lane and what her secret is. The channel says that the show has captured everybody’s imagination in the US. Even American First Lady Laura Bush revealed that she was a devoted viewer in a speech to the American media, in which she joked she was herself a “desperate housewife” who was always left watching the show alone because her husband usually had fallen asleep by that time in the evening.
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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.
