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TLC to launch Buddy’s Family Vacation
MUMBAI: TLC – India’s favorite lifestyle destination brings to its viewers an all new series – BUDDY’S FAMILY VACATION featuring celebrity chef Buddy Valastro and his family. The eight episode series is a hearty tale of fantastic food and family adventures, where Buddy and his family set off for a vacation across America.
BUDDY’S FAMILY VACATION airs every Monday – Tuesday at 7 PM only on TLC.
On the series, Buddy Valastro decides to take a break from his busy schedule and stacks up the RV for an epic Valastro road trip across America with his family.
TLC captures this adventurous journey as the family ventures across different cities in America and experiences the local food of these cities. They feast upon some of the most sumptuous meals that America has to offer – from relishing seafood on the eastern seaboard to stuffed ‘ugly biscuits’ in Myrtle Beach.
The series is all about travelling through the heart of America, spending quality time with family and great food all across. From spooky adventures like catching a ghost in Savannah’s haunted historic district to daring activities like feeding alligators, Buddy and his family make the most of their time together. The family eats spicy Etouffee in New Orleans and try their hands at cooking delicious food in all the towns and cities they visit. They make saltwater taffy the old style, prepare boudin, hand-crafted chocolaty treats and much more.
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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.
