English Entertainment
Two new shows set to spice up CCs programme line-up
MUMBAI: The best in English comedy available on the television tube in the country just added some more spice to their show line-up. Come December, the primetime laughter buzz continues on India’s 24×7 laughter destination, Comedy Central as it launches the latest season of two widely popular shows.
The channel best known to deliver refreshing comedy content to its viewers consistently, month after month is now all geared up to introduce two new shows in the timeslot between 10:00 pm – 12:00 pm, adding new definition to primetime.
The show spread includes – Season 3 of Awkward at 10:00 pm and Workaholics at 11:00, premiering 2 December, 2013, every Monday to Wednesday on the channel.
Awkward: This American teen comedy encapsulates the journey, up’s and down’s of an unpopular 15 year old girl, Jenna Hamilton. She gains immediate, yet unwanted, popularity at her high school when the student body mistakes an infamous accident she has for a suicide attempt. However, embracing her misfortune, she becomes well-known to her peers through her blog.
The show has received nominations for ‘Critics’ Choice Television Awards, 2012’ for ‘Best Comedy Actress’ followed by the triumph at ‘Teen Choice Awards, 2012’ for ‘TV Breakout Star: Male’ and the recent ‘People’s Choice Awards, 2013’ for ‘Favorite Cable TV Comedy.’
Workaholics: This American sitcom-drama based in Rancho Cucamonga, California is predominantly written by its stars Blake Anderson, Adam DeVine, Anders Holm, and co-creator Kyle Newacheck who play, respectively, three recent college dropouts, roommates, and co-workers at a telemarketing company. Accompanying them is their drug dealer.
The show captures the life of these unmotivated college graduates as they venture into the real world is all about. From now on they will be forced to follow dress codes, make deadlines and above all wake up before noon. After realising they are no longer responsible for making the grade in school, they will do whatever it takes to avoid work and have a good time.
English Entertainment
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.
