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Two new shows to raise the laughter level on Comedy Central this month
New Delhi, 3 March: Two new shows are being premiered on Comedy Central this month to compete with the growing GEC space taking in English and Hindi comedy shows.
The new line-up comprises Seed and House of Lies; that will be added to the channel’s continuing line-up of electrifying shows such as Suits, Blunt Talk, Telenovela, Impractical Jokers, and F.R.I.E.N.D.Samong others. In addition, the channel is also preparing for this month’s colourful festive celebrations onHoli and International Day of Happiness.
Seed Season 1 & 2 is the story of Harry Dacosta. As a young man, he was able to fund his nights of partying by donating at a sperm bank while posing as an Ivy League student. Years later, after the sperm bank’s confidential database is compromised, a boy named Billy appears at Harry’s door claiming to be his son. Already blown away at the notion of having one child, Harry also learns he has a teenage daughter, Anastasia. While Billy’s and Anastasia’s parents are reluctant to let Harry into their lives, Harry is eager to enjoy fatherhood – but without the responsibility. The show commenced this week on 2 March at 10pm.
A new season of a popular business comedy House of Lies Season 4 is a show Based on the book ‘House of Lies: How Management Consultants Steal Your Watch and Then Tell You the Time’. The show revolves around Marty, a highly successful management consultant who tries anything and everything possible to provide his clients with relevant information. This will commence later this month on21 March at 10.30pm.
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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.
