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US women get their first porn network ‘Playgirl’
MUMBAI: This is an initiative that looks to deliver no holds barred erotic experience for women. Trans Digital Media has announced the launch of Playgirl TV in the US.
This is the first network to offer adult television programming produced by and for women. The new channel will seek to leverage on the experience and reputation that Playgirl Magazine has built over the past 30 years.
A company release informs that the content will consist of hot guys, erotic sex and candid sexual advice. There will also be intimate events which in the past had been the sole playground for men.
The channel will be available as magazine formatted productions with segments based on popular features in the magazine, in addition to more innovative concepts. The aim is to bring together a new intimacy, eroticism and visual style to adult programming.
Immediate production plans include the first adult soap opera from a distinctly women’s point-of-view; a 1940’s-style romantic comedy with a sexual twist. Also in the offing are round-table discussions on news worthy women’s topics.
Favourites from the magazine such as Campus Hunks and Man of the Year are also included. The broadcaster will also conduct a search across the US for the most handsome men to star in programmes.
A spokesperson for the broadcaster Kelly Holland added, “Men have a huge selection of sexually oriented programming on television but women have been largely ignored. Playgirl knows women love and desire sex as much as any man and Playgirl TV will deliver them the erotic experience they’ve been demanding.”
Initially the channel will be available only through video-on-Demand and pay-per-view
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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.
