English Entertainment
Zee Cafe announces three new shows for prime time
MUMBAI: Zee Café will unveil three new shows in June 2006. The shows ER season IX, Bikini Destinations and Full House Season II & IV will be launched this month in the prime time.
ER Season IX – Launches June 15, 2006, Thursdays at 10:00 pm: The most nominated drama series in Emmy history, ER, begins its latest season on Zee Café. Even after a record 104 Emmy nominations, 22 Emmy Awards and two prestigious Peabody Awards, ER continues to thrill and entertain audiences around the world.
Bikini Destinations – launches June 19, 2006 from Monday to Friday at 11:30 pm: Follow top bikini models as they set sail on a array of adventures to the world’s most alluring locations. Every half-hour episode will witness glamorous swimsuit models on calendar photo shoots around the world. From the beautiful white sand beaches of the Bahamas to the exotic islands of Tahiti, Bikini Destinations is an invitation to enchantment, states an official release.
Full House Seasons III & IV – Launches on 20-June from Tuesday to Saturday at 6:30 pm : Zee Café is bringing back the first family in American sitcoms to your telly tubes.
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.
