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Zee Café lines up two new shows in November
MUMBAI: Zee Café will be launching two new shows this November namely Selfie and Young and Hungry.
Selfie, which will go on air from 8 November at 1.30 pm, is an American sitcom, about Eliza Dooley and Henry. Eliza is a social media-obsessed narcissist, who, on realising that her life is only filled with shallow relationships, enlists the help of Henry to help revamp her image and upgrade her social status. While helping Eliza, Henry soon realises that he himself could learn a thing or two about getting out there, socially.
Young and Hungry will premiere on 29 November and traces the life of Josh, a wealthy young tech entrepreneur looking out for a professional chef, who meets Gabi, a feisty and independent young food blogger, looking to be his personal chef. Gabi is desperate for the job and must prove herself, mostly to Josh’s aide, who prefers a famous chef for the job.
The channel will also air the sixth season of The Good Wife, which will make a comeback on 26 November. The show will be aired from Monday to Thursday at 11 pm. This season, Eli Gold (Alan Cumming) persuades Alicia (Julianna Margulies) to run for State’s Attorney, and while Florrick, Agos & Associates is on the verge of bringing in Diane Lockhart as a partner, Cary must face disturbing allegations.
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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.
