English Entertainment
This June, Comedy Central offers a fresh line-up for its viewers
MUMBAI: As we wait with baited breaths to bid adieu to the summer heat, Comedy Central is all set to recharge your minds with a splash of freshness! Making room for ‘new’, the channel has geared up with its refreshing rib-tickling line-up of new programming and newer seasons of your favorite comedy shows.
Alongside the ongoing favorite F.R.I.E.N.D.S still continuing at 9pm, June will witness exciting season premieres of two new shows – Mom (Season 3) and Community (Season 1 & 2). In addition to the premieres, the channel has interesting programming in store for Dare Day on June 1st as well as Father’s Day on June 19th.
“We have consistently aimed at offering the best of English Entertainment through our refreshed line-up. This month, we are elated to bring to the viewers a fresh bouquet of latest seasons and special programming. With the newest line-up and best of comedy, we are sure to continue as the viewers’ #HappyPlace on television.” – Hashim D’Souza, Programming Head of English Entertainment, Viacom18
This June, stay tuned to Comedy Central – Your #HappyPlace for the best in comedy and non-stop laughter!
Shows to watch out for:
Mom (Season 3)
Date: Wednesday 1st June 2016 | Time: 10.00pm
Mom revolves around Christy as she battles with alcoholism and drug addiction, living with her mother, Bonny, who is a recovering drug and alcohol addict herself. Christy turned a mother when she was 16. Her daughter Violet too is a teen mother. Awarded the Prism Awards for The Best Comedy Series, the show delves deep into real life issues such as alcoholism, teen pregnancy, cancer, homelessness, addiction and much more.
Catch the gripping yet comic season premiere of Mom on 1st June at 10pm only on Comedy Central –Your #HappyPlace
Community (Season 1 – 5)
Date: Wednesday 1st June 2016 | Time: 10.30pm
Suspended from his job due to forgery, Jeff Winger is forced to enroll at Greendale Community College to earn a legitimate degree. A college full of diverse students with diverse temperaments adds more fun to the plot of Community. With a flamboyant dean, Craig Pelton, and his schemes to make the college seem more reputable, along with antics of their unhinged teacher Ben Chang, and a crush from his class, Britta Perry, lingering nearby with her friends, Jeff ends up learning a lot of the law, and otherwise.
Don’t miss the exuberant season premiere of Community on 1st June at 10:30 PM only on Comedy Central – Your #HappyPlace
Father’s Day Special – The Jim Gaffigan Show, Seed
Date: Sunday 19th June 2016 | Time: 10am onwards
On a day when we celebrate every child’s first hero, Comedy Central nominates two unwitting candidates: a bartending sperm-donor and a stand-up comedian, father of five! Tune in to Comedy Central to watch more of Adam Korson and Jim Giffigan in their struggles of fatherhood that they experience in their own weird ways.
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.
