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On Tuesday, NASA released stunning pictures of the DART spacecraft's planned collision with an asteroid.
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Netflix has pulled 'Chappelle's Show' from streaming at Dave Chappelle's request over a dispute with Comedy Central and its parent company, ViacomCBS.
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ViacomCBS said Tuesday it will rebrand its CBS All Access video-streaming service as Paramount+ early next year. Paramount+ will house fresh content from ViacomCBS’s Hollywood studio Paramount Pictures, as well as existing shows from sister networks CBS, BET, Comedy Central and MTV, among others. Armed with a trove of new shows such as “The Offer,” …
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ViacomCBS said it is offloading CNET Media Group for $500 million to digital-marketing company Red Ventures. The Monday deal, which is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2020, also includes foodie site Chowhound, the tech site ZDNet, GameSpot, the Metacritic reviews-aggregation site and TVGuide.com. Red Ventures already owns and operates more than 100 …
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ViacomCBS has opened the door to working again with Nick Cannon, more than a month after the company severed ties with him over anti-Semitic comments the multi-hyphenate made on his podcast. Speaking at a town hall with employees Monday, Chris McCarthy, president of entertainment and youth brands at ViacomCBS, praised work that Cannon claims to …
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Sumner Redstone, the billionaire media magnate whose family company controls CBS and Viacom, and whose career spilled over from boardrooms to gossip sheets, has died. He was 97. Redstone’s health had been declining before his passing Tuesday, according to the Hollywood Reporter. President and CEO of ViacomCBS Bob Bakish hailed the mogul as “a brilliant …
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IAC, the media conglomerate which operates Dotdash and Vimeo, has taken a 12 percent stake in Las Vegas hotel and casino giant, MGM Resorts, worth approximately $1 billion. IAC chairman and senior executive Barry Diller said his company was attracted to MGM, which owns resorts like The Mirage, The Excalibur and Luxor, for its online …
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EXCLUSIVE: Looks like Paramount’s plan to next make the “Star Trek” movie that Noah Hawley wrote and plans to direct has been put on pause for a moment. New film chief Emma Watts, who managed many a franchise at Fox, is in the process of figuring out which way to go. The pause on the …
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ViacomCBS, home of “Survivor” and MTV, saw a 12-percent slump in sales last quarter as the coronavirus pandemic sent ad sales down 27 percent. The declines were offset, however, by growth in the media company’s streaming business, which saw revenues rise 25 percent as more consumers hunkered down at home during the pandemic. Despite the …
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Judge Judy Sheindlin is putting her money where her mouth is, literally. Sheindlin — who makes $47 million a year, and is ending her blockbuster run on “Judge Judy” after 25 seasons this year — has been hit with a lawsuit by Rebel Entertainment Partners alleging that she stiffed the company out of profits when …