Bob Bakish Wants to Sell You a Show: Paramount Global Chief Talks Power of ‘New Age’ Content Licensing Deals

Madonna‘s stage designer has said that she wanted “feel more connected” to the audience on her current ‘Celebration Tour’.The Queen of Pop recently kicked off her greatest hits tour at The O2 in London last month which saw her perform over 40 songs from her back catalogue including her most famous hits and a number of deep cuts.Speaking about the tour, Ric Lipson of architecture firm Stufish told Rolling Stone UK: “She knew that she wanted to base the show through the eyes of her being spiritually born in New York City. From the early days of landing in Times Square and going down to the Lower East Side, CBGBs and the clubs, the places she hung out when she was young.

A café owner who starred in a Gordon Ramsay TV show has called Thyme on her business as she launches an exciting new venture.

In his 27th installment of Deadline Strike Talk, Billy Ray leans into the need for labor and studios to realize they must be partners willing to compromise, for this business to get past the strikes and rebound in the coming years. To illustrate the need to be changeable, Ray harkens back to his own 2003 directorial debut, Shattered Glass. He catches up with three vital collaborators who made invaluable contributions to the celebrated film — Mandy Walker, Jeff Ford, and Adam Merims — to discuss what has happened to our business since.

Paramount CEO Bob Bakish has long touted “hard bundles,” the hybrid carriage agreements found in Europe and other international markets that weave streaming into conventional pay-TV packages.

The actors are still on strike and it’s still costing Paramount Global.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV Editor Paramount Global saw a third-quarter profit hike thanks to new revenue from its streaming and film operations even as its largest business, linear TV, grappled with flat distribution revenue and a downturn in advertising dollars. The New York owner of CBS, the Paramount movie studio and the Nickelodeon cable network said revenue rose 3% during the period, largely due to a 38% increase in its streaming business and a 14% hike from its film division, which benefitted from the latest releases in the “Mission Impossible” and “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” franchises.

EXCLUSIVE: Longtime entertainment executives Tom Ascheim and Tricia Melton, who worked together at Warner Bros. Discovery and Freeform, have launched Pith and Pixie Dust, a consulting firm. With the new venture, Ascheim, former President Of Warner Bros. Global Kids, Young Adults and Classic, and Melton, former CMO of WBD Global Kids, Young Adults and Classics, plan to assist companies with integrating storytelling into their brand strategy and creating content as well as use their expertise in kids, family and YA to work with brands that want to reach and engage with those audiences.

Michaela Zee “Saturday Night Live” alum Melanie Hutsell has expressed remorse over wearing a prosthetic nose for a 1994 sketch about the hit sitcom “Blossom,” starring Mayim Bialik in the title role. “When we were preparing to do that sketch all those years ago, I was absolutely horrified that they wanted me to wear a prosthetic nose to play Mayim Bialik’s character, Blossom,” Hutsell said in a statement provided to Entertainment Weekly. “I knew it was wrong.” The comedian then revealed her possible firing from the late-night television series if she didn’t wear the prosthetic nose for the sketch.

Burt Young has sadly passed away.

“The notion that the strikes saved the company is wildly overstated,” Bob Bakish said of Paramount today.

The youth who imported the knife used to kill Yousef Makki deleted 47 items from his own iPhone after the fatal stabbing, a new inquest into the death was told.

Will Smith has returned to Instagram amid all of Jada Pinkett Smith’s revelations about their relationship.

By Photography by Today, Glamour unveils our two global Women of the Year—Millie Bobbie Brown and —who are being honored by Glamour in the US, as well as Germany, Mexico and Latin America, Spain, and the UK. The rest of our incredible class of 2023 will be announced on November 1, 2023.It’s June, and Millie Bobby Brown is pushing a baby carriage through the lobby of a Manhattan hotel. The 19-year-old is accompanied by her fiancé, Jake Bongiovi, and a burly but kind security guard.

EXCLUSIVE: Ahead of its world premiere tonight, the Zorro TV series adaptation has landed a trio of European deals, as Mediawan Rights leans further into big-ticket IP.

Todd Gilchrist editor It’s been a long, hard road to Offset’s third solo album. Originally scheduled for release in November 2022 before the shooting death of fellow Migos member Takeoff, “Set It Off” shows major artistic growth for the Atlanta rapper and sets a new course for him as a solo artist — and features top-level collaborations from Travis Scott, Future, Don Tolliver, Latto, his wife Cardi B and more, and production from hitmakers like Metro Boomin, Boi-1da and Vinylz.

William Earl Paramount Global is the first major Hollywood studio to release a statement regarding the Israel-Hamas War, as the company posted to Instagram Thursday: “Paramount Global condemns the terrorist attacks by Hamas. We stand with the people of Israel and the global Jewish community.” Paramount’s statement continues, “We stand with all the innocent lives impacted. We stand with the children who deserve to be children.

Cynthia Littleton Business Editor NBCUniversal content chief Donna Langley has vowed that the top executives involved in contract negotiations with SAG-AFTRA will devote the time it takes to reach a new deal. Langley, who is chairman of NBCUniversal Studio Group and chief content officer of NBCUniversal, declined to say much about the state of talks with the performers union during her address Wednesday evening at Bloomberg Media’s Screentime conference in Hollywood. But she did express that her executive counterparts in the negotiating room — Disney’s Bob Iger, Netflix’s Ted Sarandos and Warner Bros.

A former 60 Minutes producer claims she was falsely fired from the long running newsmagazine show last year, and now she’s suing CBS, CBS News and parent company Paramount Global for discrimination – and naming a lot of names.

Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent Raffaele Annecchino, the former president of Paramount Global who left the company last year, is launching a consultancy firm called Blue Ocean Media Partners. In its first deal, he has forged a partnership with Spain’s Mediapro Group, which is looking to expand its footprint in the Middle East.

Ellise Shafer David Smyth has been named the executive vice president of content sales at Fox Entertainment Global. He will begin his new role in January and report to Tony Vassiliadis, FEG’s chief operating officer.