CNN+ Readies For Debut: Is It The Next News Innovation Or Too Late To The Streaming Wars?

Deadline has launched the streaming site for its Contenders Television, which launched the TV awards season this weekend with 48 series and almost 150 panelists converging at the Paramount Theatre in Los Angeles to discuss their buzzworthy shows in front of a full house of industry voters.

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With the high-profile, starry revival of his American Buffalo opening Thursday on Broadway, playwright David Mamet seems to be doing his best – or worst – to make headlines. The latest: The conservative Mamet told Fox News’ Mark Levin last night that “teachers are inclined, particularly men because men are predators, to pedophilia.”

Kate Winslet will star in the first feature-length episode of I Am, Channel 4’s award-winning female-led drama anthology series.

ABC has set Sunday, April 24 for part one of a two-part event that will serve as a backdoor pilot for a potential spinoff of The Rookie. Part two will follow on May 1. You can watch a trailer above.

Chris Willman Music WriterPink Floyd has announced that a newly recorded single under the band banner, “Hey Hey Rise Up,” will come out Friday, with lead vocals not by David Gilmour but rather a Ukrainian singer, whose a cappella vocals from an Instagram post shot in Kyiv’s Sofiyskaya Square have been set to music by the veteran band.The music for the new song was recorded March 30 by longtime members Gilmour and Nick Mason, along with longtime bass player Guy Pratt and keyboardist Nitin Sawhney. (Roger Waters, who split from the group in the mid-1980s, did not participate.)The vocalist grafted into the new Pink Floyd track is Andriy Khlyvnyuk of the Ukrainian band Boombox.

Nicki Minaj joined James Corden for the first «Carpool Karaoke» segment in two years, and the celebrated rapper proved to be one of the funniest, most exciting guests to date.The lengthy segment saw the duo belt out some of Minaj's biggest hits, while also getting personal and deep along the way.In one particularly candid moment, the 39-year-old «Anaconda» artist reflected on her own struggles with anxiety, and putting up a wall of confidence while in the center of the media spotlight.«I think when I was younger, my more natural state was to be more confident. But I think when you're a woman and you're in the public eye all the time, if you're not careful you can become less confident because you're being constantly scrutinized,» Minaj shared.

Nicki Minaj joined James Corden for the first «Carpool Karaoke» segment in two years, and the celebrated rapper proved to be one of the funniest, most exciting guests to date.The lengthy segment saw the duo belt out some of Minaj's biggest hits, while also getting personal and deep along the way.In one particularly candid moment, the 39-year-old «Anaconda» artist reflected on her own struggles with anxiety, and putting up a wall of confidence while in the center of the media spotlight.«I think when I was younger, my more natural state was to be more confident. But I think when you're a woman and you're in the public eye all the time, if you're not careful you can become less confident because you're being constantly scrutinized,» Minaj shared.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorTori Spelling’s next TV series will take her from the luxurious streets of Beverly Hills to the digital pathways forged by smart televisions.Best known for her stints on various editions of “Beverly Hills 90210,” Spelling will lead a new streaming series that features her showing off tips for cooking and entertaining. “@Home with Tori” features Spelling offering tips and tricks for cooking, baking, and entertaining as she prepares dishes from locally sourced foods.

EXCLUSIVE: DeMane Davis, who has directed episodes of Queen Sugar and Netflix’s Self Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam CJ Walker, has been tapped to helm NBC pilot Found.

“Morbius” is no different, as the film sees Leto portray the Marvel comic character Dr. Michael Morbius, who is born with a rare blood disorder and seeks to cure it through the bite of a vampire bat.Originally slated to come out in January of 2022, “Morbius” was pushed back to its holding release date of April 1 due to the onset of the omicron variant of the coronavirus after the 2021 holidays. “Morbius” will take place in the same Sony universe of Marvel movies as “Venom” and “Venom: Let There Be Carnage.” But fans may be wondering how to watch “Morbius” — is the film streaming or only in theaters? All your answers below.“Morbius” opens in theaters April 1.No, “Morbius” is opening exclusively in theaters.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorAfter more than eight years, the weekday and weekend editions of PBS’ signature evening newscast are finally getting together.Washington’s WETA has long produced the venerable “PBS NewsHour,” the show once known as the “McNeil-Lehrer Report” and now anchored by Judy Woodruff, while New York’s WNET has since 2013 produced the Saturday and Sunday editions of the program. Starting April 2, all seven days will be under the auspices of WETA, with Geoff Bennett, a former NBC News and MSNBC correspondent and anchor who was named the program’s chief Washington correspondent in November, taking the reins of a re-titled half-hour “PBS News Weekend.”“I think we are going to build on ‘NewsHour’s’ traditional mix of news and interviews and in-depth features,” says Bennett, in an interview.

After being exclusively virtual the past couple of years we are happy to announce we are back in front of a live audience again.

EXCLUSIVE: Gravitas Ventures has acquired U.S. rights to the musical crime drama The Score, starring Will Poulter (Dopesick), Johnny Flynn (The Outfit), Naomi Ackie (Master of None) and Lydia Wilson (Flack). The Anthem Sports & Entertainment Company plans to release the feature directorial debut of writer-director Malachi Smyth exclusively in theaters on June 3rd, with a release on VOD to follow on June 10th.

Clayton Davis The Oscars best picture win was a March Madness upset of streaming proportions — though the slap heard round the world threatened to overshadow the achievements of “CODA” and other winners.What started out as a great improvement in the presentation was diminished by Will Smith charging the stage and smacking comedian Chris Rock after he cracked a joke about his wife Jada Pinkett Smith in the last hour, just moments before the In Memoriam segment and prior to him becoming the fifth Black man to win best actor.It might go down as one of the craziest moments in 94 years of Oscars history.But back to the night’s biggest winner: streaming. Apple, under its film distribution banner Apple Original Films, became the first streamer to win the Oscar for best picture with Siân Heder’s family drama “CODA.” It’s been no secret that Netflix has long harbored ambitions to be the first digital video player to take home the Academy Awards’ most prestigious honor, spending lavishly to promote the likes of Alfonso Cuarón’s “Roma” (2018), Martin Scorsese’s “The Irishman” (2019) and David Fincher’s “Mank” (2020).

Niecy Nash and Jessica Betts at the 2022 Oscars, this might be why. Dressed to the nines in a vibrant pink gown, the  star joked to ET's Kevin Frazier and Nischelle Turner that she and Betts might 'dip out somewhere' during their glamorous night out at the Academy Awards. «It's date night,» Nash -- who was toting a «Wifey for Lifey» clutch gifted to her by Betts -- said. «That’s why I got this high slit because you never know...Look at all these curtains and stuff.»She and Betts, who tied the knot in August 2020, recently turned up the heat when they posed topless together as 's first-ever same-sex cover star couple.

After a judge decided to end the conservatorship that dominated Amanda Bynes‘ life for nine years, the actress shared a statement with PEOPLE magazine on the matter. “Following today’s decision by the judge to terminate my conservatorship, I would like to thank my fans for their love and well wishes during this time. I would also like to thank my lawyer and my parents for their support over the last nine years,” the 35-year-old said, via her layer David A. Esquibias.