Miley Cyrus reveals that Dolly Parton’s appearance in a T-Mobile commercial is purely a work of fiction.
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Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorComcast said first-quarter profit rose due to NBCUniversal’s telecasts of both Super Bowl LVI and the Winter Olympics, as well as a surge in broadband customers at its cable operations.The Philadelphia cable and media giant saw overall revenue increase 14% to slightly more than $31 billion, compared with $27.2 billion in the year-earlier period, with a whopping 46.6% increase in revenue at its NBCU operations due in part to $1.5 billion in cash generated by the two big sports events. But even without those two landmark broadcasts, Comcast said, NBCU revenue would have increased.Overall, Comcast reported net income of $3.55 billion in the first quarter, or 78 cents a share, compared with $3.32 billion, or 71 cents a share, in the year-earlier period.
Adjusted for one-time items, earnings came to 86 cents per share. “These events were viewed by more than 200 million people in the U.S.
across NBCUniversal’s platforms, including Peacock, which had an exceptional quarter,” said Comcast CEO Brian Roberts, in a prepared statement, referring to the sports broadcasts. The company did not make any initial disclosure in its announcement about subscribers to Peacock, its streaming service.
The metric has been closely watched by Wall Street in recent quarters.Comcast said revenue from its cable operations rose 4.7% to $16.5 billion, compared with $15.8 billion in the year-earlier period, citing increases in customers using broadband, business services, and wireless. Broadband revenue increased 8.0% due to both a rise in the number of residential customers using the technology and hike in average rates being charged for the service. But usage of the company’s traditional video services fell, with a
.Miley Cyrus reveals that Dolly Parton’s appearance in a T-Mobile commercial is purely a work of fiction.
Instagram post, where he explained that keeping Finney’s casting a secret would not be possible due to outdoor filming. “If anyone would have told 8-year-old Yasmin that one day she’d be part of this iconic show, I would have never in a million years believed them,” Finney said in a statement.
Fox has rolled out its 2022-2023 programming slate, giving its post- Super Bowl LVII slot to Gordon Ramsay’s “Next Level Chef,” and announcing several news shows for the broadcast network and Tubi. The network doesn’t yet have “9-1-1” and “The Resident” lined up, however, with renewal negotiations still in progress Monday.“We’re in good faith negotiations with 20th [Century Television] and based on our long history with that company we think we’re in pretty good shape,” Charlie Collier, CEO, Fox Entertainment, said on a conference call with reporters Monday.New shows coming to the network are the country music drama “Monarch,” starring Susan Sarandon, Trace Adkins and Anna Friel; crime anthology series “Accused,” from the producers of “Homeland and “House,” and “Alert,” a missing persons drama from Jamie Foxx and John Eisendrath.
Good news for Gordon Ramsay; Fox has not only ordered his latest competition show but will give his hit series Next Level Chef the post-Super Bowl slot on Feb. 12.
Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeFox is bringing back the post-Super Bowl series lead-out, and turning to chef Gordon Ramsay to help do it. The network plans to premiere the second season of Ramsay’s “Next Level Chef” right after Super Bowl LVII on Sunday, Feb.
Jessie Buckley and Bernard Butler have today (May 13) shared the third single from their upcoming new album – listen to it below.The track, called ‘Seven Red Rose Tattoos’, follows on from previous releases, ‘The Eagle And The Dove’ and ‘For All The Days That Tear The Heart’.The singles are taken from the pair’s upcoming new album, ‘For All Our Days That Tear The Heart’, which will arrive on June 10.Speaking about the new track, Buckley said: “We give people roses to signify love, but etched into flesh, they represent something different.”You can listen to the track here:‘For All Our Days That Tear The Heart’ Tracklisting: 1. ‘The Eagle & The Dove’2. ‘For All Our Days That Tear The Heart’3. ’20 Years A-Growing’4. ‘Babylon Days’5. ‘Seven Red Rose Tattoos’6. ‘Footnotes On The Map’7. ‘We’ve Run The Distance’8. ‘We Haven’t Spoke About The Weather’9. ‘Beautiful Regret’10. ‘I Cried Your Tears’11. ‘Shallow The Water’12. ‘Catch The Dust’Speaking about their new album project recently, Buckley and Butler said in a joint statement: “The album should be discovered by the world as if they have tripped across a box of photographs in the back of their closet they didn’t know was there.”A statement about the collaboration added: “It all started with a FaceTime call from Butler’s North London kitchen to Buckley’s mountaintop residence in County Kerry, with their friendship growing from an unlikely shared love of Killarney and the small island of Valentia where Butler would go on holiday as a boy.
Alina Fazleeva won’t be taking a vacation to Bali anytime soon.The Russian influencer and her husband, Andrey Fazleev, have been banned from Bali after she posted a photo of herself posing naked under a very old, sacred tree.Fazleeva was barred from the Indonesian country after finding out that her photoshoot was taken underneath a 700-year-old banyan tree at a temple compound.The now-deleted snapshot was posted on May 1 and the pair were deported on Friday.The couple cannot enter the island for at least six months, according to the AFP.“They have carried out activities that endangered public order and were disrespectful to the local norms, so they are sanctioned with deportation. Their names will be included in an entry ban list,” Bali’s immigration chief officer Jamaruli Manihuruk said to the press, the outlet reported.AFP also noted that Bali deported almost 200 people last year for several reasons, including violating COVID-19 restrictions and disrespecting the country’s traditions and customs.Fazleeva and her husband performed a ritual at the tree’s site before leaving to seek forgiveness.
tackled during by a knife wielding assailant during a set at the Hollywood Bowl on Tuesday — and Rock, who made headlines for being face slapped by WIll Smith at this year’s Oscars,’ both performed a “secret” comedy show Thursday night in Los Angeles, according to The Hollywood Reporter.The tight-lipped, star-studded show that took place inside a small venue inside the Comedy Store club featured a star studded audience consisting of Kim Kardashian, rappers Sean “Diddy” Combs (50 Cent) and Yasiin Bey (Mos Def), in addition to comedian Jeff Ross.Fans paid $160 to see an American Spirit cigarette smoking Chappelle, who was billed as a last minute, unnamed comedian. After raucous ovation, he was joined onstage by Rock about 10 minutes into his set as the duo made light of their viscous circumstances.
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Elon Musk has an agreement to buy Twitter. But no one can agree on what that means, and Bill Maher’s HBO show Real Time spent a good portion of Friday’s run trying to make sense of it.
our new joint venture with Charter. This partnership demonstrates the benefits of our focus on innovation and enables us to bring entertainment aggregation and streaming products that run off our global technology platform to millions more customers.”NBCUniversal’s revenue in particular went up 46.6% to $10.3 billion quarter over quarter, but even excluding the Super Bowl and Olympics, the media unit still saw a growth of 36.3%, the studios unit went up 15.1%, and theme parks skyrocketed quarter over quarter 151.9% due to the parks operating at a lower capacity due to COVID.
Comcast began 2022 on a strong note, reporting first-quarter results ahead of Wall Street expectations with highlights including ad revenue from Super Bowl LVI and the Beijing Olympics.