Caroline Brew editor John Cena is bringing his first talk series to Roku Originals. Hosted and produced by Cena, “What Drives You” will follow Cena and his celebrity friends as they hit the road in the guests’ favorite vehicles.
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Former ESPN President John Skipper, who led the effort to secure the current NBA rights deal, says incumbents Disney and Warner Bros. Discovery have no choice but to re-up with the league.
“These are existential rights for ESPN,” he said during an episode of Pablo Torre Finds Out, a podcast produced by Meadowlark Media, which Skipper co-founded in 2021. “They have to have the NBA. And it’s pretty close to existential with TNT. I don’t know if they have to have the NBA, but I think they do.”
The companies’ 9-year pacts with Turner and ESPN, which average a total of $2.6 billion a year, are due to expire at the end of the 2024-25 season. As has happened in the NFL and other sports, large tech firms like Amazon and Apple are taking a close look at the rights given the overall shift toward streaming. NBCUniversal, whose Peacock streaming service carries a significant amount of live sports, has reportedly also expressed interest. A digital component could inject newfound billions into NBA coffers, at a moment when traditional media players are confronting financial challenges across their operations in an era of rampant cord-cutting.
Live sports viewership is the main thing keeping the traditional pay-TV bundle from completely unraveling. Already, several million customers are cutting the cord each year, depriving media companies of a large chunk of distribution revenue. ESPN, for example, has lost more than one-quarter of its household penetration over the past decade. While NBA games are a distant second to the NFL in terms of ratings, they do deliver cachet in other ways, with rights deals encompassing video clips that circulate on social media.
By the traditional Nielsen yardstick, however, viewership thus far in this
Caroline Brew editor John Cena is bringing his first talk series to Roku Originals. Hosted and produced by Cena, “What Drives You” will follow Cena and his celebrity friends as they hit the road in the guests’ favorite vehicles.
“Please Don’t Destroy: The Treasure Of Foggy Mountain” premieres on Peacock, November 17 this weekend. It is the feature-length debut of the titular comedy team Please Don’t Destroy (Ben Marshall, John Higgins, and Martin Herlihy), the trio currently the “Saturday Night Live” Digital Shorts creators.
A thick fog hung over Torun, Poland, this evening as the 31st edition of the city’s EnergaCamerimage Film Festival cruised into gear with a lengthy opening ceremony at the stylish Jordanki Culture Centre.
Remember the bright shining light that was Captain Marvel when she showed up to shepherd Tony Stark to safety in the first few minutes of 2019’s Avengers: Endgame? Well, judging by this weekend’s projections for Carol Danvers’ latest outing, that light has dimmed. Disney/Marvel’s The Marvels is headed for an estimated global opening through Sunday of $110M-$115M, which would rep the lowest start ever for a Disney MCU title worldwide.
Dwayne Johnson has revealed that he has been approached several times to run for US president.The Black Adam actor revealed on Trevor Noah’s new podcast, Why Now?, that a 2021 poll of 30,000 American adults led to him being contacted about his interest in running for presidency at the end of 2022.“I was really moved by that,” Johnson said. “I was really blown away and I was really honoured.”The former WWE wrestler added, “I’ll share this little bit with you: at the end of the year in 2022, I got a visit from the parties asking me if I was going to run, and if I could run.”“It was a big deal, and it came out of the blue,” he continued.
“What Now?” podcast, the pair discussed a 2021 political poll that saw 46% of adults saying they’d back the 51-year-old’s campaign, should he launch one.“That was an interesting poll that happened and I was really moved by that,” the “Black Adam” actor said.“I was really blown away and I was really honored. I’ll share this little bit with you: at the end of the year in 2022, I got a visit from the parties asking me if I was going to run, and if I could run.”Admitting that their faith in him was “a big deal” and “came out of the blue.”“It was one after the other, and they brought up that poll, and they also brought up their own deep-dive research that would prove that should I ever go down that road [I’d be a real contender],” Johnson told Noah.“It was all very surreal because that’s never been my goal.
Sharon Stone has revealed that a former boss of Sony once sexually harassed her before she became a major film star.The actor alleges that during a meeting in the 1980s, the executive, whom she does not name, exposed himself to her.Speaking on Kelly Ripa’s Let’s Talk Off Camera podcast, the Basic Instinct actor said: “I went to his office and it was, you know, back in the ‘80s, so the couch was basically on the floor, you know? It was those very low giant couches and my knees were around my neck and of course, I’m so tall anyway, so I look like all legs sitting there akimbo on the couch. And he is pacing around the office and he’s doing the exact same thing.”Stone said the executive told her, “Oh, it’s true what they say about you and you’re the most gorgeous.
This year, John Lewis' Christmas advert centres around a young boy who wants to grow his own Christmas tree - but not everything is as it seems. The tree turns out to be a mischievous Venus flytrap which causes chaos for the family.
Zack Sharf Digital News Director Sharon Stone famously laughed during a 2018 “CBS Sunday Morning” interview when asked if she ever faced sexual harassment or assault in Hollywood. “I been in this business for 40 years,” the Oscar nominee told the reporter at the time. “Can you imagine the business I stepped into 40 years ago, looking like I look? I’ve seen it all.” In a new appearance on Kelly Ripa’s “Let’s Talk Off Camera” podcast, Stone disclosed for the first time one of her experiences combating sexual harassment in the industry.
Strictly Come Dancing fans were left blown away just minutes into the latest results show as a former professional dancer 'returned'. The BBC One dance contest returned to screens on Saturday night (November 4) as the nine remaining couples danced again for their place in the competition.
Queen of the South need to be wearing their shooting boots against table-toppers Falkirk at Palmerston on Saturday.
Warren Littlefield Matthew Perry will most often be remembered for his wit and charm, but there was so much more to him. The pilot script of “Friends” had a lot of heat at the agencies and young actors both familiar and fresh were vying for the roles. There was interest and momentum for Craig Bierko to play the role of Chandler Bing, and until Craig said he wasn’t interested, Matthew stayed in the background because he didn’t want to compete with his friend.
Naman Ramachandran John Cleese, founder member of seminal British comedy group Monty Python, has said that they were “early targets” of cancel culture. Cleese was speaking with The Sunday Times about his new GB News chat show “The Dinosaur Hour,” which has an episode on cancel culture. Monty Python’s 1979 film “Life of Brian” caused a furore when it released among some members of the Christian community.
Sex, Lies, and Spray Tans” podcast. “‘Don’t go there. This is, you know, not the right time, play to our strengths, be the show that gives people a break from all this bulls–t.'”The Post has reached out to Bergeron and Spicer for comment.According to Bergeron, both the showrunners and producers were determined to bring Spicer, 52, on the show.
Naman Ramachandran Jon Hamm, Ryan Coogler and Molly Shannon are among the luminaries headlining a new podcast that reunites former Sundance Film Festival directors John Cooper and Tabitha Jackson. Titled “The Film That Blew My Mind,” the first season of the podcast will have 20 episodes and will be co-hosted by Cooper and Jackson.
Steven Gerrard was used to no and low crowds during Covid as Rangers boss and the empty stands are becoming a familiar feel during his Saudi adventure as his Al-Ettifaq side suffered their second successive defeat.
Johnny Marr has said in a new interview that The Smiths‘ break-up was “mostly a personal thing”.Speaking to MusicRadar, the musician reflected on how the Morrissey-fronted band parted ways back in 1987 following the release of their fourth and final studio album, ‘Strangeways, Here We Come’.“It was mostly a personal thing,” Marr told the outlet. “We were working at such a breakneck pace – 50-odd tracks in four years – that I thought I was going to end up repeating myself.”He continued: “Also, I was frustrated with what people expected me to come up with.
John Stamos is looking back at his divorce from Rebecca Romijn.
Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent Unveiling a raft of international shows at Mipcom, Newen Connect‘s managing director Rodolphe Buet said the distribution arm of the TF1-owned company is seeing its business model go through “drastic changes” as it now plays a more central role in financing content. In the next two years, Buet said roughly 70% of Newen Connect’s revenues will stem from content it pre-finances and/or co-produces, rather than licensing deals.
Johnny Marr has said that gifting Noel Gallagher with an expensive guitar – after he smashed the previous one – is partly what motivated him to stop drinking.Marr previously recalled the time he gave a young, “skint” Gallagher his guitars before the pre-Oasis guitarist could afford his own.“He was just this guy who I recognised was intense and really serious about what he was doing, and he was skint and I had a load of guitars and I thought, ‘right OK well I’ll give him this guitar’,” he told Radio X.The Smiths guitarist gave Gallagher a 1960 Gibson Les Paul – which can be heard on The Smiths’ 1986 album ‘The Queen Is Dead’, and was formerly owned by The Who‘s Pete Townshend – only for him to smash it while dealing with a stage invader during a gig in Newcastle.Gallagher called Marr to ask for a replacement, after which the guitarist gifted his black 1978 Gibson Les Paul Custom.Marr also gave his 12-string sunburst Gibson 335, which features in the video for ‘Sheila Take a Bow’, to former Suede guitarist and producer Bernard Butler.“It’s just to be nice,” Marr told The Guardian. “As simple as that.