ViacomCBS CEO Bob Bakish Says "COVID Has Been a Tailwind for Streaming"

Rebel Wilson‘s boyfriend, Jacob Busch, posted a loving comment on a photo of the Pitch Perfect actress on Friday, October 2.Wilson, 40, shared a mirror selfie on Instagram on Friday showing off her slimmer figure in a fitted black, scoop-neck top. “Great to be back home and back to work,” she captioned the photo taken in her bathroom.“Beautiful,” the businessman commented on the pic.“I love you two together,” another follower wrote under Busch’s comment.

The Walking Dead: World Beyond premieres Oct. 4, it will be debuting just a few weeks shy of The Walking Dead's 10th anniversary.

"I don't want to overstate this, but he is assassinating the presidency." –@realBobWoodward pic.twitter.com/ZKGTUsjvn3— Morning Joe (@Morning_Joe) September 30, 2020(Tap photo and swipe to view gallery)

Justin Timberlake is a dad of two! The confirmation came from none other than his former fellow *NSYNC band mate Lance Bass. "We have talked several times and we knew before anyone else did," Bass revealed about the new baby's arrival after Entertainment Tonight's Katie Krause asked him on Friday about reports that the singer-actor and wife Jessica Biel are now a family of four.

. “Justin would kill me.” He added, "The baby is cute of course, it's Justin and Jessica!"Sadly, he didn't go into and more details, but he did say that the *NSYNC members got the news first from their group chat and now they only talk about babies.

Lance Bass now has a better understanding of what Britney Spears is going through. Last month, the 41-year-old singer received backlash for comments he made about the pop star and her current conservatorship.But after talking with Britney's sister, Jamie Lynn Spears, he is more aware of the singer's situation.«I have talked to Jamie Lynn recently, which is why I feel so much better about this situation.

Alexandra Del Rosario Associate Editor/Nights & WeekendsComedy lovers can laugh for a good cause as Bring Back Laughs sets the lineup for its COVID-19 event on October 1 and 2.

was first reported by The Information. Bloomberg added that Bakish was accused of inappropriate touching by an employee.Also Read: Bob Bakish Explains Why ViacomCBS Chose Paramount+ Name for Rebranded Streaming ServiceIn 2016, Bakish was acting CEO of Viacom, three years before it would re-merge with CBS.

Gene Maddaus Senior Media WriterViacomCBS investigated an allegation that CEO Bob Bakish touched a woman inappropriately at a holiday party in 2016, Variety has confirmed.The probe, which has been concluded, was first reported by the Information. The employee is no longer with the company but raised the complaint earlier this year.“The Board takes any allegation of this type seriously,” a ViacomCBS spokesperson said in a statement.

Jill Goldsmith Co-Business EditorViacomCBS Thursday acknowledged that the company had conducted a review of a complaint by a former employee against CEO Bob Bakish but found no ground to support it.“The Board takes any allegation of this type seriously.

Trafford’s public health chief says ‘we’re not in the situation we want to be in, at all’ over coronavirus.The borough’s current infection rate stands at 55.6 per 100,000 people and rising, director of public health Eleanor Roaf told Trafford council’s public engagement board.She added that issues with testing had been ‘affecting us quite badly in Trafford, as with everyone else’.Ms Roaf said: “We’re not in the situation we want to be in at all.

Jill Goldsmith Co-Business EditorCinemark CEO Mark Zoradi said getting theaters open in California and New York is crucial to the health of exhibition as the second largest U.S. chain has 70% of cinemas open but lacks these key markets — keeping it “behind the eight ball.”Some California counties are open or opening but not yet San Francisco or Los Angeles.

Also Read: How ViacomCBS Plans to Reinvent CBS All Access for the Streaming EraOn Tuesday morning, ViacomCBS revealed that CBS All Access will be called Paramount+ beginning early next year.The rebranding is the second, and much bigger, phase of the two-phase expansion of CBS All Access, which first launched in 2014 and was among the earliest entrants in the streaming space.

Jill Goldsmith Co-Business EditorViacomCBS CEO Bob Bakish Tuesday called Paramount, “one of the most storied brands in Hollywood” and a “natural choice” of name and content machine for its fast-growing OTT service in a rebrand announced this morning.Previous Viacom CEO Philippe Dauman wanted to unload the studio, or a big chunk of it. But Bakish is making it the beating heat of the company.

When will it end?!

[Warning: This post contains spoilers for The 100 Season 7 Episode 13!Read at your own risk.]If you're like us, you're still not over — and may never be — Bellamy Blake's (Bob Morley) death in the final season of The 100.

Jill Goldsmith Co-Business EditorImax CEO Rich Gelfond anticipates streamers will become more active in exhibition as the post-COVID business shakes out and said his team is turning gray at the stress of constantly shifting release schedules — even as Deadline reports that Warner Bros.

Jill Goldsmith Co-Business EditorViacomCBS CEO Bob Bakish said Wednesday of the upfront that “things are very, very far along” in the tortured process long overdue and distorted by the coronavirus.“We are feeling good about how it is shaping up,” he told a BofA virtual media conference Wednesday.If all goes well, he expects a full slate of primetime network shows by November, he said — noting that eleven are cleared to start production, with most resuming at the end of the month.

Get the stories that interest you straight to your inbox every day with our personalised newsletterBUF boss Kevin Finnie tonight insisted his company was doing the "right thing" by shutting both of its bustling Ayrshire premises following a staff member testing positive for coronavirus.The busy bars in Ayr and Prestwick have been closed voluntarily in light of the test result.Mr Finnie updated customers of the popular venues via a video on social media tonight, confirming they had taken the