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recently, and she almost couldn’t handle it.For a recent Battle Round, performed a duet of and fellow coach 's "." After the talented teenagers earned a standing ovation, coach jokingly turned to Gwen and told her how “” she was now that the No Doubt singer had to pick only one to advance. At first, the difficult decision appeared to be too much for her.

Elaine Low Senior TV WriterViacomCBS is looking ahead to a post-coronavirus world, one in which approximately 70% of its more-than-20,000 employees will work at least partly from home, according to an internal memo from CEO Bob Bakish that Variety has obtained exclusively.The move toward a hybrid work model allows staffers more flexibility, but it also has financial advantages.

Elaine Low Senior TV WriterViacomCBS is shedding another 100 employees this week across the company as the merger between Viacom and CBS — and the resulting streamlining efforts that have followed — continue to ripple through the combined corporation.The layoffs impact a range of departments across ViacomCBS, from sales to shared services such as finance and legal.

Joe Otterson TV Reporter“You” Season 3 at Netflix has added a dozen actors to its cast.Saffron Burrows, Dylan Arnold, and Tati Gabrielle have all been cast in series regular roles. Michaela McManus, Shannon Chan-Kent, Ben Mehl, Christopher O’Shea, Christopher Sean, Bryan Safi, Mackenzie Astin, Ayelet Zurer, and Jack Fisher will all appear as recurring guest stars.

Jill Goldsmith Co-Business EditorViacomCBS has been hit with another round of job cuts as layoffs and restructuring continue across big media and entertainment companies.A person familiar with the situation said some 100 staffers are impacted across the combined company. The move is part of a streamlining and cost cutting push when Viacom and CBS merged last December.

Also Read: ViacomCBS US Subscription Streaming Revenue Soars 78% in Q3According to an amended June 24 filing with the New York Department of Labor, ViacomCBS has cut a total of 672 jobs in the state so far this year. It’s unclear how many jobs the company has shed in California.

Anthony D'Alessandro Editorial Director/Box Office EditorEXCLUSIVE: Regina Hall’s Rh Negative production company has signed a six-picture slate with ViacomCBS.Under the pact, the Girls Trip and The Hate U Give actress will executive produce six movies-of-the-week for the Paramount Network or other ViacomCBS-owned brands. Three of these she will executive produce with Jesse Collins Entertainment.

ViacomCBS' ViacomCBS International Studios (VIS) unit has signed a first-look deal with Marc Anthony’s production company, Magnus Studios.

Denise Petski Senior Managing EditorNetflix is rounding out the cast for the fourth and final season of its critically acclaimed series Ozark. Alfonso Herrera (The Exorcist, El baile de los 41) and Adam Rothenberg (The Serpent, Ripper Street), are set as new series regulars and Felix Solis (Ten Days in the Valley, Charmed) and Damian Young (The Trial of Chicago 7, Homeland) who both recurred in Season 3, have been promoted to series regulars for the new season.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorNearly six months after HBO Max’s launch, Roku still doesn’t have a deal to distribute the WarnerMedia streamer.

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Fifty years of killer hangovers condensed into two hours, Crock of Gold chronicles the dramatic larger-than-life story of Shane MacGowan, the Anglo-Irish singer-songwriter who achieved international fame in the 1980s as self-destructive frontman of Celtic-punk band The Pogues. Co-produced by MacGowan's friend Johnny Depp, who also makes a brief cameo, this boozy cinematic bromance could have been an indulgent love letter from one swashbuckling celebrity pirate to another.

The Battle Rounds begin on Monday’s edition of “The Voice”, and ahead of the air date fans received a special sneak peek at competitors Payge Turner and Lauren Frihauf duetting on “If the World Was Ending”, by JP Saxe and Julia Michaels.

ViacomCBS on Friday boosted its domestic paid streaming subscriber forecast for the year. CEO Bob Bakish on the company's third-quarter earnings conference call touted streaming momentum, before new CFO Naveen Chopra said management now expects to end 2020 with "at least" 19 million U.S.

ViacomCBS on Friday reported mostly better-than-expected third-quarter financials, including a percent a 6 percent drop in advertising revenue, a clear improvement over the 27 percent decline in the second quarter. In the latest three-month period affected by the coronavirus pandemic, the company's film unit profit dropped though compared with the year-ago period as the theatrical business was hit by the coronavirus pandemic.

Elaine Low Senior TV WriterAmid some skepticism from Wall Street, ViacomCBS executives spent most of the company’s third-quarter earnings call hawking its streaming capabilities and selling the investment community on Pluto TV, the rebranded Paramount Plus and its broader direct-to-consumer strategy.The company, which is coming up on its first-year anniversary of the merger between Viacom and CBS, also announced the sunsetting of its smaller streaming services, such as MTV Hits.

Also Read: ViacomCBS Streaming Shakeup: Tom Ryan Takes Over, Marc DeBevoise Steps DownViacomCBS beat analysts predictions Friday, as Wall Street had forecast earnings of 80 cents per share on $5.94 billion in revenue, according to a Yahoo Finance compilation of estimates. ViacomCBS actually reported EPS (earnings per share) of 99 cents on $6.116 billion in revenue.ViacomCBS recently underwent a streaming-business shakeup ahead of CBS All Access rebranding as Paramount+.