From Beatlemania in the 1960s to Taylor Swift’s seemingly permanent residence on today’s Billboard charts, pop culture fandoms can drive real business. Take the cult classic TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. While its final season wrapped more than 20 years ago, Buffy and its spinoff series Angel have made over $120 million for Hulu…
Upon closing of Paramount Global and Skydance Media’s $8 billion merger, Oracle co-founder and chairman Larry Ellison will hold a minority voting interest of approximately 35.5% in the combined company. When Skydance first submitted its broadcast license transfer application to the FCC in September, the initial filing stated that the Skydance investor consortium would hold…
EXCLUSIVE: The White House went on the offensive Thursday morning as an irate Donald Trump fumes over last night’s South Park Season 27 premiere that depicted him as a Satan-canoodling and less than well-endowed pompous bully, to put it mildly. “The President is seething over the childish attack by South Park,” an administration source tells…
Donald Trump celebrated CBS‘s decision to cancel The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, and attacked the two remaining broadcast network late night hosts, Jimmy Kimmel and Jimmy Fallon. Trump posted on Truth Social, “I absolutely love that Colbert’ got fired. His talent was even less than his ratings. I hear Jimmy Kimmel is next. Has…
Paramount Global has agreed to pay President Trump $16 million to end his lawsuit over edits to a “60 Minutes” interview — a legal tussle that roiled CBS News, spurred high-level departures and threatened to derail the company’s hoped-for sale. Under the terms of the deal, the money will be allocated to Trump’s future presidential…