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EXCLUSIVE: Middle Eastern outfit S Productions is producing local versions of U.S. hits Why Women Kill, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend and The Affair after striking a format rights deal with licence-holder ViacomCBS Global Distribution Group. Why Women Kill, which was created by Marc Cherry in the U.S., stars Lucy Liu and Jack…

Yahoo Friday named Jim Lanzone, a veteran tech and media executive, CEO of Tinder and former head of CBS Interactive, as its new chief executive effective September 27. He succeeds Guru Gowrappan, who becomes senior advisor to the private equity business of Apollo Global Management, which acquired Yahoo and other media…

The WGA West and CBS have reached a $3.4 million settlement of a residuals dispute arising from the reuse of 62 of the network's shows on its now-rebranded CBS All Access subscription streaming service. "When CBS launched CBS All Access, the company used much of its own television programming to establish and grow the…

UPDATE 2/25: Jordan Peele’s Monkeypaw and Simon Kinberg’s Genre Films have issued a statement about the end of The Twilight Zone series. We greatly enjoyed our time working on The Twilight Zone — particularly when the real world around us often felt more and more like another dimension. We cherished the opportunity to…

Super Bowl LV pitting the defending champion Kansas City Chiefs and Tampa Bay Buccaneers is Sunday, with the kickoff set for 6:30 p.m. ET/3:30 p.m. PT on CBS. CBS Sports, broadcasting its 21st Super Bowl, will have Jim Nantz and Tony Romo calling the game from Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, FL, along with sideline…

"Honor is something I think about a lot," says Star Trek Discovery's Sonequa Martin-Green of the recently conclude third season of the CBS All Access. "Honor. Truth. Hope. Love." "I'll just speak for myself, it's something I definitely think a lot about, especially blessed to tell the story right now, while things are…

"It's my favorite episode in the 11 years that I have been playing this character," says The Good Fight's Christine Baranski of the Season 4 opener "The Gang Deals with Alternate Reality" and its Hillary Clinton Presidency. "It's audacious, it's funny, it's deeply thoughtful, its provoking," the Emmy and Tony Award…

The launch of rebranded streaming service Paramount+ has been set by ViacomCBS. It will go live in the U.S. and Latin America on March 4, the Nordics on March 25 and Australia by the middle of the year. In Canada, CBS All Access will be rebranded as Paramount+ on March 4 and then evolve into an expanded offering later…

EXCLUSIVE: When streaming news outlet CBSN hit its goal last year of roughly 1 million streaming starts per day, CBS News Digital EVP and GM Christy Tanner ordered celebratory cupcakes for the newsroom, decorated with “1M” in frosting. In 2020, a year marked by Covid-19, a tumultuous election and weeks of uprisings…

CBS All Access today announced new product features aimed at families and has added more programming from ViacomCBS sister nets Nickelodeon and Nick Jr. The streaming service, which will be rebranded as Paramount+ early next year, has added features including the ability to create as many as six profiles per account…

CBS All Access has been integrated into Comcast’s Xfinity X1 pay-TV offering in a first for the five-year-old ViacomCBS streaming service. Xfinity had added the subscription outlet to its Flex broadband video bundle earlier this year. It is the first pay-TV operator to carry the streaming service, a noteworthy moment…

CBS All Access has called a new play for the football-themed docuseries Texas 6. The streamer said this morning that the unscripted show earned a Season 2 renewal less than a week after its premiere. Created by Jared Christopher (Titletown, TX), follows the Greyhounds, a high school 6-man football team under the…