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Today is National Name your Car Day. Like Michael Knight did to KITT. Mr. Feeney was the voice in there. LET'S GET WIRED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I Heard the ghost of Gene Wood say...........
But fans were quick to notice that a beloved star of the show was missing.
Announcer and warm-up talent Rubin Ervin was nowhere to be heard in the latest run of episodes.
On Reddit, one person asked: “Is there no longer an announcer on Family Feud?”
They explained: “I watched yesterday. It was a new episode because it had the 50th anniversary logo.
“There was no announcer saying ‘It’s time to play Family Feud!’.
“The closed captioning announcement was done by Steve Harvey, too. Did they do away with an announcer?”
A Reddit user replied: “Yeah, I’ve watched all 4 episodes of the new season so far (will obviously be watching today’s too) and Ervin was on none of them. I don’t think Feud has an announcer anymore.”
While someone else said: “I noticed no announcer on the credits too. I thought he was the warm up guy. Maybe they did away with that too. I do not like not having an announcer.”
And a third penned: “Well, there goes my hope that they would eventually start announcing the family names again in the intro like they used to.
“Probably more budget cuts. Not a fan.
Willy Wonka has delivered for Netflix.
The streamer has landed a bona fide reality ratings hit with Wonka’s The Golden Ticket after the Charlie and the Chocolate Factory-themed competition series debuted at number two on its English-language TV chart.
The series scored 4.6M views in its opening week, becoming one of Netflix’s biggest unscripted launches in recent years This is in line with the latest season of Love Is Blind – season ten set in Ohio – which also scored 4.6M in its opening week.
The Kinetic Content show is considered one of Netflix’s biggest unscripted hits (its premiere came before Netflix changed the way it calculates viewers).
The numbers bode well for a renewal of the Eureka-produced show. Age of Attraction, Velvet Hammer’s dating reality series that launched earlier this year, premiered with 3.8M viewers in its first week and was handed a quick renewal, although admittedly The Golden Ticket is a more expensive show to produce.
Shot in Australia, the series sees 12 lucky golden ticket winners entering the Chocolate Factory to compete for a sweet prize: a lifetime supply of money. As the winners and their partners step through the factory gates, they face a series of series of challenges. There are games, tests and temptations designed to test the competitors physically, mentally, and morally before one walks away with the prize.
Here...........we go....................again. The Paramount/WBD marriage made in hell. Here's what we know so far.
Paramount chief David Ellison, after a fierce year-long battle, is finally about to get his hands on Warner Bros. Discovery — in the most expensive takeover in Hollywood history.
On Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín, who is overseeing the antitrust case aimed at blocking the Paramount-Warner Bros. deal approved Paramount’s settlement with the 12 Democratic state attorneys general who brought the case to resolve the litigation.
Paramount has tentatively set next Tuesday, Oct. 6, to close the merger, according to regulatory filings. The companies announced later Wednesday that that’s indeed the plan.
The order approving the settlement by Martínez-Olguín was the final remaining barrier to Paramount’s debt-fueled $111 billion merger with Warner Bros. Discovery, after it had been cleared by regulators in 68 jurisdictions worldwide including the Justice Department.
“[T]he Court finds the proposed consent decree represents a reasonable factual and legal resolution of the dispute,” Martínez-Olguín wrote in her order. She determined that the proposed settlement agreement “reflects a procedurally sound resolution.”
“The parties reached their agreement following highly contested, however brief, litigation, and they reached their agreement following what they report to have been several rounds of in-depth negotiations,” the judge wrote.
The merged Paramount-WBD will bring together two of Hollywood’s biggest movie studios; the HBO Max and Paramount+ streaming services; and TV businesses including CBS, CNN, MTV, TBS, Comedy Central, Food Network and more. The new company’s entertainment franchises will span Harry Potter, “Game of Thrones” and other HBO hits, the DC Universe, “Yellowstone,” “Mission: Impossible,” “Top Gun” and the Nickelodeon kids’ empire.
On Wednesday, shortly after the judge OK’d the settlement, Paramount announced that Ellison has recruited Ynon Kreiz, who is stepping down as Mattel’s CEO, to be co-CEO at the combined Paramount-WBD. The merged entity’s businesses will jointly report to Ellison and Kreiz.
In addition to Kreiz’s hiring, some of the top leadership of the soon-to-be-merged company (whose name hasn’t been revealed at this point) is already taking shape. Casey Bloys, head of WBD’s HBO, is poised to assume oversight of the combined Paramount-Warner Bros. streaming business after Cindy Holland announced Tuesday she was stepping down from her role running Paramount+ and other direct-to-consumer.
With the deal close, Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav is expected to depart. Zaslav stands to earn more than $550 million in stock and cash once the Paramount-WBD deal closes, including $34.2 million in cash severance payments. Other top WBD execs anticipated to exit include chief revenue and strategy officer Bruce Campbell and CFO Gunnar Wiedenfels.
Martínez-Olguín’s ruling came after merger opponents filed official objections with the court over Paramount’s settlement with the states. The consent decree includes no structural remedies (i.e., divestitures) as California Attorney General Rob Bonta, who led the coalition of states in suing to stop the looming merger, had previously insisted on.
Among the terms of the settlement: Paramount-WBD is prohibited from selling the Paramount Studios or Warner Bros. lots in the state for at least five years, and is obligated to invest at least an additional $300 million on film production in the U.S. annually. The combined Paramount-WB also must release at least 30 movies for theatrical distribution in the first two years (something Ellison has repeatedly promised he would do) and at least 32 in years 3-5, with a 45-day window for wide-release films. The merged Paramount-Warner Bros. also will be subject to monitoring by a “news editorial independence board,” which will establish “guiding editorial and journalism principles for” for CNN and CBS News.
Talk about a slumber party turned into a nightmare. Somebody said..............
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It's time for these 2 to stop the merger and call it off. I don't want to see Dora The Explorer on Crossfire or Harry Potter visit South Park. I just want it separate. That's all.
But let's bring together a segment in which we have these rules one must obey:
Someone who can stream for more than one year of his or her own time, can be of some certain variety or within the realm outside of video games (i.e. Artwork, Music), viewership numbers on averages and the category most important: Play Jackbox games if necesssary. Please help me introduce you all to.................
Willy Wonka has delivered for Netflix.
The streamer has landed a bona fide reality ratings hit with Wonka’s The Golden Ticket after the Charlie and the Chocolate Factory-themed competition series debuted at number two on its English-language TV chart.
The series scored 4.6M views in its opening week, becoming one of Netflix’s biggest unscripted launches in recent years This is in line with the latest season of Love Is Blind – season ten set in Ohio – which also scored 4.6M in its opening week.
The Kinetic Content show is considered one of Netflix’s biggest unscripted hits (its premiere came before Netflix changed the way it calculates viewers).
The numbers bode well for a renewal of the Eureka-produced show. Age of Attraction, Velvet Hammer’s dating reality series that launched earlier this year, premiered with 3.8M viewers in its first week and was handed a quick renewal, although admittedly The Golden Ticket is a more expensive show to produce.
Shot in Australia, the series sees 12 lucky golden ticket winners entering the Chocolate Factory to compete for a sweet prize: a lifetime supply of money. As the winners and their partners step through the factory gates, they face a series of series of challenges. There are games, tests and temptations designed to test the competitors physically, mentally, and morally before one walks away with the prize.
The initial on-air ratings for The Traitors: New Blood were just OK. But streaming on Peacock gave a big boost to the show’s debut.
New Blood, a version of The Traitors featuring non-famous players, drew 2.58 million viewers on NBC for the first half of its two-episode premiere on Sept. 17. The second episode dipped to 1.93 million viewers. Repeats the next night helped some, adding 1.14 million viewers to the first episode’s total and 901,000 to the second. That put the two episodes at 3.72 million and 2.84 million viewers — or an average of 3.28 million.
Three days of streaming on Peacock and other delayed viewing, however, put The Traitors: New Blood into another tier. Per NBCUniversal, each episode grew to more than 6 million viewers with multi-platform viewing (including the Sept. 18 repeats). That would mean the first episode grew by 61 percent from its on-air total, and episode two more than doubled. The two episodes also had the largest three-day totals ever on Peacock for an NBC or Bravo show, and the 6 million viewer average makes New Blood the biggest unscripted series premiere on NBC in six years.
There’s some logic to the big jump once New Blood hit Peacock: The streamer is, after all, home to the celebrity version of The Traitors, which is one of the service’s most popular shows. It’s also pretty common for network series to add a sizable amount of viewers on streaming — though not necessarily in such a short span of time.
Studio Lambert produces The Traitors: New Blood. Host Alan Cumming executive produces with Mike Cotton, Sam Rees-Jones, Rosie Franks, Jack Burgess, Stephen Lambert, Tim Harcourt and Doran Azouelos.
Two of the most popular faces from Prime Video's Last One Laughing UK are heading to Netflix for a brand new comedy entertainment show built around a game that deliberately makes no sense.
Of course, it's Bob Mortimer and Richard Ayoade who will lead the line-up in Hot or Cold, a series set inside a mysterious institution where contestants tackle challenges with no obvious logic. The pair, who both featured in the first season of Last One Laughing UK alongside the likes of Daisy May Cooper, Joe Lycett and Rob Beckett, will front a cast of comedians and funny celebrities racing through room after room to be crowned Hot or Cold champions.
The premise takes the classic childhood guessing game and hands it to adults who, as Netflix say, "really should know better". Players get no instructions. Their only guide is the room itself, which glows red when they are getting warmer and blue when they are getting colder. The challenges span the simple to the completely absurd as pairs work out what on earth they are meant to be doing.
Mortimer, a two-time Last One Laughing UK favourite whose deadpan storytelling has made him one of British comedy's most-loved figures, said: "Spending time with Richard Ayoade is one of my all-time favourite things to do. Closely followed by playing Hot or Cold, so this has worked out brilliantly."
Ayoade, best known for The IT Crowd and as a former Travel Man host, offered a characteristically dry response to the show's stripped-back rules, adding: "Although I prefer mild temperatures, it's been instructive to participate in something as binary as this."
The series comes from Zeppotron, the production company behind Last One Laughing UK. Executive producer Chris Cohen said the show's baffling set-up suited him perfectly.
He commented: "I've spent my entire career in telly walking into rooms and having no idea what's going on, so it's a delight to work with Netflix and finally make a show with that exact premise. We are thrilled to have two of Britain's best in Bob and Richard at the heart of it all."
The full line-up of comedians and celebrities joining Mortimer and Ayoade, along with a release date, is yet to be confirmed.
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