KAREENA KINEMA PVR Inox, India’s largest cinema exhibitor, is launching a film festival celebrating Bollywood star Kareena Kapoor Khan‘s 25-year career. The week-long event will run from Sept. 20-27 across 30 cinemas in 15 Indian cities. The festival coincides with the release of Kapoor Khan’s latest film, “The Buckingham Murders,” directed by Hansal Mehta. The […]
After a bruising fight for both sides, Disney and DirecTV have called a truce: The companies announced a preliminary agreement on a new deal that will restore ESPN, ABC, FX, Disney Channel and other Disney networks to the DirecTV lineup after a nearly two-week blackout. Under the new deal, announced Saturday, Sept. 14, DirecTV will […]
Live TV streaming service Sling TV is introducing significant discounts as part of a new promotion for fall: right now, both of the service’s base plans, Sling Blue and Sling Orange, are available from just $15 a month, a 63% discount off the regular $40 monthly subscription price. Consumers can also combine the two packages […]
French pandemic drama “The Plague,” based on Albert Camus’ novel “La Peste,” has sold to multiple European territories, Variety has learned. The show has sold to AMC Networks International Southern Europe where it will launch on SundanceTV in Spain and AMC in Portugal while Proximus has acquired the show for Belgium. It premiered in France […]
The 2024 MTV Video Music Awards are just a few hours away. The award show, which kicks off at 8 p.m. ET on Wednesday night, will broadcast live across MTV, MTV2, BET, BET Her, CMT, CC, Logo, Nickelodeon, Paramount Network, TV Land and VH1. But cable-cutters can also tune into the music-filled night on a […]
UPDATED, 3:45 PM ET: Disney offered to temporarily provide DirecTV access to ABC News’ coverage of the presidential debate Tuesday night between VP Kamala Harris and Donald Trump — but DirecTV turned the offer down. Disney networks including ESPN and ABC remain dark on DirecTV amid a carriage feud for a 10th day (and counting). […]
The acrimony between DirecTV and Disney in their contract fight is getting more heated, as the blackout of Disney-owned networks on DirecTV is all but certain to extend into a second week. On Saturday, DirecTV filed a complaint with the Federal Communications Commission, alleging Disney has failed to negotiate in good faith. DirecTV asserted that […]
Carriage fights create some strange bedfellows. DirecTV, at loggerheads with Disney over a new deal for ESPN, ABC and other networks, announced that it would give its customers a $30 credit toward two competing streaming TV services — Sling, from longtime satellite rival Dish Network, and Fubo. Disney and DirecTV failed to reach an agreement […]
Disney — whose networks have been dark on DirecTV since Sept. 1 amid a carriage dispute — on Friday launched a campaign to alert DirecTV customers that they have “plenty of options” to get ABC, ESPN and others from rival providers. The message reads, “Hey DirecTV customers! Missing your favorite ABC and ESPN programming! No […]
Anjelica Huston, one of cinema’s most iconic witch portrayers, has been cast to star in the upcoming live-action/hybrid feature “The Christmas Witch Trial of La Befana,” the first animated film produced by Canada’s HighballTV. Based on a popular Italian folk tale, “The Christmas Witch Trial of La Befana” tells the story of a group of […]
DirecTV customers were left in the dark earlier this month after Disney pulled its channels from the television provider following a prolonged contract dispute. That meant more than 11 million DirecTV subscribers were left without Disney-owned channels like ABC and ESPN. The blackout could not have come at a worst time for DirecTV, landing on […]
Disney leaders have responded to claims made by DirecTV executives amid the contract dispute that led to ESPN, ABC and other Disney-owned channels going dark on the satellite TV provider’s platform as of Sept. 1. DirecTV executives made bold claims on Sept. 3 about how Disney’s actions have harmed consumers as well as the decline […]
With the 2024 Major League Soccer season nearly over, fans can enjoy the deepest discount yet to watch the rest of the season (including playoffs and the MLS Cup championship match) — thanks to Apple TV’s MLS Season Pass. Apple TV’s MLS Season Pass is now $9.99/Season, or a whopping 90% off its $99 regular price. […]
NASCAR plans to launch three new studio programs to keep fans’ pulses racing throughout the 2024 Playoffs. “NASCAR Inside the Playoffs” debuts Thursday on TruTV and its Warner Bros. Discovery streaming companion Max, a few months ahead of the launch of the company’s new pact with the racing league. Veterans broadcasters Shannon Spake and Steve […]
Whenever “General Hospital” fan-favorite Emma Samms reappears in the Port Charles macrocosm as Holly Sutton — as she is once again doing this week — loyal viewers are eager to learn one thing: Is she going to be a good girl or a bad girl this time around? Characterizing it herself, Samms tells Variety most […]
Don’t count on next week’s debut of a new season of ESPN’s “Monday Night Football” to force a quick end to the current carriage dispute between DirecTV and Walt Disney Co. DirecTV CFO Ray Carpenter told investors Tuesday that the satellite distributor is prepared to stand firm against Disney’s current stance in a blackout that […]
ESPN and other Disney-owned channels have gone dark on DirecTV after the sides failed to come to terms on a new carriage agreement, a business impasse that reflects the broader economic pain spreading throughout the pay TV sector. The blackout, coming on the kickoff weekend for ABC’s college football football coverage and a little more […]
The 2024 college football season officially kicks off with its first big weekend of games. This season will mark the first 12-team, month-long play-off to end the season, plus a conference realignment that sees big changes such as the addition of Oklahoma and Texas. This weekend, No. 1 Georgia will take on No. 14 Clemson […]
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