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Friday February 28, 2025    IN THE NEWS Sony Pictures Television is soliciting bids from media and tech companies for streaming rights to “Jeopardy!” and “Wheel of Fortune.” Episodes of the popular daytime warhorses would likely begin streaming in September, the day after they air in syndication. Tom Cibrowksi has been named President and Executive […]

Thursday February 27, 2025    IN THE NEWS Season two of “Yellowstone” origin story “1923” broke a global viewership record as the biggest original premiere ever for Paramount+. The show drew 5.4 million viewers, 2.5X above the previous season premiere. Social shot up +187% from previous season with 1.6 million views. Paramount had good news […]

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Tuesday February 25, 2025    IN THE NEWS Lester Holt is stepping down as anchor and managing editor of NBC Nightly News this summer. Holt has held the position since June 2015, when he took over from Brian Williams. “[Holt] has led the network during some of the country’s most fraught and challenging times in […]

Monday February 24, 2025    IN THE NEWS Fox has renewed “The Quiz with Balls” for a second season. The game show was last summer’s top new series among Adults 18-49. “During its first season, ‘The Quiz with Balls’ really broke through, thanks to a mix of engaging playability, comedic physical stakes, and our terrific […]

Friday February 21, 2025    IN THE NEWS The fiftieth season of NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” has been very, very good to Peacock, generating an estimated $50 million in subscriber revenue in 2024, according to Parrot Analytics’ Streaming Economics data. In the fourth quarter of 2024, “SNL” drew $18.4 million in subscriber revenue for the […]

Thursday February 20, 2025    IN THE NEWS Adrienne Roark is leaving CBS News at the end of February, seven months after being promoted to the position of President of Editorial and Newsgathering. Roark told staffers she is taking a role at Tegna. She exits as Paramount Global is grappling with a $20 billion lawsuit […]

Wednesday February 19, 2025    IN THE NEWS CBS handed a straight-to-series order for a “Blue Bloods” spinoff titled “Boston Blue,” starring Donnie Wahlberg, for the 2025-26 season. Wahlberg will reprise his role as NYPD officer Danny Reagan as he takes a position with Boston PD. “Boston Blue” is produced by CBS Studios in association […]

Tuesday February 18, 2025    IN THE NEWS YouTube TV subscribers still have access to Paramount Global’s stable of networks – for now. The companies reached an eleventh hour temporary deal on Thursday night keeping CBS, Nickelodeon, MTV and more on the air. But with just a month to go before March Madness, and April’s […]

Friday February 14, 2025 Cynopsis will not publish Monday, in observance of President’s Day.    IN THE NEWS Democratic senators sent a letter to FCC Chairman Brendan Carr accusing him of weaponizing the agency, one example being the investigation into CBS over its editing of a “60 Minutes” interview with Kamala Harris. Sen. Ed Markey […]