The Bear Showrunners Are Cooking Up Changes for Season 2 Change is on the menu for the upcoming new season of FX's summer smash The Bear. The series, starring Jeremy Allen White as a fine-dining chef running his family's restaurant following a tragedy, was an immediate hit when all eight episodes of Season 1 landed
How Media Companies Celebrate Pride Amidst LGBTQ+ Backlash Don't Say Gay. Bathroom bills. No trans kids in sports. Ban children from attending drag shows. It may only be June, but so far in 2022, state lawmakers have filed nearly 300 anti-LGBTQ+ bills and other policy initiatives, nearly double last year's total. As the waves of
Roku and Jägermeister Team Up for Streaming Series The Lesbian Bar Project In the 1980s, there were more than 200 lesbian bars in the U.S. In 2022, that number has shrunk to fewer than 25. Roku's Brand Studio partnered with J?germeister for the three-episode docuseries The Lesbian Bar Project, highlighting the remaining lesbian bars and
Nielsen Expands Nielsen One Alpha by Adding End-to-End Measurement Nielsen One isn't fully rolling out until December, but the measurement company is gearing up with an expanded rollout of Nielsen One Alpha, its early version of the offering. The cross-platform tool is designed to enable publishers and marketers to transact on a single metric across
Netflix Loses Total Global Subscribers for the First Time Since 2011 Netflix, the world's largest streaming service, saw a dip in subscribers globally for the first time since October 2011. At the end of the first quarter, the company reported 221.6 million global subscribers, a loss of 200,000 and a miss of the projected 2.5
TV One and Cleo TV Defy Industry Trends With Audience Growth In the age of declining linear TV ratings, TV One and sister channel Cleo TV are doing something radically different: they're growing. On Wednesday afternoon, the Black-owned TV One Networks held a virtual upfront event for marketers with Michelle Rice, president of TV One
Family-Friendly FETV Touts Strong Linear Growth in Upfront Pitch Family-friendly network FETV first launched in 2013, but in 2022 the company is making its strongest pitch to advertisers yet. The company entered the general marketplace in 2020, and during its upfront presentation in New York on Wednesday, FETV told marketers it just closed deals that
Everything Revolves Around Paramount, and 4 Other Investor Event Top Takeaways Paramount, the company formerly known as ViacomCBS, kicked off its investor day streaming event with a bang on Tuesday afternoon by announcing it had changed its name. Then, the company spent the rest of the presentation proving how appropriate the new moniker was, as
ViacomCBS Changes Name to Paramount Farewell, ViacomCBS. Hello, Paramount. ViacomCBS is officially changing its company name to Paramount, effective Wednesday. The announcement was made by Bob Bakish, president and CEO, and Shari Redstone, non-executive chair of the company's board of directors. The company's legal name will be Paramount Global, but it will be known as
Shaun White Is Latest Winter Olympian to Stare Down Jurassic World Dinos The adrenaline of chasing a fourth gold medal isn't enough for snowboarder Shaun White, who has also become the latest U.S. Winter Olympian to face off with Jurassic World dinosaurs. White joins fellow Olympic icons Mikaela Shiffrin and Nathan Chen in NBCUniversal's campaign
