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Ted Turner‘s Legacy
“Generational entrepreneur”: The passing of Ted Turner aged 87 marks an historical infinitesimal for world television. Without nan American media mogul’s imagination for CNN, location would beryllium nary 24-hour news rhythm (love it aliases loathe it) and nan cablegram business wouldn’t person go a force. Not only that, but without him world TV would not person evolved for illustration it did. Along pinch nan likes of Discovery laminitis John Hendricks and Nick Davatzes, Turner pioneered nan conception of taking channels specified arsenic CNN, Cartoon Network and TNT (initially Turner Network Television) and launching them abroad. While producers yet began to request ownership of shows and world streamers upended nan authorities market, Turner’s effect present is lasting. Turner sold his business to Time Warner successful 1996 and his cognition has continued successful 1 guise aliases different since then. Now owned by Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), nan Turner business will later this twelvemonth go portion of Paramount. WBD CEO David Zaslav hailed a “generational entrepreneur” who “did not conscionable disrupt media… He transformed it,” while Turner’s awesome rival Rupert Murdoch praised his imagination for all-day news programming and called him “a awesome American and friend.” U.S. President Donald Trump, a friend of Turner’s, wrote connected Truth Social nan media titan was “one of nan greats of each time,” but ne'er 1 to abstracted nan calamity from nan politics, added that he believed Turner was “personally devastated” by what has go of CNN. There’s nary grounds retired location that Turner believed nan web had gone “woke,” arsenic Trump claimed, but he did opportunity successful 2012 he regretted trading and wished CNN aired “a small little fluff.” Whatever he thought, nan media world is saying goodbye to a giant.
Setting The Scene For Cannes
Lots of heat: The 2026 Cannes Film Festival opens connected Tuesday. When this year’s lineup was announced, location was plentifulness commentary astir nan show lacking prima power. There are so no Hollywood workplace titles successful competition, but there’s still a batch of power crossed nan show programme. Highlights see The Man I Love, nan latest from Ira Sachs; Pawel Pawlikowski’s Fatherland; Asghar Farhadi’s Parallel Stories; and Paper Tiger by James Gray. Other buzzy titles debuting successful Cannes see Teenage Sex and Death astatine Camp Miasma, the latest from Jane Schoenbrun, which screens successful nan UCR competition. The movie stars Hannah Einbinder and Gillian Anderson. There are besides immoderate dense hitters extracurricular of nan festival’s title strands. Nicolas Winding Refn returns pinch Her Private Hell, Steven Soderbergh will surface John Lennon: The Last Interview, and Ron Howard will debut a caller documentary project. Barbra Streisand and Peter Jackson are this year’s honorary guests and will person profession Palme d’Ors. Babs will get hers connected closing night, while Jackson will beryllium feted connected Tuesday. The opening movie will beryllium nan romanticist drama The Electric Kiss. As ever, we will beryllium keeping you wholly up to day pinch happenings crossed nan Riviera. Follow our Cannes sum here.
Big Week For Prime Video India
‘Makta’ king maker: Amazon has made clear really important India has go arsenic a maturation driver complete caller years. Nowhere has that been much evident than successful streaming, wherever Prime Video has much than 20 cardinal subscribers and free streamer Amazon MX Player attracts an estimated 290 cardinal users each month. Seriously large numbers. Market watchers person expected Amazon to merge those assets since nan tech elephantine bought MX Player successful 2024, and this week two became one. Amazon MX Player will go portion of streamer Prime Video, combining to create what is surely India’s largest postulation of streaming contented and perchance nan biggest streamer wide (JioHotstar mightiness still person thing to opportunity astir that). That wasn’t each for Prime Video this week, which besides put a May 22 merchandise date connected anticipated movie System and renewed its latest bid hit, play crime play Makta King. In 1 of nan astir competitory streaming markets retired there, The Boys streamer Amazon conscionable gave itself a large changeable of Compound V.
The Essentials
🌶️ Hot One: Hats disconnected to Lorne Michaels and co., arsenic Saturday Night Live UK was renewed for an extended 12-episode 2nd play connected Sky.
🌶️ Another One: Matthew Rhys is leading BBC drama Dragon Slayers, which explores nan activity of an iconic British journalist, nan late Sunday Times editor Harry Evans.
🔥 Hotter still: The Celebrity Traitors‘ star-packed play 2 successful nan UK will feature nan likes of Bella Ramsey, Richard E. Grant and Michael Sheen.
🥷 More Traitorish behavior: A definite execution enigma reality title was officially named nan top-selling caller format of nan 2020s.
🚪 Out nan door: On nan eve of Cannes, Alex Walton is exiting WME Independent, which is successful move exiting world income altogether.
📖 Analysis: Following nan group slur debacle, nan BBC is nervously prepping for Sunday night’s BAFTA TV Awards.
🎨 Getting creative: Bosses from Channel 4, Sony Pictures Television and Paramount had their say astatine nan UK’s Creative Cities Convention.
👻 Who ya gonna call?: Veteran spook catcher Dan Aykroyd officially boarded Netflix’s Ghostbusters animated series.
🏆 Award winner: German series The Flaws has been awarded the charismatic title grant astatine this year’s Seriencamp festival successful Cologne.
International Insider was written by Jesse Whittock and edited by Max Goldbart. Zac Ntim contributed.
