’60 Minutes’ loses a producer and Paramount loses its integrity to President Dicktator

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Here’s A BUNCH OF TV News

Max will now charge you extra to let your college kid stream while she’s away at school.

Hallmark is yoinking all of its content off of Peacock next week, now that they have their own streaming service.

The Pitt stripped out all of the music, which is one of the reasons it feels so real and immediate. From Noah Wylie:

“One of the decisions we made early on was to not employ any soundtrack in the show. By lifting the music out, we’ve sort of removed the artifice that says you’re watching a TV show, and we need you to feel sad here because we’re playing strings or exciting here because we are using percussion. We’re letting the sort of symphony of the sound of the procedures in the room be our cadence. And a lot of that is the technical jargon that the doctors are employing. It becomes the soundtrack in this scene and the intensity with which they’re delivering those lines becomes the emotional equivalent of a score. It’s really less important the audience understands and more important that the audience sees that the doctors know what they’re talking about.”

Noah Schnapp is out here threatening Stranger Things fans.

The story of The Conners and Stranger Things (and The Goonies, and Lord of the Rings, and Rudy and etc.) star Sean Astin’s parentage is WILD.

Chris Cuomo is out here being a little bitch about Don Lemon. (And just let me be clear, I’m no Lemon fan, either, but this seems so uncalled for.)

The Oscars are now requiring the Academy members to do the BARE MINIMUM before they vote: watch all of the movies they are voting on.

Hoping Carlos Santana recovers quickly.

Congratulations to Tiger King and the new Mr. Tiger King.

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President Bloater has claimed another scalp, unfortunately. Bill Owens, the executive producer of 60 Minutes, has resigned from the news series, stating:

“Over the past months, it has become clear that I would not be allowed to run the show as I have always run it, to make independent decisions based on what was right for ‘60 Minutes,’ right for the audience.

“So, having defended this show — and what we stand for — from every angle, over time with everything I could, I am stepping aside so the show can move forward.”

Some backstory: Paramount, 60 Minutes‘ corporate boss, is in the middle of a merger with Skydance, a merger that will require the approval of the federal government. And back in October, 60 Minutes aired an interview with Kamala Harris, that they lightly edited for clarity. President Doesn’t Understand How Anything Works began squealing that the editing was “election interference” and sued the show, CBS, and Paramount for $20 billion. Then, once in office, President Vengeance sicced his FCC on Paramount, threatening the merger.

Paramount recently engaged in settlement talks with President Toddler on the interview case, and separately they reached a settlement in a bullshit lawsuit accusing them of discriminating against a white guy in a writers’ room, suggesting they are on the verge of caving on the Harris case, too, even though the law is firmly on their side. Meanwhile, 60 Minutes kept doing what 60 Minutes does: long-form reporting on newsworthy topics, including a piece on Greenland and Ukraine, both of which hurt President Thin Skin’s feelings.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, 60 Minutes, which has been historically and proudly very independent even from CBS News, has come under scrutiny during this merger process:

Susan Zirinsky, the former president of CBS News, returned to the network in an executive editor role earlier this year after a 60 Minutes segment about Israel was criticized as being “biased and one-sided” against Israel from the ADL.

“While there is no way to cover such sensitive issues without provoking some degree of criticism, we have a responsibility to address those concerns,” Paramount co-CEO George Cheeks wrote when Zirinsky was hired. “This includes feedback regarding perceived bias in some CBS News coverage. We cannot let this negatively affect our legacy or our future, our mission or our connection to our viewers.”

Zirinsky has reviewed some 60 Minutes segments ahead of broadcast, a source says, something that was not typical beforehand. Semafor also reported that Paramount controlling shareholder Shari Redstone requested a list of upcoming story topics, another unusual change.

So, here we are, with another institution bending the knee to a wanna-be king — even though APPEASEMENT DOESN’T WORK — and another breach in the First Amendment, all in the name of protecting a narcissist from criticism, and a corporation’s bottom line.

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In other media news:

Speaking of — I know that the media stuff isn’t what is on everyone’s front burners, what with the attack on due process; attempting to throw us into an economic depression; his idiot head of the DOD compromising our troops’ security; his Vice President killing the Pope; the threat to create a database of people with neurodivergence; the destruction of our food safety procedures; the total abandonment of Ukraine; the apprehension of cancer researchers; the continued spread of measles; and the opening of a backdoor to all of our information to the Russians and God knows who else. In light of all that, and so much more, it’s kinda hard to get worked up about one executive producer stepping down from one news show, I know. But I remind you that once the press folds, once people are afraid to uphold the First Amendment and shine a bright light on what the government is doing, we no longer know about any of the things I just listed above.

Stay alert and support independent voices.

Renewals

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Mark Your Calendars

  • Wednesday returns on Netflix on August 6.
  • Heads of State debuts on Prime Video on July 2.
  • The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives returns on Hulu on May 15.
  • Pee-wee as Himself debuts on HBO on May 23.
  • Octopus! premieres on Prime Video on May 8.
  • We Were Liars premieres on Prime Video on June 8.

  • Outrageous premieres on BritBox on June 18.
  • Grantchester returns on PBS on June 15.
  • Untold: The Liver King will debut on Netflix on May 13.

R.I.P.

Roy Thomas Baker, English music producer who worked with Queen and The Cars, and produced “Bohemian Rhapsody”

Renee Goddard, Actor, script editor, and screen commissioner in the U.K.

WATCH THIS

The Conners: Dan’s deposition stirs up feelings in the one-hour series finale. 7 p.m., ABC

Celebrity Jeopardy!: Season finale. 8 p.m., ABC

The Floor: Season finale. 8 p.m., Fox

Battle Camp: Netflix reality stars compete in physical challenges in this new reality competition. Netflix

The Children of October 7: This documentary tells the stories of the Israeli children who were traumatized by the horrific terrorist violence of October 7. Paramount+

Andor: Season two premiere. 9 p.m., ABC

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