Madonna Puts the VMAs Back at Center Stage
Madonna will open the MTV Video Music Awards on September 27, marking her first performance on the show's stage in 23 years. The return connects pop memory with a modern audience strategy.
Madonna will open the MTV Video Music Awards on September 27, marking her first performance on the show's stage in 23 years. The return connects pop memory with a modern audience strategy.
The return of 60 Minutes on CBS exposes a larger challenge for Paramount: how to modernize an institution without breaking its trust capital.
The 2026 MTV Video Music Awards nominations put Madonna and Taylor Swift on top. Behind the contest, Paramount is selling an economy of fans, videos and live television.
The UK has just approved the merger between Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros. Discovery. Behind this green light, accompanied by guarantees, a global battle is underway surrounding HBO Max, Paramount+, CNN, CBS, Harry Potter, and the future of cinema.
Two months after the end of The Late Show, Stephen Colbert receives an anti-censorship award from the American Book Awards. Amid CBS's financial justifications and suspicions of political motives, this honor transforms his departure into a global symbol of editorial freedom.
With an average of 3.15 million viewers in June, Jimmy Kimmel achieves the best month in the history of his 23-year show. A record that tells the story of the spectacular redistribution of late-night television in America following Stephen Colbert's departure.
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