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Colors Infinity to premiere latest international shows within 24 hours of its international telecast
MUMBAI: Colors Infinity has started premiering shows and the list includes – Riverdale, The Flash, Arrow and Mr. Robot, etc. Adding to the festivities and excitement of the season, this October the channel is bringing shows one cannot afford to miss!
Viacom18 head of programming – English entertainment Hashim Dsouza said, “Colors Infinity has always taken pride in its premium content. The shows on our line-up are critically acclaimed and highly anticipated across the globe, therefore becoming even more pertinent to bring them to the Indian audience within hours of their international telecast.”
Here’s is the list of the shows this October:
The Good Doctor – Season 1
Tuesday, 3 October | 11 PM
From the creator of House: David Shore and Executive Producer Daniel Dae Kim, The Good Doctor centers on Shaun Murphy, a young surgeon with autism and savant syndrome who relocates from a quiet country life to join a prestigious hospital’s surgical unit.
Absentia – Season 1
Monday, 2 October | 10 PM
After being declared dead in absentia, an FBI agent must reclaim her family, identity and innocence when she finds herself the prime suspect in a string of murders.
The breakout series of 2016, Riverdale will return on Colors Infinity with more blood, betrayal, friendships, romance and Bughead!
Riverdale – Season 2
Thursday, 12 October | 10 PM
If the first season of Riverdale had you at the edge of your seats, prepare to be blown away in the second season of this dark-adaptation of the Archie-comic series. After discovering the killer of Jason Blossom, the second season picks up from the nail-biting cliffhanger finale.
Back to save the day from the supervillains, The Flash, Arrow and the Legends of Tomorrow return with the newest seasons of their shows, starting October 11.
The Flash – Season 4
Wednesday, 11 October | 10 PM
Season 3 finale saw Barry traipsing off into the Speed Force. The new season picks off 6 months later, with Team Flash stepping up to protect the city in a Barry-less world.
Arrow – Season 6
Friday, 13 October | 10 PM
Arrow S5 capped one of its best seasons ever with an explosive finale that left the fate of nearly every major character hanging in the balance. Who would survive? Who would be left behind? We will seek the answers to these questions in Season 6.
Legends of Tomorrow – Season 3
Wednesday,11 October | 11 PM
Possibly one of the most intriguing shows last year, Legends of Tomorrow S3 will pick up with the Legends having “broken” time and needing to run around endlessly to fix it. This season promises great fight scenes, clowns, and even dinosaurs.
But that’s not all! Back with their latest seasons to Colors Infinity, Mr. Robot, Lucifer and Blindspot return to pick-up from where they left off at their season finales, with Elliot being shot, Lucifer facing his own demons and Jane deciphering her tattoos.
Mr. Robot – Season 3
Thursday, 12 October | 11 PM
One of the trippiest thrillers of the decade, Season 3 of this Emmy-award winning series will shed more light on the trickeries of the hacktivist group fsociety, the sinister plans of The Dark Army, and survival of evil E-Corp.
Lucifer – Season 3
Tuesday, 3 October | 10 PM
Season 3 of Lucifer will return to confront the problem of the returned wings of angel for Lucifer, the kidnapping and the unresolved issues with his mother. We will also see television’s Superman Tom Welling (Clark Kent/Smallville) join the cast as Murcus Pierce.
Blindspot – Season 3
Monday, 30 October | 11 PM
Season 2 explained Jane’s tattoos, Kurt’s political future, and Roman’s missing memories. Season 3 will take forward this story and reveal more challenging conflicts, more ink and more fistacuffs!
Adding music and symphony to the anticipated madness, Colors Infinity returns for the third successive year with its homegrown show Renault Kwid presents The Stage 3 styled by Jabong and co-powered by Motorola.
The Stage – Season 3
Saturday, 7 October | 8 PM
Embarking on this magical journey, Colors Infinity begins the search for the successor to the crown of India’s most talented English singing artist! With a bundle of surprises in store for the viewers, The Stage is set for India’s best English singers to compete with the best.
Don’t miss the delirium of entertainment and bandwagon of action, drama, thriller and suspense as Colors Infinity unleashes its Instant Premieres this October!
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Warner Bros. Discovery shareholders approve Paramount deal
Investors wave through a $111 billion megamerger but deliver a stinging, if toothless, rebuke over half-a-billion-dollar goodbye packages
NEW YORK: The shareholders said yes to the deal. They said no to the cheque. At a virtual special meeting on Thursday that lasted barely ten minutes, Warner Bros. Discovery investors voted overwhelmingly to approve Paramount Skydance’s $111 billion acquisition of the company — and then turned around and voted against the lavish exit pay packages lined up for chief executive David Zaslav and his fellow outgoing executives.
Not that it will make much difference. The compensation vote is purely advisory and non-binding. The Warner Bros. Discovery board can, and almost certainly will, pay out as planned.
But the symbolism stings. It is the second consecutive year that WBD shareholders have voted against the executive compensation packages, and this time they had good reason. Zaslav’s exit deal is, by any measure, extraordinary. Under the terms filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, he is set to receive $34.2 million in cash severance, $517.2 million in equity in the combined company, and $44,195 in continued health coverage — a total of at least $550 million. On top of that, Warner Bros. Discovery has agreed to reimburse Zaslav up to $335 million for taxes assessed by the Internal Revenue Service on his accelerated stock vesting, though the company says that figure will decline depending on when the deal closes. As of March 11, Zaslav also held $115.85 million in vested WBD stock awards — and last month sold a further $114 million worth of WBD shares.
Shareholder advisory firm ISS recommended voting against the compensation measure, citing “problematic” tax reimbursements to Zaslav and the full vesting of his stock awards.
Zaslav will be bound by a two-year non-competition covenant and a two-year non-solicitation of customers and employees after the deal closes.
His lieutenants are not walking away empty-handed either. J.B. Perrette, chief executive and president of global streaming and games, is in line for $142 million, comprising $18.2 million in cash severance and $123.9 million in equity. Bruce Campbell, chief revenue and strategy officer, will receive an estimated $121.5 million, including $18.8 million in severance and $102.7 million in equity. Chief financial officer Gunnar Wiedenfels is set for $120 million, made up of $6.6 million in cash severance and $113.1 million in equity. Gerhard Zeiler, president of international, will get $82.6 million, including $11.9 million in severance and $70.7 million in equity.
The deal itself, clinched in February after Netflix declined to raise its bid for Warner Bros., still needs regulatory clearance from the Justice Department and European authorities. Several state attorneys general are also weighing legal action to block it.
Senator Elizabeth Warren, Democrat of Massachusetts, was unsparing. “The Paramount-Warner Bros. merger isn’t a done deal,” she said after the shareholder vote. “State attorneys general across the country are stepping up to stop this antitrust disaster. We need to keep up this fight.”
If it does go through, the combined entity would be a formidable beast, bringing together Paramount Skydance’s stable — CBS, CBS News, Paramount Pictures, Paramount+, BET, MTV and Nickelodeon — with WBD’s portfolio of HBO, Max, Warner Bros. film and TV studios, DC, CNN, TBS, TNT, HGTV and Discovery+. Paramount has said it expects $6 billion in cost savings from the merger, which is Wall Street shorthand for mass layoffs on a significant scale.
The ten-minute meeting was presided over by chairman Samuel Di Piazza Jr., with Zaslav, Campbell, Wiedenfels and chief communications officer Robert Gibbs in virtual attendance. Di Piazza was bullish. “We appreciate the support and confidence our stockholders have placed in us to unlock the full value of our world-class entertainment portfolio,” he said. “With Paramount, we look forward to creating an exceptional combined company that will expand consumer choice and benefit the global creative talent community.”
Zaslav echoed the sentiment. “Over the past four years, our teams have transformed Warner Bros. Discovery and returned the company to industry leadership,” he said. “Today’s stockholder approval is another key milestone toward completing this historic transaction that will deliver exceptional value to our stockholders.”
Paramount Skydance struck a similar note. “Shareholder approval marks another important milestone towards completing our acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery,” it said in a statement, adding that it looked forward to “closing the transaction in the coming months.”
The shareholders have spoken on the merger. On the pay, they were ignored before the vote was even counted.
