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From films to streaming prices - how the Warner Bros deal could affect you6 October 2026It has been months in the making but Paramount Skydance has finally completed its $110bn (£82.8bn) merger with Warner Bros Discovery. The deal welds two legacy Hollywood powerhouses, uniting franchises like Harry Potter and Game of Thrones, into an entertainment behemoth named Skydance. Yet behind this milestone lies strict rules about what the combined business can and cannot do - from how many films it must produce a year to the editorial independence of its newsroom. Here are four ways this could affect you and the movies, TV and news you watch.1. Streaming prices may riseEddy Chen/HBOHBO Max is the company behind Euphoria, a series starring ZendayaWarner Bros owns HBO Max, home to The Sopranos, House of the Dragon and Euphoria among others. Meanwhile, Paramount Skydance has Paramount+, which streams the likes of Yellowstone, Parks and Recreation and NCIS. Combining HBO Max and Paramount+ into a single platform or bundle will likely squeeze subscribers' wallets over time.

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ANAHEIM, Calif. — There are three things for certain in the fall in Southern California: heat, pumpkin spice lattes and Disneyland increasing prices to the Happiest Place on Earth. Before anyone panics, there are no increases to standard or preferred parking, and there are no changes to Magic Key pricing this year. Additionally, for Magic Key holders, the amusement park is looking to make updates to its no-show policy, which would give Magic Key holders more flexibility, according to Disneyland officials.

An Error occurred loading this video. Please try again later. In the present, Gibbs (Mark Harmon) returns to civilization and calls in a favor from old friend Woody (Bobby Moynihan). In 1992, the team bands together to help Woody when he’s accused of murdering a bowling rival, on NCIS: ORIGINS, Tuesday, Oct. 13 (10:00-11:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network, and streaming on Paramount+ (live and on demand for Paramount+ Premium plan subscribers, or on demand for Paramount+ Essential subscribers the day after the episode airs)*. Executive producer Sean Harmon guest stars as FBI agent Casey Bloom.

On Monday night, the Season 3 Premiere of NCIS: Origins will go live on CBS. Tune in on Tuesday night to watch the premiere episode of the third season of NCIS: Origins, airing on CBS. According to the show’s description on CBS, “NCIS: Origins follows a young Leroy Jethro Gibbs in 1991, years prior to the events of “NCIS.” In the series, Gibbs starts his career as a newly minted special agent at the fledgling NCIS Camp Pendleton office where he forges his place on a gritty, ragtag team led by NCIS legend Mike Franks.”

Corrections & Clarifications: The headline of this story has been updated to reflect Blair’s original comments. More than two years after Selma Blair posted a comment widely criticized as Islamophobic, for which she later apologized, the actress has revealed the alleged repercussions she experienced in her career and personal life. The 54-year-old said in a speech on Oct. 1 that she felt "erased" after losing partnerships, legal and career representation and a "best friend" over the February 2024 comment. The speech took place at the Anti-Defamation League's event at the Jewish Museum in New York City, which celebrated the launch of the organization's State of the Arts: Advancing Jewish Inclusion in Arts, Entertainment and Culture platform. In the since-deleted message, the "Cruel Intentions" star had issued a call to "deport all these terrorist supporting goons" under a video describing former U. S. Rep. Cori Bush and Rep. Rashida Tlaib as "Jew hating antisemites" for voting against legislation that would have imposed sanctions against people, agencies and governments that "assist Hamas, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad or their affiliates.

LOS ANGELES — The Emmy Awards are moving to Prime Video starting in 2027 in a six-year deal struck between Amazon and the Television Academy that ends a seven-decade run of broadcast networks airing the ceremony honoring the best in TV. The agreement announced Tuesday means a shift to the streaming services that have come to utterly dominate the prestige categories at the Emmys.

NEW YORK ‒ Elon Musk is getting the Hollywood treatment. The billionaire Tesla CEO is ruthlessly satirized in Luca Guadagnino’s “Artificial” (in theaters Christmas Day), a queasy new drama about the troubling rise of artificial intelligence company OpenAI. Musk is played by comedian Ike Barinholtz (“The Studio”), who glowers and strides in exaggerated fashion throughout “Artificial,” which made its world premiere at the New York Film Festival Oct. 5. Along with Sam Altman (Andrew Garfield) and Ilya Sutskever (Yura Borisov), Musk was one of the early co-founders of OpenAI in 2015, before leaving three years later due to disagreements over the organization’s leadership and direction. At a post-screening Q&A, Barinholtz talked about how he approached Musk as the movie’s comic relief. “I mean, when you're playing someone as universally beloved as Elon Musk, who everybody just admires and is a person who walks normally ...,” joked “The Mindy Project” star, earning raucous laughs from the crowd at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall.

Ignore the Rotten Tomatoes score peoplePublished Oct 6, 2026•3:35pmCourtesy of NetflixAs someone who works from home, there’s nothing I love more than a silly, easygoing TV show I can throw on for some background noise. Usually, that means some kind of competition series, whether it’s Is It Cake?, Million Dollar Secret or The Great British Baking Show. Most of the time, they stay exactly where I intended them to be: in the background. But every once in a while, one manages to completely pull me in. The latest culprit? Netflix’s number seven show, Wonka’s The Golden Ticket. The reality competition series transforms Roald Dahl’s iconic chocolate factory into a colorful social experiment. Twelve Golden Ticket winners each bring a partner into a massive 40,000-square-foot confectionery wonderland, complete with an edible garden and chocolate river. The 24 contestants live inside the factory while competing in physical challenges, judgment tests and moral dilemmas for a $3 million grand prize, paid out as $100,000 annually over 30 years.

Matthew Dolgin, senior equity analyst at Morningstar, joins BNN Bloomberg to discuss how the Paramount settlement clears a major hurdle for the Warner deal. Paramount Skydance on Tuesday completed its blockbuster US$110 billion takeover of Warner Bros Discovery, creating a Hollywood heavyweight that hands CEO David Ellison control of one of the world’s largest entertainment and news businesses. The deal brings together the studios behind “Mission: Impossible,” “Harry Potter” and DC Studios alongside major television and streaming networks such as CBS, CNN, Paramount+ and HBO Max — forming an expansive entertainment company spanning film, TV and news.