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It took $16 million in bribes and firing Stephen Colbert (pardon me, "the ending of the Late Show franchise"), but Paramount's merger with Skydance has cleared its final hurdle with FCC approval and a date set to close in August 2025. The Paramount-Skydance Corporation, as it
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The institutional collapse of a production studio that stood for over a century was never going to be pleasant, but the current situation at Paramount is particularly horrifying. After bribing a sitting president to allow her to offload her family's legacy, Shari Redstone's soon-to-be-former company has
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John Watson has been skirting medical ethics by prescribing his own medication to treat his traumatic brain injury on Watson. That opened him up to a lot more liability than potentially getting in trouble with the medical board because his righthand man Shinwell Johnson (Ritchie Coster) is secretly working for
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The premiere of Watson introduced us to a new iteration of Sherlock Holmes' trusted sidekick. Now being played by Morris Chestnut, John Watson kicks off the CBS series by restarting his medical practice after seeing Sherlock go over a waterfall with Dr. Moriarty (Randall Park). As with typical pilots,
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Everyone should consider the Sherlock Holmes pantheon of remakes and adaptations as a Baskin-Robins of choice. We'd all be happier; there are enough retellings to pick their favorite flavor. Don't judge someone if they prefer mint chocolate chip (or say Benedict Cumberbatch as the titular detective)
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Sherlock Homes fans stay winning. With multiple properties related to the world of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in the pipeline for next year (Young Sherlock, Sherlock & Daughter) and omnipresent rumors of returns to several others (the BBC Sherlock, Enola Holmes, and Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes films), you
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New Year's Day 2023 was a momentous moment in Sherlock Homes history, as the 1990s-era Disney-backed rule forced copyright from 75 to 99 years finally expired for the rest of the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle estate after a nearly 30-year gap. The Sherlock Holmes Mysteries was one of
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It was big news at the beginning of 2024 when the first iteration of Mickey Mouse passed out of copyright into the public domain, not just because the iconic Disney icon had been under protection for so long, but because the company actively worked to change laws to keep it
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It is a truth universally acknowledged that American remakes of British series are almost never as good as the original. (Many of us still have emotional scars from that time FOX tried to remake Broadchurch by casting David Tennant in what was essentially an American shot-for-shot recreation.) But every so