A collective of Hollywood studios will receive a $30 million legal judgment from the owner of two illegal streaming sites. Defendant Dwayne Johnson (no relation to the wrestler/actor) is also barred from operating any site allowing users to stream or download pirated movies and TV shows. More: - The suit was originally filed by Universal, Disney, and Netflix in December 2021; Warner Bros., Paramount, Apple, and others ultimately joined the plaintiffs.
- Johnson operated the subscription sites AllAccessTV and Quality Restreams, which offered live and VOD streams of bootlegged shows and films from HBO, Cinemax, NBC, and other networks and streamers.
- Subscription plans for Johnson's services ran from $25 per month and up; he earned an estimated $3 million in annual revenue from AllAccessTV alone.
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Peacock announced plans to add livestreams of two cable news shows, MSNBC's "Morning Joe" and CNBC's "Squawk Box," starting on Tuesday. The two shows will be featured in the "Morning News Live" hub for Peacock Premium subscribers, which will also include content from "Today All Day," Sky News, and local NBC stations. More: - Premium subscribers also have access to the full "Today" show via their local NBC channel via Peacock, as well as the network's free streaming channel, NBC News Now.
- MSNBC previously operated its own streaming channel, The Choice, but has since folded this content in with the rest of the network's Peacock offerings.
- Other on-demand streaming shows from MSNBC on Peacock include "The ReidOut," "Deadline: White House," "The Beat with Ari Melber," and "All In with Chris Hayes."
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 The Season 4 "Succession" premiere broke the show's all-time first-day viewership record, with around 2.3 million viewers on Sunday night alone. That number comes from a combination of Nielsen's estimate of live TV viewers along with Warner Bros. Discovery data about HBO Max streams throughout Sunday night. More: - The previous most-watched "Succession" episode on a Sunday was the Season 3 finale, which was viewed by around 1.7 million viewers on its premiere night.
- The Season 4 premiere scored around 64% higher viewership than the Season 3 premiere on its debut night.
- According to Warner Bros. Discovery, fans have also been rewatching the first three seasons of "Succession" in large numbers leading into Season 4, which will close out the show's run.
- Ultimately, "Succession" Season 3 averaged a total of 7.2 million viewers per episode across all platforms.
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 With nearly 2 million viewers over the weekend, the Season 2 "Yellowjackets" premiere set a new Showtime streaming record. It's now the network's most-watched premiere episode of the streaming era, and its most-viewed Season 2 premiere in more than a decade. More: - Showtime made the announcement but didn't reveal specific numbers.
- The Season 2 premiere apparently drew 40% more views than the Season 1 finale, which was watched by around 1.3 million people.
- Season 1 ultimately received around 5 million viewers per episode, making it a major hit for Showtime; it also earned a perfect 100% score from critics on Rotten Tomatoes.
- Showtime has already renewed "Yellowjackets" for a third season; co-creators Ashley Lyle and Bart Nickerson say they have a 5-season plan for the series.
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 Executive Tanya Giles exited Paramount Global after 28 years with various divisions and iterations of the company. Most recently, Giles served as chief programming officer for Paramount+. More: - Giles' departure is not part of any larger corporate restructuring, and no replacement has yet been named.
- She assumed the role in June 2021, and oversaw both content offerings for Paramount+ and the free ad-supported Pluto TV service.
- She's the third executive who was part of that June 2021 restructuring to since exit the company, following former Paramount Pictures Chairman and CEO Jim Gianopulos and Showtime Chief Creative Officer David Nevins.
- Giles had previously served as GM of MTV Entertainment Group and GM of Comedy Central.
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"Game of Thrones" vet Lena Headey signed on to star in "The Abandons," the new Netflix Western drama series from "Sons of Anarchy" vet Kurt Sutter. The series centers on a diverse group of families settling in 1850s Oregon despite concerted efforts from wealthy, powerful interests to push them out. More: - Headey, who played Cersei Lannister on "Thrones," will star as the tough Irish foster mother to four orphaned children.
- Sutter created the series and will serve as executive producer and showrunner, with Otto Bathurst (2018's "Robin Hood") and Stephen Surjik ("The Umbrella Academy") directing episodes.
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- Netflix plans to adapt the scripted podcast series "Princess of South Beach" for TV, with Gina Rodriguez on board as an executive producer; the fictional series centers on twin sisters who were separated at birth and received drastically different upbringings.
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 |  | Lon Harris is the writer and editor of Inside Streaming and was the very first person to ever write an Inside newsletter. He lives in Los Angeles, California, and also writes about TV and film for Fandom, Screen Junkies, Rotten Tomatoes, Gamma Ray and others. Plus he has a Game of Thrones podcast called "Casterly Talk" and competes on The Movie Trivia Schmoedown as "The Professor." |  | | Editor | Eduardo Garcia is a writer and editor based in New York. He is the author of "Things You Can Do," an illustrated book about climate action. Bylines in The New York Times, The Guardian, Slate, Scientific American, and others. In one of his previous lives, Eduardo worked as a Reuters correspondent in Latin America for nearly a decade. | |
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