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The one major complaint from Hallmark lovers about the launch of Hallmark+ was that they couldn’t watch new movies on the streamer.

It appears that Hallmark fans are getting their wish. The feel-good entertainment company had been attempting to thread a particularly difficult needle with the rebranding of its subscription video-on-demand streaming service Hallmark+. In an effort to not upset their linear distribution partners, when Hallmark refreshed and relaunched its streamer, its library was highlighted by a handful of exciting original movies and series, built on the foundation of years of films that originally aired on the Hallmark Channel and Hallmark Mystery. However, what was noticeably lacking and increasingly frustrating to fans was that those channels’ new films were not available to stream on the service. Now, it appears that will change in the new year.

Key Details: All new Hallmark and Hallmark Mystery films will be available on...

When Hallmark+ was announced in summer 2024, it was revealed that Hallmark Channel’s Countdown to Christmas movies would not be added to the app.

“‘Countdown to Christmas’ remains a linear experience,” Hallmark Media’s EVP of Programming, Lisa Hamilton Daly told Variety at the time.

She added, “The content on the app is going to be Holidazed, Mistletoe Murders, our unscripted shows and a couple of movie trilogies coming up that we haven’t announced yet. There’s going to be a bunch of holiday content, but it’s going to be separate and different from what’s on linear.”

Well, Hallmark is giving fans a special gift before Christmas by adding nearly all of this year’s new movies.

15 movies have already been added and there are 24 more movies being added on Friday (December 20).

Hallmark+ is available for $7.99 per month or $79.99 per year. Subscribers will also get Hallmark Store rewards for having a membership.

In the lovely tapestry of Following Yonder Star, we meet Abby Marshall, a television actress whose life once shone with the radiance of a flawless role. For fourteen seasons, she played the ideal mother on Guiding Grace, a character who comforted viewers in their tumultuous lives like a beacon of light.

Behind the façade, Abby struggles with a profound dissonance, a feeling of inadequacy that gnaws at her soul. When a public meltdown—caught on tape, of course—completes her fall from grace, she finds herself at a crossroads, not only in her job but also in her very identity.

Desperate to escape Hollywood’s constant scrutiny, Abby travels to the charming rural hamlet of Pine Ridge, Vermont. But fate, with its wicked humor, plays a trick on her: a misunderstanding about her hotel reservation leaves her stuck, a star without a stage. She meets Nick Maguire, the innkeeper, who...

Hallmark’s Countdown To Christmas 2024 includes the DaySpring movie Following Yonder Star. This stars Brooke D’Orsay and Fuller House alum John Brotherton. “A former television star waits out a scandal in Vermont. She becomes close with the innkeeper and his daughter while she helps him direct the local children’s Christmas pageant.”

Here is more on this faith-based holiday movie.

Photo: Brooke D’Orsay, John Brotherton Credit: ©2024 Hallmark Media/Photographer: Steven Ackerman What Is Hallmark’s Following Yonder Star About?

Hallmark’s 2024 DaySpring Christmas movie is Following Yonder Star. This stars Brooke D’Orsay and John Brotherton. What is this movie about? According to TV Insider’s Countdown To Christmas roundup, Abby Marshall is a television actress known as an “inspirational mother.” However, when scandal strikes, she needs a quick getaway. Therefore, she heads to Vermont.

Unfortunately, her room at a luxury Vermont resort is double booked and there are no hotels nearby.

You can overhear a lot of weird things walking through the park, but an excited, sudden exclamation of “What if it was a horde of rats?!” is definitely up there. Yet the reason, in this particular case, wasn’t an ominous one: It was part of the brainstorming process for the opening title sequence for Netflix’s recent (excellent) adaptation of “The Decameron.”

Mark Bashore and Katrina Crawford were the parkgoers in question and the creative directors of Plains of Yonder. The studio began as a design firm in Seattle and developed an Emmy-nominated knack for crafting opening titles for television series — something they say lots of people assume gets scripted by the writers on a given series, but in actuality, creative studios like theirs get brought in and work with the showrunners to execute. They’ve spent a couple of decades now crafting striking opening titles for shows from...

While the meaning of 2019's Vivarium movie is somewhat elusive, an examination of the overall plot and ending does shed considerable light on what director Lorcan Finnegan's film is actually about. The sci-fi film Vivarium, starring Jesse Eisenberg and Imogen Poots, focuses on the hellish suburbia that is the inescapable town of Yonder as the young couple is forced to raise an alien offspring. Lorcan Finnegan's sci-fi thriller tells the story of a young couple trapped in a frightfully uniform suburban neighborhood that quickly reveals itself to be a nightmare.

The Vivarium movie centers on gardener Tom (Jesse Eisenberg) and kindergarten teacher Gemma (Imogen Poots), a happily unmarried couple who are looking to become homeowners. This leads them to visit a deeply strange estate agent named Martin (Jonathan Aris), who makes lavish promises of the beauty and perfection of a newly built development named Yonder and coaxes them into...

Troubled Hollywood conglomerate Paramount Global is scaling back its wide-ranging partnership with Korean entertainment leader Cj Enm, Variety has learned.

The deal was initially struck in December 2021 (when Paramount Global was called ViacomCBS) and was described at the time as “a global content deal encompassing coproductions for original TV shows and films as well as content licensing and distribution across the companies’ streaming services.”

The Paramount+ streaming service, currently housed within the Cj Enm-controlled Tving streaming platform, is to become unavailable from June 19, Tving has informed subscribers. Paramount+ began operating on Tving, as a free-of-charge addition for existing subscribers, in June 2022.

“Tving and Paramount+ have decided not to renew their partnership,” a Paramount Global spokesperson confirmed to Variety.

“In line with our respective business strategies, we have decided together to end the ‘Paramount+ Branded Pavilion’ service on June 18th. Going forward, Tving will strive to secure various businesses to increase user satisfaction,...

Korean content is having its moment, but Pyramid Game will be the only title from the country at next month’s Series Mania.

The series will have its European premiere in Series Mania’s ‘Special Screenings’ section. Pyramid Game is set to premiere on Tving in Korea on February 29 and later this year on Paramount+ globally.

The series depicts a brutal survival game at Baekyeon Girls High School, where students are divided into attackers, victims, and bystanders and gradually descend into the violence of survival. Pyramid Game is based on the Naver webtoon of the same name, which was created by Dalgonyak.

Last year, another Korean school-based thriller, Duty After School, was also invited to Series Mania.

Directed by Bak So-yeon, Pyramid Game will star Kim Ji-yeon, Jang Da-a, Ryu Da-in, Shin Seul-ki, Kang Na-eon, Jeong Ha-dam, and Yulli.A.

“Amid the global craze of revenge-themed series, Pyramid Game stands...

Voice actor Billy West plays several of the lead characters on Matt Groening and David X. Cohen's 31st-century sitcom "Futurama." His voice for Fry, he has said, is essentially how he sounded when he was in his 20s. He also voices the elderly Professor Farnsworth, the incompetent lobster Dr. Zoidberg, the blow-hard Shatnerian space captain Zapp Brannigan, and the severed head of Richard Nixon. He's also played a wide variety of store clerks, alien slugs, terrifying robots, and North Pole elves in his tenure on "Futurama." There is nothing, it seems, he can't do.

It also takes a great deal of professionalism to be so silly. Voice actors, especially prolific ones, have to recall how dozens of characters sound in a split second, able to call up whatever voices a scene needs. In West's case, he likely has to have conversations with himself, using two or more unique voices in a single scene.

The fourth of four "Futurama" movies, "Into the Wild Green Yonder," came out on DVD in 2009, and it was assumed to be the final word on the series. "Futurama" would eventually return in the ensuing years, but for the moment, it looked like "Green Yonder" was the final appearance of the beloved sci-fi series. As such, the story was appropriately sprawling, involving an evil, unknowable, galaxy-wide force of evil in the universe -- the Dark Ones -- and their attempt to snuff out a mysterious new planet that just appeared out in space. The planet will later be revealed to be the egg of an Encyclopod, an outsize space-faring creature that catalogs and stores the DNA of all species in the galaxy.

At the end of "Yonder," Leo Wong (Billy West) aims to obliterate the violet dwarf star that hosts the Ecyclopod planet, as he wishes to build a galaxy-wide golf course.

Cj Enm (Hong Kong), a channels and content distributor that is part of the Korean Cj Enm conglomerate, has picked up pay-tv rights in parts of Asia to a handful of Korean series that were co-financed by streaming platform Tving and Paramount+. The deal was struck with Paramount Global Content Distribution.

The productions are part of a global strategic partnership between Cj Enm and Paramount Global that was announced in December 2021.

The deal was announced on the eve of the Asian TV Forum (Atf), which kicks off next week in Singapore.

The series debut first on Tving in Korea and on Paramount+ in the U.S., Canada, U.K., Australia, Latin America, Brazil, Italy, France, Germany, Switzerland and Austria. They then move to the Cj Enm-owned channels tvN and tvN Movies in the first window pay-tv slot in Southeast Asia.

The titles that Cj Enm (Hong Kong) will represent include...

Doctor Who showrunner Russell T. Davies reveals that only one of the upcoming specials is family-friendly, with the others being darker, genuinely weird, and containing scary and violent elements. The decision to take a dark turn in the specials is driven by nostalgia, targeting the adult audience who were viewers of the show when David Tennant originally starred in it. The Doctor Who specials will tap into childhood fears and draw on twisted themes out of childhood pleasures, creating a darker world that will be released at the end of the month.

Doctor Who showrunner Russell T. Davies says that only one of the upcoming specials is a family show. The popular series returns soon for the Doctor Who 60th-anniversary specials, with the first one releasing on November 25. The Doctor Who 60th-anniversary specials will see the return of beloved Time Lord actor David Tennant, who will play the Fourteenth Doctor...

Disney+ and BBC have announced premiere dates for the three new Doctor Who 60th anniversary specials.

The first special, The Star Beast, will premiere November 25, followed by Wild Blue Yonder on December 2 and The Giggle on December 9. The specials reunite the 14th Doctor (David Tennant) and Donna Temple-Noble (Catherine Tate) as they come face-to-face with their most terrifying villain yet: the Toymaker, played by Neil Patrick Harris in his Doctor Who debut. All will premiere on Disney+ globally except in the UK and Ireland, where they will air on the BBC.

We’re also getting an expanded look at the specials in a new trailer. You can watch it above.

Additional new cast includes Yasmin Finney as Rose Temple-Noble, Miriam Margolyes as the voice of the Meep and Ruth Madeley as Shirley Anne Bingham, as well as returning characters Jacqueline King as Sylvia Noble, Karl Collins as Shaun Temple, and Jemma Redgrave as Kate Lethbridge-Stewart.

It's nearly time to step back inside the Tardis.

BBC and Disney+ unveiled a new teaser for Doctor Who's 60th anniversary episodes, revealing both the titles and dates for the three specials. The first special, titled "The Star Beast," will premiere on Nov. 25. Meanwhile, the second special, "Wild Blue Yonder," will debut on Dec. 2, and the third special, "The Giggle," will debut on Dec. 9. The anniversary specials will see David Tennant's Fourteenth Doctor team up with Catherine Tate's Donna Temple-Noble as they team-up to face the terrifying Toymaker, as played by Neil Patrick Harris.

Related: Doctor Who Drops New Trailer for 60th Anniversary Specials

Destiny isn’t done with them yet… 🛸#DoctorWho: The Star Beast, coming 25th November to @BBCiPlayer in the UK and @DisneyPlus in the rest of the world. pic.twitter.com/s7nlROcn09 — Doctor Who (@bbcdoctorwho) October 25, 2023 Farther than ever before… ✨#DoctorWho: Wild Blue Yonder,...

Aiming to grow its global direct-to-consumer distribution, Paramount+ has set the international rollout plans for its premium and ad tier subscriptions following a launch across more than 45 markets last year.

The premium plan will launch in Australia, Brazil, Canada and Mexico on Nov. 16, before bowing in additional markets at a later stage. It will boast Paramount’s blockbusters, exclusive originals and hit shows in 4K Uhd, HDR10, Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos. Premium subscribers will also be able to tap into four concurrent streams, instead of the two streams that come with the standard plan.

The advertising tier, meanwhile, will roll out in select international markets, including Australia and Canada, starting in 2024. In Mexico and Brazil, Paramount+ will keep its mobile-only streaming subscription which launched in April.

Marco Nobili, the exec VP and international general manager for Paramount+, said the company was “focused on scaling (its) business and providing customer...

Welcome to Deadline’s The Hot Ones, our guide to some of the best television being sold at Mipcom next week. Our editorial team has done extensive research in the run-up to the 2023 market and handpicked what we think are sure to be the shows that will be big talking points at this year’s event in Cannes. In between meetings and cocktail parties, you’re sure to hear whispers about the next potential global hit and The Hot Ones is here to guide you. Here’s our pick of top scripted titles headed for the Croisette.

Bargain From left: Jeon Jong-Seo and Jin Sun-kyu in Bargain.

Distributor: Paramount Global Content Distribution

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Bargain’s star has been ascending all year, following the Korean drama’s Best Screenplay win at Canneseries in April and the Critics’ Choice gong at Germany’s Seriencamp in Cologne a few months later.

Paramount+ is expanding its global Korean content slate with three new series produced through its partnership with Korea’s Cj Enm.

The three titles – Dongjae, The Good Or The Bastard, Dreaming Of Cinde Fxxxing Rella and Pyramid Game – will launch exclusively on Paramount+ in the U.S., Canada, UK, Australia, Latin America, Brazil, Italy, France, Germany, Switzerland and Austria. They will also be licensed by Paramount Global Content Distribution outside of Korea, Japan and Taiwan.

Produced by Studio Dragon and Ace Factory, Dongjae, The Good Or The Bastard is a spin-off of thriller series Stranger, revolving around one of the series’ characters, a lawyer called Seo Dongjae. In the spin-off series, he takes on the murder case of a high school girl and is conflicted between his intuition as a prosecutor and his instinct as an opportunist.

Starring Lee Jun Hyuk, the series is created by Lee Su-yeon, directed by...

Paramount+ has unveiled three new Korean TV shows which it will launch in selected international territories including North America, the U.K. and parts of continental Europe.

The announcement was made on Wednesday at the Apos convention in Indonesia, operated by Media Partners Asia, by Catherine Park, Paramount’s senior VP and head of streaming & regional lead, Asia, and Yang Si-kwon, head of content at TVing.

The three new titles “Dongjae, The Good Or The Bastard,” “Dreaming Of Cinde Fxxxing Rella” and “Pyramid Game” bring to seven the total number committed by Paramount+ and Korean streaming service TVing as part of Paramount’s global partnership with leading entertainment company Cj Enm.

“Dongjae, The Good or the Bastard,” produced by Studio Dragon and Ace Factory, is a spin-off of the renowned thriller series “Stranger.” Its story will revolve around one of the popular characters in “Stranger,” Seo Dongjae, whose future is...

Matt Groening's and David X. Cohen's animated sci-fi comedy series "Futurama" debuted on March 28, 1999. Only a few months earlier, on January 31, Seth McFarlane's animated sitcom "Family Guy" also premiered. They were both primetime animated sitcoms on the same network, and both were part of a wave of "Simpsons"-adjacent shows that tangled the airwaves for years. "Futurama" had the advantage over all the others, however, as it was co-developed by "Simpsons" creator Groening himself. 1999 also saw the release of the "Dilbert" animated series, "Home Movies" on the Upn, "Mission Hill" on the WB, and the stop-motion series "The PJs," as well as "SpongeBob SquarePants," "Batman Beyond," and "Ed, Edd n Eddy." It was a banner year.

As such, "Futurama" and "Family Guy" were often mentioned as a unit in conversations. Many fans of one watched the other, even though one was a sci-fi slapstick program and the other was a crass,...

Paramount+ is expanding its global Korean originals slate with two new series, A Bloody Lucky Day and Queen Woo, which the streamer will launch exclusively on its global platform. In South Korea, the series will be available on TVing, the streaming service launched by Korean powerhouse Cj Enm.

Both series were produced under the global partnership between Paramount Global and Cj Enm, which includes content licensing and distribution across Paramount+ and TVing, as well as the development of Korean original series. Paramount+ will stream the series in the U.S., Canada, UK, Australia, Latin America, Brazil, Italy, France, Germany, Switzerland and Austria.

A Bloody Lucky Day is an action thriller series about an ordinary taxi driver who gets entangled with a customer that turns out to be a serial killer. Directed by Pil Gam-Sung (Hostage: Missing Celebrity) and written by Kim Min-sung and Song Hanna, the series is produced by...

Paramount+ revealed Thursday that it will be expanding its global Korean originals slate with the launch of two new series exclusively on the service in multiple regions around the world. Forthcoming K-dramas A Bloody Lucky Day and Queen Woo will be available on Paramount+ in the U.S., Canada, U.K., Australia, Latin America, Brazil, Italy, France, Germany, Switzerland and Austria. The two series are the latest projects developed by Paramount+ and Korean streamer Tving, as part of Paramount’s global partnership with Korean entertainment powerhouse Cj Enm.

The announcement comes amid some early success for Paramount+’s Korean originals, with Bargain, an upcoming K-drama from the company, winning the best screenplay prize at last night’s Canneseries Awards Ceremony in France. The service also revealed that recently launched Korean drama series Yonder has become its most-watched international series in the U.S. so far this year. Yonder, which stars Shin Ha-kyun and Han Ji-min,...

Streaming services Paramount+ and Tving have greenlighted two new jointly-developed Korean TV series. They are the product of an ongoing relationship between parent companies Paramount Global and Korea’s Cj Enm.

They are action thriller “A Bloody Lucky Day” and period drama “Queen Woo.”

Korean TV content has been a growth vector for international and regional streaming platforms in Asia. Competition for new originals is fierce and expensive, but Korean drama and increasingly, unscripted shows, continues to attract critical and commercial kudos.

Paramount+ said that new Korean drama series “Yonder” has been the most-watched international show in the U.S. in its first week of availability (since Aprile 11). Its upcoming Korean series “Bargain” earned the best screenplay award at Canneseries on Wednesday and will upload in summer this year.

“A Bloody Lucky Day” follows an ordinary taxi driver who becomes entangled with a customer that turns out to be a serial killer.

It’s hard enough to let go of loved ones when they die. But when your brain convinces you they’re trying to contact you from beyond, it’s next to impossible. Unless…they really are trying to send you a message? Jae-hyun must try to separate fact from fiction in “Yonder,” the new original drama series coming to Paramount+ on Tuesday, April 11. You can watch with a 30-Day Free Trial of Paramount Plus.

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After his wife, Yi-hoo, passes away from an illness, Jae-hyun is left to pick up the pieces of his life and move on as best he can. But one day receives a message...

Ah Monday, the nemesis of most working Americans since the concept of a weekend was first introduced. For many this particular Monday is a holiday, but even if that’s the case, there’s a long few days ahead before Friday and the weekend swoop in to save us once again.

Fortunately, there are some excellent titles coming to streaming this week to keep your mind well away from work. If you’ve run out of shows to stream and are desperate for a new favorite to devour insatiably, keep reading and see what new shows and moves are available to watch with your subscriptions between now and Sunday!

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The gang is back for a new season of rhymes, songs, and lessons for kids! JJ and his pals sing and dance their way through fun adventures as they learn about letters, numbers, and more.

The Pink Ladies of “Grease,” the most colorful Rydell High students, are back on April 6 on Paramount+. However, this won’t be the same collection of young women from the original film — or even its cult classic sequel. This round, we see how the popular clique got its start. The girls now have a show of their own: “Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies,” a salute to 1950s teens who refuse to conform to conventional standards. The new musical series shows us Rydell High before Sandy and Danny start strutting down the halls. The show stars Marisa Davila, Cheyenne Isabel Wells, Ari Notartomaso, and Tricia Fukuhara.

Watch the “Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies” trailer:

Paramount+ is also producing an original series “Fatal Attraction,” based on the 1980s hit thriller. The TV version refocuses the lens, exploring a modern approach to women, infidelity, personality disorders, and coercive control. It’s...

Exec says half of Paramount+’s growth is from international market.

Marco Nobili, the head of Paramount+ international has underlined the streamer will continue investing in international projects despite a strong focus on producing major franchises such as Yellowstone, Star Trek and Dexter.

Paramount+, which launched in March 2021, is now streaming in 45 countries after a global roll-out last year and has 56 million subscribers.

Nobili said streaming is “a game that needs to be played at scale,” noting the bigger the scale, the more revenues are generated and the more that can be invested in infrastructure and programming.

“International is going...

Paramount+ is well ahead of its target to greenlight 150 non-u.S. originals by 2025 but international boss Marco Nobili wishes the streamer could have rolled out quicker.

Addressing Series Mania this afternoon, Nobili said “if I could have accelerated our rollout then I would have” when questioned on how he would have done things differently over the past two years.

“But you have to balance these things out,” he countered. “Sometimes staggering a launch proves to be the right recipe. If you show audiences the window you can get straight out the gate but could compromise on show quality.”

Nobili added: “We could maybe have done an even faster rollout but looking back it was a challenge and we are proud of how it has worked out.”

Paramount+ is now live in dozens of territories around the world and is well ahead of its target to greenlight 150 originals by 2025, Nobili revealed.

A Black Lady Sketch Show will be bringing the laughs next month, when the HBO series returns for Season 4 on Friday, April 14 at 11/10c.

The upcoming six-episode season will star returning cast members Robin Thede, Gabrielle Dennis and Skye Townsend, plus new featured players DaMya Gurley, Tamara Jade, Angel Laketa Moore and more than 20 celebrity guests, including Colman Domingo (Euphoria, Fear the Walking Dead), who appears in the above teaser video.

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Paramount+ today announced that Yonder, its brand-new original drama series from South Korea, will premiere exclusively on the service on Tuesday, April 11 in the U.S., Canada, U.K., Australia, Latin America, Brazil, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, Austria and France. After his wife, Yi-hoo, passes away from an illness, Jae-hyun one day receives a message from her – an invitation to a world called Yonder, which was designed based on her memories. Jae-hyun goes to Yonder and reunites with Yi-hoo. But can they be together forever? Yonder is directed by Lee Jun-ik and stars Shin Ha-kyun (“Beyond Evil”), Han Ji-min (“Rooftop Prince”), Lee Jeong-eun (“Parasite”) and Jung Jin-young (“Ode to My Father”). Produced by Cj Enm and Doodoong Pictures, the series is the first local production out of Paramount Global’s strategic partnership with leading entertainment company Cj Enm. Last year, Paramount+ officially marked its entry to Asia with the launch of...

Streaming platform Paramount+ has set a release date for Korean series “Yonder” that is one of the first titles flowing from Paramount Global’s alliance with Cj Enm.

The show will premiere on April 11 in the U.S., Canada, U.K., Australia, Latin America, Brazil, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, Austria and France.

Set in 2032, “Yonder” is a science fiction-drama series about a man who receives a message from his deceased wife inviting him to a mysterious space. The space is designed for the dead to be able to live on by uploading memories of their lifetime from their brain. The show raises questions about life and death and what it means to have eternal happiness as humanity faces a world altered by advancements in science and technology.

It was directed by Lee Joon-ik who has numerous hit film credits including “The King and the Clown,” “Dongju: The Portrait of a Poet” and “The Book of Fish.

South Korean sci-fi drama series Yonder, the first local production under Paramount Global’s strategic partnership with Korean entertainment powerhouse Cj Enm, will launch globally on Paramount+, including in the U.S., on April 11.

The show will premiere exclusively on the streamer in the U.S. and, as previously unveiled, its international markets of Canada, the U.K., Australia, Latin America, Brazil, Italy, Germany, Switzerland Austria and France.

In addition, Paramount+ will also make available worldwide a collection of Korean thriller and mystery dramas produced by Cj Enm, starting on April 11.

They include Signal, about a criminal profiler from 2015 and a detective from 1989 who tackle crimes by communicating via a walkie-talkie that transcends time, seasons 1 and 2 of Voice, about the employees of an emergency call center and dispatch teams who try to help victims using only what they hear during their calls for help, and seasons 1 and 2 of Save Me,...