It’s no longer just David Zaslav, CFO Gunnar Wiedenfels, and a room full of ruthless Warner Bros. Discovery accountants swinging their Excel sheets like guillotines. Stream your bucket-list series and movies (note: 2008’s “The Bucket List” is only available on PVOD) while you still can — content removal is the new power move.Last month, Paramount+ […]
Continue readingAnother day, another show removed from a streaming platform to save money. Earlier on Friday, Paramount+ pulled the plug on Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies as well as Star Trek: Prodigy, Queen of the Universe, and The Game, becoming the latest streaming service to take a content write-down for taking content off of its […]
Continue readingHow do you even begin to reboot something as iconic as “Grease”? It’s no easy task, but “Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies” proves that it’s certainly possible.The hit Paramount+ series takes audiences back to the 1950s — even further back than the original 1978 film did. Danny Zuko and Sandy Olsson fell in love […]
Continue readingThrough all the years since the 1971 musical “Grease” and the 1978 film of the same name (and the 1982 sequel “Grease 2“), we’ve all been wondering the very same thing: Where the heck did the Pink Ladies come from? Wait, you haven’t been wondering that? All these decades, you haven’t found yourself in mental turmoil about […]
Continue readingLast fall, the Grease prequel series formerly known as Grease: Rydell High shifted from HBO Max to Paramount+, and it also received a new focus and title with the series being developed as Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies. Now fans of the classic musical starring John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John can rejoice, because the […]
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