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Paramount Television Studios is developing and adapting Keith Rosen's horror novel Coffin Moon for TV with Jessica Biel and Michelle Purple's Iron Ocean.

Coffin Moon is set during a brutal winter in 1975 Oregon and follows a veteran and her adopted niece as they hunt and are hunted by the vampire that slaughtered their family.

That it?

Right.

And yet Amazon MGM Studios, working in collaboration with Paramount Television Studios, is already publicly shouting from the rooftops about season three.

Which honestly should tell you everything you need to know about their internal metrics.

But doesn't that seem prematurely aggressive?

So him and Sheila Duxworth are the ones that greenlit Beyond the Gates.

He is the president of CBS, okay? So as of this week, George Cheeks is set to oversee, get ready for this, CBS Studios, Paramount Television Studios, and Warner Brothers Television.

I know, right? He already sees CBS Network, CBS Studios, which has Beyond the Gates under its belt, right? Because he is the Paramount chair of TV media.

Now, George is kind of a special brand because he's one of the executives who actually believe there's still money in the audience in the potential daytime soaps.

That's a historic powerhouse of prestige and broadcast production.

CBS Studios is the engine of procedural mass market broadcast television, and PTVS is Paramount Television Studios.

So you basically have three completely distinct corporate cultures with different mandates, different development pipelines, and totally different aesthetic histories all being shoved into the exact same room and told to report to one boss.

It is an unprecedented consolidation of power and a massive reduction of the marketplace.

[chuckles] It really is.

It says the show is produced by Paramount Television Studios and Amazon MGM Studios.

So right off the bat, you have two massive historically distinct corporate behemoths collaborating on a single property.

Yes, and the mechanics of that collaboration are vital to understand.

Then you have Don Granger, Sam Hill, Adam Higgs, and Lisa Kushner.

All heavy hitters.

And on top of all of them, Carolyn Harris, Kenny Madrid, and Nico Fernandez are listed as overseeing the project specifically on behalf of Paramount Television Studios.

It is an immense volume of corporate oversight.

He's a bartender trying to stay sober, has a happy marriage with his wife, and has a 13-year-old niece that he takes care of, and then a vampire walks into his bar and ruins his life, is basically the, the gist of the book.

It's recently been picked up by the Paramount Television Studio to develop a series adaptation.

I just wanna say, I really enjoyed the book-

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There's an upcoming television reboot of Copland.

It will? In April 2026, it was announced that a television series adaptation was in the works at Paramount Television Studios and Miramax Television.

James Mangold will return to co-write, direct, and executive produce the series alongside Robert Levine, who will serve as showrunner, and Paramount Plus acquired the streaming rights in a competition bidding war.

Oh, the Trump Network.

This is my life.

So Paramount Television commissioned a truly cheesy sound alike studio version.

It features session vocalist Gary Bennett recreating the track over a newly recorded backing arrangement.

Yeah, it was a knockoff version of The Piano Man.

Well, Santana's got a lot of PR coming up in recent weeks.

The phone calls have been coming in to Paramount Television, and Santana's day card for PR is really filling up quickly.

I think she's hitting the airwaves Wednesday or Thursday this coming week.

So be looking for Santana Garrett.

I sold it.

I sold it to, to Paramount Television and Starz, and you know, signed my deal and everything and came home and sat on the couch and felt probably f- maybe for the first time in my life incredibly depressed.

Mm-hmm.

Because-