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Prime Video Drama ‘The Assassin’ Gets Season 2 Launch Date & Trailer
“If anyone can get this done, it’s your mother,” Freddie Highmore‘s Edward hears in the first trailer for Prime Video thriller The Assassin Season 2.
Amazon’s streaming service has released a trailer and pencilled in a November 6 launch date for the show in the UK and Ireland. The show also debuts on Stan in Australia on the same day, with Banijay Rights selling piecemeal elsewhere. ZDF’s launch in Germany wasn’t revealed.
The Assassin stars Keeley Hawes the mother in question, Julie, opposite Highmore, who plays her son. Season 2’s trailer shows hitwoman Julie reluctantly teaming up with Edward once again, when his dream honeymoon with Kayla (Shalom Brune-Franklin) is hijacked and his new wife take hostage. “The honeymoon… couldn’t get any worse,” deadpans Edward as he reveals the news to his mom.
The pair are then thrown back into a world of high-speed car chases, international crime and kidnapping in Spain, as their fragile relationship is tested to the core.
Also returning alongside Hawes, Highmore and Brune-Franklin is Devon Terrell, with Arnaud Bindard, Natalia Tena, Boris Van Severen, Jacqueline Boatswain and Monic Hendrickx joining the cast along with Karl El-Santos, Mehdi Regragui, Casimiro Aguza, Tony Corvillo, Amin Hamada and Lolo Herrero.
Two Brothers Pictures produced the show for Prime Video UK and Ireland, ZDF in Germany and Stan in Australia in association with Banijay Entertainment stablemate Banijay Rights. Harry and Jack Williams, who both also serve as executive producers, are the writers, with Sarah Hammond, Alex Mercer and Daisy Mount also serving as EPs for Two Brothers Pictures, and Hawes and Highmore also serving in the same roles.
John Griffin is producer with Terry McDonough, another executive producer – directing episodes 1-3 and Sarah O’Gorman directing episodes 4-6. Jessica Mescall serves as casting director. Filming on series 2 took place in Malta.
Season 1 of the show streamed in the U.S. on AMC+.
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Spotify and top podcaster Joe Rogan have agreed to a multi-year contract extension.
The parties declined to specify terms, including financials. The Wall Street Journal reported that Rogan could end up with an “estimated earnout” of $250 million.
The new extension continues to broaden distribution of the show, which was exclusive to Spotify between 2020 and 2024.
The Joe Rogan Experience launched in 2009. Its 2,500-plus episodes have featured two- to three-hour interviews with a range of actors, comedians, athletes, politicians, authors and more.
The show was the top podcast on Spotify, YouTube, and Apple Podcasts in 2025. Since starting on Spotify in 2020, the show has gained 18 million followers, making it the streamer’s most followed podcast.
As the show’s audience has grown, so has Rogan’s clout in the political arena. His interview with Donald Trump before the 2024 election was credited with delivering a boost down the stretch, while the decision by opponent Kamala Harris not to travel to Rogan’s Austin, TX studio became a key part of autopsies of her failed campaign. Recently, Rogan has become more vocal about his skepticism about Trump, but many of his views align with those of the MAGA base.
In 2022, musician Neil Young pulled his music from Spotify over what he said was misinformation Rogan was spreading about vaccination. Spotify stood by Rogan. Young returned the music to the platform two years later.
In a statement, Rogan called the Spotify relationship “an amazing fit,” adding that he was “extremely happy and excited to continue with them for years to come.”
Jordan Newman, head of content partnerships at Spotify said Rogan “has built something incredibly enduring, and his show continues to resonate with a massive global audience because there’s simply nothing else like it.”
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Ynon Kreiz, the new co-chief executive of Skydance, said a planned $6 billion in cost savings will come from “technology, marketing consolidation, real estate optimization, and some labor. Although labor is not the majority of the savings.”
But “we’ve been public” that synergies will involve some workforce reduction, he said during a Q&A on CNBC this morning alongside Skydance chairman and CEO David Ellison.
“When it comes to to making those decisions, of course we’re thinking of our people. We’re going to do it in the right way, respectfully, transparently, and communicate our plans. This will be part of the plan. This is part of the plan. Will be part of the process,” he said.
“It’s important also to say this is not about cost reduction. This is about reengineering how we work. This is about reinventing the business model. So it’s not just synergies and reducing costs; it’s also improving how we perform. And we’re looking to build a high-performing company, leveraging technology, leveraging capabilities [to] build something that will stand out for years to come.”
The merger Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery closed Tuesday, with the combined companies now called Skydance. Executives are targeting the $6 billion in cost savings by the end of 2028 but sto co-CEOs indicated in the interview today that they think the number could be greater.
More to come
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Multiplatinum, Grammy-nominated recording artist Alex Warren will host this year’s Kids’ Choice Awards, which for the first time of will air on both CBS and Nickelodeon.
CBS Presents Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards, which recognizes fan favorites from film, television, music, gaming, sports and more – 36 categories in all – will broadcast live from Television City in Los Angeles on Saturday, November 14 at 8 pm/ET and 5 pm/PT.
The awards will stream live on Paramount+ for Premium subscribers and on-demand the next day for both Premium and Essential subscribers in the U.S. The show will also be available globally on Paramount+ following its linear premiere on Nickelodeon.
Musical performances and celebrity appearances will be announced at a later date.
Warren is best known for the 7x Platinum sinlge “Ordinary,” which held the #1 spot on the Billboard Hot 100 for 10 weeks and a record-breaking 16 weeks at #1 on US Pop Radio. Warren’s debut album, You’ll Be Alright, went Platinum and debuted in the Top 5 of the Billboard 200, yielding the singles “Eternity,” “Bloodline” [feat. Jelly Roll], “On My Mind” [feat. ROSÉ] and “Burning Down” [with Joe Jonas] driving over 11 billion streams across his catalogue to date.
On TV, Warren has performed on the American Music Awards, MTV VMA and Grammy Awards as well as The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.
Taylor Swift leads all individual nominees (6) for this year’s Kids’ Choice Awards, followed by Ariana Grande (5) and Sabrina Carpenter (5). Franchises dominating this year’s nomination roster include The Super Mario Galaxy Movie, Toy Story 5, Wednesday, Wicked: For Good, The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants, KPop Demon Hunters and Percy Jackson and the Olympians.
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