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Peter Chernin has launched a major new global content production studio, The North Road Company. With up to $800 million in financing from two private equity firms, Providence Equity Partners and Apollo, the Chernin Group co-founder’s latest venture combines three studios into one: Chernin Entertainment, Words + Pictures and the U.S.

Love Island’s fans are not ones to be duped or crossed when it comes to spotting niche moments in the show.This year, fans have been questioning why the contestants are drinking from specific gold flutes that seemingly took inspiration from the same style of wine glass used on Netflix's Love is Blind. One Twitter user said: “Obsessed with the gold flutes #LoveIsland” While another pointed out a striking similarity to elsewhere: “Who do Love Island think they are with these imitation gold Love is Blind champagne glasses?” Viewers may be divided with how they feel about the glasses, but the reason behind them is actually very helpful for producers.

Chris Coelen, the creator of the Netflix series The Ultimatum, is opening up about the upcoming second season of the reality show.

EXCLUSIVE: In a competitive situation, Kinetic Content has landed the rights to Grady Hendrix’s forthcoming sci-fi comedic novella BadAsstronauts to develop as a half-hour television series, with Aperture Entertainment.

The Ultimatum: They are on a yacht in a hot tub filled with La Croix, surrounded by thousands of the generic throw pillows from the Love Is Blind pods. Executive producer Chris Coelen stands up. A voice issues from his body, but it is not his own.

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticA great frustration for me as a critic of television, and a viewer of television, has been the ongoing dominance of “The Bachelor” franchise — a series that requires herculean endurance on the part of the viewer to find moments of genuine oddity. Over the course of punishingly long episodes, “The Bachelor” tends toward the most rote sorts of provocation, placing contestants who have been cast for their ability to approximate normalcy into extreme situations.After all, “The Bachelor” runs on happy endings, and so we must be rooting for its leads (the Bachelor or Bachelorette, and the credible options for them to pick at the end) to really find love.

Emily Longeretta Netflix and Kinetic Content are teaming up once again. The streaming giant announced a new reality show coming soon, featuring stars from “Too Hot To Handle,” “Love Is Blind,” “The Circle,” “Selling Tampa” and more.“Singles from Netflix reality shows have done some crazy things to find love. But they’re still single,” the official description reads.

Emily Longeretta More than a week before “The Ultimatum” premieres on Netflix, the dating series has been renewed for a second season, the streamer announced on Thursday amid an avalanche of other dating show news. Season 2 will follow an all-queer, mostly female cast.The Kinetic Content-produced series follows six couples on the verge of marriage.

Emily Longeretta ABC has picked up the new unscripted series “Claim to Fame,” co-hosted by siblings Kevin and Frankie Jonas.The reality show will follow 12 celebrity relatives as they step out from their famous family’s shadows and move into the same house, attempting to keep their identity secret. The cast will form alliances and compete in challenges while also “playing DNA detective” to try and avoid elimination and ultimately win the $100,000 prize.“Claim to Fame” is produced by Kinetic Content, the company behind Netflix’s major hit “Love Is Blind” and Lifetime’s “Married at First Sight,” in association with Walt Disney TV.

Kevin and Frankie Jonas are challenging celebrity relatives to go under cover in a new unscripted series for ABC.

seasons 1 and 2 topping the Netflix charts, it's no surprise that a third season is already slated to hit the streaming service. But what might come as a surprise is that the reality dating show could be returning sooner than fans think. «We shot season 3 already,» co-host Vanessa Lachey told ET in September while at the Emmy Awards with her husband and co-host, Nick Lachey. The show's first two seasons produced two married couples each with Lauren Speed and Cameron Hamilton and Amber Pike and Matt Barnett coming out of season 1 hitched, and Iyanna McNeely and Jarrette Jones and Danielle Ruhl and Nick Thompson married at the end of season 2. Season 2 wrapped earlier this month with a reunion special, in which contestant Kyle Abrams confessed his love for co-star Deepti Vempati, despite choosing Shaina Hurley in the pods.

Is love blind or blurry? As Netflix’s Love Is Blind season 2 comes to a close, eager fans won’t have to wait too much longer for more pod-based dating and plenty of drama.

Abhishek “Shake” Chatterjee is finally showing some remorse.

Emily Longeretta More “Love Is Blind” is coming. The Netflix reality series, produced by Kinetic Content, has already filmed its third season and will likely air in the next year. The season, which filmed back to back with Season 2, took place in Dallas, Variety exclusively confirms.The news comes on the heels of Season 2, which has remained in Netflix’s Top 10 since its February debut, roughly six months after it wrapped filming.The show begins with 15 men getting to know 15 women from separate pods, communicating through a wall, unable to see one another.

Emily Longeretta SPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not watched the “Love Is Blind” Season 2 reunion, streaming now on Netflix.Shake Chatterjee is “Love Is Blind” Season 2’s villain: There’s no arguing that. During the Season 2 reunion, which dropped on Netflix on Friday, he admitted that himself — but blamed the editing.

Ready to walk down the aisle? Fresh off the conclusion of Love Is Blind season 2, Netflix is gearing up for another romance-centered reality TV show in The Ultimatum: Marry or Move On.

The Ultimatum promises to take things even further. Yes, the masterminds behind the viciously addictive series have a new —or should we say, reality marriage show—that's sure to hook viewers (and perhaps destroy the institution of marriage once and for all).Here's everything we know about The Ultimatum: Marry or Move On.Wait, so what is it? In The Ultimatum: Marry or Move On, cold feet are put to the test.

Emily Longeretta As “Love Is Blind” comes to an end, “The Ultimatum” is born. During the Season 2 reunion special of the hit dating series, Netflix announced a new upcoming series from the same team.“The Ultimatum,” which comes from “Married at First Sight” and “Love Is Blind” producer Kinetic Content and creator Chris Coelen, follows six couples on the verge of marriage.

She said no. While in the pods, Love Is Blind‘s Natalie Lee received a proposal from another contestant before getting engaged to Shayne Jansen.

Love Is Blind is a unique reality show for several reasons — but the Netflix series has rules just like other dating experiments.

With the rollout of Love Is Blind‘s final Season 2 episode today, Netflix has announced that the cast will get together once more for a reunion episode set for Friday, March 4. As they did at the conclusion of Season 1, cast members of the dating reality series will dish about their experiences during the past season and reveal whether they are still together with their partner.

Emily Longeretta SPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not watched the finale of “Love Is Blind” Season 2, streaming now on Netflix.And then there were two. The final episode of “Love Is Blind” dropped on Friday, showing all five weddings and revealing that only two couples said “I do.” Danielle Ruhl and Nick Thompson tied the knot during an outside, very hot wedding that left viewers on the edge of their seats during the penultimate episode, while the finale wrapped with Iyanna McNeely and Jarrette Jones as a married couple.Unfortunately, those were the only two couples that chose to actually go through with their weddings.

Emily Longeretta The “Love Is Blind” cast is getting back together. On Friday, March 4, Netflix will debut season 2 the reunion special, during which some of the contestants will reunite to look back at their time on the show and share where they stand with their partner now. Nick and Vanessa Lachey will return as hosts.Season 2 followed the engagements of six couples: Deepti Vempati and Shake Chatterjee; Natalie Lee and Shayne Jansen; Danielle Ruhl and Nick Thompson; Iyanna McNeely and Jarrette Jones; Shaina Hurley and Kyle Abrams; and Mallory Zapata and Sal Perez.Five of the couples made it to the altar.

Love Is Blind, which has contestants get to know each other from “pods” without seeing each other or meeting in person. Couples get engaged, meet IRL, and then try to make it working the city they live in together. The hope is that, by the end, they'll get married.

When Netflix dropped the cast of season two of Love is Blind, there were four extra people in there.

Emily Longeretta SPOILER ALERT: Do not read if you have not watched the first nine episodes of “Love Is Blind” Season 2, streaming now on Netflix.Is love really blind? That’s the question Season 2 of the Netflix hit series asks in every episode — but fans have many others. The series began with 15 men getting to know 15 women from separate pods, unable to see one another.Over the course of 10 days, they casually date and if they want to meet face to face, they must first get engaged. During Season 1, which aired in 2020, eight couples got engaged, but only six of those were aired, and one duo, Diamond Jack and Carlton Morton, split shortly after meeting.Season 2’s first five episodes dropped on Feb.

Dating show Love Is Blind is back on Netflix for season two and a whole new bunch of singletons are getting ready to find their future husband or wife – without actually meeting them face-to-face. The experimental show sees contestants go on a series of dates in self-contained pods, before choosing who they would like to get engaged to.

Love Is Blind is surging up the Netflix charts again!

Justin Kroll Senior Film ReporterWME Partner and Literary Agent Melissa Myers has been named President and Partner of a new venture between Kinetic Content founder and CEO Chris Coelen, and Red Arrow Studios.Set to focus on premium high-end English-language scripted TV series with both domestic and global appeal, the venture will harness creativity and strategic alliances from across the world.

Elaine Low Senior TV WriterWME partner and literary agent Melissa Myers has been tapped to lead a new joint venture between Kinetic Content founder and CEO Chris Coelen and ProZiebenSat.