{"id":630984,"date":"2026-05-08T13:36:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T13:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/630984\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T13:36:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T13:36:12","slug":"ted-turners-cnn-legacy-cannes-international-insider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/630984\/","title":{"rendered":"Ted Turner’s CNN Legacy & Cannes: International Insider"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tWelcome back to Insider City, traveller. Jesse Whittock on the keyboard today to walk you through the biggest TV and film news from around the globe. Sign up to the newsletter here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tTed Turner<\/a>\u2018s Legacy<\/p>\n

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\n\t\u201cGenerational entrepreneur\u201d: The passing of Ted Turner<\/a> aged 87 marks an historic moment for international television. Without the American media mogul\u2019s vision for CNN, there would be no 24-hour news cycle (love it or loathe it) and the cable business wouldn\u2019t have become a force. Not only that, but without him international TV would not have evolved like it did. Along with the likes of Discovery founder John Hendricks and Nick Davatzes, Turner pioneered the concept of taking channels such as CNN, Cartoon Network and TNT (initially Turner Network Television) and launching them abroad. While producers eventually began to demand ownership of shows and global streamers upended the rights market, Turner\u2019s impact here is lasting. Turner sold his business to Time Warner in 1996 and his operation has continued in one guise or another since then. Now owned by Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), the Turner business will later this year become part of Paramount. WBD CEO David Zaslav hailed a \u201cgenerational entrepreneur\u201d<\/a> who \u201cdid not just disrupt media\u2026 He transformed it,\u201d<\/a> while Turner\u2019s great rival Rupert Murdoch praised his vision for all-day news programming and called him \u201ca great American and friend.\u201d U.S. President Donald Trump, a friend of Turner\u2019s, wrote on Truth Social<\/a> the media titan was \u201cone of the greats of all time,\u201d but never one to separate the tragedy from the politics, added that he believed Turner was \u201cpersonally devastated\u201d by what has become of CNN. There\u2019s no evidence out there that Turner believed the network had gone \u201cwoke,\u201d as Trump claimed, but he did say in 2012 he regretted selling and wished CNN aired \u201ca little less fluff.\u201d Whatever he thought, the media world is saying goodbye to a giant.<\/p>\n

\n\tSetting The Scene For Cannes<\/p>\n

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\n\tLots of heat: The 2026 Cannes Film Festival opens on Tuesday. When this year\u2019s lineup was announced, there was plenty commentary around the festival lacking star power. There are indeed no Hollywood studio titles in competition<\/a>, but there\u2019s still a lot of heat across the festival programme. Highlights include The Man I Love, the latest from Ira Sachs; Pawel Pawlikowski\u2019s Fatherland; Asghar Farhadi\u2019s Parallel Stories; and Paper Tiger by James Gray. Other buzzy titles debuting in Cannes include Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, the latest from Jane Schoenbrun, which screens in the UCR competition. The film stars Hannah Einbinder and Gillian Anderson. There are also some heavy hitters outside of the festival\u2019s competition strands. Nicolas Winding Refn returns with Her Private Hell, Steven Soderbergh will screen John Lennon: The Last Interview, and Ron Howard will debut a new documentary project. Barbra Streisand and Peter Jackson are this year\u2019s honorary guests and will receive career Palme d\u2019Ors. Babs will get hers on closing night, while Jackson will be feted on Tuesday. The opening film will be the romantic comedy The Electric Kiss. As ever, we will be keeping you totally up to date with happenings across the Riviera. Follow our Cannes coverage here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tBig Week For Prime Video India<\/p>\n

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\n\t\u2018Makta\u2019 king maker: Amazon has made clear how important India has become as a growth driver over recent years. Nowhere has that been more apparent than in streaming, where Prime Video has more than 20 million subscribers and free streamer Amazon MX Player attracts an estimated 290 million users each month. Seriously big numbers. Market watchers have expected Amazon to merge those assets since the tech giant bought MX Player in 2024, and this week two became one<\/a>. Amazon MX Player will become part of streamer Prime Video, combining to create what is certainly India\u2019s largest collection of streaming content and potentially the biggest streamer overall (JioHotstar might still have something to say about that). That wasn\u2019t all for Prime Video this week, which also put a May 22 release date<\/a> on anticipated movie System and renewed its latest series hit<\/a>, period crime drama Makta King. In one of the most competitive streaming markets out there, The Boys streamer Amazon just gave itself a big shot of Compound V.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Essentials<\/p>\n

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\n\t\ud83c\udf36\ufe0f Hot One: Hats off to Lorne Michaels and co., as Saturday Night Live UK was renewed<\/a> for an extended 12-episode second season on Sky.<\/p>\n

\n\t\ud83c\udf36\ufe0f Another One: Matthew Rhys\u00a0is leading<\/a>\u00a0BBC\u00a0drama Dragon Slayers, which explores the work of an iconic British journalist, the late Sunday Times editor Harry Evans.<\/p>\n

\n\t\ud83d\udd25 Hotter still: The Celebrity Traitors\u2018 star-packed season 2 in the UK will feature<\/a> the likes of Bella Ramsey, Richard E. Grant and Michael Sheen.<\/p>\n

\n\t\ud83e\udd77 More Traitorish behavior: A certain murder mystery reality competition was officially named<\/a> the top-selling new format of the 2020s.<\/p>\n

\n\t\ud83d\udeaa Out the door: On the eve of Cannes, Alex Walton is exiting<\/a> WME Independent, which is in turn exiting international sales altogether.<\/p>\n

\n\t\ud83d\udcd6 Analysis: Following the racial slur debacle, the BBC is nervously prepping for <\/a>Sunday night\u2019s BAFTA TV Awards.<\/p>\n

\n\t\ud83c\udfa8 Getting creative: Bosses from Channel 4, Sony Pictures Television and Paramount had their say<\/a> at the UK\u2019s Creative Cities Convention.<\/p>\n

\n\t\ud83d\udc7b Who ya gonna call?: Veteran spook catcher Dan Aykroyd officially boarded<\/a> Netflix\u2019s Ghostbusters animated series.<\/p>\n

\n\t\ud83c\udfc6 Award winner: German series\u00a0The Flaws\u00a0has been awarded <\/a>the official competition award at this year\u2019s\u00a0Seriencamp\u00a0festival in Cologne.<\/p>\n

\n\tInternational Insider<\/a> was written by Jesse Whittock and edited by Max Goldbart. Zac Ntim contributed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Welcome back to Insider City, traveller. Jesse Whittock on the keyboard today to walk you through the biggest…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":630985,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[88,272800,113448,92],"class_list":["post-630984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-international-insider","tag-ted-turner","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=630984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/630985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=630984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=630984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=630984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}