Paramount Global's free, ad-supported streaming service Pluto TV will launch a new 24-hour channel featuring the Rocky film catalog beginning March 1. 

The Pluto TV Rocky channel will feature all the films starring Sylvester Stallone, including the original 1976 Academy Award-winning film Rocky, Rocky II (1979), Rocky III (1982) Rocky IV (1985), Rocky V (1990), and Rocky Balboa (2006), according to the service. 

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Pluto TV in March will also launch a dedicated channel to the classic anime series Sailor Moon, along with new, on-demand content from such series as Mystery Science Theater 3000, RuPaul’s Drag Race, The Challenge, The Hills, Key & Peele, Bar Rescue, Nathan for You and Judge Judy. 

The service will also feature WOW- Women of Wrestling content, including new season one reboot episodes and two documentary series, according to the service. ■  

Paramount Plus debuts Dragging the Classics: The Brady Bunch, which sees the original Brady Bunch cast recreate an episode with RuPaul’s Drag Race cast members, June 30. 

Cast members will perform the episode “Will the Real Jan Brady Please Stand Up?” “for an innovative, one-of-a-kind event that uses state-of-the-art technology to transport the cast into the original Brady house,” according to Paramount Plus. The season two episode sees Jan buy a curly black wig because she thinks she is being shunned at school due to her blonde hair, and wants to stand out from her blonde sisters. 

Barry Williams plays Mike Brady, Christopher Knight is Peter Brady, Mike Lookinland is Bobby Brady, Eve Plumb portrays Lucy and Susan Olsen plays Margie. 

Among the Drag Race cast, Shea Couleé is Marcia Brady, Bianca Del Rio is Carol Brady, BenDeLaCreme plays Greg Brady, Kylie Sonique Love plays Jan Brady, Nina West portrays Alice and Kandy Muse is Cindy Brady. 

RuPaul makes a special appearance as the Wig Attendant, and Michelle Visage turns up as Helen. 

Dragging the Classics is executive produced by Nina L. Diaz, Trevor Rose, Keri Panichi Flint and Marcia Lansdown for MTV Entertainment Studios, with Margaret Goodman and Tara Power the executives in charge of production. Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbato and Tom Campbell are executive producers for World of Wonder.

RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars premieres June 24. 

For the season 13 launch of RuPaul’s Drag Race, VH1 has upped its social media.

Using Instagram reels, carousels and stories, TikTok duets, YouTube stories, shorts community posts and livestreams, Facebook video and stories, Twitter moments, fleets, threads, lists and video and stories and spotlights on Snapchat, VH1 garnered 29 million views with 13.8 million engagements.

The activity--70 different bits of content in all--was designed to drum up support for the new season and introduce the show’s crop of contestants. 

Season 13 starts Jan. 1.

Views are up 250% versus last year’s “RuVeal, and engagements are up 420%. A Meet the Queens YouTube livestream trended as No. 1 on the social video service. 

"RuPaul's Drag Race has among the most passionate and loyal fan bases of any franchise, and our team is focused on engaging that fandom on social all year long," said Rory Brown, head of digital for the MTV Entertainment Group. "2020 has been the year of short-form video, with the growth of Instagram Reels, TikTok, Twitter Fleets and more. For the season 13 RuVeal, we leaned into that trend with an emphasis on platform intentionality, creating 70 pieces of custom content designed for specific short-form placements. The response to that approach was overwhelmingly positive.”

Season 12 was RuPaul’s Drag Race’s highest-rated season, up 26% from season 11. It also won six Emmy Awards.

In season 13, “fabulous queens” will vie for the title of America’s Next Drag Superstar and a cash prize of $100,000, VH1 said.

Season 13 of RuPaul’s Drag Race begins on VH1 Friday, Jan. 1. Thirteen “fabulous queens,” in VH1’s words, vie for the title of “America’s Next Drag Superstar” and $100,000. 

“Competing safely and fiercely, our 13 queens proved that it takes more than a global pandemic to keep a good queen down,” said host and executive producer RuPaul. 

RuPaul’s Drag Race will offer a “Meet the Queens” livestream on YouTube at 1 p.m. ET on Dec. 9. The contestants include Denali of Chicago, Elliott with 2 Ts of Las Vegas and Gottmik of Los Angeles. 

After-show RuPaul’s Drag Race: Untucked will air following Drag Race. 

RuPaul’s Drag Race won six Emmys this year. 

Netflix earned a record number of 2020 Emmy Awards nominations, but it was HBO who won the most hardware during a virtual Emmy Awards telecast Sunday night that saw Pop TV’s Schitt’s Creek sweep the comedy category in record fashion. 

HBO garnered 11 Emmy Awards during the Jimmy Kimmel-hosted event, including major wins in the best drama and best limited series category. The other big winner during the ceremony was Pop TV’s Schitt’s Creek, which set a record by winning all seven categories in the comedy genre. 

Netflix finished third for the evening with two awards. VH1, FX Networks and Apple TV Plus each won one award during the audience-less telecast. 

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HBO, which won 30 total Emmy Awards -- including 19 Creative Arts awards -- was paced overall by Watchmen, which took home four awards Sunday night and a total of 11 Emmy Awards, including best limited series or movie. Succession, a star of the primetime telecast, won seven Emmy Awards overall, tying it with Disney Plus’s The Mandalorian -- including outstanding drama series. 

The night included several surprise winners, including actress Zendaya, who at 24 years old became the youngest actress to win best lead actress in a drama series, for her role as troubled teenager Rue Bennett in HBO’s freshman series Euphoria. 

Also getting a surprise nod was Uzo Aduba, who won the outstanding supporting actress statuette for her role as Shirley Chisholm in FX’s Mrs. America. 

Not surprising was RuPaul’s Drag Race’s win in the Reality Competition Program category -- it's third consecutive win -- and Last Week Tonight With John Oliver’s fifth consecutive win in the Outstanding Variety Talk Series category. 

Actor/Director Tyler Perry was awarded the TV Academy’s Governor’s Award during the live ceremony, which aired on ABC. 

A partial list of winners from the 72nd Emmy Awards announced during the live telecast are as follows:

Outstanding Comedy Series

Schitt’s Creek (Pop) 

Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series

Eugene Levy (Schitt’s Creek) 

Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series

Catherine O’Hara (Schitt’s Creek)

Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series

Daniel Levy (Schitt’s Creek) 

Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series

Annie Murphy (Schitt’s Creek)

Outstanding Drama Series

Succession (HBO) 

Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series

Jeremy Strong (Succession)

Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series

Zendaya (Euphoria) 

Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series

Billy Crudup (The Morning Show) 

Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series

Julia Garner (Ozark) 

Outstanding Limited Series

Watchmen (HBO) 

Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or TV Movie

Mark Ruffalo (I Know This Much Is True) 

Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or TV Movie

Regina King (Watchmen)

Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Television Movie

Yahya Abdul-Mateen II (Watchmen) 

Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or Television Movie

Uzo Aduba (Mrs. America) 

Outstanding Reality/Competition Series

RuPaul’s Drag Race 

Outstanding Variety Talk Series

Last Week Tonight With John Oliver (HBO)

Logo has greenlight an eighth season of its hit series RuPaul Drag Race, two weeks after debuting the show’s seventh campaign.

The competition series will begin production of its eighth season today (March 20), according to network officials. The March 2 seventh season premiere of the series drew nearly 350,000 viewers in prime time and posted a 20% increase among adults 18-49 compared to the season six debut, said network officials.

“After a record breaking year of ratings and viewership, its only fitting we would continue to rise with our first lady, RuPaul” said Chris McCarthy, GM of MTV2 and Logo TV in a statement. “From the cultural phenomenon of Drag Race, our partnership with the visionary Russell T. Davies, and the creation of a new documentary division, we are making Logo TV the home of today’s most innovative storytellers.”