This week, Paramount+ launched in the UK with a broad content slate of more than 8,000 hours of content. The crown jewels in Paramount’s wares are writer/director/creator/showrunner Taylor Sheridan’s (“Sicario,” “Wind River”) “Yellowstone” series and its spin-off “1883,” both of which come from 101 Studios. A modern Western family dynasty drama, “Yellowstone” is set in current times and features actors like Kevin Costner, Cole Hauser, and Kelly Reilly as members of the Dutton family, protecting their ranch from the various forces trying to landgrab from them.

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The Yellowstoners, Mike DeAngelo and Rodrigo Perez, are back and there’s an absolute rip roarin’, rootin’ tootin’ ton of “Yellowstone” developments to discuss. During the podcast, the hosts discuss Episodes 7 and 8 of “Yellowstone,” and the premiere episodes of the prequel, “1883.”

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The hosts discuss all the spoiler-y details and predictions, and, afterward, Tim McGraw stops in to talk about playing the great grandfather to Kevin Costner’s John Dutton, how “1883” came about after shooting scenes for “Yellowstone,” bringing in Tom Hanks for a quick but wonderful cameo, and the grueling shooting experience.

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Taylor Sheridan has his empire growing on Paramount+ with several irons in the fire, and his shows continue to engage. The writer/director/showrunner/producer’s latest series is “1883,” a prequel series to his modern-day, Montana-set “Yellowstone” series on Paramount Network. If “Yellowstone” is about cowboys living on borrowed time—the final breed of their generation, making their last stand to fight progress and protect their way of ranch living—then “1883” transports back in time, nearly two decades after the Civil War ended, when the Wild Wild West began to fade but still left plenty of space and time for pioneers to carve out their own piece of America.

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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences invited 819 new members from 68 countries as the ranks of Hollywood’s top club swell to close to well over 9,300. The good news? According to AMPAS, 45% of the 2020 class are women, 36% underrepresented ethnic/racial communities and 49% international from 68 countries.  This is an impressive result for an organization that announced a goal in 2016 to double the number of women and underrepresented ethnic/racial communities by 2020.

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THR hosts only their second Songwriters Roundtable on this week’s “Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter.” The conversation includes Academy Award frontrunner Mark Ronson for “Shallow” (“A Star is Born”), in addition to nominee Diane Warren for “I’ll Fight” (“RBG”). The other songwriters include David Crosby (“Little Pink Houses”), Kesha (“On the Basis of Sex”), Boots Riley (“Sorry to Bother You”), Tim McGraw (“Free Solo”), and Jack Antonoff (“Love, Simon”).

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