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Consumers’ habits have shifted, where more people are watching YouTube on TV screens these days instead of on smartphones in the U.S., eating into territory held by broadcast and cable television.

Even on broadcast and cable television, most dysfunctional family series take a one-step-forward-two-steps-back approach to their characters’ emotional growth.

The reunion comes as Paramount struggles to retain the cachet of some of its biggest franchises, including the VMAs, as the cable television landscape shrinks because of the shift to streaming.

The US media giant plans to separate its studio and streaming business away from its more traditional cable television networks.

The company took a $6-billion write-down on its cable television networks business, in yet another sign that Hollywood is reckoning with the ongoing deterioration of the traditional television business.