SMPTE Opens Entire Standards Catalog for Free, Removing Century-Old Paywall
The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers has published over 800 technical standards over the years (as a professional association for the media and entertainment industry).
But this week SMPTE “announced that its complete Standards catalog, the technical backbone behind everything from SDI and timecode to IP-ba … ⌘ Read more
Fox Is Buying Roku For $22 Billion
Fox is buying Roku for $22 billion, combining Fox’s sports, news, entertainment, Tubi, and Fox One offerings with a streaming platform that reaches about 100 million people. The companies say the merger would create the “third-largest player in US television by share of viewing,” while Fox insists Roku will remain open to competing apps after the deal closes. CNN reports: Fox has dabbled in stream … ⌘ Read more
Netflix Is Developing a Show Based on 1 of Glen Powell’s Biggest Hits
Netflix and Glen Powell are teaming up again to turn one of his biggest hits into a full television series. The streamer is developing a show inspired by the actor’s 2024 breakout film with an acclaimed showrunner attached to write. Stephen Falk is writing the Hit Man Netflix series inspired by Glen Powell’s movie Netflix is developing a […]
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All Seasons of 3 Fan-Favorite Shows Are Leaving Netflix This Fall
Three popular television shows are leaving Netflix’s library this fall. These shows have been a cultural phenomenon and have garnered a dedicated following over the years. However, due to their expiring licensing agreements, the streamer will be dropping them from its platform. Seinfeld and two more acquired shows are leaving Netflix in October Netflix will […]
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Martin Scorsese’s Dark Thriller Resurfaces on Digital as 2026 Remake Takes Over Streaming
A dark thriller film from Martin Scorsese resurfaced on digital streaming charts. Its renewed popularity comes amid buzz surrounding its 2026 television adaptation. Martin Scorsese’s Cape Fear is back on digital amid latest streaming buzz Cape Fear has experienced a resurgence on digital streaming, securing the 7th spot on the Top 10 movie downloads list […]
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Scooby-Doo: Origins Live-Action Netflix TV Show Adds 15 to Cast
Netflix has revealed 15 cast members for Scooby-Doo: Origins. The upcoming show marks the franchise’s first live-action adaptation for television. While previously live-action theatrical films in 2002 and 2004 were featured in the franchise, Scooby-Doo Origins will debut as a live-action TV show. It will also feature a real Great Dane instead of computer-generated imagery. […]
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Elijah Wood Wants a TV Reboot of This Lucasfilm Franchise 28 Years Later
Elijah Wood has shared his interest in bringing a long-dormant Lucasfilm franchise back to television. The actor believes the series still has plenty of potential decades after its debut. His comments have revived interest in a property that first gained fans through comics and video games. The idea comes at a time when game adaptations […]
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Wonder Man Cast Teases Season 2 With Outlandish Cosmic Story & Josh Gad Plot
The cast of Marvel’s Wonder Man has laid out an ambitious wishlist for the show’s Season 2. They pitched everything from interstellar misadventures to floating Josh Gad‘s mysterious fate. Wonder Man cast answers what they want to see in Season 2 The Wonder Man team gathered at the Television Academy to discuss a future that […]
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TV shows we can’t wait to see: 25 new titles – and 10 returning hits – to keep an eye out for
The first half of the year in television has been consistently rewarding – and the good news is that there is more to come. ⌘ Read more
A TV mystery in plain sight – the Logies reveal their new host
An Instagram teaser sparked speculation that a familiar Australian name was about to land television’s trickiest gig. ⌘ Read more
Justin Hartley Is Developing a New ABC Crime Series While Tracker Continues to Thrive
Justin Hartley is adding another project to his growing television portfolio. The actor-producer will reportedly back a new ABC crime series while Tracker remains a hit. The upcoming drama is based on a bestselling novel and will bring together several experienced television creators. The project is still in development, but key names behind the scenes […]
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Amazon Ember Artline Review: A Stylish Art Television
The affordable Artline doubles as a design piece and comes close to outshining the reigning champion of art TVs, the Samsung Frame Pro. ⌘ Read more
Marshals Season 2 Set Photos & Production Update Is Great News for Yellowstone Fans
Paramount Television Studios has provided an exciting update on Marshals, revealing that production on season 2 has begun in Utah.
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L’avocate Youssra Marzouq, harcelée pour le port d’un foulard à la télévision, dépose plainte
L’avocate Lara Fatimi et l’influenceuse Henda Ayari l’ont accusée «d’islamiser la France» dans des messages publiés sur X, après son passage au JT de TF1, suscitant un acharnement islamophobe qui porte atteinte à son intégrité professionnelle, dénonce l’avocate d’affaires. ⌘ Read more
Daniel Radcliffe Reveals What John Lithgow Told Him About Harry Potter Series
Daniel Radcliffe got an update on the Harry Potter series. The actor recieved the news from John Lithgow, who plays Dumbledore in the HBO television adaptation. Daniel Radcliffe recalls his discussion about Harry Potter with John Lithgow John Lithgow discussed the Harry Potter TV show with Daniel Radcliffe. Radcliffe spoke about visiting Lithgow in his […]
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2026 Tony Awards Winners Include Stars From Harry Potter, The Big Bang Theory & More
The 79th Tony Awards lit up New York on Sunday, kicking off Pride Month with a spectacular televised celebration of Broadway. Pink hosted the three-hour 2026 ceremony, which honored the performers and craftspeople behind a fiercely competitive theatre season. John Lithgow and Laurie Metcalf are among the winners at Tony Awards 2026 The revival of […]
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Hospital Ordered to Pay $13M Over 2022 Death of Star Trek’s Nichelle Nichols
The Root reports:
A New Mexico jury has found the Gila Regional Medical Center negligent in the death of Nichelle Nichols, who famously played Lieutenant Nyota Uhura on the hit television series “Star Trek.”
According to KRQE News 13, Nichols’ family filed a lawsuit against the hospital last year following her 202 … ⌘ Read more
The Night Manager Star Joins Ensemble Cast of New John Le Carré BBC Adaptation
A familiar face from the John le Carré universe is returning for another major spy project. The actor has joined a BBC and MGM+ adaptation that is already in production. The upcoming espionage series is going to be one of the most ambitious and interesting television projects based on le Carré’s work in recent years. […]
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Huge Villain Is Leaving General Hospital This Week
Created by Frank and Doris Hursley, General Hospital is an American daytime television soap opera. The show is currently undergoing many changes with its cast. Recently, a villain who has been part of the series since July 2025 is leaving. He plays the role of the butler and fixer for Carlo Rota’s character, Sidwell. Marc […]
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Sadie Sink To Lead Buzzy New FX & A24 TV Adaptation
Sadie Sink is set to star in a new television adaptation of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jeffrey Eugenides’ novel. FX has ordered the limited series, with A24 producing and Hulu set to stream the show. Sadie Sink cast in The Marriage Plot The Stranger Things actor will lead an adaptation of The Marriage Plot. The 2011 novel follows three recent college graduates caught in an all-consuming love […]
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Masters of the Universe Has 1 Big Problem That Nostalgia Can’t Fix
Amazon MGM Studios is attempting to relaunch the Masters of the Universe franchise to mass audiences this summer. Unfortunately, the movie faces several challenges, including one big problem that nostalgia can’t fix. Masters of the Universe is based on Mattel’s media franchise from the early 1980s. The franchise spawned action figures, comics, animated television series, […]
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David Harbour Joins New Dark Comedy Produced by Weapons’ Zach Cregger
David Harbour has landed a leading role in a new dark comedy now moving into production. The project also reunites the producing team behind some of the biggest recent horror hits. The upcoming film brings together several notable names from television and film. While many details are still being kept secret, the project has already […]
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Sony Is Removing Many Popular Features From Its Free OTA TV Options
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Cord Cutters News: Sony has notified owners of its recent BRAVIA television models that significant changes to the built-in TV Guide for its OTA TV antenna users and related menu features will take effect starting in late May 2026. The update affects a range of premium sets released between … ⌘ Read more
Animated ‘Firefly’ Reboot In Development With Nathan Fillion
An animated reboot of Firefly is in early development at 20th Television Animation with Nathan Fillion involved. The project has Joss Whedon’s blessing and will be run by writers Tara Butters and Marc Guggenheim, with early concept art already underway. According to the Hollywood Reporter, “The series would be set in the timeline between the origin … ⌘ Read more
Bafta To Reward ‘Human Creativity’ as Film and TV Grapples With AI
Bafta has brought in “human achievement” as a guiding principle for its annual awards as the film and television industry grapples with the rapid adoption of AI tools in many parts of production. From a report: In an interview with the FT, Bafta chair Sara Putt, who is nearing the end of her three-year tenure, said artificial intellige … ⌘ Read more
The RAM Crunch Could Kill Products and Even Entire Companies, Memory Exec Admits
Phison CEO Pua Khein-Seng, whose company is one of the leading makers of controller chips for SSDs and other flash memory devices, admitted in a televised interview that the ongoing global RAM shortage could force companies to cut back their product lines in the second half of 2026 – and that some may not survive at … ⌘ Read more
Sony Will Ship Its Final Blu-ray Recorders This Month
Sony will ship its last batch of Blu-ray recorders this month, according to Kyodo News, ending the company’s decades-long run in a product category it helped create. The recorders targeted exclusively the Japanese domestic market, where households used them to record broadcast television. Sony had already stopped manufacturing the devices and recordable discs about a year … ⌘ Read more
China Has Seized Sony’s Television Halo
Sony announced last month that it plans to pass control of its home entertainment division – including the two-decade-old Bravia television brand – to Chinese electronics group TCL through a joint venture in which TCL would hold a 51% stake. The Japanese company was long ago overtaken in sales by South Korea’s Samsung and LG and now holds just 2% of the global television market. Sony s … ⌘ Read more
Adobe Is Killing A Popular Animation And Game Development Program
Adobe has emailed users of Adobe Animate to let them know the popular animation and game development program will be discontinued on March 1, an abrupt decision that has angered animators and game developers who say the tool remains an industry standard in television and game production.
Animate, the successor to the once-popular Flash, is wid … ⌘ Read more
Brandon Sanderson’s Literary Fantasy Universe ‘Cosmere’ Picked Up by Apple TV
Apple TV+ has landed the screen rights to Cosmere, the sprawling literary universe created by Brandon Sanderson. “The first titles being eyed for adaptation are the Mistborn series, for features, and The Stormlight Archive series, for television,” reports the Hollywood Reporter. From the report: The deal is rare on … ⌘ Read more
Television Turns 100
Television marks its centenary today, exactly 100 years after Scottish inventor John Logie Baird first demonstrated his electro-mechanical system to journalists and members of the Royal Institution in a cramped attic workshop above what is now Bar Italia in London’s Soho.
On January 26, 1926, small groups of visitors climbed to 22 Frith Street and watched fuzzy images of a ventriloquist’s dummy called Stooky Bill appear on … ⌘ Read more
China Lagging in AI Is a ‘Fairy Tale,’ Mistral CEO Says
Claims that Chinese technology for AI lags the US are a “fairy tale,” Arthur Mensch, the chief executive officer of Mistral, said. From a report: “China is not behind the West,” Mensch said in an interview on Bloomberg Television at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on Thursday. The capabilities of China’s open-source technology is “probably stressing the … ⌘ Read more
Sony Is Ceding Control of TV Hardware Business To China’s TCL
Sony plans to spin off its TV hardware business to a new joint venture controlled by Chinese electronics giant TCL, the two said Tuesday, a significant retreat for the Japanese giant whose Bravia line has long occupied the premium end of the television market. TCL would hold a 51% stake in the venture and Sony would retain 49% under a nonbindin … ⌘ Read more
The Rise and Fall of the American Monoculture
The American monoculture – the era when three television networks, seven movie studios, and a handful of record labels determined virtually everything the country watched and heard – is collapsing under the weight of algorithmic recommendation engines and infinite streaming options. An estimated 200 million tickets were sold for “Gone With the Wind” in 1939 when the U.S. population … ⌘ Read more
Batman TV Series Premiered 60 Years Ago Today
60 years ago today, ABC aired the first episode of its live-action Batman television series, introducing Adam West as the deadpan Caped Crusader in what became a pop culture phenomenon blending high-camp humor and cliffhanger thrills. The mid-season replacement ran for 120 episodes over three seasons before ending in March 1968.
Il faut complètement mettre fin à l’audiovisuel public
En France, la télévision et la radio d’État ne valent plus tripette. Oh, ce n’est pas une louange pour leurs équivalents privés dont le niveau général est globalement aussi mauvais, mais au moins ces derniers ne sont pas chèrement payés par les contribuables. En revanche, l’audiovisuel public mobilise des milliards d’euros et malgré ce financement […] ⌘ Read more
TV Makers Are Taking AI Too Far
TV manufacturers at CES 2026 in Las Vegas this week unveiled a wave of AI features that frequently consume significant screen space and take considerable time to deliver results – all while global TV shipments declined 0.6% year over year in Q3, according to Omdia. Google demonstrated Veo generating video from a photo on a television, a process that took about two minutes to produce eight seconds of f … ⌘ Read more
The Inevitable Rise of the Art TV
Several years after Samsung introduced the Frame TV in 2017 – a television designed to display fine art and resemble a framed painting when switched off – competitors are finally catching up in meaningful numbers. Amazon announced the Ember Artline TV at CES 2026 this week, a $899 model that can display one of 2,000 works of art for free and includes an Alexa AI tool to recommend pieces suited to … ⌘ Read more
South Korea’s President Identifies a New Enemy: Baldness
South Korea’s President Lee Jae Myung asked at a televised policy meeting last month whether the country’s state-run healthcare plan could cover hair-loss treatment, framing it as a question about whether hair loss qualifies as a disease. The health minister told Lee that baldness is generally considered an aesthetic problem and therefore covered out-of-po … ⌘ Read more
Samsung Co-CEO Says Soaring Memory Chip Prices Will ‘Inevitably’ Impact Smartphone Costs
Samsung’s co-CEO TM Roh has warned that product price increases are “inevitable” as an unprecedented global memory chip shortage squeezes margins across the company’s consumer electronics lineup – from smartphones to televisions and home appliances.
The South Korean giant, one of the top two larges … ⌘ Read more
Stewart Cheifet, Computer Chronicles Host, Dies At 87
Pibroch(CiH) writes: According to the obituary linked, Stewart Cheifet of Computer Chronicles fame has died. The obituary states he passed Dec 28, 2025. Cheifet and Digital Research founder Gary Kildall hosted the public television show The Computer Chronicles starting in 1984, and Stewart continued to host the show well into the 1990s. He was well-known for his aff … ⌘ Read more
2025 Was the Beginning of the End of the TV Brightness War
The television industry’s brightness war may have hit its inflection point in 2025, the year TCL and Hisense released the first consumer TVs capable of 5,000 nits under specific settings – a figure that would have seemed absurd not long ago when manufacturers struggled to reach 2,000 nits. LG introduced Primary RGB Tandem OLED technology, moving fr … ⌘ Read more
Texas Sues TV Makers For Taking Screenshots of What People Watch
mprindle writes: The Texas Attorney General sued five major television manufacturers, accusing them of illegally collecting their users’ data by secretly recording what they watch using Automated Content Recognition (ACR) technology.
The lawsuits target Sony, Samsung, LG, and China-based companies Hisense and TCL Technology Group Corporation. Att … ⌘ Read more
Arkansas Becoming 1st State To Sever Ties With PBS, Effective July 1
joshuark writes: Arkansas is becoming the first state to officially end its public television affiliation with PBS. The Arkansas Educational Television Commission, whose members are all appointed by the governor, voted to disaffiliate from PBS effective July 1, 2026, citing the $2.5 million annual membership dues as “not feasible. … ⌘ Read more
Jacob Elordi, Rose Byrne and Joel Edgerton score Golden Globes nominations
Jacob Elordi is Australia’s big hope at the Golden Globes after scoring two nominations overnight for the 83rd iteration of the film and television awards. ⌘ Read more
Frank Finger and beloved muster dog Annie’s emotional final TV appearance
From hit series Muster Dogs to a new television show, Frank Finger and his beloved kelpie Annie’s unbreakable bond steals the spotlight once again. ⌘ Read more
Netflix wins deal to buy Warner Bros’ studio and streaming service for $108bn
The merger will see beloved shows and movies such as The Big Bang Theory, Game of Thrones, and The Wizard of Oz join Netflix’s portfolio. ⌘ Read more
Presenter Woods ‘OK’ after collapsing on TV
Presenter Laura Woods says she is “OK” after collapsing while leading television coverage of England’s friendly against Ghana on Tuesday. ⌘ Read more
How ‘Stranger Things’ Defined the Era of the Algorithm
As Stranger Things releases the first four episodes of its final season today, nearly a decade after its July 2016 premiere, the Netflix series has come to represent something broader than its own popularity – the embodiment of streaming television’s algorithmic philosophy. When the show first appeared, streaming was still finding its footing. Netflix had be … ⌘ Read more
Only Half the Homes in America Have Cable TV Anymore
Pay television penetration in American households fell to 50.2% in the third quarter and is projected to drop to 50% or lower by December, according to Madison and Wall, a technology and media advisory firm. Fifteen years ago, nearly nine in ten households subscribed to pay television services.
The decline has prompted major media companies to shed cable asset … ⌘ Read more