Snowfall Spin-off Show Finally Gets Title & Release Window for FX & Hulu
The next chapter of Snowfall now has an official name and release window. FX and Hulu have confirmed the long-awaited spin-off will arrive later this year. After months of development updates, fans finally know what the series is called and where the story will pick up following the dramatic ending of the original crime drama. […]

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Jeremy Allen White Reveals the ‘Best Thing’ He Stole From The Bear Set
During a recent appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Jeremy Allen White revealed what he took from the set of The Bear. The series has wrapped up production for good, and Allen made sure to keep some items from the set of the FX show, one of which is quite unusual. Jeremy Allen White stole this […]

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HGTV’s Jasmine Roth Gives Update on Daughter’s Health After ‘Traumatic’ Accident
Jasmine Roth, the star of HGTV‘s Hidden Potential, recently shared details about an accident that resulted in her 21-month-old daughter being taken to the emergency room. Roth discussed the incident in an Instagram Story that has since expired. Jasmine Roth’s hospitalized daughter gets a positive health update Help! I Wrecked My House alum Jasmine Roth […]

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Twin Peaks & The OA Star Owain Rhys Davies Dies
Owain Rhys Davies, known for his roles in Twin Peaks: The Return and The OA, has died at the age of 44. The actor’s brother announced the news in a lengthy Instagram post. Davies also appeared in projects including Alice Through the Looking Glass, The Indian Doctor, and A Serial Killer’s Guide to Life. Twin […]

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Archive 81’s Nick Pasqual Gets 32 Years to Life Sentence for Stabbing Ex-Girlfriend
Nick Pasqual, known for appearances in Archive 81 and How I Met Your Mother, has been sentenced to 32 years to life in prison in connection with the 2024 stabbing of Hollywood makeup artist Allie Shehorn. Shehorn survived the attack after being stabbed multiple times. Nick Pasqual gets life sentence for stabbing ex-girlfriend more than […]

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Robert Pattinson Connects Batman & Harry Potter 21 Years After Cedric Diggory
Robert Pattinson recently linked two of his biggest franchises, Harry Potter and The Batman. He discussed plans for his daughter during a recent interview, ahead of the filming of The Batman: Part II. He joked that she might end up attending the same school as the child actors working on the upcoming Harry Potter TV […]

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Amazon Is Making an AI-Animated ‘Good Advice Cupcake’ TV Show. Its Original Creator Is Furious
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Samsung Movingstyle Essential Review: A Screen on Wheels
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Yearslong Fight Over Users’ Right To Tweak Smart TV Software Heads To Trial
A long-running lawsuit over Vizio’s Linux-based smart TV software is headed to trial in August, with the Software Freedom Conservancy arguing that GPL rules require Vizio to release complete source code owners could use to modify, maintain, or strip ads and tracking from their TVs. Ars Technica reports: The outcome could rever … ⌘ Read more

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Spencer Pratt Is Creating Panic Over ‘Super Meth.’ It’s Not Even Real
The LA mayoral candidate and ex-reality TV star is fueling his campaign with fears about an ultra-potent meth. Experts say it’s drug war propaganda. ⌘ Read more

Plasma Big Screen Working Out Quite Well With Plasma 6.7 Beta
With today’s KDE Plasma 6.7 beta release there has been a surprising amount of interest in the new revival of Plasma Big Screen as the TV-sized UI for Plasma. I’ve been trying it out today and it has worked out rather well, a very smooth experience, and in good shape for making its debut in next month’s Plasma 6.7 release… ⌘ Read more

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I Work in Hollywood. Everyone Who Used to Make TV Is Now Secretly Training AI
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RFK Jr.’s New Podcast Is as Weird as You’d Expect
The first two episodes of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s new podcast feature him discoursing on food with a reality-TV chef and, for some reason, Mike Tyson. Vaccines are not on the agenda. ⌘ Read more

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Online Personalities and Comedians Overtake TV and Newspapers as Primary News Sources
A new Ipsos poll finds Americans are increasingly getting news from online personalities and comedians instead of traditional TV or newspapers. The survey says nearly 70% get news online in a given week, versus 55% from TV and 25% from newspapers, with figures like Joe Rogan, Greg Gutfeld, Sean Hannity, a … ⌘ Read more

Amazon’s New Fire TV Sticks No Longer Support Sideloading
Amazon’s newest Fire TV Sticks are dropping support for normal sideloading, blocking apps from outside the Amazon Appstore unless the device is registered with developers. Cord Cutters News reports: This week, Amazon announced the upcoming launch of a new Fire TV Stick HD. The new model will run on Amazon’s Vega OS, rather than Android, so most streamin … ⌘ Read more

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

Hisense’s New Backlit RGB LED TV ‘a Shot Against OLED’s Bow’, and Includes a DP Port
“RGB LED TVs have been the talk of the TV world this year,” argues The Verge, with models coming from all the manufacturers.”
And the first one of 2026 is here — the UR9 from China’s Hisense — “the first look at the viability of the new backlight technology outside of demo rooms.” They call it “a step above … ⌘ Read more

Vizio TVs Now Require Walmart Accounts For Smart Features
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Prospective Vizio TV buyers should know there’s a good chance the set won’t work properly without a Walmart account. In an attempt to better serve advertisers, Walmart, which bought Vizio in December 2024, announced this week that select newly purchased Vizio TVs now require a Walmart account for s … ⌘ Read more

William Shatner Celebrates 95th Birthday, Smokes Cigar, Revisits ‘Rocket Man’ and Tests X Money
It was 60 years ago when William Shatner — born in 1931 — portrayed Captain Kirk in the TV series Star Trek. Shatner turns 95 today — and celebrated by posting a picture of himself smoking a cigar.

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US Cable TV Industry Faces ‘Dramatic Collapse’ as Local Operators Shut Down - or Become ISPs
America’s cable TV industry “is undergoing its most dramatic collapse in history,” reports Cord Cutters News, “with operators large and small waving the white flag on traditional TV service and pointing their customers toward streaming platforms instead.” Just in 2025 Comcast lost 1.2 … ⌘ Read more

Chuck Norris Dies At 86
Longtime Slashdot reader SchroedingersCat writes: Chuck Norris, known for his roles in action films and as Texas Ranger Cordell Walker on the TV show “Walker, Texas Ranger,” passed away on March 19, leaving behind a legacy of inspiring millions around the world. He was 86.

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Court Rules TCL’s ‘QLED’ TVs Aren’t Truly QLED
A German court ruled that TCL misled consumers by marketing certain TVs as “QLED” when they “do not deliver the color reproduction expected from QLED TVs.” It has ordered the company to stop advertising or selling those models in Germany. TechRadar reports: The case was filed by Samsung, which claimed that TCL was running deceptive advertising, and more court cases on the same topic are … ⌘ Read more

Your Smart TV May Be Crawling the Web for AI
Bright Data, a company that operates one of the world’s largest residential proxy networks, has been running an SDK inside smart TV apps that turns those devices into nodes for web crawling – collecting data used by AI companies, among other clients – and most consumers have had no idea it was happening.

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Panasonic Will No Longer Make Its Own TVs
Panasonic is handing over the manufacturing, marketing, and sales of its TVs to Shenzhen-based Skyworth, effectively exiting in-house TV production. Ars Technica reports: Skyworth is a Shenzhen-headquartered TV brand. The company claims to be “a top three global provider of the Android TV platform.” In July, research firm Omdia reported that Skyworth was one of the top-five TV brands … ⌘ Read more

How Streaming Became Cable TV’s Unlikely Life Raft
Cable TV providers have spent the past decade losing tens of millions of households to streaming services, but companies like Charter Communications are now slowing that exodus by bundling the very apps that once threatened to replace them.

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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

MythTV 36 Released With Web App Improvements & FFmpeg 8 Support
MythTV 36 is now available for this long-time open-source digital video recorder “DVR” software that has been around now for more than two decades as the leading choice for those wishing to watch and/or record live TV under Linux especially as an HTPC… ⌘ Read more

Autodesk Takes Google To Court Over AI Movie Software Named ‘Flow’
Autodesk has sued Google in San Francisco federal court, alleging the search giant infringed its “Flow” trademark by launching competing AI-powered software for movie, TV and video game production in May 2025.

Autodesk says it has used the Flow name since September 2022 and that Google assured it would not commercialize a product under the sam … ⌘ Read more

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Amazon Plans To Use AI To Speed Up TV and Film Production
Amazon plans to use AI to speed up the process for making movies and TV shows even as Hollywood fears that AI will cut jobs and permanently reshape the industry. From a report: At the Amazon MGM Studio, veteran entertainment executive Albert Cheng is leading a team charged with developing new AI tools that he said will cut costs and streamline the cre … ⌘ Read more

‘Everyone is Stealing TV’
A sprawling informal economy of rogue streaming devices has taken hold across the U.S., as consumers fed up with rising TV subscription costs turn to cheap Android-based boxes that promise free access to thousands of live channels, sports events, and on-demand movies for a one-time $200 to $400 purchase.

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Fallout 76 developers explain how the TV series influences the game
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Is the TV Industry Finally Conceding That the Future May Not Be 8K?
“Technology companies spent part of the 2010s trying to convince us that we would want an 8K display one day…” writes Ars Technica.

“However, 8K never proved its necessity or practicality.”

LG Display is no longer making 8K LCD or OLED panels, FlatpanelsHD reported today… LG Electronics was the first and only company to sell 8 … ⌘ Read more

Wall Street’s Top Bankers Are Giving Coinbase’s Brian Armstrong the Cold Shoulder
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon interrupted a conversation between Coinbase chief Brian Armstrong and former U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair at Davos last week to tell Armstrong “You are full of s—,” his index finger pointed squarely at Armstrong’s face. Dimon told Armstrong to stop lying on TV, according to WSJ.

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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

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‘Active’ Sitting Is Better For Brain Health
alternative_right shares a report from ScienceAlert: A systematic review of 85 studies has now found good reason to differentiate between ‘active’ sitting, like playing cards or reading, and ‘passive’ sitting, like watching TV. […] “Total sitting time has been shown to be related to brain health; however, sitting is often treated as a single entity, without considering the specific … ⌘ Read more