NEW YORK — Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. WBD, -1.14% is suing Paramount Global PARA, -4.86%, saying its competitor aired new episodes of the popular animated comedy series “South Park” after Warner paid...
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Adam Goldberg On ‘The Equalizer,’ Post-COVID Hollywood & New Comedy Project With ‘Hebrew Hammer’ Director
Adam Goldberg Courtesy of Daniel Silbert Adam Goldberg is rather hard on himself. The 52-year-old actor — whose Hollywood resume includes Dazed and Confused, Saving Private Ryan, A Beautiful Mind, and...
Pickleball Lands A Few Television Deals
COLUMBUS, OHIO – OCTOBER 15: Zane Navratil and Parris Todd of BLQK celebrate a point during a group … [+] play Major League Pickleball match against the Florida Smash at Pickle & Chill...
‘The Last Of Us’ Episode 3 Preview: A Television Masterpiece
I’ve been loving The Last Of Us on HBO so far, but the episode that really sealed the deal for me is airing this Sunday. Episode 3 deals with a couple characters we’ve only heard about in passing so f...
Joe Cornish Discusses Move To Television With Ghost-Busting Series ‘Lockwood & Co.’ On Netflix
L-R: Cameron Chapman, Ruby Stokes, and Ali Hadji-Heshmati in ‘Lockwood & Co.’ Courtesy of Netflix When there’s something strange in your London neighborhood, the Ghostbusters are an oc...
AT&T subscriber growth tops analyst expectations, stock jumps
A pedestrian walks in front of an AT&T location in New York. Scott Mlyn | CNBC AT&T shares jumped on Wednesday after the carrier reported fourth-quarter subscriber growth that exceeded Wall St...
DirecTV lays off hundreds of managers as cord cutting accelerates
A DirecTV technician at an apartment building in Lynwood, Calif. Patrick T. Fallon | Bloomberg | Getty Images DirecTV is laying off hundreds of employees — roughly 10% of its upper ranks — as the comp...
National Film And Television School Given Degree Awarding Capabilities
Engineering graduands, wearing caps and gowns, sit in a row during a graduation ceremony at the … [+] Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, May 24, 2006. From the Homewood Photography C...
‘Willow’ Has Some Of The Worst Costumes In The History Of Fantasy Television
Willow Credit: Disney / Lucasfilm Defenders of the Disney+ series Willow refer to people like me as ‘haters’ or ‘trolls’ for levying complaints against the show. It appears that fans of the original f...
Roku CEO explains why the company is launching its own line of TVs
Roku is counting on its growing consumer base beyond 70 million customers as it launches its own line of televisions, CEO Anthony Wood told CNBC on Thursday. The streaming company unveiled its new lin...
Comcast Doubles Down on a Shady Billing Practice (It Will Cost You)
Many Comcast (CMCSA) – Get Free Report customers have little decent choice when it comes to internet, and while streaming seems to have made a cable subscription optional, that’s not entir...
Harrison Ford Discusses His New ‘1923’ Series And Approach With Acting Today
Harrison Ford as Jacob Dutton in “1923” streaming on Paramount+. James Minchin III/Paramount+ Throughout his celebrated life, Harrison Ford, 80, remains one of the most iconic actors to ev...
Culture Change Organization Define American Releases In-Depth Research On Immigrant Representation On Television
“Never Have I Ever” focuses on a group of first generation Indian American teenagers. COURTESY: NETFLIX According to a study conducted by the culture change organization Define American an...
Netflix Stock Has Lost Almost Half Its Value. Why It Could Make a 2023 Comeback.
Netflix has had a tough run this year. But a number of Wall Street analysts are confident for a recovery in 2023, piling up bullish ratings on the stock. On Friday, Wells Fargo analyst Steven Cahall u...
Comcast Customers Are Not Going to Like This
Cable companies like Comcast (CMCSA) – Get Free Report and Charter Communications (CHTR) – Get Free Report began their business lives as monopolies by contract. In exchange for building ou...
The Muppets Survive Russian Television
Muppets Kubik and Businka sharing a moment with Katya Mikhailovskaya (actress) and Tiger in the … [+] Ulitsa Sezam studio neighborhood on Russian television. Courtesy of Irina Borisova The inspi...
As TV prices dip 17%, Black Friday shoppers may find ‘excellent deals’
Artistgndphotography | E+ | Getty Images Televisions are among just a handful of consumer goods and services that have dropped in price in the last year — which may translate to steep discounts for sh...
Women athletes now have their own sports network
Finding women’s sports is about to get easier. The first-ever network to focus on female athletes, the Women’s Sports Network, launched Wednesday, offering 24/7 streaming of original progr...
In A Joint Venture With CBS, Pluto TV To Add Over 6000 Television Episodes To Its Live And On-Demand Programming Library
LOS ANGELES – OCTOBER 1983: Cheers cast members pose for a portrait in October 1983 in Los … [+] Angeles, California. (Photo by Aaron Rapoport/Corbis/Getty Images) Getty Images Pluto TV an...
Billionaire Mark Cuban Makes a Strong Statement
Mark Cuban has made his decision. And it is certain that this one will delight the many fans of the hit TV show Shark Tank, of which he is one of the pillars. The successful entrepreneur’s fut...
Netflix Produced A Record 1,024 Original Television Episodes This Quarter
Topline Netflix released a 1,024 episodes of original television content in the third quarter of 2022 alone according to a new report, a new record for the platform and more than five times that of an...
‘Andor’ Is, By Default, The Best Disney+ ‘Star Wars’ Show Yet
‘Andor’ poster Disney Andor (2022) Lucasfilm/TV-14/12 episodes Created by Tony Gilroy Starring Diego Luna, Genevieve O’Reilly, Stellan Skarsgård, Adria Arjona, Denise Gough, Kyle Sol...
LG Picks Lesser-Known Hedera Blockchain for Television NFTs
Shayne Higdon, CEO of the HBAR Foundation, an organization supporting developers on the Hedera network, told CoinDesk Hedera’s energy-efficient consensus mechanism makes it an ideal blockchain for che...
Film and Television Revolutionized by the Blockchain
Over the last few years, fans of television and film have seen a shift in content consumption during the highly public “streaming wars” around the world. The entertainment industry moved away from phy...
The Home Team – Minor League Baseball’s Las Vegas Aviators Builds Community
A night out at the ballpark Las Vegas Aviators In a town with a million distractions, how do you build support for a something different? The Las Vegas Aviators, a Triple A Minor League Baseball team ...
Fed Chief Talks Tough on Inflation. There’s More Pain Ahead for the Stock Market.
From left: Fed officials Jerome Powell, Lael Brainard, and John Williams ponder the great outdoors during a break at the economic symposium at Jackson Hole. David Paul Morris/Bloomberg Text size Grand...
Adam Scott Says ‘The Best Part’ Of The 14 ‘Severance’ Emmy Nominations Is Seeing His Cast & Crew Recognized
(From Left to Right) Tramell Tillman, Zach Cherry, John Turturro, Britt Lower and Adam Scott in … [+] “Severance” Apple TV+ Yes, Adam Scott is Emmy-nominated this year in the coveted...
Disney, Netflix and Comcast Just Made a Huge Content Mistake
Walt Disney (DIS) dominates the box office and has quickly launched an incredibly successful streaming service because it owns some of the world’s most popular intellectual property. The company...
Cloud software is a ‘fight for a knife in the mud,’ and Wall Street is souring on the one sector that was winning
The cloud-software business has come to resemble a “fight for a knife in the mud,” as one popular TV character would put it, with vendors scrambling for the crumbs of declining business spending and h...