Alas, ’tis true, Thrones fans. The globally beloved, groundbreaking HBO fantasy drama will end in 2018, after two more seasons, HBO programming president Casey Bloys said over the weekend.
The “Twilight Zone for the digital age” is coming back, and soon. Netflix announced last week that new episodes of the dystopian anthology series Black Mirror will appear worldwide on the streaming service Oct. 21.
Seth Meyers has a message for the “Bernie or Bust” people: “The house is on fire, stop crying because we’re not putting it out with your hose.”
Apple has bought the rights to distribute a TV series based on James Corden’s popular “Carpool Karaoke” sketch, adding to the stable of video content available through the Apple Music streaming service.
“I’m Hillary goddamn Clinton. I’m a political prodigy, have been since I was 16.”
Before media attention shifts to the Democratic National Convention starting tonight (July 25), John Oliver got in one last takedown of last week’s Republican convention and anointing of Donald Trump as the party’s nominee for president. The satirist returned from a hiatus of his HBO show, Last Week Tonight, to call out the four-day convention’s aversion to facts, delivering yet another Classic Oliver Evisceration. A demolition. A skewering, if you will.
Summer is the season of playlists. Every occasion calls for one—beach days, barbecues, parties, quiet nights at home, long afternoons in a hot office. While Spotify’s Discovery Weekly is a go-to for exploring new songs, television is also an increasingly great way to broaden your musical horizons. Some of the best shows on TV also have some of the best music selections; in fact, one of the reasons we love these shows is because of the music they feature.
Comedian Jon Stewart emerged (literally) from beneath his friend and former colleague Stephen Colbert’s desk last night to do again what he did so well for 17 years on The Daily Show: rebuke the lunacy that is American presidential politics, namely Donald Trump and his advocates on Fox News.
One of the world’s most powerful television executives just lost his job. Roger Ailes, who’s led Fox News since its inception in 1996, left the popular cable news network today (July 21) after an internal review into his alleged sexual harassment of several female employees. Ailes has denied the allegations.
Meredith McIver, a staffer for the Trump Organization, has taken the blame for Melania Trump’s speech on Monday at the Republican National Convention that plagiarized parts of a 2008 Michelle Obama speech.
The first day of the Republican National Convention had it all: protests, comedians trolling conspiracy theorists, convention floor rebellion, bizarre speeches by former New York mayors, and, to top things off, a nice little nightcap of plagiarism.
Netflix had a huge miss in US subscriber growth for the second quarter, and chalked up the poor results to a misunderstanding over a recent price hike.
You can learn a lot about a TV show from its opening credits, apart from the names of actors and filmmakers. It erects a bridge between your life outside the screen and the story within it, escorting you to another time or place or, sometimes, an actual other dimension. More than that, though, it previews how you’re about to feel—joy? longing? dread?—for the next hour or until your binge-watch ends.
USA Network’s imaginative Emmy-nominated series Mr. Robot, about a group of hackers conspiring to change the world, is easily TV’s most tech-savvy show. Instead of having characters mindlessly type away at keyboards, Mr. Robot shows how hacking can actually happen in real life.
The 68th Emmy Awards nominations were announced this morning (July 14), and, as has become tradition, HBO dominated.
Will the Television Academy make any interesting choices for its 68th Emmy Awards, or will it be business as usual? Will Mr. Robot receive a best drama nomination for its stellar debut season? (Hopefully). Will the nominations be more diverse than the Oscars? (Probably). Will The Leftovers‘s Carrie Coon, the best actress on television, finally get some love? (Probably not.)
In our heroes, we put our hopes and dreams. We see in them our most ideal selves; we are comforted by their presence. Perhaps that’s why there are so many of them.
You know this to be true.
HBO is the self-styled king of content, and despite some recent creative struggles, we’d be wise to remember a lesson The Wire taught us over a decade ago—“the king stay the king” (video).
American director Steven Soderbergh will produce, and possibly direct, a film based on the Panama Papers, Deadline reported. The adaptation will draw from an upcoming book, Secrecy World, written by the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Jake Bernstein, who was among the consortium of investigative journalists who revealed over 11 million records detailing how some of the world’s richest and most powerful people hide their money using tax havens.
Today (July 6), Snapchat debuted a new feature called “Memories” that allows users to save individual snaps and use them again later. It’s a significant change for the popular messaging platform, whose trademark feature is the sharing of photos and videos that disappear into the ether after a few seconds. Now you can show friends events and activities preserved from the past, you know, like memories.
While Hollywood suffers from a decades-long case of sequelitis, the world’s premier animation studio has signaled that sequels are not its priority.
As you’ve probably heard by now, Adnan Syed, the convicted murderer at the center of the hit podcast Serial, was granted a new trial Thursday (June 30), after a Baltimore judge ruled that he received “ineffective assistance” from his attorney when he was tried 16 years ago.
We may never see another TV show quite like Game of Thrones.
