@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialProduction company Gaumont confirms Apple TV pulled French show The Hunt days before its debut after a journalist alleged it was plagiarized from a 1973 novel (Alexi Duggins/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2
@gwire@mastodon.socialThey're making a Far Cry TV series, which I hope is better than the movie.
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/far-cry-tv-series-fx-noah-hawley-rob-mac-1236591190/
@servelan@newsie.socialDonald Trump Got Mad at the TV, So Now Stuff Costs More – Mother Jones
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/10/donald-trump-world-series-canada-tariffs-reagan-carney-ford-bessent/
@memeorandum@universeodon.comDonald Trump Got Mad at the TV, So Now Stuff Costs More (Jeremy Schulman/Mother Jones)
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/10/donald-trump-world-series-canada-tariffs-reagan-carney-ford-bessent/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251026/p39#a251026p39
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.net#Blakes7 Series C, Episode 01 - Aftermath
AVON: So you have very little to fear from Servalan. There is no real Federation anymore. It's unlikely that anyone will come looking for you. You won't have to hide any longer.
MELLANBY: It's odd. For the last twenty years that's all I've dreamed of, freedom to do what I want, go where I want. Now that I've got it,…
@kurtsh@mastodon.socialWanna know what's so special about the soon-to-be released Fallout Pip-Boy 3000 - Fallout 3/New Vegas edition - coming from the Wand Company?
(i.e. What makes it different from the Fallout TV series release?)
https://www.thewandcompany.com/wp-cont…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialNetflix plans to release the Stranger Things S5 finale in 350 movie theaters in the US and Canada from December 31 to January 1, despite previous statements (James Hibberd/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-ne
@kurtsh@mastodon.socialWanna know what's so special about the soon-to-be released Fallout Pip-Boy 3000 - Fallout 3/New Vegas edition - coming from the Wand Company?
(i.e. What makes it different from the Fallout TV series release?)
https://www.thewandcompany.com/wp-cont…
@StephenRees@mas.toSomeone on here recommended "Saint-Piere" - which I can't find now of course. So I went through the contortions required for watching Gem on my tv and we have now seen the first episode of series 1. 2 will have to wait until 2026.
It is actually pretty good but the ads are really annoying
In the UK, BBC is not full of commercials like CBC is in Canada
@rasterweb@mastodon.socialI was happy to see the Dr. Smith's Insult Library is still online!
Animated Weather Station
Arrogant Automation
Bulbous Bumpkin
Neanderthal Ninny
Silly Looking Bucket of Bolts
Tarnished Trumpet
https://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art3316.asp
@kurtsh@mastodon.socialWanna know what's so special about the soon-to-be released Fallout Pip-Boy 3000 - Fallout 3/New Vegas edition - coming from the Wand Company?
(i.e. What makes it different from the Fallout TV series release?)
https://www.thewandcompany.com/wp-cont…
@Jyoti@mas.toWhy #HaltAndCatchFire is the best tv programme ever made.
https://bzangygroink.co.uk/archives/2015/07/30/halt-and-catch-fire/
@saraislet@infosec.exchange★ Do you get excited or upset about AWS SCPs, or GCP Org Policies?
★ Do you have experience developing software to solve cloud security challenges?
★ Do you downplay your cloud security knowledge but actually you know a lot of niche oddities of cloud IAM?
★ Do you like working in diverse security teams that care about your wellbeing?
★ Do you want to get paid to work on cloud security for one of the most sophisticated AWS environments in the world?
I'm hiring a…
@cdamian@rls.socialZoey's Extraordinary Playlist is a nice uplifting TV series, if you need to take your mind off one thing or another.
I didn't even mind the singing. So much singing.
#tv
@cheryanne@aus.socialFinally getting around to watching The Diplomat.
It has the ever delightful Rufus Sewell in it so of course I'm watching it.
#TheDiplomat #TV
https://www.…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialBarcelona-based Titan OS, which provides a smart TV operating system to TV makers like Philips and JVC, raised a €50M Series A led by Highland Europe (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/02/titan-os-raises-58-million-fr…
@castarco@hachyderm.ioI have the distinct impression that we could use most American "sci-fi" TV series (which seem to have a kink for post-apocalyptical scenographies) as a diagnostic tool for the autism spectrum.
For a moment, let's leave aside the tons of right-wing propaganda "hidden" in plain sight, and their excessive reliance on boring & worn out tropes (religious & cultish bullshit, irrational lack of communication & excess of anti-social behaviour, all vs all, ultra-low-iq characters*, psychotic & irrationally treacherous characters*, ultra-inconsistent character development used to justify "unexpected" plot twists, rampant anti-intellectualism...).
What could be used as a diagnosis tool is the incredible amount of strong inconsistencies that we can find in them**. It throws me out of the story every single time; and I suspect that it takes a certain kind of "uncommon personality" to feel that way about it, because otherwise these series wouldn't be so popular without real widespread criticism beyond cliches like "too slow", "it loses steam towards the end of the season", etc.
Many of those plots start in a gold mine of potentially powerful ideas... yet they consistently provide us with dirt & clay instead, while side-lining the "good stuff" as if it was too complicated for the populace.
Do you feel strongly about it? Do you feel like you can't verbalize it without being criticised as "too negative", or "too picky", or an "unbearable snob"? Do you wonder why it seems like nobody around shares your discomfort with these stories?
* : I feel this is a bit like the chicken & egg problem. Has the media conditioned part of American society to behave like dumb psychopaths as if it was something "natural", or is the media reflecting what was already there? Also, could we use other societies as models for these stories... just for a change? Please?
** : Just a tiny example: a "brilliant" engineer who builds a bridge out of fence parts and who doesn't bother to perform the most basic tests before trying it in a real setting and suffer the consequences: the bridge failing and her falling into the void. Bonus points for anyone who knows what I'm talking about.
@weltenkreuzer@social.tchncs.deAls jemand mit chronisch schlechtem Gedächtnis für Handlungs- und Charakterdetails wünsche ich mir so ein Feature seit Jahren.
Aber lasst das doch bitte von den Autor*innen schreiben und bezahlt sie idealerweise noch dafür. Oder crowdsourced das irgendwie. Aber doch bitte, bitte nicht per KI ...
…
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries C, Episode 05 - The Harvest of Kairos
VILA: We got it, we got it!
DAYNA: Right on the nose! [laughs]
[Space Command]
SERVALAN: How did that happen?
JARVIK: They fired through their own force shield.
SERVALAN: Don't be absurd.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/305/292…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialHearst Networks commissions a 10-episode AI-led series from Particle6, the creator of AI character Tilly Norwood, for The History Channel in the Netherlands (Alex Ritman/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/global/tilly-norwood-company-ai-le…
@compfu@mograph.socialGerman/French TV station #ARTE has an interesting mini series about the history and rivalry of 3 major economic centers: Amsterdam, London, New York.
https://www.arte.tv/en/videos/069809-001-A
@cjust@infosec.exchangeWas looking for a new series to start, and knowing nothing about the show - but knowing that there's a character named "Phil McGangus" - well I might could maybe have to look at this
#Deadloch
@chiraag@mastodon.online
@paulbusch@mstdn.caGood Morning #Canada
#HappyBirthday to Lilly Saini Singh, actor, comedian, author, television host, born on this day in 1988 in Scarborough, Ontario. As a well-known Internet personality, Lilly Singh has amassed nearly 15 million subscribers and more than 3 billion views since launching her popular channel of #YouTube videos under the name IISuperwomanII in 2010. She has since appeared as an actor in films and TV series and published the book How To Be a Bawse: A Guide to Conquering Life (2017), which topped the New York Times Business Best Sellers list. In 2017, she ranked No. 10 on Forbes’ list of the world’s highest-paid YouTube stars. And occasionally, she lampooned our American neighbours.
#CanadaIsAwesome #Comedy
https://youtu.be/bcmbKN1aIOU?si=FDL23I5TZya_CWpp
@al3x@hachyderm.ioI’ve watched “The Last Samurai Standing” despite promising myself to avoid TV series that have not concluded.
I enjoyed it even if it follows the “reality show” pattern without any new twists.
@Jyoti@mas.toJust re-watched tv series #TheExpanse (yes, I've read the books) and the last scene always kills me.
The Rocinante with that backdrop. I'm not saying it's as utopian as Trek but at least it's hopeful.
I hope humanity makes it. Looking around at now, I doubt we will.
But I hope we do.
@NFL@darktundra.xyzWhere to watch Bills vs. Dolphins: TV channel, live stream and preview for Week 10
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/where-to-watch-bills-vs-dolphins…
@emilis@social.linux.pizzaScenes for Danish TV mini series "Murder in the Dark" is being filmed in a house near my place: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt38553334/
It seems Lithuanians are providing location management and helping with sound.
A bit too dark to sneak in and take a few photos of the setup. Will …
@larsfosdal@mastodon.socialHow many characters do you recognize from this massive animation of comics, cartoons, tv-series, movies, etc?
#animation
https://floor796.com/
@samvarma@fosstodon.orgIf anyone needs something great to watch, I humbly submit Landman.
Written by Taylor Sheridan (best known for Yellowstone), it is spectacularly good—great dialogue, interesting characters, beautifully shot, instantly immersive. Just like Yellowstone. He somehow manages to capture a sense of America that I remember growing up looking in from the outside.
TS is creating some of the very best stuff for grown-ups.
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialYouTube TV signs a distribution deal with Bloomberg Media, adding Bloomberg TV , a live 24-hour news channel, and Bloomberg Originals (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/youtube-tv-adds-bloomberg-media-news-originals-c…
@fennek@cyberplace.social#SmilingFriends is still super weird in #Season3. I still have no idea how this became an actual TV series.
@cellfourteen@social.petertoushkov.euMy TV series of the year is Platonic's S01 from 2023.
Phoenix - Alpha Zulu (Official Video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqN9flclRio
@hynek@mastodon.socialOMG my The Bear opinion isn't fringe 🥲
I LOVE S1. I've made SO many ppl watch it.
I also liked S2.
I absolutely HATED S3. It felt like the writers got too much artistic freedom after their (well-deserved!) success & I had to watch them artistically jerking-off on TV.
https://
@bobmueller@mastodon.world @StephenRees@mas.toKnowledge Network
I discovered by chance that there is a fascinating series "Secrets of the London Underground". Series 1 has 6 episodes, series 2 and 3, 10 each.
It starts off with Aldwych (formerly Strand) - the shortest stub of a branch line of the Piccadilly. And one that I have actually travelled on before it closed.
I won't be saying "there's nothing on tv tonight" for a while!
@gwire@mastodon.socialI've just checked the charts on the UK Apple TV store - the number four movie is an obscure forty year old Tom Selleck movie, Runaway, and the number one TV series is season two of Blakes 7.
Let that inform your idea of who it is buying stuff there.
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialThe first four episodes of Stranger Things 5 were the second-biggest premiere for any Netflix original series, behind only the second season of Squid Game (Rick Porter/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-new…
@AprilTeachy@bildung.social#Stromberg #fritzemerz im Guardian 🫣
‘Embodying the zeitgeist more than ever’: German sitcom character Stromberg revived for Merz era
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries B, Episode 08 - Hostage
MUTOID: Yes, Supreme Commander. Time distort ten.
SERVALAN: Mutoids. Don't you ever question anything?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/208/384 B7B4
@cheryanne@aus.socialStill catching up on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
#StarTrek #StrangeNewWorlds
@stargazer@woof.techПоступова трансформація медичних діагнозів у лайку — на жаль, поширене явище. Цікаво, що "аутист" мігрує в іншому напрямку і може тепер стати компліментом.
Цікаво, як так сталося.
Цікаво, чи можливо відтворити цей процес.
...А спонсор цього поста — Уляна. Уляна: пиряй в блекаут з укулеле.
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The gradual transformation of medical diagnoses into slurs is, unfortunately, quite ubiquitous. With this in mind, a reverse migration of "autistic" is all…
@relcfp@mastodon.socialHow Scripted TV Series Portray Social Media’s Power to Shape Culture
https://ift.tt/ZhX1b8P
updated: Monday, November 3, 2025 - 3:32pmfull name / name of organization: Libbie Searcy (Contract…
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@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries D, Episode 13 - Blake
TARRANT: That isn't the plan anymore, though, is it Avon?
AVON: I think we can do better.
VILA: Does that mean safer?
AVON: In the end, winning is the only safety.
VILA: It doesn't mean safer. I didn't think it would.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/413/16
@cellfourteen@social.petertoushkov.euHBO is the perfect match for It: Welcome to Derry. The good news is I am not dead inside - two or three jump scares got me good 😀 I love the sixties setting.
#ItWelcometoDerry #TV
@kurtsh@mastodon.socialBattlestar Galactica is one of my all-time favorite sci-fi TV series ever, along with:
▫️Twilight Zone
▫️Firefly
▫️Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
▫️Mr. Robot
▫️The Expanse
▫️Star Wars: Andor
▫️Fallout
▶️ The Controversy of BATTLESTAR GALACTICA (2003)
https://youtub…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialUCLA study: among the most-watched streaming series in 2024, 80% of lead actors were white and white men accounted for 79% of all show creators, vs. 77% in 2023 (Payton Turkeltaub/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/streaming/news/hollywood-diversi…
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries C, Episode 13 - Terminal
TARRANT: Let's see if we can't find a way off this planet. There's a lot to do.
[Tarrant, Cally, Dayna, and Vila exit one by one. Avon turns to go, and smiles as he too exits.]
[End of episode. Roll credits.]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/313/441
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialA US federal trial of Carl Rinsch, accused of swindling Netflix out of millions when making sci-fi series White Horse, begins with an ex-Netflix exec testifying (Antonio Ferme/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/carl-rinsch-netflix-fraud-trial-begins…
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries C, Episode 06 - City at the Edge of the World
VILA: The air's as fresh as ever. Do you know what that means?
KERRIL: We're going to die of exhaustion.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/306/452 B7B2
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialTelevisaUnivision creates a shoppable "microdrama" series for JCPenney, with five 90-second scripted episodes, and plans to expand its microcontent production (Brian Steinberg/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/microdramas-ad…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialAn interview with Lester Holt about his first original podcast series The Last Appeal, as part of NBC News' Dateline, focusing on a Texas death sentence case (Brian Steinberg/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/lester-holt-dateline-pod…
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries B, Episode 01 - Redemption
CALLY: Treatment unit. He tried to reconnect one of the servo links and it burned his hand.
BLAKE: Right, sit down. [All but Vila sit at a small table to the left of flight consoles] No one is to attempt to repair any equipment till the computers are back under our control.
https://blake.torpi…
