@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialDisney Entertainment TV launches video podcasts as TV series companions, starting with Only Murders in the Building on September 9 (Michael Schneider/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/disney-tv-video-podcasts-only-murders-in-the-buil…
@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.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA profile of Netflix VP Brandon Riegg, who oversees unscripted series, sports, documentary series, and gaming, as the streamer pushes into live shows and sports (Nicole Sperling/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/business/media/netflix…
@pre@boing.worldWatched Wednesday S2
The family moves to Wednesday's school after being mind-controlled into organising the gala in a plot for money. So it's almost just an Adams Family series really, other than being at Wednesday's school.
The Hyde monsters and werewolves look great, big cgi animals with absolutely massive round eyes.
Wednesday now has a little redhead mini-me stalking her with a crush and eyes nearly as big as a Hyde.
Wednesday is somehow portrayed as both an outcast and also the hero who saves the day and the school every episode. Which is a problem with hero outcasts.
Tim Burton's magical style suits the Adams Family well. Inspired him probably. Goths look cool. The Addams Family is cool.
Nice they way they wove in a story of how Gomez lost his powers. And link Thing to the big bad, meaning Thing can save the day.
Enjoyed the show a lot.
#watching #tv #wednesday
@chiraag@mastodon.online
@cdarwin@c.im“Zero Day Attack”, a TV series, is terrifying audiences in Taiwan
Blockades, blackouts and bullets: China invades Taiwan on screen
https://www.
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialLuminate: Apple TV has all but abandoned animated shows, ordering just six animated series in 2024, a 60% drop compared to 15 orders each in 2022 and 2023 (Tony Maglio/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/busin…
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systemsAverage person: "I watch movies / TV series, because I don't have time to read books."
Me: "I read books, because the only free time I have is while traveling."
@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!
@stefan@gardenstate.social'BoJack Horseman' Creator's 'Long Story Short' Renewed for Season 2 #tv
@pre@boing.worldBeing stuck with a broken wrist so unable to really do much of the things, I have spend a lot of this month watching TV.
I'm not all that up on Star Wars, so when I watched Season One of Andor I didn't know it was about a man called Andor, I had that name confused with Endor, and so I was distracted by the lack of Ewoks.
No such distraction for season two though, now I know it's about a rebel mercenary and his adventures leading up to him being in Rogue One delivering details about how to blow up a death star.
They all live in the Empire, which is relentless and authoritarian and evil just like the real life empire taking over western civilization now. They persecute and harass poor Andor and his buddies so much that they cause the rebellion against their authority that they intend to suppress.
Great show.
Wonder if all the people arrested wrongfully for doing no real crime in the US and UK and around the west will end up fighting the empire here too?
Still wish there was a series about ewoks though.
#watching #tv #andor
@rachel@norfolk.socialhttps://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/jul/23/bbc-to-show-masterchef-series-already-filmed-with-gregg-wallace-and-john-torode of course they are going to show it. They couldn’t give a shit about …
@Techmeme@techhub.socialGoogle adds Gemini to Google TV, starting on TCL's new QM9K series TVs and expanding to Google TV Streamer 4K and other major TV brands later in 2025 (Andrew Liszewski/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/782500/google-gemini-ai-assistant-smart-tv-tcl
@LillyHerself@Mastodon.socialThe film Blade Runner: poetic, beautiful and full of philosophy, with a fabulous cast and effects, has been a touchstone since it came out in 1982.
With misgivings I watched the profit-seeking 2017 attempt to milk the reverence in which the first film is held. It had its moments, but IMO it is largely a mediocre film.
Can we not leave perfection alone? Now, there's going to be a friggin TV series 😑
@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…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialA profile of Netflix VP Brandon Riegg, who oversees unscripted series, sports, documentary series, and gaming, as the streamer pushes into live shows and sports (Nicole Sperling/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/business/media/netflix…
@pre@boing.worldTWENTY SEVEN series! Man. South Park continues to be pretty cool too.
Still both fresh and yet familiar. I remain in awe of the consistency of the show over more than half my whole life now.
Stupid cock and fart jokes with an absurd setup which on a second level is mentioning and mocking the true absurdity and violence of real life.
Satan being Trump's lover in a rehash of the Sadam Hussain skit is lovely.
They seem determined to try and get cancelled, but haven't managed that in 27 years. Maybe it's a small-dick joke that'll finally do them in?
Still got half of this season to watch. Seems like it's mostly bi-weekly now? Or every episode is delayed.
#watching #tv #southPark
@jswright61@ruby.socialI would love to get some recommendations for shows to watch / binge. In an effort to get things started I have the following recommendation:
My wife and I are really enjoying Dept. Q on Netflix.
#BingeWorthy ✱ #TVRecs
It would be great to get one of these hashtags trending.
Boosts …
@davidaugust@mastodon.onlineApple CEO Cook isn’t pulling an iger and being a coward, is he?
Of course he is.
The Real Reason Apple Postponed New Jessica Chastain Series 'The Savant'
https://parade.com/tv/the-real-reasonjessica-chastain-apple-show-the-savant-p…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialCalifornia awards $256M in state tax credits to 22 TV productions, the first allocation since it expanded its filming incentive to $750M in total in June (Gene Maddaus/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/california-film-tv-tax-credits-the-studio-1…
@jzsimon@fediscience.orgFinally got to see the new (2025) Naked Gun movie. First time I’ve laughed out loud in a movie theater in a long time. Truly in the same mold as the original movie and TV series. (And if you can, stay for the all the Easter eggs in the credits.)
https://mastodon.social/@Hollywoodoutbreak/115011183772774026
@hacksilon@infosec.exchangeSlightly sick, so sitting on the sofa and rewatching #TheExpanse to hopefully recover in time for my departure for #KeyConf25 tomorrow. The fact that that series was cancelled is a crime - it ranks up there with Battlestar Galactica for me in the pantheon of the best TV series' ever made.…
@cdarwin@c.imIn one of the two main storylines,
Trump, upset over the impending birth of his unholy lovechild with Satan,
sets a series of convoluted traps to force an abortion,
only for Carr to continually wander into them.
By the end of the episode, Carr,
badly injured and hosting a brain parasite as a result of toxoplasmosis from being buried in a mountain of cat poo,
is at risk of “losing his freedom of speech”.
@losttourist@social.chatty.monsterI hate to say it but my first thoughts on glancing at the photo is "that looks a bit like ALF from the old TV series"
#Liverpool
@stf@chaos.sociallast year i was blessed to read the #murderbot series by Martha Wells. last week i had the pleasure to watch the series based on the 1st book. if you want to read something cool go buy the #books, and as an appetizer go and watch the tv series. both have my blessing of approval.
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialGoogle adds Gemini to Google TV, starting on TCL's new QM9K series TVs and expanding to Google TV Streamer 4K and other major TV brands later in 2025 (Andrew Liszewski/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/782500/google-gemini-ai-assistant-smart-tv-tcl
@kurtsh@mastodon.social
@callunavulgaris@mastodon.scotSquare eyes alert for TV tonight: Piper Alpha documentary (I love docus on events from the 80s. I lived through them then and can now understand more from 40 years more life experience), the Tattoo (I just love the pipe bands) and a new series of University Challenge.
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.net#Blakes7 Series A, Episode 01 - The Way Back
BLAKE: I don't understand.
VILA: You're on your way to the penal colony on Cygnus Alpha. Or you will be when the prison ship's refueled. Try to look on the bright side. It must have something. None of the guests have ever left early. In fact, none of them have ever left at all.
@ErikUden@mastodon.dejust finished the animated TV series “Pantheon” and I must say it's peak. i just wanted to see one episode but now it's 5 AM and I've seen the whole show. please please watch it
@raiders@darktundra.xyzNBA legend Baron Davis named Raiders TV host https://www.raiders.com/news/baron-davis-nba-legend-to-host-raiders-talk-of-the-nation
@davej@dice.campI had an odd childhood memory just pop into my head.
When I was much, much younger, I obsessed over the TV series “In Search Of…” [1976-82] (AKA “Great Mysteries of the World”), and took every word of it as gospel. Leonard Nimoy hosted the show, and I thought, why would Spock lie to me? That would be illogical.
It likely had a greater formative influence on me than I give it credit.
@iam_jfnklstrm@social.linux.pizza @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…
@stefan@gardenstate.socialThe full superhuman samurai syber squad series is on youtube. All 53 episodes.
#tv
@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,…
@jake4480@c.imThe Mina the Hollower demo is now on Xbox (only until September 30!) so even though I played the demo some on the Switch, I figured I'd try some of this Xbox version on the Series X at lunch, and glad I did. Nice to use a controller for it instead of Switch joycons, for one. I guess I could've put the Switch version on the TV and used the wireless PowerA controller with it. But oh well. Anyway, if you have an Xbox, you should try this game, it's a blast. The full version comes ou…
@jzsimon@fediscience.orgFor fans of science fiction, or fans of the Murderbot TV series, this is a great deal. Nine Murderbot stories nine other works by Martha Wells, for $18.
https://tech.lgbt/@humblebundles/115079637034477377
@relcfp@mastodon.socialHow Scripted TV Series Portray Social Media’s Power to Shape Culture
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@lukem@hachyderm.ioToday I discovered that overengineered machine for hanging clothes (that also serves as a stationary bike) has Bluetooth and I can pair it with KInomap so that I have visuals to get myself distracted.
Honestly though, I might soon switch to watching TV series or long documentaries while rolling.
@kurtsh@mastodon.socialThe Prisoner TV series is available on-demand on YouTube... all 17 episodes just released via Shout Studios!
▶️ The Prisoner | FULL EPISODES | Shout! Studios
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBrrfZs-ew7NeZ-4sYoqnEsifM0jL7vQ7&si=WxPAFU4…
@stefan@gardenstate.social @samvarma@fosstodon.orgThis is awesome https://mastodon.social/@tvaziri/114863892514559699
@pre@boing.worldRead "Outland" by Dennis E Taylor, book one of the Quantum Earth series in which some college students figure out how to make a portal to parallell Earths just in time for their Earth Prime to suffer a supervolcano.
Taylor is pretty good at this stuff, loved his Bobiverse books.
Story was always progressing, even if it sometimes seemed to progress too slowly. Everyone's hip with all the literature so are comparing their situation to movies and TV shows all the time. Realistic cat-herding difficulties as they try and save as many people as they can and slowly realize that none of them will be going home and their home is doomed.
Looking forward to the next one.
#reading #books #scifi
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialAxios plans to launch The Axios Show, a five-episode video series featuring one-on-one newsmaker interviews, in September on its own properties, YouTube, and X (Brian Steinberg/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/axios-show-launch-newsmaker-int…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialWWE live events on ESPN's new streaming service will start earlier than expected, with Wrestlepalooza on Sept. 20, followed by Crown Jewel and Survivor Series (Brian Steinberg/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/wwe-espn-wrestlepalooza-september-20…
@BBC3MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #EssentialClassics
Geoffrey Burgon, Studio Orchestra & Geoffrey Burgon:
🎵 Aslan's Theme from The Chronicles of Narnia (BBC TV Series)
#GeoffreyBurgon #StudioOrchestra
https://open.spotify.com/track/7JMqh2YtXsW13mhfqCAIuI
@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
@relcfp@mastodon.socialHow Scripted TV Series Portray Social Media’s Power to Shape Culture
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@pre@boing.worldSeason five is the best season but season six has the two best episodes in Once More With Feeling followed by Tabula Rasa.
Incredible TV, all those tunes back in my head again. The pivot in the series from that episode as everyone's secrets are revealed in song.
Amazing stuff. Shame the big bad for the season is just these geeks. They are not Glory.
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.netSeries C, Episode 03 - Volcano
BERSHAR: We do not come to the surface any more than we have to. The air is not very pleasant.
TARRANT: I've noticed. [Troopers come out of hiding, guns drawn.]
DAYNA: [Looks as Bershar] You?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/303/316 B7B4…
@relcfp@mastodon.socialHow Scripted TV Series Portray Social Media’s Power to Shape Culture
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@BBC3MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #FridayNightIsMusicNight
Carl Davis, BBC Concert Orchestra & Karen Ní Bhroin:
🎵 Pride And Prejudice - Theme For The Tv Series
#CarlDavis #BBCConcertOrchestra #KarenNíBhroin
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialNetflix used genAI for the first time in one of its TV shows, for a VFX sequence; Ted Sarandos says the VFX costs would have been too high otherwise (Mark Sweney/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/jul/18/netflix-u…
