Tootfinder

LG smart TV owners say a webOS update pinned Microsoft Copilot to TV home screens, with no apparent way to remove the app; LG unveiled an AI TV strategy at CES (Luke James/Tom's Hardware)
https://www.tomshardware.com/service-provi

LG TV users baffled by unremovable Microsoft Copilot installation — surprise forced update shows app pinned to the home screen
Users report Copilot appearing after a recent software update, with no option to uninstall.

An interview with YouTube CEO Neal Mohan on YouTube as the future of TV, paying out $100B to creators, partnering with the NFL, scripted content, and more (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

YouTube Just Ate TV. It’s Only Getting Started
In two decades, the app has grown from a user-generated circus into the most powerful platform on earth. CEO Neal Mohan on his $100 billion vision for YouTube’s future and the disruption it’s left in its wake.

How video podcasts have developed distinct visual styles favoring casual and intimate aesthetics, including Joe Rogan's almost proletarian dark red drapes (Joe Coscarelli/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/11/12/arts/podcast-sets-design.…

Modern Podcast Sets and Online Chat Shows Are Less Polished By Design
Modern online chat shows look less fussy and polished than TV. That’s by design.

Eddy Cue says 2025 was a "record-breaking year" for Apple services: December was a monthly TV engagement record, the App Store has 850M weekly users, and more (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

Eddy Cue Calls Out Top Apple TV Shows and Movies In Year-End Memo Pledging “Innovation”
The Apple services executive released a note saying that Apple TV set new monthly engagement records, while Apple Music has hit subscriber records.

I still am very uneasy about Netflix owning Warner Bros.
But this is quite fascinating that they will continue to license to other platforms.
https://appleinsider.com/articles/25/12/08/netflix-will-continue-licensing-warner-bros-h…

Series 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

The Pitt ep1
Do people this is better then other doctor shows? So far it just seems fine.
#tv

Eddy Cue says 2025 was a "record-breaking year" for Apple services: Apple TV set a monthly engagement record in December, with total hours viewed up 36% YoY (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

Eddy Cue Calls Out Top Apple TV Shows and Movies In Year-End Memo Pledging “Innovation”
The Apple services executive released a note saying that Apple TV set new monthly engagement records, while Apple Music has hit subscriber records.

Wonderful retrospective on one of my favorite shows of the 80s.
▶️The Rise and Fall of TAXI: The Drama That DESTROYED a TV Legend
https://youtube.com/watch?v=BTPtO2D3fP8&si=Vi6nq-CYVMIF7VIQ

"The hidden carbon cost of reality TV shows like The Traitors"
#TV #Media #Emissions

The hidden carbon cost of reality TV shows like The Traitors
Reality TV isn’t the villain of the climate story – but it is a powerful amplifier of taste.

🐘 Unfinished infrastructure, wasted public funds: Colombia's 'white elephants' exposed
https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/the-observers/20251106-colombia-white-elephants-unfinished-infra…

The Observers - Unfinished infrastructure, wasted public funds: Colombia's 'white elephants' exposed
In Colombia, an Instagram account called "White Elephant" exposes unfinished infrastructure (often referred to as “white elephants”), the waste of public funds and irregularities surrounding certain toll booths. The account visits the sites, then posts videos and files complaints to pressure officials and companies. The Observers team spoke to the individual behind this account followed by more than 300,000 people.

Netflix has removed the ability to cast shows and movies from phones to TVs,
unless subscribers are using older casting devices.
An updated help page on Netflix’s website, first reported by Android Authority, says that
the streaming service “no longer supports casting shows from a mobile device to most TVs and TV-streaming devices,”
and instead directs users to navigate Netflix using the remote that came with their TV hardware.
The change seems to have rolled ou…

Netflix kills casting from phones
Netflix has removed the ability to cast shows and movies from phones to TVs, unless subscribers are using older casting devices.

Because of the films and TV shows of my youth, I will never not think a viola case isn’t concealing a machine gun. Even when being carried by a young child on the way to school.

Amazon Fire TV adds an Alexa feature enabling Prime Video users to skip to movie scenes using natural language descriptions, character names, or famous quotes (Lucas Manfredi/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/amazon-fire-tv-prime-video-alexa-plus-a…

Amazon Fire TV's New Alexa+ Feature Will Let Prime Video Users Skip to Their Favorite Movie Scenes
The new AI-powered Alexa+ feature will expand to TV shows on the streamer at a later date

All tv shows and movies are about time travel but usually only in one constant direction.
#tv #movies

Getting ready to fight back? France introduces military service as Russian threat looms - The Debate
https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/the-debate/20251127-france-introduces-military-service-as-russian-threat-looms-getting-ready-to-fight-back

Series 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

»Amerikanische Tech-Unternehmen wollen ganz unbedingt deine Aufmerksamkeit. Genau, deine! Und deine! Deine auch! Und dafür ist ihnen fast jedes Mittel recht.«
— das @…
Ich habe die TV-Show erst jetzt online gesehen und ja die KI so wie US Tech-Konzerne wollen nur unser Bestes – Die Aufmerksamkeit, deine Zeit, dein Geld.
📺

KI-Chatbots: Schleimen, Lügen, Dranbleiben
Große, künstliche Sprachmodelle wie ChatGPT, Gemini und Grok tun alles für Aufmerksamkeit. Im schlimmsten Fall gefährden sie sogar Menschenleben.

I'm so bad at remembering what TV I am currently watching I built my own site with a perfect view in to what I am currently watching.
#tv

A look at Alan's Universe, a YouTube channel for Gen Alpha with 98.3M subscribers that releases long-form, episodic videos as viewers shift to watching on TV (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/arts/television/youtube-alans-universe.html

‘Alan’s Universe’ Shows What It Might Look Like to Win at YouTube
As Gen Alpha’s attention drifts from TV and movies, video creators like Alan Chikin Chow are eager to fill the void.

Once in a while, when watching a video on my TV, the audio stream fails to start on the sound bar. Nothing shows that this is happening, but there's no audio.
Usually, we'll just stop/start the video (turn it off and on again).
Increasingly (it seems; maybe it's always been this way and I just notice now), videos are starting intentionally silently. The audio only starts after an intro or title sequence.
"Is it broken? Or is this just 'art’?” is a commo…

Amazon Fire TV adds an Alexa feature enabling Prime Video users to skip to movie scenes using natural language descriptions, character names, or famous quotes (Lucas Manfredi/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/amazon-fire-tv-prime-video-alexa-plus-a…

Amazon Fire TV's New Alexa+ Feature Will Let Prime Video Users Skip to Their Favorite Movie Scenes
The new AI-powered Alexa+ feature will expand to TV shows on the streamer at a later date

Anybody remember when TV shows had 26 episodes per season, not 4 or 5 or 8, with no multi-year breaks in between seasons? Shows these days are just lazy.

I'm watching Formula 1 2025x125 "Formula 1 Etihad Airways Abu Dhabi Grand Prix 2025 - Qualifying" #Formula1

Formula 1 Etihad Airways Abu Dhabi Grand Prix 2025 - Qualifying

Apple and NBCUniversal announce an Apple TV and Peacock Premium bundle for $14.99 per month, a 30% discount over the individual subscriptions (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/…

Apple TV and Peacock Ink Extensive Streaming Bundle Deal
In addition to getting both services at a discount of more than 30 percent, Apple TV will add select Peacock programming, while Peacock will get selected Apple TV shows.

I’d be hard pressed to come up with many tv series that have been so consistently great as Stranger Things.
My list would include some of the best shows ever, like Mad Men, Sopranos, The Wire.
Bring on the finale!
#StrangerThings

I wonder if the end of MTV also means the end of MTV content on Pluto TV. Sometimes I like putting on one of the streams. Currently watching some old Unplugged shows.

Series 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

Yeah, sure Donald.

Nielsen streaming data: none of 2025's 10 most-watched shows were new, Tubi and Roku are almost twice the size of HBO Max and Peacock, and more (Bloomberg)

Americans Are Watching Fewer New TV Shows and More Free TV
When it comes to entertainment, we live in an era of asymmetrical information. Technology companies are sitting on more data than they know how to use, and yet the average person or business partner has access to very little of it.

I have to laugh. In most TV movies and shows, if someone receives a head injury of any kind, it seems to be the supreme goal of any who attend the injured person to keep them conscious at all times. Of course, there's no reason that this needs to be done. I wonder where this came from.

In which I talk about pet peeves in TV shows and how they pull you out of a story. Sorry the post is late today. Website problems.
https://www.bobmuellerwriter.com/ow-isnt-enough-writers-we-can-do-better/

Netflix quietly removes support for casting from its mobile app to most modern TVs and streaming devices, including Chromecast, regardless of subscription plan (Adamya Sharma/Android Authority)
https://www.androidauthority.com/netflix-casting-chromecas…

Netflix quietly killed casting from phones to newer Chromecasts and Google TV Streamer
Netflix no longer supports casting shows from a mobile device to most TVs and streaming devices, regardless of the plan you're on.

Hats are cool, hats are expressive. Wear a hat to Thanksgiving.
(I grew up in LA during the 1950s and '60s, so I saw a lot of Zorro shows on TV - so I like Californio style hats with a colorful band and a stampede string.)
https://www.parks.ca.gov/pages/663/images/Aaron.jpg

The killing of two unarmed Palestinians by Israeli soldiers in the northern West Bank city of Jenin
has provoked international outrage
after video footage of the incident went viral on Friday.
Credited to the local Palestine TV station, the footage shows two young Palestinian men surrendering to Israeli soldiers
and lying on the ground in front of a garage under soldiers’ instructions.
They then appear to be directed by the soldiers to go back inside the garag…

Outrage after footage of Israeli soldiers executing two Palestinians in Jenin goes viral
Human rights organizations call the killing of two unarmed Palestinians in Jenin by Israeli soldiers an “extrajudicial execution.”

It's been a week since I watched this episode, and I still giggle at this scene about once per day.
[I read a lot of Mad Magazine in my youth.]

The similarity to the climate crisis is amazing - robust scientific research has identified a serious, life threatening problem - as well as what is needed to address that problem. But $€₱₹¥£ are flowing from customers who are unaware of the problem, and are seduced by marketing messages - in movies, TV shows, social media, and explicit advertisements. And there is huge profit from practices that are already resulting in injuries, illnesses and death, as well as economic losses. And

The similarity to the climate crisis is amazing - robust scientific research has identified a serious, life threatening problem - as well as what is needed to address that problem. But $€₱₹¥£ are flowing from customers who are unaware of the problem, and are seduced by marketing messages - in movies, TV shows, social media, and explicit advertisements. And there is huge profit from practices that are already resulting in injuries, illnesses and death, as well as economic losses. And

Series 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

"National Trust and TV wildlife expert team up on autumn nature campaign"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #NationalTrust

NBC's entire primetime lineup on Sundays and Tuesdays is now reserved for sporting events through the spring, a stark example of broadcast TV's focus on live TV (John Koblin/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/business/media/broadcast-tv…

It’s Easier Than Ever to Turn Your Dial to a Live Event
Broadcast TV continues to draw big audiences. And they are increasingly getting special events, award shows and sports — lots of sports.

#MostWanted
#FBI seek #OrangeCounty #RealityTV producer that fled #USA

An interview with YouTube CEO Neal Mohan on YouTube as the future of TV, paying out $100B to creators, partnering with the NFL, scripted content, and more (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

YouTube Just Ate TV. It’s Only Getting Started
In two decades, the app has grown from a user-generated circus into the most powerful platform on earth. CEO Neal Mohan on his $100 billion vision for YouTube’s future and the disruption it’s left in its wake.

I am quite keen to watch The War Between The Land And The Sea on iplayer.
But we need to consider tactics. Will the folks sit and watch it with me at Xmas? If they would that'd perhaps be better than whatever drivel quiz shows and police car chase stuff they normally make me watch.
If they won't I'll be be postponing it three weeks for no reason.
🤔
Might be nice to watch it in the new bedroom but that probably won't have a bed or a chair until the new year.
#watching #doctorWho #onlyNotDoctorWho #tv

Netflix quietly removes support for casting from its mobile app to most modern TVs and streaming devices, including Chromecasts, regardless of subscription tier (Adamya Sharma/Android Authority)
https://www.androidauthority.com/netflix-casting-chromeca…

Netflix quietly killed casting from phones to newer Chromecasts and Google TV Streamer
Netflix no longer supports casting shows from a mobile device to most TVs and streaming devices, regardless of the plan you're on.

Apple and NBCUniversal announce an Apple TV and Peacock Premium bundle for $14.99 per month, a 30% discount over the individual subscriptions (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/…

Apple TV and Peacock Ink Extensive Streaming Bundle Deal
In addition to getting both services at a discount of more than 30 percent, Apple TV will add select Peacock programming, while Peacock will get selected Apple TV shows.

For all its success, there are two things Netflix wants and has never achieved. First is to win the Academy Award for best picture and, second, to make a proper blockbuster movie. It’s well to remember that Netflix is a US corporation, not the radical guerrilla outfit it sometimes presents itself as. And they want their films to be at the heart of mainstream American culture in the same way their TV shows are.
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/dec/05/what-does-netflix-hope-to-achieve-by-buying-warner-bros?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Mainstream media is owned by Billionaires.
They control even small-town newspapers and TV.
Expect this belittling of your beliefs and actions:
https://bsky.app/profile/briarish.bsky.social/post/3m3koppqktc2r

Briar (@briarish.bsky.social)
Coverage of No Kings in the print MN Star Tribune is terrible. Story is in Section B (State & Region). Number of protesters is "throngs" (not the actual 10s of thousands). Main picture is the start of the Minneapolis protest that shows about 50 people, and a couple dozen more in St. Cloud.

Line from a show set in 1990s: "My boss wants to surprise his daughter with this monster 40-inch Mitsubishi TV."
(City on a Hill, S3 E2, 27:1.)
43" is probably the smallest size TV anyone sells/wants these days. 😀
#quotes #entertainment #TV_Shows #comparison #life #society

Series D, Episode 10 - Gold
KEILLER: We've got to get back up.
AVON: No! Down.
KEILLER: But now...
SOOLIN: Tarrant and Dayna are up there, they'll cover for us.
KEILLER: But, how'd they get there, I don't understand?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/410/107

:bisexual_pride: :bisexual_pride: :bisexual_pride:
#USPol #Meme #Memes #Humor

Paramount signs a 10-year lease for 285K square feet at 1888 Studios in Bayonne, NJ, making it eligible for tax credits of up to 40% for movies and TV shows (Winston Cho/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

Paramount to Occupy Massive New Jersey Production Campus
The move to 1888 Studios comes amid New Jersey's rapid rise as a production hotspot.

Series 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…