In an ordinary TV year, this would be the kind of column that writes itself: a rundown of somewhere between 10 and 20 of the new and returning shows we’re most excited to see this fall. But as you may have heard, this is not an ordinary TV year. The …
Read More »Writers Fire Back at Studios' Flawed Counteroffer: 'Pay Your Workers'
Hollywood studios and streaming services released details of an offer they’d made to the Writers Guild of America that included updated terms on AI, data transparency and minimum staffing, according to a Tuesday press release. But upon further review of Hollywood’s counteroffer, members of the WGA don’t plan on leaving …
Read More »'Ahsoka' Premiere: Non-'Star Wars' Superfans Will Be Lost in Space
This post contains spoilers for the two-part series premiere of Ahsoka, now streaming on Disney+. The Star Wars Disney+ shows run by Jon Favreau and/or Dave Filoni have had a very delicate relationship with Clone Wars and Rebels, the two animated series that Filoni ran in the 2000s and 2010s. …
Read More »Why Is Everybody Watching 'Suits'?
“Excuse me, that isn’t … is that … Suits?” This was me at the barbershop a few Saturdays ago. I was fifth in line for a haircut and trying to focus on my new library book, but my attention kept being drawn to the TV set, which was not only …
Read More »'Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' Season Two's Shocking Finale Cliffhanger
This post contains spoilers for Season Two of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, which is now streaming in its entirety on Paramount+. Over the last year, we’ve said goodbye to some all-time television shows, and the void each one leaves can be impossible to fill. But you keep looking, and …
Read More »How to Watch Every 'Jurassic Park' Movie in Order Online
In 2022,Jurassic World Dominion released to the world, seemingly the final chapter in theJurassic Parksaga. If you don’t want 65 million years for cloning technology to get advanced enough to witness the re-creation of dinosaurs from DNA, or can’t travel to one of the Universal theme parks to get up …
Read More »SAG Actors Want Higher Residuals. Here's How Streaming Residuals Work
SAG-AFTRA members have pressed pause on film and TV production for the past three weeks, aside from some greenlighted indie projects, in an effort to get Hollywood studios and streamers, or the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP), to offer them a fair deal. Last week, the Writers …
Read More »Steven Soderbergh Talks Helping Christopher Nolan and Eating the Rich
His “retirement” a decade ago didn’t last. It couldn’t possibly. Steven Soderbergh is just too curious, too prolific, and far too in love with the work — the process of assembling a team to complete a herculean task, in particular — to hang it up. It’s a big reason why …
Read More »'Gilmore Girls' Actors Sound Off on Netflix Over Show's Streaming Residuals
When Gilmore Girls originally aired on The WB then later The CW from 2000 until 2007, the show was popular with audiences. But when the series started streaming on Netflix in 2014, its relevance skyrocketed and awakened a massive fandom, ultimately leading to the show’s 2016 revival Gilmore Girls: A …
Read More »Don't Sleep on 'Revenant,' a Masterful K-Horror Series on Disney+
Revenant, like so many horror stories, begins on a rainy night. Disney+’s latest South Korean drama opens as Professor Gu Kang-mo (Jin Seon-kyu) hurries through his front door, past shelves piled with books, and barricades himself in the study. “What went wrong?” he asks himself, flipping through his notes. Behind …
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