Category: Television

  • ‘Daredevil: Born Again’ Could Use Another Reboot

    ‘Daredevil: Born Again’ Could Use Another Reboot

    In the first episode of Daredevil: Born Again on Disney+, Karen Page (Deborah Ann Woll) teases best friends Matt Murdock (Charlie Cox) and Foggy Nelson (Elden Henson) about their tendency to indulge in nostalgia for the pre-gentrification days of Hell’s Kitchen. “Not nostalgia,” Foggy insists. “Reverence for the past, yet hope for the future.”  It’s an…

  • NOC Review: ‘Daredevil: Born Again’ is Marvel Television at Its Peak

    Even as a Marvel fan, I’ll be the first to admit that not all of the MCU’s Disney+ shows have worked. I really didn’t care for Secret Invasion or She-Hulk. However, when they’ve hit, such as X-Men ’97, WandaVision, Moon Knight, Ms. Marvel, and Loki, they’ve hit hard. And that brings us to one of…

  • Netflix greenlights Rachel Weisz series Vladimir from 20th Television, Merman, Small Dog

    Netflix greenlights Rachel Weisz series Vladimir from 20th Television, Merman, Small Dog

    Netflix has handed an eight-episode order to Vladimir, a limited series starring British actress Rachel Weisz and produced by Sharon Horgan’s Merman and Jason Winer’s Small Dog Picture Company. Rachel Weisz (Photo: Brigitte Lacombe/Netflix) Based on Julia May Jonas’ novel of the same name, the darkly comic story follows a woman who becomes obsessed by…

  • ACE files illegal IPTV lawsuits

    ACE files illegal IPTV lawsuits

    Anti-piracy coalition the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE) has filed two separate federal lawsuits against individuals in California and Pennsylvania, each accused of operating illegal internet protocol television (IPTV) services. The first lawsuit, filed in the US District Court for the Central District of California, targets Zachary DeBarr of Murrieta, California, the alleged operator…

  • Study: Multi-generational viewers switching to streaming

    Study: Multi-generational viewers switching to streaming

    FreeWheel, a Comcast company and technology platform for the video advertising industry, has released the findings from a new study, CTV Barometer, carried out with GWI — the consumer insights tech company. The research shows that streaming TV is rapidly becoming a popular way to consume content, regardless of age. Across 630 million streamers in…

  • Neil Patrick Harris to guest star in Dexter: Resurrection

    Neil Patrick Harris to guest star in Dexter: Resurrection

    SHOWTIME has announced that Emmyand Tony Award winner Neil Patrick Harris (Uncoupled) will join the cast of the SHOWTIME original series Dexter: Resurrection. Harris will guest star in the role of Lowell. Production for Dexter: Resurrection commenced in January 2025 in New York and the series is set to launch in the summer of 2025…

  • Boise State Film and Television Arts Program featured on Idaho News 6

    Boise State Film and Television Arts Program featured on Idaho News 6

    The Boise State Film and Television Arts Program stepped into the spotlight this week in a segment on Idaho News 6 that celebrated the program. “Boise State might just be the place to get started in the entertainment industry,” Jessica Davis said in the segment, which featured interviews with current students and faculty. One of…

  • MASN dispute resolved between Washington Nationals and Baltimore Orioles, freeing Nats to sell television rights in 2026

    MASN dispute resolved between Washington Nationals and Baltimore Orioles, freeing Nats to sell television rights in 2026

    Major League Baseball announced Monday that the longstanding MASN TV dispute between the Washington Nationals and Baltimore Orioles has finally come to an end. The media rights fight between the two franchises extends all the way back to the Nationals’ move to DC from Montreal in 2005. Due to concerns that the Nationals’ presence in…

  • A Television Writer Wonders: Is Writing for TV Over?

    A Television Writer Wonders: Is Writing for TV Over?

    The first writers’ room I ever worked in was considered freakishly small at the time. There were seven writers, a writers’ assistant, a script coordinator, a writers’ PA, and a phalanx of personal assistants, which was the category I fell into. Zipped into my bright floral Topshop shift dresses and vibrating with Trader Joe’s Powerberries,…

  • The ‘Severance’ Sellout – Book and Film Globe

    The ‘Severance’ Sellout – Book and Film Globe

    Last week, a video on my feed shocked me. It had the aesthetics from ‘Severance‘ and featured Adam Scott from ‘Severance.’ Then, in the middle, Jake from State Farm showed up. Yes, this was an ad, for State Farm, taking place in the offices of Lumon Corporation, from the TV show Severance. Our main character…