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America: assemble! Jimmy Kimmel needs our help. Ten minutes into his Wednesday Jimmy Kimmel Live! monologue, Kimmel addressed the elephant in the room: the FCC has him in its crosshairs. Again. Earlier in the day, the Federal Communications Commissionclarified its guidance on its equal time rule, which stipulates that broadcast stations must afford equal air…
Magdy and Sama are in their 60s and just want a quiet life in Cairo. Too bad that the retired couple’s fridge breaks down, turning their apartment into a stage on which the tragicomedies of love, loss, ageing and Al Qahr (more on that below) play out against the background of farcical bureaucracy and crumbling…
Two music stars will take the stage at Sundance to honor an icon. Rufus Wainwright and Norah Jones will share the spotlight inside Park City’s Eccles Theatre on Sunday night following the festival premiere of Broken English from filmmakers Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard. The film, which had its world premiere at the Venice Film…
Friends and longtime podcasting partners Tom Segura and Bert Kreischer took opposing approaches to their recent Netflix comedy series. Segura used his opportunity to deliver 2025’s Bad Thoughts, a vignette-driven sketch show in the vein of I Think You Should Leave that steered into everything that is amiably off-putting and in-your-face about Segura’s stand-up/podcast persona….
There are shows that demand your attention, and reward you richly for it. They ask you to keep track of elaborate storylines, to explore the nuances of the setting with curiosity and patience, to get invested in the plights of the people you’re seeing onscreen, and in return they deliver thoughtful ideas or enthralling escapes…
In five previous semiannual data releases dating back to 2023, no Netflix movie or series had recorded more than 165 million views in six months. Then KPop Demon Hunters came along. The animated smash, which already sits atop Netflix’s all-time movie rankings (which are measured over a title’s first 13 weeks of release), accumulated a…
Ted Sarandos wants investors (and regulators!) to know: Netflix is facing more competition than ever, and the competition is only getting more fierce. It’s a message that appears honed for battle, should regulators in the U.S. or Europe try to fight the company’s $83 billion deal for Warner Bros. “The TV landscape, in fact, has…
Independent Artist Group has named Nir Caspi as head of non-scripted & new media and chief growth officer. It’s the latest move from the agency, which is determined to establish itself as the top alternative to the Big 3 agencies and occurs as it pushes into new growth areas, including into the rapidly expanding digital…
Netflix has been testing new vertical video features, which it plans to roll out later in 2026. Speaking on its earnings call Tuesday, Netflix co-CEO Greg Peters said the streamer had already been featuring a vertical video feed in the mobile experience for the past several months, which includes clips of Netflix shows and movies….
Ever since his breakout film, Narc (2002), Joe Carnahan has been keenly aware that the industry and audience alike have wanted him to helm more hard-hitting cop dramas. So the writer-director finally decided to purposefully deliver on that sentiment, and the result is the Ben Affleck–Matt Damon Netflix chart-topper, The Rip. The road to The…
