Roughly 10 years ago, someone told me that Roku was making "cheap hardware to sell to Walmart customers in flyover states." The remark was meant to be an insult, belittling a company that seemed to care more about hardware profit margins than design and innovation. Still, I've been thinking about it a lot over the years. And as Roku became a major force in streaming hardware, surpassing 100 million households last month, I've come to the conclusion that Roku's secret superpower may just be that it embraced not being cool.
The streamer debuted a trailer for the first release, a double-episode called "Extreme Makeover: Homer Edition," which can be watched in the video player above. It premieres June 17, exclusively on Disney+, and features special guest stars Betty Gilpin, with musical guests Laufey and Tegan and Sara.
With more teams competing than ever, the 2026 FIFA World Cup is shaping up to be one of the biggest sporting events of all time. Action kicks off June 11 and runs through July 19 across the US, Canada, and Mexico, and there's no shortage of ways to watch, since all the games will be broadcast live. But what are your options if you don't have an expensive cable package?
The first two episodes of series one take us to a spacious lake house, where Nick reveals his true feelings to his friends, triggering an incredibly awkward series of events. Scenes of this 25th wedding anniversary were filmed across various areas of Upstate New York 's Hudson Valley, with properties in areas including Fishkill and Newburgh filmed for scenes.
When her manager, Jimmy (Paul W. Downs), suggests pairing her with Ava (Hannah Einbinder), a 25-year-old TV writer, to spark some fresher punch lines, the odd-couple setup ignites a question Hacks has been preoccupied with ever since: What does it mean to be a truly great artist? And can Deborah, a comedian who's long excelled at making herself the punch line, kick-start her secret creative ambitions and secure her spot in comedy's pantheon?
It's not that I ever forgot about Betty Gilpin. She's a streaming-era stalwart whose sharp instincts, unmatchable aura, and finely-tuned line readings turn anything from a "Maybe I'll watch it ( lying)" into a "What platform is it on ( sincerely)?" Since she last body-slammed Alison Brie on GLOW, Gilpin has been the best thing in stuff like American Primeval, Death by Lightning, and that Peacock show where she's a nun who fights AI. Not everything she's acted in is a winner, but she's never the loser in any of them.
The first wave of RGB LED TVs are fighting for their spot in the TV hierarchy. They need to outperform OLED TVs in brightness and color (because they'll never match OLED's contrast), and they need to outperform regular LED TVs in everything (because their price is so much higher). It's now time for Sony to take a swing with the Bravia 7 II, which is out alongside the flagship Bravia 9 II. Both pair RGB LED backlighting with Sony's always top-notch processing.
Sony updated the Bravia 9 II with an all-new True RGB LED screen, which works similarly to the Samsung R95H. It works in tandem with Sony's new RGB Backlight Master Drive Pro engine, which precision-controls the individual red, green, and blue LEDS for ultra-accurate colors, impressive contrast, and a brighter screen than Sony's OLED offerings.
Paula witnesses a crime over a video chat with her preferred camboy, and the show unfolds from there: investigations, cover-ups, conspiracies, a hidden past, all the usual bits and pieces that make up a domestic thriller.
Before she was playing secret pop-up shows across the country this year, Phoebe Bridgers spent time shooting A24's Primetime. The upcoming film, which chronicles the beginning of Chris Hansen's infamous 2000s TV program To Catch a Predator, was directed by Ren Faire's Lance Oppenheim and stars Robert Pattinson in the lead. You can check out a brief teaser trailer below along with the film's poster. Primetime currently has no release date.
In the early 2000s, industry scouts would sift through Cosmopolitan 's roundups of hot, eligible guys. They'd approach attractive randoms at the Third Street Promenade in Santa Monica to see if strangers might be open to appearing on this cool new genre of TV where the stars weren't professional actors.
Sam Cooper (Alfred Molina) is a recently widowed, retired aeronautical engineer who (very) reluctantly moves into The Boroughs retirement community. It was his late wife's choice to move there, and the company refuses to let him out of the contract he co-signed when Lilly (Jane Kaczmarek) was still alive. So he's grumpy about the whole arrangement, snapping at his long-suffering daughter, Claire (Jena Malone) and pretty much anyone else who crosses his path.
He said that he believed he should be in the villa, as he would bring "all of my undiagnosed whatever I have to the table. Do you understand me?" However, he added he wouldn't be pulling someone for a chat, saying that there will be "none of that shite... I would just be normal and Irish," before finishing the video by kissing the screen.
When Clarke Peters talks about Art Daniels, the former radical, current drug enthusiast and spiritual seeker he plays on The Boroughs, he tends to slip into the third person. He'll talk about how Clarke relates to Art, or what Clarke and Art have in common, and it's a reveal of how personal this role became for the longtime actor. At first, Peters turned The Boroughs down: "Someone had likened it to Stranger Things, and having seen a little bit of Stranger Things, I thought, At my age, I don't want to be chasing monsters for the next five years," Peters says with a laugh.
CBS suspended further copyright takedown notices targeting uploads of Stephen Colbert's surprise return to the Michigan public access show Only in Monroe on Sunday after backlash erupted online over the move. The backlash came over unofficial uploads of the episode, which aired Friday night, just 24 hours after Colbert's Late Show finale aired. Several clips and full uploads posted by third-party accounts had already amassed hundreds of thousands of views before Colbert launched an official YouTube channel carrying the episode.
For years, Karla Cameron, a retired Dr Pepper executive in Georgia, taught Bible-study classes to teen-agers, a task that became more challenging during the COVID-19 pandemic. She wanted to show videos to her students, but most of the Biblical movies she found had cheesy writing, bad acting, and costumes with visible zippers. One day, she learned about a new television program that told the story of Jesus and his disciples. It was called "The Chosen," and blog posts praised the show for its authenticity and its humanity.
Korean Central Television, the state broadcaster, is the only channel North Koreans get, and it's showing the farmers at work, he says. This leaves North Koreans largely in the dark about all the rushed diplomacy happening in the lead-up to June 12. "You can keep 25 million people completely in the dark. So the propaganda apparatus and the way the North Korean government tells different things to its people, and also restricts them from hearing things, is one of the things I was most interested in," says Martyn Williams, who records and watches North Korean state television every day from satellite TV, as part of his blog, North Korea Tech.
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Jonathan Young bitterly complained about the jury process after he lost the $2 millioin prize to a competitor he felt he had bested. The 50th season of Survivor went out with a bang this week when host Jeff Probst biffed it hard during the live finale, revealing that 3rd runner-up Rizo Velovic had lost the fire-making challenge before that segment had aired. Aubry Bracco wound up beating Young 5 votes to 3, with Joe Hunter posting a goose-egg in the final vote.
“We see this over and over again, where the Trump administration is weaponizing its power over mergers to try to get what it wants in the media space,” says David Sirota, editor-in-chief of The Lever and host of the Master Plan podcast.
Since its beginning, Euphoria has been one of the buzziest shows on TV. Its first season scandalized with sex and drugs and dick-pic seminars, but it also drew a ton of praise. The show ended up on "Best of 2019" lists from , (which called it "the best look at the generation born after 9/11 we've seen on TV yet"), (which predicted that Zendaya
It’s a good weekend to think about buying a new TV! This week, Devindra is joined by CECritic founder Dipin Sehdev to discuss the new RGB TVs and how they compare to OLED, the previous high-end TV technology of choice. Is RGB tech actually worth the premium, especially when OLED TVs have come way down in price? We also offer up a few tips for choosing the best TV today.
