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3 hours agoHow TiVo killed live TV
TiVo pioneered DVR features that transformed TV watching but failed to become a sustained commercial success as its innovations were adopted without it.
Genndy Tartakovsky thought he was done with . And by all accounts, he was. The second season of his acclaimed Adult Swim animated series - which had earned universal praise for its wildly imaginative (and wildly gory) story of a Neanderthal named Spear who strikes up an unlikely friendship with a Tyrannosaurus rex named Fang - ended on a pretty definitive note: Spear had perished, having sacrificed himself in a climactic battle with a vengeful Viking spirit. But his story lived on in the shape of his daughter with Mira, who we see setting off on adventures on the back of one of Fang's children.
Michelle Doherty has almost come to the end of her trip home to Donegal for Christmas the day we talk. The former Xposé host and ­radio DJ, who still models, is in her sister's house. On the bed beside her is a pile of clothes that have been loaned for the pictures being taken for this piece. It's been a "weird" Christmas, she admits.
When the final viewership data became available for the NFL's three Thanksgiving games this season, the numbers were so staggering that an impromptu conference call among the involved networks' chief sports honchos was called to essentially bask in the success. I'd never realized back-slapping was possible over a phone call until then. There was no such collective CEO celebration this week when the NFL's final 2025 viewership numbers were released by Nielsen Media Research on Tuesday and Wednesday.
These are very good tickets. You're in the camera block, near the red contestant's friends and family. So there's something I need to know. If the camera is on you, are you going to duck and hide and get all embarrassed? Or are you going to go absolutely flipping mental? I've been up until the early hours painting portraits of my favourite Gladiators with the precise hope of making it on to the telly.
In the 21st century, superhero stories are often judged on how realistic they are - how "gritty," how dark, how "adult." It's never been more visible than with Batman. Between Christopher Nolan's take in the Dark Knight trilogy and the still-ongoing takes by Matt Reeves, it seems like the Caped Crusader was built for the Nirvana-scored, brooding tone of tragic flashbacks and smeared eyeliner.
It's possible that you've been aware of a rumor across the last few years that Kendall is actually a lesbian, and has resisted coming out publicly for fear of damaging the KarJenner dynasty. (For the record, this is all news to me - but, hey, information travels in many different ways.) Well, Kendall recently appeared on Owen Thiele's In My Dreams podcast, and she responded to the rumors head-on. Her response was very interesting!
There isn't a weak link in the cast and they work together as seamlessly and apparently joyfully as you could wish. Jokes come thick and fast Andre Braugher and Terry Crews in Brooklyn Nine-Nine. Photograph: Fox/Getty Images The jokes come thick and fast, the tone is perfectly pitched, the occasional emotional moment well done, and it rarely strikes a false note. You can watch it again and again and be delighted every time.
In season two of "The Pitt," the Emmy-winning drama that returned to HBO Max on Thursday, a middle-aged man named Orlando Diaz wakes up in the Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center. His wife and daughter are at his side; a cannula is delivering oxygen into his nose. "How'd I get here?" he asks softly.
Jujutsu Kaisen has entered its Culling Game arc, and its opening sequence makes one thing clear: This is not a game anyone survives unchanged. Released online yesterday alongside the Season 3 premiere, the opening sequence abandons straightforward hype in favor of something more symbolic and, dare I say, disturbing. Set to King Gnu's "Aizo," the opening depicts the Culling Game as a curated gallery of violence and spectacle, where participation is compulsory for jujutsu sorcerers.
Such is life for a TV doctor. "We all naturally get very tired, which we're all very grateful for," Howell explains. "It works for our characters on screen because they're all very tired at this point in the story. They tend to put less makeup on me the longer we go, because it's like, 'No, you're looking tired. This is perfect!'"
The Pitt is so back, and with it comes a cast of TV veterans and fresh-faced med students alike. The HBO Max medical drama's real-time format - each episode covers one hour of an ER shift - presents a unique challenge for its ensemble of actors. Fortunately, they've heeded the call: Noah Wyle, Katherine LaNasa, and Shawn Hatosy all won Emmys for their performances in Season 1. Behind the scenes, casting directors Cathy Sandrich Gelfond and Erica Berger earned the show the distinction of Outstanding Casting for a Drama Series.
On Tuesday, Redd posted an emotional video to Instagram in which he described his relationship with Evangeline as a "very unique, nuanced thing" that began while he was dealing with "pill problems and issues" during his five-season stint on "SNL." Evangeline, he said, was "the only one to call me on my shit, help me on my shit," and encouraged him to start therapy.
Breaking news! This just in! The cast for Drag Race UK Vs the World season three has been confirmed, with an iconique newsroom-style promo. Here's the latest... Following in the footsteps of Drag Race UK vs The World season one (2022) and two (2024), season three is coming to our screens in just a few days time. The BBC has confirmed that the first episode will air on Monday 27 January at 9pm BST on BBC Three and BBC iPlayer.
David Ortiz appeared on the show as "Googly Eyes," performing DJ Snake and Lil Jon's "Turn Down for What" while donning what host Nick Cannon said was the "biggest costume we've had on the Masked Singer" for "one of the biggest stars, of course."
When Netflix aired live sporting events over the 2025 holidays, one teaser kept playing over and over during the ad breaks: a mysterious short sequence following a young woman as she encountered strange phenomena that all tied into major Netflix shows like Avatar: The Last Airbender, , and Stranger Things. It ended with a tease of a big announcement on January 7th. Well, it's now January 7th, and the announcement is here.