Andy Meek is a reporter based in Memphis who has covered media, entertainment, and culture for over 20 years. His work has appeared in outlets including The Guardian, Forbes, and The Financial Times, and he’s written for BGR since 2015. Andy's coverage includes technology and entertainment, and he has a particular interest in all things streaming.
Over the years, he’s interviewed legendary figures in entertainment and tech that range from Stan Lee to John McAfee, Peter Thiel, and Reed Hastings.
There’s no boardroom or glass towers in director Lance Oppenheim’s three-part HBO docuseries Ren Faire, the final two episodes of which hit the network this …
Entertainment journalists are oftentimes a truly insufferable lot. Case in point, consider Netflix’s new movie Hit Man, starring Glen Powell as a geek posing as …
If I was the richest man in the world, and I was looking to build the biggest supercomputer in the world, the city of Memphis …
Ask any longtime Netflix subscriber to name some of the cancelled shows that they miss the most and would resurrect if they could, and I …
It’s been a long two years of waiting since the final batch of episodes aired, but the long-promised standalone Peaky Blinders movie is now officially …
I opened my Disney+ app today for the first time in goodness knows how long. And about 30 seconds later, I was frustratingly reminded why …
Here’s a good rule of thumb to follow in life. Anytime you see Nida Manzoor’s name attached to, well, anything — be it a TV …
The AI-powered search engine Perplexity has come a long way since it launched back in 2022, so much so that it’s now reportedly close to …
It feels like documentary fans have been waiting through a bit of a quiet period on Netflix since the release of the last docuseries or …
If you’re a sci-fi fan who doesn’t mind a smorgasbord of big ideas that covers everything from black holes to the multiverse, quantum mechanics, and …
It’s been a little more than two years now since Apple TV+ released Pachinko, a multi-generational family drama adapted from Min Jin Lee’s bestselling 2017 …
After the award-winning Max comedy series Hacks racked up record viewership for the seventh and eighth episodes of its third season — HBO’s streamer raved …
Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos made news in recent days for an interview he gave to The New York Times, in which he explained his current …
Let me say from the outset that what I’m about to share feels a little like the ridiculous extent to which people used to parse …
Is it just me, or does the first full trailer alone for the new Apple TV+ movie starring George Clooney and Brad Pitt look better …
Anyone who’s followed the story of OpenAI for the past year or more would probably assume that the nonprofit’s board of directors was surely up …
New episodes of Bridgerton, along with existing fan-favorite series like Baby Reindeer, aren’t the only titles dominating the Netflix Top 10 at the moment. Netflix …
At the risk of sounding overly dramatic, June is going to be an absolutely epic month for TV. Among the slew of TV series from …
It’s bad enough whenever Jennifer Lopez is cast as the lead in a movie, but Jenny from the Block as a computer expert who hates …
Butterfly in the Sky, a documentary about Reading Rainbow that’s now available on Netflix, is as much a film about the classic PBS program as …
Dark Matter, the trippy Apple TV+ thriller adapted from Blake Crouch’s novel of the same name, is the latest addition to the streamer’s growing collection …
The woes continue to mount for disgraced rapper and producer Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs, the music figure who discovered and produced artists ranging from Usher to …
In 1957, two siblings named Jim Stewart and Estelle Axton founded a music business that would become one of the most important institutions to ever …
Netflix sharing a first look video ahead of Season 4 of The Witcher is a little like an arsonist trying to sell a potential buyer …
Drops of God, a great yet under-appreciated Apple TV+ original series about a succession battle for the estate of a wine expert, is coming back …
Director Spike Jonze’s 2013 drama Her — starring Joaquin Phoenix as a man who falls in love with an AI voiced by Scarlett Johansson — …
Comcast is about to fix one of the most annoying aspects of subscribing to multiple streaming providers. Following the recent announcement that a combined Disney+, …
Google’s obsession with AI looks a little familiar to Scott Jenson, an ex-Google product manager and 16-year veteran of the company who’s seen this movie …
Well, now we know why OpenAI abruptly removed the “Sky” voice option for ChatGPT, the one that sounded suspiciously like Scarlett Johansson. According to a …
Netflix is supposedly in the process of revamping its movie division — and, in particular, both the quality and the cadence of that division’s output. …
