Now that we’re about to begin the back half of 2022, I thought it would be interesting to look back at the mountain of programming that the major streaming services all rolled out over the course of this year to build out what I guess you could say amounts to a sort of streaming hall …
For all the outsized share of media attention that Netflix gets from one week to the next, it’s far from the only streaming game in town. Increasingly, when you look at the weekly charts comprised of the most-watched TV shows, Netflix’s more than capable rivals like HBO Max and Apple TV Plus are showing up …
Actor-director Jason Bateman is at the center of one of the biggest Netflix releases of all time, the crime thriller Ozark that drops the second half of its final set of episodes later this month. Post-Ozark, meanwhile, Bateman has another huge project already lined up — this time for Apple. He’ll actually be behind the …
That Will Smith Oscars slap heard ‘round the world, as Puck News’ Matt Belloni has described it, didn’t merely overshadow everything else at the 94th Academy Awards on Sunday. Including big moments like Apple TV Plus becoming the first streamer to win a Best Picture Oscar. It’s also created some potential awkwardness around a potential …
Around this time two years ago, long before its big showing at Sunday night’s 2022 Oscars ceremony, people didn’t yet know what to make of the streaming TV service that the iPhone maker had just launched four months prior. That’s partly because, in those early days of Apple TV Plus following its November 2019 launch, …
Up to this point, Netflix has been the go-to destination for streaming audiences who want to enjoy the latest and best Korean-language movies and series. The streamer has poured millions upon millions of dollars of investment into South Korea, to fund the production of scores of new K-dramas. Like such recent high-profile releases as Twenty …
The first review for the upcoming Apple TV Plus series Pachinko dropped today. And while they’re almost universally rapturous in their praise, there’s at least one thing you should probably understand about Apple’s adaptation of Min Jin Lee’s novel right off the bat. The story’s title is a metaphor, referring to both the game of …
It’s sometimes easy to forget that Apple TV Plus is only a little over two years old at this point, given the degree to which it’s had to come from behind in the streaming race. And how, in spite of that fact, the iPhone maker’s streamer has already collected tons of industry awards and recognition. …
Ahead of his Apple TV+ show returning in March, for which he also hosts a companion podcast, Jon Stewart has just waded into the controversy surrounding Spotify and Joe Rogan. To be sure, there’s been more than enough written and said about all that already. But the interesting thing is that Stewart’s comments about the …
With its first season in 2020, Ted Lasso cemented itself as the flagship show of Apple TV Plus. Netflix has Stranger Things, Hulu has The Handmaid’s Tale, and Apple TV Plus has Ted Lasso. It took the world by storm, and somehow managed to maintain the same level of quality in its sophomore season. Subscribers …
