Randy Harward
Randy Harward is a Senior Staff Writer at CableTV.com and the site’s resident horror expert. With over 25 years of experience covering music, film, and television, Randy’s work has been featured in a broad range of publications. He has held key editorial roles, including Music Editor at Salt Lake City Weekly, Senior Editor at Blurt, and Associate Editor at HARP magazine. His writing has also appeared in over 20 outlets, such as Guitar World, Salt Lake Magazine, CMJ New Music Monthly, Rockpile, and Mean Street. At CableTV.com, Randy focuses on TV services—both streaming and traditional—and scary movies.
What To Watch This Weekend: Stream Our Top 8 TV and Movie Picks (March 24–30)
by Randy Harward | Mar 24, 2025 | Entertainment
This week’s What To Watch picks include new series (The Studio from Apple TV+, MobLand from Paramount+), the final season of Bosch: Legacy, a psychological horror film starring esteemed actors John Lithgow and Geoffrey Rush, a new stand-up special from Chelsea Handler, a film about a punk band trying to escape Cuba, and more. Let’s hit the couch!
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What To Watch This Week: Stream Our Top 7 TV and Movie Picks (March 17–23)
by Randy Harward | Mar 18, 2025 | Entertainment
This week’s What To Watch picks include a new mystery starring Uzo Aduba, a based-on-a-true story similar to the movie Orphan, a new comedy-mystery starring Peep Show’s David Mitchell, the first of three Popeye horror movies, and more. Let’s hit the couch!
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What To Watch This Weekend: Stream Our Top 8 TV and Movie Picks (March 10–16)
by Randy Harward | Mar 10, 2025 | Entertainment
This week’s What To Watch picks include three shows based on books (Peacock’s Long Bright River, Prime Video’s The Wheel of Time, and Apple TV+’s Dope Thief), the BBC/Hulu comedy-thriller Am I Being Unreasonable?, a four-part Netflix thriller, comedian John Mulaney’s new talk show, a new stand-up special from Bill Burr, and more. Let’s hit the couch!
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How To Watch the New York St. Patrick’s Day Parade in 2025
by Randy Harward and Olivia Bono | Mar 10, 2025 | Entertainment
Readers, without too much ado, we present our 99% blarney-free guide on how to watch this year’s St. Patrick’s Day parade on NBC New York.
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What To Watch This Weekend: Stream Our Top 7 TV and Movie Picks (March 3–9)
by Randy Harward | Mar 3, 2025 | Entertainment
Relax this week with top TV picks for Hulu, Max, MGM+, Netflix, and more! Discover what to watch in our curated guide for March 3–9.
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CableTV.com’s Best of the Best Awards 2025: Live TV Streaming Services
by Randy Harward | Feb 25, 2025 | Best Of
In CableTV.com’s annual Best of the Best awards, we highlight live TV streaming services that stand out in four key categories and determine which one stands out as the Best of the Best.
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What To Watch This Week: Stream Our Top 7 TV and Movie Picks (February 24–March 2)
by Randy Harward | Feb 24, 2025 | Entertainment
Relax this week with top TV picks for Hulu, Max, MGM+, Netflix, and more! Discover what to watch in our curated guide for February 24–March 2.
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What To Watch This Weekend: Stream Our Top 8 TV and Movie Picks (February 17–23)
by Randy Harward | Feb 21, 2025 | Entertainment
This week’s What To Watch picks include a political thriller that hits too close to home, new seasons of Reacher and Surface, a trip back to 1880s London from the folks behind Peaky Blinders, another Suits spinoff, comedy specials from Rosebud Baker and Chris DiStefano, and a little documentary called Grand Theft Hamlet. Shalt we hitteth the couch?
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DISH vs. DIRECTV: Cost, Plans, and More
by Randy Harward and Logan Jones | Feb 19, 2025 | Versus Reviews
DISH and DIRECTV square off in this match-up of satellite TV titans. Get the pros and cons of TV service from DISH vs DIRECTV in an unbiased comparison from CableTV.com. Spoiler alert: we give the edge to DISH.
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Xfinity vs. DISH
by Randy Harward | Feb 19, 2025 | Versus Reviews
Cable TV provider Xfinity has excellent prices, shorter term agreements (or no term agreements at all), 185+ channels, the X1 TV box, and the Xfinity Stream app—but its cloud DVR is expensive and you’ll pay about 30% more per month for the no-term agreement plans.
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