Category: Entertainment
Don Lemon and Tucker Carlson Out at CNN and Fox News
by Alex Kerai | Jun 7, 2023 | Entertainment, Industry News
Fox and CNN announced Tucker Carlson and Don Lemon’s departures on Monday morning. Carlson hosted Tucker Carlson Tonight, and Lemon was a co-host of CNN This Morning. The networks have yet to announce who will replace the hosts.
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Screen Actors Authorize Strike While Directors Move Closer to a Deal
by Alex Kerai | Jun 6, 2023 | Entertainment, Industry News
The Screen Actors Guild voted overwhelmingly to authorize its first strike since 2000. Two days earlier, the Directors Guild of America reached a tentative agreement for its next contract.
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Renfield hits Peacock, Max gets a ‘C’ for conversion, and Cineverse brings Krofft to streaming TV
by Randy Harward | Jun 6, 2023 | Entertainment
In this week’s streaming TV news roundup: Renfield hits Peacock, Max scores 70% conversions, and Cineverse announces a Sid & Marty Krofft FAST channel.
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Best Horror Movies to Stream
by Randy Harward | Jun 6, 2023 | Best Of, Entertainment
Well, hello—or greetings, or some other salutation that sounds creepy when you wear a black cape and try to affect an English accent. The horror hosts are CableTV.com have compiled a scary movie watchlist for you to watch late at night when your air conditioner’s on the fritz and you can’t sleep.
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What to Watch This Week | June 5–11
by Bill Frost | Jun 5, 2023 | Entertainment
This week’s What to Watch recs include the new Kaley Cuoco true-crime comedy Based on a True Story, the final seasons of Never Have I Ever and Human Resources, the streaming premiere of Avatar: The Way of Water, the return of TV veteran It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, and UEFA Champions League soccer action. Get watching!
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10 TV Classics on Crackle
by Bill Frost | Jun 2, 2023 | Entertainment
Crackle, formerly part of Sony but now owned by the Chicken Soup for the Soul media company, is one of the oldest streaming services out there—it technically launched a year before YouTube, if you can imagine that far back in time. The free on-demand streamer is known mostly as a destination for movies, but there’s also a treasure trove of obscure-but-awesome TV shows on Crackle.
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TV Premieres June 2023
by Bill Frost | Jun 1, 2023 | Entertainment
To paraphrase Martha & The Vandellas’ “Dancing In the Street,” “Summer’s here and the time is right for watching more TV!” (The joke lands better if you sing it.) June TV’s coming in hot with over 175 new and returning shows and movie premieres, so let’s start watching—and dancing, if you’re into it.
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What to Watch This Week | May 30–June 4
by Bill Frost | May 30, 2023 | Entertainment
This week’s What to Watch picks include the premiere of HBO’s controversial The Idol, new sci-fi series Vortex and The Lazarus Project, Australian crime comedy Deadloch, the return of The Eric Andre Show, and the 2023 NBA Finals. Let the summer TV season begin!
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Fall Network Schedule Impacted by Writers’ Guild Strike
by Alex Kerai | May 26, 2023 | Entertainment, Industry News
The writers’ strike has already impacted numerous film and TV productions globally. The fall TV schedule may be next. ABC is the only one of the Big Four networks with a strike-proof schedule. The network is airing unscripted programming and reruns of Abbott Elementary.
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Hey, Free TV (From Telly)!
by Randy Harward | May 25, 2023 | Entertainment
What would you do for a free 55” 4K HDR smart TV with a built-in soundbar? Would you take a six-minute marketing survey, agree to make the Telly TV your main television, and watch nonintrusive ads on the Telly’s smaller secondary smart screen (that also shows news updates, sports scores, stock prices, and weather)?
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