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It has been over three years since Peacemaker streamed its first season.
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Dan Barrett
Is it time to be worried about The Office spin-off The Paper now?
Uh oh. As we near the launch date for spin-off from the US version of The Office (Sept 4), streamer Peacock has made a last moment pivot in the release…
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Dan Barrett
Get ready for another inane season of The Morning Show and watch the darn trailer
It’s not a meaty news day, so there’s no preamble this morning.
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Duffers leaving Netflix for Paramount confirmed. What does this mean for TV?
Screen culture feels like it lost its heartbeat a couple of years ago.
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Dan Barrett
MSNBC rebrands in the most childish way possible
Often you hear a new name for a product and immediately feel it doesn’t quite seem right.
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The one where I took a Saturday night boat ride to Wednesday Island
Regularly enough I am lucky enough to get along to movie preview screenings.
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Dan Barrett
Alien: Earth. Go back to where you came from, I say
The long-in-development Alien: Earth TV show debuted this week.
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Duffer Brothers decamping Netflix for Paramount?
The new Paramount-Skydance team have come out swinging - signing expensive deals and mostly saying the right things (tho, there are criticisms of them…
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Dan Barrett
I have Marvel fatigue fatigue.
Every week I listen to a lot of podcasts and consume other media where the conversation routinely comes back to this idea that there have been so many…
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AU$28.99 is a lot to pay for Netflix. There, I said it.
My jaw hit the ground when I saw today that the new Netflix price increase would bring the top tier monthly price up to 29 bucks.
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Paul Reiser, William H Macy, and Meghan Markle have new TV show deals. But not for the same show, which is a shame.
There’s just a smattering of news around this morning.
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Dan Barrett
Australia gets its own (a bit questionable) Gauge-type report
Australian TV ratings measurement organisation OzTAM has begun filing quarterly viewership reports that emulate the Nielsen Gauge monthly reporting from…
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