TV & Streaming

When it screened at the Venice Film Festival earlier this month, Musk got the kind of reception every international distributor dreams about. Attendees applauded enthusiastically for five minutes and saluted director Alex Gibney, even shouting “thank you” inside the festival’s Sala Grande for his hard-hitting investigation into the world’s richest man. But despite that instant […]

Jessica Chastain has joined Netflix’s “The Retrievals,” a new drama series from the streamer. The Oscar-winning actor will star as Kaitlyn Langford, a former art historian who has “spent the last decade stuck in an endless cycle of failed fertility treatments,” per Netflix. “When she learns she’s also a victim of criminal drug diversion at […]

The ABC show’s early numbers are up considerably from last year’s debut. September 16, 2026 2:57pm Dancing With the Stars did not lose any of its ratings momentum in the offseason. If anything, it picked up steam. The ABC competition opened its 35th season Tuesday with a sizable jump in both viewers and the key […]

How To Survive Without Me, the family drama starring Ray Romano, Kaley Cuoco and Joshua Jackson, is officially a go at HBO Max. The project, which comes from Greg Berlanti, has, as expected, been handed a series order from the Warner Bros. Discovery-owned streamer. It will consist of 15 episodes and comes as part of […]

Kate Berlant will make her HBO comedy special debut with “Parmesan,” a new hour from the beloved alt comic out Oct. 16. Directed by Doron Max Hagay and filmed at the historic Plaza Nightclub in Los Angeles, “Parmesan” is described as a “hilarious tour-de-force that skewers the many contradictions of modern life and the art […]

Seriesly Berlin kept up its reputation for backing complex TV series with its latest batch of award winners. Hands Up, a music drama series pitch from the U.S. focused on an Israeli musician and a Palestinian singer brought together in Berlin’s hip-hop scene was the winner of the Writers’ Pitch Award last night at a […]

“For the first time, I began to wonder — Do I love my husband?” So begins the gently salacious first full trailer for Disney and Hulu’s sumptuous Korean romantacy series The Remarried Empress, which dropped Wednesday ahead of the series’ Nov. 4 streaming launch. (Watch the full trailer below.) The 10-episode show is a big-budget […]

Hot off his Emmy win for outstanding variety series, Stephen Colbert went on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” Tuesday night and revealed if he ever thinks about returning to late night television. “Late night TV. I remember it well. Many fond memories of this,” Colbert said while taking the stage. “Do you ever think about it?” Kimmel […]

Mikayla Matthews isn’t mincing words, and a day after saying she was leaving The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives, she confirmed it was because Taylor Frankie Paul was returning to filming. The Hulu reality series is currently filming Season 6 after Season 5 was truncated due to Paul’s domestic violence claims from her ex, Dakota Mortensen. “The […]

Spoiler alert: Moving to streaming isn’t enough to fix award show problems. Mariska Hargitay closed the 78th Emmys on Monday night from the Peacock Theater, and the ceremony she sent off may be the last of its kind. Since 1949, the Emmys have belonged to broadcast television. Future editions may not. As Variety exclusively reported, […]

In the latest addition to the bulging category of streaming bundles, Amazon Prime Video is launching a package including AMC+, BritBox, MGM+, PBS Masterpiece and Starz. The $29.99-a-month U.S. offering is priced 39% below the cost of each of the five individual services. In recent years, dozens of combinations of streaming have hit the market, […]

The Emmys is set to leave broadcast television for the first time in its history after it emerged that Amazon was in talks to strike a rights deal with the TV Academy. Deadline has confirmed that the streamer is in talks with the organization behind the annual television ceremony after the broadcast wheel, which sees […]

Soon, you can watch on JustWatch. JustWatch Group, which operates the popular streaming guide, is launching JustWatch TV next month within the main app and its website. JustWatch TV, which will offer free ad-supported or paid ad-free viewership as well as rentals, will be available across the U.S. and Canada, the U.K. and Ireland, Germany, […]

Chile’s Francisca Alegría and Fernanda Urrejola, co-showrunners of Prime Video’s epic saga “The House of the Spirits” lead the slate of Alma Media Lab, a fledgling publishing-to-screen company based in Miami. Inspired by such companies as Hello Sunshine or Alloy Entertainment, Alma Media Lab will focus on books and series conceived simultaneously in close collaboration […]

The stars of Charlie’s Angels reconvened at the 2026 Emmys, where they paid homage to the late Farrah Fawcett. Kate Jackson, Cheryl Ladd and Jaclyn Smith were onsite to celebrate the show’s 50th anniversary, and present the Emmy for best drama series, which ultimately went to The Pitt. “It’s an honor to be here tonight […]

Trending on Billboard Late Night With Stephen Colbert went out in style, winning outstanding variety series at the 78th annual Primetime Emmy Awards, which were presented at the Peacock Theater at L.A. Live in Los Angeles on Monday (Sept. 14). The show won a total of six Emmys for its final season, the most it […]

Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s love story is still blooming, even after their wedding. The music superstar appeared at Kelce’s first game of the season, where he laced up to play tight end for another season for the Kansas City Chiefs on Sept. 14. The Monday Night Football season opener took place in Kansas City […]

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Another Carley Fortune book adaptation will soon be making a splash onto the small screen. Netflix’s television adaptation of Fortune’s This Summer Will Be Different has found its main cast after receiving the greenlight in March of this year. The project continues in the current of success of Prime Video’s Every Year After, based on […]

As U.S. politicians on both sides of the aisle have taken aim at the growing cost and complexity for Americans to watch their favorite sports teams on streaming services, three of the industry’s biggest streamers — Netflix, Amazon and YouTube — have formed a new Washington, D.C.-based lobbying group to push back. The Streaming Access […]

Dave Chappelle has announced a series of arena shows around the U.S. and Canada this fall, which will see the comedy icon close his tour by headlining the opening night of the New York Comedy Festival. Chappelle’s tour will make stops in Nashville, Charlotte, Toronto, Louisville, Austin and Houston, in addition to the New York […]