Month: September 2026

Awards Circuit Column: Amazon can give the Emmys a new home, but it can’t fix category drama or solve problems buried in the voting process. Spoiler alert: Moving to streaming isn’t enough to fix award show problems. Mariska Hargitay closed the 78th Emmys on Monday…

Why dispatch replications of Amish farmers, wise elderly doctors or financial gurus to various TikToks and other short-form videos when real people can do the exact same thing? A technology company that builds products for media users has introduced a new platform that gives advertisers…

Mr. and Mrs. Darcy will most ardently return to screens on Netflix in a new limited series adaptation of “Pride and Prejudice.” Netflix has announced that the limited series adaptation of the iconic novel will debut on Dec. 3. Netflix has also unveiled first look…

Ratings for the critical first episode of the new season of “60 Minutes” appear to have been tackled — by a weaker-than-expected lead-in from an NFL game on CBS, leaving open the question of whether sweeping changes made to the newsmagazine by CBS News management…

Cinelease, the film equipment rental house, announced Tuesday that it is acquiring grip and lighting equipment from Quixote, which continues to shrink its footprint amid a production slump. Quixote announced in April that it was winding down its soundstage business, and is now getting out…

Before “Ace Combat 8: Wings of Theve” releases next month, fans of Bandai Namco Entertainment’s classic fighter-pilot video game franchise have a few weeks of backstory to brush up on via live-action prequel project “Hour Zero.” Launching its first episode Tuesday, the four-installment short film…

Chuck Norris‘ “Walker, Texas Ranger” co-star Judson Mills is speaking out about the Emmys decision to snub Norris from its In Memoriam tribute. Norris, who died in March at 86 years old, was a television icon in the 1990s as the star of the CBS…

The Department of Justice sided with Paramount on Tuesday, arguing that a coalition of 12 states should be forced to post a bond as the price of continuing to block the Warner Bros. merger. Paramount has argued that it stands to lose at least $1.88…

Taylor Frankie Paul is returning to production on “The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives.” Though Hulu declined to comment on Paul’s involvement in Season 6, Variety confirmed the news with multiple sources after it was implied in social media posts from cast member Mikayla Matthews,…