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Netflix, CBS, ABC & NBC Cancel 11 Popular Shows in 2026
Here are some of the television programs on the chopping block in 2026.
Commentary: When stars’ plastic surgery is played for your entertainment
Often when I’m scrolling through Instagram, hypnotized by the stream of videos, an actress’ face will cut through the noise. This isn’t a typical clip from a press junket or red carpet. Instead, it will feature side-by-side images of the star, one younger and one more recent. Then a content creator – perhaps a doctor or an aesthetician, sometimes wearing scrubs – will walk me through what cosmetic procedures they think the actress has had. (It’s much rarer that men get this kind of analysis.)
I watched The Godfather again at 64 and cried — not because the movie changed, but because I finally understood that the films we watched in our twenties weren’t just entertainment, they were instruction manuals for masculinity, family, and honor that shaped every major decision I ever made
Last week, I found myself alone in my living room, remote in hand, scrolling through streaming options when The Godfather appeared on screen. It had been years since I’d watched it. Decades, really. Something made me click play, and three hours later, I was sitting there with tears streaming down my face. Not because Sonny […]
5 Gadgets You Can Plug Into Your TV's HDMI 2.0 Port
Discover the best gadgets to plug into your TV's HDMI 2.0 port. We detail top devices like streaming sticks, sync boxes, and gaming consoles.
LIVE: Atletico Madrid vs Barcelona
Follow our live updates, including team news coverage, before our text commentary stream of Spanish top flight match.
This Week in Politics: Early voting starts this week in New Jersey's special congressional election | WNYC | New York Public Radio, Podcasts, Live Streaming Radio, News
The political world is paying close attention to a race to fill Governor Sherrill's vacated congressional seat.
LIVE! Watch ‘Wilder Vs. Chisora’ Official Video Stream
Two of the hardest hitting heavyweights in boxing will duke it out later tonight (Sat., April 4, 2026) LIVE on DAZN pay-per-view (PPV) from inside the O2 Arena in London, England, as former WBC heavyweight king Deontay Wilder meets British veteran Derek Chisora in the main event. Wilder, who made some outlandish comments earlier this […]
H.264 streaming license fees were raised to as much as $4.5 million, open standards now look even more attractive
Via LA raises H.264 streaming fees for new licensees, existing deals stay unchanged Via Licensing Alliance has updated its H.264, also known as AVC,
Where to watch Baltimore Orioles vs Pittsburgh Pirates: TV channel, start time, streaming for Apr. 4
Here's how to watch Saturday's Pittsburgh Pirates vs Baltimore Orioles game, including start times, TV channels, scores and how to stream.
NBA games today: Schedule, odds, how to watch for April 4
Here's the full NBA schedule, for April 4, including game times, TV channels, scores, odds and how to stream.
NHL games today: Schedule, odds, how to watch for April 4
Here's the full NHL schedule, for April 4, including game times, TV channels, scores, odds and how to stream.
Women's March Madness games today: Schedule, times, how to watch for April 4
Here's the full NCAA women's basketball schedule, for April 4, including game times, TV channels, scores and how to stream.
What time is UConn vs South Carolina in Final Four? Start time, location, TV Channel
Everything you need to know to tune into No. 1 UConn Huskies vs No. 1 South Carolina Gamecocks including start time and streaming options for the Final Four
What time is UCLA vs Texas in Final Four today? Start time, location, TV Channel
Everything you need to know to tune into No. 1 UCLA Bruins vs 1 Texas Longhorns including start time and streaming options for the Final Four
Were ‘Yellowstone’ Streaming Rights to Blame for ‘Marshals’ Killing Off Monica?
How this might impact Beth and Rip 'Yellowstone' spinoff.
Were ‘Yellowstone’ Streaming Rights to Blame for ‘Marshals’ Killing Off Monica?
How this might impact Beth and Rip 'Yellowstone' spinoff.
Gemma 4 and what makes an open model succeed
Having written a lot of model release blog posts, there’s something much harder about reviewing open models when they drop relative to closed models, especially in 2026. In recent years, there were so few open models, so when Llama 3 was released most people were still doing research on Llama 2 and super happy to get an update. When Qwen 3 was released, the Llama 4 fiasco had just gone down, and a whole research community was emerging to study RL on Qwen 2.5 — it was a no brainer to upgrade. Today, when an open model releases, it’s competing with Qwen 3.5, Kimi K2.5, GLM 5, MiniMax M2.5, GPT-OSS, Arcee Large, Nemotron 3, Olmo 3, and others. The space is populated, but still feels full of hidden opportunity. The potential of open models feels like a dark matter, a potential we know is huge, but few clear recipes and examples for how to unlock it are out there. Agentic AI, OpenClaw, and everything brewing in that space is going to spur mass experimentation in open models to complement the likes of Claude and Codex, not replace them. Especially with open models, the benchmarks at release are an extremely incomplete story. In some ways this is exciting, as new open models have a much higher variance and ability to surprise, but it also points at some structural reasons that make building businesses and great AI experiences around open models harder than the closed alternatives. When a new Claude Opus or GPT drops, spending a few hours with them in my agentic workflows is genuinely a good vibe test. For open models, putting them through this test is a category error. Something else to be said about open models in the era of agents is that they get out of the debate of integration, harnesses, and tools and let us see close to the ground on what exactly is the ability of just a model. Of course, we can’t test some things like search abilities without some tool, but being able to measure exactly the pace of progress of the model alone is a welcome simplification to a systematically opaque AI space. Share The list of factors I’d use to assess a new open-weight model I’m considering investing in includes: Model performance (and size) — how this model performs on benchmarks I care about and how it compares to other models of a similar size. Country of origin — some businesses care deeply about provenance, and if a model was built in China or not. Model license — if a model needs legal approval for use, uptake will be slower at mid-sized and large companies. Tooling at release — many models release with half-broken, or at least substantially slower, implementations in popular software like vLLM, Transformers, SGLANG, etc due to pushing the envelope of architectures or tools. Model fine-tunability — how easy or hard it is to modify the given model to your use-case when you actually try and use it. The core problem is that some of these are immediately available at release, e.g. general performance, license, origin, etc. but others such as tooling take day(s) to week(s) to stabilize, and others are open research questions — with no group systematically monitoring fine-tunability. In the early era of open models, the days of Llama 2 or 3 and Qwen pre v3.5, the architectures were fairly simple and the models tended to work out of the box. Some of this was due to the extremely hard work of the Llama, Qwen, Mistral, etc. developer teams. Some is due to the new models being genuinely harder to work with. When it comes to something like Qwen 3.5 or Nemotron 3, with hybrid models (either gated delta net or mamba layers), the tooling is very rough at release. Things you would expect to “just work” often don’t. I’ve been following this area closely since we released Olmo Hybrid with a similar architecture, and Qwen 3.5 is just starting to work well in the various open-source tools that need to all play nice together for RL research. That’s 1.5 months after the release date! This is just to start really investing more into understanding the behavior of the models. Of course, others started working on these models sooner by investing more engineering resources or relying on partially closed software. The fully open and distributed ecosystem takes a long time to get going on some new models. All of this is lead-in for the most important question for open models — how easy is it to adapt to specific use-cases? This is a different problem for different model sizes. Large MoE open-weight models may be used by entities like Cursor who need complex capabilities in their domain, e.g. Composer 2 trained on Kimi K2.5. Other applications can be built on much smaller models, such as Chroma’s Context-1 model for agentic search, built on GPT-OSS 20B. The question of “which models are fine-tunable” is largely background knowledge known by engineers across the industry. There should be a thriving research area here to support the open ecosystem model. The first step is to understand characteristics of different base and post-trained models to understand what they look like. The second step is to tune pretraining recipes for open models so they’re more flexible. Interconnects AI is a reader-supported publication. Consider becoming a subscriber. Subscribe For The ATOM Project and other Interconnects endeavors, we’ve put in substantial effort to measuring adoption trends in the open ecosystem. Everything takes a long time to unfold after a model is first publicly available — and adaptability is why. What we know for sure now, when Qwen has been going from strength to strength with its releases, is that technical staff across the industry has gotten comfortable working with Qwen models. Countless research methods and datasets were made to work with Qwen. It’ll take patience for any other model family to get to this point — a patience I’m not sure many open model builders have. This takes us to Gemma 4, Google’s latest open models. Gemma 3 was released more than a year ago, in March of 2025, and is a bit underrated. Gemma 4 comes in 4 sizes for now, with a bigger, MoE model of over 100B total parameters rumored but not released yet. The models we have today come in sizes of ~5B dense, 8B dense, 26B total 4B active MoE, and 31B dense. I’m most excited that they’re finally adopting a standard Apache 2.0 open source license. This’ll massively boost adoption. The standard of better licenses for strong open-weight LLMs was set by mostly Chinese open model labs in the last 1-2 years, and now U.S. companies are following suit. I will personally be so happy if the horrible Llama licenses and Gemma terms of service were an ~18-month transient dynamic of the industry being nervous about releasing strong open models. The Gemma 4 scores look very solid, the small models have incredible benchmark scores (especially in general domains like LMArena) and the 31B model rivals the recent Qwen 3.5 27B, which is the leading member of that class. The ~30B size range is an important one, as it’s accessible both to researchers and to enterprises looking to deploy the model in real use-cases. Where the 7B model scale is the default for tinkering and research, a 30B model is the default for seeing if an open model can unlock substantial value in your specific workflow — a good mix of intelligence, low price, tractability for downstream training, etc. This takes us back to the above adoption criteria I mentioned for open models and the bigger question — do I think Gemma 4 will be an overwhelming success? Previous Gemma models have been plagued by tooling issues and poorer performance when being finetuned. Gemma 4’s success is going to be entirely determined by ease of use, to a point where a 5-10% swing on benchmarks wouldn’t matter at all. It’s strong enough, small enough, with the right license, and from the U.S., so many companies are going to slot it in. I’m cautiously optimistic that Gemma 4 is going to work better here. Winds are shifting for open models built in America. We saw GPT-OSS go through a bumpy launch to become an overwhelming success. There’s a collective energy around the likes of Reflection, Arcee, Nemotron, Gemma, Olmo, and peers that show substantial demand for building new stacks around open models. There’s capital to be spent on AI stacks across the economy by those who want more ownership of everything, including the model. After launching The ATOM Project 240 days ago, the conversation is shifting into the next stage. Summer of 2025 was a crisis moment where the U.S. AI scene realized it can’t wait and figure out open models after building AGI. The two markets will capture different areas and proceed in parallel. Now that more companies in the U.S. are releasing strong models, we need to improve the ecosystem so that these models are easy to use, understand, and build value around. It’s the hard work to build another inflection point in these adoption plots I’ve been updating consistently, but that’s the work to be done. Join me in it. More data coming soon! Here’s a sneak peek:
Trapped by his own image: Trump’s Iran War and the politics of ego
The judgment on the Trump administration’s war on Iran is already largely settled across mainstream media, public opinion, and much of the analytical sphere.
Were ‘Yellowstone’ Streaming Rights to Blame for ‘Marshals’ Killing Off Monica?
How this might impact Beth and Rip 'Yellowstone' spinoff.
Pure entertainment now streaming in Women’s Storytelling Festival
The annual celebration of diverse spoken-word artists is available online until April 28, and ticket sales close April 8.
From 'Five Nights at Freddy's 2' to 'Crime 101,' 10 movies to stream now
Need a good movie? Watch these 10 at home now, including "Five Nights at Freddy's 2" and "Pizza Movie." All are free on your streaming services.
Here's where ICE is buying up warehouses to make detention centers
ICE is snapping up real estate in a push to streamline its mass deportation efforts.
McKinsey's new AI leadership playbook: flatten teams and move faster
McKinsey and other consulting firms are using AI to streamline management structures — what some call The Great Flattening.
Where to watch Cleveland Cavaliers vs. Golden State Warriors: Live stream, start time, TV channel, odds for Thursday, April 2
James Harden and the Cavaliers are close to locking down a playoff berth in the Eastern Conference.
OpenAI Buys TBPN Streaming Business Show for Communications
The red-hot streaming show features newsmaking interviews, with a heavy emphasis on tech. Now they will do it for OpenAI: "The standard communications playbook just doesn't apply to us."
Louis C.K. Is Back in Business With Netflix
The streamer has tapped the once-exiled comedian to headline a show at The Hollywood Bowl and will premiere his upcoming standup special.
Spectrum Connectivity, Entertainment Are Move-In Ready at Florida Apartments
Residents of West Point Park Apartments have access to high-speed Internet and streaming services as soon as they move in, made possible by Spectrum Community Solutions.
Presidio landman Brett Barnes: 'This business is in my blood'
Brett Barnes is general counsel for Presidio Production, a Fort Worth upstream oil & gas company. But Barnes is a landman.
Disney's latest short film 'Versa' tackles a difficult subject: Pregnancy loss. It's resonating with viewers.
The animated short "Versa," currently streaming on Disney+, uses dance and music to tell a story of grief.
Where to watch New York Yankees vs. Seattle Mariners: Live stream, start time, TV channel, odds for Wednesday, April 1
Cam Schlittler is scheduled to start for the Yankees against George Kirby.
Geely Tech EU and 3SS launch new in-car entertainment hub for Zeekr
The new entertainment hub brings together premium video streaming, live TV, news, and more to Zeekr’s vehicles across Europe.
Can regional sports networks survive, or even thrive? Depends on who you ask
Charlie Jacobs, the CEO of hockey’s Boston Bruins, is convinced that his three children, all in their twenties, will likely never sign up for a traditional cable package to watch television. But his kids will certainly have WiFi in their homes, and through the internet, the ability to watch sports teams all the same. For years, a central question in sports and media has been whether streaming subscribers, as Jacobs’ children would be, could ever drive enough revenue to fill sports stations’ tills. Now, some regional sports networks such as New England Sports Network, or NESN, are...
Trump’s Iran War and the Politics of Ego
The judgment on the Trump administration’s war on Iran is already largely settled across mainstream media, public opinion, and much of the analytical
Person Trapped Under Crane Dies At Carol Stream Business: Authorities
The person was pronounced dead at the scene, authorities said.
Google Photos is losing some of its editing shortcuts to ‘reduce accidental triggers’
Google Photos is dropping some of its editing shortcuts in order to streamline the app experience for those looking for simpler edits.
Hulu's April Lineup Brings Back 'Malcolm In The Middle' And Finally Continues 'The Handmaid's Tale'
A highly anticipated sequel to "The Handmaid’s Tale" and a mini reboot of "Malcolm in the Middle" hit the streamer this month.
Game Preview: Detroit Red Wings @ Pittsburgh Penguins 3/31/2026
Who: Detroit Red Wings (39-26-8, 86 points, 6th place Atlantic Division) @ Pittsburgh Penguins (37-21-16, 90 points, 2nd place Metropolitan Division) When: 7:00 p.m. eastern How to Watch: Locally broadcast on Sportsnet Pittsburgh and FanDuel Sportsnet Detroit, streaming on ESPN+ Pens’ Path Ahead: The Pens are headed to Tampa Bay to pay the Lightning on Thursday before returning […]
From 'Five Nights at Freddy's 2' to 'Ann Lee,' 10 movies to stream now
Need a good movie? Watch these 10 at home now, including "Wicked: For Good" and a "Peaky Blinders" movie. All are free on your streaming services.
Unilever, McCormick Near Deal to Create $60 Billion Food Business
The deal would give the UK consumer goods giant $15.7 billion in cash to streamline its portfolio toward beauty and personal care.
1% of health insurance tax could fund medical education amid Idaho doctor shortage
Idaho lawmakers are moving forward with a plan to create a dedicated funding stream for medical education as the state faces a doctor shortage.Senate Bill 1420
[*LIVE*] Tennessee vs Michigan Live Free Streams On Sport'sTvｌ 30 March 2026
Tennessee vs Michigan in a highly anticipated clash of the 2026.These rule changes are seen as part of Live NCAAM ( Men's Collage BasketBall) ongoing efforts to evolve the game and maintain competitive integrity across formats.Pluto TV and All Men's Sports Network Forge Global Partnership to Launch a New FAST Channel and Media.
Fantasy Baseball 2-Start Pitcher Rankings: Braxton Ashcraft, Kyle Harrison among top streaming options this week
Where to watch Cleveland Guardians vs. Los Angeles Dodgers: Live stream, start time, TV Channel, odds for Monday, March 30
The Dodgers and Guardians begin their series on Monday night at Dodger Stadium.
Science, Music, and Stream Bugs: Sierra Streams Celebrates 30 Years at Pioneer Park on May 16
NEVADA CITY, CA — Sierra Streams Institute will celebrate its 30th anniversary with a free community event on Saturday, May 16 from 1:00 to 5:00 PM at Pioneer Park in Nevada City, bringing together art, music, and hands-on science to highlight three decades of watershed research, restoration, and education across the Sierra Nevada. The Sierra […]
The Hallmark Channel is Shutting Down Its TV App Tomorrow on Roku, Fire TV, Google TV, & More
Hallmark Media will shut down its dedicated TV Everywhere app across major streaming platforms, including Roku, Google TV, Fire TV, and compatible smart televisions, on March 31, 2026. The move ends a long-standing option that let cable and satellite subscribers authenticate with their provider credentials to access live channels and on-demand programming directly through the […]
Scientists solve 40-year-old biological mystery behind sleeping sickness
To survive in the human bloodstream, the African trypanosome parasite wears a "cloak" made of proteins known as a variant surface glycoprotein (VSG). The study, published in Nature Microbiology, identifies ...
Opinion | Public health challenges of legalized pot were predictable
If we continue to treat cannabis primarily as a tax revenue stream, we will miss the moment.
2026 Final Four TV schedule, announcers: Where to watch NCAA Tournament, tip times for March Madness
The complete television and streaming schedule for how to watch March Madness 2026 through the Final Four
I changed 3 settings in Plex and my streams immediately stopped buffering
Adjusting a few default settings can transform your Plex experience, by making streaming smoother and more reliable.
What to stream: Two doses of Amanda Seyfried, 'The Housemaid' with Sydney Sweeney and Jon Hamm robs
Amanda Seyfried starring in “The Testament of Ann Lee” and Bravo’s hit reality show “The Valley” returning for Season 3 are some of the new television, films, music and games headed to a device near you. Also among the streaming offerings worth your time this week, as selected by The…
How to Watch Y: Marshals Season 1, Episode 5
Watch Y: Marshals live with TV channel, start time and streaming info. Stream Season 1, Episode 5 on Fubo — no cable required, free trial available.
What time is Michigan vs Tennessee in Elite Eight today? Start time, location, TV Channel
Everything you need to know to tune into No. 1 Michigan Wolverines vs 6 Tennessee Volunteers including start time and streaming options for the Elite Eight
[*LIVE*] Purdue vs Arizona Live Free Streams On Sport'sTvｌ 29 March 2026
Purdue vs Arizona in a highly anticipated clash of the 2026.These rule changes are seen as part of Live NCAAM Men's Collage BasketBall ongoing efforts to evolve the game and maintain competitive integrity across formats.Pluto TV and All Men's Sports Network Forge Global Partnership to Launch a New FAST Channel and Media.
[*LIVE*] Iowa vs Illinois Live Free Streams On Sport'sTvｌ 29 March 2026
Iowa vs Illinois in a highly anticipated clash of the 2026.These rule changes are seen as part of Live NCAAM Men's Collage BasketBall ongoing efforts to evolve the game and maintain competitive integrity across formats.Pluto TV and All Men's Sports Network Forge Global Partnership to Launch a New FAST Channel and Media.
Psychedelic therapies are becoming mainstream. Deutsche Bank thinks this drug developer could triple
This biopharma play with two key drugs for treatment-resistant depression could see its stock rise by more than 230%, according to a Deutsche Bank analyst.
5 Major Brands You Might Not Realize Are Owned By Amazon
Besides the major online store, Amazon also owns IMDB, MGM Studios, Whole Foods, Ring video doorbells, and the live-streaming platform Twitch.
Netflix's Barren, Empty April Schedule Is The Future Of Entertainment
It’s no secret that Netflix is the largest streaming platform in the world. Over the last 10 years, it’s been … Continue reading "Netflix’s Barren, Empty April Schedule Is The Future Of Entertainment"
What time is Texas vs Kentucky in Sweet 16 today? Start time, location, TV Channel
Everything you need to know to tune into No. 1 Texas Longhorns vs 5 Kentucky Wildcats including start time and streaming options for the Sweet 16
UFC Seattle Start Time, Full Fight Card Details
Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) is back in Seattle, Washington later TONIGHT (Sat., March 28, 2026) to stage UFC Seattle from inside Climate Pledge Arena in Seattle, Washington. The event — which streams live on Paramount+ — will be headlined by a Middleweight fight that will see former division king, Israel Adesanya, face rising contender Joe […]
Where to watch Pittsburgh Pirates vs. New York Mets: Live stream, start time, TV channel, odds for Saturday, March 28
The Mets hope to build off their Opening Day win against the Pirates.
Where to watch Arizona Diamondbacks vs. Los Angeles Dodgers: Live stream, start time, TV channel, odds for Saturday, March 28
The defending champion Dodgers are looking to make it three in a row against the Diamondbacks.
What time is Michigan vs Louisville in Sweet 16 today? Start time, location, TV Channel
Everything you need to know to tune into No. 2 Michigan Wolverines vs 3 Louisville Cardinals including start time and streaming options for the Sweet 16
Game Preview: Dallas Stars @ Pittsburgh Penguins 3/28/2026
Who: Dallas Stars (43-18-11, 97 points, 2nd place Central Division) @ Pittsburgh Penguins (36-20-16, 88 points, 2nd place Metropolitan Division) When: 5:00 p.m. eastern How to Watch: Locally broadcast on Sportsnet Pittsburgh and Victory+, streaming on ESPN+ Pens’ Path Ahead: The Penguins have a back-to-back coming up that will have a major impact on the Eastern Conference playoff race. […]
NHL games today: Schedule, odds, how to watch for March 28
Here's the full NHL schedule, for March 28, including game times, TV channels, scores, odds and how to stream.
Impossible Science Live! with World Champion of Magic Jason Latimer
Impossible Science Live! with World Champion of Magic Jason Latimer From bending light with physics, to shaping water with chemistry and walking through solid glass with engineering, World Champion of Magic Jason Latimer’s mind-blowing live show delivers an inspiring message of how “The right question changes everything.” Impossible Science LIVE! expands on Jason Latimer’s inspiring TED Talk “ Seeing Beyond the Illusion of Knowledge ” with family-friendly, mind-blowing illusion entertainment. Uniting his favorite illusions from his illustrious career, Latimer reveals the secret to his magic is not special powers but simply a pursuit of challenging the impossible with curiosity. During your museum visit from April 7-11, 2026, drop into the auditorium for one of Latimer’s shows throughout the day. Shows are included with your Spring Break admission and FREE for museum members. Add a membership to your cart for free Spring Break admission! Available showtimes: 10:30 a.m., 11:30 a.m., 1 p.m., 2 p.m. daily, with a 3:30 p.m. show on Saturday, April 11. Open seating; first come, first seated. About Jason Latimer: Jason Latimer has been featured on television around the world as both a scientist and magician. While Latimer is both a curator of the iconic Fleet Museum in San Diego, CA, and a World Champion Magician his network specials, TV series, and appearances span the globe. Jason has been featured as a science host on the Science Channel, Roku, Amazon, and as a magician on the Syfy Channel, History, BBC ONE, and Japan’s NHK. In 2021, SONY partnered with Latimer to bring his unique blend of science and magic to online and to PBS to assist with distance learning. Impossible Science’s growth has been exponential ever since, garnering over a hundred million views and multiple streaming awards as an educational series.
Giant horn speakers, a Bluesound streamer, and Bryston power amps: inside the new Spotify Listening Lounge designed to showcase lossless audio
Spotify's dedicated Listening Lounge in London features a spectacular sound system for "deeper, intentional listening sessions" for artists and fans
Yankees Mailbag: Streaming headaches and bullpen musings
The 2026 season has already reminded us of the difficulties with actually watching baseball.
UAH Professor’s Research Challenges Traditional Marketing Strategies
In a crowded digital marketplace where brands compete for attention across social media, search engines and streaming platforms, one marketing approach may
Split Decision: Matthew Liberatore is Evolving
Does a new splitter from Matthew Liberatore have unexpected downstream effects that will carry over to the season?
LIVE: Spain vs Serbia – World Cup 2026 friendly
Follow our live build-up, with full team news coverage, ahead of our text commentary stream.
'Culture is downstream from entertainment' — An Interview with Rob Schneider
'You have a left that is totalitarian in the sense that they’re not for free speech. They don’t really have the best interests of the culture in mind. They’re not open for debate. They’re open for demonization. They want to demean you, they want to demoralize you, they want to prevent you from speaking, and they want to take away your ability to make a living.'
New movies to watch this weekend: See 'They Will Kill You' in theaters, rent 'Send Help,' stream 'Pretty Lethal' on Prime Video
Check out "Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice" on Hulu — or sink your teeth into some horror.
Innamorato issues executive order to improve restaurant permit process following Health Department changes
Allegheny County Executive Sara Innamorato on Monday signed an executive order aimed at streamlining the county’s restaurant permitting process. The effort will engage multiple departments to assess where the food permitting process could be improved while maintaining public health and safety. A news release from the County Executive’s Office states
Political consultant begins live streaming NH Executive Council meetings on YouTube
The New Hampshire State House isn’t always known for being technologically savvy, but the Executive Council moved a step further into the digital age Wednesday with a meeting live stream.
Fox News Poll: Fans say paywalled sports are out of bounds
A new Fox News Poll finds 72% of sports fans say major sporting events should be required to stay on free broadcast TV, not behind streaming paywalls.
/C O R R E C T I O N -- Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE)/
The Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE), the world's leading anti‑piracy coalition, has successfully shut down AnimePlay, one of the largest illicit anime streaming applications operating in the Asia-Pacific region. The application was run out of Riau, Indonesia.
The Oscars are leaving Hollywood
The Academy Awards will look pretty different come 2029 — streaming on YouTube with a new home in Downtown LA.
LIVE: Brazil vs France – FIFA World Cup 2026 warm up
Follow our live build-up, with full team news coverage, before our comprehensive text commentary stream.
This breakout teen performer is hitting Baton Rouge with a new tour. See who, how to get tickets.
And he has 1.2 billion-plus global streams
What to stream in April 2026: ‘The Testaments,’ ‘Big Mistakes’
Here's what's coming to Netflix, Hulu, Disney+, HBO Max, Prime Video, Peacock, Paramount+ and other streaming services in April.
Harmonic Delivers Winning Live Sports Streaming Innovations
/PRNewswire/ -- Harmonic (NASDAQ: HLIT) today announced powerful new innovations that further elevate the company's sports streaming solution. The advanced...
Pauline Hanson's One Nation: South Australian success an 'ominous sign' for major parties
Pauline Hanson's One Nation is riding a wave of popularity driven by voters weary of mainstream parties.
Q&A: An AI-Powered Way to Help Detect Brain Bleeds Faster
Timing and accuracy are vitally important when it comes to a brain bleed. Viz.ai, the company behind an artificial intelligence platform for disease detection and workflow optimization used in about 2,000 U.S. hospitals, wanted to streamline the process of identifying hemorrhages. Their solution,
Walmart prepares Google TV Streamer clone, may start selling its own Google TV sets too
Walmart is preparing new Google TV products including a set top box, likely a sequel to Onn 4K Pro, as...
Lana Condor talks ‘Pretty Lethal,’ Pacific Northwest-set ‘Whodunnit’
Lana Condor gets to utilize her dance skills in the action thriller "Pretty Lethal," which is now streaming on Prime Video.
How to watch Mariners games: TV, streaming and channel info
Finally, just before opening day, an answer for fans looking to watch Mariners games on TV. Here's how to watch the M's through cable and satellite provider.
MLB games tomorrow: Opening Day schedule, times, how to watch for March 26
Here's the full MLB schedule, for March 26, including game times, TV channels, scores and how to stream.
How to watch MLB games in 2026: Local broadcasts, streaming services, national games and more
It's not as easy as just flipping on your cable box anymore
Deloitte: From Subscribers to Superfans: Fan Engagement Shapes the Next Phase of Media and Entertainment Growth
/PRNewswire/ -- Key takeaways Consumer spend remains flat on streaming services: The average subscribing household reports spending $69 per month on streaming...
‘Project Hail Mary’ Is Out-of-this-world Entertainment
Back in 2017, filmmakers Phil Lord and Christopher Miller were hired and, several months into filming, fired from the Han Solo prequel movie, “Solo: A Star Wars Story.”
NHL games today: Schedule, odds, how to watch for March 25
Here's the full NHL schedule, for March 25, including game times, TV channels, scores, odds and how to stream.
How to stream all Yankees games in 2026 if you don't have cable TV
Here's how to watch all New York Yankees games during the 2026 season.
Hasbro Entertainment Advances ‘The Game of Life’ Film at Amazon MGM Studios
The project adds to a growing slate of IP-driven content spanning film, TV, and streaming.
Mike Tomlin Signs With Sports Media Agent Sandy Montag
Sandy Montag and sportscaster-turned-agent Alex Flanagan will represent Mike Tomlin in potential talks with networks and streamers.
Marathon has sold 1.2M copies across Steam, PS5, and Xbox
Alinea Analytics estimates show that Marathon has generated gross revenues of $55M via 1.2M copies sold on Steam, PS5, and Xbox: Looking at the split between Steam, PS5, and Xbox, Steam is clearly the main platform for Marathon, accounting for a little under 70% of the audience (800K copies sold). Meanwhile, PS5 takes about 19% (217K) and Xbox (including console, PC, and cloud) accounts for a bit over 11% or 133K. Marathon is technically a first-party Sony title, so seeing the home console struggle to break 20% of the volume is a notable data point for the ongoing platform-agnostic debate. PlayStation Studios online games will almost certainly continue being multiplatform (despite Sony reportedly pulling back on PC releases). Subscribe for free to get the most accurate games estimates in your inbox twice a week 🫶 Subscribe As for Marathon, the consensus among hardcore players who pushed through the awkward onboarding phase – myself included – is that it’s fantastic. The gunplay, aesthetic, and presentation are among the best in the shooter genre. A great game doesn’t always equal an immediate hit, though, as shown by our estimates. Things are looking lukewarm right now. But this might be one of those marathon-not-a-sprint situations. Had to, didn’t I? Why wasn’t Marathon a hit on the same level as Arc Raiders? One topic that came up in a lot of conversations at GDC this year was why Marathon hasn’t hit the same stratosphere as Arc Raiders. On paper, they’re both extraction shooters, and Marathon has the Bungie pedigree – the house that built the gold standard for gunplay in Halo and Destiny. Marathon’s neon-futuristic aesthetic also distinguishes itself from the gritty realism of Tarkov or the post-apocalyptic hope of ARC Raiders. But vibes can only get you so far for first impressions if the onboarding feels like a brick wall. Marathon is a sweaty PvP-focused experience with a first-time user experience and UI that I can only describe as dreadful. Players are dropped into a complex ecosystem where the UI, though visually striking, is functionally uninformative, forcing users to manually hover over nondescript, identical icons just to identify basic gear or weapon mods. This lack of clarity is compounded by punishing mechanics like a severe heat gauge for movement and a scarcity of vital resources, all without a clear tutorial or a low-stakes mode to learn the ropes. Most people – even top streamers and veteran shooter players – have no idea what’s going on in Marathon at first. Arc is on the complete other end of the spectrum. As we covered here and here, Arc Raiders offers a more collaborative, approachable loop where players often work together toward shared goals. And the objectives are instantly clear. To many players, this contrast only emphasised Marathon’s issues, especially during the testing period. Players understand the Arc Raiders loop within 30 minutes, while Marathon acts as a massive filter, chewing up newcomers and spitting them out before they can experience the depth of Bungie’s signature gunplay. What I’m getting at here is that the poor first-time user experience of Marathon’s Server Slam likely stifled launch sales, while the opposite was true for Arc. Let’s look at the pre-launch copies sold for each game during their respective Server Slams (launch-aligned) : Looking at the trajectory: Arc Raiders saw a massive 80% jump in copies sold during its three-day Server Slam (day -13 to -11). Players jumped in, realised the water was fine, and immediately opened their wallets. Marathon, meanwhile, saw a 49% increase in the four days following its Slam (Day -7 to -3). At the time of each game’s respective launch, Arc Raiders had nearly double the Steam footprint of Marathon – and word of mouth only continued to grow. Bungie could have had more time to fix the onboarding process had the beta happened earlier. But Marathon launched three days after the beta finished. These factors limited the launch sales quite a bit, I reckon. Marathon has found a niche audience, though Despite the friction-heavy start, the data suggests that those who survived Marathon’s onboarding are loving life. We’ve been tracking cross-platform DAUs, and while there’s the expected post-launch leakage, many players are sticking with it. After peaking at 478K total DAUs on its first Saturday, Marathon has settled into a respectable rhythm, holding 345K DAUs as of yesterday and averaging 380K DAUs across the weekend. Steam continues to do the heavy lifting here, consistently accounting for the lion’s share of the daily players. Players have been putting in the hours, too: On Steam, Marathon’s average playtime has climbed to 27.8 hours, significantly outpacing the console averages on PS5 (16.5h) and Xbox (17.3h). Even more telling than the averages: 22% of the Steam audience has surged past the 50-hour mark, and nearly 7% have already logged over 100 hours. Subscribe for free to get the most accurate games estimates in your inbox twice a week 🫶 Subscribe This data suggests that once the Bungie magic clicks, it hooks players deeper than the average extraction shooter. There’s also started to be a shift in the game’s discourse. Marathon launched as one of those games that’s cool to hate. But as Marathon’s 100-hour club grows, we’re seeing conversations around its mechanical merit outweigh the negativity. Several high-profile creators, who were initially vocal critics, have spent the last week coming around on the mechanical depth of the endgame. It’s a subtle but positive signal; the hate train is losing steam, and a new narrative about the game is emerging. Bungie faithfuls unite Another interesting metric in Marathon’s first few weeks is who, exactly, is playing. Bungie leans heavily on its prestige as the “makers of Halo and Destiny,” in its marketing, and that message has clearly hit the mark. On Steam, the gravity (hammer) of Bungie’s previous work is unavoidable. A staggering 78.2% of Marathon players also played Destiny 2. The trend carries across other platforms, with 74.2% of PS5 players and 82.7% of Xbox players also having played Destiny 2. The Halo legacy lives on, it seems. More on that in a bit. While Destiny 2 went free to play, these numbers still represent a high-intent migration of a fanbase that trusts Bungie’s specific brand of kinetic gunplay and cryptic world-building. The Xbox data adds another layer of legacy. About 85.7% of Marathon players on Xbox have played Halo Infinite, while over half of the Steam audience has spent time in Halo Infinite and 36.1% in the Master Chief Collection (a paid collection of the old Bungie-made legacy games). Interestingly, we see a 55.9% overlap with ARC Raiders on Steam. Overlap is even higher there on PlayStation (60.5%) and Xbox (66.5%). And there’s also significant crossover with Helldivers 2 on all platforms, too. Subscribe for free to get the most accurate games estimates in your inbox twice a week 🫶 Subscribe Bungie has found some of its fans with Marathon, and the challenge now is keeping this engaged in a high-stakes PvP environment when they’ve spent the last decade primarily enjoying the power fantasies of PvE. On that note… Go the full 26 miles? Or cut and run? Time for some could’ve, should’ve, would’ve. These things would have improved Marathon’s performance at launch: A more robust onboarding process, perhaps in the form of a short single-player/PvE campaign. We know Bungie fans love this stuff. A traditional arena-based mode akin to Destiny’s Crucible could have been a bridge for the cautious players who’d have been otherwise deterred by the Server Slam. It’s also a great palate cleanser after getting merked. Introducing a dedicated PvE environment would have similarly diversified the conversation and lowered the barrier for the Bungie faithful who found the pure PvP extraction loop too abrasive. PvE is safer than PvP these days. There’s an argument that a thin PvE mode would have just felt like a budget Destiny, potentially hurting the brand more. But given how dire the FTUE is, I think it would have been a net positive. Any kind of tutorialised loop that demystifies the stakes, really. While there is merit in a studio sticking firmly to a singular creative vision, and going all in on the hardcore extraction loop. Less forgiving is the technical reality is that the user interface and first-time user experience (FTUE) were not at a commercial standard for launch. Subscribe for free to get the most accurate games estimates in your inbox twice a week 🫶 Subscribe In a landscape where player time is oversaturated and the most contested currency, a flawed FTUE is a critical failure point. But it’s not all doom and gloom, as Marathon has an incredible, unique gameplay loop, suggesting that financial success is still attainable if Bungie can pivot effectively. Bungie and PlayStation now face a difficult strategic crossroads, though – one within a challenging games market. They could: Double down on Marathon with a long-term Rainbow Six Siege- or No Man’s Sky-style recovery plan, which is something I heard Last Stand Media’s Chris Maldonado mention last week. While this could be a sunk-cost fallacy in action, it could eventually yield the audience the game’s mechanical depth deserves. Shift focus toward the inevitable Destiny 3 or another project, mitigating the escalating opportunity cost and cutting their losses, so to speak. Doing both is an expensive proposition, given the high overhead and burn rate of operating out of Bellevue, Washington. With Sony recently demonstrating a lower threshold for underperforming studios and projects, the margin for error has vanished. Whatever happens, the next six months will determine whether Marathon becomes a cornerstone of Sony’s live-service portfolio or a cautionary tale of vision exceeding accessibility. I’m hoping it’s the former, because Marathon rocks. As always, hit subscribe to get updates on Marathon and other relevant games. Subscribe Want to get your hands on our data for yourself – for free? We’re offering a free trial of our platform for games companies. 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