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In praise of crap daytime TV
“Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.” So said WH Auden in The Dyer's Hand, and I've always felt the same way about popularity, especially enduring popularity. Because being famous is hard –…
YouTube TV Adds ESPN And NBC Sports As Ad Dollars Follow The Audience
The YouTube TV logo is displayed on a mobile phone with the company branding play icon seen in the background, in this photo illustration in Brussels, Belgium, on November 11, 2025. (Photo by Jonathan Raa/NurPhoto via Getty Images) YouTube TV's new…
Peacock Posts First Profit As Sports, Reality TV Drive Growth
Streaming of sporting events like World Cup soccer helped carry Peacock to $189 million in adjusted earnings. (Photo by David Ramos) Six years after its launch, Peacock posted its first quarterly profit, powered by NBA playoff games, FIFA World Cup…
Yankees, Knicks moving regional TV streaming distribution from Gotham app to DAZN
The broadcast homes of the New York Knicks and Yankees and five other area pro sports teams will stream their games exclusively at a new location. MSG Networks and YES Network announced that starting with this upcoming NBA and NHL season, they will…
You can stream local TV channels for free - here's how
You can watch your region's sports or news without paying an arm and a leg. Really. Cutting the cord isn't as easy, or as cheap, as it looks. With streamers seemingly engaged in OPEC-style price gouging, many viewers' television subscription costs…
Annie Jacobsen's 'Biological War' Is Coming to TV
Before Denis Villeneuve came aboard as the next James Bond movie director, another intriguing project was sitting in his potential “to-do” pile: an adaptation of Nuclear War: A Scenario, Annie Jacobsen ‘s 2024 book that uses…
Android TV has a healthy lead over Apple, but one rival remains untouchable
Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority Android TV accounts for 14% of respondents' most-used TV setups, ahead of Apple's tvOS at 8%. Roku and Fire TV remain far ahead, combining for 54% of primary TV and streaming player setups. Viewers value easy…
Apple Smart Home Overhaul: New Smart Display, Apple TV, And HomePod On The Horizon
Apple Home App on various Apple devices Apple's long-rumored smart home overhaul is (apparently) moving closer to reality, with a new report claiming the company is preparing not just its first smart display, but a trio of connected home devices…
I swapped my Fire TV Stick for the Google TV Streamer - then one glitch almost ruined it
C. Scott Brown / Android Authority For the past five years or so, the Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K has been my trusty streaming companion. Everything was going fine until maybe a year ago, when I noticed the interface had gotten quite sluggish…
Can't hear what's playing on TV? It's not your ears, it's the flat screen. These affordable soundbars can help
Your TV sounds awful. That's not an indictment of your shopping skills, your budget or even the TV's manufacturer. It's just basic physics. The tiny speakers crammed in modern flat-screen TVs simply can't reproduce the physical sound waves as well…
How to Choose an RGB LED TV for Your Home
If your current standard LED or older LCD TV leaves colors looking flat, now is the time to upgrade. And the new RGB LED TVs from household-name brands like Samsung, Sony, LG, Hisense, and TCL just might blow your mind with their higher brightness…
Michael J. Fox Will Be Honored With TV Academy's Bob Hope Humanitarian Award at the Emmys
Michael J. Fox has been tapped to receive one of the Television Academy ‘s biggest honors, the Bob Hope Humanitarian Award, at this year's Emmy Awards. The org announced the news Wednesday, noting that the kudo was “in recognition of…
Every single MCU movie and TV show, ranked
The best part of 'Quantumania,' the third installment in the Paul Rudd-led 'Ant-Man' series, was Jonathan Majors' introduction as the MCU's next big bad, Kang, audiences and critics agreed — although, Majors' time in the MCU was short-lived…
TV tonight: Tinie Tempah's popular house extension series returns
Tinie Tempah is back with his surprisingly popular series about house extensions. The first wealthy couple are “unleashing Great Gatsby glamour on to their Edwardian terrace”; the second are transforming their chocolate-box cottage in…
10 Best TV Shows About Greek Mythology
With the blockbuster success of Christopher Nolan's 'The Odyssey,' Greek mythology is once again having a major pop-culture moment. Though the pantheon of gods, demigods, heroes, and Titans has existed for thousands of years, there are surprisingly…
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