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Apple TV
Apple TV+ has gone ahead and released the trailer for Disclaimer, the Alfonso Cuarón written and directed series starring Cate Blanchett (Lord of the Rings) and Kevin Kline (always and forever The Pirates of Penzance). The series, which Apple greenlit in 2021 and is one of their higher-priced shows,
Showtime
Showtime's new series, The Agency, a remake of the French spy series Le Bureau des Legendes (shortened to The Bureau for the American market), is full speed ahead in casting as filming prepares to get underway. The series, which was initially announced in early 2023, disappeared from the
PBS
PBS' newest addition to the period drama lineup, Funny Woman (based on the novel Funny Girl by Nick Hornby, with the title altered for obvious reasons), was commissioned for a Season 2 by producer Sky around the same time it landed an American distributor. As luck would have it,
PBS
It's been nearly two years since Vienna Blood Season 3 debuted on PBS in January 2023. The series, based on the Max Liebermann novels by Frank Tallis, has been an on-again/off-again wintertime mystery series for public television, originally debuting Season 1 in January 2020, only
HBO & HBO Max
During the 2010s, the Game of Thrones season finales were infamous among TV reporters as HBO's big moment to drop the first looks at the other major series heading to the network in the months to come. House of the Dragon may never reach the heights of the
PBS
The trend of advancing a period piece series forward one year per season was not new when Call The Midwife began using it over a decade ago, but the ubiquity of the BBC's hit —which started in the late 1950s with Season 1 and will now cross in
Sundance Now
When TV drama series focus on hot-button issues, there is a tendency to distill things into a simple formula. One side is Good, the other Bad; we are supposed to root for the former. Even amid prestige TV's height, with anti-heroes all the rage, someone is
Apple TV
Apple TV+ recently admitted it would actually start attempting to reign in the massive budgets for its original content after a year that saw high-priced projects like Masters of the Air and Fly Me To The Moon barely register, while the long-delayed second season of Severence practically turned
Now Stream This
It's August, and it is miserably hot here in the Northern Hemisphere. August is always miserably hot in most of America, but this year seems worse than usual, perhaps because we keep breaking records for the hottest days ever recorded on the planet. This is the time to
Acorn TV
Acorn TV has officially confirmed that fan-favorite breakout hit Harry Wild will return for a fourth season. The niche streaming service, which is far and away AMC Network’s most-watched service of its little federation of offerings, made the announcement with the release of a pair of photos
PBS
The dog days of August are upon us, and while streaming has mostly changed the TV season so that no one takes summers off anymore, PBS is still a linear network at heart, and most of its shows run on the old September-May TV season, with a set of
Tubi
Netflix, Disney+, Hulu, and the like need to watch out, as FAST streamers are coming up behind them quickly. Tubi, the Free Ad-Supported TV streaming app, once treated like the tiny afterthought in a much larger race to the top by large-scale exclusive content streamers, has been eating