Now Stream This
We're ringing in the new year as 2024 finally sees itself out. We're halfway through the future's take on the Roaring 20s and a quarter of the way through the 21st century, making 2025 feel like a year of deep import. Whether the new
Now Stream This
December is upon us, and if you weren't ready for 2024 to be over, well, I can't help you; heck, I can't even get my stuff together, as evidenced by the fact that this post is going up five days after the first of
Now Stream This
Mike Leigh is probably the single greatest benefactor to Britain’s film history in the last fifty years, and yet the average British film fan may have only heard of a handful of his films. His background in Britain’s theater and teleplay scene in the 70s was predated by
PBS
As we enter the mid-2020s and streaming rapidly becomes the default way viewers consume television, PBS has announced a deal with Amazon to make all PBS local station channels, 150+ stations in all, available for free. Over the next few months, Prime members will see their local PBS stations
Now Stream This
Let's talk turkey about November programming in the U.S., especially the schedule vis a vis linear networks and streaming services. The penultimate month of the year was always complex for TV broadcast networks, which had to work around Thanksgiving in America, and only America. That means streamers
Now Stream This
October is here, and along with it, the time of the year recently dubbed "Spoooooooky Season." (Ok, fine, it's Spooky Season, but I like all the extra "o"s.) Once upon a time, the Christmas holiday was the only major event that TV producers
Now Stream This
Cable networks getting into the original series game at the end of the 1990s was the first death knell for the standard TV season running from September to June; however, September didn't truly lose its status until streaming became the way of the future. Broadcast networks still tried
Now Stream This
In a surprising move, Lionsgate’s chief executive announced that BritBox and Starz would be partnered as a streaming bundle in the coming months. The news came as part of Lionsgate’s Q1 2025 financial results call on August 8, 2024, presided over by CEO Jon Feltheimer. Feltheimer has been
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
Now Stream This
Happy July, everyone! Summer has officially rolled in, and with it, the most dramatic of weekends: July 4th. No, I'm not talking about hot dogs, fireworks, beaches, and Independence Day concerts on the National Mall broadcast by your local PBS stations. I'm talking about The Election.
Now Stream This
Most people think of June as the end of the year or the end of a season, mainly due to a dozen years of mass public education which runs from September until the middle of June. But in the world of TV, June is not the end, it is the
Now Stream This
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle would probably be astonished and embarrassed at the manifestations of Sherlock Holmes on stage, the big and small screens, radio, comics, board games, and computer games. All over the world, audiences love Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson, and the ink was barely dry on Sir