Established streaming industry leaders like Netflix and Amazon are facing more competition than ever. Now legacy entertainment giants are in the game with their own subscription services, like Peacock, HBO Max, Paramount Plus, and the Disney Plus / Hulu / ESPN Plus bundle, while Apple TV Plus attacks around the edges. Meanwhile, the rise of ad-supported free platforms like Roku Channel and Pluto TV has attracted enough attention that Plex, YouTube, and Amazon’s Freevee are trying to get a chunk of the action too.
The streamer is the place for premium sci-fi, but can it catch up with the competition?
Amazon MGM Studios hasgreenlit a newStargate series for Prime Video, with Martin Gero as writer and showrunner. Gero formerly wrote, produced, and directed episodes of all three of the originalStargate series. The Prime Video series is the second attempt to revive the franchise after theStargate: Origins mini-series in 2018.
The new trailer forAmazon MGM’s adaptation of Alex Weir’s novelProject Hail Mary teases a bit more of the catastrophe that’s imperiling Earth, but it’s mostly about the friendship that’s going to develop between astronaut Dr. Ryland Grace (Ryan Gosling) and an alien that looks like a pile of rocks.
Here’s a couple of facts for you, apropos of nothing: it has been less than a decade sinceMoana hit US theaters, and not even 12 months sinceMoana 2 followed it. And yet,here we are.
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The concept ofa live-actionMoanaadaptation feels pretty premature until you remember thatthe original animated movie came out almost a decade ago. The new movie hits theaters on July 10, 2026.
Studios specializing in vertical video production are slowly but surely shaking up the entertainment industry.
The show,Outside Tonight, will be hosted byRecess Therapy host Julian Shapiro-Barnum. “Set in public parks and on street corners,Outside Tonight with Julian Shapiro-Barnum revitalizes a classic format with weekly, live shows packed with star studded interviews, audience driven games, live music, and nonstop comedy,”YouTube says.
Instead of offering MLS Season Pass asa separate subscription, you might be able to watch MLS games next season with just a base Apple TV subscription, like how Apple TV will be the place towatch F1 in the US,ESPN reports.
After two seasons of sleuthing, Peacock has cancelled its version ofPoker Face starring Natasha Lyonne. But Deadline reports thatseries creator Rian Johnson is already in the process of shopping around a straight-up reboot that would see Peter Dinklage take on the role of Charlie Cale. What a concept.
Lucy and the Ghoul have started warming up to each other in the new trailerseason two of Amazon’sFalloutseries. And the duo’s hunt for Lucy’s father, Hank has them trekking to a very bleak andmutant-filled New Vegas.
During an earnings call, Disney CEO Bob Iger said the company isn’t “trying to break any new ground” on a deal thatwould end the ESPN blackout:
The deal that we have proposed is equal to or better than what other large distributors have already agreed to... While we’ve been working tirelessly to close this deal and restore our channels to the platform, it’s also imperative that we make sure that we agree to a deal that reflects the value that we deliver.
The streaming service grew to 59.3 million subscribers in the US and Canada just months afterpausing production of Kimmel’s late-night talk show andannouncing a price hike, according to itsQ4 2025 earnings report.
Disney also plans to make more changes to its streaming service soon, with a new “visually engaging homepage and greater personalization.”
Hideo Kojima’s two games are getting an anime series,Death Stranding Isolations, on Disney Plus in 2027.
Kojima will produce, with Takayuki Sano of E&H Production directing, and the announcement promises “a traditional, hand-drawn 2D animation style.” It’ll follow two new characters in theDeath Stranding world, but that’s all we know.
The Athletic reports that Disney and Google’s CEOs have become “more involved” in the negotiations nearly two weeks afterESPN, ABC, and other Disney-owned channels went dark on YouTube TV.
Sources tell the outlet that YouTube TV is still trying to determine how much it should pay for Disney’s non-sports networks like Freeform, FX, and National Geographic.
What was once a department store inside of the King of Prussia Mall has become a new (and now open)Netflix House entertainment venue where you can “explore more than 100,000 square feet of immersive experiences” inspired by some of the streamer’s shows likeWednesday,One Piece, andSquid Game.
Ahead of one of the biggest games of the NFL season so far, I have a feeing there might besomething he wants to talk about. He’ll be on the showat 8PM ET.
Gorilla Grodd — DC Comics’ gorilla supervillain who has longstanding beef with the Flash — is set to be the focus ofDC Crime, a new HBO Max “true” crime docuseries hosted byDaily Planetreporter Jimmy Olsen (Skyler Gisondo). No premiere date yet, but Tony Yacenda and Dan Perrault are attached to write / showrun the project.
Thenew feature is coming first to Canada, allowing users to connect and share music with like-minded fans across genres like rock, country, and K-pop. In Fan Groups, users can join or create chat threads, as well as save recommendations from others.
Amazon Music plans on bringing Fan Groups to the US and other countries next year.
