If you have ever found yourself doomscrolling through TikTok or Instagram Reels, Disney+ now wants to offer a similar experience inside its own app. The company has introduced Verts, a vertical video feed in its app to help you discover movies and shows by swiping through short clips. With Verts, you can swipe through short vertical videos that showcase scenes,...

Jenna Ortega and Taylor Russell are bringing a 1990s thriller favorite back to life. 3000 Pictures, a division of Sony Pictures, has hired Bodies Bodies Bodies screenwriter Sarah DeLappe to pen the script for Single Female, with Ortega and Russell attached to star. The project is a remake of the 1992 feature Single White Female that adapted author John Lutzs...

Cable news ratings spiked on Feb. 28 with the beginning of military strikes against Iran, and theyve stayed above their usual levels in the nearly two weeks since then. The three biggest cable news channels Fox News, MS Now and CNN are running well ahead of their season-to-date averages in primetime. Smaller outlets like Newsmax and NewsNation are up too....

Ernie Anastos, the charismatic New York City television anchor who spent 11 years with WABCs Eyewitness News and another 15 with Foxs WNYW, died Wednesday. He was 82. Anastos started out at WABC in 1978 and finished up at WNYW in 2019. In between, he had two stints at WCBS-TV and one at WWOR, and he collected more than 30...

The series premiere of Marshals logged more than 20 million viewers in seven days after its March 1 debut, making it the biggest show on TV that week regardless of platform. The Yellowstone spinoff which earned a speedy season two renewal from CBS brought in 20.6 million viewers over seven days in the United States, based on Nielsens multi-platform ratings...

After a big premiere and a second episode that held onto most of that audience CBS Yellowstone spinoff Marshals is getting a second season. The network announced a speedy renewal for Marshals on Thursday, 12 days after its series debut. The pickup comes after the best start for a scripted network series in several years. Marshals joins a host of...

Bryan Cranston gets shaved here and intimately groomed there by Jane Kaczmarek just ahead of their characters 40th anniversary party in the latest trailer for Hulus Malcolm in the Middle reboot to debut on April 10. Come on, Dewey. Youve seen this like a 1000 times Undergrowth, Cranstons Hal then tells Kaczmareks Lois to go low with her manscaping groomer...

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Coming out of the Super Bowl and with the Winter Olympics in full swing, Peacock also got solid performances from two of its series in February. The Burbs and The Traitors both made Nielsens top 10 chart for original streaming shows in the week of Feb. 9-15, marking a relatively rare double for the NBCUniversal streaming service. The Burbs as...

Finneas OConnell will score season two of Netflixs Beef, the streamer and the anthology series studio A24 jointly announced on Thursday. Spent the last 12 months in Beef land. All eight episodes out April 16, all original music by me, OConnell said in a statement. Very grateful to Sonny for involving me, very grateful for the incredible performances from the...

YouTube offers two main subscription options for viewers who want an ad-free experience: the full YouTube Premium plan and the more affordable Premium Lite. While both plans remove the interruptions that come with watching YouTube for free, they differ in features, pricing, and who theyre best suited for. If youre thinking about subscribing but arent sure which plan to choose,...

Nearly two decades after the first Family Guy spinoff premiered, a second one will join Foxs lineup. The network has given a two-season order to Stewie, a show focused on the youngest member of the Griffin family. The series from Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane and Kirker Butler, a longtime writer and producer on the show, is set to premiere...

As the independent film marketplace continues to experience headwinds, a new feature film finance and production outfit is popping up with the intention of guiding emerging filmmakers from development to distribution. Danielle Lauders Act 4 Artists is officially entering the narrative feature film space, launching with the SXSW premiere of director Will Ropps high school comedy Brian. The company financed...