In 1941, the Federal Communications Commission established the Chain Broadcasting Regulations to try to break up a radio landscape that had become dominated by just four major national players. The regulations were challenged by NBC, with the company taking the case to the Supreme Court, which upheld the rules. A direct effect of that decision? NBC divested one of its...

After solid starts to their inaugural seasons on HBO, The Chair Company and I Love LA will get a chance to go further. HBO has renewed both first-year comedies for another season. The pickups come with two episodes remaining in The Chair Companys season and midway through I Love LAs run. HBO and HBO Max chairman and CEO Casey Bloys...

The 2025 jewel heist from the Louvre Museum in Paris has grabbed headlines and the worlds attention since October. Now, R.J. Cutler and Laurent Bouzereau (Music by John Williams) are developing a documentary that will explore the theft and the search for the criminals, as well as the public obsession that followed. The project will focus on the jewel heist...

Emma Thompson is such a big fan of Oscar-hopeful short Jane Austens Period Drama, shes boarded the film as executive menstrual advisor. Julia Aks and Steve Pinders live-action comedy follows Austen-esque heroine Miss Estrogenia (Aks) as she gets her period during a long-awaited marriage proposal. This leads to a series of comic misunderstandings with her would-be fianc, Mr. Dickley, as...

What Happened: YouTube is finally doing the thing everyone has wanted: its testing a direct messaging feature right inside the app! For now, its only available to signed-in users aged 18 and up in Poland and Ireland. Its a full-on chat screen built right into the YouTube mobile app. You can share long-form videos, Shorts, and livestreams directly into a...

BookTok rejoice! Craves Jacob Tierney-created adaptation of Rachel Reids gay hockey romance novel, Heated Rivarly, has sold to HBO Max in the U.S. and Australia, Bell Media announced Wednesday. The six-episode series centers around two rival professional hockey players Canadian-born Shane Hollander (Hudson Williams) of the fictitious Montreal Voyageurs and Russian-born Ilya Rozanov (Connor Storrie) of the fictitious Boston Bears...

Fall may be giving way to winter, but The Summer I Turned Pretty is still top of mind for many of thePrime Video dramas fans. They can thank Jenny Han for that. The creator of the cultural phenomenon celebrated her series September finale by announcing a film one that almost nobody knew about beforehand. I really wanted to have this...

Former Topic Studios head and HBO Films executive Maria Zuckerman is headed to Fox as a producer. Zuckerman has signed a first-look deal with Fox Entertainment Studios that covers both TV and film projects. Under the multi-year deal, shell develop and produce scripted series and feature films and nonfiction projects including feature documentaries and series. Maria is one of the...

What Happened: YouTube TV has quietly won a massive victory in the streaming wars. After months of really tough contract talks with giants like Fox, NBCUniversal, and Disney, YouTube TV basically got its way. The goal was simple but revolutionary: YouTube TV pushed the networks to let it pull all their content into one place. This meant getting the networks...

For more than two decades, New Zealand filmmaker Niki Caro has built a career that has swung between breakout indie success and the upper echelons of studio filmmaking. She first drew international attention with Whale Rider, a small, community-rooted drama that became a global phenomenon and earned Keisha Castle-Hughes an Oscar nomination. Caro followed with North Country (2005) for Warner...

Fresh off a record-smashing World Series, Major League baseball has finally inked long-awaited new media rights deals with NBC, Netflix, and ESPN. The new rights packages came about after MLB and ESPN broke up earlier this year after 35 years of national games on the cable sports giant. The new deal will keep ESPN in the baseball business, but its...

The 2026 Movies for Grownups Awards nominations have been revealed, with Paul Thomas Andersons acclaimed One Battle After Another scoring a leading eight nominations, including for best picture. The Warner Bros. film is also up for best actor (Leonardo DiCaprio), supporting actress (Regina Hall), supporting actor (Benicio Del Toro and Sean Penn), best director and screenwriter (Anderson) and best ensemble....

Glen Powell is heading back to theaters early next year as the lead of a freshly titled A24 feature. The studio is set to release writer-director John Patton Fords How to Make a Killing in theaters Feb. 20, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed. Margaret Qualley and Ed Harris also star in the thriller film that previously had been titled Huntington....