“I don’t want to say no forever,” Apple head of services Eddy Cue told Screen International, “but there are no plans.”
There are plenty of signs that Apple has at least explored ads for its streamer in the past, but right now it seems content with price hikes to pay the bills.
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Now that the Disney blackout has dragged on for an “extended period of time,” Google will begin handing out the promised credits today. Customers should get an email explaining how to apply the one-time credit to their next bill. But, $20 probably won’t satisfy disgruntled customers who just want to watch SportsCenter.
Music recommendation algorithms were supposed to help us cut through the noise, but they just served us up slop.
It’s a good day to stay home: the first two episodes of Vince Gilligan’s Pluribus are now on Apple TV, while Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein is on Netflix after a brief theatrical run. And if you’re looking for more after you watch, here are my interviews with Gilligan and Frankenstein creature designer Mike Hill.
Never mind Liquid Glass, the new Apple TV intro was made using the real stuff, filmed by shining colorful lighting behind a glass model of the logo. With big companies like Coca-Cola and Google putting out entirely AI-generated marketing, it’s nice to see some things being made the old-fashioned way.
If you can’t wait until November 26th to experience the final season of Stranger Things (which has taken more than three years to release), you can now watch the first five minutes of its first episode, “The Crawl.” It’s been an age since we’ve seen Will Byers (Noah Schnapp) looking so baby-faced.
The new show from Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan isn’t afraid to take things slow.
The company said in its Q3 2025 earnings report that it’s “making progress” on the new service, which it initially teased in September. Upon launch, WBD will take sports content off HBO Max and put it into TNT Sports, which will be available as yet another streaming bundle option.
