Jay Peters
Welcome to the club.
Dungeons & Dragons and Netflix have teamed up on a new Stranger Things-themed board game bundle called Stranger Things: Welcome to the Hellfire Club. It will be released on October 7th and you can preorder it now.
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Jay Peters
Apple is teasing something about its show from Breaking Bad’s creator.
I’m very confused by this tweet, but maybe it means Apple is close to sharing more about the upcoming show from Vince Gilligan. Apple has also posted a YouTube video that’s counting down to 3PM ET on Friday.
Update: Apple posted a countdown video.
Dominic Preston
Can South Park save Paramount Plus?
With a $1.5 billion five-year deal to lock the irreverent show down and take it away from HBO Max, the streaming service clearly thinks so.
Paramonut Plus is steadily gaining subscribers, but lags behind rivals when it comes to the most popular content, and securing South Park might just help. And hey, if it distracts from stories about its troubled Skydance merger and payouts to Trump, that can’t hurt either, right?
Emma Roth
YouTube removed thousands of channels tied to Chinese and Russian propoganda networks.
The full report, which you can find here, shows that Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) terminated almost 11,000 channels between April and June of 2025 as part of an investigation into “coordinated influence operation campaigns.”
The mass removals included over 7,700 channels with ties to China, and 2,000 linked to Russia, as reported by CNBC.
Charles Pulliam-Moore
Futurama season 13 is dropping all at once this September.
While Hulu took its time releasing the last two seasons of Futurama, the streamer announced today that every episode of season 13 will debut simultaneously on September 15th.
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Andrew Webster
Ted Lasso steps back on to the pitch.
Apple announced that production is officially underway for the previously-revealed season 4 of Ted Lasso. There’s even a photo to prove it. More interesting, though, is the news that a bunch of the cast are joining Jason Sudeikis in returning to the show, including Hannah Waddingham, Juno Temple, Brett Goldstein, Brendan Hunt. and Jeremy Swift.
Image: Apple
Elizabeth Lopatto
Welcome back to the new season of the Trump show.
We’ve talked before about the funhouse-mirror-alternative-reality that Trump (and Musk) have built. JP Brammer, who watches much more YouTube than I do, notes something weird is going on in content land — it seems Donald Trump has lost control of the plot. NBC’s Brandy Zadrozny, writing from a more anxious angle, seems to agree. Content has now outpaced reality. I guess we’re going to find out by how much.
May the Beast You Rode in on Eat You Alive
[johnpaulbrammer.substack.com]
Andrew Webster
A quick turnaround.
Wes Anderson’s latest, The Phoenician Scheme, is still in select theaters, but it’ll also be streaming very soon. Peacock just announced that it’ll air the movie starting on July 25th. The news comes just a day after the streamer announced a sizable price hike.
Jay Peters
Netflix says people like its new TV interface.
“Early results are encouraging, outperforming pre-launch testing and demonstrating strong member interest in the new features,” Netflix says in its second-quarter letter to shareholders. About 50 percent of members have used it.
The new UI started rolling out globally in May, and it features a Home tab with a huge banner front and center that highlights something to watch.
Netflix is getting a big TV revamp
Jay Peters
Emma Roth