We may be living in a golden age of TV, but panning through all the dross to find that gold can be time-consuming and tedious. For every much-discussed hit like Severance, House of the Dragon, and The Bear, there are dozens of new original shows that barely tip the cultural needle. And with so many new streaming services competing with HBO, Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, and Disney Plus, it’s impossible to keep up with everything new to view. But The Verge’s TV section is ready to help. Our news, reviews, and interviews help you find the next Stranger Things or Star Trek: Strange New Worlds in time to keep up with the cultural conversation. And our essays and analysis invite you to consider the deeper context of what you’re watching.
Beyond just the “coming soon” Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2, this Anime Expo 2025 teaser from Netflix highlights other animated releases that are either new or continuing, like Sakamoto Days, Beastars, Leviathan, and Splinter Cell: Deathwatch, and the upcoming “cozy MMO,” Spirit Crossing, that’s part of its new plan for games.
Following its theatrical preview earlier this summer, the second of Science Saru’s Dan Da Dan adaptation is finally streaming on Crunchyroll, Netflix, Hulu, and a few other streaming platforms depending on which territory you live in. You can also check out the new season’s opening and closing credits sequences on YouTube.
Foundation and Strange New Worlds return, while Alien: Earth and Eyes of Wakanda will make their debuts.
It’s been a bit since we’ve heard from Apple about its adaptation of William Gibson’s seminal cyberpunk novel Neuromancer. And while it’ll likely be quite some time before we actually see the series, today brings some good news: the show is officially in production.
The new trailer for Marvel’s Eyes of Wakanda Disney Plus series doesn’t give all that much away, but it does make the show look like it’s going to be cool as hell when it premieres on August 6th.
Netflix’s biggest series reaches a conclusion, but it doesn’t really feel like the end.
Marvel’s latest Disney Plus series is another example of what it’s going to take to keep this franchise feeling fresh.
Wong Kar-wai, the director behind Chungking Express and In the Mood For Love, made his first TV series with the 30-episode-long Blossoms Shanghai, which aired in China in 2023. And soon you’ll be able to watch it yourself: it’s coming to the Criterion Channel “later this year.”
In case you were wondering what sorts of new / returning series and movies are making their way to Apple TV Plus this year, the studio has just dropped a sizzle reel teasing some of what we can expect to see from Chief of War, Invasion season 3, Foundation season 3, Slow Horses season 5, and more.
The latest trailer for Marvel’s Ironheart Disney Plus series is (thankfully) light on plot details, but it’s chock full of snazzy shots of Riri Williams’ latest suit, which seems like it’s going to be able to channel magical energies when the show premieres on June 24th.
The first season of Peacock’s Twisted Metal was one long intro to the vehicular death match tournament that’s at the heart of the series. This new clip for season 2 gives a sense of what that will look like in live-action. More importantly, it includes a first-look at an iconic character: Axel, a man imprisoned between two giant wheels.
The latest trailer for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds’ third season is a bit less kitsch than last time around, teasing action beats and character development rather than campy costumes, but it’s no less fun. The show returns to Paramount Plus with two episodes at once on July 17th, almost two years after it last left our screens, and a fourth season is already on the way.
The public’s negative response to previous instances of major Hollywood firing up the generative AI slop machine might make you think that entertainment execs have cooled on the technology. But a new report from Vulture makes it sound like more and more studios are jumping on the bandwagon and trying very hard to keep it a secret.
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But the new intro for the upcoming Hulu revival is a remarkable little slice of storytelling, cramming a whole lot into just 40 seconds. The new season hits starts streaming on August 4th.
Ben Stiller tells Variety that there are “two specific ideas” that the Severance team has “talked about internally as possible spinoff ideas.” He says “they are nascent.”
Stiller also says it would be great to “have a Severance video game.” I’m not exactly sure how that would work?
The Wall Street Journal reports that, while Paramount offered to pay Donald Trump $15 million to make him drop his lawsuit against CBS News over the way a 60 Minutes interview with Kamala Harris was edited, the sitting president wants upwards of $25 million and a public apology from the news organization.
The subtext here is obviously “grovel and supplicate if you want that Skydance merger to go through.”
When The Morning Show returns to Apple TV Plus for its fourth season on September 17th, Alex Levy (Jennifer Aniston) and Bradley Jackson (Reese Witherspoon) are going to find themselves navigating “a world rife with deepfakes, conspiracy theories and corporate cover-ups.”
The first trailer for Apple TV Plus’ upcoming crime drama Smoke starring Taron Egerton and Jurnee Smollett as a detective / arson investigator duo forced to team up in order to take down a pair of serial fire starters is — apologies — hot as hell. The show debuts on June 27th.
This “special announcement” teaser for the upcoming second season of Netflix’s One Piece adaptation could just be a reminder that new episodes are on the way, but it (and all the little hoof prints at the end) are probably a sign that we can expect to hear new details about the show at this year’s Tudum event.
As Deadline notes, the cross-platform viewer number that (HBO) Max just released for last night’s finale is down from the season premiere’s 5.3 million, but the company expects that “The audience will grow significantly due to low viewing levels over the Memorial Day holiday weekend.” According to the press release, the show’s global audience now numbers more than 90 million.
If you’ve seen the finale, what do you think about where the show is headed now?
