A positive conversation about Paramount?
One of the frustrating aspects of the impending (?) Paramount-Warner Bros merger has been that it may upend some of the interesting work underway at Paramount with its newly-installed TV team.
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Aussies aren't watching much Aus TV. But claim they want to watch more.
To the surprise of nobody living in Australia, a Screen Australia report has found that Australians don’t watch that much Australian TV.
The future of television. Well, the next 36 months of it. Supposedly.
Are industry executives the best voices to listen to in terms of where the future of television is headed?
20 years of the last innovative Australian TV show
Today marks 20 years since the debut of Australian talk show David Tench Tonight.
Netflix's new manic pixie dream girl, HBO's gritty space cops, and Disney's lost FBI agents
It was about twenty minutes into My Brilliant Career where the frustration began to set in.
The first 5 minutes of Lanterns. And that's all I'm (unfortunately) allowed to say about this (whispers: very good) show
Back in 2011 there was a Green Lantern movie starring Ryan Reynolds that STUNK.
What was Variety trying to accomplish with its 61 top showrunners list?
There are also SO MANY trailers today
A neat YouTube restoration, the Independence Day creator wants Doctor Who, and HBO lands a name actor for Harry Potter wizard
Just getting straight to the news of the day this morning, but I do want to drive readers attention to the comments section of the newsletter.
Nancy predicts the end of The Simpsons. Your boy Dan makes a different prediction.
40 seasons and two movies????
30 films a year in cinema. Sounds great, but how? There's no strategy.
Remember when I used to just be able to talk about TV in this newsletter?
Yeah, Ted Lasso is back. But Sterling Point is the show that deserves your attention.
I had a whinge about Ted Lasso earlier in the week in Always Be Watching.
This is why Paramount won't be cutting a deal to break up Warner Bros assets.
Trade publications, irrespective of industry, will often report on the work of analysts who specialise in their chosen fields.
Ted Lasso is back for season 4 with a field full of fan service
So many of the television (and cinema) experiences we have are based off pre-existing IP.
“Guys, you can trust David Ellison” - David Ellison, 2026
Save the date!
I have never been evacuated from my lounge room because of a fart
At home viewing: 1, cinemas: 0
The mostly-forgotten history of live-action Spider-Man on television
With The Odyssey and Spider-Man: Brave New World both owning cinemas globally right now, racking up well over a billion dollars between them with another billion on the horizon, it wasn’t a surprise to log onto streaming services the past few days to find curated shelves of content capitalising on their pop cultural dominance.
Diarra From Detroit is cool as hell and you need to watch it. Or shut your mouth.
Back in March of 2024, BET+, a newly defunct streaming service focused on African American audiences, debuted Diarra From Detroit. It streamed the first season of eight episodes with almost zero conversation around it. I saw a few reviews from critics, which were all fairly positive. But a small show on a streaming service nobody really had doesn’t exactly get the clicks. So, coverage just wasn’t…
Here's why Marvel's TV shows are mostly dogsh*t
Not at all surprising news this morning is that Disney+ has reversed course on Marvel‘s Wonder Man, cancelling the Yahya Abdul-Mateen II show despite giving it a second-season renewal in March.
Are you seeing Spider-Man: Brand New Day on the best possible screen?
Your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man is swinging into cinemas today.
The best The Simpsons TV fast food tie-in, a bunch of keen trailers, and this week's Cool-o-meter
We have well and truly in the doldrums of a very quiet June-July TV season.
Inside the Colin From Accounts season 3 launch
Last night the DAZN-owned Australian general entertainment streaming service BINGE held a launch event for the third and final season of its comedy Colin From Accounts.
Comic Con makes clear Netflix's absence
Not every studio and streamer has a show to pitch the San Diego Comic Con crowd