The big screen is having a moment. Spider-Man: Brand New Day is breaking box office records, while Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey has people dusting off Homer for the first time since high school. But television is keeping pace with a slate of can’t-miss new releases and beloved old favorites that are worth revisiting. While plenty
“The Day of the Jackal” producer Carnival Films have snapped up the rights to develop Sarah Pinborough’s upcoming novel “They Say a Girl Died Here” for television. The murder mystery, which is set to be published at the end of this month, follows university drop-out Anna Maybourne as she accompanies her mother, sister and grandmother
Veteran television director, writer and producer Ralph W. Hemecker, known for his work on shows such as “The X-Files,” “Blue Bloods,” “Once Upon a Time” and “The Flash,” has died. He was 65 years old. According to an obituary, Hemecker died on July 10 at his home in Glendale, California. Hemecker’s credits over the years
Spain’s victory over Argentina in Sunday’s 2026 FIFA World Cup final broke records in the United States: an average of 38,937,000 viewers watched it on Fox, making it the most-watched soccer broadcast in American television history and the most-watched FIFA World Cup final ever in the U.S., according to Nielsen. Meanwhile, on the Spanish side,
The final 35-day cross-platform ratings for the 2025-2026 TV season are finally available, now that the official end of the TV season is more than a month away. According to Nielsen’s 35-day multiplatform linear and streaming ratings, Netflix’s “Stranger Things” remained the most-watched non-sports series of the TV season, with 32.9 million viewers, followed by
The UCLA School of Theatre, Film and Television and the Sundance Institute have established a collaboration to develop the next generation of filmmakers and storytellers. The five-year agreement is scheduled to begin in September. The pact combines the academic resources of UCLA with the expertise of the Sundance Institute and the international Sundance Collab community