A potential merger could bolster their streaming businesses and negotiating power with cable operators. But their crushing debt load could be a turn-off.
Category: Television
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Amazon to Bring Warhammer 40,000 to the Screen, With Henry Cavill
Games Workshop announced this week that the popular tabletop game will come to television and film in a deal with Amazon Studios.
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Disney Is a Language. Do We Still Speak It?
As the company celebrates its 100th anniversary, its dominance as a generation-spanning cultural force no longer seems certain.
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Readers on the Best Movies, TV, Music and Theater of 2023
When our critics shared their top film, TV, pop music and theater picks, readers suggested “Billions,” “The Holdovers,” “Sabbath’s Theater” and others.
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Studios are loosening their reluctance to send shows to Netflix.
When building their own streaming companies, many entertainment studios ended lucrative licensing deals with Netflix. But they missed the money too much.
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Cord Jefferson on ‘American Fiction’
The Emmy-winning writer and former journalist drew on personal experience for his feature debut, a layered sendup of race and hypocrisy in the book and film worlds.
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Ice Spice, Brian Jordan Alvarez and More Breakout Stars of 2023
These eight performers and artists broke away from the pack this year, delighting us and making us think.
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Oprah Says She Is on a Weight Loss Drug and ‘Done With the Shaming’
Ms. Winfrey has spent decades as a dominant figure in the country’s conversations about weight bias and dieting.
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Andre Braugher’s Career, From Homicide’ to ‘Brooklyn Nine-Nine’
The versatile actor was most known for vastly different portrayals of TV cops, but also shone in roles across film and stage.
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Golden Globe Nominations 2024: Updating List
New owners have beefed up the voting pool in an effort to move the prizes past scandals of recent years.
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Shari Redstone Is Said to Be in Talks to Sell Her Stake in Media Empire
Ms. Redstone waged a bitter battle for control of National Amusements, the parent company of MTV, CBS and the Paramount movie studio. Now, she’s considering a sale.
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24 Things That Stuck With Us in 2023
Films, TV shows, albums, books, art and A.I.-generated SpongeBob performances that reporters, editors and visual journalists in Culture couldn’t stop thinking about this year.