Streaming Into the Void

This week, it's the series conclusion to the Disney succession drama. Who gets the job of CEO? Who gets the consolation prize? And what does Old Man Iger have to say about it all? Nielsen Ratings Show Notes Disney names Josh D’Amaro to replace Bob Iger as CEO : NPR ESPN Valued at $30 Billion As Disney Reveals New Details on NFL Deal Bob Iger just left his Disney successor a disaster in the making...

Highlights of what's new in streaming for the week of February 7, 2026. Netflix Creature Cases, season 7 (Feb. 9) Katt Williams: The Last Report (Feb. 10) Motorvalley, season 1 (Feb. 10) This Is I (Feb. 10) Lead Children, Season 1 (Feb. 11) Love is Blind, season 10 (Feb. 11) How to Get to Heaven from Belfast , season 1 (Feb. 12) Million-Follower Detective, season 1 (Feb. 12) The Art of Sara, seaso...

This week, Comcast earnings signal bad news for streaming service Peacock. Nielsen Ratings Show Notes Comcast posts mixed quarter as broadband pressures weigh on business NBC signs $3B Olympic media rights deal through 2036 Summer Games - ESPN Baltimore Ravens to Face Green Bay Packers in Peacock Holiday Exclusive ‘Shoresy’ Renewed For Season 6 By Hulu; ‘Letterkenny’ Spinoff Also Gets Season 5 U.S...

Highlights of what's new in streaming for the week of January 31, 2026. Netflix Glitter & Gold: Ice Dancing (Feb. 1) Matori and Kyoken: Men in the Back Alleys, season 1 (Feb. 1) Soda Master, season 1 (Feb. 1) Mo Gilligan: In the Moment (Feb. 3) The Investigation of Lucy Letby (Feb. 4) Is It Cake? Valentines (Feb. 4) Cash Queens, season 1 (Feb. 5) The Lincoln Lawyer, season 4 (Feb. 5) Samuel (F...

This week, quarterly earnings, Christmas ratings, subscriber numbers, and viewership data all adds up to a great week for Netflix. Nielsen Ratings Show Notes Netflix Surpassed 325 Million Subscribers at the End of 2025 ‘KPop Demon Hunters’ Is Netflix’s Most Watched Movie (or Show) Ever — and It’s Not Close Ted Sarandos Warns “Instagram Is Coming” as He Lays Out Competitive Landscape for Netflix Ne...

Highlights of what's new in streaming for the week of January 24, 2026. Netflix Mike Epps: Delusional (Jan. 27) Take That (Jan. 27) Bridgerton, season 4, Part 1 (Jan. 29) A Letter to My Youth (Jan. 29) Miracle: The Boys of ‘80 (Jan. 30) Disney+ Wonder Man, season 1 (Jan. 27) HBO Max 33 Photos from the Ghetto (Jan. 27) Paramount+ School Spirits, season 3 (Jan. 28) Prime Video The Wrecking Crew (Jan...

This week, Skydance files suit for additional access to Warner Bros. Discovery's books and prepares for a proxy fight. Nielsen Ratings Show Notes David Ellison Takes Warner Bros. to Court as Paramount Launches Proxy Battle Over Netflix Bid Netflix Considers Shifting Deal For Warner Bros. To All Cash – Report Ted Sarandos Says Netflix Will Commit To 45-Day Window After WB Acquisition; Doesn’t Want...

Highlights of what's new in streaming for the week of January 17, 2026. Netflix Undercover Miss Hong, season 1 (Jan. 17) Star Search, season 1 (Jan. 20) Kidnapped: Elizabeth Smart (Jan. 21) Cosmic Princess Kaguya (Jan. 22) Finding Her Edge, season 1 (Jan. 22) Free Bert , season 1 (Jan. 22) Skyscraper Live (Jan. 23 at 8 p.m. ET) The Big Fake (Jan. 23) Disney+ Hoops, Hopes & Dreams (Jan. 19) The...

This week, Warner Bros. Discovery rejects Skydance's buyout offer. Again. And regional sports networks are on the brink of collapse. Again. Nielsen Ratings Show Notes ‘Stranger Things’ Surprise Final Episode Doesn’t Exist: Here’s Why Fans Thought ‘Conformity Gate’ Was Real Warner Bros Discovery tells investors to reject ‘inadequate’ $108bn Paramount bid CNBC Exclusive: Transcript: Warner Bros. Dis...

Highlights of what's new in streaming for the week of January 10, 2026. Netflix The Boyfriend, season 2 (Jan. 13) The Queen of Flow, season 3 (Jan. 14) Agatha Christie’s Seven Dials , season 1 (Jan. 15) Love Through a Prism, season 1 (Jan. 15) To Love, to Lose, season 1 (Jan. 15) The Upshaws, part 7 (Jan. 15) Can This Love Be Translated? (Jan. 16) No Tail to Tell, season 1 (Jan. 16) The Rip (Jan....

This week, we look forward to what's coming in entertainment in 2026. Nielsen Ratings Show Notes Last Year's List Kim Animal Crossing 3.0 New Horizons A Parade of Horribles (Dungeon Crawler Carl) Project Hail Mary Malcolm in the Middle: Life’s Still Unfair Send Help Witchbrook The Tapestry of Fate The Scarlet Ball Fabulous Bodies Raul The 2026 Olympic Olympics Community: The Movie on Peacock (carr...

Highlights of what's new in streaming for the week of January 3, 2026. Netflix Pokemon Horizons, season 3 (Jan. 6) Marcello Hernández: American Boy (Jan. 7) Unlocked: A Jail Experiment, season 2 (Jan. 7) His & Hers (Jan. 8) Love Is Blind Germany, season 2 (Jan. 8) Alpha Males, season 4 (Jan. 9) People We Meet On Vacation (Jan. 9) Disney+ A Thousand Blows, season 2 (Jan. 9) HBO Max The Pitt, se...

This week, Larry Ellison put his money where his mouth is, and promised $40 billion of his own money to shore up the Skydance bid for Warner Bros. Discovery. Nielsen Ratings Show Notes A Father and Son’s $108 Billion Hostile Bid for Warner Bros. Discovery - The New York Times Why Isn't Paramount and the Ellisons Showing Warner Bros. Discovery Shareholders the Money? | Analysis Paramount guarantees...

Highlights of what's new in streaming for the week of December 27, 2025. YouTube Taskmaster: New Years Treat VI (Jan. 2 & Jan. 3) Netflix Members Only: Palm Beach (Dec. 29) Evil Influencer: The Jodi Hildebrandt Story (Dec. 30) Ricky Gervais: Mortality (Dec. 30) Stranger Things, season 5: The Finale (Dec. 31) Dr. Seuss’s Red Fish, Blue Fish, season 2 (Jan. 1) Love from 9 to 5, season 1 (Jan. 1)...

This week, Skydance is sounding like a broken record as they keep repeating the same bid for the Warner Bros. Discovery assets, and WBD keeps telling them: It's not enough. Nielsen Ratings Show Notes Starz Placed $25 Billion Bid for All of WBD’s Cable Networks It's Warner Bros.' turn to go hostile David Zaslav Called Paramount 'Inappropriate' for Proposing a Compensation Package Worth 'Several Hun...

Highlights of what's new in streaming for the week of December 20, 2025. YouTube Taskmaster: Champion of Champions IV (Dec. 22) Netflix Gatau Big Brothers, (Dec. 21) Elway (Dec. 22) Idol I, season 1 (Dec. 22) Sicily Express, season 1 (Dec. 22) King of Collectibles: The Goldin Touch, season 3 (Dec. 23) Goodbye June (Dec. 24) Tom Segura: Teacher (Dec. 24) Stranger Things, season 5: Part 2 (Dec. 25)...

This week, we're in the trenches as Skydance and Netflix duke it out to determine who will end up with control of Warner Bros. Nielsen Ratings Show Notes Warner Bros fight heats up with $108 billion hostile bid from Paramount | Reuters It’s a Bidding War: Paramount Attempts Hostile Offer for Warner Bros. Trump Declines To Take Sides, For Now, In Netflix And Paramount Pursuit Of Warner Bros.: “None...

Highlights of what's new in streaming for the week of December 13, 2025. Netflix The Creature Cases, chapter 6 (Dec. 15) Culinary Class Wars, season 2 (Dec. 16) Little Angel, volume 7 (Dec. 16) My Next Guest Needs No Introduction with David Letterman, season 6 (Dec. 16) The Manny, season 3 (Dec. 17) Murder in Monaco (Dec. 17) What’s in the Box? (Dec. 17) 10 Dance (Dec. 18) Emily in Paris, season 5...

This week, Netflix entered into an agreement to purchase Warner Bros. Nielsen Ratings Show Notes Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros. Following the Separation of Discovery Global for a Total Enterprise Value of $82.7 Billion (Equity Value of $72.0 Billion) Warner Bros. Begins Exclusive Deal Talks With Netflix - Bloomberg Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos Says Movie Theater Model Is ‘Outdated’: ‘Most of the Coun...

Highlights of what's new in streaming for the week of December 6, 2025. Netflix Pro Bono, season 1 (Dec. 6) Elmo & Mark Rober’s Merry Giftmas (Dec. 8) Badly in Love, season 1 (Dec. 9) Blood Coast, season 2 (Dec. 9) Masaka Kids: A Rhythm Within (Dec. 9) The Accident, season 2 (Dec. 10) Record of Ragnarok, season 3 (Dec. 10) Simon Cowell: The Next Act (Dec. 10) Had I Not Seen the Sun, part 2 (De...

This week, Warner Bros. Discovery sets a deadline for new higher bids. Are they asking too much? Nielsen Ratings Show Notes Warner Bros. Discovery Asks for Higher Second-Round Acquisition Bids Due Dec. 1 Sinclair Offers to Acquire E.W. Scripps for $7 per Share in Unsolicited Takeover Bid Broadcaster E.W. Scripps adopts poison pill after $538 million Sinclair bid | Reuters Nexstar Seeks FCC Approva...

Highlights of what's new in streaming for the week of November 29, 2025. Netflix The Stone (Nov. 30) All the Empty Rooms (Dec. 1) CoComelon Lane, season 6 (Dec. 1) Love Is Blind Italy (Dec. 1) My Next Guest with David Letterman and Adam Sandler (Dec. 1) One Piece, Season 29 (Dec. 1) Playing Gracie Darling, season 1 (Dec. 1) Troll 2 (Dec. 1) Matt Rife Unwrapped: A Christmas Crowdwork Special (Dec....

This week, one of the richest men in the world needs the Saudis to bankroll his takeover of a Hollywood studio… or does he? Another local TV operator is looking to merge. NBC has too much sports. And Joey is back! Nielsen Ratings Show Notes Paramount Skydance Denies That Its Warner Bros. Discovery Bid Involves Arab Sovereign Wealth Funds Paramount, Comcast, Netflix submit bids for Warner Bros. Dis...

Highlights of what's new in streaming for the week of November 22, 2025. Netflix Missing: Dead or Alive, season 2 (Nov. 24) Is It Cake? Holiday, season 2 (Nov. 25) Jingle Bell Heist (Nov. 26) Stranger Things, season 5: Part 1 (Nov. 26) Left-Handed Girl (Nov. 28) The Stringer: The Man Who Took the Photo (Nov. 28) Disney+ Chris Hemsworth: A Road Trip to Remember (Nov. 24) Beatles Anthology Series (N...

This week, a truce in the last great battle of the linear era, as Disney and Google's YouTube resolve their carriage dispute. Nielsen Ratings Show Notes YouTube TV, Disney reach deal to restore access to ESPN networks after two-week standoff - The Athletic CFO Says Disney Has No M&A Plans, Pokes Rivals For Splitting Assets — “What You Do When You Don’t Have A Great Business” Paramount, Comcast...