Clownfish TV Podcasts

This Pokemon card thief just got busted for bear-spraying his victims -- Vancouver cops ran a flawless Facebook Marketplace sting, lured the guy in his 20s to a fake deal, and slapped the cuffs on him March 27 after he pulled the exact same move in five straight robberies since late March, spraying sellers in the face then bolting with high-value cards worth thousands. Yeah the genius thought arra...

Pixar cancelled a movie called 'Be Fri' and it's pretty easy to see why. It looks like 2016 in a bottle. But now some disgruntled Pixar employees are leaking the behind the scenes drama to the press in an attempt to... make Disney look bad? Who knows. Watch the podcast episodes on YouTube and all major podcast hosts including Spotify. CLOWNFISH TV is an independent, opinionated news and commentary...

Andy Weir, the author of Project Hail Mary, said in an interview from 2017 that he hated politics and social commentary in movies and TV. Now the internet is reacting, and the long knives are coming out. How DARE anyone like apolitical entertainment. Watch the podcast episodes on YouTube and all major podcast hosts including Spotify. CLOWNFISH TV is an independent, opinionated news and commentary...

Hollywood is putting together a council to try and course correct the industry. And it sounds good on paper, but are they addressing the elephant in the room -- HOW did Hollywood get in this decimated state, and what do they have to do to pivot back to profit. Watch the podcast episodes on YouTube and all major podcast hosts including Spotify. CLOWNFISH TV is an independent, opinionated news and c...

This is peak clown world absurdity -- comedian Learnmore Jonasi is getting slammed with a $27 million lawsuit from Lebo M, the Grammy-winning South African who actually wrote and sang the iconic Zulu opening chant in The Lion King's Circle of Life, because Jonasi went viral on a podcast and in his stand-up deadpanning a literal mistranslation as "Look, there's a lion. Oh my god!" instead...

Disney is in panic mode over an upcoming Bob Iger tell-all book and is using Trump and Harvey Weinstein's lawyer to try and force Harper Collins to let Disney review the book before publication. So the question is -- what's so terrible that Disney has to resort to this? What is Bob Iger so afraid of? Watch the podcast episodes on YouTube and all major podcast hosts including Spotify. CLOWNFISH TV...

Kurtzman era Star Trek is DONE. The sets for both Starfleet Academy and Strange New Worlds are currently being torn down and pieces will be auctioned off. Bluesky is not happy. However, we might be getting a Scott Bakula lead President Archer follow-up once the dust settles... Watch the podcast episodes on YouTube and all major podcast hosts including Spotify. CLOWNFISH TV is an independent, opini...

Manga sales in Japan are slowly fading for the first time in eight years -- the whole domestic market just shrank 1.7% to ¥693 billion in 2025 after seven straight years of growth, with print volumes cratering 14.4% and magazines down 12.7% while digital barely eked out a pathetic 1.5% bump in the second half. Big hitters like My Hero Academia, Jujutsu Kaisen, and Oshi no Ko wrapped up in 2024 so...

Netflix could be doubling down on "the message" in their kids cartoons soon. A UCLA thinktank that seems hyper-focused on gender issues is advising the studio behind Cocomelon, which has already come under fire for having a boy in a dress. This group is going to create kids content guidelines that they hope will become adopted industry wide. This after Netflix got grilled by congress on...

Tech companies have already laid off over 80,000 workers in 2026, yet Oracle is reportedly seeking 3,000 new H-1B visas to bring in foreign talent. This isn’t the first time we’ve seen this pattern this year, and it’s raising serious questions about who these layoffs are really benefiting. Are companies trimming costs while still expanding their global workforce, or is something else going on? Dro...

A top Pokémon Go player just got stripped of his championship title after an overly enthusiastic victory celebration at a major tournament. Organizers ruled the celebration crossed the line into unsportsmanlike conduct, handing the win to another competitor. In a game known for intense competition and massive prize pools, this disqualification has sparked heated debate among players about where th...

Crunchyroll's data breach just turned into a full-on fire sale -- hackers hit a third-party Indian outsourcer handling support tickets, swiped names, emails, IPs, locations and partial credit card scraps from up to 6.8 million users, then flipped 1.2 million of those records to a single buyer on the dark web. Yeah the same anime giant that nickel-and-dimes you for premium streams couldn't lock dow...

Animation shippers can be some of the most unhinged fans on the internet. A particularly dangerous sounding one sent Ashleigh Crystal Hairston, the VA of Hazel in the new The Fairly OddParents series, a completely unhinged rant that reads like a thinly veiled threat. We talk about this and other insane cartoon stans who've taken it way too far... Watch the podcast episodes on YouTube and all major...

There's a rumor that Disney is hesitant to greenlight any more Avatar movies after the underperformance of Fire and Ash, and the same source is going so far as to say they might not go ahead with the planned Avatar themed land in Disneyland. Uh oh... Watch the podcast episodes on YouTube and all major podcast hosts including Spotify. CLOWNFISH TV is an independent, opinionated news and commentary...

Sony has announced MASSIVE layoffs today as they look to restructure their entire film and TV business to make content. Maybe they want more Kpop Demon Hunters and less Concord and Madame Web? Watch the podcast episodes on YouTube and all major podcast hosts including Spotify. CLOWNFISH TV is an independent, opinionated news and commentary podcast that covers Entertainment and Tech from a consumer...

Another day, another dose of dismal, uh, Microsoft. Windows Central rips "Microslop" to shreds in a new piece talking about how Microsoft is its own worst enemy, and all the issues with Windows 11 and Copilot could've been avoided with a tiny bit of TLC. Then we talk about a former Halo dev alleging that Microsoft is a toxic company to work for full stop. Watch the podcast episodes on Yo...

Did the Hollywood unions learn from the double strikes of 2023? The WGA (writer's union) took a tentative deal in record time -- but there may be string attached. It's almost as if beggar's can't be choosers. Meanwhile, the WGA is letting its own workers' health insurance lapse. OOF. Watch the podcast episodes on YouTube and all major podcast hosts including Spotify. CLOWNFISH TV is an independent...

Hollywood is getting a downgrade. JJ Abrams' Bad Robot deal going bust is a sign of the times. Even the mainstream Hollywood media says the days of overspending on streaming deals is officially OVER. Watch the podcast episodes on YouTube and all major podcast hosts including Spotify. CLOWNFISH TV is an independent, opinionated news and commentary podcast that covers Entertainment and Tech from a c...

Bluesky is a catastrophic failure according to some redditors, and the current numbers indicate that this social media platform is crashing and burning in real time. This explains the sudden change at the top and the infusion of venture capital. It feels like they're trying to keep the lights on. Watch the podcast episodes on YouTube and all major podcast hosts including Spotify. CLOWNFISH TV is a...

Some of the actors from the hastily cancelled Star Trek: Starfleet Academy share their opinions on he cancellation and the backlash. Some take it in stride -- while others seemingly RAGE at the audience and... something something, woke woke woke-ity woke wokey. Watch the podcast episodes on YouTube and all major podcast hosts including Spotify. CLOWNFISH TV is an independent, opinionated news and...

Brazilian grandma's Elrond saint mix-up -- this 82-year-old from Brazil prayed to what she thought was a Saint Anthony figurine every single night for years until her granddaughter Gabriela spotted the pointy ears and realized the boyfriend's old gift was actually Lord Elrond from Lord of the Rings. Yeah the half-elf lord of Rivendell got full Catholic treatment with candles and everything while t...

Sterling K Brown just exposed why streaming seasons are brutally short -- the This Is Us and Paradise star laid it out plain that streamers and premium cable don't chase ad dollars like old-school networks, so pumping out 22 episodes of the same show doesn't bring in fresh subscribers the way a shiny new 8-episode banger does. Networks live off ad inventory, more episodes equal more money, but str...

Hasbro just got hacked and systems are offline -- the toy giant behind Transformers, Monopoly, and Dungeons & Dragons caught unauthorized intruders in their network on March 28, yanked critical stuff offline, and is now running on temporary bandaids to ship orders while warning full recovery could drag on for weeks. They're still digging to see if customer data or juicy IP got swiped in the br...

This Aragorn recast is straight-up torching the internet -- Andy Serkis just confirmed Viggo Mortensen's iconic Strider is getting swapped for a brand-new actor in The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum prequel he's directing, because the story's set way before Fellowship and they want someone younger to chase Gollum across Middle-earth. Yeah the guy who defined brooding ranger energy with one...

Hershey just walked back its sneaky Reese's Peanut Butter Cup changes after getting torched -- the company announced it'll ditch the cheap compound coatings and switch every Reese's product back to the full classic milk and dark chocolate recipes starting in 2027, all because founder grandson Brad Reese went nuclear on LinkedIn calling out the cost-cutting BS that swapped real chocolate for junk w...