We may be living in a golden age of TV, but panning through all the dross to find that gold can be time-consuming and tedious. For every much-discussed hit like Severance, House of the Dragon, and The Bear, there are dozens of new original shows that barely tip the cultural needle. And with so many new streaming services competing with HBO, Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, and Disney Plus, it’s impossible to keep up with everything new to view. But The Verge’s TV section is ready to help. Our news, reviews, and interviews help you find the next Stranger Things or Star Trek: Strange New Worlds in time to keep up with the cultural conversation. And our essays and analysis invite you to consider the deeper context of what you’re watching.
A big inside baseball article by Deadline reports that a fourth season of the show, of which Apple has currently aired two seasons, is a “lock.” A fifth would be at the discretion of executive producers Dan Erickson and Ben Stiller. Apple aims to start shooting season three this summer.
There’s a lot to see in Netflix’s new trailer for the live-action One Piece’s upcoming second season, but the most surprising reveal here is a fresh look at Tony Tony Chopper’s (Mikaela Hoover) Walk Point form that turns him into a much more normal-looking reindeer. The show’s out March 10th.
Amazon’s live-action God of War series starring Ryan Hurst as Kratos has found its Atreus in Callum Vinson (Poker Face, Chucky.)
The next four episodes of Sesame Street are dropping soon on Netflix and will include a cameo from Miley Cyrus.
Will they also go back to having a Letter and Number of the Day and a proper ending song? I won’t hold my breath, but I’ll still be bitter.
I used ESPHome and LVGL to make my living room a little bit more like the USS Enterprise
Instead of Jonah Ray, Mike Nelson (from the show’s original run) will be donning the jumpsuit. Kevin Murphy and Bill Corbett will also be reprising their roles as Servo and Crow. The focus of MST3K: The RiffTrax Experiments will be on “classic bad” movies and it’s already blown past its Kickstarter goal.
Todd Harthan and Todd Helbing have joined the series as co-showrunners and executive producers, along with Marc Webb and Rachel Moore as executive producers, as Variety reports. Author Christopher Paolini will also be executive producing the adaptation of his YA fantasy series at Disney Plus, which is also home to the hit adaptation of Percy Jackson.
Ahead of the finale for Fallout season 2 next week, Amazon has started dropping episodes of the first season on YouTube so you can get a taste of the post-apocalyptic series for free. That finale, meanwhile, will be available a little early, streaming at 9PM ET on February 3rd.
Disney Plus is teasing Jessica Jones’ return to the MCU in this new teaser trailer for Daredevil: Born Again’s upcoming second season, and it looks like the detective is going to be knocking heads.
Disney Plus’ latest superhero series is dropping at a time when the MCU feels like it’s moving back to square one.
Soon, you’ll be able to play as The Office’s Dwight Schrute and Michael Scott in Fortnite when new skins of the characters debut in the game’s item shop. It’s one of Fortnite’s stranger collaborations, but it makes more sense when you consider how many people are still watching the show.
While the new trailer for Disney Plus’ Star Wars: Maul - Shadow Lord series doesn’t at all make the Sith Lord look like a heroic figure, it does suggest that meeting his new apprentice is going to reveal new things about his character when the show premieres on April 6th.
Ahead of debuting a trailer for its new Star Wars: Maul - Shadow Lord animated series tomorrow, Disney Plus has shared a short (and inky) teaser that makes it seem like the Sith Lord’s lightsaber is going to be seeing plenty of action.
Season 5 of Apple TV’s alternate reality sci-fi series starts streaming on March 27th. It picks up with Mars now home to “a thriving colony with thousands of residents and a base for new missions that will take us even further into the solar system.” You can get a taste of that in the extremely brief new teaser.
That’s George R.R. Martin, in a big profile published by The Hollywood Reporter. Relatable.
The piece also details new work being done on a potential Game of Thrones sequel series featuring Jon Snow; Arya Stark might be in it, too. But that show is in “very early development,” THR says.
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One day after announcing Kratos’ casting for its live-action take on God of War, Amazon has revealed the first image of Sophie Turner as Lara Croft in its upcoming Tomb Raider series. Not much else in the way of details about the show, but Amazon says “production is underway.”
HBO’s new spinoff prequel takes a humorous look at the grimy lives of Westeros’ smallfolk.
Well, they’re not kids anymore, but things are not looking good for the cast of Euphoria in the new season 3 trailer, which sees just about everyone involved in some kind of criminal enterprise or... content creation. The series returns to HBO on April 12th.
The Dealer will be a crime series following a casino dealer who starts gambling herself to fund her wedding. Squid Game creator Hwang Dong-hyuk will produce the show, though he isn’t writing or directing this time.
A mysterious kaiju is stirring up trouble in this new teaser for season 2 of Monarch: Legacy of Monsters. The new creature seems bigger than King Kong and more menacing than Godzilla, but we’ll have to wait for the season’s premiere on February 27th to learn the monster’s name.
If you have a few hundred hours to spare, you can watch every episode of Survivor for free starting January 24th, as reported by TheWrap.
Episodes will be available on-demand and air in order on a 24/7 Survivor channel before Survivor 50 premieres on February 25th on CBS and Paramount Plus.
The new awards category debuted at the 83rd annual Golden Globes on Sunday night, where Good Hang with Amy Poehler became its first winner.
Good Hang was up against Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard, Call Her Daddy, The Mel Robbins Podcast, NPR’s Up First, and SmartLess, which is co-hosted by Poehler’s ex-husband Will Arnett.
The new teaser trailer for the second season of Netflix’s live-action One Piece adaptation introduces the show’s take on Baroque Works, the superpowered crime syndicate fixated on toppling the Arabasta Kingdom and taking out anyone who gets in their way. The new season drops on March 10th.
While shows produced with generative AI can still be submitted for Emmy consideration, the Television Academy has updated its rules to reserve the right to inquire about whether the technology was used in a production.
“The core of our recognition remains centered on human storytelling,” the organization said.
