TV and Streaming – Page 27

A Skydance billboard is displayed outside Paramount Global office in Times Square, Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2026, in New York. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)

What Paramount’s Warner Bros. takeover means for streaming, movies and news

By Matt Sedensky

October 6, 2026 at 4:38 p.m.

What the Skydance deal between Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery will mean for streaming, movies,...

FILE – The Paramount Pictures water tower is seen in Los Angeles, Dec. 18, 2025, with the Hollywood sign in the distance. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

Paramount completes its takeover of Warner Bros to become one Hollywood giant known as Skydance

By Wyatte Grantham-Philips

October 6, 2026 at 4:39 p.m.

Skydance-owned Paramount closed its $81 billion takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery on Tuesday, ushering in...

FILE – The main stage appears during the 68th Primetime Emmy Awards in Los Angeles on Sept. 18, 2016. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File)

Emmy Awards to move to Prime Video in 2027 in 6-year deal between Amazon and the Television Academy

By Andrew Dalton

October 6, 2026 at 3:49 p.m.

The Emmy Awards are moving to Prime Video starting in 2027 in a six-year deal...

Actor-comedian Mel Brooks expresses his fear of heights during filming of his movie "High Anxiety," in San Francisco, May 5, 1977. (AP)

Column: Nearing age 100, it’s springtime for Mel Brooks in new Judd Apatow documentary

By Rick Kogan

January 27, 2026 at 5:00 a.m.

Mel Brooks is the centerpiece of a thoughtfully thrilling documentary now airing on HBO Max,...

Claire DeJean, Emilie Kouatchou and Denver Milord in the first national tour of "Stereophonic." The Tony Award-winning play is coming to Chicago's CIBC Theatre and is one of our top 10 theater picks for early 2026. (Julieta Cervantes)

Things to do in Chicago this winter: Museums, dance, movies and more

By Ellen Przepasniak

January 24, 2026 at 5:15 a.m.

It may be frigid outside, but museums, concert halls and movie theaters are nice and...

Steve Knapp, a driver's ed instructor and golf coach at Larkin High School in Elgin, won $65,000 in prizes on "Wheel of Fortune." (Sony Pictures Television)

Elgin high school instructor nabs $65,000 in prizes on ‘Wheel of Fortune’

By Mike Danahey

January 23, 2026 at 6:33 p.m.

Steve Knapp, a driver's ed instructor and golf coach at Larkin High School in Elgin,...

This image released by Crave shows Hudson Williams, left, and Connor Storrie in a scene from “Heated Rivalry.” (Crave via AP)

‘Heated Rivalry’ stars Hudson Williams and Connor Storrie to be torchbearers for Winter Olympics

By Associated Press

January 22, 2026 at 7:48 p.m.

The actors co-starring in the hit hockey romance “Heated Rivalry” are set to be among...

Karen Leigh Baldwin of Northbrook, the real-life daughter of television actor Robert Reed, who played dad Mike Brady on "The Brady Bunch," died Nov. 29. (Robert Baldwin)

Karen Leigh Baldwin, daughter of ‘Brady Bunch’ dad Robert Reed, has died

By Daniel I. Dorfman

January 23, 2026 at 5:11 p.m.

Karen Leigh Baldwin of Northbrook, daughter of television actor Robert Reed, who played dad Mike...

Chicago Sky forward Angel Reese fist-bumps a teammate on the sideline as her team prepares for a game against the Liberty on Sept. 11, 2025, at Wintrust Arena. (Chris Sweda/baiduhai)

Chicago Sky’s Angel Reese lands co-starring role on Netflix murder-mystery ‘The Hunting Wives’

By Tracy Brown

January 21, 2026 at 3:23 p.m.

Chicago Sky star Angel Reese has joined the cast of Netflix’s hit murder-mystery “The Hunting...

FILE – A Netflix sign is displayed atop a building in Los Angeles, on Dec. 18, 2025, with the Hollywood sign in the distance. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

Netflix intensifies bid for Warner Bros making its $72 billion offer all cash

By Michelle Chapman

January 20, 2026 at 4:40 p.m.

Netflix is now offering to buy Warner Bros. Discovery’s studio and streaming business in all...

FILE – Timothy Busfield appears at the 2020 ABC Television Critics Association Winter Press Tour in Pasadena, Calif., on Jan. 8, 2020. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, File)

Judge orders release of actor Timothy Busfield from jail pending child sex abuse case in New Mexico

By Morgan Lee

January 20, 2026 at 6:38 p.m.

A judge has ordered that actor Timothy Busfield be released from jail during a detention...

FILE – The exterior of the Egyptian Theatre is illuminated on Main Street during the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, Jan. 22, 2015. (Photo by Arthur Mola/Invision/AP, File)

The Sundance Film Festival prepares to bid farewell to Park City, and Robert Redford

By Lindsey Bahr

January 19, 2026 at 11:49 a.m.

The Sundance Film Festival is bidding farewell to its longtime home in Park City, Utah,...

FILE – As prisoners stand looking out from a cell, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem speaks during a tour of the Terrorist Confinement Center in Tecoluca, El Salvador, March 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

’60 Minutes’ airing report on Donald Trump deportations that was suddenly pulled a month ago

By David Bauder

January 18, 2026 at 6:32 p.m.

“60 Minutes” on Sunday plans to air a story about Trump administration deportations that was...