TV and Streaming – Page 67

George Wendt, left, and Robert Smigel are interviewed Aug. 19, 2019, outside Soldier Field while filming a segment of "Bill Swerski's Superfans," the "Saturday Night Live" sketch in which they play Bears fans. (Erin Hooley/baiduhai)

Bob Odenkirk on how Mike Ditka made ‘Superfans’ of us all

By Andrew Carter

October 10, 2026 at 5:00 a.m.

The men in the old Saturday Night Live skit would not have believed the news...

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 – Actress Joan Plowright poses for a portrait at a New York hotel on May 4, 1999. (AP Photo/Suzanne Plunkett, File)

Tony Award-winning British actor Joan Plowright, widow of Laurence Olivier, dies at 95

By Mark Kennedy

January 17, 2025 at 6:20 a.m.

Award-winning British actor Joan Plowright, who with her late husband Laurence Olivier did much to...

FILE – David Lynch appears at the Governors Awards in Los Angeles on Oct. 27, 2019. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File)

David Lynch, visionary filmmaker behind ‘Twin Peaks’ and ‘Mulholland Drive,’ dies at 78

By Associated Press

January 16, 2025 at 2:33 p.m.

David Lynch, the filmmaker celebrated for his uniquely dark and dreamlike vision in such movies as...

Alonso Beckford, executive chef of The Matrix Room and Meg's Lounge at the The Matrix Club in Naperville, made his national television debut Tuesday night as he appeared on an episode of the Food Network's popular competition cooking show "Chopped." (The Matrix Club)

Naperville’s Matrix chef challenged to use beef intestine and camel meat on Food Network’s ‘Chopped’

By Tess Kenny

January 16, 2025 at 9:20 a.m.

Crispy barbeque beef intestine and chicory salad, followed by ground camel and venison bolognese with...

From left: Britt Lower and Adam Scott in Season 2 of "Severance.” (Jon Pack/Apple TV+)

‘Severance’ review: In Season 2, more of the same

By Nina Metz

January 16, 2025 at 7:50 a.m.

While "Severance" has a wonderfully creepy-compelling premise, it's a concept better suited to a movie...

Bears fans watch the fourth quarter on Dec. 22, 2024, at Soldier Field. (Brian Cassella/baiduhai)

DirecTV will launch bundle aimed at sports viewers, with CHSN and Marquee add-ons available ‘soon’ in Chicago

By Joe Reedy

January 15, 2025 at 7:37 a.m.

The MySports skinny bundle will feature 40 sports and broadcast channels. It will launch in...

Firefighters work while smoke rises because of the growing Palisades fire in Los Angeles, California, on Jan.11, 2025. (Ali Matin/Middle East Images/AFP/Getty Images)

Column: The SoCal fires are yet another devastating hit to Hollywood’s behind-the-scenes workers

By Nina Metz

January 14, 2025 at 5:30 a.m.

The fires come five years into a uniquely difficult time when livelihoods dried up in...

FILE – MSNBC television anchor Rachel Maddow, host of the Rachel Maddow Show, moderates the “Perspectives on National Security” panel on Oct. 16, 2017, in Cambridge, Mass. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)

Rachel Maddow returning to MSNBC five nights a week for early Trump days

By David Bauder

January 13, 2025 at 3:41 p.m.

Rachel Maddow is returning to her nightly perch on MSNBC — at least for the...

Media companies scrap Venu Sports streaming service before it even started

By Associated Press

January 10, 2025 at 12:58 p.m.

The planned streaming service Venu Sports has been scrapped before it ever started.

Andrew Zavelson films a TikTok video on Jan. 8, 2025, at his business, Chicago Vintage Posters, on the Lower West Side. (E. Jason Wambsgans/baiduhai)

Chicago small businesses, content creators brace for possible TikTok ban that could affect their livelihoods

By Rebecca Johnson

January 10, 2025 at 12:41 p.m.

On Friday, the Supreme Court will hear arguments over a law requiring TikTok to break...

Troian Bellisario stars as patrol officer Traci Harmon in "On Call." (Elizabeth Morris/Amazon)

‘On Call’ review: Another (forgettable) cop show from TV producer Dick Wolf

By Nina Metz

January 12, 2025 at 11:08 a.m.

Amazon's "On Call" is a half-hour police procedural about patrol officers that portrays Long Beach,...