AT&T and DirecTV are launching a streaming service called DirecTV Now, for which the incredibly cool singer Taylor Swift and lifestyle guru Reese Witherspoon will have dedicated channels.
Last year Netflix hiked up its subscription rates for new members but, in a merciful gesture, allowed existing customers to continue paying the same prices. But come May 2016, that Buffy the Vampire Slayer binge will cost you an extra two dollars per month whether you’re a longtime addict—err, I mean subscriber—or a…
A Canadian cable channel hopes to launch a U.S. offshoot dedicated to making programs for Native Americans, by Native Americans.
As the agonizing seconds between now and the Labor Day airdate of The Unauthorized Saved By The Bell Story on Lifetime tick by, there's little respite for fans who simply cannot wait to learn what really happened behind the scenes of a teen sitcom that aired two decades ago. But now — thank god — there's another…
It's no secret that dealing with cable companies is only slightly less miserable than dragging yourself naked through the fires of Mordor. But there are ways of handling the irritating things big corporations do to you. Pulling a gun on a cable worker is not one of those ways.
Oh, Game of Thrones. Could it be we've gone a few weeks without a rape? Or should I say, rapes.
In a somewhat surprise merger, Comcast is set to acquire Time Warner Cable for about $45 billion, uniting the two biggest cable companies in the U.S. When reached for comment about the merger, representatives from both companies said "someone would be by between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. to explain it more." And this has been…
Starz has produced a series based on Diana Gabaldon's Outlander novels, and, if you like sexed-up, violent period dramas, you'll probably be into this.
Earlier this week, Crossfire, the ancestral home of partisan cable TV shouting, returned to CNN because apparently no one has any new ideas for a TV debate show that isn't bad. And while reviews for the the program's zombie reanimation were tepid-to-negative, one in particular stuck out for its confusingly enraged…
When I was in high school and college, I worked at a nursing home, and when there was no more Boggle to be played or Jello to be eaten, residents loved watching Fox News, hours and hours of men yelling and attractive, smart blonde women pretending to be dumb and concerned.
In case you missed it: Less than a week after threatening to murder Big Bird and then chuckling about it in front of millions of horrified but oddly entranced Americans, Presidential Candi-bot Mitt Romney has dealt another overly theatrical middle finger to the kids in America — he's become only the third candidate in…
Piggybacking on success of the maybe-real, maybe-fake documentary Catfish (spoiler alert! Someone lies on the internet!), MTV has begun casting a TV spinoff of the show. So if you or someone you know is about to become entangled in a web of lies, if you're maintaining multiple fake social networking accounts or…
We give our dogs so much in life—multiple walks a day, belly rubs, bones, treats, expensive trips to the vet, and, often, precious real estate in our very own beds. Yet now it appears that we might also need to get them their own TVs so that they can watch their own cable channel while we're away at work trying to…
In the past decade, cable providers have avoided discussing the fact that a portion of their revenue comes from pay-per-view and on-demand porn. Yes, some customers are paying as much a $9.95 to rent hardcore films from the comfort of their own homes. Or rather, were paying. Just as the internet decimated porn…
The New York Post points out that ratings at Lifetime and Hallmark are slipping, while other networks like the History Channel and MTV are gaining shares of women viewers.
The Oprah Winfrey Network was born today! Now you can watch as many shows about Oprah, Oprah's celebrity-friends, self-improvement philosophers, love bowls, and Miracle Detectives as you want. Will people tune in and "OWN it," lol, or ignore it?
In the wake of Shit My Dad Says, the internet has spawned yet another TV project. Alexi Wasser's "provocative" blog, ImBoyCrazy.com, will be a half-hour comedy on Showtime. You know, the lady network?
A new makeover show on We, You're Wearing That?!?, lets mothers and daughters dress each other. Oh yes, we're going to watch this.
