Streaming Into the Void

This week, Skydance is sounding like a broken record as they keep repeating the same bid for the Warner Bros. Discovery assets, and WBD keeps telling them: It's not enough. Nielsen Ratings Show Notes Starz Placed $25 Billion Bid for All of WBD’s Cable Networks It's Warner Bros.' turn to go hostile David Zaslav Called Paramount 'Inappropriate' for Proposing a Compensation Package Worth 'Several Hundred Million Dollars' Jared Kushner's Affinity Partners backs out of Paramount Skydance's hostile bid for Warner Bros. Discovery - CBS News The Oscars Moving to YouTube Beginning in 2029, Will Stream Free Worldwide Netflix Adds Podcasts in Deals With iHeartMedia, Barstool Sports - The New York Times Netflix Signs Deal With Dave Portnoy’s Barstool Sports for Exclusive Video Rights to Three Podcasts Netflix Jumps Into Podcasts With Spotify Deal - The New York Times Licence To Kill: James Bond Films To Stream On Netflix As Part Of Shock Deal With Amazon Disney+ and Hulu: 2025 Year in Streaming - The Walt Disney Company What We've Been Doing Wake Up Dead Man F1: The Movie Avatar: Fire and Ash

Highlights of what's new in streaming for the week of December 20, 2025. YouTube Taskmaster: Champion of Champions IV (Dec. 22) Netflix Gatau Big Brothers, (Dec. 21) Elway (Dec. 22) Idol I, season 1 (Dec. 22) Sicily Express, season 1 (Dec. 22) King of Collectibles: The Goldin Touch, season 3 (Dec. 23) Goodbye June (Dec. 24) Tom Segura: Teacher (Dec. 24) Stranger Things, season 5: Part 2 (Dec. 25) NFL Christmas Gameday 2025 (Dec. 25) Cashero, season 1 (Dec. 26) Cover-Up (Dec. 26) Disney+ The Wonderfully Weird World of Gumball, season 2 (Dec. 22) Made in Korea, season 1 (Dec. 24) HBO Max Happy and You Know It (Dec. 25) Peacock The Copenhagen Test, season 1 (Dec. 20) Prime Video Thursday Night Football (Dec. 25) AMC+ Sanctuary: A Witch’s Tale, season 2 (Dec. 25) Hallmark+ A Make or Break Holiday (Dec. 20) The Christmas Baby (Dec. 21)

This week, we're in the trenches as Skydance and Netflix duke it out to determine who will end up with control of Warner Bros. Nielsen Ratings Show Notes Warner Bros fight heats up with $108 billion hostile bid from Paramount | Reuters It’s a Bidding War: Paramount Attempts Hostile Offer for Warner Bros. Trump Declines To Take Sides, For Now, In Netflix And Paramount Pursuit Of Warner Bros.: “None Of Them Are Particularly Great Friends Of Mine” Donald Trump Opposes Warner Bros. Discovery Retaining Ownership Of CNN Sources: Ted Sarandos Met With Donald Trump Ahead of Netflix’s Winning Warner Bros. Deal Democrats Warn Warner Bros. Of Paramount Bid's Foreign Investment Kevin Mayer Sees “Nothing But Good News” For Warner Bros. Discovery With Paramount-Netflix Bidding War Brewing Billion-dollar OpenAI deal allows users to make content with Disney characters : NPR Washington Post Triggers Revolt With Humiliating AI Blunder Amazon's Official 'Fallout' Season 1 Recap Is AI Garbage Filled With Mistakes Prime Video pulls eerily emotionless AI-generated anime dubs after complaints - Ars Technica Justine Bateman lashes out at AI use in film: 'It's basically vomit' Disney Accuses Google of Using AI to Engage in Copyright Infringement on 'Massive Scale' What We've Been Doing Pluribus Reagen’s top 50 of 2025 List on Spotify SiriusXM Alt Nation's Top 36 of 2025 The Outer Worlds 2 Hades II The Game Awards MST3K

Highlights of what's new in streaming for the week of December 13, 2025. Netflix The Creature Cases, chapter 6 (Dec. 15) Culinary Class Wars, season 2 (Dec. 16) Little Angel, volume 7 (Dec. 16) My Next Guest Needs No Introduction with David Letterman, season 6 (Dec. 16) The Manny, season 3 (Dec. 17) Murder in Monaco (Dec. 17) What’s in the Box? (Dec. 17) 10 Dance (Dec. 18) Emily in Paris, season 5 (Dec. 18) The Ride (Dec. 18) Breakdown: 1975 (Dec. 19) The Great Flood (Dec. 19) How to Ruin Love, season 2 (Dec. 19) Jake vs. Joshua (Dec. 19) Queen of Coal (Dec. 19) A Time for Bravery (Dec. 19) Disney+ Kumail Nanjiani: Night Thoughts (Dec. 19) HBO Max Counting Crows: Have You Seen Me Lately? (Dec. 18) Paramount+ DORA, season 4 (Dec. 19) Prime Video Fallout, season 2 (Dec. 17) Human Specimens (Dec. 18) Apple TV Born to Be Wild, season 1 (Dec. 19) Acorn TV The Madame Blanc Mysteries (Dec. 15) Tubi Mo’ Waffles, season 1 (Dec. 19) Hallmark+ A Suite Holiday Romance (Dec. 13) Oy to the World (Dec. 14)

This week, Netflix entered into an agreement to purchase Warner Bros. Nielsen Ratings Show Notes Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros. Following the Separation of Discovery Global for a Total Enterprise Value of $82.7 Billion (Equity Value of $72.0 Billion) Warner Bros. Begins Exclusive Deal Talks With Netflix - Bloomberg Netflix CEO Ted Sarandos Says Movie Theater Model Is ‘Outdated’: ‘Most of the Country’ Cannot ‘Walk to a Multiplex’ Keep Calm & Carry On: WBD’s David Zaslav & Netflix’s Greg Peters Tell Nervous Staff To Stay Focused Amidst “The Beginning Of New Possibilities” Merger Paramount questions Warner Bros. Discovery on 'fairness and adequacy' of sale process: Read the full letter What We've Been Doing A Man on the Inside Spinal Tap II: The End Continues The Pickup  Hades II

Highlights of what's new in streaming for the week of December 6, 2025. Netflix Pro Bono, season 1 (Dec. 6) Elmo & Mark Rober’s Merry Giftmas (Dec. 8) Badly in Love, season 1 (Dec. 9) Blood Coast, season 2 (Dec. 9) Masaka Kids: A Rhythm Within (Dec. 9) The Accident, season 2 (Dec. 10) Record of Ragnarok, season 3 (Dec. 10) Simon Cowell: The Next Act (Dec. 10) Had I Not Seen the Sun, part 2 (Dec. 11) Man Vs Baby (Dec. 11) Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft, season 2 (Dec. 11) The Town, season 1 (Dec. 11) True Beauty, season 1 (Dec. 11) City of Shadows (Dec. 12) Home for Christmas, season 3 (Dec. 12) Wake Up, Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (Dec. 12) Disney+ Monsters Funday Football (Dec. 8) Star Wars Young Jedi Adventures, season 3 (Dec. 8) Percy Jackson and the Olympians, season 2 (Dec. 10) Taylor Swift: The End of an Era (Dec. 12) Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour - the Final Show (Dec. 12) HBO Max Wizkid: Long Live Lagos (Dec. 11) Sarah Squirm: Live + In the Flesh (Dec. 12) Paramount+ Predators (Dec. 8) Little Disasters (Dec. 11) Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, season 2 (Dec. 12) Peacock Here Come the Irish, season 2 (Dec. 8) Prime Video Surely Tomorrow, season 1 (Dec. 6) Merv (Dec. 10) The Game Awards (Dec. 11) Apple TV+ F1 (Dec. 12) Acorn TV Midsomer Murders, season 25 (Dec. 8) Tubi Hag (Dec. 12) Hallmark+ She’s Making a List (Dec. 6) Single on the 25th (Dec. 7)

This week, Warner Bros. Discovery sets a deadline for new higher bids. Are they asking too much? Nielsen Ratings Show Notes Warner Bros. Discovery Asks for Higher Second-Round Acquisition Bids Due Dec. 1 Sinclair Offers to Acquire E.W. Scripps for $7 per Share in Unsolicited Takeover Bid Broadcaster E.W. Scripps adopts poison pill after $538 million Sinclair bid | Reuters Nexstar Seeks FCC Approval of Tegna Acquisition, Requesting Waiver of 39% Ownership Cap Rule ‘The Hunt’: IP Dispute Delays Apple TV Thriller Series, Triggers Gaumont Investigation 'Task' Renewed for Season 2 at HBO With Mark Ruffalo Returning ‘Game of Thrones’ Prequel ‘Knight of the Seven Kingdoms’ Renewed for Season 2 Ahead of Series Premiere ‘The Chair Company,’ ‘I Love LA’ Score Renewals at HBO 'House of the Dragon' Renewed for Season 4 DC Studios Taps ‘American Vandal’ Creators for Jimmy Olsen TV Spinoff (Exclusive) 'V for Vendetta' TV Series in the Works at HBO (EXCLUSIVE) ‘Alien Earth’ Renewed For Season 2 As Creator Noah Hawley Re-Ups Overall Deal With FX & Disney Entertainment TV Taika Waititi Inks First-Look Deal, Sets Up 'Last Look' Fashion Comedy ‘The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives’ Renewed At Hulu Kim Kardashian-Led ‘All’s Fair’ Renewed For Season 2 At Hulu 'Love Thy Nader' Renewed for Season 2 at Hulu and Freeform ‘Death Stranding’ Animated Series From Hideo Kojima Set at Disney+ New ‘Stargate’ TV Series Ordered at Amazon From ‘Blindspot’ Creator Martin Gero ‘Monster’ Season 4: Sarah Paulson in Final Talks to Play Serial Killer Aileen Wuornos (EXCLUSIVE) ‘KPop Demon Hunters 2’ Aims for 2029 Release on Netflix 'One Piece' Casts Cole Escola As Bon Clay In Season 3 Idris Elba Sets ‘Luther’ Movie Sequel at Netflix ‘Poker Face’ Canceled at Peacock, Rian Johnson Shops New Version With Peter Dinklage Taking Over for Natasha Lyonne as Charlie Cale Peacock’s ‘Twisted Metal’ Renewed For Third Season With David Reed Set As New Showrunner What We've Been Doing Zootopia 2 The Celebrity Traitors The Outer Worlds 2

Highlights of what's new in streaming for the week of November 29, 2025. Netflix The Stone (Nov. 30) All the Empty Rooms (Dec. 1) CoComelon Lane, season 6 (Dec. 1) Love Is Blind Italy (Dec. 1) My Next Guest with David Letterman and Adam Sandler (Dec. 1) One Piece, Season 29 (Dec. 1) Playing Gracie Darling, season 1 (Dec. 1) Troll 2 (Dec. 1) Matt Rife Unwrapped: A Christmas Crowdwork Special (Dec. 2) My Secret Santa (Dec. 3) Stranded with My Mother-in-Law, season 3 (Dec. 3) With Love, Meghan: Holiday Celebration (Dec. 3) The Abandons, season 1 (Dec. 4) The Believers, season 2 (Dec. 4) Fugue State 1986, season 1 (Dec. 4) I Wish You Had Told Me (Dec. 4) Lali: Time to Step Up (Dec. 4) Jay Kelly (Dec. 5) Love + Wine (Dec. 5) The Night My Dad Saved Christmas 2 (Dec. 5) The New Yorker at 100 (Dec. 5) Owning Manhattan, season 2 (Dec. 5) The Price of Confession, season 1 (Dec. 5) Stephen (Dec. 5) Disney+ Family Guy 2025 Holiday Special (Nov. 28) Are You Sure?!? (Dec. 3) Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Last Straw (Dec. 5) HBO Max Heated Rivalry (Nov. 28) It’s Florida, Man, season 2 (Nov. 28) Paul Anka: His Way (Dec. 1) Hard Knocks: In Season with the NFC East (Dec. 2) Paramount+ 5-Star (Dec. 2) Transformers: EarthSpark (Dec. 5) Peacock The Celebrity Traitors UK, season 1 (Nov. 20) Prime Video The Merchants of Joy (Dec. 1) Oh. What. Fun. (Dec. 3) MGM+ Words + Music (Nov. 30) Apple TV+ The First Snow of Fraggle Rock (Dec. 3) The Hunt, season 1 (Dec. 3) Starz Spartacus: House of Ashur, season 1 (Dec. 5) Hallmark+ An Alpine Christmas (Nov. 29) A Grand Ole Opry Christmas (Nov. 29) The Christmas Cup (Nov. 30) Christmas at the Catnip Cafe (Dec. 1) The Twelve Dates ‘Til Christmas (Dec. 5)

This week, one of the richest men in the world needs the Saudis to bankroll his takeover of a Hollywood studio… or does he? Another local TV operator is looking to merge. NBC has too much sports. And Joey is back! Nielsen Ratings Show Notes Paramount Skydance Denies That Its Warner Bros. Discovery Bid Involves Arab Sovereign Wealth Funds Paramount, Comcast, Netflix submit bids for Warner Bros. Discovery Sinclair Reveals Merger Talks With E.W. Scripps In Latest Shakeup Of Local TV Sector MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL RETURNS TO NBC AND PEACOCK IN 2026 WITH THREE-YEAR MEDIA RIGHTS PARTNERSHIP FEATURING EXTENSIVE EXCLUSIVITY Major League Soccer is coming to Apple TV starting in 2026 NBC reportedly exploring sublicense of Big Ten Championship to Netflix, Amazon ‘Friends’ Spinoff ‘Joey’ Finally Releases Its Final Eight Unaired Episodes Nearly 20 Years Later What We've Been Doing Frankenstein The American Revolution The Outer Worlds 2 Madden NFL 26

Highlights of what's new in streaming for the week of November 22, 2025. Netflix Missing: Dead or Alive, season 2 (Nov. 24) Is It Cake? Holiday, season 2 (Nov. 25) Jingle Bell Heist (Nov. 26) Stranger Things, season 5: Part 1 (Nov. 26) Left-Handed Girl (Nov. 28) The Stringer: The Man Who Took the Photo (Nov. 28) Disney+ Chris Hemsworth: A Road Trip to Remember (Nov. 24) Beatles Anthology Series (Nov. 26 - 28) Prep & Landing: The Snowball Protocol (Nov. 28) HBO Max The Shuffle (Nov. 25) Peacock Bel-Air, season 4 (Nov. 24) Prime Video Black Friday Football Game (Nov. 28) Apple TV+ Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age (Nov. 26) WondLa, season 3 (Nov. 28) Acorn TV Harry Wild Holiday Special (Nov. 24) Hallmark+ Holiday Touchdown: A Bills Love Story (Nov. 22) Melt My Heart This Christmas (Nov. 23) We Met in December (Nov. 27) The More the Merrier (Nov. 28) The Snow Must Go On (Nov. 28)