Streaming Into the Void

This week, Warner Bros. Discover announces their split, and Disney and Universal agree to terms. Nielsen Ratings Show Notes Warner Bros. Discovery to split into two public companies by next year WBD's David Zaslav And Gunnar Wiedenfels Break Down Split Moguls Take Aim at Zaslav's Vision of WBD as Company Splits: 'It Was a Failure' Warner Bros. Discovery split throws the future of TNT Sports into question Bob Iger Says Disney Unlikely to Follow Comcast and Warner Bros. Discovery In Exiting the TV Channel Business Disney Closes Hulu Deal With Comcast, Paying Less Than NBCU Sought Disney, Universal File First Major Studio Lawsuit Against AI Company, Sue Midjourney for Copyright Infringement: ‘This Is Theft’ Disney/NBCU Lawsuit What We've Been Doing Dungeon Crawler Carl MobLand Dredge

Highlights of what's new in streaming for the week of June 14, 2025. Netflix Justin Willman: Magic Lover (Jun. 17) Kaulitz & Kaulitz, season 2 (Jun. 17) Trainwreck: Mayor of Mayhem (Jun. 17) Somebody Feed Phil, season 8 (Jun. 18) America’s Sweethearts: Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders, season 2 (Jun. 18) Rosario Tiejeras, season 4 (Jun. 18) YOLANTHE, season 1 (Jun. 18) A King Like Me (Jun. 19) The Many Deaths of Nora Dalmasso (Jun. 19) The Waterfront, season 1 (Jun. 19) Olympo, session 1 (Jun. 20) Semi-Soeter (Jun. 20) KPop Demon Hunters (Jun. 20) Grenfell: Uncovered (Jun. 20) Disney+ Sally (Jun. 16) Frozen: The Broadway Musical (Jun. 20) Paramount+ Noah’s Arc: The Movie (Jun. 20) Prime Video The Chosen: season 5 (Jun. 15) We Were Liars, season 1 (Jun. 18) Apple TV+ The Buccaneers, season 2 (Jun. 18) Tubi TKO (Jun. 20)

This week, Warner Bros. Discover CEO gets his bonus for losing the company $11.5 billion, and other nonsense Hollywood stories. Nielsen Ratings Show Notes WBD Shareholders Nix David Zaslav’s 2024 Pay Package In Non-Binding Vote Warner Bros. Discovery Lost $11.5 Billion in 2024. So How Did CEO David Zaslav Exceed His Bonus Targets? Warner Bros. Discovery Lays Off Staffers Across Cable Channels Shari Redstone Confirms Cancer Diagnosis While Facing Trump’s ‘60 Minutes’ Suit - The New York Times Paramount Plan To Pay Off Trump Sparks California Senate Probe, Requests For Ex-CBS News Brass To Testify ‘Jeopardy!’ & ‘Wheel of Fortune’ War Heats Up As Sony Strikes Streaming Deals With Peacock & Hulu, Days After Judge Handed Back Rights To CBS Apple TV emerging as leading candidate among streamers to land more MLB rights What We've Been Doing Dungeon Crawler Carl A Simple Favor Another Simple Favor Magic: The Gathering - Final Fantasy EA College Football 26

Highlights of what's new in streaming for the week of June 7, 2025. Hulu Call Her Alex (Jun. 10) Atsuko Okatsuka: Father (Jun. 13) Netflix The Creature Cases, Chapter 5 (Jun. 9) Families Like Ours (Jun. 10) Trainwreck: The Astroworld Tragedy (Jun. 10) Aniela, season 1 (Jun. 11) Cocaine Air: Smugglers at 30,000 FT (Jun. 11) Our Times (Jun. 11) TITAN: The OceanGate Disaster (Jun. 11) About Antoine, season 2 (Jun. 12) The Fairly Oddparents: A New Wish, season 2 (Jun. 12) FUBAR, season 2 (Jun. 12) I Love Filipino (Jun. 12) MaSameer Junior (Jun. 12) A Business Proposal (Jun. 13) Kings of Jo’Burg, season 3 (Jun. 13) Rana Naidu, season 2 (Jun. 13) Too Hot to Handle: Spain (Jun. 13) Disney+ Ocean with David Attenborough (Jun. 8) Paramount+ The Tony Awards (Jun. 8 at 8 p.m. EDT) Peacock The Gilgo Beach Killer: House of Secrets (Jun. 7) Prime Video American Thunder: NASCAR to LeMans (Jun. 12) Deep Cover (Jun. 12) Apple TV+ Echo Valley (Jun. 13) Tubi Day of Reckoning (Jun. 13)

This week, Disney licenses a pre-school juggernaut for Disney+ while Nielsen tries to make sense of the last year in television. Nielsen Ratings Show Notes Disney Takes the Preschool Hit ‘CoComelon’ Away From Netflix - Bloomberg Sesame Street Is Coming to Netflix With New & Old Episodes Streaming In 2025 'Sesame Street' showed me a better world. Thanks to Netflix, my kids will see it too. Netflix Doubles Down on Kids Games, Adds Exclusive ‘World of Peppa Pig’ Alongside New Episodes Starz, Newly Separated From Lionsgate, Sees Quarterly Revenue Drop 6% as It Takes $168 Million Content Impairment Charge Stand-Alone Starz CEO Jeff Hirsch Sees A Future Of Owned Shows, Lower Costs & Deals With Networks “Marooned” In Linear Limbo Lionsgate, Now Without Starz, Swings to Quarterly Profit on Higher Revenues Lionsgate Completes Split Of Studios, Starz 100 Most-Watched TV Series of 2024-25 Across Streaming, Broadcast and Cable: ‘Squid Game’ Leads This Season’s Rankers CBS Wins Nielsen’s First Full Season Multiplatform Ratings Among Broadcast, Led by ‘Tracker’ — but Netflix’s ‘Squid Game’ Dominates Overall ‘Hacks’ Renewed for Fifth Season at Max GLITCH Productions’ Murder Drones Series Is Now Streaming on Prime Video – Red's Nerd Den ‘Welcome to Wrexham’ Renewed for Season 5 and Its Spinoff Gets a Title ‘Laid’ Canceled At Peacock After One Season ‘Ted’ Animated Sequel Series Set at Peacock With Mark Wahlberg, Amanda Seyfried, Jessica Barth Returning 'Yellowjackets' Renewed For Season 4 By Showtime ‘The Chi’ Renewed For Season 8 By Showtime Following Strong Season 7 Debut ‘Silo’ to End With Season 4 as Apple TV+ Renews Series for Two More Seasons What We've Been Doing Fountain of Youth Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Dungeon Crawler Carl

Highlights of what's new in streaming for the week of May 31, 2025. Hulu Predator: Killer of Killers (Jun. 6) Netflix Netflix Tudum 2025: The Live Event (May 31 at 8 p.m. EDT) Sara: Woman in the Shadows, season 1 (Jun. 3) Criminal Code, season 2 (Jun. 4) Eva Lasting, season 3 (Jun. 4) Power Moves with Shaquille O’Neal (Jun. 4) Barracuda Queens, season 2 (Jun. 5) Ginny & Georgia, season 3 (Jun. 5) LEGO DREAMZzz, season 3 (Jun. 5) Tires, season 2 (Jun. 5) Uninvited (Jun. 5) Golden SixTONES, season 1 (Jun. 6) K.O. (Jun. 6) Mercy for None (Jun. 6) The Survivors (Jun. 6) Tyler Perry’s Straw (Jun. 6) Disney+ Phineas and Ferb, season 5 (Jun. 5) Max Mountainhead (May 31) The Mortician (Jun. 1) Peacock Love Island USA, season 3 (Jun. 3) Prime Video Good Boy, season 1 (May 31) Apple TV+ Stick, season 1 (Jun. 4) Starz BMF, season 4 (Jun. 6)

This week, Paramount is on the brink, Warner Bros. Discovery is weighed down, and Disney owns the Memorial Day weekend. Nielsen Ratings Show Notes Democrats warn Redstone that Paramount talks with Trump over CBS Kamala Harris interview may be illegal | The Independent Freedom of the Press Foundation says it will sue Paramount if it settles with Trump over 60 Minutes lawsuit | The Independent Trump sues CBS over ‘60 Minutes’ interview with Harris. Legal experts call it ‘frivolous and dangerous’ | CNN Business ’60 Minutes’ Addresses EP Bill Owens’ Departure in On-Air Segment: “Paramount Began to Supervise Our Content in New Ways” CBS News CEO Wendy McMahon quits as potential Trump lawsuit settlement looms S&P Downgrades Warner Bros. Discovery To Junk Status On “Weak Credit Metrics” Warner Bros. Discovery Downgraded to Junk by S&P Cannes: Mubi Buys Wagner Moura-Starring ‘The Secret Agent’ for U.K., India, Most of Latin America Mubi Buys Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson’s ‘Die My Love’ in $24 Million Cannes Deal Mubi Acquires Sound of Falling Out of Cannes New Direct-to-Consumer Offering to be Singularly Branded ESPN Disney exec: ESPN+ sticking around due to existing rights deals Justin Connolly, After Exiting Disney, Joins YouTube as Global Head of Media and Sports; Disney Sues Over Exec’s Hiring Recommendations Lilo & Stitch The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin on Apple TV+ Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Carl’s Doomsday Scenario

Highlights of what's new in streaming for the week of May 24, 2025. Hulu Adults, season 1 (May 29) Rickey Smiley: Fool-ish (May 30) Netflix Our Unwritten Seoul, season 1 (May 24) CoComelon, season 13 (May 26) Cold Case: The Tylenol Murders (May 26) Mike Birbiglia: The Good Life (May 26) F1: The Academy (May 28) Dept. Q, season 1 (May 29) Losmen Bu Broto: The Series, season 1 (May 29) Mad Unicorn (May 29) The Heart Knows (May 30) Lost in Starlight (May 30) A Widow’s Game (May 30) Max And Just Like That…, season 3 (May 23) Peacock WWE NXT Battleground (May 25) Prime Video The Second Best Hospital in the Galaxy, season 2 (May 27) The Better Sister (May 29) Apple TV+ Bono: Stories of Surrender (May 30) AMC+ Scrublands, season 2 (May 29) Tubi The Killing Cove (May 30)

This week, YouTube dominates, Fox joins the fray, and Max changes name... again. Nielsen Ratings Show Notes Warners Reverses Course: Changes Max’s Name Back to HBO Max YouTube to stream 2025 Week 1 NFL regular-season game in Brazil to worldwide audience for free As Hollywood Shrinks, Studios Look to YouTube for Help - Bloomberg Fox’s new streaming service will arrive just in time for football season ‘Hazbin Hotel’ Spinoff ‘Helluva Boss’ Gets 2-Season Renewal & Prime Video Run 'Creed' Spinoff Series Set in Delphi Gym Ordered at Amazon ‘Fallout’ Levels Up With Early Season 3 Renewal at Prime Video Prime Video Hands Out Two-Season Renewal for ‘Beast Games’ Amazon’s ‘The Bondsman’ Canceled After One Season ‘The Eternaut’: Inside Netflix’s Argentinian Sci-Fi Survival Drama & Ambitious Season 2 Plans 'Star Search' reboot underway at Netflix Tina Fey's The Four Seasons Renewed for Season 2 - Netflix Tudum Kevin Hart Is in for a Wild 72 Hours in the New Tim Story Comedy ‘Parks and Recreation’ Alums Amy Poehler, Mike Schur Reunite for Peacock Comedy Series ‘Dig’ 'The Studio' Renewed for Season 2 at Apple TV+ Recommendations Murderbot Dungeon Crawler Carl Andor, Season 2 Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Taskmaster

Highlights of what's new in streaming for the week of May 17, 2025. Hulu Nine Perfect Strangers, season 2 (May 21) Nine Puzzles, season 1 (May 21) Netflix Ex Ex Lovers (May 20) Sarah Silverman: Postmortem (May 20) Untold: The Fall of Favre (May 20) Newly Rich, Newly Poor (May 21) Real Men, season 1 (May 21) Sneaky Links: Dating After Dark, season 1 (May 21) Happy Mondays (May 22) Sirens, season 1 (May 22) Tyler Perry’s She The People, part 1 (May 22) Air Force Elite: Thunderbirds (May 23) Big Mouth, season 7 (May 23) Fear Street: Prom Queen (May 23) Forget You Not, season 1 (May 23) Off Track 2 (May 23) Disney+ Tucci in Italy, season 1 (May 18) Max Pee-wee as Himself (May 23) Paramount+ FBI True, season 7 (May 20) Couples Therapy, season 4 part 2 (May 23) Peacock Peacock Emerging Artist Series (May 19) Prime Video Motorheads, season 1 (May 20) Earnhardt (May 22) Clarkson’s Farm, season 4 (May 23) Apple TV+ Fountain of Youth (May 23) Tubi Worth the Wait (May 23)