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True Detective season 5 casts Nicolas Cage and Antonio Banderas, but filming waits until 2027
HBO renewed the anthology in February 2024 and once aimed for a 2027 release. Jamaica Bay is a fact on Wikipedia and unconfirmed on TVLine.
October 20, 2026 12:41 pm
The White Lotus season 4 enters its final stretch at the Hôtel Martinez in Cannes
Six months into the shoot, HBO's series has turned the Martinez into the White Lotus Cannes, with a new art deco logo and a Deadline cast list that names one actor twice.
October 17, 2026 9:37 am
Ryan Coogler's X-Files reboot gets a Hulu series order with two new agents in an old office
Danielle Deadwyler and Himesh Patel play FBI agents assigned to a long-shuttered division. The X-Files already tried replacing Mulder and Scully once.
October 16, 2026 10:23 am
Netflix renewed its Stranger Things spin-off in five days and cut two episodes from season two
Netflix renewed its Stranger Things animated spin-off five days after it premiered, before anyone could know whether it worked. It did not especially work, and the second season arrived this month two episodes shorter.
September 29, 2026 10:36 am
HBO says 9.3 million watched Lanterns and Nielsen could not find it for two weeks
HBO says 9.3 million people watched the Lanterns premiere. Nielsen could not find the show anywhere in its top ten for two consecutive weeks. Both of those things are true, and the reason is worth understanding before the next streaming record lands.
September 27, 2026 11:07 am
Darkwing Duck Has Not Been Gone 35 Years. That Is the Plot of the New Show
Disney+ greenlit a Darkwing Duck revival with Mark Hamill in the lead, and the coverage turned the show's own plot device into a production fact. The character has been on screen three times since 1992.
September 23, 2026 3:46 pm
The Emmys Drew 6.7 Million Viewers. Whether That Is Down 9, 10 or 12 Percent Depends on Who Is Dividing
The 78th Emmys drew 6.7 million viewers and the same number was reported as down 9 percent, down 10 percent and down 11.7 percent. All three are arithmetically correct, which is the problem.
September 20, 2026 9:27 am
Matthew Rhys Made Emmy History Twice in One Night. One of the Records Lost a Word on the Way Out
Matthew Rhys won two lead acting Emmys in one night and completed the lead-category set. The record everyone printed dropped the word that makes it true — and the woman who supposedly did it first never won a comedy Emmy at all.
September 18, 2026 11:34 am
Jean Smart Did Not Beat Julia Louis-Dreyfus, and the Emmy Database Cannot Agree With Itself
Jean Smart won her fifth Emmy for Hacks and the coverage said she had passed Julia Louis-Dreyfus. The Television Academy's own database says otherwise — and contradicts itself about Smart's career total on the same page.
September 17, 2026 12:23 pm