Television

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed lawsuits against five major television companies, accusing them of unlawfully collecting personal data through Automated Content Recognition (ACR) technology built into their devices. According to Paxton, major TV manufacturers including Sony, Samsung, and LG are snooping on owners in a way that is “invasive, deceptive, and unlawful.”

An upstate New York man was arrested this week moments after he left a TV studio where he confessed in an on-camera interview that he had killed his parents.

Nearly half of the UK’s TV industry workforce are jobless, a survey released Friday shows, with many workers looking beyond the sector in an unprecedented crisis.

A festival in Somerset, Kentucky, wowed crowds with a Dukes of Hazzard-style stunt at the town’s Fountain Square on Saturday. 

Former President Donald Trump’s continued popularity and high chance of reelection indicates that about half of Americans dismiss the establishment media’s coverage of him, an anonymous television executive admitted Wednesday to the New York Magazine. 

An experienced actor and aerial cinematographer went from being at “the heart of Hollywood’s golden age of streaming” to worrying about affording “a value meal at McDonald’s,” the BBC reported in a piece on how the industry’s writer’s strike impacted everyone else.

“The Simpsons” showrunner and producer Matt Selman criticized a fake image that has surfaced showing former President Donald Trump in a coffin, leading people to believe that the show had predicted the assassination attempt on the former president.

Non-stop entertainment comes at a price and for Gen Z and Millennials that price is increasingly too high, a poll reveals.

A group of armed hooded men stormed the premises of TC Television, a new network headquartered in Guayaquil, Ecuador, on Tuesday, kidnapping all the personnel present in the building.

A recent UCLA poll finds that young TV and movie viewers are leaning away from an interest in sexual and romantic plots.

Wells Fargo downgraded Fox Corporation stock on Monday as Fox News’s viewership continues to decline.

UK politician Matt Hancock sacked for breaking his own lockdown rules has been suspended for signing up to I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here!

Despite even her own enemies calling it “absolutely fake news”, the establishment media is certain Meloni is Italy’s next fascist leader.

One of Britain’s best-known breakfast shows plumbed new depths of indignity as a struggling guest spun the wheel to win his energy bills paid.

German state television has been accused of editing in black clouds of smoke over a nuclear power station in a report on the ongoing energy crisis.

Following the passing of a law that would restrict foreign ownership of media organisations by the Polish parliament, some Poles gathered to demand President Andrzej Duda veto the bill.

Broadcasters in the UK have announced they will be dumping the acronym ‘BAME’ for fear the term isn’t woke enough. A number of UK broadcasters have made the decision to dump BAME — which stands for Black, Asian, and Minority

Media giants are now feeling the negative effects of the supply chain crisis as it continues to wreak havoc on the U.S. economy, forcing advertisers to cut spending on TV commercials.

A fire-damaged television mast came crashing down after it was determined the huge tower was beyond repair following a mystery blaze.

China’s National Radio and Television Administration (NRTA) ordered broadcasters on Thursday to stop airing TV shows featuring “sissy men” and “idol development programs.”

Mike Richards is out as executive producer of “Jeopardy!”, days after he exited as the quiz show’s newly appointed host because of past misogynistic and other comments.

Nielsen, the nation’s largest TV viewership tracking service, may lose its official accreditation from the Media Rating Council (MRC), according to reports.

A recent Gallup poll found that six percent of Republicans have “a great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in television news.

EU Could Cut British TV Shows, Claims They Threaten Europe’s ‘Cultural Diversity’: Report

Former Vice President Joe Biden’s campaign has shelled out more money for television and digital advertising than any presidential candidate in the nation’s history, the Hill reported Friday.

The BBC must make so-called diversity its “absolute priority” or else the UK television industry will collapse, the broadcaster has claimed.

British actor David Harewood, star of Homeland and Supergirl, claimed the British film industry doesn’t support black actors, which is why he had to move to the United States, contradicting a study which has found the British media vastly over-represents ethnic minorities.

CARACAS – It has been over a week since the U.S.-based cable company DirecTV ceased operations in Venezuela, unplugging ten million viewers — yours truly included.

A California television journalist got into an awkward situation while filming a report from her bathroom when her naked husband was caught in the background showering.

Rapper-actor 50 Cent has blasted Comcast CEO Brian Roberts in a profane Instagram rant, accusing the executive of “f**king up” the hit Starz drama series Power.

Mayans M.C. show runner and co-creator Kurt Sutter has been fired from the FX series following complaints of his behavior, including an accusation of being an “abrasive dick,” according to a new report. The Hollywood Reporter broke the news Thursday,

President Donald Trump declared CNN bad for the United States of America on Monday, pointing to “fake news” and bad ratings.

If we are suitably wired in—as just about everyone is nowadays—we might not just be watching the show, we could actually be the show.

“Avengers: Endgame” made over a billion dollars worldwide in its first weekend, shattering just about every record the Hollywood publicity machine bothers to keep. That’s because Endgame is more than just Part 2 of a single story, but the culmination of a 22-film series (plus a few short films and loosely-connected TV shows) that racked up almost $20 billion in combined ticket sales.

Looking at the latest primetime schedule. it is almost all government-is-good, government-is-your-savior, government-is-righteous propaganda.

Black Friday, routinely one of retail’s busiest shopping days of the year in the United States, has spread to countries around the world. Chaotic scenes of aggressive shoppers battling one another for deeply discounted goods are making the rounds on social media Friday.