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ON TELEVISION (THURSDAY 9/24/26)
BRITBOX: Showtrial, Season 2 (Premiere)
DISNEY+/HULU: Impact x Nightline, Season 5 (Premiere)
FOX: Hell’s Kitchen, Season 25 (Premiere) at 8pm
FOX: Special Forces: World’s Toughest Test, Season 5 (Premiere) at 9pm
FX: American Horror Story: 13 (Premiere) at 9pm
HULU: The Real Rooneys (Premiere)
NETFLIX: A Different World (Premiere)
NETFLIX: Delusion (Premiere)
NETFLIX: Shaque: Trust No One (Premiere)
PARAMOUNT+: Teen Moms: Baseball (Premiere)
Disney+ and Hulu each just got more expensive after another price hike from Disney – the fourth hike in four years.
-Ad-free tiers for both platforms will now cost 13% more at $21.49 per month individually, while ad-supported ones will cost $12.49 per month. The Disney+/Hulu bundle, however, is only increasing to $21.99 per month for ad-free and $12.99 for ads.
-Disney isn’t the only provider to lean into new bundle deals. DirecTV also introduced a new “Genre Pack” subscription that includes HBO Max, Disney+, Hulu, AMC+, and now 12 months of Netflix for no additional charge for cable customers.
–The Takeaway: Bundles and ad tiers are all the rage these days – and those who forgo them increasingly have to contend with higher prices.
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Now that Paramount is set to finally acquire Warner Bros. Discovery, the company has to actually figure out how to pay for the whole shebang. In addition to previously announced funds from foreign investors, CEO David Ellison is apparently mulling over the idea of asking X owner Elon Musk for help, a new report from Semafor suggests.
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The second season of Apple TV’s German comedy “Where’s Wanda?” premieres globally on Oct. 21. The series stars Heike Makatsch (“The Book Thief”) and Axel Stein (“The Vault”) as parents to the titular Wanda, who was missing for most of Season 1.
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AMC+ dropped a new trailer for revenge thriller “Kill Jackie,” starring Catherine Zeta-Jones (“The Darling Buds of May,” “Wednesday”) and premiering Oct. 2.
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“Ludwig” Season 2 premieres on BritBox Oct. 13, starring David Mitchell as a reclusive puzzlemaker who embeds himself into the Cambridge Police Authority to solve his twin brother’s disappearance.
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“Dateline,” the longest-running series in NBC’s primetime history, begins its 35th season on Sept. 25 with an investigation into the death of Matt Restelli.
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Netflix postponed the release of its upcoming “Hunting Gary Glitter” documentary series due to “new legal information,” which the streamer declined to disclose. The show was slated to premiere Oct. 14.
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YouTube is more popular on living room screens than ever before, which is probably why the company announcedthat users will now be able to leave comments on videos with their remotes. As announced at the Made onYouTubeevent on Wednesday, the feature will include a voice-to-text functionality using a remote’s microphone or a logged-in user’s phone in TV companion mode. According to YouTube, these recordings will not be used to train Google’s AI models.
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Speaking of YouTube, the platform also extended its livestreaming deal with music festival Coachella until 2030. YouTube frequently uses the event to test out streaming functionalities that are later implemented on YouTube TV, such as the “multiview” feature that was introduced in 2024.
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NBCUniversal’s Peacock greenlit a two-part documentary “O.J.’s Accomplice,” exploring assumptions surrounding OJ Simpson’s criminal trial in the ‘90s. The documentary series will be produced by Ample Entertainment and is slated to premiere in December.
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ABC is developing a new series called “Dive,” a crime series set in New Orleans following police divers and investigators. The series will be produced by Disney-owned studio 20th Television as well as Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson’s production company, Seven Bucks Productions.
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That’s a wrap on Ted Danson-led comedy series “A Man on the Inside,” Netflix announced this week. The show will conclude with Season 3, which is beginning production in San Francisco.
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Netflix is developing “Hoops,” a sports romance drama series based on the novels by Kennedy Ryan, who will serve as writer and executive producer.
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Prime Video welcomed six new cast members to its upcoming limited series “The Challenger,” exploring the fatal explosion of NASA’s eponymous space shuttle in the ‘80s. Joining the cast are William Fichtner (“Beef”), Kevin Carroll (“Widow’s Bay”), Eric Lange (“Lucky”), Adelaide Clemens (“R.J. Decker”), Louisa Jacobson (“The Gilded Age”) and Hunter Burke (“Sweet Magnolias”).
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Paramount-owned Pluto TV launched a new user interface bringing together live and on-demand content, including a new home screen view. The move is part of Paramount’s recent efforts to merge Paramount+ and Pluto TV onto the same back-end tech stack.
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