Streaming Into the Void

This week, Larry Ellison put his money where his mouth is, and promised $40 billion of his own money to shore up the Skydance bid for Warner Bros. Discovery.
Nielsen Ratings
Show Notes
A Father and Son’s $108 Billion Hostile Bid for Warner Bros. Discovery - The New York Times
Why Isn't Paramount and the Ellisons Showing Warner Bros. Discovery Shareholders the Money? | Analysis
Paramount guarantees Larry Ellison backing in amended WBD bid
Larry Ellison’s Pledge to Backstop Paramount Bid Would Reshape Fortune - Bloomberg
Paramount's new offer for Warner Bros is not sufficient, major investor says | Reuters
Ellison’s hardball Warner Bros. tactics gave Netflix an opening
If Avatar 4 and 5 don't happen, James Cameron vows to 'hold a press conference' to reveal plot details
Netflix Crashes as 'Stranger Things 5' Premieres
‘Stranger Things 5’ Turns Netflix Upside Down With Record-Breaking Premiere Week — Here’s How It Happened
‘Heated Rivalry’ Skates to Second Season at HBO Max, Canada’s Crave
‘Chad Powers’ College Football Comedy From Glen Powell & Michael Waldron Scores Season 2 At Hulu
The Extraction Universe Expands to South Korea with TYGO
‘Last Samurai Standing’ Renewed for Season 2 at Netflix
'NCIS: Tony & Ziva' Canceled By Paramount+ After One Season
'Landman' Renewed For Season 3 At Paramount+
‘Platonic’ Nabs Season 3 at Apple TV
Apple TV and Legendary Expand ‘Monsterverse’ Universe With Young Lee Shaw Series Starring Wyatt Russell
'Down Cemetery Road' Renewed For Season 2 At Apple TV
‘The Last Frontier’ Canceled At Apple After One Season
Matthew Macfadyen, Charlie Hunnam, Daniel Brühl Set for BBC-MGM+ John Le Carré Series
What We've Been Doing
The Santa Summit
Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning
BALL X PIT
 

Highlights of what's new in streaming for the week of December 27, 2025.
YouTube
Taskmaster: New Years Treat VI (Jan. 2 & Jan. 3)
Netflix
Members Only: Palm Beach (Dec. 29)
Evil Influencer: The Jodi Hildebrandt Story (Dec. 30)
Ricky Gervais: Mortality (Dec. 30)
Stranger Things, season 5: The Finale (Dec. 31)
Dr. Seuss’s Red Fish, Blue Fish, season 2 (Jan. 1)
Love from 9 to 5, season 1 (Jan. 1)
My Korean Boyfriend, season 1 (Jan. 1)
Run Away, season 1 (Jan. 1)
Time Flies, season 1 (Jan. 1)
Land of Sin, season 1 (Jan. 2)
Acorn TV
A Royal Residence (Dec. 29)

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)