But cable TV still rakes in more money.

By the Motion Picture Association of America's count, more people are now subscribing to online video streaming services than cable television.

One summer can change everything. Watch the official trailer for Stranger Things 3.

Here's the good news: There's a lot of high-quality streaming video available right now, with great scripts and A-list actors. The bad news? Maybe there's just too much content to choose from. It can be frustrating when viewers try to figure out which service has what they want to watch — Netflix, Prime, Hulu? It's about to get worse, as more streaming services launch this year.

If a commercial airs on TV and no one is around to watch it, does it still make a sound? Yes. And an advertiser has still spent a lot of money—sometimes millions of dollars—for the ad not to be heard. Too often, when a TV commercial airs, there is no one in the room to watch it, finds a new study by IPG Media Lab, a research arm of the Interpublic agency network.

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Illustrating the strategy Netflix executives have long articulated — and pointing to a wider gap between the company and its rivals — a new report shows that for the first time most new releases coming to the platform are originals. Among all releases available in the U.S. that went live during the year leading up to December 2018, 51% were originals, as opposed to programs or films that had been acquired, according to a report by UK-based research firm Ampere Analysis. That share is more than double the 25% recorded in December 2016.

Created by Robert K. Weiss and Tracy Tormé, NBCUniversal Television Distribution’s sci-fi series “Sliders” ran for five seasons between 1995 and 2000, first on Fox and then on the Sci Fi Channel. Starring Jerry O’Connell and John Rhys-Davies, the series followed a group of travelers as they use a wormhole to “slide” between different parallel universes. Nearly 20 years after its cancellation, could “Sliders” be ready for a comeback? At the Toronto Comicon over the weekend (via Flickering Myth), Rhys-Davies noted that while any sort of revival is far from set in stone at this point in time, conversations have at least taken place.

TV and Netflix prices are way out of alignment with how much time millennials spend watching them.

From the day in 2016 when AT&T announced its $85.4-billion merger with Time Warner, through three years of antitrust wrangling over the deal, the big telecommunications company promised that it would mean lower prices and more choices for consumers. Now AT&T has a message for everyone who believed the pitch: Suckers!

“I’ve never told this story publicly, but now it’s time.”

Netflix is doubling down on interactive series after the global success of “Black Mirror” spinoff “Bandersnatch,” the streaming giant’s VP of product, Todd Yellin, said in Mumbai on Tuesday. Yellin was delivering a keynote presentation at the 20th edition of media and entertainment conference FICCI-Frames.

Few TV shows are as savagely on-point about human beings’ inability to escape their own relentless need for affirmation as Comedy Central’s Corporate, a series about people who work at a faceless corporation they know to be mostly evil — but nevertheless want to be told, constantly, how good they are.

Stephen Colbert can finally claim complete bragging rights. For the first time, Mr. Colbert’s “Late Show” on CBS has drawn a bigger Nielsen rating point among young adult viewers than any other late-night talk show. Until now, Jimmy Fallon’s “Tonight Show” on NBC has been the leader in that category, which is vital to advertisers.

The actor joins previously announced host and narrator Jordan Peele and cast members including Ike Barinholtz, Zazie Beetz, John Cho, Taissa Farmiga, Betty Gabriel, Ginnifer Goodwin, Greg Kinnear, Luke Kirby, Sanaa Lathan, Kumail Nanjiani, Seth Rogen, Adam Scott, Rhea Seehorn, Alison Tolman, Jacob Tremblay, Jessica Williams, DeWanda Wise and Steven Yeun.

It was about a month into my 2004 run on “Jeopardy!” that Alex Trebek made me laugh out loud. “And now we come to our returning champion, Ken Jennings,” he said, “who has won 29 consecutive games.” He paused for one perfectly timed beat as he turned and nodded offhandedly to me. “You may now call me Alex.”

Thanks to the rise of streaming, Samsung is discontinuing its Blu-ray and 4K Blu-ray player lines. That's lousy news for people who love older TV shows and movies.

Before she found fame on two long-running television series, Ms. Helmond was a well-regarded stage actress.

The great battle is over. The snowy ground is streaked with blood. Beloved heroes lay dead outside the castle gates. Winterfell is quiet. And then… A sudden roar from above. A gust of wind. A blur of low-flying movement. A dragon? No. An ice dragon? Worse. “F—king spoiler helicopter just flew right over the set!” says an alarmed crew member. This could be a disaster. It’s April 2018 on the set of the final season of Game of Thrones in Northern Ireland.

Jan-Michael Vincent, best known for playing the lead role in the 1980s CBS series “Airwolf,” died on Feb. 10 after suffering cardiac arrest, according to a death certificate obtained by several outlets. His death, first reported by TMZ, has only now come to light. He was 73.

In late 2017, news broke that Jordan Peele would be overseeing The Hunt, a 1970s-set story revolving around Nazi hunters, as executive producer with his company Monkeypaw Productions. The first show in his deal with Sonar Entertainment immediately drew serious attention across the industry before Amazon swooped in to scoop it up. Under new studio head Jennifer Salke, The Hunt is exactly the type of provocative gamble Amazon should be taking. (We listed it as one of the nine ambitious upcoming series the streamer hopes could become its version of Game of Thrones.

For something that exists mainly to help people save money, cord-cutting sure seems to have a lot of detractors. By dropping cable or satellite TV for cheaper streaming services–or perhaps an over-the-air antenna–you can easily save hundreds of dollars every year. Yet we’re constantly being told by a parade of contrarian pundits that this is actually a bad idea–that the savings are illusory or that some future consequence will doom cord-cutting in the end.

Every time we write up articles about the numbers “The Walking Dead” posts week-to-week, we get a slew of comments asking us why we care. Simply put, the AMC series is the hottest horror show on TV, and since the ratings dictate the show’s future longevity, the weekly numbers are of great interest to us; they’re a barometer, essentially, of the show’s health.

Smart TVs have never been more affordable. Turns out there's a reason for that.

In 1949, CBS started broadcasting a show called Man Against Crime. It starred Ralph Bellamy, and the general idea would be familiar to anybody watching TV in 2019: A crime happens, and then a man “solves” it. Bellamy played Detective Mike Barnett, a beefy, gun-wielding tough who would discover clues and pressure witnesses, rooting out the ne’er-do-wells to return things to the status quo.

The premium cable network has handed out a 10th season renewal for dramedy Shameless. The William H. Macy starrer from Warner Bros. TV already ranked as Showtime's longest-running scripted original and has now become its first series to reach the 10-season marker. Season 10 will return in late 2019. The news, announced Thursday at the Television Critics Association's winter press tour, helps solidify the future of the John Wells-run drama following the upcoming departure of female lead Emmy Rossum and after her co-star Cameron Monaghan departed in the first half of season nine.

BBC America will continue bringing viewers closer to nature with new installments of the Planet Earth and Frozen Planet series. Frozen Planet II, a follow-up to the 2011-12 series, is set to premiere in 2021. Planet Earth III will follow in 2022. The two shows join the previously announced One Planet: Seven Worlds, which is set to air in 2020. BBC America is extending its relationship with the BBC Studios Natural History Unit for five years.

He made countless commercials; at one point it was said that people who listened to the radio or watched TV heard his voice every single day.

Fancied being part of a reality TV show about colonizing Mars? Sorry.

Kelsey Grammer has revealed that a “group of writers” are currently in talks to reboot Frasier. The beloved American sitcom ran for 11 seasons, from 1993 to 2004. The final episode found the titular character, played by Grammer, announcing his move to San Francisco but ending up in Chicago. Appearing on The Late Late Show, the actor shared some more details of ideas for the potential reboot...

Sunday's episode of The Walking Dead got dunked on, falling to its lowest ratings ever. Airing opposite the NBA All-Star Game on TNT and TBS, the AMC series recorded its smallest total audience and adults 18-49 rating in its nine-season history. The episode averaged just 4.54 million viewers and a 1.7 rating in the 18-49 demographic, off 12 percent in viewers and 15 percent in the demo from its midseason premiere the previous week.

Erik Oleson is moving from Netflix to Amazon. The former Daredevil showrunner, fresh off the Marvel drama's cancellation at Netflix, has signed a two-year overall deal with Amazon. Under the pact, which sources estimate is worth in the mid-seven-figure range, Oleson will create, develop and produce original series exclusively for the retailer and streamer. He landed at Amazon amid competition for the producer and showrunner's services. Sources say Netflix was also courting him for an overall pact.

Last night’s 76th Golden Globe Awards saw big surprises like Bohemian Rhapsody’s big win for Best Motion Picture — Drama, a big send-off for FX’s The Americans, flu shots, a trio of victories for Green Book, some history made by co-host Sandra Oh, and a Saturday Night Live alum mock marriage proposal. Clocking in at around 3 hours and 20 minutes and coming right after a NFL Wild Card playoff game that threatened to run long, the ceremony fronted by Oh and Andy Samberg...

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A show like Sex Education could never get made in America. A portrait of the sex lives of teenagers that’s both graphically detailed and earnestly empathetic? We’re far too puritanical, too shame-bound, too easily titillated for such a delicate balancing act to stand a chance. Thank goodness, then, that one side effect of the global reach of certain streaming services is to render the distinction between U.S. and international TV moot. Netflix’s latest drama is set in the United Kingdom, but its winning combination of emotion and candor is available to all.