The Walking Dead's new bad guys, the Whisperers, are still steeped in mystery. If you have not read the comics, you may not be familiar with them...

What is dead may never die. This is a religious oath recited often by the people of the Iron Islands on Game of Thrones. It is also increasingly the guiding ethos of Hollywood development, where any familiar title, no matter how sacrosanct it might have once seemed, is ripe for a sequel, a prequel, a reboot or all of the above. This includes Game of Thrones itself, which is due to end next year but has a prequel in active development, and several other potential spinoffs waiting in the wings if that one works out OK.

Though Netflix’s early success can obviously be traced back to the company sending out DVDs of movies to customers in the mail, the company in recent years has done something of a 180. In a relatively short amount of time, Netflix has transformed itself into a streaming powerhouse filled to the brim with a wide array of original content. These days, people are more likely to think of Netflix as a place to watch original TV shows like Stranger Things than as a place to enjoy hit movies.

The stars of “The Conners” may face pay cuts as the show continues to sink with star Roseanne Barr. ABC announced in May they cancelled ‘Roseanne’ after Barr fired off a tweet about Valerie Jarrett. The Conners rating debut was down 35% from Roseanne opener via Deadline. And ratings are decreasing each week.

Stephen Colbert has won another key battle in his late-night “war” with Jimmy Fallon: His CBS Late Show is now No. 1 this season among adult viewers under 50, the key demo group most attractive to advertisers. While Colbert has dominated in overall audience for close to two years now, Fallon’s Tonight Show has clung to an ever-shrinking lead in the demo. But per Nielsen data released Tuesday, Late Show is averaging 658,000 adult viewers under 50 in the TV season to date, just barely ahead of Tonight (656,000 or 657,000 viewers, depending on which network you ask).

Every week, we pick a new episode of the week. It could be good. It could be bad. It will always be interesting. You can read the archives here. The episode of the week for November 4 through 10 is “Chapter Thirty-Nine: The Midnight Club,” the fourth episode of the third season of The CW’s Riverdale. Since its first episode, Riverdale has been an ultra-meta fever dream of a show, a vast, churning stew of winking pop culture references and plot lines that play as though the writers’ room picked up both a newspaper...

Stranger Things star David Harbour has officially wrapped filming on the Netflix series’ third season. Harbour announced he’s wrapped with a post on Instagram, where he bid farewell to Sheriff Hopper’s mustache. “Wrapped. Everyone say ‘goodbye mustache.’ If you need any info on what’s good in Hawkins while I’m away, give Gary a call. He can’t keep his damn mouth shut,” Harbour wrote on Instagram. Take a look below.

THE BBC have slammed Netflix for 'ripping off Planet Earth and stealing Sir David Attenborough', it has been reported. Bosses at the Beeb are unhappy with Netflix series Our Planet, which is narrated by the same broadcaster as the channel's award-winning nature programmes.

The Little Drummer Girl, the latest John Le Carré spy adaptation, launched last night on BBC One in the UK with just over 5M viewers. The ratings for the AMC co-pro couldn’t match the launch of the…

Down a star and out of things to say, Season 6 flounders.

So a screenwriter, a photographer, the district attorney of Clinton County, N.Y., and Ben Stiller drop by a small-town street corner together to see a manhole. It sounds like the setup of a joke — and that was a problem. “I got that,” Stiller said recently. “‘Ben Stiller is going to come up and make a comedy about this and make fun of us.’”

Hulu is developing multiple shows based on the “Wild Cards” book series, which is edited by “Game of Thrones” scribe George R.R. Martin. Variety has learned from sources that the streamer is set to open a writers room for two shows set in the “Wild Cards” universe. Universal Cable Productions will produce along with Hulu, with Andrew Miller set to write and executive produce both projects.

Apu has become controversial recently, with some people arguing that he is an Indian stereotype.

Mr. Spinney’s remarkable run as Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch, two of the most beloved characters on television, will end this week.

Steven Yeun's Glenn Rhee on The Walking Dead became a fan-favorite character in the series' first six seasons before he was killed off, with Yeun recently clarifying some of the comments he made about not wanting to reprise the role. "Well, that was a very aggressively quoted version of what I said from that thing. I think I was just saying I don't wanna go back to young Glenn," Yeun shared with Larry King.

Allison Keene reviews Narcos: Mexico, a prequel of sorts to Narcos, starring Michael Peña and Diego Luna as opposing forces in the Mexican drug war.

Game of Thrones writer George R.R. Martin has revealed that he is developing some new shows for HBO, in addition to the Game of Thrones prequels he is already working on. In a new interview with The Guardian, Martin said that as well as working with HBO on the five different Game of Thrones prequels, he is developing “a couple of other shows for HBO” adding that he “can’t talk about them yet.” Martin is additionally working as an executive producer on Who Fears Death and the superhero series Wild Cards.

A lot of characters disappeared during the end of Avengers: Infinity War, and while many of them are likely return after next year’s Avengers 4 — it’d be pretty hard to have a second Black Panther movie without the Black Panther, after all — it’s not necessarily the case that the Marvel Cinematic Universe will be entirely repopulated as it was before Thanos snapped his fingers when all is said and done.

New data from Crimson Hexagon shows how social-media buzz for Netflix's recently-canceled Marvel shows, "Luke Cage" and "Iron Fist," dropped dramatically from the shows' first seasons to their second. It also suggests that "Daredevil" and "Jessica Jones" could be in trouble, too.

So. Many. Originals.

Hulu, Amazon, and Netflix seem to have all settled on one recipe for success: rebooting cult classic TV series that didn't quite hit it big in their original broadcast runs. Netflix grabbed Arrested Development (for better or worse), Amazon picked up The Expanse. Now Variety reports that Hulu is going for an even deeper cut: Veronica Mars.

Jake Johnson will play the lead role in an animated comedy that has been ordered to series at Netflix, Variety has learned. Titled “Hoops,” the series centers on a hot-headed, foul-mouthed high school basketball coach (Johnson) who thinks turning around his God-awful team will take him to the “big leagues.” Netflix has ordered 10 episodes of the half-hour series.

“Better Call Saul” inches closer to its sequel series “Breaking Bad” each season—not just in terms of converging storylines, but also in overall tone. The jovial and light-hearted nature of early seasons has given way to darkness. The silly antics have been replaced by moves of desperation, and in the scope of dynamic television characters, few rival Jimmy McGill’s quality and complexity. Each new episode of “Better Caul Saul” adds a layer of the titular character to further his evolution into Saul Goodman, whom viewers came to know in “Breaking Bad.”

The Jason Bateman-Laura Linney drama will return in 2019 for another round of 10 episodes. Netflix is going back to the Ozarks. The streaming giant has handed out a third-season renewal for Jason Bateman and Laura Linney starrer Ozark. The family drama will be back for another cycle of 10 episodes, likely in 2019. Showrunner Chris Mundy will return in the same capacity.

RZA co-created and co-wrote the ten-episode series with screenwriter Alex Tse, and he and Method Man will serve as executive producers. Ghostface Killah, Inspectah Deck, Masta Killa, and GZA are all consulting producers.

Lionsgate’s “Orange Is the New Black,” which streams on Netflix, will end with Season 7 in 2019. Season 6 dropped in its entirety on June 27. “After seven seasons, it’s time to be released from prison,” said series creator Jenji Kohan. “I will miss all the badass ladies of Litchfield and the incredible crew we’ve worked with. My heart is orange but fade to black.”

Netflix’s new horror series The Haunting of Hill House is reportedly giving audiences more than just a few scares while they watch. Several audience members have reported incidents of sleep anxiety and sleep loss after watching the new series.

It’s well-established at this point: Even in a rarified tropical environment, nothing good happens inside a glass-walled circular travel pod. That lesson seems to play a part in the upcoming “Treehouse of Horror XXIX” episode of “The Simpsons,” which sees the family trapped in a “Jurassic World”-style park. The twist here seems to be that someone has infused dinosaurs with DNA from some familiar faces.

New “Daredevil” showrunner Erik Oleson had a lot of crazy ideas for his run on the third season of the Marvel TV drama. And none were more insane than that ridiculous prison breakout scene in the fourth episode. The sequence, which is a single shot (meaning it was one camera continuously rolling with no cuts), spans 11-and-a-half minutes and features Matt Murdock (Charlie Cox) fighting his way out of a prison — without his superhero costume. Oleson himself was surprised that Marvel even allowed him to do it.

It is a truth universally acknowledged — when a company (or politician) wants to bury an embarrassing story, it's released on Friday afternoon, after most people have tuned out for the weekend. The practice has become so widespread it even has a name: the Friday night news dump. Netflix must’ve really wanted to bury the news that it was canceling “Iron Fist” and “Luke Cage” — two of the four original TV series commissioned from the Marvel Cinematic Universe in 2013 — because news of the former broke first last Friday, Oct. 12 at 9 p.m. ET, and the latter didn't become widely known until this Friday night at 10 p.m. ET.

Netflix's new German shows cut across genres, including a pair of contemporary crime drama, a sci-fi dystopia set in a post-apocalyptic Europe, a period epic from 9 A.D. and a family mini-series about Christmas. Netflix is upping its output of German-language series, ordering 5 new German shows for its global streaming service.

In April producer Adi Shankar launched a spec script contest for “The Simpsons” to solve what has become known as the show’s “Apu Problem.” The long-running character, a convenience store owner voiced by Hank Azaria, has become a controversial figure because many believe him to be an inaccurate and hurtful portrayal of Indian-Americans.

Netflix’s revisionist take on the legendary ghost story underlines the fact that home is where the horror is — and that’s what sets it apart.

The end of sorts has come and gone for Andrew Lincoln’s Rick Grimes on AMC’s The Walking Dead, and viewers pretty much took it in stride. However, for the after-show Talking Dead, the ratings blast radius for the character’s departure was wide indeed. Pumped full of promotion for months, Sunday’s extended “What Comes After” episode of Season 9 of TWD snared an audience of 5.4 million and a 2.1 rating among adults 18-49.

I have many questions about the Purge, the annual night of government-sanctioned murder and mayhem—in which all laws are suspended, and anything and everything goes—depicted in The Purge and its three sequels. If I steal someone’s credit card and make tons of purchases on Amazon, will those shipments still arrive two days later? Can I download as many movies, TV shows and albums as possible on The Pirate Bay during the course of the evening...