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David Lynch eats a donut to get you excited for Twin Peaks

by Rich McCormick

David Lynch has continued his run of using trailers to tell us very little about the much-anticipated next season of Twin Peaks, releasing a short clip over the weekend that showed him contemplatively munching on a donut. The clip serves to show...

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9 new trailers you should watch this week

by Jacob Kastrenakes

I love that Amazon has decided to specialize in seriously artsy affairs when it comes to which films it buys, but I absolutely hate how long it takes for those films to go from theaters to digital rentals to actually playing on Amazon. At long...

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Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale will premiere on April 26th, 2017

by Lizzie Plaugic

Hulu announced last spring it was turning Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale into a series starring Elizabeth Moss. Today, that series got a release date: April 26th, 2017. Moss will play Offred, one of a small group of fertile women kept in...

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Listen to David Tennant and Danny Pudi sing the new Duck Tales theme

by Lizzie Plaugic

Disney XD’s animated Duck Tales reboot is slowly taking shape. The network just released a clip of the cast singing the original Duck Tales theme song, and it’s got some pretty familiar faces in it. As E! points out, the vocal cast includes David...

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I wish this ‘80s Westworld credits sequence was a real show

by Adi Robertson

Yes, retro remakes of TV series credits are definitely a thing — you can watch Game of Thrones as ‘80s fantasy, Breaking Bad as a ‘90s sitcom, and any other number of similar works. Implicitly, though, their joke is often “What if this slick...

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3% and The Thinning are this year’s best and worst take on dystopian meritocracy

by Adi Robertson

It’s like the SAT, except it kills you

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T-Mobile is giving away a year of DirecTV Now if you switch from AT&T

by Nick Statt

T-Mobile announced today that it’s giving away a 12 months of DirecTV Now, AT&T’s new live TV service, to customers who switch from AT&T. The company says you’ll only need to migrate one number to T-Mobile and it will give you a $35 credit on your...

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Arrival disqualified from Oscar for Best Original Score because it's 'diluted' by old music

by Kaitlyn Tiffany

Manchester by the Sea is out, too

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The weirdest pop culture of 2016

by Verge Staff

As we head into the final weeks of 2016, the inevitable nostalgia for six to 11 months ago is engulfing the pop culture universe. This week, we look back on some of the stranger things we experienced in 2016 — pop culture that made Stranger Things...

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Apple’s new TV app shows how painfully behind it is

by Nick Statt

Apple’s latest attempt to crack digital TV arrived Monday in the form of a name change most consumers might not even notice. It’s simply called TV, and the new app replaced Apple’s Videos app with the release of iOS 10.2. It’s a neat addition for...

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Amazon’s Prime Video is now available in more than 200 countries

by James Vincent

Amazon has officially launched its video-on-demand service Prime Video in more than 200 countries and territories around the world. The retailer suggested it would be doing so earlier this year, but the launch is now official, with Prime Video...

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More people are illegally downloading The Grand Tour than Game of Thrones

by Megan Farokhmanesh

The Grand Tour is still early in its first season, but the Amazon-streamed show is already setting records for most illegally downloaded, according to the Daily Mail. The publication reports that its first episode has been downloaded 7.9 million...

Watch the trailer for Netflix’s secretive mystery drama, The OA

by Kaitlyn Tiffany

Netflix announced that the first eight episodes of its new series The OA will be debuting on Friday by tweeting a series of grim questions — “Have you seen death?” “Have you seen darkness?” — along with an eight-second video of a woman jumping off...

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Game of Thrones, Westworld, and Stranger Things will go head-to-head at the Golden Globes

by Kwame Opam

The nominations for the upcoming Golden Globes have been announced, and they’re doing much to show how great 2016 was for genre television. Game of Thrones, Westworld, and Stranger Things all came away with nominations for Best TV Drama, along...

The Walking Dead officially has a villain problem

by Nick Statt and Bryan Bishop

AMC’s The Walking Dead has an uncanny knack for manipulating its audience, but this year’s hyper-violent season premiere went too far. So far that we canceled our ongoing series The Walking Dead Quitter’s Club, and co-author Bryan Bishop swore off...

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DirecTV Now is suffering an outage in its second week of availability

by Nick Statt

It appears that DirecTV Now, AT&T’s new internet TV streaming service, is down for many customers, all of whom are furiously tweeting at the service’s various Twitter handles this evening. Now, it’s pretty standard for online services to go down...

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All of Westworld’s questions mashed into one thorough video

by Andrew Liptak

Why is Westworld so complicated? Is it really that dense? Is it too complicated, contorted, and confusing? Did we really need Burger Fiction to put together a super cut of the show that shows every question that was asked? Do you really need to...

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President-elect Trump is still an executive producer for Celebrity Apprentice

by Kwame Opam

As yet another potential example on the long list of conflicts of interest facing Donald Trump, Variety reports that the president-elect will keep his executive producer credit for the upcoming season of Celebrity Apprentice on NBC, complete with...

Hulu will now let you create profiles for up to six people

by Ashley Carman

Hulu announced today that users can now create multiple profiles through the company’s website. More devices will support profiles over the next couple of weeks, but for now, it’s limited to Hulu.com. Each account can maintain up to six individual...

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Westworld’s entire soundtrack is now available to buy or stream

by Megan Farokhmanesh

Westworld’s first season is over. Whether you fall into the shocked and delighted camp, or you saw every twist coming like the rest of us tinfoil hat Cassandras at The Verge, there is common ground to unite us: the show’s music was fantastic, and...

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Hairspray Live! is event television at its sloppy finest

by Kaitlyn Tiffany

The nonsensical but utterly magical trend of major broadcast networks producing expensive and messy live musicals continued last night with NBC’s production of Hairspray. Thank goodness! This production was based on the 2002 Broadway musical,...

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BBC debuts 4K HDR test footage for acclaimed Planet Earth series

by James Vincent

If there was ever a match made in audiovisual heaven it was 4K video and Planet Earth — the BBC’s flagship nature documentary series. The two were destined for one another, and today, the UK broadcaster announced that it would be testing its first...

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ABC and Disney add support for Apple’s new single sign-on feature

by Chris Welch

Enter your cable account details once — not over and over again.

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The pre-2016 entertainment that got us through 2016

by Verge Staff

As we head into the final weeks of 2016, the inevitable nostalgia for six to 11 months ago is kicking in across the pop culture universe. Everyone’s surveying the most significant films, books, music videos, memes, celebrity shade-offs, and what...

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The Westworld finale: frustrations, revelations, and how the whole first season holds together

by Tasha Robinson, Chris Plante, Adi Robertson, and Bryan Bishop

Or: bring on the robo-wars, we’re ready

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The Snowy Day is Amazon’s beautiful, hopeful addition to television Christmas specials

by Chris Plante

On Thanksgiving, Amazon quietly published its contribution to the Christmas canon. The Snowy Day is an adaptation of the award-winning 1962 children’s picture book of the same name, written and illustrated by Ezra Jack Keats. Odds are you’ve seen...

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Does the Michelangelo painting in the Westworld finale really show a brain — or is it a uterus?

by Rachel Becker

The Westworld writers didn’t come up with this theory on their own

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Netflix will release 20 unscripted shows next year

by Sam Byford

Netflix plans to release 20 unscripted or reality shows in 2017, according to comments made by chief content officer Ted Sarandos and reported by Variety. “Unscripted television is a very interesting business,” Sarandos said, adding that the...

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CBS could be coming to DirecTV Now soon

by Chris Welch

He didn’t say precisely when shows like The Big Bang Theory will debut on AT&T;’s new service.

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Even Ed Harris doesn’t really know what the maze in Westworld means

by Kwame Opam

You’re probably still reeling from last night’s Westworld finale. (Unless you haven’t watched the episode, in which case: spoilers ahead!) We saw robot uprisings! The death of Ford! Mysterious programmers controlling Maeve’s every move! Samurai...

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The Walking Dead gets good just as the season’s about to end

by Nick Statt

AMC’s The Walking Dead has an uncanny knack for manipulating its audience, but this year’s hyper-violent season premiere went too far. So far that we canceled our ongoing series The Walking Dead Quitter’s Club, and co-author Bryan Bishop swore off...

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Westworld’s season finale solves a riddle, then raises the real questions

by Chris Plante

Every week, I swing for the fences with one massive theory about the future of Westworld. Am I wrong? Am I right? We probably won’t know for sure for years, so why not enjoy the present? In the middle of Westworld’s season finale, the young board...

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