Starting in summer 2026, Netflix subscribers in France will be able to watch commercially broadcast TV content “without ever having to leave the service.” The Verge adds: The streaming giant has announced a distribution deal with French media company T…

Mike Judge always seemed to have secret geek sympathies. He co-created the HBO series Silicon Valley, as well as the movie Office Space (reviewed in 1999 by Slashdot contributor Jon Katz).

Now comes the word that besides rebooting Buffy the Vampire S…

“The Doctor is dead. Long live the Doctor!” writes Space.com. (Spoilers ahead…)

“The era of Ncuti Gatwa’s Fifteenth Doctor came to a surprise end on Saturday night, as the Time Lord regenerated at the end of “Doctor Who” season 2 finale… [T]he Doc…

Long-time Slashdot reader SchroedingersCat shares this article from Deadline: Prime Video will not be renewing The Wheel of Time for a fourth season according to Deadline article. The decision, which comes more than a month after the Season 3 finale wa…

Charter Communications announced a $21.9 billion deal Friday to acquire Cox Communications, combining two major cable providers as they face mounting competition from wireless carriers offering 5G home internet. The transaction merges Charter’s 31.4 mi…

Netflix said its cheaper, ad-supporter tier now has 94 million monthly active users — an increase of more than 20 million since its last public tally in November. CNBC reports: The company and its peers have been increasingly leaning on advertising to…

Warner Bros. Discovery said Wednesday it will revert its streaming service name from Max back to HBO Max this summer, just two years after dropping the HBO branding.

The decision, revealed at the company’s upfront presentation to advertisers in New Y…

Back in 2000, Slashdot founder CmdrTaco marked the 4th anniversary of Jennifer Ringley’s pioneering “JenniCam” livestream (saying “It sure beats the Netscape FishCam. It’s nuts how Jenni’s little cam became such a fixture on The Internet…”)

But a n…