Television Stories for 2020

Disney Will Test the Limits of 'Franchise Fatigue' in 2021 and 2022 129
DHS Is Looking Into Backdoors In Smart TVs By China's TCL 85
Disney Stock Skyrockets 13% Friday to New All-Time High 46
Slashdot Asks: Favorite Movies and TV Shows You Watched This Year? 128
Ahsoka Tano Standalone Star Wars Series Coming To Disney Plus 50
Amazon Fire TV Adds Local News In 12 U.S. Cities, With 90 More Coming In 2021 20
Legendary Science Fiction Author Ben Bova Has Passed At the Age of 88 53
'It's Time For Movie Theaters To Die So Movies Can Live Again' 178
Warner Bros. To Debut Entire 2021 Film Slate, Including 'Dune' and 'Matrix 4,' Both on HBO Max and In Theaters 97
Discovery To Launch Streaming Service in January Starting at $4.99 Per Month 65
Disney Digitally Removes The Mandalorian's Accidental Crew Member Cameo 57
Microsoft Hints at Turning Xbox Into an App For Your TV 24
Who Will Be the First Guest Host of Jeopardy, Alex? 70
China Requires Real Names, Bans Spending By Teens In New Curbs On Livestreaming 57
'The Queen's Gambit' Scores As Netflix Most-Watched Scripted Limited Series To Date 69
AT&T Raises DirecTV Prices Again Amid Customer Losses and Possible Sale 74
Charlie Brown Holiday Specials To Air On TV, After All, In PBS Deal 56
Security Holes Opened Back Door To TCL Android Smart TVs 55
Disney+ Has More Than 73 Million Subscribers 41
Dish To Shut Down Slingbox, Devices Will Become 'Inoperable' In 2022 52
Streaming TV Advertisers Want Better Targeting -- Minus the Privacy Backlash 41
Iconic American Quiz Show Host Alex Trebek Dies at Age 80 71
Netflix Targets Critical 'Cuties' Tweets With Copyright Takedown Requests 72
T-Mobile Unveils 'TVision' Skinny Pay-TV Bundles Starting at $10 per Month in New Play for Cord-Cutters 40
Samsung, Stanford Make a 10,000 PPI Display That Could Lead To 'Flawless' VR 62
AT&T's CEO Predicts That Millions More Will Cut the Cord 30
Quibi Is Shutting Down 60
'It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown' Won't Air On Broadcast TV This Year 126
Apple Launches 'Apple Music TV', a 24-Hour Music Video Livestream 22
Netflix Is Creating a Problem By Canceling TV Shows Too Soon 170
Here's Doom Running on a Samsung Fridge Thanks To xCloud 54
Apple Extends Free Apple TV+ Trials For Three Months 29
Netflix Indicted By Texas Grand Jury Over 'Lewd' Depiction of Children In 'Cuties' 336
AT&T Offloading DirecTV Could Be a 'Fire Sale' As Company Weighs Low Bids 59
Xbox's Phil Spencer Isn't Sure 8K Will Ever Be Standard in Video Games 123
Google's Chromecast with Google TV is Its First Real Streaming Contender 24
Old TV Caused Village Broadband Outages For 18 Months 200
Quibi Reportedly Weighs Selling Itself Less Than 6 Months After Launching 29
Pandemic Accelerated Cord Cutting, Making 2020 the Worst-Ever Year For Pay TV 93
New Reality Show's Prize? 10 Days on the International Space Station 24
DC Universe Streaming Service Will Become Universe Infinite Comics Platform 18
NBC Threatens To Black Out Apps on Roku in Dispute Over Peacock 121
Sir David Attenborough Delivers Stark Warning In BBC Doc 'Extinction: the Facts' 115
What No Man Has Seen Before: Remastering Deep Space Nine To Maximum Quality 118
CBS Will Celebrate 'Star Trek' Day 2020 With an Epic Trek Panel Marathon 54
Scene Bust Triggered Historic Drop In 'Pirate' Releases 85
Star Trek To Welcome First Transgender and Non-Binary Characters 466
Nvidia's RTX 3090 Demo Emphasizes the Absurdity of 8K Gaming 142
Why HBO Max and Peacock Aren't On Roku 59
Comcast is Looking To Enter the Smart TV Wars 80
TV Watching and Online Streaming Surge During Lockdown 21
Netflix Cancels 'Altered Carbon' After Just Two Seasons 110
Taiwan To Stop Local Sales For Chinese TV Streaming Services, Not Block Them 14
Disney Removes Fox From TV Studios, Revives Touchstone 43
Google Gives Android TV Developers Instant Apps, Speech-to-Text, and Predictive Typing 10
Disney+ Passes 60.5 Million Subs, Reaches 5-Year Streaming Goal In First Eight Months 49
Comcast Lost 477,000 Cable Customers In Q2 2020 63
Netflix is Letting People Watch Things Faster or Slower With New Playback Speed Controls 49
US Adults Who Mostly Rely On Social Media For News Are Less Informed, Exposed To More Conspiracies: Study 193
Netflix Breaks Record With 160 Emmy Nominations 41
Slashdot Asks: What Movies, TV Shows, and Games Have You Enjoyed of Late? 134
With 24/7 Programming, the Future of TV Looks a Lot Like Its Past 62
How Hollywood Accidentally Built Netflix 57
Grant Imahara, Host of 'MythBusters' and 'White Rabbit Project,' Dies At 49 81
The Data-Driven Tech Engine at the Heart of Hollywood's Content Factories 44
Charter's Hidden 'Broadcast TV' Fee Now Adds $197 a Year To Cable Bills 69
'Fallout' TV Series From 'Westworld' Creators In the Works At Amazon 27
YouTube TV Jacks Up Pricing To Become Most Expensive Cable TV Alternative 154
Disney Research Creates Face-Swapping Technique For High-Res Video 57
Disney Kids Channels To Shutter In UK, Content Moving To Disney+ 42
Amazon Is Looking To Add Live TV To Prime Video 33
Apple Gives Us Our First Glimpse of Foundation, Adapted From Asimov Series 198
WarnerMedia Is Getting Rid of the HBO Go App 8
Illegal Netflix, Amazon Streamers Cut Off After European Arrests 66
COVID-19 Crippled Movie Theaters and That Could Force Streamers To Be More Transparent About Viewership Data 69
Roku Removes Dedicated QAnon Channel That Launched Last Month 100
Comcast, Charter and ViacomCBS Join Forces to Make TV Commercials More Targeted 44
HBO Max Takes on Netflix With Human Curation Instead of Solely Relying on Algorithms 28
Copyright Office: System For Pulling Content Offline Isn't Working 60
ScreenHits TV To Launch Streaming Aggregator To Combat 'Subscription Fatigue' 47
Apple Buys Older Shows for TV+, Stepping Up Netflix Challenge 37
All 201 Episodes of 'The Office' Are Now Playing Out Over Slack 32
Shuttered Restaurants, Bars, Hotels Speed Up TV Cord-Cutting Even More 68
Will the Pandemic Finally Kill Cable TV? 87
Will Your TV Handle Xbox Series X Games That Tun at 120 FPS? 75
Amazon To Get Exclusive NFL Games as Part of New Streaming Deal 18
Broadcom Offers To Scrap Exclusivity Deals To End EU Antitrust Probe 20
Ad Firms Are Exploring Deepfaked Commercials 35
AT&T's Massive TV Losses Continue as Another 900,000 Customers Flee 103
Netflix Adds 16 Million New Subscribers as Homebound Consumers Stream Away 19
HBO Max Will Launch on May 27 25
Mild Disney+ Censorship 'Hides a Much Bigger Problem' 194
Why You're Still Paying For Sports On Cable When There's No Live Sports 57
Apple TV+ Widens Free Access as Disney+ Passes 50 Million Subscribers 39
Netflix Tightens Its Parental Controls for Cooped-Up Kids 20
Samsung's Older Smart TVs Are Losing Remote Control App Support 66
To Conserve Bandwidth, Should Opting In Be Required Before Autoplaying Videos? 103
Facebook's Portal TV Video Chat Device Was Mocked -- Now It's Completely Sold Out 41
Comcast Wins Supreme Court Case Over Interpretation of Civil Rights Law 52
As We Remain at Home Due To Coronavirus, We're All in Desperate Need of Distraction -- a New Movie or Video Game Would Help 117
'Netflix Party': a New Chrome Extension Adds Chat Panes to Movies 38
Fox Buys Free Ad-Supported Streaming Service Tubi For $440 Million 24
Popcorn Time, the 'Netflix For Piracy,' Is Back Online 31
How Google Kneecapped Amazon's Smart TV Efforts 79
John Oliver Slams Disney For Censoring His Show in India 71
Copyright Lobby Calls Out Plex For Not Doing Enough To Stop Piracy 158
Quibi is Giving People a 90-day Free Trial in Hopes They'll Actually Sign Up 33
Struggling AT&T Plans 'Tens of Billions' In Cost Cuts, More Layoffs 100
AT&T TV Will Be a Tough Sell in a World of Endless Streaming TV Options 39
Disney CEO Bob Iger Steps Down, Capping His Career With Disney Plus' Epic Launch 52
Netflix Adds Top 10 Feature So You Can See What Everyone's Watching 61
Did 'The SImpsons' Accurately Portray STEM Education and the Gig Economy? 144
Redbox Enters the Free, Ad-Supported Streaming Market 29
Netflix Loses Bid To Dismiss $25 Million Lawsuit Over 'Black Mirror: Bandersnatch' 91
Streaming Accounts For Nearly One-Fifth of Total U.S. TV Watching 43
TCL Came Out of Nowhere To Capture the US TV Market. Up Next: Cheap Phones. 81
ViacomCBS Plan Would Unify All of Star Trek In One New Streaming Service 70
Netflix Reveals Its 9 Government Takedown Requests 47
Netflix Will Now Let You Disable Its Awful Autoplaying Feature 60
Netflix Starts Streaming AV1 On Android To Save Cellular Data 34
Google Fiber Kills Its Traditional TV Service For New Customers 49
Why the Super Bowl Is Being Broadcast In Fake 4K 113
2000: The Year the Startup Super Bowl Ads Failed 31
Joel Hodgson Tours America in His Final Live Shows With 'Mystery Science Theatre 3000' 13
Roku Will Stop Offering Fox Channels To Users on February 1 55
How Much Are We Paying for Our Subscription Services? A Lot 87
CBS Makes Star Trek: Picard Pilot Free On YouTube 'For a Limited Time' 168
Apple TV Plus Reportedly Has More Subscribers Than Disney Plus 39
Netflix Is Still Saying 'No' To Ads 65
Monty Python's Terry Jones Passes Away At 77 58
Netflix Secures International Rights To Studio Ghibli Animated Films 66
HBO's New Space Comedy Mocks 'Tech Bros in Charge' 46
NBC's New Peacock Streaming Service Is Just One Big Ad-Injection Machine 114
Disney Drops 'Fox' Name, Will Rebrand As 20th Century Studios 99
Twitch Has Become a Haven For Live Sports Piracy 36
Streaming Services Reckon With Password-Sharing 'Havoc' 150
Verizon Will Finally Sell You TV Without a Contract 44
Quibi Versus the World 45
TiVo's Unreleased Roku and Apple TV Apps Are 'In Limbo' 24
'Don't Buy an 8K TV' 224
Disney+ Titles Disappear Without Warning, Bringing Confusion To The Streaming Wars 174
Samsung Debuts 'Sero TV' That Auto-Rotates For Vertical Videos From Your Phone 92
Apple Deal Returns Former HBO Boss Richard Plepler To Spotlight 12
Why Fireworks Look Really Bad on Your Fancy TV 137