Television Stories for 2015

Paramount and CBS File Lawsuit Against Crowdfunded, Indie Star Trek Movie 228
Sci-Fi Screenwriter and Author George Clayton Johnson Dead At 86 21
Cable Providers Still Have No Answer For Netflix As Cord-cutting Accelerates 247
Report: Apple To Suspend Effort To Develop Live TV Service 71
Spike TV Is Turning Red Mars Into a TV Series 39
GunTV Aims To Premier 24-Hour Shopping Channel For Firearms 633
Streaming Video Is 70 Percent of Broadband Use 89
Science-Fictional Shibboleths 508
Millions of Smart TVs, Phones and Routers At Risk From Old Vulnerability 65
NSF Antes Up $200K For Spin-off of Microsoft-Funded 'Code Trip' TV Show 22
What Is the Future of the Television? 235
Even the Dumbest Ransomware Is Almost Unremovable On Smart TVs 151
Netflix Remaking Lost In Space 169
MST3K Successfully Crowdsources Its Comeback 53
Star Trek: Renegades Working On Episodes 2 and 3 35
MST3K Is Kickstarting Back To Life 83
TV Networks Cutting Back On Commercials 242
Viewing Data Harvested From Smart TVs Used To Push Ads To Other Screens? 148
Coming Set-top Box Mandate May Help Break Pay TV Firms' Hold Over Viewers 153
ABC's 'BattleBots' Reboot Will Come Back For a Second Season 37
TV Networks Open Neuroscience Labs To Improve Their Shows and Ads 109
New Star Trek TV Series Coming In 2017 438
Mythbusters Ending After Next Season 187
Rovi and Michigan State University Establish Largest US Library Media Collection 22
BBC Begins Blocking VPN Access To iPlayer 174
Teaching Kids Engineering By Building Cartoon Tech 33
What Non-Geeks Hate About the Big Bang Theory 406
TiVo's Latest Offering Detects and Skips Ads, Adds 4K Capability 85
EU Probes TVs Over Energy Test Scores 93
Targeting Tools Help Personalize TV Advertising 60
The Man Who Invents Languages For a Living 90
Dr Who Detective Philip Morris Hints At More Rediscovered Episodes 79
The Forgotten Tale of Cartrivision's 1972 VCR 92
NASA Launching 4K TV Channel 41
Plex Is Coming To Apple TV 89
Apple TV To Be Revamped 132
Is There Too Much New Programming On TV? 307
Netflix Is Becoming Just Another TV Channel 294
Amazon Developing TV Series Based On Galaxy Quest 87
"Sensationalized Cruelty": FCC Complaints Regarding Game of Thrones 197
Bozza Wants To Be Africa's Answer To iTunes, Spotify and Netflix 42
HBO, Netflix, and Amazon Targeting Kids 46
CNN and CBC Sued For Pirating YouTube Video 222
French Killers Inspired By Breaking Bad TV Show 182
FirefoxOS-Based Matchstick Project Ends; All Money To Be Refunded 128
Microsoft Taps PBS To Advance Its National Talent Strategy With 'Code Trip' 43
Top Gear's Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May Making Show For Amazon 207
Nintendo TVii Service Will Go Dark August 11th 34
FCC Approves AT&T's DirecTV Purchase 100
Class Action Filed Against Sling Media 112
Comcast Launches Streaming Service and Unveils Pricing For 2G Fiber 107
Chromecast Gets a Hardwired Ethernet Adapter 133
Harry Shearer Returns To the Simpsons 100
Chromecast Update Bringing Grief For Many Users 142
BBC Develops "Mind-Control TV" Headset For iPlayer App 27
Star Trek's Nichelle Nichols Hospitalised In LA After Stroke 40
Why Americans Loathe Cable Companies 229
Showtime Announces Subscription-Free Streaming Plan 84
Cable Companies Hate Cord-Cutting, but It's Not Going Away (Video) 160
Android, Chromecast To Get HBO Now 39
Charter Strikes $56B Deal For Time Warner Cable 206
Canadian Piracy Rates Plummet As Industry Points To New Copyright Notice System 224
Why Apple Ditched Its Plan To Build a Television 244
First Smart TVs Powered By Firefox OS On Sale In Europe, Worldwide Soon 119
Harry Shearer Walks Away From "The Simpsons," and $14 Million 214
Film Consortium Urges ISPs To Dump Ineffective "Six Strikes" Policy For Pirates 186
Internet Customers Surpass Cable Subscribers At Comcast 140
ATT, DirecTV Mega-Merger May Go Through 82
ESPN Sues Verizon To Stop New Sports-Free TV Bundles 329
Conde Nast To Announce VR Series 12
Netflix Is Betting On Exclusive Programming 216
Columbia University Doctors Ask For Dr. Mehmet Oz's Dismissal 320
StarTalk TV Show With Neil DeGrasse Tyson Starts Monday 76
In New Zealand, a Legal Battle Looms Over Streaming TV 106
Nearly Half of Game of Thrones Season 5 Leaks Online 148
Daredevil TV Show Debuts; Early Reviews Positive 114
French TV Network TV5Monde Targeted In 'Pro-ISIS' Cyberattack 71
Why CSI: Cyber Matters 141
Jeremy Clarkson Dismissed From Top Gear 662
The X-Files To Return 166
Ask Slashdot: Building a Home Media Center/Small Server In a Crawlspace? 253
Apple Reportedly Working On an Online TV Service 87
Steve Jobs's Big Miss: TV 205
NBC Thinks Connected Gloves and "Bullet Time" Can Make Boxing Cool 169
A Critical Look At CSI: Cyber 145
Spock and the Legacy of Star Trek 233
Mars One Does Not Renew Contracts For Robotic Missions 110
Samsung Smart TVs Don't Encrypt the Voice Data They Collect 153
Wheel of Time TV Pilot Producers Sue Robert Jordan's Widow For Defamation 148
Star Trek Continues Meets Kickstarter Goal, Aims For Stretch Goals 165
Ask Slashdot: Affordable Large HD/UHD/4K "Stupid" Screens? 330
BitTorrent Announces Exclusive TV Shows 25
Samsung Smart TVs Injected Ads Into Streamed Video 370
Something Resembling 'The Wheel of Time' Aired Last Night On FXX 54
Netflix Now Available In Cuba 125
Samsung SmartTV Customers Warned Personal Conversations May Be Recorded 309
Google-Advised Disney Cartoon Aims To Convince Preschool Girls Coding's Cool 254
Apple Said To Be Working On a Pay TV Service 155
UK Broadcaster Sky To Launch Mobile Service 32
Star Trek Continues Kickstarter 2.0 109
Amazon Plans To Release 12 Movies a Year In Theaters and On Prime 92
Nintendo Power Glove Used To Create 'Robot Chicken' 40
Ridley Scott Adapts Philip K. Dick's 'Man in the High Castle' For Amazon 94
Unbundling Cable TV: Be Careful What You Wish For 448
Dish Introduces $20-a-Month Streaming-TV Service 196
Netflix Begins Blocking Users Who Bypass Region Locks 121
Netflix Cracks Down On VPN and Proxy "Pirates" 437
Bitcoin Gets Its First TV Ads 127