You don’t need a Roku device to stream content from “The Roku Channel”— the ad-supported streaming service can be added to basically any device (within geographic limits)

For The Nevers, Tubi put a bright white channel bug (“WB Watchlist”) in the middle* of the screen instead of in the corner. It was extremely distracting. So now I know never to watch Tubi.

“The main thing the public needs to know is that these systems are designed to mimic human communication in language, but not to actually understand the language much less reason,” Bender told Gizmodo.

I nominate the temporal agent (Ethan Hawke) in Predistination, the 2014 film based on Robert A. Heinlein’s short story ‘—All You Zombies—’. But I can’t explain why without massive spoilers. Let’s just say that the agent accomplishes a lot by the end of the film.

The HBO Max slide is missing.

[SPOILERS FOR LAST WEEK AHEAD...]

But sometimes you hit the jackpot. For example: a couple of years ago Alarm.com agreed to pay $28 million for making unwanted telemarketing calls. You’d think that would be pennies, right? But no, for some reason the number of claimants was low enough that the payout was substantial.

The first problem with Pennyworth was that in the back of your mind you know that no matter how dire the situation, the three main characters (Alfred, and Thomas & Martha Wayne) can’t die.

What they need to fix is the problem of why Showtime, which is owned by Paramount, doesn’t seem to get Paramount movies. Those go to Epix. Recent examples include Zoolander 2, Ben-Hur, Fences, Transformers: The Last Knight, Downsizing, Mission Impossible - Fallout, Bumblebee, Terminator: Dark Fate, Sonic the Hedgehog…

Maybe Kindred would have had more viewers if FX had broadcast it on FX instead of restricting it to Hulu.

Game of Thrones

TNT has delayed The Lazarus Project.

HBO executives: Game of Thrones and Succession are hits, let’s combine them!

Some of 2023's genre series have already premiered or picked back up after a holiday hiatus—see: [...] Miracle Workers: End Times on TBS.

when the Angels tell Lyra and Will .[..] they’ll have to return to their own worlds lest their daemons get sick and die

I seem to remember from the first season that aside from witches (and Mrs Coulter for some reason), people can’t be separated too far away from their daemon. Has the show tossed this? Lord Asriel went down into the chasm. Mrs. Coulter was pretty far from her monkey, which should have been alarming to the people who…

I was hoping that iO9 would get back its “latest” queue view, but no luck. Sigh.

How? I want to know too. I’ve been stuck in the greys since the start of Kinja.

The state just doesn’t want to install A/C. In fact, a few years ago after the state was sued by inmates, the state spend $7 million defending the suit, and lost — even though the cost to put in the A/C would have been $4 million.

In the new series, presumably the tech has been updated and Ben is now physically in their body