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The 2018-2019 television season gets underway tonight. Every year since 2009, I’ve asked readers to predict which new fall TV show will be cancelled first. Given how the networks are loath to actually cancel new shows these, it may be months (or longer) before the first true cancellation is announced. However, we will likely know much whether any of the 18 new network shows debuting in the coming weeks are doomed, even if the networks refuse to make the inevitable cancellations official...

Warner Music Group (WMG) has launched a seed-stage investment fund called WMG Boost.

The fund is aimed at supporting ‘entrepreneurial growth and innovative thinking’ in the music industry.

According to WMG, the multimillion-dollar fund will be used to invest in early-stage businesses ‘within and adjacent to the recorded music business’, in areas ranging from AI, to blockchain, virtual reality, mobile gaming, voice, and more.

In addition to seed fundin...

With their new album and single, GOT7 scored top 10 entries on Billboard's world and emerging-artist charts -- as expected from the stadium-playing boy band -- but this era also brings a new top 10 for the multinational outfit.

GOT7 earned their first top 10 entry on

Endemol Shine’s former Asia MD, Fotini Paraskakis, has joined The Story Lab, the Dentsu Aegis-backed content company that counts “Ninja Warrior” among its shows. Paraskakis will be based in the company’s London office as EVP, entertainment, overseeing scripted and unscripted.

The Story Lab said Paraskakis will work with producers, platforms, and broadcast...

What could have remained just a solid crime thriller about bereft women who take matters into their own hands has been electrified by racial, political and gender issues in Widows. Handling a genre piece for the first time, director Steve McQueen ups the ante of nearly every scene by doubling and tripling the import by various means, creating in the process a provocative portrait of life on the troubled south side of Chicago. Commercial prospects look robust for this potent female-ce...

Since the late 1970s, New Zealand has produced an array of skewed pop savants, from Martin Phillipps to the Kilgour brothers, Chris Knox to Lorde. But is there another Kiwi who has inveigl...

TV-On-Disc Calendar
September 11, 2018

Blu SHARP OBJECTS, PREACHER, RESCUE ME, BIG BANG THEORY, ACTION HEROINE CHEER FRUITS, AOKANA, RELIFE, TOKYO GHOUL, VATICAN MEDICAL EXAMINER, YONA OF THE DAWN!! NARCOS, THIS IS US, THE GOOD FIGHT, THE MIDDLE, MODERN FAMILY, CHICAGO PD, SCOOBY, SCORPION!!

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