CNET reveals 2020’s most popular show among video pirates: It probably won’t come as a surprise that Disney Plus smash hit series The Mandalorian has won the (unfortunate) title of most-pirated TV show of 2020 — using popular torrenting site BitTorrent. According to analysis from TorrentFreak (via IndieWire), Game of Thrones was the most-pirated TV show seven years running. But the…
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‘Fallout’ TV Series From ‘Westworld’ Creators In the Works At Amazon
According to Hollywood Reporter, “Amazon Studios has licensed the rights to the best-selling video game franchise Fallout, with married writers and showrunners Joy and Nolan attached to oversee the potential TV series.” From the report: The project is currently in development but has a series commitment penalty attached. That means that if Amazon execs like the script, Fallout would bypass the…
Westworld season 3 review: Five-star TV where nothing is what it seems
Westworld is soon to return with season three. Four episodes in to the impossibly glamorous, highly urbanised future, I can’t wait to find out what’s going on, writes Emily Wilson Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2236715-westworld-season-3-review-five-star-tv-where-nothing-is-what-it-seems/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Do AI Deserve the Same Rights as Animals?
The digital magazine Aeon published a thought-provoking proposal this spring from a professor of philosophy at the University of California, Riverside and an assistant professor of philosophy at Boston’s Northeastern University: Universities across the world are conducting major research on artificial intelligence (AI), as are organizations such as the Allen Institute, and tech companies including Google and Facebook. A likely result…
New ‘HBO Max’ Streaming Service Will Include a ‘Dune’ TV Series
An anonymous reader quotes Android Authority:
Studios like Disney and NBCUniversal are making preparations to launch their own streaming services, and they are planning to take back their back catalog of films and TV series with them. That’s also what’s happening with WarnerMedia, the AT&T-owned entertainment group that operates, among many other things, HBO, Warner Bros, and CNN. Recently, the conglomerate announced…
Sesame Street’s Elmo and Cookie Monster Are Bringing Respect to Game of Thrones and Westworld
Hey, kids! You wanna see Cersei Lannister casually peer pressure Sesame Street’s Elmo into drinking? How about Cookie Monster teaching two robots who believe themselves to be human that sharing is caring? Of course you do.Read more…Source: https://io9.gizmodo.com/sesame-streets-elmo-and-cookie-monster-are-bringing-res-1834146847…
A Cool Fan Video Blurs the Line Between Westworld and Game of Thrones
Hey, you know that fan theory that claims Game of Thrones is actually another theme park in Westworld? Yes, that theory exists—and, it turns out, it’s totally true! But only if you watch this one fan video, and literally nothing else. Read more… Source: https://io9.gizmodo.com/cool-fan-video-blurs-the-line-between-westworld-and-gam-1833982460