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Jimmy Kimmel announced that his Sept. 10 interview with Texas Senate candidate James Talarico will stream on YouTube rather than air on TV, citing FCC pressure over political equal-time rules.

Cole Escola’s acclaimed play Oh, Mary! is officially coming to HBO next year. HBO shared a teaser showing Escola in costume as Mary Todd Lincoln arriving at the HBO office, greeted by two Sex And The City ladies.

John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein, the writer-directors behind Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, are steering Star Trek’s return to theaters with an untitled film featuring an entirely new cast and a…

Adobe has added a Generative Media Tool to Premiere that generates video and sound effects directly in the timeline, using reference frames from the surrounding project to match the edit.

Regulatory and Copyright Enforcement in Media this week: The Albanese Government is preparing a Digital Duty of Care framework that would require social media platforms to; and The Nigerian Copyright Commission seized pirated books with a…

Science Fiction this week: Rhys Darby discusses his return as Trelane in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, a character originally from The; and Disney+ is developing a live-action series adaptation of Rick Riordan’s The Kane Chronicles, with…

AI in Media Production and Underwriting this week: AI video generation in September 2026 has moved past novelty into repeatable business systems, with the biggest; and Foresters Financial expanded its U.S.

President Trump has called on Congress to draft a federal film and television tax credit, the “Motion Picture, Television, and Entertainment Revitalization Act,” to help the U.S.