“Point AI, a startup with eight employees, (cranks) out 3,000 episodes a week covering everything from localized weather reports to a detailed account of Charlie Kirk's assassination and its cultural impact to a biography series on Anna Wintour. Its podcasting network has generated 12 million lifetime episode downloads and amassed 400,000 subscribers.” - TheWrap (MSN)
Even as other industries — from technology to publishing — proceed to incorporate AI to cut costs and replace jobs, media companies have bumped up against numerous roadblocks including actors reluctant to cooperate with AI models, animators and post-production experts pushing back on change, technological limitations and legal questions. - Yahoo Finance
There's "an inner peace that comes from entering the sanctum sanctorum of those movie palaces with the wall-sized screens.2 Don’t take it from me. Take it from a higher authority: his holiness, Pope Leo XIV." - The Bulwark
“Facing a public backlash, the commission that oversees Alabama Public Television voted Tuesday to continue paying its contract with PBS, rejecting an effort — at least for now — to be the first state to cut ties with the broadcast giant because of politics.” - AP
The resignations come as the BBC enters a decisive period. The renewal of its royal charter in 2027 will define the corporation’s funding model and public purpose for the next decade. At the same time, the BBC faces a hostile political climate, sustained financial pressure, and a rapidly fragmenting audience. - NiemanLab
The arrangement resolves litigation filed by NPR accusing the corporation of illegally yielding to Trump's demands that the network be financially punished for its news coverage. - NPR
“Since the first of his Paramount+ originals premiered in 2021, Sheridan's titles have generated more than $800 million in global streaming revenue for the platform.” And that’s without domestic revenue from his cornerstone show, Yellowstone, whose US streaming rights are held by Peacock. - TheWrap (MSN)
It’s great that wheelchair user Marissa Bode plays wheelchair user Nessarose Thropp, but “after the release of the first Wicked film in November 2024, Bode was targeted on social media” — and she expects the same thing to happen with the new Wicked movie. - The Guardian (UK)
Matthew Belloni has become a narrator of the industry’s troubles during the most transformative period since the birth of television, brought on by the arrival of tech companies and the disappearance of the lucrative cable TV model, followed closely behind by theater audiences. - The New York Times
Instead of addressing the criticism, the BBC was silent for seven days. In the vacuum, a wave of headlines became a flood of unchallenged claims that eventually pulled in the White House, with press secretary Karoline Leavitt declaring the BBC “total, 100 percent fake news.” - The New York Times
“While city officials celebrate Madrid’s popularity as a film and television set, residents of the most in-demand neighborhoods are not particularly thrilled to find their streets constantly crowded with cameras, cables, coat racks and people running around with spotlights and microphones in their hands.” - El País English
“In an increasingly polarized political and media landscape, the broadcaster has struggled to navigate its public interest remit and has proved inept at learning the lessons when it fails.” - The New York Times
It’s a very clear, and useful, switch. “The union said on its website that it hoped to make clearer for its domestic and global audiences what its show entailed. The show has reached a much wider audience since Netflix began streaming it in 2024.” - The New York Times
“Making the case for Sinners as Oscar-worthy isn’t hard. For one thing, it had a massive audience — at $297 million domestic, it’s the fifth-highest-grossing movie of the year — and pretty much everybody who saw it loved it.” But, vampires. - Vulture
Gibson was “interested in chronicling their cancer experience in a way that was beautiful and artistic. They were writing, podcasting and even performing when their health allowed, yet they were having trouble being creative.” - The New York Times
