Noah Eagle opted for a local sound in the NFL’s international opener. The veteran broadcaster, calling Thursday’s Rams-49ers game for Netflix from Melbourne, Australia, pronounced the name of the Victorian capital as “Mel-bin.” Eagle’s attempt to sound like an Aussie didn’t exactly go over well with viewers of the internationally streamed game. “Love Noah Eagle … Read more
It’s easy to blame television for all that lays us low and then lower. That’s the problem: It’s much too easy. Like adding one bad idea to another bad idea to make two bad ideas. Saturday, Disney’s ESPN and ABC wrapped up their annual mindless destruction of the Little League World Series with the Curacao-Nevada … Read more
So help me, I don’t know why. If I did, you’d be the second to know as I’d immediately share it with you. Why television execs, regional and national, have chosen to destroy sports telecasts with unneeded and unwanted excess is an ongoing study in self-nullification. What NBC did — what it chose to do … Read more
The USMNT’s loss to Belgium delivered the biggest soccer audience in American television history. The match averaged 30 million viewers, making it the most-watched soccer telecast ever in the U.S., Fox Sports announced Tuesday. The Round of 16 matchup in Seattle peaked at 36.8 million viewers between 9:15 and 9:30 p.m. ET, per the company. … Read more
Americans want shorter films— the ideal movie length is just 88 minutes, according to new research. That’s the finding of a new survey of 2,000 people from Talker Research, which indicates Americans want less time in movie theaters overall. While the average ideal movie length came in at just under the hour-and-a-half mark, only ten … Read more
Dracula is rising from the dead again. Long-lost footage from a classic 1958 Dracula film with Christopher Lee was found in a warehouse decades after it was cut because early audiences found it so terrifying that they fainted. The three-minutes worth of footage, which has never been seen in the US, was found in a … Read more
Issues with the SNY broadcast of Thursday night’s Mets game had fans saying ay caramba. Fans noticed early in the Mets’ final game of a three-game set against the Twins that popular broadcasters Gary Cohen, Keith Hernandez and Ron Darling were not calling the game, as the audio was replaced by Spanish-language broadcasters. A technical … Read more
P.K. Subban’s pants stole the spotlight during ESPN’s coverage of Round 1 of the 2026 Stanley Cup Playoffs on Sunday. The former 13-year defenseman, who played for the Montreal Canadiens, Nashville Predators and New Jersey Devils, donned a pair of oversized wide leg pants and the internet had a field a day. “You could park … Read more
A fan at the Cubs vs. Rays game Tuesday suffered a wardrobe malfunction, and unfortunately for the spectator, the regrettable moment was entirely viewable on the matchup’s broadcast. The shocking scene unfolded in the top of the ninth of the tilt at Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, Fla., when Matt Shaw was at bat trying … Read more
The show must go on — even when your teeth fall out. A pageant queen lost her chompers — but not her composure — during the Miss Grand Thailand 2026 preliminaries in Bangkok this week. In the video footage, 18-year-old Kamolwan Chanago is seen confidently introducing herself on stage — before mumbling her words when her false teeth … Read more
In his Oscars tribute to slain director Rob Reiner Sunday, Billy Crystal referenced some of his old friend’s most iconic movies — from “Spinal Tap” to “The Princess Bride” to “A Few Good Men,” invoking the star and most famous line from that 1992 classic. “And Jack Nicholson, who warned us: You can’t handle the … Read more
Chevrolet just took a joyride straight through America’s feelings. The automaker’s new holiday spot, “Memory Lane,” is going viral for turning a humble 1987 Chevy Suburban into a full-blown emotional time machine — and leaving viewers teary-eyed in the process. Instead of flashy cars and revving engines, the ad follows an older couple on their … Read more
Netflix had a tough time nailing Christmas Day football. The streaming giant that has gotten its foot wet in NFL streaming and broadcasting more or less embarrassed itself Thursday, particularly during the Lions vs. Vikings game where there were loads of issues that left fans furious. Between the broadcast sounding like it was underwater at … Read more
It was a perfect AI-mitation. Just in case artificial intelligence wasn’t encroaching upon enough human spaces of late. An art world troll sneakily displayed a piece of AI-generated art at a museum in the UK last month before bemused visitors alerted employees to the artificially intelligent design. The digital print had been surreptitiously showcased at … Read more
Painful-to-watch footage of a beauty contestant has gone viral, after the young woman made an awkward onstage blunder that has left people mortified. Isamar Herrera, the representative for Panama, had been competing in Miss Grand International, a multi-week contest held in Thailand, when she made a blunder she’ll likely never live down. During the pageant’s … Read more
Netflix’s latest true-crime documentary, “Unknown Number: The High School Catfish,” has viewers floored – thanks to a jaw-dropping reveal that no one saw coming. The new documentary centers on Beal City, Michigan, teen Lauryn Licari and her boyfriend, Owen McKenny, who suddenly began receiving a flood of vulgar and threatening texts in 2020 and again … Read more
He was in a real pickle. Self-described pickleball coach Peter “Kobe” Nguyen is being ripped online for unloading on a flight attendant who allegedly busted him vaping on an American Airlines flight. He posted an Instagram video of their verbal volley hoping to garner sympathy, but this backfired horribly when commenters sided with said crew … Read more
A major TV network has defended its decision to air a documentary about controversial porn star Bonnie Blue after viewers labelled it “literal porn.” Channel 4, a British free-to-view TV station, premiered “1,000 Men and Me: The Bonnie Blue Story” in the UK on Wednesday evening. But the one-hour documentary, which details the troubling tale of … Read more
Happy wife, happy life. “The Hunting Wives” is now streaming on Netflix, and the steamy murder mystery is causing viewers on TikTok to proclaim, “This show is INSANE!” “I just started watching Hunting Wives, and all I can tell you is, do not have any children in the room,” another TikTok video declared. “It’s so … Read more
EXCLUSIVE – Judge Judith Sheindlin helps recreate some of the most controversial court cases in American history in her new show, “Justice on Trial.” The show, which was over 10 years in the making and finally premiered on Prime Video last Monday, revisits eight of the most monumental court cases in American memory — allowing the viewer … Read more