MLS and Apple announce all-access docuseries chronicling 2024 season
Apple TV and Major League Soccer are expanding their collaboration, announcing Thursday that the looming MLS season will be chronicled in a new all-access docuseries similar to the ones that have given fans a deep, different look at golf, auto racing and tennis in recent months.
T-Mobile offers up yet another TV streaming service
Yet another service provider is jumping into the TV streaming wars. This time it's T-Mobile and its TVision service with live news, entertainment and sports channels, starting at $10 a month. And most similar streaming services have found it difficult to sustain low prices over time. And TVision Channels, which lets you sign up for individual channel streaming services, starting with just three: Starz, Showtime and Epix. A slew of new streaming services started to challenge traditional TV providers and dominant streaming services like Netflix over the past year, including Disney Plus, Apple TV Plus, HBO Max and Comcastโs Peacock service.
โItโs the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brownโ no longer on TV for first time in half a century
The Peanuts animated classics, including โItโs the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown,โ will no longer air on broadcast television. It was first broadcast on television back in 1966, but for the first time in more than 50 years, it has been pulled. Apple TV+ announced that it has secured the exclusive right for all things โPeanuts.โAs part of the new partnership, the classic Charlie Brown holiday specials wonโt air on ABC or any other network this year. โA Charlie Brown Christmasโ Thanksgiving and โItโs the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brownโ will stream for free for a couple days on the streaming platform. The Halloween special will from Oct. 30 through Nov. 1.
Review: Military Wives passes muster as inspiring, feel-good flick
The new British film Military Wives is a refreshing change and was inspired by real events that led to the creation of choirs at military bases around the world. She steps on the toes of these women -- led by Sharon Horgan (Game Night) -- who are more interested in holding informal get-togethers featuring alcohol rather than structured events. Kristin Scott Thomas as Kate (right) and Sharon Horgan as Lisa in Military Wives (Aimee Spinks/Bleecker Street)The pushback begins early resulting in a gigantic battle of wills. Military Wives is ably directed by Peter Cattaneo, who back in 1997 made, The Full Monty, an unexpected worldwide hit about six unemployed British men who band together to put on a male-stripper show. Military Wives winds up being an entertaining, inspiring and feel-good movie thats worth checking out.