With 2024 coming to a close, the A&E staff take a look back at their favorites from the year, from the stage performances that captivated us to the books that kept us turning the page.
Category: TV and Streaming
Netflix is airing 2 NFL games on Christmas Day. Here’s what to know.
Netflix will have one of its biggest days Wednesday since the site launched in 1998 when it airs two NFL games for the first time.
Restaurateurs turn La Grange expansion into YouTube reality series
Owners of Wooden Paddle restaurant in Lemont are documenting the rigors of expanding into a new La Grange location in YouTube videos.
All Netflix wants for Christmas is no streaming problems for its first NFL games
Netflix is planning to provide plenty of gifts for viewers of its two Christmas Day games, including Mariah Carey kicking it all off with a taped performance of “All I Want for Christmas is You.”
Comcast raising monthly sports fee for subscribers while Bulls, Blackhawks and Chicago Sports Network still blacked out
The 5.5% increase bumps up the regional sports fee to $20.25 per month for Comcast subscribers in Chicago and the suburbs.
‘The Newsreader’ review: An Aussie riff on ‘Broadcast News,’ 80s setting and all
Anna Torv and Sam Reid play 1980s-era TV reporters in the Australian series “The Newsreader,” which premiered in 2021 and is available now in the U.S.
Column: Feel like a British detective show for the holidays? Here are 4 to watch on Acorn
A roundup of British detective shows on Acorn that have new episodes. The shows are wry and quietly straightforward workaday procedurals.
Today in History: ‘The Simpsons’ made its debut
On Dec. 17, 1989, the animated television show ‘The Simpsons’ made its debut.
Popeye and Tintin enter the public domain in 2025 along with novels from William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway
This year’s crop of newly public artistic creations lacks the landmark vibes of last year’s entrance of Mickey Mouse into the public domain. But they include a deep well of canonical works whose 95-year copyright maximums will expire. And the Disney icon’s public domain presence expands.
Former TV host Carlos Watson gets nearly 10 years in prison in case about failed startup Ozy Media
Former talk show host Carlos Watson was sentenced Monday to nearly 10 years in prison in a federal financial conspiracy case that cast his once-buzzy Ozy Media as an extreme of fake-it-’til-you-make-it startup culture.