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Buckle up, as Apple TV+ has a lot more to offer than the shows it’s premiering. The streamer has maintained high-quality, gripping dramas that are swoon-worthy. The year 2025 is proving to be a notable and ambitious one for Apple TV+, as there’s a lineup of shows that we cannot wait to reveal to you guys.

Moving beyond its initial Ted Lasso effect, the streamer has delivered dramas worth watching, from sci-fi epics to heart-warming endings to laugh-out-loud comedies to captivating thrillers. As we move through the year, newly announced dramas are promising maximum pleasure guaranteed for the new and loyal viewers of the platform.

6. Berlin Noir: A Prequel to a Classic Detective Saga Jack Lowden in Slow Horses | Credits: Apple TV+

We’re sure you might’ve seen Slow Horses, and the brilliant star of the series, Jack Lowden, has got his own Apple TV+ detective drama series titled Berlin Noir.

Jack Lowden is stepping out of the shadows of British intelligence and into the smoke-filled streets of 1920s Berlin. The Slow Horses star has officially landed the lead role in Apple TV+’s upcoming Berlin Noir series, which is based on the Berlin Noir detective novels by Philip Kerr.

Tom Shankland is signed on to direct and also serves as an executive producer. The show is currently untitled, but the adaptation is being written by Peter Straughan. Straughan is also an executive producer along with Jane Tranter, Dan McCulloch, Ryan Rasmussen, Tom Hanks, and Gary Goetzman.

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The first season will reportedly be adapted from Metropolis, which is the final book published in Kerr’s Berlin Noir book series, though chronologically it serves as a prequel. Set in 1928 Berlin, the story follows a young Bernie Gunther, a...

Jack Lowden’s slow but steady rise in Hollywood has been a pleasure for his fans to witness. His breakout role was undoubtedly in Apple TV+’s critically revered spy drama called Slow Horses. Lowden played River Cartwright, a former MI5 agent who begins working at the bureaucratic Slough House after being disgraced. Fans praised him for his emotional depth and quiet intensity, and over time, he garnered a Primetime Emmy nomination for his performance in 2024.

Now, the actor is stepping into the world of Berlin Noir, adapted from the bestselling books by Philip Kerr. He is expected to play the lead role of Bernie Gunther, a detective who faces moral turmoil while navigating the turbulent times of 1920s Berlin. The show is expected to blend historical drama and complex noir mystery that will keep viewers gripped. Lowden’s growth from an ensemble actor to being a lead has been extraordinary to witness.

Jack Lowden has been set for the lead role in Apple TV+’s yet-to-be-titled drama series based on Metropolis, the last of Philip Kerr’s Berlin Noir novels.

The series will shoot in Berlin with Tom Shankland directing from a script adapted by Conclave Oscar winner Peter Straughan.

Lowden currently stars with Gary Oldman in Slow Horses, recently ordered by Apple TV+ for a seventh season and nominated earlier this week for the best drama series Emmy. Shankland is known for projects including Netflix miniseries The Leopard and BBC series Rogue Heroes.

Hailing from Bad Wolf and PlayTone, the Metropolis...

Jack Lowden has been cast in the lead role of Apple TV+’s upcoming drama series adapted from Philip Kerr’s “Berlin Noir” book series. Tom Shankland has joined the production as director and executive producer.

Lowden will play detective Bernie Gunther. The series begins based on the events of “Metropolis,” which was the last book published in the series but takes place in 1928, before the rest of the books, and gives Bernie’s origin story. Per the official description, “Bernie is a police officer, newly promoted to the intimidating and elite Berlin Murder Squad, and must investigate what seems to be a serial killer targeting victims on the fringes of society. Bernie’s Berlin is a city of unprecedented freedom and dizzying turbulence, the Nazis just a distant nightmare waiting in the wings. With the political and social world shifting to a new norm, we see Bernie fighting for truth,...

Exclusive: Slow Horses star Jack Lowden looks to be reuniting with Apple on one of the streamer’s more anticipated series. Sources tell Deadline that the Emmy-nominated actor is set to star in an untitled series based on Metropolis, from Philip Kerr’s globally bestselling Berlin Noir book series.

Insiders also say that BAFTA nominee Tom Shankland will direct as well as executive produce the Apple TV+ series, which Deadline first told you was in the works back in April.

Peter Straughan, who won the Adapted Screenplay Oscar for Conclave, will serve as showrunner as well as adapt the script and executive produce. Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman will also exec produce through their Playtone banner. Playtone and Apple most recently teamed on the World War II series Masters of the Air. The new series will be filmed in Berlin.

The Berlin Noir book series revolved around iconic detective Bernie...

HBO has released the trailer for its sprawling two-part Billy Joel documentary, And So It Goes, which airs across two weeks this month and clocks in at a total of five hours.

In the preview, the iconic musician opens up about his journey from growing up in Hicksville, New York, to hearing classical music and writing “Uptown Girl” as well as the “hard lessons” he learned along the way.

The trailer opens with Joel, over clips of him performing, including to a packed audience, speaking about his disconnect with fame.

“Sometimes it’s alien to me, this guy Billy Joel,” he says. “I don’t know who that is or what that is. I’m reminded of it when I go walk on the street.”

Amid clips of him performing and composing at home, he reveals how his classical music past affected his own pop compositions.

“My own history with...

Tom Hanks' acclaimed historical drama series John Adams is becoming a hit all over again thanks to a streaming resurgence. Paul Giamatti played the title character — one of America's founding fathers and second president — in the 2008 HBO series.

Per FlixPatrol, John Adams has rocketed back into Max's top 10 streaming shows as of Sunday, July 6. While the sudden streaming surge may have been sparked by the July 4 holiday weekend, it's still an impressive feat considering John Adams is 17 years old.

Hanks executive produced John Adams along with his long-time Playtone partner Gary Goetzman. The pair enlisted screenwriter Kirk Ellis (Anne Frank: The Whole Story) to adapt author David McCullough's 2001 biography John Adams, which won the prestigious Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography.

Director Tom Hooper also had his international breakthrough on the series, after getting his start working in British TV. He would later win a Best Director Oscar for...

July is here, and in between all the fireworks and swimming and running from the heat, there’s ample time to sit back, relax and watch a great movie. While it can be daunting to figure out what to watch on your favorite streaming service, we’ve created a curated selection of some of the best new movies streaming this month on Netflix, Prime Video, Hulu, Max, Disney+ and beyond. There’s plenty of new releases hitting streaming this month, like the Michael B. Jordan hit “Sinners” and Jenna Ortega’s “Death of a Unicorn,” alongside streaming originals starring Adam Sandler, John Cena and more.

Check out our picks for the top new movies streaming right now below.

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As we barrel towards the release of Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest provocation “One Battle After Another,” why not take a moment to revisit his last movie,...

Billy Joel fans should all get in the mood for two long nights with the piano man in July.

HBO has set the premiere dates for its two-part original documentary Billy Joel: And So It Goes. Part one will air on Friday, July 18, followed by part two a week later on Friday, July 25. Each part will debut on HBO, and streaming service HBO Max, at 8 p.m. Et/Pt and run for roughly two-and-a-half hours, with the full exploration of the iconic musician clocking in at nearly five hours.

Billy Joel: And So It Goes, directed and produced by Susan Lacy and Jessica Levin, premiered its first part at the 2025 Tribeca Festival, but Joel himself was unable to attend the opening night screening, announcing just the week before the event that he had been diagnosed with brain disorder normal pressure hydrocephalus (Nph), leading him to cancel his upcoming concerts and prompting concern from fans.

The 2025 Tribeca Festival kicked off with the world premiere of the HBO documentary Billy Joel: And So it Goes, but its subject was unable to attend the celebration.

Joel announced last week that he had been diagnosed with brain disorder normal pressure hydrocephalus (Nph), leading him to cancel his upcoming concerts and prompting concern from fans.

In keeping with that focus on recovery, Joel wasn’t on hand for the Tribeca Festival opening night celebration, but the directors and producers of the two-part film, echoing comments made yesterday from Joel friend Howard Stern, indicated there’s no reason to be too concerned about the “Piano Man” performer.

“He’s going to be fine,” co-director Susan Lacy told The Hollywood Reporter before Wednesday night’s screening. “He just needs to recover. He needs to do the physical therapy, which he’s doing — the doctors were telling him yesterday he’ll be fine.

An ailing Billy Joel was not in attendance tonight at the world premiere HBO documentary about his life and music but sent word to a packed Beacon Theater in NYC via its director.

“Billy wishes he were here tonight, and he asked us to convey his greetings to you all. He said ‘getting old sucks, but it’s still preferable to getting cremated’,” relayed Susan Lacy, who helmed and produced the doc Billy Joel: And So It Goes with Jessica Levin. Part 1 of 2 opened the Tribeca Festival Wednesday.

“Billy may be considered the poet laureate of New York. You feel the essence of our city in his lyrics,” said Tribeca Enterprises’ Robert De Niro introducing the festival and the film with co-founder Jane Rosenthal.

Joel’s scrappiness and immense talent are both vivid in the film about the Long Island bard who formed his first cover band, The Lonely Souls,...

The 24th annual Tribeca Film Festival 2025 kicked off Wednesday, June 4, with the world premiere of Billy Joel: And So It Goes. Screening at the Beacon Theatre, the HBO original two-part documentary offers an expansive look into the legendary artist’s life, tracing the love, loss, and personal struggles that profoundly influenced his songwriting.

The opening night of the fest was attended by the film’s producer Tom Hanks, Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal, Mariska Hargitay, Whoopi Goldberg, Mira Sorvino, Gary Goetzman, Steve Zahn, Rick Gomez, and many more. Joel, who is recovering from an illness, did not attend tonight.

The festival’s feature film slate includes Rose Byrne and Octavia Spencer starring in Tow; The Best You Can starring Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick marking their first co-starring roles in 20 years; Rosemead starring Lucy Liu; Dragonfly with Andrea Riseborough and Brenda Blethyn; and Everything’s Going to be Great starring Bryan Cranston and Allison Janney.

“The emotion, Psychology, and the visual beauty of this moment are working in harmony, in a way that is just a pure cinematic moment.” Considering Paul Thomas Anderson steals so blatantly from the movies that came before him, It’s fitting to quote directly from Jordan Peele, an Oscar-winning filmmaker on the rise who showed his reverence for Anderson during a 2018 group discussion with the nominated directors that year.

P.T.A.’s “Phantom Thread” (the son of Hitchcock’s “Rebecca”) looks like a serious, awards-bait film about dressmaking in 1950s London, but it unfolds slowly to reveal a Freudian rom-com within its fabric. Memorably, Reynolds Woodcock betrays himself in the name of love. From 2019-20, the strangeness of the film lingered, like a seed sprouting in my brain.

My endless curiosity would extend to the pre-production of “Licorice Pizza,” by all accounts a breezy, joyous teenage rom-com…Until I...

“The emotion, Psychology, and the visual beauty of this moment are working in harmony, in a way that is just a pure cinematic moment.” Considering Paul Thomas Anderson steals so blatantly from the movies that came before him, It’s fitting to quote directly from Jordan Peele, an Oscar-winning filmmaker on the rise who showed his reverence for Anderson during a 2018 group discussion with the nominated directors that year.

P.T.A.’s “Phantom Thread” (the son of Hitchcock’s “Rebecca”) looks like a serious, awards-bait film about dressmaking in 1950s London, but it unfolds slowly to reveal a Freudian rom-com within its fabric. Memorably, Reynolds Woodcock betrays himself in the name of love. From 2019-20, the strangeness of the film lingered, like a seed sprouting in my brain.

My endless curiosity would extend to the pre-production of “Licorice Pizza,” by all accounts a breezy, joyous teenage rom-com…Until I...

CNN Originals will reteam with executive producers Tom Hanks, Gary Goetzman and Mark Herzog for a new installment in their Emmy-nominated Decades Series with Decades In Sports. The CNN Original Series will premiere in 2026.

Decades in Sports continues the CNN Original Series’ partnership with Playtone. That which includes over eight seasons and over 70 hours of television, including The Sixties, 1968: The Year That Changed America, The Seventies, The Eighties, The Nineties, The 2000s, The 2010s, The Movies and Tis the Season: Holidays on Film.

“Tom, Mark and I are delighted to be working with Amy Entelis again,” said Goetzman. “We’ve always felt great support and creative freedom from her and her team at CNN Originals.”

The six-part series will unravel the thrill of the victory and the agony of defeat across six decades of larger-than-life athletes, intense rivalries and stunning upsets that encapsulate the command sports have on our cultural attention.

CNN unveiled a slate of new originals that includes series featuring Eva Longoria and Tony Shalhoub and the renewal of Have I Got News For You.

The lineup was unveiled today as part of the Warner Bros. Discovery upfront presentation.

Eva Longoria: Searching for France, debuting in 2026, will be the latest in the network’s Searching For franchise. This fall, the network will debut the international food and travel series Tony Shalhoub Breaking Bread.

Announced earlier were two new documentary features, I’m Chevy Chase and You’re Not and In the Prime of Life, as the network puts new focus on its CNN Films unit. Other highlights: Tom Hanks, Gary Goetzman and Mark Herzog are executive producers of the original series Decades in Sports, while the network will mark the 250th anniversary of the United States with the project tentatively titled This Land Is Your Land, with October Films as producer.

Created by John Shiban and John Orloff, Apple TV+’s war drama miniseries Masters of the Air, starring Austin Butler, Callum Turner, and Anthony Boyle, received positive to mixed reviews from critics and audiences upon release. Based on Donald L. Miller’s book of the same name, the story follows the actions of the 100th Bomb Group during WWII.

Critics at the time shared that Masters of the Air is ‘an absolutely fantastic television’ that goes on to depict the experience of pilots during World War II. Even though it received a positive to mixed response, audiences were concerned about the accuracy of the story and noted that the story had omitted a lot of parts from the actual story of the 100th. However, it’s Austin Butler’s experience that can change anyone’s mind about whether to re-watch the show or not.

Austin Butler recalls his preparation for...

Tom Hanks and the roles of soldiers go hand in hand, be it Captain Miller taking his boys on a mission or Forrest Gump going to war in Vietnam and winning the Medal of Honor, every time he plays a soldier, he absolutely kills it. In 2020, he got in front of the camera to don the uniform again, and this time as U.S. Navy Cmdr. Ernest Krause.

The 2020 movie was about Krause’s first mission, which turns into everyone’s last hope. Based on true events, Krause is assigned to be the commanding officer of an allied convoy that he is leading across the Atlantic during World War II, and they come under extreme threat from German U-boats. The movie was filled with intense sea battles filled with terror and missiles; after the huge success of the movie, it looks like Tom Hanks and Apple TV+ are gearing up for interesting new updates.

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Jesse Plemons joins The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping as Plutarch Heavensbee

Academy Award nominee Jesse Plemons has been cast in Hunger Games prequel Sunrise on the Reaping as Plutarch Heavesnbee, a role previously played by the late Philip Seymour Hoffman (his performances in The Hunger Games: Mockingjay—Parts 1 and 2 were his final film roles). In the main series, Heavensbee is Head Gamemaker and a rebel leader. In the prequel, younger Heavensbee is a cameraman who helps hero Haymitch Abernathy plan his rebellion. Plemons joins Joseph Zada, Whitney Peak, and McKenna Grace in the cast of Sunrise on the Reaping, which is slated for a Nov. 2026 release.

Sydney Sweeney to star in Split Fiction game adaptation from Jon M. Chu

Sydney Sweeney has added another big movie to her busy schedule. The Emmy-nominated Euphoria star has signed on to star in an...

The Tom Hanks World War II movie Greyhound was initially slated to debut in theaters but experienced several delays before Apple TV+ acquired the rights and premiered the period film in the summer of 2020. Greyhound became one of Apple’s most-watched movies, and it was reported that a sequel was greenlit to be in the works. Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman’s Playtone have inked a multi-year exclusive overall deal with Apple TV+ to develop, produce, and distribute a variety of series, documentaries, and unscripted projects. One of those projects is the Greyhound sequel.

Deadline is now reporting that the sequel to Greyhound is now set to film in January 2026 with a start in Sydney, Australia. Hanks is due to reprise his role as Captain Krause and has also written the screenplay. Director Aaron Schneider also returns along with producer Gary Goetzman for Hanks’ Playtone company. Per Deadline, “the next...

New details have emerged about the sequel to Tom Hanks' WWII action film, Greyhound. The Academy Award-nominated film premiered on Apple TV+ in 2020.

Deadline reports that the Greyhound sequel is planning to commence shooting in January 2026 in Sydney, Australia. Hanks will reprise his role as Captain Krause and has also penned the sequel's script. Other key cast members are said to still be in talks to reprise their roles, but are expected to return. Original Greyhound director Aaron Schneider will return along with producer Gary Goetzman / Playtone. The next chapter in the naval war movie franchise will see Krause and his crew go "from the beaches of Normandy to the ocean in the Pacific as they help turn the tide of the war."

Greyhound saw Hanks joined by Stephen Graham (Venom: The Last Dance), Rob Morgan and Elisabeth Shue. Based on the 1955 novel The Good Shepherd by C.S. Forester, Greyhound...

Nearly five years since the film's release, Apple TV's World War II action epic Greyhoundis getting a sequel, and Tom Hanks is in line to return as Captain Krause. The film, which boasts a Certified Fresh 78% rating on Rotten Tomatoes from critics, was originally set to hit theaters through Son Pictures. However, due to the Covid-19 pandemic, it was delayed and then sold to Apple TV+, which is now developing a sequel with the main crew returning for another WWI battle.

According to Deadline, Tom Hanks is set to start shooting the sequel to Greyhound in January 2026 in Sydney, Australia. The follow-up was announced in 2022, but it's taken several years for it to get off the ground. Now, not only is Hanks reprising his lead role, but Adolescence star Stephen Graham is in negotiations to return as well. The trade reports that the plot "will follow Krause and the Greyhound...

Tom Hanks' Commander Ernie Krause will be back in action soon. The Apple TV+ World War II naval thriller Greyhoundis getting a sequel. Deadline reports that Hanks will return to both star and pen the script, and a number of creatives from the first film are on board, as well. The film is set to begin shooting early next year.

In addition to Hanks, director Aaron Schneider (Get Low), who helmed the original film, is back for the sequel, as is producer Gary Goetzman from Hanks' production company Playtone. The rest of the cast is currently in negotiations, but Deadline reports most of the cast from the original will return. The sequel will reportedly see Krause and the crew of the USS Keeling take part in the latter half of World War II, including the Normandy landings and action in the Pacific theater. The original was one of Apple TV+'s first original movies,...

Exclusive: The sequel to Tom Hanks and Apple’s World War II action pic Greyhound is lining up a January 2026 start in Sydney, Australia, we can reveal.

Oscar winner Hanks will reprise his role as Captain Krause and has penned the script. Director Aaron Schneider returns, as does producer Gary Goetzman for Playtone.

We understand the next chapter in the Greyhound saga will follow Krause and the Greyhound crew from the beaches of Normandy to the ocean in the Pacific as they help turn the tide of the war.

Talks are in process with key cast from the first movie to reprise their roles. This includes Stephen Graham, who is coming off rave reviews for Netflix hit Adolescence. Deals aren’t done but expectations are high that the main players will be back.

The Oscar-nominated 2020 movie Greyhound saw Hanks play an inexperienced U.S. Navy commander who, soon after the U.

Apple TV+ is no stranger to developing successful spy and detective stories for the audience. Following the success of Slow Horses, based on the Mick Herron novels, it will soon be adding a thriller to its roster as Peter Straughan gears up to adapt late author Philip Kerr’s popular Berlin Noir books.

It was revealed in 2012 that HBO and Playtone partners Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman were in early talks to acquire the rights to the novel. And now it seems like Playtone did acquire the rights, and their deal with Apple TV+ is now finally paying off. Apple TV+ and Playtone are also working on a TV adaptation of Elliot Ackerman’s Sheepdogs, but let’s find out more about Philip Kerr’s book.

Apple TV+ to adapt late author Philip Kerr’s final book, Metropolis

According to reports by Deadline, the streaming platform is looking forward to...

Exclusive: Bernie Gunther is heading to the small screen.

Apple TV+ has greenlit a long-gestating TV adaptation of the late Philip Kerr’s popular Berlin Noir books from Oscar-winning Conclave writer Peter Straughan, Doctor Who producer Bad Wolf, and Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman’s Playtone.

The untitled drama is based on Kerr’s final book Metropolis, which told the iconic detective’s origin story. Set in 1928, Metropolis follows newly promoted police officer Gunther in the intimidating elite Berlin Murder Squad, investigating what seems to be a serial killer targeting victims on the fringes of society. Gunther’s Berlin is described as a “city of unprecedented freedom and dizzying turbulence, the Nazis a distant nightmare waiting in the wings.”

We are told Apple is kicking off with Gunther’s origin story but there is scope to adapt more Berlin Noir books via the studio’s option. Gunther was made famous...

Exclusive: Utopia has set a theatrical release for Robert Schwartzman’s Hung Up on a Dream: The Zombies Documentary with special event screenings on May 12 in several cities –Washington D.C., Boston, Austin, Pittsburgh and Seattle– followed by full theatrical engagements in NY and LA on May 16 respectively at the Quad Cinema and Landmark NuArt Theatre.

The film, which premiered at SXSW 2023, traces the remarkable journey of iconic British rock band The Zombies—from teenage friends to Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees.

“I can’t express how much I love The Zombies. After hearing their music as a teenager, I felt like I understood them musically, melodically and emotionally. Their clever arrangements and sophisticated songwriting gave me a musical foundation that helped me launch my own band, Rooney,” stated director Robert Schwartzman. “As a fan and fellow musician, to get the chance to make a film about their...

The two-part HBO documentary “Billy Joel: And So It Goes” has been revealed as the opening night film of the 2025 Tribeca Festival, this year presented by Okx. The announcement came from Co-Founder and CEO of Tribeca Festival and Tribeca Enterprises, Jane Rosenthal, who delivered the news during Nab Show’s Business of Entertainment event, presented by Ankler Media on Sunday, April 6.

“For nearly 25 years, the Tribeca Festival has celebrated the artists who give New York its heart and soul, and on the opening night of the 2025 Festival, we are thrilled to honor Billy Joel — an artist who has embodied that very spirit,” said Rosenthal. “Paying tribute to the legendary performer who captured the essence of a ‘New York State of Mind’ is a perfect way to kick off this year’s celebration of creativity and inspiration.”

Tribeca’s opening night at the Beacon Theatre in New York on June 4 will...

A new Piano Man documentary is on its way. On Wednesday, HBO announced Billy Joel: And So It Goes, a two-part documentary about the artist’s life and music and the meaning behind his songwriting.

Susan Lacy — who created American Masters and directed the Spielberg documentary for HBO — will also produce and direct the two-part film meant to be an “expansive portrait of the life and music of Billy Joel,” according to its official synopsis.

“For those who think they know Joel’s story, as well as those who are not as familiar,...

Over 40 years after HBO aired his Live From Long Island special, the cable network is back in business with Billy Joel.

The Piano Man star is the subject of a two-part documentary – Billy Joel: And So It Goes – that will launch this summer.

The two-part is directed by Susan Lacy, who created PBS’ American Masters series and has directed HBO docs Jane Fonda in Five Acts and Spielberg, and Jessica Levin, who produced those docs as well as The Janes.

The doc will explore the life and music of Billy Joel, exploring the love, loss, and personal struggles that fuel his songwriting, per the logline. It includes access to never-before-seen performances, home movies, and personal photographs, along with one-on-one interviews.

It comes after Joel revealed that he was postponing months of touring due to a medical condition.

Joel has been the subject of a number of documentaries in the past...

Exclusive: Playtone partners Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman have teamed with Eon Productions’ Barbara Broccoli to acquire screen rights for An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History of the 1960s. That is the book historian Doris Kearns Goodwin wrote that debuted at No. 1 on the New York Times bestseller list, about the epic story of the love of her life, Richard Goodwin, peppered with his experiences as a seminal figure in the most turbulent events of the ’60s.

Kearns Goodwin and her Pastimes Productions partner Beth Laski will produce with Broccoli, Hanks and Goetzman.

“Through the eyes of friends Dick and Doris Goodwin, it is our plan to bring an intimate story of the people and events of the sweeping decade of the 1960s to the screen — a time that despite its sorrows was filled with the widespread conviction that individuals could make a difference,” Broccoli told Deadline in a statement.

If it felt like television was completing one era and starting another as 2024 dawned, it’s because it really was. Such critical smashes as Succession, Ted Lasso, The Crown, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Barry, and Reservation Dogs took their final bows in 2023, wrapping up the same year as twin strikes of the WGA and SAG. It consequently felt like the TV world was welcoming a group of fresh faces (along with a few acclaimed returnees) this year.

There may not have been as many out-of-the-gate hits in ’24 as there were in previous years, but there were nonetheless plenty of buzzworthy shows to celebrate, including an exceptional class of limited series — the hottest genre from an awards perspective.

Here is our ranking of the 15 best television/streaming programs of the year:

15. Say Nothing (FX)

This extraordinary limited series adaptation of the nonfiction book by Patrick Radden Keefe spans four decades in the life of Dolours Price,...

Following the overwhelming success of Apple TV's Masters of the Air, Tom Hanks and company have officially set their next project for the streamer, and it's yet another adaptation. Premiering earlier this year, Masters of the Air was based on the novel of the same name by Donald L. Miller, and was met with widespread critical acclaim for its portrayal of the 100th Bomb Group during World War II.

Per Deadline, Hanks and Gary Goetzman will look to capture some of that same magic when they adapt the upcoming Elliot Ackerman novel Sheepdogs, which is slated for publication in 2025 by Alfred K. Knopf/Penguin Random House. Apple Studios shelled out nearly $1 million dollars for the rights to the novel, which Hanks and Goetzman will adapt through their Playtone banner, which also helped bring Masters of the Air to life. There’s no word yet on if Hanks will appear in...

Exclusive: In a strong year-end book deal, Apple Studios has paid seven figures for the Elliot Ackerman novel Sheepdogs for Playtone partners Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman to develop as a series. The book will be published summer 2025 by Alfred K. Knopf/Penguin Random House. Eleven bidders were in the mix.

Ackerman is a former Marine Corps special operations team leader whose books include Halcyon, Green on Blue and Waiting for Eden. He also co-wrote 2034 and sequel 2054 with Admiral James Stavridis.

Sheepdogs revolves around Skwerl and Cheese, two elite paramilitary soldiers down on their luck. Skwerl is an ex-Marine who used to work for the CIA’s elite paramilitary wing but was fired after a raid went bad in Afghanistan. Big Cheese Aziz is a legendary pilot, but the fall of Kabul has left him working the nightshift at a gas station. Skwerl recruits Cheese into an anonymous network of so-called sheepdogs,...

Once December hits, it's time to break out the Christmas movies, most of which are thoroughly entertaining, despite the fact that they have the same frustrating plot hole. Production studios have released a wide variety of festive flicks over the years. From classics like It's a Wonderful Life to modern films like The Christmas Chronicles, there are so many entertaining and heartwarming holiday movies to watch at the end of each year. However, some contain an inconsistency that has been repeated time and time again, resulting in frustration during what's supposed to be a joyful and celebratory time.

In early 2024, Gary Goetzman, producer of The Polar Express, told Comicbook.com that a sequel is in the works at Warner Bros. However, the studio has yet to make any official announcements regarding the movie.

Of course, not everything is supposed to be taken at face value in Christmas films. Many of them...

Among the most revered moviemakers of his generation, Paul Thomas Anderson is in post-production on his latest film, tentatively titled The Hombres of Baktan Cross. As fans eagerly await more details about the mysterious Leonardo DiCaprio project, they must watch Licorice Pizza for free on Tubi. It is one of PTA's most personal, freewheeling, and fun-filled movies, exploring his upbringing in the 1970s San Fernando Valley. It's also one of his highest-rated movies on Rotten Tomatoes.

Set in Southern California in 1973, Licorice Pizza is a romantic coming-of-age dramedy with a playfully loose narrative and editing style that feels like a fun, throwback hangout movie. Apart from establishing a vivid time and place, the autobiographical flourishes that PTA adds to the story offer fans a glimpse of his childhood by transporting them to a groovy decade full of bell-bottom jeans, vinyl records, large Afro hairdos, and more.

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In celebration of her critically acclaimed Las Vegas residency show Reflection: The Las Vegas Residency, eight-time Grammy Award winner Carrie Underwood will showcase her highly successful career as a worldwide superstar in a concert special coming exclusively to Hulu in January.

Carrie Underwood: Reflection will give audiences a front-row seat at the larger-than-life show Underwood has performed during her three-year plus run at Resorts World Theatre at Resorts World Las Vegas. Underwood recently announced that she will conclude her reign as the venue’s first and longest-running headliner on April 12, 2025.

Carrie Underwood: Reflection captures a one-of-a-kind production conceived by Underwood specifically for Las Vegas to celebrate highlights of her career. The show features her greatest hits from nearly 20 years as an award-winning international recording and touring artist, including 14 No. 1 hits and songs from eight of her studio albums.

Reflection brings beloved fan favorites to life in a whole new way,...

Exclusive: Eight-time Grammy winner Carrie Underwood will give audiences a front-row view of her Las Vegas residency show in a concert special set to air on Hulu in January.

Carrie Underwood: Reflection features her greatest hits from nearly 20 years as an award-winning international recording and touring artist, including 14 No. 1 hits and songs from eight of her studio albums. Utilizing special effects, pyrotechnics and state-of-the-art visual and audio technology with extravagant set pieces, the special also features Underwood’s band, dancers, aerialists and a special virtual orchestra in a high-energy production.

Underwood’s Reflection: The Las Vegas Residency marked the first-ever residency at Resorts World in Las Vegas and has been a highly praised, must-watch show since December 2021. Underwood recently announced that she’ll wrap up her three-year-plus run on April 12.

The special is also is a mark of corporate synergy. Twenty years after winning the American Idol title herself, Underwood...

Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg are set to executive produce a new Javier Bardem-led thriller series for Apple TV+ based on “Cape Fear,” a film with ties to both Scorsese and Spielberg.

Apple TV+ has granted a series order for “Cape Fear,” which will be written and showrun by Nick Antosca. Antosca will executive produce alongside Scorsese, Spielberg and Bardem.

The series is based on John D. MacDonald’s 1957 novel “The Executioners,” which inspired Gregory Peck’s 1962 film adaptation, “Cape Fear.” In the late 1980s, Steven Spielberg was attached to direct a new adaptation, but he passed the film over to friend Scorsese so he could make “Schindler’s List” instead. Scorsese cast Robert De Niro in the role that will be filled by Bardem, and the resulting 1991 film “Cape Fear” was a commercial success and scored Oscar nods for De Niro and Juliette Lewis.

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A sequel to the classic Christmas movie The Polar Express was officially announced a while ago, and here is why the development of The Polar Express 2 is taking so long. The Polar Express is one of the most-watched movies every holiday season, with Robert Zemeckis and Tom Hanks' Christmas collaboration becoming an even bigger hit as time goes on. The success of the original The Polar Express has led to the announcement that The Polar Express 2 is happening, although the film is taking a while to come out thanks to a variety of factors.

While The Polar Express is now considered to be a Christmas classic, this wasn't originally the case when it was first released in 2004. The Polar Express made only $318.2 million on a budget of around $170 million, and while this means that a lot of viewers saw the film, the box office returns were pretty low.

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Carl Franklin's "Devil in a Blue Dress" was exactly two years ahead of its time, almost to the day. The director's adaptation of the first installment in Walter Mosley's Easy Rawlins series of noir novels would've been perfectly positioned in late 1997 to capitalize on the slow rolling box office success of Curtis Hanson's "L.A. Confidential." Both films were September releases building on buzzy debuts at the late summer Toronto International Film Festival, but "L.A. Confidential" proved zeitgeisty in ways that eluded "Devil in a Blue Dress." It kicked off a noir renaissance that saw national and local film critics writing up lists of must-see black-and-white crime flicks from the 1940s and '50s for their readers. Suddenly, mainstream moviegoers were up on terminology like "femme fatale," and eager to watch Humphrey Bogart movies that weren't "Casablanca.

Exclusive: The Black List won’t be releasing its 20th anniversary tally until later this year, but the Franklin Leonard-founded platform is rolling into the Bay Area with a new collaboration and a deep bench of partners.

Focusing on the talent-rich San Francisco and Oakland region, the brand new Bay List will announce 10 inaugural projects next summer. If you are part of the 415, 510 or 628 area codes, among others, you have until April 8, 2025 to submit an eligible project. Find out more info about Leonard and Blindspotting creator/showrunner Rafael Casal‘s brainchild here.

“I’ve been a longtime admirer of the arts community in the Bay generally so it was a no-brainer to jump in when Rafa reached out about being a part of it directly,” Leonard told Deadline on Tuesday. “Little did I appreciate just how big the Bay does things. It’s a real honor to be partnered up...

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The Polar Express, a 2004 American animated Christmas fantasy film, and its recent surge in popularity has led to speculation over The Polar Express 2 release date. Directed by Robert Zemeckis and based on the 1985 children's book by Chris Van Allsburg, The Polar Express uses a blend of live-action and motion-capture computer animation. Its story unfolds on Christmas Eve in the 1950s, following a young boy who embarks on a magical train journey to the North Pole, delving into the heart of Christmas spirit and belief.

Upon release, The Polar Express garnered mixed reviews but was recognized for its technological innovation and was listed in the 2006 Guinness World Records as the first all-digital capture film. Despite initial critiques...

As Amanda Seyfried anticipates a return to one of her most beloved roles, the fantasy casting for her new co-stars has begun.

While sharing an update on a potential third installment in the Mamma Mia! movie musical franchise, the Oscar nominee addressed the likelihood that Sabrina Carpenter could join the cast.

“Mamma Mia 3, let’s go baby,” Seyfried told ABC News, crossing her fingers for luck. “Everybody says it’s gonna happen. But I mean, I haven’t seen a script.”

After Carpenter sang the musical’s title track by Abba at a recent Madison Square Garden concert, Seyfried agreed the Short n’ Sweet artist could “technically” play her character Sophie’s daughter in an upcoming followup.

Although Seyfried is only 13 years older than Carpenter, the interviewer noted that “age is sort of a forgettable construct” in the franchise after Cher played Meryl Streep‘s mom in the previous film,...

World War II historian John McManus dives into The Pacific's depictions of combat in the Pacific Theater, explaining why they rate highly among on-screen portrayals of the conflict. Produced by Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks, and Gary Goetzman, the HBO miniseries depicted the journeys of three United States marines by drawing on the memoirs of Eugene Sledge, Robert Leckie, and Chuck Tatum. Unflinching and honest in its portrayal of the conflict, The Pacific has earned widespread critical acclaim.

Over fourteen years after it first aired, The Pacific has been revised by McManus, a professor of military history, and Insider in a new expert reaction video.

Focusing on the fifth and sixth episodes of the miniseries, the historian quickly praised both its depictions of the equipment utilized by the Marine Corps, as well as the context behind some of the series' battles. He said:

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Steven Spielberg has made films in every genre, excelling at every turn due to his focus on the narrative at hand, despite its scale or lack thereof. From small-budget films like Jaws to Jurassic Park films, the director is keen on delivering the best cinematic experience possible with great thrill and enthusiasm. In addition to directing. he has been a producer on various films and TV shows.

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He and Tom Hanks were executive producers on two of HBO’s highly acclaimed World War II companion shows Band of Brothers and The Pacific. However, their latest addition to that series Masters of the Air came under Apple TV+. HBO was keen on making the show under their banner but creative differences and budgetary issues caused HBO and the makers to part ways.

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Gold Derby recently honored five of “Masters of the Air’s” Emmy-nominated artisans at a special rooftop FYC event in Culver City, California. Those in attendance for the nine-part, WWII-themed Apple TV+ limited series were composer Blake Neely, co-supervising sound editor and re-recording mixer Michael Minkler, re-recording mixer Duncan McRae, supervising dialogue editor Dave McMoyler and scoring mixer Thor Fienberg. Watch our interviews with all five of these Emmy nominees below by clicking each name.

“Masters of the Air” follows the men of the 100th Bomb Group, also known as “The Bloody Hundredth,” as they conduct perilous bombing raids over Nazi Germany and grapple with the frigid conditions, lack of oxygen and sheer terror of combat conducted at 25,000 feet in the air. The wartime epic stars Oscar nominee Austin Butler as Major Gale “Buck” Cleven, Callum Turner as John “Bucky” Egan, Anthony Boyle as Lieutenant Harry Crosby, Oscar nominee Barry Keoghan...

Based on Donald L. Miller’s book of the same name, and scripted by John Orloff, “Masters of the Air” follows the men of the 100th Bomb Group (the “Bloody Hundredth”) as they conduct perilous bombing raids over Nazi Germany and grapple with the frigid conditions, lack of oxygen and sheer terror of combat conducted at 25,000 feet in the air. Portraying the psychological and emotional price paid by these young men as they helped destroy the horror of Hitler’s Third Reich, is at the heart of “Masters of the Air.” Some were shot down and captured; some were wounded or killed. And some were lucky enough to make it home. Regardless of individual fate, a toll was exacted on them all.

The series received three Emmy nominations for Outstanding Sound Editing For A Limited Or Anthology Series, Movie Or Special, Outstanding Sound Mixing For A Limited Or Anthology Series...

Real-life inspirations like Gary Goetzman and Jon Peters bring authenticity to the nostalgic world of Licorice Pizza. Alana Haim's debut and Cooper Hoffman's role as Gary Valentine add personal connections to the film's characters. Licorice Pizza showcases a mix of real figures like Joel Wachs and Lucy Doolittle alongside fictional characters for a rich storytelling experience.

Paul Thomas Anderson's Licorice Pizza (2021) may be a fictional coming-of-age story, but the nostalgic Hollywood film features many characters portraying or based on real-life people. Licorice Pizza documents the misadventures, tumultuous friendship, and romance of Alana Kane (Alana Haim), a photographer's assistant in her mid-20s, and Gary Valentine (Cooper Hoffman), a 15-year-old actor and entrepreneur. Set in the early 1970s, Licorice Pizza also includes real Hollywood-set memories of Anderson and his friend Gary Goetzman.

Licorice Pizza has an unmatchable quality of realism compared to the director's past films, partially because...