Cordkillers 622: Xbox Office
Xbox wants a bigger role in Hollywood, but how much control should game makers have over their screen adaptations? Tom and Brian discuss Xbox’s new XP division, a Cyberpunk movie, streaming’s expanding live-event lineup, and Apple’s $299 TV box.
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Supply Run
Xbox is launching XP, a division led by former Mojang president Kayleen Walters, to expand its games into film, television, merchandise, partnerships, and live experiences. Xbox Pictures will handle screen adaptations, raising the question of how closely game makers should guide Hollywood’s versions of their worlds.
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Paramount is developing a live-action film set in the Cyberpunk 2077 universe with CD Projekt RED and producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura. No release date has been announced.
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Search Party
The Emmys are leaving their broadcast-network rotation for Prime Video in a six-year deal beginning in 2027. The ceremony will stream free worldwide, with no Prime subscription required.
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Prime Video released a full trailer for Blade Runner 2099, starring Michelle Yeoh and Hunter Schafer. All eight episodes arrive November 25, 2026.
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Greta Gerwig’s Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew has a new trailer ahead of its February 12, 2027 theatrical release and April 2 Netflix debut.
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Disney+ subscribers can stream Super Bowl LXI on February 14, 2027 without an ESPN subscription, in the U.S. and more than 55 international markets. ESPN is also preparing alternate presentations.
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Constance Wu, Henry Golding, Ronny Chieng, and Michelle Yeoh will return for HBO’s Crazy Rich Asians series. Film co-writer Adele Lim is the showrunner.
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Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest will simulcast on ABC and Disney+ for the first time on December 31, 2026.
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Paramount+ has renewed Avatar: Seven Havens for its third and fourth seasons.
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WandaVision creator Jac Schaeffer is reportedly developing a new Stargate series at Amazon MGM.
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Peacock’s live-action Dungeon Crawler Carl adaptation is aiming to begin filming in 2027. A premiere date has not been announced.
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Dungeon Crawler Carl production plans
The first look at Miami Vice ’85 reveals Austin Butler as Crockett and Michael B. Jordan as Tubbs. The film is scheduled for May 19, 2028.
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Buried Treasure
Brian finally starts For All Mankind after a nudge from his father-in-law and enjoys the first episode’s alternate-history puzzle. Tom explains how the series grows beyond rewriting familiar history into a compelling science-fiction story of its own.
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Tom revisits Star Trek: The Next Generation’s “Unification” and finds much more than a Spock guest appearance. What once felt slow now stands out as a strong story about Spock’s effort to reunite the Romulans and Vulcans, worth a fresh look even without the nostalgia.
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Scanning the Horizon
Apple’s fourth-generation Apple TV 4K adds an A19 chip, three far-field microphones for hands-free Siri AI, and a remote that can play a sound when misplaced. It costs $299 in the U.S. and arrives November 13; Siri AI beta support extends to second-generation Apple TV 4K models and later.
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David Ellison says HBO Max and Paramount+ will eventually become one service, with separate operations and possible bundles in the meantime. Skydance also plans to keep both studio lots, potentially concentrating film production at one and television at the other.
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Apple TV’s Formula 1 coverage gains Dolby Atmos for the U.S. Grand Prix weekend in Austin later this month.
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Discovery+ now charges new U.S. subscribers $6.99 monthly with ads or $11.99 without. Existing direct and app-store subscribers move to the new prices on their first billing date on or after November 12, with promotional rates honored until expiration.
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Chatter
A viewer watches Tom and Brian’s smart-TV-privacy discussion on an actual ad-supported Telly. Other listener feedback asks for smarter subscription rotation and mood-based recommendations, suggests future FULL Experience picks, and challenges the four-episode formula for Batman: The Animated Series.
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