Cordkillers 591: Aegon in the Writer’s Room
Warner Bros. is eyeing a Game of Thrones movie while streamers keep shuffling premieres, renewals, bundles, and big strategic bets. Also, the mailbag proves old TVs never really die.
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Supply Run
Game of Thrones heads back toward the big screen. Warner Bros. is developing a Game of Thrones movie with Beau Willimon attached to write, and the early rumor is that it could center on Aegon Targaryen’s conquest of Westeros. latimes.com imdb.com
Search Party
The Bear may be heading for last call. FX’s The Bear is expected to end with its upcoming fifth season later this year. deadline.com
Beef is back for another round. Netflix dropped the trailer for season two, which returns April 16. variety.com
Harry Styles made his streaming return. His first concert stream in nearly three years hit Netflix on March 8. variety.com
Little House on the Prairie already has a future lined up. Netflix’s reboot is set to launch this summer, and Netflix has already committed to a second season. variety.com
ESPN and Disney+ are giving the NHL the animated treatment again. The Capitals-Rangers game on April 5 will get an Inside Out-themed alternate broadcast. variety.com
The Night Agent keeps its orders coming. Netflix renewed the series for a fourth season, which will film in Los Angeles. variety.com
Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 is headed to Peacock. The movie starts streaming April 3. variety.com
Zootopia 2 makes its Disney+ debut this week. The film arrives on Disney+ on March 11. variety.com
AMC is feeling audacious. The network renewed Silicon Valley comedy The Audacity for season two before season one even premieres on April 12. deadline.com
Buried Treasure
Brian: Hoppers and GET BACK!
Tom: Boyfriend on Demand on Netflix
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Scanning the Horizon
Netflix says it still has room to grow. CFO Spencer Neumann told investors the company is only about 7% of its addressable revenue market. deadline.com
YouTube’s ad machine is now bigger than several media giants combined. New estimates say YouTube pulled in $40.4 billion in ad revenue in 2025, topping the combined totals of Disney, NBC, Paramount, and Warner Bros. Discovery. techcrunch.com
Netflix is buying deeper into AI filmmaking tools. It acquired Ben Affleck’s startup InterPositive, which builds AI tools for postproduction work like color, relighting, effects, and mixing. variety.com
Roku wants to make trivia and subscriptions part of the platform playbook. It launched the Roklue trivia game and now offers Apple TV subscriptions as an add-on through The Roku Channel. variety.com deadline.com
David Ellison says HBO should stay HBO, even if the apps merge. He says HBO should remain creatively independent after Paramount’s acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery, while still combining Paramount and HBO Max platforms and keeping a 30-movie annual theatrical plan. deadline.com variety.com
Versant’s first post-spinoff earnings beat expectations. The company reported $6.69 billion in 2025 revenue, above Wall Street forecasts. bloomberg.com
Walmart and Vizio are getting a lot cozier. New Vizio TV owners are being prompted to link their TVs to Walmart accounts as Walmart nears closing its Vizio purchase. pcmag.com
Philo is testing a lower-priced on-ramp. Its new Essential plan costs $25 a month, undercutting the pricier bundle tier that includes ad-supported Max, Discovery+, and AMC+. deadline.com
Chatter
George Sinos is still proudly cooking with OTA. He sent in a photo of a decades-old kitchen TV still running through a government converter box, proving free over-the-air TV and stubborn hardware can outlast just about anything.
Keith thinks AMC’s reserved-seat plan will look more like airline upselling than phantom sold-out crowds. He also points out that the system could make it easier to “paper” empty seats while nudging people toward subscription tiers.
Greg Cornell sent in a photo of Tom’s Sony monitor. Sometimes the joke writes itself.
David Pick occasionally still uses a tube TV. His setup includes a 1994 Sony Trinitron, an Ematic converter box, and an original NES for Duck Hunt, with the possibility of going even more retro via a vacuum-tube Motorola black-and-white set.
Norm Fazekas checked back in after watching Lost. “The Constant” landed exactly as intended, and he also passed along a recommendation for Black Bag, a spy story about a couple trying to work things out.