Cordkillers 598: Multiview to a Kill
YouTube TV is finally rolling out customizable Multiview, giving select subscribers the ability to build their own channel grids across sports, news, movies, and shows. Meanwhile, the future of streaming keeps getting weirder with Spider-Noir color choices, ESPN Jeopardy, Oprah on Amazon, and a Paramount-Warner future still waiting on regulators.
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Supply Run
YouTube TV has started a limited rollout of fully customizable Multiview, letting select subscribers build their own “all channels” grids across categories like sports, news, movies, and shows. It is the kind of customizable TV experience that has been promised for decades, which raises the bigger question: what should the ultimate streaming TV app actually do?
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Search Party
Prime Video released the full trailer for Spider-Noir, its upcoming live-action series. The show premieres May 25, 2026, on MGM+, with episodes arriving on Prime Video on May 27, and viewers will be able to watch in black and white or “True Hue.”
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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds released a trailer for Season 4, which premieres July 23 on Paramount+.
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Netflix has officially titled its live-action Scooby-Doo series Scooby-Doo: Origins, with production now underway in Atlanta.
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Universal has delayed the Jamie Lee Curtis-led Murder, She Wrote movie from December 22, 2027, to February 4, 2028. Lord and Miller are producing, Jason Moore is directing, and Lauren Schuker Blum and Rebecca Angelo are writing.
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Joe Buck will host ESPN Jeopardy, a sports-focused version of the quiz show that will stream on Hulu and Disney+.
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Coyote vs. Acme, once shelved by Warner Bros. Discovery in 2023, now has a trailer and is headed to theaters August 28.
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DC Studios released the official teaser for Clayface, which is scheduled to hit theaters October 23 as the third DCU film since James Gunn and Peter Safran took over the studio.
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The Michael B. Jordan and Austin Butler Miami Vice reboot now has an official title: Miami Vice ’85.
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Apple TV released the trailer for Star City, its alternate-history space race drama and For All Mankind spinoff, premiering May 29 after the For All Mankind finale.
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HBO released the trailer for House of the Dragon Season 3 and set a June 21 premiere date.
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Enola Holmes 3 is set for a July 1 release on Netflix.
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Oprah Winfrey is bringing her podcast, Oprah’s Book Club, Oprah’s Favorite Things, and old episodes of The Oprah Winfrey Show to Amazon under an exclusive multiyear deal.
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Gen V has been canceled after two seasons, while the next The Boys spinoff, Vought Rising, has been confirmed for a 2027 launch.
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Buried Treasure
Brian recommends Defunctland’s Disney’s Living Characters: A Broken Promise, a deep dive into Disney’s attempts to make interactive characters feel alive.
Tom recommends One Piece.
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Scanning the Horizon
Warner Bros. Discovery shareholders overwhelmingly approved the Paramount megadeal, though they voted against exit pay packages for David Zaslav and other executives. The deal still awaits regulatory approval from the Justice Department and European authorities, while a Writers Guild petition opposing the merger has gathered more than 4,000 signatures.
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Comcast says Peacock will “approach profitability” in Q2, helped by how NBA rights costs are being amortized and by a boost from the Mila Winter Olympics.
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Jon Favreau had Disney build an Apple Vision Pro app that let him preview shots from The Mandalorian and Grogu on a virtual IMAX-sized screen. He said the setup helped him see the full aspect ratio while lining up shots for an IMAX release.
engadget.com
As Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery move toward a possible combined future, one looming question is who would run streaming: HBO’s Casey Bloys or former Netflix executive Cindy Holland.
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Chatter
John P. Flowers writes in to say he has upped his Patreon support and to thank Tom and Brian for their years of independent broadcasting.
Stephen Schleicher follows up on the “podcasts on Netflix” discussion, arguing that video podcasts on platforms like Netflix and YouTube may be getting close to union-regulation issues.
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John notes that Tom Selleck shaved his mustache when he played Eisenhower in a D-Day movie, and adds that a friend who met Selleck said he was just as charming in person.
Dave in Waco points out that Tom Selleck had a pre-Magnum P.I. private investigator role as Lance White on The Rockford Files, appearing in “White on White and Nearly Perfect” and “Nice Guys Finish Dead.”
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Dan Campos shares first-hand CinemaCon perspective, saying Disney’s “Infinity Vision” announcement was met with skepticism in the room and looked like an attempt to market a premium theatrical experience without IMAX access, while the Dune 3 presentation played much better with exhibitors.
Bob McDermand shares a personal ranking system for streaming services based on how many shows he watches, how much he likes them, and how the subscription cost changes the value ranking.
Jason writes in about Bruce Campbell’s health announcement, suggesting it may explain why there has not been much mention of Campbell around Evil Dead Burn.