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Anyone who wants a shot in the top three streamers — the magic number for subscribers, according to former WarnerMedia CEO Jason Kilar — must choose an alliance. However, only so many merger opportunities remain. Disney’s size is due in large part to its purchasing most of Fox Corp for $71 billion in 2019. They outbid Comcast, which acquired NBCUniversal for about $14 billion in 2013. (Losing out on Fox assets drove Disney’s price point up by nearly $20 billion, which some analysts argue was part of the point....

“The Clintons are very evil,” Jim and Jerry tell Borat during the movie. “Supposedly they torture these kids. Well, what it does, it gets their adrenaline flowing in their body, then they take that out of their adrenal glands and they drink their blood.” Clinton sent a video message to Jim and Jerry to address their conspiracy theory, and the message plays in its entirety at the end of the seventh episode of “Debunking Borat....

Meagan Good stars as Camille, a young anthropology professor at Columbia who, despite her extensive knowledge of cultures around the world, has a hard time with her own love life. “In Harlem, educated Black women are forced to navigate a playing field in which men have significantly more dating options, so it’s not that we’re desperate or thirsty, we’re dealing with a real-life man-deficit,” Good’s character proclaims in Episode 1. Also in the friend group: Tye (Jerrie Johnson), a successful creator of a queer-dating app who tends to go for Instagram models but prefers to keep vulnerability and romantic partners at arm’s length; Angie (Shoniqua Shandai), a free-spirited, confident, and outspoken singer-actress who lives rent-free; and Angie’s bestie Quinn (Grace Byers), a trust-fund baby, struggling fashion designer, and hopeless romantic....

The convention will run August 17-20 from 9-11 p.m. ET every night. Speakers for the first night include Senator Amy Klobuchar, Senator Catherine Cortez Masto, Governor Andrew Cuomo, Governor Gretchen Whitmer, Representative Jim Clyburn, Representative Gwen Moore, Senator Doug Jones, Senator Bernie Sanders, and Former First Lady Michelle Obama giving the keynote. Michelle Obama, one of the most popular figures in the country, gave a memorable speech at the DNC in 2016 in which she said of the Republican Party, “when they go low we go high....

The film’s X-ray insight into brittle bourgeoise fear is still lucid enough to get under your skin, especially when Trocker seizes on the feeling that we’ve seen this before and begins to weaponize it against us. Klemens Hufnagl’s floating camera wends its way through an empty Belgian vacation home somewhere near the German border; the place is eerie and expectant, acclimating us to a film preoccupied with blind spots in domestic bliss....

[Editor’s note: This article contains major spoilers for “Master of None” Season 3.] If Peak TV has taught us anything, it’s impossible to have too much of a good thing. That’s why “Who Wants To Be a Millionaire” still airs five nights a week in primetime and all of NBC’s Thursday night sitcoms are super-sized. OK, so neither of those things are true, but that hasn’t stopped the TV industry from looking into other ways of sating a fanbase’s every desire....

From 2010’s “Rubber,” which followed a killer tire, to 2019’s “Deerskin,” which followed a killer jacket, to 2020’s “Mandibles,” which followed a more-benevolent-but-unsettlingly-giant fly, Dupieux’s modus operandi has never really changed, with each new film enacting the same experiment to see just how far a single absurdist premise can travel (counted for time, usually about 75 minutes). And if “Incredible but True” (running time: 74 minutes) fits neatly within that overall filmography, it also builds on the uncommon tenderness that made “Mandibles” stand out to rather delightful effect....