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Trillion-dollar tech giants are furlongs ahead in the race to capture cord-cutting sports fans, but Disney and other conglomerates are not going down without a fight as they leverage multi-platform portfolios to maintain pole position. Etsuo Hara/Getty Images While NFL broadcasts are by far the most expensive among U.S. sports, Sunday Ticket isn’t the only major sports deal set to close this year. Media companies last week were invited to bid on U....

The show definitely struck a nerve during the pandemic, resulting in a slew of “Squid Game” Halloween costumes and cosplay pieces; a “Saturday Night Live” musical parody starring Rami Malek and Pete Davidson; and YouTuber MrBeast’s “$456,000 Squid Game In Real Life!” video. Meanwhile, director Hwang Dong-hyuk and the “Squid Game” cast have already parlayed that popularity into awards season success, with 22 voting bodies recognizing the series, and major, history-making wins for stars Lee Jung-jae, Jung Ho-yeon, and O Yeong-su....

SundanceTV, which premiered the first season of the show in May 2019, announced that Hornby and director Stephen Frears will reunite for the show’s upcoming sophomore season. Brendan Gleeson (“In Bruges”), Patricia Clarkson (“Sharp Objects”) and Esco Jouléy (“High Maintenance”) will star in Season 2, which will consist of 10, 10-minute episodes (just like Season 1). A specific release date for Season 2 was not provided. Per SundanceTV, the Season 2 synopsis reads: “State of the Union” cleverly explores relationships and the human experience....

“We had no distributor in place,” said Macdonald on the phone from London. “We couldn’t get the music score correct, so we were not finished as soon as we should have been. And COVID complicated things. We filmed this labor of love for no money, so we always wanted an awards film. It was the only way we felt to get attention.” Rather than the original plan of screening at a discovery fall festival like Toronto or Telluride, the financiers sold a five-minute trailer at the 2020 Cannes virtual market to STX, which originally planned an October or November stateside release....

Ted (Jason Sudeikis) is continuing where he left off in Season 1, working with the English Premiere League soccer team of AFC Richmond — and the jokes continue to abound about his lack of experience. Also as the trailer shows us, Ted assumes nearly everyone with the name John is John Stamos and that people who don’t eat sugar live in Santa Monica. “Ted Lasso” has been a fan favorite since it debuted on Apple TV+ last year....

“There has been such widespread generosity in our industry that limiting the Hersholt Humanitarian Award to one recipient, this year in particular, was impossible. So, we are breaking with tradition and giving two awards to honor that spirit,” said Academy President David Rubin in an official statement. “Tyler’s cultural influence extends far beyond his work as a filmmaker. He has quietly and steadily focused on humanitarian and social justice causes from the beginning of his career, caring for people who are most often ignored....

That angle, long a staple of food TV, is also found in Season 4 of “The Chef Show,” the Netflix cooking series co-hosted by acclaimed Los Angeles food fixture Roy Choi and writer/director Jon Favreau. Instead of building the show on artifice and impeccable presentation, Favreau and Choi continue to usher the viewer through a breezy set of kitchen basics, with these latest five episodes centering on the pair’s private setup and the various buzzy L....