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Reacher Reclaims Streaming Crown With 1.5 Billion Minutes
Prime Video’s Reacher season four led Nielsen’s Aug. 10–16, 2026 streaming rankings with 1.5 billion minutes across all seasons, about 1.19 billion of which were from the three new episodes released Aug. 12. It still ranked among the top weeks for the series (fifth-best). Ted Lasso (Apple TV+) with 996 million and Lioness (Paramount+) with 955 million also crossed the billion-minute mark; FX’s The Shards didn’t make the top 10. The Last House led the movie chart with 869 million minutes, while Michael on Starz ranked fourth with 275 million. Nielsen’s data covers U.S. TV viewing only and excludes mobile/computer viewing.
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Ryan Murphy outlines a three-season vision for The Shards, adapting Bret Easton Ellis’s 1981 LA-set novel with room for personal storytelling and mentoring a younger cast, while also detailing American Horror Story: AHS13, which will bring back past stars to play multiple characters across seasons. Murphy notes Ellis’s involvement and aims to honor Norman Lear’s influence as he threads these ambitious projects together.
Disney+ Bets on EPCOT's Spaceship Earth with New Pilot
Disney+ has ordered a pilot based on EPCOT’s Spaceship Earth ride, with Jason Fuchs as showrunner and Michael Waldron producing. The series would use the ride’s time-travel premise to follow a group of teens from Earth’s past and future as they work to avert a looming global catastrophe, potentially launching a new park-adaptation-driven drama if greenlit.
Emily In Paris Adjusts Season 6 Schedule After Minnie Driver’s France Car Crash
Deadline reports Emily In Paris Season 6 filming stayed largely on track after Minnie Driver’s off‑set car crash in France; only one scene was moved due to her pre‑planned break as she recovers from a sprained neck, with production continuing in Greece, Monaco, and Paris and Driver expected to return once she heals.
The Shards: Murphy and Ellis Push Boundaries in an Over-the-Top 1980s LA Chronicle
The Shards, a nine-episode FX/Hulu drama from Ryan Murphy and Bret Easton Ellis, expands Ellis’s autobiographical novel into a glittery, excess-soaked portrait of early-1980s Los Angeles focused on prep-school sex, drugs, and a lurking serial killer; while visually lush and often entertaining, the nine-episode arc struggles with tonal coherence, delivering strong performances from Igby Rigney and Kaia Gerber and finishing with a provocative cliffhanger.
Amazon Develops Warhammer 40,000 Animated Series With Henry Cavill Producing
Amazon MGM Studios, Blur Studios, and Games Workshop are developing a Warhammer 40,000 animated event series as a spinoff of the Secret Level anthology; Henry Cavill will executive produce (and lead a separate live‑action Warhammer 40,000 project at Amazon) with Natalie Viscuso, while Dave Wilson directs and Tim Miller serves as an executive producer. The series will feature the Deathwatch, an elite group of Space Marines, with plot details still under wraps.
Ted Lasso Season 4 Trailer Drops a Sweet Nod to Dani Rojas
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Knight of the Seven Kingdoms Showrunner Teases Brutal Season 2 and Big Future Plans
Showrunner Ira Parker says Season 2 has been brutal due to weather and a shift from Northern Ireland to Spain to adapt The Sworn Sword; despite the production delays, the series earned nine Emmy nominations and Parker envisions expanding beyond three seasons with Dexter and Peter aging into new canonical stories, aided by unpublished George R.R. Martin material. A premiere is expected in the first half of next year.
Netflix Launches Queenstown as Its First New Zealand Original
Netflix has kicked off production on its first locally commissioned New Zealand series, Queenstown, an eight-episode drama set in the resort town’s luxe ski scene. Created by Chloe Stearns and directed by Glendyn Ivin and Roseanne Liang, the ensemble cast includes Rufus Sewell, Frances O’Connor, Alycia Debnam-Carey and Te Kohe Tuhaka. Filmed on location in Queenstown, the show follows a wealthy family and their staff as power, loyalty and desire collide. Backed by the New Zealand Film Commission and the Screen Production Rebate, a premiere date hasn't been announced.
The Challenge Season 42: Cutthroat Debuts on Paramount+ With Captain’s Cut
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Ariana Grande will not appear in American Horror Story season 13 due to conflicting schedules with her Eternal Sunshine tour. She was set to join a star-studded cast, but filming in New York is proceeding without her. Grande has previously collaborated with Ryan Murphy on Scream Queens and is focusing on acting and other projects.