Hulu working on original series from Stephen King and J.J. Abrams
The extreme popularity of shows like House of Cards and Orange is the New Black means streaming services such as Netflix and Hulu are making an even bigger push for original content. Accordingly, Hulu today announced that it has given the green light to start production on 11/22/63, an original series based on the novel by renowned author Stephen King, who is also listed as a producer alongside J.J. Abrams. Hulu’s newly introduced show, which will be done in collaboration with Warner Bros., is a thriller/love story that focuses on the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Basically, as expressed in the image above, a character tries to change the outcome of the events which took place on that day, November 22nd, 1963. Whether it’ll be worth watching is yet to be determined, but this shows Hulu isn’t ready to let Netflix have all the fun when it comes to creating new programming.
Filed under: Home Entertainment, Internet, HD
Source: Hulu
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What’s on your HDTV: ‘Gotham’, ‘Scorpion’, ‘Sleepy Hollow’ and ‘The Blacklist’
Welcome to the fall premiere season. We’re welcoming back familiar shows like Key & Peele, Person of Interest, The Simpsons and The Big Bang Theory, as well as some of last year’s holdovers like Sleepy Hollow, Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Brooklyn Nine-nine and The Blacklist. So what about this year’s newcomers? First up tonight is Gotham, an interesting Batman prequel, along with CBS’ first attempt at a hacker drama/action show called Scorpion (CSI: Cyber starring Luke Perry and Bow-Wow aka Shad Moss will debut in midseason). ABC will tie the new comedy Black-ish to its long-running hit show Modern Family, and on Amazon we’ll get the next block of episodes for its new show Transparent. The How I Met Your Mother complete series boxed set arrives on Blu-ray, along with a 25th anniversary edition of Ghost in the Shell, and FIFA 15 on almost all videogame consoles. Oh – and on Saturday Night Live you can expect Star-Lord himself Chris Pratt. Hit the gallery or just look after the break to check out each day’s highlights, including trailers and let us know what you think (or what we missed).
Blu-ray, Streaming movies & Games
- Neighbours
- Halloween: The Complete Collection
- Saw: The Complete Movie collection
- Attack on Titan Part 2
- The Exorcist: The Complete Anthology
- The Signal
- The Rover
- Defiance (S2)
- Ghost in the Shell (25th Anniversary Edition)
- Macbeth (1971)
- Key & Peele (S3)
- The 100 (S1)
- Disney Infinity: 2.0 Edition – Marvel Super Heroes (PS4, Xbox One,PS3, Wii U, Xbox 360)
- FIFA 15 (PS3, PS4, Xbox One, Xbox 360)
- Defense Grid 2 (Xbox One, PS4)
- Slender: The Arrival (Xbox 360, PS3)
Monday
- Revolution (S2), Netflix
- Monday Night Football: Bears vs. Jets, ESPN, 8:15PM
- The Big Bang Theory (season premiere), CBS, 8 & 8:30PM
- Gotham (series premiere), Fox, 8PM
- The Voice (season premiere), NBC, 8PM
- Dancing with the Stars, ABC, 8PM
- American Ninja Warrior, NBC, 8PM
- WWE Raw, USA, 8PM
- Scorpion (series premiere), CBS, 9PM
- Sleepy Hollow (season premiere), Fox, 9PM
- Dallas (season finale), TNT, 9PM
- The Blacklist (season premiere), NBC, 10PM
- Forever (series premiere), ABC, 10PM
- Under the Dome (season finale), CBS, 10PM
- Love Prison, A&E, 10PM
Tuesday
- NCIS (season premiere), CBS, 8PM
- Finding Your Roots (season premiere), PBS, 8PM
- Big Brother, CBS, 8PM
- The Voice, NBC, 8PM
- Dancing with the Stars, ABC, 8PM
- Utopia, Fox, 8PM
- Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (season premiere), ABC, 9PM
- NCIS: New Orleans (series premiere), CBS, 9PM
- New Girl, Fox, 9PM
- America’s Got Talent, NBC, 9PM
- Inside the NFL, Showtime, 9PM
- 4th and Loud, A&E, 9PM
- Face Off, Syfy, 9PM
- Matador, El Rey, 9PM
- The Mindy Project, Fox, 9:30PM
- Awkward (fall premiere), MTV, 10PM
- Person of Interest (season premiere), CBS, 10PM
- Chicago Fire (season premiere), NBC, 10PM
- Forever, ABC, 10PM
- Sons of Anarchy, FX, 10PM
- Tosh.0, Comedy Central, 10PM
- The Singles Project, Bravo, 10PM
- Faking It (season premiere, MTC, 10:30PM
- Brickleberry, Comedy Central, 10:30PM
- The Listener, Ion, 11 & 11:59PM
Wednesday
- The Middle (season premiere), ABC, 8PM
- Survivor (season premiere), CBS, 8PM
- The Mysteries of Laura, NBC, 8PM
- Penn & Teller: Fool Us (season finale), CW, 8PM
- Unsung: Big Daddy Kane, TV One, 8PM
- Big Brother, CBS, 8PM
- The Goldbergs (season premiere), ABC, 8:30PM
- Law & Order: SVU (season premiere), NBC, 9PM
- Modern Family (season premiere), ABC, 9PM
- Red Band Society, Fox, 9PM
- Legends, TNT, 9PM
- Big Brother (season finale), CBS, 9:30PM
- Black-ish (series premiere), ABC, 9:30PM
- Chicago PD (season premiere), NBC, 10PM
- Nashville (season premiere), ABC, 10PM
- South Park (season premiere), Comedy Central, 10PM
- The League, FXX, 10PM
- Franklin & Bash, TNT, 10PM
- The Bridge, FX, 10PM
- Key & Peele (season premiere), Comedy Central, 10:30PM
- Ali G: Rezurection, FXX, 10:30PM
- Virgin Territory (season finale), MTV, 11PM
Thursday
- Texas Tech vs. Oklahoma State college football, ESPN, 7:30PM
- Giants/Washington football, CBS, 8:25PM
- Bones (season premiere), Fox, 8PM
- Grey’s Anatomy (season premiere), ABC, 8PM
- Glena (special presentation, Showtime, 8PM
- The Biggest Loser, NBC, 8PM
- Haven, Syfy, 8PM
- Scandal (season premiere), ABC, 9PM
- Dating Naked, VH1, 9PM
- Big Brother, CBS, 9PM
- Working the Engels, NBC, 9:30PM
- Parenthood (season premiere), NBC, 10PM
- How to Get Away With Murder (series premiere), ABC, 10PM
- Ridiculousness, MTV, 10PM
- Garfunkel & Oates (season finale), IFC, 10PM
- Black Jesus, Cartoon Network, 11PM
- Adam Devine’s House Party, Comedy Central, 12:30AM
Friday
- How I Met Your Mother (S9), Netflix
- Parks & Recreation (S6), Netflix
- Transparent (episodes 2 – 11), Amazon
- The Amazing Race (season premiere), CBS, 8PM
- Shark Tank (season premiere), ABC, 8PM
- Utopia, Fox, 8PM
- Big Brother, CBS, 8PM
- Masters of Illusion, CW, 8PM
- WWE SmackDown, Syfy, 8PM
- Hawaii Five-0 (season premiere), CBS, 9PM
- A Football Life: Sean Taylor, NFL Network, 9PM
- Blue Bloods (season premiere), CBS, 10PM
- Real Time with Bill Maher, HBO, 10PM
- Z Nation, Syfy, 10PM
- The Knick, Cinemax, 10PM
Saturday
- Arkansas vs. Texas A&M college football, CBS, 3:30PM
- Texas vs. Kansas college football, Fox Sports 1, 4PM
- Notre Dame vs. Syracuse college football, ABC, 8PM
- Cedar Cove, Hallmark, 8PM
- Midnight Masquerade, Hallmark, 9PM
- Doctor Who, BBC America, 9PM
- Hell on Wheels, AMC, 9PM
- Outlander (season finale), Starz, 9PM
- Intruders, BBC America, 10PM
- Oregon State vs. USC college football, ESPN, 10:30PM
- The Chair, Starz, 11PM
- Saturday Night Live: Chris Pratt / Ariana Grande (season premiere), NBC, 11:30PM
Sunday
- The Walking Dead (S4), Netflix
- NASCAR Sprint Cup Series @ Dover, ESPN, 2PM
- 60 Minutes, CBS, 7:30PM
- Once upon A Time (season premiere), ABC, 8PM
- The Simpsons (season premiere), Fox, 8PM
- The Paradise (season premiere), PBS, 8PM
- Madam Secretary, CBS, 8PM
- Saints / Cowboys football, NBC, 8:20PM
- Brooklyn Nine-Nine (season premiere), Fox, 8:30PM
- Miss Marple season finale), PBS, 9PM
- Resurrection (season premiere), ABC, 9PM
- Boardwalk Empire, HBO, 9PM
- Ray Donovan (season finale), Showtime, 9PM
- The Good Wife, CBS, 9PM
- American Dad, Fox, 9:30PM
- CSI (season premiere), CBS, 10PM
- The Lottery (season finale), Lifetime, 10PM
- Revenge (season premiere), ABC, 10PM
- Manhattan, WGN, 10PM
- The Strain, FX, 10PM
- Masters of Sex (season finale), Showtime, 10PM
- The Mystery of Agatha Christie with David Suchet, PBS, 10:30PM
- Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, HBO, 11PM
Filed under: Home Entertainment, HD
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TechCrunch: Apple plans to shutter Beats Music (update: service to continue, brand may change)
Whatever Apple has in the works for its future audio offerings, it may not include keeping Beats Music in app stores. TechCrunch reports that Apple plans to shut down the music streaming service, noting that CEO Ian Rogers has already been tasked with running iTunes Radio. The move wouldn’t be a huge shock as it makes sense for Tim Cook and Co. to bring new listening options under the iTunes umbrella rather than keeping Dr. Dre’s young moniker. It also goes to show that in addition to nabbing the hoards of faithful headphone wearers, Apple’s purchase was just as much about getting the talent behind the brand’s full line of products — including Dre and Jimmy Iovine — under its wing. I reached out to Beats for comment, and I’ll be sure to update if it offers any additional information. Of course, we’re interested to see how “the first subscription service that finally got it right,” according to Cook, will get molded into a new audio option.
Update: Well, Apple’s Tom Neumayr told Re/code that the TechCrunch report is simply not true. But that doesn’t mean there won’t be changes to Beats Music. The service may stay, but the Beats Music brand may disappear. And that makes perfect sense when the iTunes brand is already so strong.
Source: TechCrunch
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Spotify who? Most of Japan’s music sales are CDs
Japan may be on the cutting edge of everything from servant robots to tech-laden toilets, but music? Not so much, it seems. Old-fashioned CDs still make up 85 percent of the country’s music sales despite years of declining volume, and the Recording Industry Association of Japan notes that internet-based sales actually shrank from $1 billion in 2009 to about $400 million in 2013. In short, the physical-to-digital transition that took hold elsewhere has fallen flat in the Land of the Rising Sun, where people are simply buying less music overall.
Just what’s creating these problems isn’t clear, but it’s likely to be a mix of corporate and cultural factors. Music licensing is decidedly more complex in Japan than in many other countries, preventing online outfits from either launching or offering a large-enough catalog to sway buyers. Spotify, for example, has spent two years struggling to get the deals it needs for a local debut. Japan also puts a much heavier emphasis on CDs as collectibles and promotional tools — it’s hard to lure screaming J-pop fans to a store or concert if you don’t have something more memorable to offer than a download code. It’s doubtful that a shift in Japanese listening tastes will happen any time soon as a result, but it’s also clear that the disc-based status quo can’t last forever.
[Image credit: RW Sinclair, Flickr]
Filed under: Storage, Internet
Via: Forbes
Source: New York Times
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AT&T to carry LG G3 Vigor on September 23
AT&T on Monday announced that it, too, will soon offer the LG G3 Vigor. As a lower-cost and lesser-powered take on the flagship G3, this one features a 5-inch display, an 8-megapixel rear camera (with Auto Laser focus), front-facing 1.3-megapixel snapper. Powered by Android 4.4 KitKat, the G3 Vigor also features LG’s signature apps and UI tweaks including Knock Code, Gesture Shutter, and QuickMemo+.
The G3 Vigor is capable of HD Voice from AT&T and will be offered for $49.99 with a two-year service agreement. Alternatively, customers can opt for an AT&T Next plan and spread payments out. With a total off-contract cost of $334.99, options are $13.96 a month with Next 18 (24 months), $16.75 a month with Next 12 (20 months). AT&T is also announcing a limited time promotion which sees the LG G Pad 7.0 LTE selling for $.99 with a two-year service plan. Yes, you’ll have to sign both up for their own plans, but that’s essentially a free, 4G LTE-connected tablet in the process.
As is the case with other smartphones under Ma Bell, the G3 Vigor qualified for the $100 bill credit for new activations.
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WSJ: Google and HTC collaborating on Nexus tablet
Rumors about a HTC made Nexus 9 tablet have originated all the way back to earlier this summer, and perhaps before. Recently, NVIDIA accidentally leaked/confirmed its existence through legal documents; last week we heard that tell of an October 16 release date. It seems that the rumor mill is still just wants to keep spinning, as we know have an article from Wall Street Journal (WSJ) about the Nexus 9.
Though still a rumor at this point, the WSJ is a pretty significant source for a rumor. According to source, “Google selected HTC over more experienced tablet makers like Samsung to make its upcoming 9-inch Nexus tablet.”
Whether the “people familiar with the matter” are trustworthy remains to be seen so take this with a grain of salt. Nevertheless, it’s exciting to see the WSJ give some credence to these rumors.
Who’s ready for the Nexus 9?
via WSJ
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YouTube invests in new content for creators
YouTube is easily one of the largest places, if not thee largest place, for the budding content creator to rise to stardom. It also allows a place for large corporations to display their latest works from music videos to movie trailers. But the heart of YouTube exists in the channels. And they know it.
YouTube announced on their blog on Thursday that they are once again going to invest in new content for some of their top creators, “ helping them not only fulfill their creative ambitions but also deliver new material to their millions of fans on YouTube.”
It’s great to see such a big company help these people to make newer, better content. Sure, it benefits them in the end, but nevertheless it’s good to see we can have faith in humanity.
Are you excited for this new content?
via YouTube
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Apple Releases OS X Yosemite Mail Update for Developers and Public Beta Testers [Mac Blog]
Apple today released a new version of Mail for OS X Yosemite, fixing an issue that could prevent users from composing a message. The update is available to all developers with the Yosemite Developer Preview installed, as well as public beta testers.
The software can be downloaded through the software update function of the Mac App Store.
A new public beta version of Yosemite and Yosemite Developer Preview 8 were released last week, on Monday. The software is expected to continue on in its beta testing phase until late October, when it will be released to the public.
OS X Yosemite brings several new features to the operating system, including Continuity, which offers unprecedented integration between iOS and OS X. The operating system also includes a complete visual overhaul with a flatter iOS 7-style look.
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Apple Reportedly Planning to Shut Down Beats Music
Apple is planning to discontinue Beats Music, the streaming music service that it acquired as part of an acquisition of Beats Electronics back in May. According to TechCrunch, multiple sources that include “several prominent employees at Apple and Beats” have confirmed that Apple is shutting down the music service.
Many engineers from Beats Music have already been moved off the product and onto other projects at Apple, including iTunes. It’s not clear when exactly Jimmy Iovine and Dr Dre’s music service will be shut down or what Apple will do with streaming, but every source with knowledge of the situation that we talked to agreed Apple plans to sunset the Beats Music brand.
Apple first acquired Beats Music in May, and at the time, announced plans to leave the music service untouched. There were no plans to integrate Beats Music into iTunes, with the company suggesting that it would remain as a standalone service.
Apple shutting down Beats Music is unusual news given the efforts that the company has gone to in order to promote it in recent weeks, adding it to the list of “Apps Made by Apple” and recommending the app to new iOS users.
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NASA challenges you to design experiments for Mars and beyond
Want to play a significant role in NASA’s space exploration efforts without spending years in training? You now have a better chance of making your mark. NASA has launched Solve, a site that makes it easy to find all the agency’s public competitions and crowdsourced projects. You’ll mostly see previously announced efforts there right now, but the inaugural offering is definitely worth a look — the $20,000 Mars Balance Mass Challenge asks you to design an experiment or technology payload that will double as ballast on future Martian explorers. You’ll have until November 21st to submit your brainstorms, and you’ll find out if your work is Mars-bound sometime in mid-January.
Filed under: Science
Via: Phys.org
Source: NASA Solve, NASA
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