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Stargate superfans urge other streamers to pick up cancelled series after petition

Stargate superfans urge other streamers to pick up cancelled series after petition

Published by Daniella Wilson

After a petition was launched to save the axed Stargate series, the superfans behind it have spoken out on their hopes for the show – including their wish for another streamer to pick it up if Amazon don’t want to take it forward. Shane and Brian Montgomery, also known as the Popcast Brothers, have been campaigning for a new Stargate series since 2019 and, after news that Martin Gero’s revived series wouldn’t be moving forward at Amazon, created a petition which now has more than 60,000 signatures. Speaking exclusively to Radio Times, Shane said: “For a long time, we were fighting for Stargate to be brought back under original TV co-creator Brad Wright as Brad had been fighting to do new Stargate for years and he was the best person to bring back the franchise as it would respect what had come before. “When Amazon bought MGM, we continued championing for Brad, but when it was announced that Martin would showrun a new series, since Martin was also part of original Stargate, we got 100% …

Streamers Like Clavicular Are Humiliating OnlyFans Girls For Clout

Streamers Like Clavicular Are Humiliating OnlyFans Girls For Clout

Published by skeptic

Adult film star Willow Ryder didn’t immediately recognize the man who entered the Miami party she was at earlier this month, but she knew he wasn’t part of the sex work industry. He had an entourage and what appeared to be a hulking bodyguard. Her friends told her it was Clavicular, aka Braden Peters, a popular Kick livestreamer known for “looksmaxxing,” or resorting to extreme measures to improve his appearance. Ryder says she didn’t know exactly who Clavicular was or what he talked about on his stream, but she knew that he had a massive following. And as a content creator herself, she felt it would be beneficial to her to appear on his stream, so she introduced herself to him. When she returned to her friends, she says they told her that “he’s known for talking shit to women and embarrassing women and that he talks shit about people that do sex work.” In clips from the May 14 party—an event primarily for porn stars sponsored by the podcast Pillow Talk—that’s exactly what Clavicular …

‘Frighteningly brilliant’ thriller The Ex-Wife storms UK streamer’s trending chart

‘Frighteningly brilliant’ thriller The Ex-Wife storms UK streamer’s trending chart

Published by Daniella Wilson

Calling all thriller fans! The Ex-Wife, a dark and twisty psychological series that originally debuted on Paramount+ in 2022, is currently captivating a whole new audience following the release of its second season on Channel 5.  Based on the bestselling novel by Jess Ryder, the first season introduces us to Tasha (Céline Buckens), a woman enjoying an idyllic life with her devoted husband, Tom (Tom Mison), and their newborn baby. However, domestic bliss is quickly overshadowed by Tasha’s mounting concern regarding her husband’s uncomfortably close relationship with his ex-wife, Jen. © Channel 5Céline Buckens and Tom Mison star in The Ex-Wife With the second season recently landing on Channel 5, viewers have wasted no time getting stuck into the mystery. If you are looking for your next addictive, fast-paced binge-watch, here is everything you need to know about the gripping drama. What happens in season two?  The second season picks up three years after the events of season one. We find Tasha in Cyprus, rebuilding her life with her daughter Emily, having fled their home …

Canada Tripling Netflix Tax U.S. Streamers Draws Skepticism

Canada Tripling Netflix Tax U.S. Streamers Draws Skepticism

Published by Daniella Wilson

After the American studios criticized Canada for raising its cash call on large U.S. streamers, skeptical local creative guilds and unions have raised questions around the CRTC’s latest Online Streaming Act ruling. Those are the same Canadian filmmakers supposed to benefit from the country’s TV czar slapping another 10 percent levy on foreign streaming platforms on top of an interim 5 percent obligatory expenditure on homegrown Canadian content production in controversial legislation often referred to as a “Netflix tax.”   The Writers Guild of Canada said the Canadian Radio-television and telecommunications decision was “a significant step forward” in the years-in-the-making OSA legislation, first made law in 2023 and now held up in the Federal Court of Appeals due to a legal challenge by foreign media players. On May 21, the CRTC ordered American digital platforms to contribute 15 percent of their Canadian revenues to subsidize local indie film and TV production, while reducing spending obligations on local broadcasters. But local screenwriters took issue with the TV regulator ending a policy of putting a priority on …

Major Studios Slam Canada for Discriminatory Investment on U.S. Streamers

Major Studios Slam Canada for Discriminatory Investment on U.S. Streamers

Published by Daniella Wilson

Hollywood studios have slammed Canada’s TV watchdog for ordering American streamers to direct 15 percent of their Canadian revenues into local indie production as part of the country’s Online Streaming law. “The Motion Picture Association strongly condemns the CRTC’s decision to impose unprecedented, unnecessary, and discriminatory investment obligations on American streaming services operating in Canada,” Motion Picture Association chairman and CEO Charles Rivkin said in a statement obtained by The Hollywood Reporter. That followed the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission, which regulates the country’s TV and telecommunications sectors, ruling “online broadcasters,” which includes Netflix and other American streamers, will contribute 15 percent of revenues from operating in the Canadian market to underwrite homegrown media content. That includes indigenous content production and French-language content and news. The CRTC ruling comes in the wake of Canada’s Online Streaming Act, legislation that forces U.S. digital giants to finance Canadian media content production, becoming law in 2023. “Under the new rules, broadcasters with annual Canadian broadcasting revenues above $25 million will make meaningful contributions to the broadcasting system. No broadcasters below that …

Best WiiM Streamers (2026): Simplify Your Sound With WiiM Streaming Gear

Best WiiM Streamers (2026): Simplify Your Sound With WiiM Streaming Gear

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Some Speaker Pairings to Consider A budget option Sony’s affordable three-way bookshelf speakers are my speakeasy secret to an ultra-affordable sound system. They’re uncommonly good for their asking price, with three separate drivers, including a tweeter, a 5.12-inch woofer, and a high-range “super tweeter” for sparkling treble. Their bass isn’t awesome, so you may need to add a subwoofer down the road, but this is the best way I know to get great audio on a budget. A Midrange Pair Elac, powered by former Pioneer guru Andrew Jones, is one of the best speaker brands for affordable performance I’ve tested. The Debut 2.0 is a great midrange model that WIRED Editor Parker Hall praised for lush, smooth, and neutral sound that gives you a natural representation of your music and other audio. Fancier Pairs SVS Ultra Evolution Bookshelf If you’re looking for stylish sound cubes with plenty of punch, a wide soundstage, and gin-clear treble, I haven’t found a better match than the SVS Evolution. With advanced speaker technology and premium build quality, these are …

Teacher Asks What’s The Point Of School When All Her Students Aspire To Become Streamers

Teacher Asks What’s The Point Of School When All Her Students Aspire To Become Streamers

Published by Jenni Sidey

An elementary school teacher took to Reddit to share her frustrations with her students, but she actually thinks all of the problems come from their unrealistic career aspirations. She argued that she and her husband, a high school teacher, can barely get their students to engage with their schoolwork because they simply think they don’t need to learn. Instead, they all believe they’ll become streamers or influencers and never need academic knowledge again, which has left her wondering why she’s even doing her job anymore. The teacher said that ‘influencer culture [is] destroying children.’ “I teach elementary and my husband teaches high school,” she said in her post on the r/Teachers subreddit. Apparently, the age difference doesn’t affect students’ interest at all. “In both schools, it’s a fight to get children to read or pay attention.” Monstera Production | Pexels A question her husband posed got her thinking. “On Friday, my husband asked a group of students (16-year-olds) who refuse to do any work and are failing, what are they going to do when they …

Why Internet Stars Are Chinamaxxing

Why Internet Stars Are Chinamaxxing

Published by Jenni Sidey

For the American traveler who imagines he has a borderline healthy relationship with his phone, a trip to China is instructive. First, the Great Firewall cuts you off from the social feeds and algorithms that govern your media consumption back home. Without resorting to a VPN to bypass the blocks, there’s no access to Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Gmail, X, or TikTok. As your digital world goes quiet, you realize just how much of your daily intake is noise. But just as you’re starting to appreciate the silence, new portals open up. More than anywhere else on earth, to get by in China, you have to live through your phone. You pay for almost everything with QR codes on super-apps; public transit tickets come in blocky patterns in the same apps; and ordering at restaurants, that time-honored respite for the lonely, is via QR-accessed mini-programs in the apps. Living through Chinese apps, you start to get sucked into their social layers, which automatically translate into English. The hostel has a group chat that buzzes constantly. The …

Two French streamers taken into custody over death in live broadcast

Two French streamers taken into custody over death in live broadcast

Published by Sam Flores

Two French streamers, Owen Cenazandotti and Safine Hamadi, were taken into custody on Tuesday, January 27, prosecutors said, as part of a months-long probe into an on-camera death broadcast via the Kick platform. The live-streamed death of Raphaël Graven, alias Jean Pormanove, in August, live on the 200,000-follower video channel, which he shared with Cenazandotti and Hamadi, shocked France and drew the ire of government ministers. Read more Subscribers only French streamer dies live on air after months of humiliation and abuse Cenazandotti, 26, and Hamadi, 23, have denied responsibility for 46-year-old Graven’s death, which followed a 12-day live marathon of physical and verbal abuse against him. Graven died on August 18, during a livestream in which he and another man were struck and insulted by his younger colleagues, though an autopsy has since ruled out “intervention by a third party” playing a role in his death. They are now being held on charges including assault, incitement to hatred, abuse of a vulnerable person and recording and broadcasting violent images, said Damien Martinelli, the chief …