Television
fromEsquire
4 days agoThe Best TV Shows of 2026 (So Far)
Despite industry turmoil, quality television continues thriving with acclaimed new seasons and innovative shows across multiple genres in 2026.
Gated and hedged, the property holds a two-story home, a 400-square-foot guesthouse shrouded in ivy and a grassy backyard with a swimming pool and spa. Original details including beamed ceilings, arched doorways and hardwood floors fill the main house, which boasts five bedrooms and five bathrooms in 4,344 square feet.
In order to 'modernise' what we have seen is the TV industry has taken its content, stuck it on a server, and, well, that's it. There's no masking the obvious - It looks like it wishes it didn't have to change. What else could they have done? Have any large TV companies embraced the world outside their own nation? Have any got stuck into interactive formats? Embraced shorter content? New types of ads or funding?
On the small screen, 2025 was all about money-the ostentatious peacocking of wealth on shows such as Sirens, And Just Like That, Selling Sunset, and With Love, Meghan; the spiraling production costs of episodes themselves; the politicized wrestling over which megacorporation will take over Warner Bros. Discovery and its TV arms, including HBO. CBS canceled The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, in what seemed to many critics like an obvious sop to the Trump administration, ahead of Paramount's $8 billion merger with the production company Skydance.
The FX half-hour comedy about a group of recent college graduates in New York begins, naturally, on the subway; what seems like an over-studied portrait of early adulthood intimacy tangled limbs, in-group references, aggressively relaxed banter quickly devolves into a standoff between a creepy subway masturbator and the group's instigator, Issa (Amita Rao), trying to out-masturbate him to make a wildly off point about feminism.
I think it very accurately reflects my perspective on the industry, in that I am incredibly frustrated with some aspects of it, but also overall very enamored by it. The show is such a love letter to our world, and the reaction within our community is just incredible. And so many people are like, Oh, I think that was me. That was a conversation we had, right?' And I'm like, you don't want to know.
The Bectu union has received multiple complaints regarding Wallace’s conduct, including allegations of inappropriate behavior towards young female freelancers, emphasizing their vulnerability in coming forward.
The cost of acquiring [intellectual property], attaching talent, and producing quality content has surged due to the streaming wars, making it unaffordable for many.