George R.R. Martin Doesn’t Think His New Shows Will Ever Match the Success of ‘Game of Thrones’

When George R.R. Martin first started screenwriting in the early 1990s, his then-agent recommended he read “Adventures in the Screen Trade” by William Goldman, in which one of Goldman’s central maxims is “Nobody knows anything.”
Read more: https://variety.com/2019/tv/news/george-r-r-martin-game-of-thrones-success1203256157-1203256157/?source=Snapzu

TV is still the most common way for Americans to get local news, but fewer people are watching

Cable news is growing, local TV news is declining, and network news is roughly flat.
Read more: https://www.niemanlab.org/2019/06/tv-is-still-the-most-common-way-for-americans-to-get-local-news-but-fewer-people-are-watching/?source=Snapzu

Apple TV+ focusing on quality over quantity, says Eddy Cue

Apple TV+, launching this fall, will emphasize a small but high-quality lineup, said Apple's software and services VP Eddy Cue in a recent interview.
Read more: https://iphone.appleinsider.com/articles/19/06/29/apple-tv-focusing-on-quality-over-quantity-says-eddy-cue?source=Snapzu

“Weird Al” Talks Dropping Michael Jackson Parodies From Shows After HBO’s Leaving Neverland

“Weird Al” Yankovic is currently on a symphony tour, and during his recent shows, he hasn’t been performing two staples of his usual live show: the Michael Jackson parodies “Eat It” and ”Fat.” In a new interview with Billboard’s Gary Graff, Yankovic explained that he decided to leave those songs out of the show in the aftermath of the two-part HBO documentary Leaving Neverland.
Read more: https://pitchfork.com/news/weird-al-talks-dropping-michael-jackson-parodies-from-shows-after-hbos-leaving-neverland/?source=Snapzu

Céline Dion - Flying On My Own (Official Lyric Video)

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Dunes at Trump golf course in Scotland to lose protected status

Agency wants to remove golf course area from Forevan Links site of special scientific interest
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/jun/28/dunes-at-trump-golf-course-in-scotland-to-lose-protected-status?source=Snapzu

Teen Titans Go! Vs. Teen Titans

- Exclusive Official Trailer
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This dying bookstore has a proposal for NYC: Just treat us like you treated Amazon

Book Culture, based in the same Queens neighborhood where Amazon wanted to set up shop, says it will be forced to close if the city or state doesn’t offer assistance.
Read more: https://www.fastcompany.com/90369805/struggling-book-culture-to-nyc-just-treat-us-like-amazon?source=Snapzu

Why we love to binge on stressful shows like 'Chernobyl' and 'Black Mirror'

Streaming services are currently full of shows that give viewers few reasons to be optimistic, such as Hulu's "The Handmaid's Tale" and Netflix's "Black Mirror," both of which depict futuristic dystopias that don't always seem all that far fetched.
Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/06/21/why-we-love-to-binge-on-stressful-shows-like-chernobyl-and-black-mirror.html?source=Snapzu

My secret shame: I am (still) addicted to Pokémon Go

Dominic Rushe has caught over 11,000 Pokémon, walked 1,841km in Poké-land, and doesn’t plan to stop anytime soon
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/jun/26/my-secret-shame-i-am-still-addicted-to-pokemon-go?source=Snapzu

Netflix is testing a pop-out, picture-in-picture mode for desktop

Never stop streaming
Read more: https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/21/18700855/netflix-pop-out-picture-in-picture-mode-desktop-test?source=Snapzu

What Happens After Amazon’s Domination Is Complete? Its Bookstore Offers Clues

Popular novels, technical tomes and self-published books are pirated and sold on Amazon. That may actually be helping the company extend its grip on the book business.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/23/technology/amazon-domination-bookstore-books.html?source=Snapzu

I tried being a lumberjack and it was OK

Axe-throwing venues are opening so often you’d think we were preparing for a zombie apocalypse
Read more: https://www.1843magazine.com/culture/test-drive/i-tried-being-a-lumberjack-and-it-was-ok?source=Snapzu

Outer Wilds Is One Of The Best Games I've Ever Played

If you put me in a room with ten executives and asked me to pitch Outer Wilds, here is what I would say: “It’s got the exploration of a Metroid game and the structure of Majora’s Mask crossed with the interstellar wonder of No Man’s Sky and the narrative framework of Return of the Obra Dinn.”
Read more: https://kotaku.com/outer-wilds-is-one-of-the-best-games-ive-ever-played-1835801654?source=Snapzu

Do cyclists think they're above the law, and does it even matter?

Cyclists can be a nuisance, running red lights, riding on the pavement ... but are they dangerous, and if not, is it a problem if they break the law?
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The Doctors of Time & Their Most Memorable Quotes

All the Doctors and all their memorable quotes
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Sony confirms Tom Hardy’s return to ‘Venom 2’

However, things have been surprisingly quiet on this issue since last October, but now Amy Pascal, producer of Sony, has confirmed that Tom Hardy will definitely return as Eddie Brock on Venom 2. “I can say that Tom Hardy will come back playing that character superbly as no one else can.” Obviously, this is something we already knew, but it’s still good to have it confirmed.
Read more: https://newswave101.com/sony-confirms-tom-hardys-return-to-venom-2/?source=Snapzu

How Mark Hamill Became the Most Sought-After Villainous Voice in Hollywood

At the end of shooting Child’s Play, Lars Klevberg wrote Mark Hamill a letter. Though production had wrapped, the director still hadn’t cast someone to voice his Chucky. He was convinced that the Star Wars icon would be the perfect person to bring the ginger-haired killer doll to life. After all, Luke Skywalker is far from the only memorable character Hamill has played. But if you’re not a fan of animation or video games, you may not know it.
Read more: https://www.theringer.com/movies/2019/6/21/18692782/mark-hamill-childs-play-chucky-voice-actor-batman-joker-animated-series?source=Snapzu

9 Musicians on How They Thrive Creatively Without Drugs or Booze

Steven Tyler, Julien Baker, Ben Harper, Jason Isbell, Joe Walsh, and more share their stories.
Read more: https://www.gq.com/story/clean-musicians?source=Snapzu

Book presents the case that animals are just as important as people

In her new book, "Fellow Creatures: Our Obligations to the Other Animals," Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Philosophy Christine Korsgaard makes the case that humans are not inherently more important than animals and therefore should treat them much better than we do.
Read more: https://phys.org/news/2019-06-case-animals-important-people.html?source=Snapzu

Bazzi - Focus (feat. 21 Savage) [Official Audio]

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The CIA Spied on People Through Their Smart TVs, Leaked Documents Reveal

Hackers from the CIA found a way to keep Samsung Smart TVs on “Fake-Off mode.”
Read more: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/8qbq5x/the-cia-spied-on-people-through-their-smart-tvs-leaked-documents-reveal?source=Snapzu

How indie bookshops are fighting back

Independent bookshops are thriving because they understand readers’ tastes better than an Amazon algorithm.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/jun/16/why-indie-bookshops-feed-your-soul?source=Snapzu

Netflix and cull: why is the streaming service cancelling so many shows?

Once upon a time, the tech giant let shows linger on well past their best. Now series like Chambers are getting axed after a season. What is behind this lurch into ruthlessness?
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2019/jun/19/netflix-and-cull-why-is-the-streaming-service-cancelling-so-many-shows?source=Snapzu

The Man In The Gray Flannel Suit (1956)

Nunnally Johnson
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The pleasures of Pauline Kael

The centenary of her birth provides a good opportunity to look back at the peerless career of a film critic remembered for her acuity, fierceness and idiosyncrasy – a writer whose brilliant insights and withering put-downs inspire loyal adulation and bitter enmity like no other. By Farran Smith Nehme.
Read more: https://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/sight-sound-magazine/features/pleaures-pauline-kael-film-critic-legacy?source=Snapzu

UK Porn Block Could be a Ticking 'Privacy Timebomb'

The Open Rights group claims that the BBFC's Age-verification Certificate Standard provides little safety assurance to people who watch porn in the UK.
Read more: https://digit.fyi/uk-porn-block-could-be-a-ticking-privacy-timebomb/?source=Snapzu

How Genius Used Morse Code to Track Its Lyrics

Genius made this video to show how the company used patterns in the formatting of apostrophes to "watermark" the lyrics it found on Google.
Read more: https://www.wsj.com/video/how-genius-used-morse-code-to-track-its-lyrics/88EA4852-4543-4D50-A313-A613FBD00EC0.html?source=Snapzu

Dumbest 'Gotcha' Story Of The Week: Google, Genius And The Copying Of Licensed Lyrics

You may have seen this story in various forms over the weekend, starting with a big Wall Street Journal article (paywall likely) claiming that Genius caught Google "red handed" in copying lyrics from its site. Lots of other articles on the...
Read more: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190617/13335342414/dumbest-gotcha-story-week-google-genius-copying-licensed-lyrics.shtml?source=Snapzu

Torn apart: the vicious war over young adult books

arlier this month, the author and screenwriter Gareth Roberts announced that his story was being removed from a forthcoming Doctor Who anthology. Having been shown Roberts’s past tweets about transgender people, BBC Books said that his views “conflict with our values as a publisher”. At least one of the book’s other contributors, Susie Day, had promised to withdraw from the project if Roberts were included. “I raised my concerns, and said if he was in, I was out,” Day said.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/jun/15/torn-apart-the-vicious-war-over-young-adult-books?source=Snapzu

Hans Zimmer - Time - Live in Prague

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Samsung tells homes to virus-check TVs

The technology company tweeted its QLED-branded sets should be scanned once every few weeks.
Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-48664251?source=Snapzu

Choppers vs. Drones: The Battle for Cinematic Air Supremacy

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How to Eulogize an Animal

Gabrielle Bellot on Pablo Neruda, Virginia Woolf, and Saying Goodbye to Dead Pets.
Read more: https://lithub.com/how-to-eulogize-an-animal/?source=Snapzu

Genius says it caught Google red handed copying its lyrics and robbing them of valuable search traffic

Genius first got suspicious Google was copying them with hit song "Panda" by Desiigner. The company says it found more than 100 instances since.
Read more: https://www.businessinsider.com/genius-accuses-google-of-copying-its-lyrics-and-diverting-traffic-2019-6?IR=T?source=Snapzu

Lena Headey: ‘I wanted a better death for Cersei’

The actor hasn’t stood still since Game of Thrones ended. There’s her short film, her work with refugees – and there’s always another tattoo… Lena Headey has been an actor for the better part of three decades, but the experience has not eased the doubt she has in her abilities. And even near-universal praise of the kind she received for her portrayal of Cersei Lannister in Game of Thrones doesn’t do the trick.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2019/jun/16/lena-headey-cersei-death-game-of-thrones-the-flood-interview?source=Snapzu

The Grandmother Lovers

Introducing the grandmother lovers - the young men who only date elderly women! In this documentary, meet 31-year-old Kyle who can't get enough of his 91-year-old girlfriend. And 40-year-old Octavio who is going through a recent breakup and is on the lookout for a new older woman.
Read more: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ESy30iK01k?source=Snapzu

Billionaire: future music will be AI-generated to match our moods

AI killed the radio star.
Read more: https://futurism.com/the-byte/future-music-ai-generated-moods?source=Snapzu

A Writier's Routine

The A to Z of a writer's life.
Read more: http://www.incidentalcomics.com/2019/05/a-writiers-routine.html?source=Snapzu

Spotify mimics the radio with a news and music playlist for drivers

All it’s missing is weather and traffic
Read more: https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/12/18662060/spotify-your-daily-drive-playlist-update?source=Snapzu

The Invention of the “Beach Read”

A new book unpacks how “summer reading” became a category unto itself.
Read more: https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-invention-of-the-beach-read?source=Snapzu

Stephen Colbert on Trump: 'It’s even worse when he tells the truth'

With Donald Trump admitting he would accept foreign intelligence on his political opponents, late-night hosts had a fresh crop of material. On The Late Show, Colbert began: “Every night, I stand up here and make jokes about all of Donald Trump’s lies. But today, I think I might owe him an apology. Because it turns out, it’s even worse when he tells the truth.”
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2019/jun/14/stephen-colbert-trump-mueller-truth-late-night-tv?source=Snapzu

‘Chernobyl’: Russian Communist Party Calls For Ban Of HBO’s Miniseries In The Country

Communists Of Russia, a Marxist-Leninist communist party, said Thursday that it has asked Russia’s broadcasting regulator, Roskomnadzor, to block local access.
Read more: https://deadline.com/2019/06/chernobyl-russian-communist-party-calls-ban-hbo-miniseries-in-the-country-1202632582/?source=Snapzu

Leonardo DiCaprio’s new HBO documentary explains climate science and solutions

In one of the first scenes of Ice on Fire, a new climate documentary produced and narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio, a scientist drives a snowmobile to a tiny cabin on a ridge in the Rocky Mountains and turns on a pump that sucks outdoor air into a glass flask so it can be taken to a lab to measure how much CO2 is in the atmosphere. In another scene, it shows bubbles of methane–a greenhouse gas far more potent than carbon dioxide–escaping from an Arctic lake as the permafrost melts.
Read more: https://www.fastcompany.com/90362252/leonardo-dicaprios-new-hbo-documentary-explains-climate-science-and-solutions?partner=mashable?source=Snapzu

Nearly every American is on their phone or tablet while watching TV

It’s not just you, it’s nearly everyone. Roughly 88% of Americans use a second device, like a phone or a tablet, while watching TV, according to the longtime internet researcher and venture capitalist Mary Meeker. She released her annual internet trends report today (June 11).
Read more: https://qz.com/1641097/mary-meeker-report-nearly-every-american-is-on-their-phone-or-tablet-while-watching-tv/?source=Snapzu

Rare library book returned after 80 years

A book borrowed from an Irish library has been returned more than 80 years after it was due to be taken back. The White Owl by Annie MP Smithson was borrowed on 23 July 1937 from Donegal County Library in the Irish-speaking Gaeltacht area of Gweedore. It was returned to Gweedore Public Library on 17 May.
Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-foyle-west-48347635?source=Snapzu

Raptors top Warriors for 1st title in team history

The Raptors defeated the Warriors in Game 6 of the NBA Finals to clinch their first championship in franchise history.
Read more: https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/26969391/raptors-top-warriors-1st-title-team-history?source=Snapzu

Robin Williams' son names his first child after his late father

Adding to the family! Robin Williams’ son Zak Williams welcomed his first child with fiancée Olivia June, Us Weekly can confirm. The mental-health advocate, 36, and the tech-startup founder’s son was born on May 22, according to a rep. The little one weighed 8 lbs. and was 20-and-a-half inches long.
Read more: https://www.aol.com/article/entertainment/2019/06/13/robin-williams-son-welcomes-first-child-and-names-him-after-late-actor/23748833/?source=Snapzu

Blues capture 1st Stanley Cup with Game 7 win over Bruins

Alex Pietrangelo had the eventual winner as the St. Louis Blues beat the Boston Bruins 4-1 in Game 7 on Wednesday night to win their first Stanley Cup in franchise history.
Read more: https://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/nhl/blues-capture-1st-stanley-cup-game-7-win-bruins/?source=Snapzu

Syfy to Develop 'Kypton' Spinoff Centered on Bounty Hunter Lobo

The DC Comics anti-hero Lobo is making his on-screen debut in Syfy’s “Superman” prequel series for its second season, which debuts Wednesday night, but now he’s getting much more than that. Syfy announced on Wednesday that it is developing a spinoff of “Krypton” that will follow Lobo, “a foul-mouthed, dangerous, irascible, intergalactic bounty hunter.” Emmett J. Scanlan will play Lobo in the Syfy series as well as the spinoff should the project get ordered to series.
Read more: https://www.thewrap.com/krypton-spinoff-lebo-syfy-bounty-hunter/?source=Snapzu