Cynopsis 8/31/2026: The New York Post Shoulders Its Way Into TV

In The News

Front page of a New York Post newspaper in New Jersey earlier this year

Television’s allure keeps wooing publications and <a href="https://comicvibe.com/chatgpt-reddit-and-roblox-to-face-the-eus-strictest-platform-rules/” title=”ChatGPT, Reddit and Roblox to face the EU's strictest platform rules”>platforms.The New York Postinked a deal withCrazy Legs Productionsfor help turning the tabloid’s content archives into episodic TV as well as films.

• Crazy Legsplans to adaptthe publication’s archives into stories for TV and film spanning genres such as true crime, sports and pop culture. Crazy Legs is based in LA and is the studio behind TV shows including TLC’s “1000-Lb. Sisters” and HBO’s “The Great Lillian Hall.”
• This deal is not the first time a news publication has tried juggling a TV business. The New York Times premiered “The New York Times Presents,” an adaptation docuseries on FX and Hulu in 2019, and more recently, The Washington Post struck a film and TV productiondealwith the studio Imagine Entertainment in 2022. Now, the New York Post is the latest pub to jump on the TV and video bandwagon.
• Zooming out further, the pursuit of TV and media revenue isn’t limited to news publications, either. Social media platforms such as TikTok and Instagram are trying to monetize TV viewing engagement with episodic miniseries and widescreen viewing formats, respectively.
• The Takeaway:As streaming TV grows in popularity and revenue, other types of media platforms are trying harder to snag their own slice of the connected TV revenue pie.

Brendan Hunt, Jason Sudeikis and Tanya Reynolds in Apple TV’s “Ted Lasso”

Pay up, viewers! Applejust raised the cost ofApple TVsubscriptions – again. Apple TV now costs $14.99 per month, a $2 price hike, while the annual plan now costs $119.99, which is up $20. Prices are effective for new subscribers as of Friday, while existing subscribers get one month’s notice.

• Apple is also raising its Apple One subscription service by $2 to $21.95 per month. That service bundles Apple TV and Apple Music with other Apple features, including Apple Arcade and cloud storage.
• Apple’s lateststreaming price hikemarks its second in just a year. In August 2025, Apple raised the monthly subscription cost for Apple TV from $9.99 to $12.99, while the annual subscription stayed stable at $99.
• Other streamers have also been jacking up their prices as the competition and pressure for profitability intensifies. NBCUniversal’s Peacock raised its prices earlier this month for the first time in four years. Netflix, HBO Max, Paramount+ and YouTube Premium have all bumped up their prices in the past two years.
• The Takeaway:While streaming platforms keep raising prices to try to stay profitable, the frequent price hikes are making the streaming landscape even more competitive as viewers become more cost-conscious and choosier about which streaming services they pay for – and how much they’re willing to pay for them.

New & Returning Series

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ActorsTracy Oliver(“Harlem”) andIssa Rae(“Insecure”)teamed upto create a series project called “Open,” which explores the dramatic effects of a couple’s decision to open their marriage.Paramount Television Studioswill produce the series with Oliver serving as showrunner. Oliver and Rae are two of the co-executive producers for the series. And it’s not the duo’s first collaboration together, either – the two actors co-created “The Mis-Adventures of Awkward Black Girl,” a series that premiered on a dedicated YouTube channel in 2011.

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Production

Happy 8/28 to all who celebrated!On Friday,Netflixannounced that it ordered“Arrivals: A New Manifest Mystery,”a spinoff of the“Manifest”supernatural drama series exploring the mystery of Flight 828, which reappeared after its passengers and crew had been presumed dead for five years. Netflixannounced the series orderexactly five years to the day after the streamer shared plans to revive the show for a fourth season after its NBC cancellation. “Manifest” creatorJeff Rakewill share the executive producer and showrunner duties withMargaret Easley(“Big Love”) andLaura Putney(“Mistresses”) for the spinoff, withWarner Bros. TVserving as the production studio.

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Coming Up

On Sept. 1,ABCwill air a new documentary titled“9/11: United We Stand – 25 Years Later.”The documentary highlights the first responders, reporters and cultural figures who played a pivotal role in the nation’s recovery efforts and collective healing following the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. The documentary, led by sports analyst and ABC co-hostMichael Strahan,will feature interviews withPete Davidson(“Saturday Night Live”),Jimmy Fallon(“The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon”) andBilly Crystal(“Soap”), among others.

Sports Report

Approximately 128 million viewers tuned intoFox’scoverage of the2026 FIFA World Cupover the summer, which the broadcaster credits in large part for the 28% year-over-year revenue increase itreportedfor the second fiscal quarter this year. Even so, it appears that viewership numbers of that scale aren’t immediately turning into a drastic increase in advertising investments for club soccer, which remains fairly steady. Sports and media experts toldDigidaythat steadiness in the face of World Cup wins could be due to the timing of soccer programming and marketers’ efforts to reach both passive and impassioned sports fans.

Distribution

Key art for the upcoming series “Pokémon Tales: The Misadventures of Sirfetch’d & Pichu”

Disney+announced a global distribution deal with the Pokémon Company International, which will include a new stop-motion series called“Pokémon Tales: The Misadventures of Sirfetch’d & Pichu,”created by animation studioAardmanand slated for release in 2027. Also included in the distribution deal is the classic animated series“Pokémon the Series: The Beginning,”now streaming on Disney+ in the US and select international markets.

Ratings

CBSannounced that“Big Brother”received two Guinness World Records titles for most episodes of a prime-time TV show and most episodes of a competitive reality TV show. The series aired its 1,000th episode on Thursday. CBS also announced the series averaged5.21 million weekly viewersacross platforms this summer, up 10%year over year based on Nielsen data.

Executive Moves

Chris Sussmanwill becomethe BBC’snext director of comedy. Jon Petrie, who held the role before Sussman, announced earlier this year that he is joining Hat Trick Productions, the studio behind “Derry Girls” and “Have I Got News for You.”

Yesterday’s Tri

The “Spider-Man” animated series (1994-98) used which word in place of “radiation” to avoid scaring kids in describing the DNA mutation that Peter Parker underwent as a result of a spider bite? “Neogenic.”

Congrats to: Aaron Sherman-fire5films/NYC;Susan Nessanbaum-Goldberg-M and S Entertainment/LA; Tom Moore-Kalt Productions; LA