Apple has lined up some big names to help launch its Apple TV Plus streaming service, perhaps none bigger than the trio of stars attached to The Morning Show, a news-broadcast drama available to stream now on Apple’s service. The 10-episode series reportedly cost $150 million to make, with sizeable salaries for stars Reese Witherspoon, Jennifer Aniston …
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The new Apple TV Plus streaming service is the latest place online to find some big actors, but none can match the imposing bulk of Aquaman and Khal Drogo himself, Jason Momoa. His new series, See, launches Friday, Nov. 1. Reported to have cost $15 million per episode to make, the show is a Game of Thrones-style fantasy where everybody is blind. In …
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The new Apple TV Plus streaming service launches today, Friday Nov. 1, with a handful of all-new exclusive shows, and one of the most intriguing (and critically popular) is For All Mankind. Created by Emmy-winning producer Ronald D. Moore, best known for Battlestar Galactica, Star Trek: The Next Generation and Outlander, the drama series explores a world “in which the global space …
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Now playing: Watch this: Everything about Apple TV Plus you need to know (The… 9:33 Apple TV Plus dropped Friday, and one of the major draws to the streaming service is a one-year free trial if you’ve bought a new iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, Apple TV or Mac since Sept. 10. After that year passes, you’ll immediately be charged $5 …
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Apple’s normal resting state is to be superlative. It’s the planet’s most valuable company. It created history’s most successful product, some argue. CEO Tim Cook said Apple TV Plus would be “unlike anything that’s been done before.” And maybe he’s right — but not in the way he meant. As Apple takes the stage as a streaming-video company today, it’s inhabiting a …
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Apple has lined up some big names to help launch its streaming service Apple TV Plus, including Oscar-nominated actress Hailee Steinfeld. Her new series, Dickinson, is available to stream today, Nov. 1. A half-hour comedy series, the show “audaciously explores the constraints of society, gender and family from the perspective of rebellious young poet Emily Dickinson,” according to Apple, with Steinfeld …
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HBO Max, the new HBO-anchored streaming service coming from AT&T’s WarnerMedia, will cost $15 a month and launch in May in the US. It will have 10,000 hours of programming: everything on HBO, plus exclusive originals and a deeper catalog of licensed shows and movies. Existing members of HBO Now — also $15 a month — can switch over to HBO Max …
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Students with an Apple Music subscription will be able to enjoy Apple TV Plus for no extra cost when it launches Nov. 1, according to an Instagram story from Hailee Steinfeld, who stars in Dickinson, a new show on the service. Apple confirmed the deal on Wednesday. Apple TV Plus, which was announced at an Apple event in March, is …
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Two years ago, Apple pushed the price of its mobile phones to a thousand bucks with the iPhone X. In September, it made the case for its pricier phones by adding a wide-angle camera, night mode and better battery life. Apple even gave us the slow-motion selfie, which it calls a slofie. Apple likes the gimmick so much it’s trying …
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Apple has its own app for streaming TV shows and movies, and in typical Apple fashion the name is dead simple: It’s called the TV app. But how it works can be surprisingly complex. One basic thing about the app is the same on every device: You’ll need it to stream Apple TV Plus, Apple’s Netflix rival that launched Nov. 1 …
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