Country Singer Kane Brown to Guest Star in Series Premiere of ‘9-1-1: Nashville'
'Kane Brown in 9-1-1: Nashville?!' the show posted Thursday on Instagram. 'We can't wait to see him guest star in the series premiere Thursday, October 9 on ABC. Stream on Hulu.'
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10 best Amazon Prime Video shows to watch this summer
While there are plenty of great reasons to go outside in the summer, sometimes, you're looking to do a little bit of couch-surfing to escape the heat. Amazon Prime Video has plenty of great shows, but picking the one you want to watch can be a challenge. We've picked 10 excellent shows that you can spend the summer enjoying, all of which differ from one another in both genre and length. Check out our recommendations below. Recommended Videos We also have guides to the best new movies to stream, the best movies on Netflix, the best movies on Hulu, and the best movies on Amazon Prime Video. Game 7 (2024-) There are great sports documentaries of all kinds, but Game 7 is remarkable for the way it combines different sports and different eras into a single narrative. The show chronicles game 7s from baseball, basketball, and hockey, chronicling moments when athletes understand that everything about their seasons, and perhaps even their legacies, comes down to a single game. T No games in sports have higher stakes than game 7s. In a game 7, the teams are evenly matched and know that this final test will be nothing more than a battle of wills. You can watch Game 7 on Amazon Prime Video. The Summer I Turned Pretty (2022-2025) Adapted from a best-selling YA series of the same name, The Summer I Turned Pretty is a worthy addition to the teen rom-com canon. The show is initially set over the course of a single summer as a young woman finds herself caught in a love triangle between two brothers. What this show is really about, though, is the delicate moment when young people begin to feel like adults for the first time and feel things with an intensity they might never experience again. You can watch The Summer I Turned Pretty on Amazon Prime Video. The Boys (2019-) A satirical superhero show that arrived at precisely the right moment, The Boys is set in a world where superheroes exist, but importantly, they also suck. The show splits its time between following these superheroes and following a ragtag group of regular people who are determined to take them down, even though they are hugely outmatched. Along the way, The Boys has become a trenchant commentary on the nature of life in the 2020s, and while its view on things is pretty bleak, it can also be wildly entertaining. You can watch The Boys on Amazon Prime Video. Mr. and Mrs. Smith (2024-) There are certainly plenty of spy shows on the market, but Mr. and Mrs. Smith manages to iterate on that familiar formula in interesting ways. The show follows two spies who sign up to work as private contractors for a company they don't know much about. They have to pretend to be married as part of the ruse. As the duo slowly grows closer together, they fall out of love with the job. Anchored by sensational performances from Maya Erskine and Donald Glover, Mr. and Mrs. Smith is sexy, adult, and surprisingly light on its feet. You can watch Mr. and Mrs. Smith on Amazon Prime Video. Fleabag (2016-2019) One of the great TV shows of the past decade, Fleabag announced the arrival of a totally singular voice in Phoebe Waller-Bridge. The show, which is characterized by Waller-Bridge's character using the camera as a confidant, lasted two seasons, but each was stunning in distinct ways. The first follows her as she picks up the remnants of her life after a devastating loss, and the second follows her as she falls in love with a priest. A rich, textured show about a difficult person who wants to be better, Fleabag is hilarious and moving in equal measure. You can watch Fleabag on Amazon Prime Video. The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (2022-) Although it's been on the air for just two seasons, The Rings of Power has already managed to capture some of the magic of Tolkien's universe. There are few shows on television that are told with this much sweep and scope, and Rings of Power also has a number of outstanding performers it can rely on regularly. Set thousands of years before the events of the original trilogy, Rings of Power tells the story of Sauron's rise and of the forging of the ring that will eventually become so central to the events of Lord of the Rings. You can watch Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power on Amazon Prime Video. The Terror (2018-2025) An anthology horror series with two distinctly terrifying seasons, The Terror is a show that imbues real-life historical events with a greater degree of fictional terror. The first season tells the story of the 1845 Franklin Expedition to find the Northwest Passage. When the crew becomes stranded in the Arctic, they start to suspect they are being hunted. Subsequent seasons have taken inspiration from other real-world events, including Japanese internment, and this mix of historical fiction and horror makes for an appealing, excruciating watch. You can watch The Terror on Amazon Prime Video. Downton Abbey (2010-2015) A remarkable upstairs-downstairs drama that features pretty much every British actor you've ever heard of, Downton Abbey follows one wealthy family and their staff as they navigate a world that is changing around them in the 1910s. The series starts with the sinking of the Titanic, but follows this family through World War I and its aftermath as the very idea of an aristocratic nobility begins to crumble around them. Downton Abbey is a fascinating and compelling show that includes the joys of a soap opera. You can watch Downton Abbey on Amazon Prime Video. The Expanse (2015-2022) Adapted from a series of novels, The Expanse tells the kind of sprawling sci-fi story that we rarely get on TV anymore. The show is set hundreds of years into the future, after mankind has colonized the solar system. As tensions rise between Earth and Mars, a military power in its own right, a detective and a ship's captain start looking for a missing girl. As they dive deeper into the mystery, they begin to realize that it hides something far more significant than the life of any one person. You can watch The Expanse on Amazon Prime Video. Jury Duty (2023-) A unique experiment in the history of TV, Jury Duty is a comedy series about 12 people who find themselves summoned to jury duty. The trick, though, is that 11 of them know they're being filmed, and the 12th believes that everything happening is real. Over the course of several weeks, Ronald Gladden finds himself thrown into a series of absurd situations, and because he believes what's happening to him is real, he acts accordingly. Jury Duty is hilarious, but the most surprising thing about it is how open-hearted and sweet its central character turns out to be. You can watch Jury Duty on Amazon Prime Video.
Yahoo
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CEO Bob Iger Announces Joint Hulu and Disney+ Streaming Service. What Does It Mean for Investors?
Key Points Hulu is to be absorbed into Disney+ by the end of this year. Also, Disney will no longer be updating subscriber counts for any of its streaming services. Wednesday's resulting setback in Disney stock provides a buying opportunity. 10 stocks we like better than Walt Disney › It's official. The Walt Disney Company's (NYSE: DIS) stand-alone streaming service Hulu is going of. The company announced on Wednesday that Hulu will soon be fully integrated into Disney+, although it will still be its own category within the Disney+ menu. Hulu will also replace Star in the international version of Disney+. That's not the detail that interested investors will care the most about, however. Even more noteworthy is the fact that Disney will no longer be reporting the number of streaming subscribers for either service, or how much revenue these accounts generate every month. The decision removes two of the most closely watched metrics that investors are currently using to gauge the health of the company's increasingly important streaming business. Here's what you need to know about all of it. Another (mostly) solid quarter As a recap, The Walt Disney Company turned $23.7 billion worth of revenue into an adjusted per-share profit of $1.61 for its fiscal third quarter of 2025, which ended in June. The bottom line was up from the year-ago comparison of $1.39, and handily topped expectations for earnings of $1.47 per share. The top line, though -- while 2% better than sales in fiscal Q3 2024 -- fell just a bit short of analysts' estimates, sending shares lower as a result. Blame the company's cable television arm, mostly. Linear network revenue slipped 15% (with most of the setback stemming from Disney's international TV business), dragging cable TV's operating income down 28% year over year. Theme parks, films, and sports ventures, in contrast, did pretty well given the challenging economic environment. And Disney's streaming division? It's doing pretty well too. Its revenue grew 6% year over year to nearly $6.2 billion, leading to an operating profit of $346 million versus the slight loss reported for the same quarter of 2024. This extends a healthy streak of slow but persistent progress: The company's direct-to-consumer arm added another 1.4 million Disney+ subscribers to the fold last quarter as well, with 1 million of them signing up for the U.S.-Canada platform. Hulu added 1.3 million streaming subscribers of its own, although it also lost a couple of hundred thousand subscribers to Hulu's live-TV service. And again, this extends tepid but long-established growth trends: This is the next-to-last time, however, the chart immediately above will be able to be updated. No more subscriber metrics It's true. As CEO Bob Iger noted in his executive commentary published along with Wednesday's earnings report, "We believe quarterly updates on the number of paid subscribers and ARPU [average revenue per user] have become less meaningful to evaluating the performance of our businesses, and we will no longer report these metrics starting with the first quarter of fiscal 2026 [beginning in October] for Disney+ and Hulu." The company will, however, continue to share information about its streaming business's overall profitability. Iger explains: "We believe our reporting going forward will better align with changes in the media landscape, the unique nature of our integrated assets, [and] how we operate our businesses, and will reflect how management evaluates the progress and success of our strategic initiatives." If it sounds like CEO prattle, though, that's because it arguably is. Don't misunderstand. At least in some ways the decision does "align with changes in the media landscape." Early last year streaming rival Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) made the same decision to stop disclosing its subscriber counts and ARPU (as of the beginning of this year), aiming -- as Disney is now -- to put the focus on more meaningful metrics like revenue and profitability. Like Netflix's then, the timing of Disney's decision suspiciously coincides with a measurable slowing of its streaming business's subscriber growth, removing two of the more-watched measures of the entertainment giant's progress when investors need them the most. Perhaps at least some of Wednesday's setback was the result of waning transparency, and wasn't just in response to the company's revenue shortfall. Opportunity knocks So what does this mean for investors? The market was largely prepared for the fold-in of Hulu into Disney+ already. The possibility was first floated several quarters ago, and making Hulu's content available to its subscribers from within the Disney+ app early last year was an obvious step in this direction. Combining the two services into a single one now -- with a single payment -- isn't exactly a big leap, technological or otherwise. As for its impact on marketability, although the combo isn't any more marketable, it isn't less marketable either; the cost of subscribing to both is only between $1 and $4 more per month, depending on your plan. Indeed, in light of the media company's relatively new focus on monetizing both streaming services' content by injecting advertisements into its programming, anything that makes it easier to watch any of Disney's streaming content is a win for this fast-growing business. Adding Hulu to Disney+ at least does that. It will also just be cheaper to manage one content stack rather than two different ones, which is another modest win for The Walt Disney Company. But the decision to not share a couple of key customer metrics that investors had grown accustomed to seeing? Sure, that's a sticking point for some current and would-be maybe not as much of one as you might think. Netflix's shares also initially stumbled in response to word that it would no longer be reporting subscriber numbers, but its stock has more than doubled since that April 2024 low, reaching record highs in June. Investors mostly just want to see strong top and bottom lines, which Hulu and Disney+ can certainly team up to deliver. Data from streaming-market research outfit JustWatch indicates that, when combined, Hulu and Disney+ are collectively just as watched within the U.S. as Netflix, as well as Amazon's Prime. They were also two of only three streaming platforms to gain U.S. viewing time during the second quarter of this year (with the third being Max). So, this pairing should hit the ground running. Let's also not forget that the entirety of Disney's direct-to-consumer business still only makes up about one-fourth of its total revenue. Whether its streaming arm thrives, flops, or something in between, almost all of its other ventures are doing just fine anyway. More to the point, there's nothing about the Hulu-Disney+ decision, or last quarter's results, that's a reason to steer clear of the stock. In fact, since it's already down from its early-July peak, Wednesday's setback is arguably a great opportunity to step into very ownable Disney shares. The analyst community thinks so, anyway. The vast majority of them currently rate Disney stock as a strong buy, with a consensus price target of $135.12 that's 17% above the ticker's present price. Should you invest $1,000 in Walt Disney right now? Before you buy stock in Walt Disney, consider this: The Motley Fool Stock Advisor analyst team just identified what they believe are the for investors to buy now… and Walt Disney wasn't one of them. The 10 stocks that made the cut could produce monster returns in the coming years. Consider when Netflix made this list on December 17, 2004... if you invested $1,000 at the time of our recommendation, you'd have $653,427!* Or when Nvidia made this list on April 15, 2005... if you invested $1,000 at the time of our recommendation, you'd have $1,119,863!* Now, it's worth noting Stock Advisor's total average return is 1,060% — a market-crushing outperformance compared to 182% for the S&P 500. Don't miss out on the latest top 10 list, available when you join Stock Advisor. See the 10 stocks » *Stock Advisor returns as of August 4, 2025 James Brumley has no position in any of the stocks mentioned. The Motley Fool has positions in and recommends Amazon, Netflix, and Walt Disney. 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Why Frances Anderson Stepped Away From Acting After Modern Family
Originally appeared on E! Online Frances Anderson was looking forward to a modern teenage experience. So when Modern Family ended after 11 seasons in 2020, the actress—who played Lily on the hit ABC sitcom—knew it was time to try life as a normal teenager after years on set. "I was homeschooled while filming Modern Family, which ended when I was 12," Frances told E! News' Francesca Amiker in an exclusive interview. "I decided to take time off from acting to go to school, be with kids my age, and find myself." And while the 18-year-old is currently focused on music—opting to go by her middle name instead of the birth name Aubrey Anderson-Emmons she used as a child star—she isn't ditching life in front of the camera forever. "I plan to act again," Frances noted, "but the break was exactly what I needed." But the break didn't exactly provide her with the most normal teenage years as her return to school coincided with the pandemic. More from E! Online Reba McEntire's Son Shares Emotional Tribute to Brother Brandon Blackstock After His Death Princess Anne Debuts New Hair Look for First Time in 50 Years in 75th Birthday Photo Bryan Kohberger Murders: Crime Scene Photos Released By Police "We wrapped the show, and two weeks later COVID hit,' she revealed. 'So I went from a major TV show to lockdown. Eventually, I enrolled in a public school with 4,000 students—very overwhelming! People recognized me, and it was a lot. I ended up switching schools and found a place that fit me better." Now, Frances is shifting back into the public eye, this time as a singer-songwriter, whose EP Drown released August 8. 'A lot of my music is inspired from stuff when I was younger, when I was a kid,' she explained. 'A lot about what my experiences were like in high school, and I hope that people find it relatable.' As for why she decided to release her music under a different name? For her it was really quite simple. "I wanted to switch it up and I wanted people to see a new side of me," Frances said. "And I wanted to create a space specifically just for music. And I'm so excited for everybody to hear the songs on the EP, and I'm so grateful.' For more of where the Modern Family cast is now, read on. Sarah Hyland as Haley DunphyAriel Winter as Alex DunphyNolan Gould as Luke DunphyAubrey Anderson-Emmons as Lily Tucker-PritchettRico Rodriguez as Manny DelgadoJeremy Maguire as Joe PritchettTy Burrell as Phil DunphyJulie Bowen as Claire DunphySofia Vergara as Gloria PritchettJesse Tyler Ferguson as Mitchell PritchettEric Stonestreet as Cam TuckerEd O'Neill as Jay PritchettReid Ewing as Dylan Marshall For the latest breaking news updates, click here to download the E! News App Solve the daily Crossword
