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Saturday, March 14, 2026
TopicApple TV+

Topic: Apple TV+

Ted Lasso’s last season a messy end to a brilliant show. Mind-numbing sub-plots make it worse

Ted Lasso’s third instalment grappled with filming delays, rewrites and reshoots, leading to an 18-month gap between the season two finale and the start of season three.

The Apple TV-Homepod combination is the ultimate update for your screen

What are most smart TVs lacking these days? A good sound system. With the new HomePod, you can get a powerful stereo system that supports spatial audio.

Apple TV+’s Shantaram offers gripping look at 1980s Bombay but needs to break the shackles more

After years of delays, Gregory David Roberts’ seminal 2003 novel Shantaram has finally been adapted for the small screen, and is off to a gripping, but slightly flawed, first three episodes.

‘Greatest Beer Run Ever’ is a preachy but enjoyable trip to a Saigon theka during Vietnam War

Directed by Peter Farrelly and starring Zac Efron, the Apple TV show lacks the insight and sharpness of superior satirical war films, but remains a largely satisfying watch.

Between #MeToo second chance and cancel culture, Apple TV’s ‘The Morning Show’ finds its feet

The Morning Show, starring Jennifer Aniston, Reese Witherspoon, Steve Carell, shows the power of a second chance in its latest season.

Apple TV show ‘Ted Lasso’ passed its greatest test — winning over football fanatics

Football fans don’t get too many shows and movies they like. And the less said about ‘Dhan Dhana Dhan Goal’ the better.

Apple debuts subscription bundles, its twist on Amazon Prime

The bundles start at $14.95 a month for a tier including Apple Music, Apple Arcade, Apple TV+ & 50 GB of iCloud storage. The lower tier will have a $19.95 version for families.

Netflix faces the heat as Disney+ & Apple TV+ step up competition

Its unlikely that Netflix subscribers will cancel in droves but the competition will curb its ability to raise prices & create a more volatile rate of churn.

Apple enters Indian TV market with Rs 99-a-month streaming service

The recently launched Apple TV+ is looking to undercut Amazon and Netflix by providing the service for free for a year on purchase of an Apple device.

Apple launches its new streaming platform, adding to the madness

Apple, Disney, and AT&T are spending millions on their new streaming platforms and flooding an already saturated space with more content.

On Camera

Menstrual leave doesn’t work in ‘real world’. And that real world is designed by, for men

When a woman menstruates, when/if she decides to marry, when/if she decides to have kids, should not be factors when looking at a woman’s potential from a hiring standpoint.

US strike on Iran’s key oil export island Kharg raises fears of wider supply disruption

President Trump said the US had bombed military targets on Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, but spared oil infrastructure.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.