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Wednesday, September 3, 2025
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

Trump’s 4,500 troops can topple Nicolás Maduro—not fix Venezuela

The US troops could dislodge the government in Caracas, but it won’t be enough to police a country ringed by drug cartels and insurgents.

A Rs 33,000 cr ‘banking fraud’: ED’s case against Arvind Dham, Amtek’s web of ‘500 shell companies’

ED has accused Amtek promoter Arvind Dham of controlling web of nearly 500 shell companies operating as a layered structure, with up to 15 levels of indirect ownership, to divert funds.

‘Real-time, all-climate’ explosives detector could enhance airport & border security—no dogs, no swabs

Bengaluru-based CeNS designs accurate, portable, and cheap sensor using surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy. It could significantly reduce risks at vulnerable choke points. 

For Indian Mercedes, Asim Munir’s dumper truck in mirror is closer than it appears

From Munir’s point of view, a few bumps here and there is par for the course. He isn’t going to drive his dumper truck to its doom. He wants to use it as a weapon.