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Disney and Charter Communications have finally reached an agreement after a two-week blackout that stopped Spectrum subscribers from watching Disney Channel on the streaming service starting on Aug. 31. The companies announced the agreement on Monday, only hours before the New York Jets and Buffalo Bills football game…

Let’s get streaming! Welcome to io9's latest edition of the Nerd’s Watch, where we pare down the enormous lists of new films and television shows arriving on all your favorite streaming services into the sci-fi, fantasy, and horror titles we think you’ll like most. (And sometimes, just the ones that we like most.)

Years ago, Disney secured the rights to adapt various kids book series for television, such as Percy Jackson and

As the streaming bubble began to burst, Warner Bros. Discovery’s plan for its streaming service CNN+ crumbled as well. Now, it appears that those plans have been repurposed into a new CNN hub, which will have a home on the company’s streaming service Max.
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As the streaming era devolves into a wave of cutbacks, consolidation, and the removing of original content for the sake of tax breaks, it’s become more important than ever that physical releases of streaming original media offers a legal path to people still being able to actually access that content. Thankfully,…