Too Much TV Newsletter

Here’s everything you need to know about the world of television for Thursday, April 16th, 2026: THE STREAMING INDUSTRY APPARENTLY DOESN’T UNDERSTAND THE WORD ‘TRANSPARENT’ Late Thursday afternoon, Netflix released its first quarter earnings numbers to investors and the press and I am not going to rehash them here, because there are plenty of places where you can read those hot takes.

Here’s everything you need to know about the world of television for Wednesday, April 15th, 2026: A CONVERSATION WITH REELGOOD CEO DAVID SANDERSON If you are familiar with Reelgood, it’s likely because of its app and web site which allows consumers to enter all of the streaming services they subscribe to and then navigate a catalog of combined titles. Which allows you to search for a title and know precisely where you can watch it.

Here’s everything you need to know about the world of television for Tuesday, April 14th, 2026: SUBSTACK IS GOING TO GIVE ME A STROKE Of all the questions I receive, the most common one is why I have kept this newsletter on Substack. I have previously explained my rationale, which that I hate much of their business model and some of people they host on the platform.

Photo by Reuben Hu on Unsplash Here’s everything you need to know about the world of television for Monday, April 13th, 2026: WOULD IT BE TACKY TO SAY ‘I TOLD YOU SO?’ When Netflix was still in the running to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery, various Hollywood creatives and movie industry journalists railed against the streamer gaining control of the legendary studio.

Here’s everything you need to know about the world of television for Thursday, April 9th, 2026: THE WEEKEND AHEAD I’ll have more some specific reviews/weekend viewing suggestions tomorrow. In large part because - unlike most weeks - I don’t have screeners for most of the stuff debuting this weekend. For tomorrow, a couple of movies are on my radar.

Photo by lhon karwan on Unsplash Here’s everything you need to know about the world of television for Wednesday, April 8th, 2026: PRODUCTION NOTES A couple of updates/changes to Too Much TV that I wanted to put on your radar. I’ve struggled recently with fitting actual full-blown reviews into the newsletter, because there is so much going on otherwise. Moving forward, I’ll post full reviews on AllYourScreens and then excerpt a small piece here and point to the full review.

Photo by Igor Omilaev on Unsplash Here’s everything you need to know about the world of television for Monday, April 6th, 2026: THE NEVER-ENDING SEARCH FOR SOMETHING TO WATCH I watch a lot of non-English language programming on Netflix. And because I do, the streamer’s recommendation engine has noticed that fact and has slowly changed the titles it recommends.

Here’s everything you need to know about the world of television for Friday, April 3rd, 2026: PRODUCTION NOTES I am somewhat back to normal today, albeit a day later than I had hoped. I wanted to thank all of you for the kind get well comments emails. There are way too many for me to thank everyone individually. But they helped a lot. Especially since I have a tendency to feel extremely guilty if I take any time off.

My apologies for the lack of a newsletter this week. I managed to catch a nice case of Influenza over the weekend, which really knocked me down hard. As life experiences go, I would recommend not getting the flu. I’ll be back tomorrow with a regular daily newsletter and for those of you who are paid subscribers, I am adding a week onto your subscription to compensate for my absence. See you tomorrow. Rick

Here is a rundown of all of this week’s television and streaming video premieres: MONDAY, MARCH 30TH, 2026: Henry David Thoreau(PBS) Rory McIlroy: The Masters Wait(Prime Video) The Feud On Shelbury Drive Series Premiere (Acorn TV) TUESDAY, MARCH 31ST, 2026: Aaron Chen: Funny Garden (Netflix) Evil Lives Here: My Child The Killer Series Premiere (Investigation Discovery) FBI True (Paramount+) - (first look video)If It's Tuesday, It's Murder Series Premiere (Hulu) - (first look video) (photo...