Terrorist activity and white-collar crime will be returning to Showtime when Homeland season 6 and Billions season 2 premiere. We’re still months away from the next installments in the two series, but there is light at the end of the tunnel: The premium network announced during its Television Critics Association summer press tour event Thursday that the shows will return in early 2017, reports Variety.
Showtime previously broke the news that the return of Homeland would be later than usual, with the series arriving in January instead of in late September or early October as it has in the past. Thursday’s announcement revealed the exact time and date: 9 p.m. ET/PT on January 15. The espionage series will pick up months after the events of season 5 and follow Carrie Mathison (Claire Danes) as she returns to the U.S. and the country transitions from one president to another.
Homeland is currently in production in New York, which is another change from recent years. Seasons 4 and 5 were filmed on location in South Africa and Germany. The series continue to be produced by Fox 21 Television Studios. Danes, Alex Gansa, Gideon Raff, Howard Gordon, Chip Johannessen, Patrick Harbinson, Lesli Linka Glatter, Michael Klick, Avi Nir, and Ran Telem executive produce.
The second season of Billions will hit Showtime at 10 p.m. ET/PT on February 19. Also in production in New York, the series centers on tension between U.S. Attorney Chuck Rhoades (Paul Giamatti) and hedge fund billionaire Bobby “Axe” Axelrod (Damian Lewis). Season 2 will bring a battle for control as characters adjust to a changing world.
The show’s cast also includes Maggie Siff, Malin Akerman, Toby Leonard Moore, David Costabile, and Condola Rashad. Billions comes from creators and executive producers Brian Koppelman, David Levien, and Andrew Ross Sorkin; Koppelman and Levien also serve as writers and showrunners.
China just gave Hollywood a cautionary tale about AI filmmaking. Sanxingdui: Future Past, billed as the country's first fully AI-generated movie, hit theaters on October 23 and bombed at the box office.
According to Futurism, the film's reported $1.5 million production budget landed on more than 10,000 screens. Yet it pulled in only about $181,000, averaging roughly $20 per screen, making the budget difficult to recover.
Some of the best shots in Grok Imagine’s AI-made Odyssey don’t contain actors. Ancient landscapes stretch into the distance. Close-ups of grimy hands suggest people who have touched something rougher than a keyboard. For a few seconds, the illusion holds.
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YouTube videos could soon look better without eating quite so much data, right? Thankfully, the platform plans to introduce a new video format called AV2 on its web player in early 2027, promising more efficient streaming and potentially fewer playback hiccups on slower internet connections. The big headline is a roughly 30% improvement in compression efficiency over AV1, YouTube's existing video format. That doesn't guarantee every video will use 30% less data, but it could make streaming a little easier on both internet connections and data allowances.
What is AV2, and why should viewers care?