Emmy winner Alexander Skarsgård plays a rogue security robot in the trailer for Murderbot, a new sci-fi series on Apple TV+.
Skarsgård is the titular Murderbot, a Security (SEC) Unit designed to protect and obey humans. Murderbot successfully hacked its programming to give itself free will, a secret it must hide from humans. “I can do whatever I want as long as they don’t find out,” Murderbot notes in the trailer.
While working on a mission on a dangerous planet, a group of scientists discovers Murderbot’s secret, interrupting its true passion: watching futuristic soap operas. Now, Murderbot must face his fears by dealing with human emotions.
Besides Skarsgård, Murderbot stars Noma Dumezweni, David Dastmalchian, Sabrina Wu, Akshay Khanna, Tattiawna Jones, and Tamara Podemski.
Chris and Paul Weitz created, wrote, directed, and produced Murderbot for Apple TV+. The Weitz brothers received an Academy Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay for 2002’s About a Boy. Murderbot is based on Martha Wells’ award-winning sci-fi novel series The Murderbot Diaries. Wells is a consulting producer on the series. David S. Goyer is an executive producer alongside Andrew Miano and Keith Levine.
Murderbot is the latest sci-fi series in Apple TV+’s growing library. Severance, the streamer’s biggest sci-fi show, just wrapped its critically acclaimed second season. Other sci-fi shows include Foundation, Silo, For All Mankind, Dark Matter, and Invasion.
Murderbot consists of 10 episodes, with the first two airing on Apple TV+ on Friday, May 16, 2025. New episodes will air every Friday through July 11.
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?
YouTube is changing how its Home page works, giving viewers more control over what shows up there and making some of the app’s most-used sections easier to reach. Custom Feeds are now replacing the existing topic chips for eligible users, while YouTube is also testing a redesigned top bar on mobile that moves Subscriptions closer to the Home feed.
YouTube first started experimenting with Custom Feeds earlier this year, letting you type out what you wanted to watch and turning that request into its own stream of recommendations. Now, the feature is starting to look less like a side experiment and more like something YouTube actually wants people to use as part of their everyday Home page.