The Mighty Morphin Power Rangers are going to get a comeback. Disney+ has reportedly ordered a new Power Rangers series that will “reinvent the franchise for a whole new generation of fans.”
According to The Wrap, Percy Jackson and the Olympians showrunners Jonathan E. Steinberg and Dan Shotz are in negotiations with Disney+ and 20th Century TV to write and produce the new Power Rangers, and serve as the showrunners as well. Percy Jackson was recently renewed for a third season by Disney+ ahead of the second season later this year. Steinberg and Shotz were also behind the FX original series The Old Man, which was canceled after two seasons.
The original Mighty Morphin Power Rangers series debuted on Fox in 1993, and it started a pop culture sensation by importing footage from Japanese Super Sentai series with costumed heroes, giant robots and monsters before repurposing it with footage filmed with an American cast. The show was so successful that the first Mighty Morphin Power Rangers movie premiered in 1995. A second film followed in 1997, and the show remained on the air in different incarnations and new cast members for 30 seasons.
Lionsgate attempted to reboot Power Rangers with a new feature film in 2017, however the film didn’t do well enough at the box office to justify any sequels. Netflix was also planning to reboot Power Rangers from the ground up, but that project didn’t come to fruition. The streamer did premiere the 30th anniversary special, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Once and Always, in 2023, which featured a handful of original cast members reprising their roles.
Ironically, Disney owned the rights to Power Rangers from 2001 to 2010, before the studio sold them back to Saban. Hasbro is the current owner of the Power Rangers franchise, and Hasbro Studios will produce the new series alongside Disney+ and 20th Century TV.
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.