With sports fans cooped up inside amid the coronavirus pandemic, the NFL decided to do something to help them pass the time.

The NFL is offering complimentary access to NFL Game Pass through May 31 in the U.S., according to a press release.

Viewers can watch past regular and postseason games (including Super Bowls), previous seasons of award-...Read more

CHICAGO -- Recently, during C2E2 at McCormick Place, the Random House imprint Del Rey, which publishes Lucasfilm-licensed "Star Wars" books, made an unusual choice and offered the novelization of "Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker" three weeks early. And so, visitors to the Chicago comic con bought up hundreds of copies, within a few hours.

Then...Read more

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Rachel Colby's choice for a recent Sunday night movie was hardly the sort of escapism that many people seek in times of crisis. Instead, it was the all-too-real 2011 Matt Damon movie "Contagion."

But rather than add to any possible distress due to the current coronavirus crisis, the film about a deadly infection spreading ...Read more

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo pleaded directly to the cameras. "Please come help us," he asked during a live news conference Monday, appealing to health care workers outside the state to come to New York and help fight the worst coronavirus outbreak in the nation.

It was an extraordinary moment in a pileup of seismic events that were unthinkable ...Read more

Following is a partial schedule of coming movies on DVD. Release dates are subject to change:

MARCH

31: Star Wars: Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker

31: The Current War

31: Coda

31: Mr. Robot: Season 4

31: Standing Up, Falling Down

31: The Purge: Season Two

31: VFW

APRIL

7: Little Women

7: Dolittle

7: Cats

7: Escape from Pretoria...Read more

Joanne Rogers has been getting a lot of phone calls lately. Which makes sense, because she is 92, and lives alone in an apartment in Pittsburgh, and everyone wants to make sure she is OK.

She is OK, by the way -- she's self-isolating, has plenty of friends who are willing to drop off groceries and has no symptoms of the coronavirus.

But there'...Read more

In this age of shelter-in-place restrictions, TV programmers are scrambling to find inventive ways to seize your attention while you're housebound.

And so the Discovery Channel is inviting you to "sit back, relax and put your fins up" for a "Shark Week in a Weekend" binge session.

Yes, television's longest-running summer TV event will swim ...Read more

Twelve days ago, Prince Harry and Meghan Markle showed a desire to carve out a high-profile role for themselves amid the coronavirus epidemic. Newly unmoored from the royal family, they used their popular Sussex Royal Instagram account to promote compassion, inspiration and themselves as trusted sources of accurate information about COVID-19.

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Shaquille O'Neal is clawing his way out of controversy surrounding his surprise appearance in the hit Netflix docuseries "Tiger King."

On the latest episode of "The Big Podcast With Shaq," the NBA superstar addressed the backlash he has received for once supporting Joe "Tiger King" Exotic, who is currently serving time in an Oklahoma prison for...Read more

Adult Swim, the programming bloc that shares space with Cartoon Network -- coming in after dark like a disreputable cousin with a flask in its back pocket -- is a place where the banal meets the bizarre. There is little of obvious comfort in the askew world it presents, except perhaps that in its cheery embrace of absurdity and awfulness, it may...Read more

LOS ANGELES -- This year's batch of TV pilots included some ominous names: "Triage," "Wreckage" and "Housebroken."

Now, those show titles also describe network TV's pilot season, which has been upended by the coronavirus outbreak.

Broadcast networks ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox and the CW were gearing up to employ thousands of workers in Los Angeles; ...Read more

David Schramm, the veteran stage actor best known for playing rival airline owner Roy Biggins on "Wings," died over the weekend in New York. He was 73.

The news was confirmed by the New York-based The Acting Company, of which Schramm was a founding member. The cause of death is not yet known.

"We mourn his loss and will miss him," said Acting ...Read more

With many cities across the nation adhering to either shelter-in-place or stay-at-home orders as the coronavirus pandemic rages on, Hollywood has had to get creative.

Last week, Miguel, James Blake and the duo Chloe X Halle broadcast hourlong concerts from their homes on Instagram Live attracting tens of thousands of viewers. Sunday, Garth ...Read more

The following contains spoilers from the finale of "Steven Universe Future."

Happily ever after, here we are. It's been quite the journey.

In "Steven Universe Future," hero Steven Quartz Cutie-pie DeMayo Diamond Universe learns that there are certain repercussions to a childhood spent fighting to save the galaxy.

The limited epilogue series, ...Read more