Linda Holmes

Each week, Pop Culture Happy Hour guests and hosts share what's bringing them joy. This week: The audiobooks Mythos and Why We Love Baseball, and the new albums Jaguar II and Blame My Ex.

In Season 3 of the Apple drama, a billionaire played by Jon Hamm may be buying the network, and it has everyone concerned. Imagine that!

As Hollywood's strikes stretch on, viewers are sitting down on the couch and asking: What's next? We scoured the streaming sites to find fantastic new releases as well as great shows worth revisiting.

With smaller, fragmented audiences, water-cooler TV moments now are few and far between. But you can scratch that itch on social media, posting about your daily puzzle habit.

Each week, Pop Culture Happy Hour guests and hosts share what's bringing them joy. This week: the Made in Heaven series, the movies Married by Mistake and Gran Turismo and the 50 MPH podcast.

Turns out multiple choice options work better for SATs than for storytelling. Netflix's Choose Love makes the case against AI writing — ordering a movie like a pizza doesn't make for good movies.

Each week, guests and hosts on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour share what's bringing them joy. This week: the Telemarketers docuseries, Celebrity Book Club and the novel Once More with Feeling.

In two HBO documentary projects about scams in football and telemarketing, the systemic problems that drive big-time and small-time grift get their due.

Each week, guests and hosts on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour share what's bringing them joy. This week: The Sparks & Bainbridge Mystery series, Good One podcast and The Kaiju Preservation Society.

On Bravo's Below Deck Down Under, producers intervened to prevent a sexual assault. It was an abrupt change of course for a franchise known for encouraging bad behavior from very drunk people.

Each week, guests and hosts on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour share what's bringing them joy. This week: the movie Earth Mama, a recent episode of Vibe Check and albums from Aqua and The Japanese House.

The Mission: Impossible franchise runs on its ability to meet expectations. Not just any expectations — high expectations. And through all seven films, it has remained remarkably stable at its core.

Each week, guests and hosts on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour share what's bringing them joy. This week: Flyana Boss, Project Runway All Stars, and new nonfiction about queer representation and media.

Between labor conflicts and the constantly changing landscape of what even constitutes television, this is going to be a tricky year for predictions. We have some anyway.

Each week, guests and hosts on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour share what's bringing them joy. This week: the Mystery Menu series, The Alarmist podcast, Every Body and Two Can Play That Game.

Each week, guests and hosts on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour share what's bringing them joy. This week: Beware the Woman, Dungeons and Drag Queens, and the DVD menu of The Social Network.

These 10 new episodes maintain all the heat of the first season — skillfully avoiding common pitfalls and successfully pushing the story forward. Plus, there are some great guest stars.

Critic Linda Holmes has always been a 3D skeptic — the glasses are fiddly and become plastic junk, the gimmicks wear off, it gets distracting, and it introduces opportunities for technical problems.

In a final episode that seems likely to be the end of the road for Apple's decorated show, friendships were cemented, football was played, and signs were everywhere.

Studios raced to finish summer attractions ahead of the writers strike. So we're back with a great big, filterable guide of what to watch — and where to find it — as the days get hotter and longer.