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The designation of #TooMuchTV isn’t just a cutesy label for the current era. There is actually too much TV. It’s no longer, “Who has the time?” but, “There is literally not enough time to watch it all.”  This fall will see an explosion of streaming services in addition to the usual mass of new programming, with Disney and Apple set for big launches. It’s a lot! So what to watch? We’ve combed through most of the new series that have been announced, watched what we could, read the tea leaves on others, and, for the rest, relied on our gut, good casting, and batshit press releases. A lot of these shows we’ve seen and can confirm are great. Some are here because they have great buzz. Some are on this list because of what they signify at the crossroads of the streaming apocalypse for the future of the industry. Others we expect you’ll be talking about for, let’s say, different reasons.  Here, presented in order of … [Read more...] about The 20 Most Exciting New TV Shows You Need to See

NEWSLETTERS The Daily Beast’s Obsessed Everything we can’t stop loving, hating, and thinking about this week in pop culture. By Clicking "Subscribe" you agree to have read the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy This week:  We’re GLOW fans now. What the hell is BH90210? The week’s best trailer. The week’s worst trailer. A Princess Diana musical??? A cursed image. (Sorry.) GLOW’s New Season Is So Good Alison Brie makes a facial expression in episode nine of the current season of GLOW that quite possibly destroyed my heart. Completely. I think it no longer exists??? I mention this because it speaks to how much this show, which I never really liked as much as all of my critic colleagues seemed to, has grown. For me, despite its stroke-of-genius premise—a look at the formation of a cult all-female wrestling TV show in the 1980s—the first two seasons of the Netflix series kind of ran on a narrative hamster wheel going nowhere, … [Read more...] about If ‘GLOW’ Doesn’t Get Renewed for Season 4, We Riot