David Ellison’s Skydance Media has unveiled its leadership structure for Paramount, beginning a shake-up as the Shari Redstone era winds to a close. Ellison will become chairman and chief executive of the new Paramount Skydance Corp. with a goal of reviving the legendary entertainment company. The structure will largely be decentralized with Ellison entrusting his…

On the Shelf Tonight in Jungleland: The Making of Born to Run By Peter Ames CarlinDoubleday: 256 pages, $30If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. Before “Born to Run,” Bruce Springsteen was in danger of being dropped by his record label….

We all need to stop getting mad about the fact that our favorite streaming series are now full of ads and focus on how awful those ads are. Yes, it is infuriating that streaming platforms sold a product they could not reasonably hope to sustain. The promise that, for a small fee, viewers would be…

NBC News correspondent Jacob Soboroff will join MSNBC full time once the progressive cable channel is spun off into a new company, which will be called Versant. Later this year, MSNBC is heading to Versant, which will be the new stand-alone home for current parent company Comcast’s cable networks. As a result, MSNBC will no…

When William Shakespeare wrote “What’s past is prologue,” he wasn’t thinking about television. But the Bard’s wisdom certainly applies to the latest batch of Emmy-nominated series. Here are the spiritual predecessors to eight of this season’s most-lauded shows. (All of the older titles are available on DVD and/or streaming.) If you like “The Pitt,” check…

Sterling K. Brown is telling me about the underground bunker in his Ladera Heights home, a feature common to houses built during the Cold War, when fears of a nuclear holocaust ran rampant and kids were watching “duck and cover” films at school. Brown and his wife, Ryan Michelle Bathé, sealed the bunker when they…

Anja Steyn has three disparate loves: puzzles, horror movies and magic. And during her show at the Magic Castle two weeks ago, she not only predicted the horror film someone was thinking of — she produced an almost-finished puzzle of the movie poster, with the last piece in the unsuspecting audience member’s possession. “Some of…

Book Review The Colonel and the King: Tom Parker, Elvis Presley, and the Partnership That Rocked the World By Peter GuralnickLittle, Brown & Co.: 624 pages, $38If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. The popular perception of Colonel Tom Parker is…

I will say this: I should be watching more cartoons. It has been harder to indulge this passion for some of the best, most pleasurable work television has to offer with so many ordinary series fighting for my professional time and attention, but here and now I make a more or less midyear resolution to…

This is a story about a movie that saved a sport. OK, that’s a stretch, but only a little one. Scottie Scheffler is the No. 1 golfer in the world. Has been for a couple of years. He has won two Masters titles, one PGA Championship and the recent British Open, as well as an…