Sigmund and Devon break down the variations in video and audio quality across streaming and recap the second season of The Buccaneers.

Pre-Roll

• Wild Life: Orangutans

Main Topic

• How to Unlock Detailed Streaming Statistics on the Apple TV

Apple Original News

• Mr. Scorsese — First Look

Apple Original Film on VOD

• CODA
• The Banker
• Emancipation
• Greyhound
• On The Rocks
• Spirited
• The Tragedy of Macbeth
• Finch

Releases

• F1 in IMAX Discount Tickets
• Highest 2 Lowest
• Highest 2 Lowest (Original Soundtrack)
• Snoopy Presents: A Summer Musical
• Unicorn Girl

Extras

• Snoopy Presents: A Summer Musical — "When We Were Light" Lyric Video
• Chief of War — Inside the Episode 103: "City of Flowers"

Recap

• The Buccaneers

TV App Highlights

• How to Train Your Dragon
• Jurassic World: Rebirth
• Fixed
• Sausage Party: Foodtopia
• Night Always Comes
• Superman
• Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning

Up Next

• Wednesday
• Eddington

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Sigmund and Devon highlight the second season premiere of Apple Original comedy series Platonic and the debut of historical drama Chief of War.

Pre-Roll: An Alien Intervention

• Vision Pros

Highlights

• Platonic
• Chief of War

Trailer Talk

• What's Coming in August 2025 | Chief of War, Platonic & More
• Snoopy Present: A Summer Musical
• Invasion — Season 3
• KPOPPED
• KPOPPED Episode Highlights
• Highest 2 Lowest

Releases

• Wild Life: Orangutans
• ‎Play-Doh World
• ‎Worms Across Worlds
• ‎Let’s Go Mightycat!
• ‎Everybody Shogi
• CODA (PVOD)

Extras

• Snoopy Presents: A Summer Musical — "Best Time Ever" Lyric Video
• ‎⁨Strength with Kim and Jurnee Smollett | Apple Fitness+
• 28 Years Later Director Danny Boyle Innovates with iPhone
• Chief of War — Opening Title Sequence

TV App Highlights

• Jurassic World: Rebirth
• The Pickup
• Wednesday
• Ebony & Ivory
• Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore
• Alien: Earth

Up Next

• Eyes of Wakanda
• Weapons

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Sigmund and Devon preview the public beta of tvOS 26 and recap Apple Original comedy series Stick.

tvOS 26 Public Beta

• Apple Beta Program

Apple TV News

• Bluey x Fruit Ninja Classic+ Apple Arcade Promotion

Apple Original News

• First Look at The Savant
• The Lost Bus Trailer
• First Look at The Last Frontier
• The Last Frontier — Date Announcement
• First Look at Down Cemetery Road
• Pluribus — Date Announcement
• Pluribus — (202) 808-3981

Releases

• Chief of War
• Stillwater

Recap

• Stick
• The Compassionate Friends Non-Profit Organization for Grief
• MISS Foundation

TV App Highlights

• The Life of Chuck
• 28 Years Later
• Twisted Metal
• Final Destination Bloodlines
• Eyes of Wakanda
• 007: Road To A Million
• Caught by the Tides
• Bob Trevino Likes It
• Sorry, Baby

Up Next

• King of the Hill
• Project Runway

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Sigmund and Devon begin one last journey to Acapulco and share their early impressions of the Games app.

Pre-Roll

• Jason Blum Opens Up About the 'M3GAN 2.0' Flop, the Blumhouse Slump, and Bouncing Back | The Town

Highlight

• Acapulco

The Games App

• Introducing the Apple Games app: A personalized home for games | Apple

Trailer Talk

• Platonic
• Stillwater

Apple Original News

• Loot — Season 3 Date Announcement
• Ted Lasso — Season 4 Now in Production
• Grand modèle de langage | Upgrade

Extras

• Acapulco — Season 2 Recap
• Foundation Season 3 Art Blast | ArtStation Magazine
• Foundation – Mind Meld with The Cast of Season 3
• Murderbot — The Cast Plays Bitter/Sweet
• The Buccaneers — Set Tour with Josie Totah and Aubri Ibrag

TV App Highlights

• Dangerous Animals
• Materialists
• South Park
• Code Of Silence
• Death of a Unicorn
• Happy Gilmore 2
• The Phoenician Scheme

Up Next

• Union
• The Wonderfully Weird World of Gumball
• Mickey Mouse Clubhouse+

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Sigmund and Devon return to the world of Foundation for its third season and share their favorite films and shows from the first half of 2025. Then, they recap the first season on Apple Original sci-fi comedy series Murderbot.

Highlight

• Foundation

Devon’s Top Movies of 2025 So Far

• F1: The Movie
• Deaf President Now!
• Thunderbolts*
• Echo Valley
• Fountain of Youth

Sigmund’s Top Movies of 2025 So Far

• F1: The Movie
• Sinners
• Caught by the Tides
• Warfare
• Sorry, Baby

Devon’s Top Shows of 2025 So Far

• Stick
• Adolescence
• Severance
• The Studio
• Daredevil: Born Again

Sigmund’s Top Shows of 2025 So Far

• Severance
• Common Side Effects
• The Studio
• Couples Therapy
• The Bear
• The Pitt
• The Four Seasons

Films Coming Later This Year

• Trailer Playlist

Trailers

• Acapulco
• Chief of War
• The Morning Show

Apple Original News

• Neuromancer — In Production
• Invasion — Season 3 Official Teaser

Releases

• The Wild Ones
• Apple Music Live: Central Cee
• Snoopy Presents: A Summer Musical

Extras

• Owen Wilson | Zane Lowe Interview
• Long Way Home (Apple TV+ Original Series Soundtrack)
• The Buccaneers — Josie Totah on Set
• Foundation — Chaos of the Mule
• Foundation — Top 5 Best Moments in Season 1 and 2
• AMA with Dennis Lehane

Recap

• Murderbot

TV App Highlights

• The Phoenician Scheme
• Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story
• Nobu
• How to Train Your Dragon
• Billy Joel: And So It Goes

Up Next

• Simple Plan: The Kids in the Crowd
• Let God Sort Em Out – Clipse
• Sovereign

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Sigmund and Devon discuss what the future of the theatrical experience could look like and look back at Apple Original French culinary drama Carême.

The Future of Cinema

• 28 Years Later
• Martin Scorsese no longer watches films in cinemas due to audience bad behaviour | The Guardian
• Apple Granted 34 Patents Today Covering an Advanced Infrared Camera System that could work with Apple Pay & Much More | Patently Apple
• Apple won a Wild patent for an Augmented Reality Light System that projects AR content onto tables, walls+ without a Headset | Patently Apple
• Apple Just Patented an Image Sensor With 20 Stops of Dynamic Range | Y.M.Cinema Magazine

Releases

• ‎Angry Birds Bounce
• ‎Crayola Scribble Scrubbie+
• ‎Kingdom Rush 5: Alliance TD+
• ‎Suika Game+

Extras

• What's Coming in July 2025 | Foundation, Acapulco & More
• Apple Fitness+ Workouts ‎Inspired by F1: The Movie
• Smoke — An Inside Look
• Foundation — Actually Helpful Recap: Fast Forward to Season 3
• Shrinking — Celebrating Pride with Michael Urie
• Inside the high-speed production of ‘F1 The Movie’ | Apple News In Conversation
• Jerry Bruckheimer: On Working with Apple Films, Lewis Hamilton, and F1 | The Zane Lowe Show
• Stick’s Ultimate Guide to Golf Hot Spots | Apple Maps
• Owen Wilson on Hot Ones
• The Severance Podcast with Ben Stiller & Adam Scott

Recap

• Carême

TV App Highlights

• The Instigators
• Ballerina: From the World of John Wick
• Thunderbolts*
• The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie
• Swamp Dogg Gets His Pool Painted
• Tornado
• The Luckiest Man in America
• On Becoming a Guinea Fowl
• Sinners

Up Next

• Bring Her Back
• Snow White

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Sigmund and Devon are joined by special guests Jonathan Reed and Benjamin Mayo to highlight the theatrical debut of F1: The Movie. Then, they discuss this Friday’s premiere of Apple Original thriller series Smoke.

Theatrical Highlight

• F1
• Jonathan Reed
• Benjamin Mayo
• How Apple Created a Custom iPhone Camera for ‘F1’ | Wired

Releases

• The Instigators
• Yo Gabba Gabba!

Extras

• Hold That Train! | Apple Arcade
• Shot on iPhone 16 Pro | Big Man - Starring Stormzy
• Shot on iPhone 16 Pro | Big Man - Behind The Scenes
• Stick — Opening Title Sequence
• Echo Valley — Julianne Moore and Sydney Sweeney Master Kintsugi
• Severance — Dichen's Casting Tape

Streaming Highlight

• Smoke

TV App Highlights

• The Bear
• Squid Game

Up Next

• Ironheart
• Pavements

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Sigmund and Devon highlight the return of The Buccaneers, explore how haptics and other metadata could enhance media experiences on Apple’s platforms, and recap the first season of Your Friends & Neighbors.

Highlight

• The Buccaneers

Enhanced Media Experiences

• Haptic Trailer for F1

Trailer Talk

• Foundation — Season 3

Releases

• Easy Money: The Charles Ponzi Story

Extras

• F1 The Movie World Premiere Red Carpet Live Stream
• Government Cheese — Behind Paul Hunter’s Creative Vision
• Murderbot — Get Your Own SecUnit Today!
• Bono: Stories of Surrender, U2 & Rock Music | Zane Lowe Interview
• Ben Stiller: Severance, The Knicks & Meet the Parents 4 | Zane Lowe Interview
• Severance — The Ballad of Burt & Irving
• Long Way Home — Guess the Bike with Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman
• Apple Maps Guide: Tour Europe with Long Way Home
• Chief of War — Casting King Kamehameha
• The Cast of Slow Horses on The Late Show
• Tim Cook Reveals Apple’s Vision for Movies and TV: Why Spending Millions on Blockbusters Like ‘F1’ Is About More Than Selling iPhones | Variety

Recap

• Your Friends & Neighbors

TV App Highlights

• Final Destination Bloodlines
• Friendship
• Sally

Up Next

• A Minecraft Movie
• 28 Years Later

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Show Notes

tvOS 26’s Reveal and Echo Valley

Sigmund and Devon break down Apple’s tvOS and visionOS announcements from WWDC25, grade their predictions, and highlight Apple Original film Echo Valley.

WWDC25

• MacStories’ WWDC25 Coverage
• What's Coming | Foundation, Chief of War & More

Trailer Talk

• The Wild Ones
• The Lost Bus

Apple Original News

• First Look at Slow Horses Season Five
• Ben Stiller and Adam Scott on ‘Severance’ Season 3, Stiller’s Scrapped Character and Potential Spinoffs: ‘There Are Two Specific Ideas’ | Variety

Releases

• Not a Box

Extras

• Stick — The Cast on Their Love For Golf
• Long Way Home — Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman on Their Friendship | Origin Story
• Fountain of Youth — Natalie Portman and John Krasinski Speak French
• Apple Maps Collection: Around the World with Fountain of Youth
• The Buccaneers — Outsider's Intro to Season 1 with Leighton Meester
• Murderbot — The Rise and Fall of Sanctuary Moon Opening Title Sequence
• Murderbot — Alexander Skarsgård Plays Human or SecUnit

Highlight

• Echo Valley

Up Next

• Phineas and Ferb
• Deep Cover

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Sigmund and Devon highlight the premiere of Apple Original comedy series Stick starring Owen Wilson. Then, they compete to predict what’s in store for Apple TV at this year’s Worldwide Developers Conference.

Highlight

• Stick

Releases

• ‎UNO: Arcade Edition
• ‎LEGO Hill Climb Adventures+
• ‎Lost in Play+
• ‎Helix Jump+
• WWDC 2025

TV App Highlights

• The Surfer
• Predator: Killer of Killers
• Magic Farm

Up Next

• Sinners

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