It’s called the Palm Dog contest, but the winner of the annual Cannes Film Festival tradition was a Panda.

Paddington bear going on an Indiana Jones-style adventure in “Paddington in Peru” and Alexander Skarsgard playing a robot with free will in Apple TV+‘s series “Murderbot” are some of the new television, films, music and games headed to a device near you.

It could be argued that 2024 wasn’t the best year for TV.

On an unusually crowded weekend at movie theaters that featured a pricey Viking epic and Nicolas Cage playing himself, DreamWorks Animation’s “The Bad Guys” bested the field.