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Nadia Petrova

Senior Correspondent

Nadia Petrova watches television seriously enough to notice when a series stops trusting its audience. She follows scripted series week by week, reports streaming release patterns and the deals behind them, covers the industry's agency and guild moves, and reviews games a household can actually agree on.

Articles by Nadia Petrova

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Severance Returns January 17, 2025, Nearly Three Years After Its First Season

Nadia Petrova

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How a Writers' Room Actually Works: From Mini-Room to Back Nine

Nadia Petrova

The Number That Decides a Renewal: How American Television Counts Its Audience Now

The Number That Decides a Renewal: How American Television Counts Its Audience Now

Nadia Petrova

What Nielsen's Gauge Actually Measures, and Why the Industry Watches It So Closely

What Nielsen's Gauge Actually Measures, and Why the Industry Watches It So Closely

Nadia Petrova

How Movie Review Scores Are Calculated, Explained: Tomatometer, Popcornmeter, and Metascore

How Movie Review Scores Are Calculated, Explained: Tomatometer, Popcornmeter, and Metascore

Nadia Petrova

The Number That Ends a Show: How Renewal Decisions Actually Get Made

The Number That Ends a Show: How Renewal Decisions Actually Get Made

Nadia Petrova

How Nielsen Actually Measures What America Is Streaming

How Nielsen Actually Measures What America Is Streaming

Nadia Petrova

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Entertainment News

Streaming Price Increases of 2026: The Running List

Nadia Petrova

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Entertainment News

Fall 2026 TV Schedule: What the Lineups Reveal

Nadia Petrova

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How the Anthology Format Survived the Streaming Era

Nadia Petrova

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How Subtitled Films Broke Into the Mainstream Streaming Catalog

Nadia Petrova

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Why Holiday Episodes Still Anchor Network Sitcom Schedules

Nadia Petrova

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Entertainment News

Spring 2026 Renewals and Cancellations: The Farewell-Season Pattern

Nadia Petrova

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Why the Oscars Broadcast Keeps Getting Redesigned for Television

Nadia Petrova

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Why Series Premieres Keep Getting Longer

Nadia Petrova

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Entertainment News

Oscars 2026: What the Broadcast Means for Television

Nadia Petrova

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The Made-for-TV Movie: A Short History of Primetime's Cheap Thrills

Nadia Petrova

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Entertainment News

TCA Winter 2026: The Press Tour That Didn't Happen — and What Replaced It

Nadia Petrova

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Why Film-to-TV Adaptations Usually Fail — and When They Don't

Nadia Petrova

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How Streaming Collapsed the 90-Day Movie Release Window

Nadia Petrova