What World Cup? It’s the ultimate summer TV guide
AI Summary
The 2026 FIFA World Cup, hosted across the United States, Canada, and Mexico simultaneously for the first time, faces significant hurdles. The tri-national structure requires extensive travel for teams and fans, making it the most carbon-intensive World Cup on record. The tournament is also contending with extreme heat in host locations, elevated ticket prices that have reduced fan attendance and economic returns, and complex border procedures affecting international participants.
Progressive: Progressive-leaning outlets emphasize the environmental catastrophe and record carbon footprint, positioning the World Cup as irresponsible and dangerous, while highlighting how inflated costs exclude ordinary fans and fail to deliver promised economic benefits.
Moderate: Centrist outlets present a more comprehensive overview of interconnected challenges—environmental impact, extreme heat, logistical difficulties across three nations, border complications, and economic underperformance—without assigning primary blame.
Don’t want to spend months watching corporate greed besmirch football? Fear not. From the spectacular return of Larry David to Will Ferrell’s wild golf comedy and Anya Taylor-Joy as a badass con artist, it’s going to be a summer of fantastic TV. Here are the shows you can’t miss
House of the Dragon finds itself slightly up against it this year, as the faster and funnier A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms has snatched its crown as the premium Game of Thrones spin-off. But let’s not discount it, because what House of the Dragon has in spades is scale and spectacle plus newly announced co-star James Norton. If that doesn’t excite you, nothing will. Sky Atlantic/Now/HBO Max, 22 June
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