Dragon Media, a California company selling streaming devices, is being sued by an alliance of Hollywood studios, along with Netflix and Amazon. The Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment, a coalition made up of studios including Columbia Pictures, Paramount Pictures, 20th Century Fox Film, Universal Pictures and Warner Bros., filed suit against Dragon Media in US District Court in Los Angeles, alleging that the Kodi software powering Dragon Media boxes allows them to stream unauthorized and pirated content. The studios are seeking an injunction against the company and its top executives, as well as $150,000 for each copyrighted work that has been infringed. The alliance filed a similar suit in October against Georgia-based TickBox TV, which also sells set-top devices. – LAT

Netflix posted the first trailer for its upcoming sci-fi series "Altered Carbon," set in a future where human beings can transfer their consciousness between bodies. The series, based on a novel by Richard K. Morgan, stars both Joel Kinnaman and Will Yun Lee, as a soldier who is resurrected 250 years after his death in order to investigate a murder. "Altered Carbon" debuts on Netflix in February. – VERGE

'00s teen soap opera "One Tree Hill," which left Netflix in October amid fan outcry, will now stream in its entirety on Hulu. "One Tree Hill" will debut on the streaming service on February 1, along with new Hulu acquisitions "Everwood" and "Living Single." As Netflix has been letting more and more classic TV series go in favor of original shows, Hulu has rushed in to fill in the gap. "The X-Files" and "Lost" also recently moved over from Netflix to Hulu, and the company has added TV classics including "The Golden Girls," "Seinfeld," "Animaniacs" and ABC's TGIF line-up. – BUZZFEED

Shows from streaming services dominated the Golden Globes on Sunday, taking five of the top TV awards. This year marks the first time that both the Best Drama and Best Comedy series trophies went to streaming shows. (The winners were Hulu's "The Handmaid's Tale" and Amazon's "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel," respectively.) As well, both winning lead actresses (Elisabeth Moss for "Handmaid's Tale" and Rachel Brosnahan from "Mrs. Maisel") were recognized for their work on streaming shows. Aziz Ansari also won the Best Actor in a Comedy Series award for Netflix's "Master of None." Though this was a record-setting year, shows from technology companies and streaming platforms have been winning more and more major awards since Netflix's "House of Cards" took home three Emmys in 2013. – VERGE

U.S.-based National Center on Sexual Exploitation (NCOSE) has called on Netflix to cancel production of "Baby," an upcoming eight-part drama about an Italian teen prostitution scandal. Netflix ordered "Baby," which is being produced by Italy's Fabula Pictures, in November. It's inspired by the so-called Baby Squillo case: Mauro Floriani, the husband of Mussolini's granddaughter, stands accused of operating a high school prostitution ring in Rome's Parioli district. In a letter to Netflix, NCOSE Vice President Lisa Thompson accuses the company of producing "a show that glorifies the sex trafficking of minors." The letter was sent on Thursday, which was National Human Trafficking Awareness Day in the US. – DEADLINE

Hulu released a trailer for the upcoming limited series "The Looming Tower," about the rivalry between the FBI and the CIA in the years before the 9/11 attacks. Jeff Daniels stars in "Tower" as the head of the FBI's New York counter-terrorism unit, John O’Neill, who comes to (correctly) believe that al-Qaeda is plotting an attack within the US, but struggles with a lack of coordination and cooperation from other government agencies. The series is based on the 2006 non-fiction book of the same name by Lawrence Wright, which took home the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction. "The Looming Tower" debuts on Hulu on February 28. – DEADLINE

Actress and singer Carrie Brownstein will adapt her memoir, "Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl," into a half-hour comedy pilot for Hulu. Brownstein co-created IFC's "Portlandia," which begins its final season on January 18, and is a founding member of the rock bands Sleater-Kinney and Wild Flag. The Hulu series, tentatively titled "Search and Destroy," will focus on Brownstein's days in the '90s feminist punk rock scene in the Pacific Northwest. Brownstein has previously directed episodes of the Hulu series "Casual." Hulu also announced that it's developing a pilot based on Jade Chang's novel "The Wangs vs. The World." – THR

Free local New York City streaming service Locast.org is facing legal challenges from the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB). The service provides a high-quality livestream retransmitted from over-the-air broadcasts, frequently focused on live sporting events. Locast.org is provided by the non-profit Sports Fan Coalition New York, and was launched on Thursday in anticipation of this weekend's NFL playoff games. Walt Disney, Comcast, CBS and Fox all own local channels in the New York area, and the NAB argues that Locast's stream pirates content which these companies and others spent billions of dollars to license. The Coalition claims that, as a non-profit, it is exempt from the Copyright Act and simply provides a public service. – FORBES

The upcoming "Sabrina the Teenage Witch" series went to Netflix instead of the CW because of the size of the deal. Originally, "Sabrina" was being developed at CW, which is also the home of sister series "Riverdale." (Both shows are inspired by characters from Archie Comics, and were created by showrunner Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa.) Netflix made Warner Bros. a 20-episode, 2-season deal for the show - which will star Kiernan Shipka of "Mad Men" as the title character - prompting the move. The show will apparently be a darker take on the material than the previous 1990s TV incarnation, and has been described as tonally similar to "The Exorcist" and "Rosemary's Baby." Aguirre-Sacasa also writes for the comic book series "The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina." – EW

RECOMMENDED: "THE MARVELOUS MRS. MAISEL" ON AMAZON VIDEO

"The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel" perfectly exemplifies the principle that you don't necessarily need to relate SPECIFICALLY to the characters on a TV show, as long as they are well-drawn and three-dimensional. I share a general ethnic background (Judiasm) with the "Maisel" ensemble, and I suppose, culturally, this helps in a sense, but I suspect that NO 2018 Amazon Prime subscribers can relate to all of the details of the lead character's backstory. This is not a show designed for well-heeled 1950s New York housewives whose lives are upturned, only to discover that they have long-dormant gifts for stand-up comedy. That's a troublingly niche audience. Instead, "Maisel" is a delightful and relatable journey for everyone who's struggled with the conflict between how they see themselves, and how the world wants to see them. A slightly bigger group.

I don't mean to oversimplify. What makes "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel" work so well is that it takes the time to fully explore its world and the characters who inhabit it, rather than scanning its premise for "meanings" to extract. There's a lot going on, and one of the real charms of the show is that - unlike a lot of ensemble comedies - every character gets to have an inner life, and some quips and a little side story of their own. (Even Luke Kirby's impression of stand-up icon Lenny Bruce feels lived in and real.)

We're introduced to this particular take on New York's Upper West Side in 1958 through Midge Maisel (Rachel Brosnahan), a Type-A wife and mother who has her entire perfect life all planned out. When husband Joel (Michael Zegen), himself a frustrated wannabe stand-up, walks out on the family, Midge has a bit of a breakdown and finds herself on stage at the Gaslight, drunkenly entertaining the crowd (and getting arrested in the process). She's spotted by cranky loner Susie Meyerson (Alex Borstein), who senses that she has a gift, and encourages her to (secretly) pursue a stand-up career on the side, while embracing newly-single motherhood.

The show comes from "Gilmore Girls" showrunners Amy Sherman-Palladino and Daniel Palladino, so constant, ceaselessly clever, zinger-heavy repartee comes as no surprise. I tend to find "Gilmore Girls" exhausting and unrealistic. No entire small town is filled with Quip Machines like on that show. But for whatever reason - the period urban setting, the performances, I'm not quite sure - I didn't have this problem with "Maisel," which feels like a variation on our world, where everyone's just 15% smarter and more clever than they otherwise would be.

What's definitely clear: None of this would work as well without Brosnahan playing Midge. This is NOT an easy role, if only because all of the other characters are constantly reacting to how charming she is, and what a natural she appears to be on stage. We need to believe, like Susie does, that Midge is a real STAR in the making, or none of the extreme obstacles she faces in getting her shot in hipster Downtown Manhattan bars would be believable. But Brosnahan SELLS it - we believe that these club and party audiences would love her, that Lenny Bruce would love her, that the gals at the department store make-up counter would love her and that her family would love her to look past all of their fears and biases to support her dreams.

That she's backed up by such a winning ensemble, loaded with iconic character actors and comedians, is icing on the cake. Tony Shalhoub and Marin Hinkle are wonderful as Midge's parents, the Weissmans, who could easily be the center for a very different but still winning comedy series. Kevin Pollak and Caroline Aaron are similarly delightful as Joel's parents, and it's a real testament to the show that none of these characters ever truly becomes a VILLAIN; just nice people who look at the world differently. "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel" doesn't really have any villains, because Midge's world wouldn't really have a lot of overt villains. She's fighting to escape a box that, in many ways, she put herself in, and the show is deft enough to understand that many of us are our own worst enemies.

Amazon is streaming "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel" for free this weekend, to celebrate the show's victory at the Golden Globe awards. It's worth paying the price for a year of Prime to see this show, so it's absolutely worth your time to check it out for free. I didn't see this in enough time to get it on my Top Shows of 2017 list, but ignore me. This is one of the best shows of 2017.

THE BASICS

Title: "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel"
Where to Watch: Amazon Prime Video
Episodes: 8 (1 season)
Running time: 46-61 minutes each
Genre: Comedy-drama