On Tuesday, YouTube debuted YouTube TV, its new service that competes with cable and satellite television by offering you a package of channels delivered over the internet — to your smart TV, phone, or laptop, and so on.

YouTube TV is offering what's called a "skinny bundle," in this case a package of around 40 channels built around deals with the major broadcast networks (CBS, ABC, NBC, and Fox) and their affiliate stations. There are some big holes, particularly around YouTube not having Time Warner content like CNN, TNT, and HBO. With any smaller package, there are tradeoffs, however YouTube has made sports a focus.

"YouTube TV includes major sports networks like ESPN and regional sports networks like Fox Sports Networks and Comcast SportsNet, so you can watch your favorite NBA or MLB teams," YouTube said in a press release. "We've also partnered with local TV stations, so you'll also get sports and local news based on where you live."

The package costs $35 dollars a month, but with a little planning, you can get access to it for about $12 a month. That's because YouTube TV lets you have three simultaneous streams going at once (most of its competitors offer only two), and lets you have up to six accounts connected. If you want to save money, it's easy to split that $35 dollar cost between three people, all three of whom can be watching different shows at the same time.

YouTube has been explicit about targeting millennials with this offering. "Millennials love great TV content, but they don’t want to watch it in the traditional setting," YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki said at YouTube TV's launch event in LA on Tuesday. And many millennials don't yet have to worry about things like their teenage kids all wanting to watch different shows in their rooms.

YouTube TV has a few big caveats and programming holes, but if you are a cord-never or cord-cutter looking to get back into the TV ecosystem, finding two friends and paying $12 a month might be a lot more palatable.

The service will be available in the next few months.

Additional reporting by Steve Kovach.

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The biggest video game company in the world, Nintendo, is on the verge of releasing a new video game console. It's called the Nintendo Switch, and it arrives on March 3 for $299.

The gimmick with the Switch is simple: It's a portable game console and a home game console, all at once.

But a neat gimmick isn't enough to sell a game console, and Nintendo knows it. For a console to sell, it needs games. To that end, Nintendo has an elfin ace up its sleeve in "The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild." 

The game is gorgeous, massive, and arriving alongside the Switch on March 3.

So, is it any good? Good news: It's fantastic. I play a lot of games — it's my job, even! — and "The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild" is one of the best games I've played in years. It's hard to be too hyperbolic about what a tremendous game "Breath of the Wild" is. Here's why.

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WARNING: If you want nothing spoiled in "The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild," this is not the review for you. There are minor spoilers below.

The story of "The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild" is a story 10,000 years in the making. Link, the game's main character, wakes up in a tomb of sorts, where he's been sleeping for 100 years.

Much of the setup for "Breath of the Wild" happened 100 years in the past. The game supposes that you (Link) and Princess Zelda — the long-time heroine of the series — failed in a major battle against long-time antagonist Ganon.

A Mexican viewer posted a thank-you letter to Conan O'Brien for his special episode of his TBS late-night show "Conan," which was shot in Mexico City. And now the letter is going viral.

TBS aired the episode, "Conan: Made in Mexico," on Wednesday. It was shot by a Mexican production crew.

"I'm watching the special you made in Mexico and I just wanted to say thank you so much," Reddit user "FrankOcean2" wrote on the site. "Thank you for showing us as we really are. Not what some people say in political rallies, not what the narrative of some part of the US political discourse tells a part of the American electorate... So many Mexicans like myself, that is a child of the internet, that grew up with Mr. Rogers and 'Thundercats,' are embracing the notion of how similar we are."

The letter ended with, "So, thank you Conan. As a Mexican I felt so represented today, you raised the voices of millions of us who when we view the U.S.A we view them as a friend, not as an enemy. And for that, Thank you so much."

In addition to featuring sketches of O'Brien crossing the border, asking Mexican citizens for donations to pay for President Donald Trump's planned border wall, among other things, he also interviewed former Mexican President Vicente Fox and "Rogue One" actor Diego Luna.

Although there were a lot of laughs and digs at Trump's Mexican wall and immigration initiatives, O'Brien emphasized the show's message of respect between the people of both countries.

"I’ve talked to many, many Mexicans since I arrived," O'Brien said. "And this is the biggest feeling that I get from them — they feel misunderstood and their feelings are hurt. They’ve heard these things that were said at campaign rallies... and I’ve spent a lot of time trying to explain to them that many people in the United States love the Mexican people. This is a misrepresentation of how people feel."

Read the full thank-you letter to O'Brien on Reddit.

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We have now officially hit the scary portion on the #EnvelopeGate controversy.

TMZ is reporting that PricewaterhouseCoopers accountants Brian Cullinan and Martha Ruiz and their families are now being shadowed by bodyguards after they received death threats.

The threats came via social media and read "You f---ing idiot, i will f--- you every day" and "I hope you get fired and get cancer," according to the outlet.

PwC hired the security for the two disgraced accountants and their families after pictures of Cullinan and Ruiz's homes surfaced online.

Cullinan and Ruiz were the PwC accountants who were in charge of holding and passing out the winning envelopes on Oscar night.

Cullinan gave presenters Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway the wrong envelope to award the best-picture winner. Photos show that Cullinan was backstage tweeting at the time Beatty and Dunaway incorrectly said "La La Land" won best picture instead of the real winner, "Moonlight."

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Tom Hanks sent a gift to the White House press room, along with an encouraging message about their jobs under President Donald Trump.

Reporters in the White House tweeted photos of an espresso machine that Tom Hanks evidently sent to their press room.

"Thankx to @tomhanks for the new coffee machine for the schlubs in the WH press room," Reuters reporter Steve Holland tweeted.

The coffee machine also came with a note signed by Tom Hanks, which says:

"To the White House Press Corps

"Keep up the good fight for Truth, Justice, and the American Way.

"Especially for the Truth part."

See the note below:

This apparently isn't the first time Hanks has gifted journalists in the White House with better coffee. The Los Angeles Times reported in 2010, when former President Barack Obama was in office, that the actor sent the press corps another espresso machine with a note saying:

"I hope this machine will make the 24 hour cycle of news a bit more pleasant. Add water, insert pod, press button and report. All good things. Tom Hanks."

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Coca-Cola has a new hunk in town — and he's not just thirsting for a Diet Coke.

In a new ad (watch it in full below), showcasing the soda brand's entire range, Coca-Cola introduces a good-looking pool cleaner.

As the pool guy flexes his muscles, raking leaves from the water, a brother and sister lustfully gaze at him from inside their house.

The pair race and tussle to be the one to cool him down with an ice-cold Coke from the fridge — only to find their mom has got there first.

Speaking to AdAge via email, Coca-Cola vice president of global creative, said: "This story has more layers [than previous campaigns featuring a Coke hunk], including a 'wink' that touches on our point of view regarding diversity and inclusion. We are managing our culturally relevant messages organically within our campaign spots not as the main subject of the story but as subtext."

Coke also released a number of other ads as part of the latest wave of its "Taste the Feeling" campaign.

"Eyes Closed" is about the moments that are more enjoyable when you close your eyes:

"Elevator" depicts a hotel worker and celebrity making friends when they get stuck in an elevator:

"Subway" sees a music executive spotting a talented busker playing on a subway platform and turning her into a star:

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On a special episode titled "Conan Without Borders: Made in Mexico," Conan O'Brien shot Wednesday's episode of his TBS late-night show in Mexico City.

He was joined by the former Mexican President Vicente Fox, a very vocal critic of President Donald Trump.

Fox certainly didn't pull any punches during his interview on "Conan," which also employed a Mexican production crew for the episode. At the top of the interview, Fox gave O'Brien a boot emblazoned with the words, "No f---ing wall."

"Thank you. You've made it quite certain I won't be going back to the United States," O'Brien said.

Fox, who served as Mexico's president from 2000 to 2006, argued that history tells us that walls don't work, citing the 1990 fall of the Berlin Wall separating East Germany and West Germany.

"Walls don't work," Fox said, "especially when we, the people of the United States and Mexico, we are neighbors, we're friends, we're partners, and more so, we're roommates ... So many Mexicans doing great work, loyal to the United States, making that economy competitive. And now, they want to kick them in the a-- and throw them out. That's going to be a big, big loss for the United States."

Fox has been insistent that Mexico won't pay for Trump's planned border wall. After the election, the Trump Administration said it's considering a border tax on imports from Mexico, among other options.

"We might be short, but we're hot like a jalapeño," Fox told O'Brien of the Mexican people, in the face of Trump's planned initiatives. "So don't mess around with us, Señor Trump. Because if you look for it, you're going to find it."

Watch O'Brien's interview with Fox from Mexico below:

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As Amazon and Netflix battle over which company makes the best original streaming shows, one big difference is in their respective processes for making them.

While Netflix has totally abandoned the traditional TV "pilot" system, and commissions full seasons of shows at once, Amazon has a "pilot season" where the company lets Prime members give feedback on which shows they want full seasons of.

Amazon's next pilot season debuts March 17, and on Thursday the company announced its slate of shows. The pilots range from a superhero comedy set in Las Vegas, to a housewife trying to make it as a stand-up comic, to a chaplain sent into space.

Amazon has been ramping up its investment in video over the last few months, and previously said it was doubling its spending on video content in the second half of 2016, compared with the year prior. One expensive item was "The Grand Tour," a new show by Jeremy Clarkson and the "Top Gear" crew, which cost Amazon a reported $250 million.

That show was mean to supercharge Amazon's expansion into 200 countries, and proves Amazon isn't averse to spending big for quality shows.

Here are the 5 pilots Amazon announced Thursday, which you'll be able to give your stamp of approval (or disapproval) on:

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"The Legend of Master Legend"

Length: 30 minutes

Amazon Description: "The Legend of Master Legend" is a dark comedy about the life of Frank Lafount, a.k.a. Master Legend -- a homemade superhero whose mission is to protect the people of Las Vegas from evildoers. Master Legend juggles the demands of justice with the even more complicated demands of his real family, who don’t see him as a hero at all.

"Budding Prospects"

Length: 30 minutes

Amazon Description: In 1983, three hapless city boys move from their comfort zone of the San Francisco counter-culture to Mendacino to grow marijuana. Their expectations of the experience being a back-to-the-land, nurturing adventure in a beautiful rustic setting run up against the harsh truth prior to their arrival at "The Summer Camp" – a miserably run-down shanty out in the middle of nowhere, where they are bedeviled by rats, snakes, mosquitoes, and harsh, unfriendly growing conditions, noisy neighbors, dangerous locals, and menacing law enforcement. The pilot stars Adam Rose ("Veronica Mars"), Joel David Moore ("Bones"), Will Sasso ("MADtv") and Brett Gelman ("Fleabag").

"The New V.I.P.’s"

Length: 30 minutes

Amazon Description: Amazon’s first adult animated comedy show, "The New V.I.P.’s" follows a group of low-level employees who seize control of a major corporation after accidentally murdering their boss. The pilot stars Matt Braunger ("Agent Carter"), Ben Schwartz ("Parks and Recreation"), Missi Pyle ("Gone Girl") and Jonathan Adams (Last Man Standing).

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Anyone who saw the documentary or Broadway play would likely balk at living in the actual home that "Grey Gardens" inspired. They would likely balk even more at its price tag: $19.995 million.

But the East Hampton, New York, mansion where it all began now looks nothing like it did in the 1975 documentary showcasing the lives of Jackie Kennedy Onassis' ex-socialite relatives. 

Journalist and author Sally Quinn purchased the mansion with her husband, the late Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee, for $220,000 in 1979. They completely rehabilitated it to the current splendor that it now shows, according to The New York Times.

The Corcoran Group has the listing.

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The home has the slate exterior of a typical Hamptons home.

Walk past the sizable porch ...

... and enter a home of stately beauty.

Lorde has finally returned with new solo music, four years after her debut studio album "Pure Heroine," with its world-dominating hit "Royals."

Her new single, "Green Light," comes from her hotly anticipated sophomore album, "Melodrama," due this summer. She premiered the song online in a music video and on Apple's Beats 1 radio with DJ Zane Lowe.

In an interview with Lowe, Lorde said the full album was written and produced with Jack Antonoff, of the band Fun and his solo project Bleachers. She also said "Green Light" is about "my first major heartbreak."

“It's not something that I really am used to writing about,” she said. “It took me a while to be able to figure out how to write about that.”

The song starts with piano and Lorde's singing before exploding into a skittering drum beat and a soaring chorus that goes, "I'm waiting for it, that green light, I want it."

Lorde said previously in a tweet: "i am so proud of this song. it's very different, and kinda unexpected. it's complex and funny and sad and joyous and it'll make you DANCE."

Watch the video for Lorde's "Green Light" below:

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It's been almost two years since Michael Jackson's famed Neverland Ranch first came onto the market with a hefty $100 million price tag. 

Now it's back with a significantly lower listing price: $67 million. 

Renamed "Sycamore Valley Ranch," the 2,700-acre ranch in Los Olivos, California, was originally bought from Jackson by private investment firm Colony Capital for $23.5 million in 2008. It was subsequently restored and put back on the market, but it still hasn't sold.

Joyce Rey of Coldwell Banker Previews International has the listing this time around.

April Walloga contributed to an earlier version of this story.

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Welcome to Neverland Ranch, the famed property that once belonged to the late Michael Jackson.

Passing through the gates into the driveway, visitors will see a bronze statue of children playing in front of the main house.

Here is a full view of the front of the Normandy-style mansion.

It’s been days since the 2017 Oscars, but we’re all still talking about the awards show because of that massive confusion around the announcement of the best-picture winner. 

Every day, there’s a new development in the story of the blunder known as #EnvelopeGate, in which the wrong envelope was handed to presenters Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway, who mistakenly announced "La La Land" before "Moonlight" rightfully took the award.

Variety published telling backstage images with a timeline on Wednesday, showing how a duplicate envelope for Emma Stone's best-actress win for "La La Land" got into Beatty's hands, leading to his confusion and the mistaken announcement of that film as the best picture instead of "Moonlight."

Andrew H. Walker, the Shutterstock photographer who took those backstage photos, talked to Business Insider on Thursday about what he saw.

Walker has been working as a photographer for high-profile awards like the Golden Globes and Tonys for years, but this was only his second time working the Oscars, and his first time backstage. While we all saw the confused audience reactions and chaos among the people onstage, Walker got a view of the behind-the-scenes drama.

“Most of my attention was on the stage — I was trying to get photos of reactions of everyone. There was a woman with a headset over my shoulder, and it got really quiet. There was some odd tension — I thought someone messed up a music cue. And the woman said some powerful profanity — 'I’m getting the f--- out of here!' — and walked away," Walker said. “And then I thought, oh my God, Warren Beatty messed up.”

Although his photos show evidence as to how the whole thing played out, including a revealing image of PricewaterhouseCoopers accountant Brian Cullinan holding two envelopes nearby Warren Beatty just before Beatty walked out onstage, Walker wasn’t the one who solved the mystery. He told Business Insider that his editor suggested looking into it.

“I took over 4,000 pictures that night, so I had no idea if I had something, and nothing seemed suspicious at the time," he said.

The best-picture mix-up wasn’t great for everyone, particularly the PricewaterhouseCoopers accountants who won't return to work the Oscars after delivering Beatty the wrong envelope. But it did help Walker capture some great moments that wouldn’t have happened otherwise.  

“I got a great picture of Mahershala Ali hugging a ‘La La Land’ producer. They were so gracious — it was a really nice moment that showed we’re all in this together," the photographer said. "And when they came backstage, everyone from ‘Moonlight’ was crying and laughing. And Barry Jenkins, the director — his face looked like he’d been hit by a truck.”

Walker also had the opportunity to shoot the Oscars rehearsal, which gave him an appreciation of how the ceremony is put together.

“There are so many aspects to this show, so many amazing things all weaved into one. I feel bad that these people just made a human mistake," he said. "I’m troubled by the attention it’s getting. I feel in a way it’s tainted ‘Moonlight’s’ win.”

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Netflix now has a trailer for "Ingobernable," its upcoming show starring Kate del Castillo, the Mexican actress who helped set up the famous interview between actor Sean Penn and drug cartel kingpin Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán.

The series is called “Ingobernable” (Ungovernable) and stars del Castillo as Mexico’s First Lady (Emilia). In the trailer, Emilia is on the run after divorcing the president before he turns up dead. "Emilia is a woman with a strong personality, conviction and clear ideas that make her capable of doing anything," according to the Netflix description.

Del Castillo comes from a famous acting family in Mexico, and starred in a popular telenovela called “La Reina del Sur,” in which she played a drug lord. She says that she met El Chapo solely to discuss a possible movie about the Sinaloa cartel boss’ life, AFP reported last year.

From leaked messages, it appeared that El Chapo had a crush on del Castillo, but she insisted any possible romance was purely on his side in an ABC interview.

“It was more that he was, probably had a crush on Teresa Mendoza in a way, because he loved that series so much,” she said, in a reference to her role in "La Reina del Sur."

Despite the controversy surrounding El Chapo, who led one of the top criminal cartels during Mexico's bloody drug war that has killed more than 10,000 people, Netflix decided to continue with del Castillo in the starring role. But she told the AP she'd lost other roles.

“It’s not been a good year,” she told the AP in January. “I couldn’t work because people didn’t want me, because they were afraid.”

Netflix will drop the 15-episode season on March 24.

Here is the trailer:

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The new "Legend of Zelda" game, "Breath of the Wild," is a masterpiece— a truly fantastic launch game for Nintendo's brand new Switch console. 

It's a massive, open-world, third-person adventure game set in the storied land of Hyrule, where you control the Hero of Time, Link, as he wrestles control of the kingdom from long-time antagonist Ganon. 

If that description sounds familiar, that's because it could be applied to much of the last 20 years of "Zelda" games. But this one is special for a few important reasons:

• It's a truly open game, with little hand-holding, and a brilliant sense of discovery. 
• The world of Hyrule feels remarkably real and alive, despite its emptiness.
• It feels like a truly modern game set within the trappings of a beloved franchise.

That last reason is especially important for what this post is about. But first, before I get into that...

BEWARE! THERE ARE STORY SPOILERS BELOW FOR A MAIN STORY MISSION IN "THE LEGEND OF ZELDA: BREATH OF THE WILD!" IF YOU DON'T WANT ANYTHING SPOILED, TURN BACK NOW!

Still with me? Great.

When I say that "Breath of the Wild" feels like a modern game, I mean it in two ways. First, the game's systems and scope stand up to (and surpass) the competition. It takes something tinged with nostalgia in the "Zelda" series and mixes it with 20-plus years of modern game design. 

The second way that "Breath of the Wild" feels modern is in its cultural ambitions. Take, for instance, a mission set in the Gerudo Desert region of Hyrule, that tasks Link with becoming a lady.

Above you see Link in the foreground, with what appears to be a lady in the background laughing. That's because Link, who needs to get into the main Gerudo town, needs her help to blend in among the female-only population. She's laughing at Link's predicament.

Except, that isn't a "her" in the strictest sense of the term:

Indeed, this new friend of Link's is a crossdresser who can help him get where he needs to go. 

And how is that?

By crossdressing himself, of course! 

Fans have been pushing for a female version of Link for years, and it looks like they've got it in "Breath of the Wild" — albeit indirectly. Alternatively, another group of fans has pushed back against changing the gender of their favorite series' main character. For these folks, this mission might ruffle some feathers. 

Let them be ruffled — the mission is a tongue-in-cheek poke at the demand for a strong female protagonist in the "Zelda" series. 

In creating a crossdressing Link, Nintendo gets to appease those fans while keeping the "traditional" version of Link. 

And players get to hilariously fight enemies dressed as bellydancer Link!

Better yet, the clothes are actually functional in-game as a means of beating the heat in the arid, sun-soaked Gerudo Desert region. Part of what makes "The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild" such an incredible game is this attention to detail — you'll need a warm coat for the more frigid mountain regions of Hyrule, for instance, while this three-piece silk number is a better match for the desert sun. 

Lest you think this is all utilitarian, don't get things twisted: there are plenty of options to expand your wardrobe that are purely aesthetic.

Now all we need is accessories that aren't swords.

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Hollywood has been trying to make a successful modern franchise out of King Kong for decades, and in its latest attempt, Warner Bros. veers from the origin story of the classic 1933 movie to deliver a highly stylized action blockbuster called “Kong: Skull Island.” And boy, does it not work.

When the trailer for "Skull Island" hit the internet, you may have been grabbed, like me, by its fun vibe that mixed an "Apocalypse Now" lost-in-the-jungle tone with CGI-fueled action of a pissed-off Kong, plus a sword-swinging John C. Reilly as the comic relief. Unfortunately, that's the whole movie right there in a nutshell.

And if that's all you want from the $20 or so you'll spend at the multiplex to see this movie, then Warner Bros. has done its job, but frankly, this had the potential to be more than another dull reboot with its moments of entertainment. It's a bummer that's all it is.

Directed by up-and-comer Jordan Vogt-Roberts, who kicks off the movie with a dramatic entrance to Skull Island circa World War II, the movie then fast-forwards to 1973 at the tail end of the Vietnam War. John Goodman and Corey Hawkins ("Straight Outta Compton," "24: Legacy") play scientists who are granted a military escort to a mysterious island (you guessed it, Skull Island) to investigate what's on it before the Russians do.

Samuel L. Jackson plays the Army colonel of the team that flies everyone to Skull Island, Tom Hiddleston is a former British Special Forces member who comes along as a tracker, and Brie Larson is the war photojournalist who has had enough of being in "the s---" of Vietnam and tags along to see what they find on the island.

But by the time their helicopters fly into Skull Island, the movie is off the tracks.

Jackson's long-winded story about Icarus that he just decides to spout when his team is in a brutal thunderstorm to get to the island is the first sign that things are going to get rough. (Before that, Jackson says one his most famous lines from another movie. I won't spoil it for you.)

Though we get a good dose of Kong right when we hit the island, and some really creative shots of the destruction he dishes out on the helicopters, we are then left with the less tempting meat of the movie: The two factions of the team post-Kong attack (Hiddleston, Larson, Hawkins on one side; Jackson, Goodman, Jason Mitchell, and Shea Whigham on the other) try to meet at a rendezvous point.

Yes, there are some great fight scenes with the other creatures on Skull Island, like a gigantic spider with legs that look like bamboo trunks and pterodactyl-like birds (all homages to creatures from B-movies of the 1960s). But as much as I'm sure Vogt-Roberts and screenwriters Dan Gilroy, Max Borenstein, and Derek Connolly tried, there is zero reason to care at all about the human characters.

Hiddleston and Larson don't have any chemistry, and Hiddleston does absolutely nothing to be a hero in this movie, outside of taking Reilly's sword and chopping up some birds with a gas mask on.

And perhaps that's the whole point. Kong is supposed to be the one we care about most. We learn through Reilly's character, who has been on the island for decades, that Kong is the protector of all on the island from the vicious "skull crushers." But as we've learned from the failures of past Kong movies, there needs to be more to the story than just a vicious ape.

Jackson tries to fill that void with his character, a man broken by the US leaving Vietnam and now taking it out on Kong. And though he has his moments, as with Reilly, it's not enough.

From the flat ending to endless needle drops of every popular 1970s song and one extremely lame death scene, what starts out as a potentially fun and cliche-less way to do an action movie turns into another watered-down origin story of a franchise.

Maybe it will get better when Kong fights Godzilla in the next movie.

"Kong: Skull Island" opens in theaters March 10.

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CULVER CITY, California — We recently had the opportunity to visit the set of "Jeopardy!" on a taping day and got to talk to the iconic host of the show, Alex Trebek. 

The show records five episodes on a taping day, and during the break between the filming of the third and fourth episodes, Trebek sat down with Business Insider for an interview.

We asked the 76-year-old, Canada-born television icon to reveal his list of the citizens of his native country that he most admires. 

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Michael Jackson's Neverland Ranch is back on the market for the price of $67 million. Renamed Sycamore Valley Ranch, the 2,700-acre property features a 12,000-foot main residence, a 3,700-foot pool house, a "Disney-style" train station, and a separate building with a movie theater and a dance studio. Prior to his death, Jackson sold the ranch for $22.5 million, and the estate was listed last year for $100 million. 

Video provided courtesy of Joyce Rey

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The Nintendo Switch is here! Officially!

As of Friday March 3, you can go out and buy Nintendo's new hybrid game console that blends the home game console concept with that of a handheld. You can play it on a TV. You can play it in your hands. 

This is the Nintendo Switch:

The $300 game console can do one thing right out of the box: play games off of Nintendo's new Game Cards (which resemble thick SD cards). You can't access Nintendo's digital storefront (the eShop), or play games online with friends. You can't even use the Switch's microSD storage function right out of the box.

That's because the console that ships to retail stores and homes on March 3 requires an update to light up the aforementioned functionality. It's a common practice, known as a "day one" update — you connect the console to your home internet, and the console pulls down a file that updates the system.

Think of it like an OS update on your phone, but for a game console. 

Admittedly, the concept can be frustrating. You get home with your new console and the first thing you have to do is download something. 

Thankfully, the process is a snap on the Switch — at least in my experience. The file itself wasn't very large (~100MB), so the download and installation process took under five minutes.  Here's everything in the update, according to Nintendo:

• "Play games with your friends online."
• "Add players to your friend list."
• "Share screenshots from your album to Facebook and Twitter."
• "Browse and shop for digital content on Nintendo eShop."
• "Keep up-to-date with new games, eShop discounts, and promotions via the news feature."
• "The option to turn on your TV automatically when placing the Nintendo Switch in the Nintendo Switch Dock."

Additionally, the update enables the use of microSD cards — before the update, the Switch recognizes that a microSD card is inserted, but won't allow it to be used for storage.

After you've completed the process you'll see the screen above, and that's it — you're all set! Go download games, play "Super Bomberman R" online with friends, and ... okay let's be real, you're just gonna play "The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild," aren't you?

Good call.

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It's a big moment for Nintendo.

This Friday, the Japanese video game giant is launching its latest console, the Nintendo Switch. It's the company's first new console since 2012's Wii U — a console best known for being Nintendo's worst-selling of all time.

It's not quite a make-or-break moment for Nintendo, but it's not far off. The company could sure use a hit.

With the Switch, Nintendo has the foundations of a great game console.

I've spent dozens of hours with the console during the past week, both at home on my TV and out in the world as a portable system. I can happily report that, in my experience, it's a speedy, modern piece of hardware that is well worth its $300 price tag. In the same breath, a warning: The Nintendo Switch is woefully underserved by software.

This is the duality of the Switch in March 2017, at launch. It's a console worth owning, but you should probably wait a few months to buy one.

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A quick overview: The Nintendo Switch is a $300 video game console set to launch on Friday, March 3.

The console is a hybrid home console and portable console. The games you play at home are the same when you take them on the go — that's the whole sell point of the console: "Play games everywhere."

In this sense, the "console" is just a tablet that can be docked or taken on the go.

This is the Nintendo Switch, the 6.2-inch tablet in the middle. The controllers on either side are modular; they can be slid onto the tablet, thus turning it into a handheld game system.

The Switch seamlessly moves between home console and portable console. You simply slide the tablet into the dock, and it's on your TV.

Switching between TV mode and handheld mode works exactly as advertised — it's simple, intuitive, and brilliant. Being able to pause a game on my TV, snag the Switch out of the Dock, and keep playing is a convenience I didn't think I needed. Turns out it's a tremendously nice bonus. I've been playing "The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild" on my morning commute, picking up where I left off on my TV the night before, and it's a real delight.

Also, if we're being honest, being able to bring the Switch to the bathroom is something that millions of people are going to embrace. Kinda gross? Maybe. Logical? Certainly.