Following Westworld’s recent season-two premiere on Sunday, April 22, despite ratings for the first two episodes of the second season slightly down from the first season, which was HBO’s most popular first-year series ever, HBO has decided to renew the Emmy-winning drama series for a third season. It comes as no surprise that the premium network maintains faith in the series that debuted as HBO’s most popular first-year ever. Continue reading
In anticipation of the upcoming second season of ‘Channel Zero’, new details have been revealed as to what the third and fourth season stories will consist of Continue reading
Seals and Seal will be fearing for their lives come July as Discovery Channel has begun to promote their biggest event of the year, Shark Week. The full programming schedule has just been announced, with this year’s specials to include appearances by renowned scientists, marine biologists, and of course Michael Phelps. Eli Roth will again be this year’s host of the 29th season of one of the summer’s most celebrated week of programming. The annual feeding frenzy will take place on July 23 through July 30 this year and is chock-full of prehistoric, fishy awesomeness. Continue reading
This year’s Anime Expo will host the world premiere of the highly anticipated anime series adaptation ‘Welcome to the Ballroom’ Continue reading
A live-action adaptation of the cult classic anime series ‘Cowboy Bebop’ has been announced and will be written by ‘Thor: Ragnarok’ scribe Chris Yost. Continue reading
As December 1st quickly approaches, it can only mean one thing: ABC Family’s 25 Days of Christmas. Get your hot chocolate ready and your popcorn bowl full, because this year’s programming schedule is jam packed from morning to night with Christmas classic movies, ABC Family original films, and big network premieres.
If you’re unfamiliar with this joyous occasion, each year ABC Family schedules out a block of programming from December 1 through December 25 with some of the best, festive holiday favorites to indulge in with the whole family. This year marks the final time the “25 Days of Christmas” name will be under the ABC Family moniker as the network will be called Freeform starting this January – whatever that means.
This year’s big premieres during the 25 Days of Christmas include Jim Henson’s 1984 classic The Bells of Fraggle Rock and 1977’s Emmet Otter’s Jug-Band Christmas. Both have been remastered for their big returns. And for fans of The Immortal Instruments series, there will be an exclusive behind the scenes look at the making of Shadowhunters, one of the many TV series added to ABC Family’s Freeform’s 2016 programming slate.
Per usual, the 25 Days of Christmas schedule is packed with fan favorites such as Toy Story, The Santa Clause, Elf, The Polar Express, The Nightmare Before Christmas, How the Grinch Stole Christmas (the live action version only), and Love Actually. Sadly there won’t be any Harry Potter or Home Alone marathons this year, which makes me suspicious of this year’s programming – you’ve changed ABC Family, and I don’t like it.
Without further ado, mark your calendars and get ready for the spirit of the holiday season!
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If you’re watching The Walking Dead on AMC right now and believe that the situation Rick and the Alexandrians are in couldn’t get any worse, buckle up. It was revealed today that Jeffrey Dean Morgan has been cast as Negan (pronounced KNEE-gan), the most feared villain from comics the series is based on. Zombies will be the least of Rick’s worries as fans of The Walking Dead will soon come to find out. Looking back, The Governor will seem like a drunk frat boy who lost a game of beer pong compared to the nightmare Negan will bestow upon our group.
It has not been confirmed, but The Hollywood Reporter suggests that we’ll be introduced to the maniacal leader of “The Saviors” – his group of post-apocalyptic survivors – in the Season 6 finale. With the addition of Negan also comes “Lucille,” his barbed wire bat that has made the acquaintance of many of Rick’s group, including one major character in particular.
I’m very excited for Jeffrey Dean Morgan to play Negan. Rumors swirled around that Jon Hamm was in talks for the role, but Jeffrey Dean Morgan has more gruff features that better suit the needs of the character as well as a filmography that has dealt with such grim subject matter. Jeffrey dean Morgan is probably best known for his portrayal of The Comedian in Zack Snyder’s adaptation of The Watchmen. He has also appeared in CBS’s The Good Wife and Extant, and he will also have a small role in the upcoming Batman V Superman: Dawn of Justice as Thomas Wayne, father of Bruce Wayne.
Andrew Lincoln, who plays Rick Grimes, told THR last season that he wouldn’t be surprised if fans of The Walking Dead didn’t meet Negan at some point in the not so distant future. He also goes on to say:
“What struck me, that I’ve always been excited about, is: We’re coming into the sixth season of this show. … And it’s the medieval part of The Walking Dead comic, where you realize that there are these isolated communities, but don’t really know other ones exist. But they’re all building and forming themselves with their own image. And then there’s a clash of those communities. That, to me, is really interesting and when it gets really exciting with all the action. It turns into this insane, near-apocalyptic landscape that we’ve never seen before. That is almost a reimagining and a restart for society and humanity. And that is such a rich thing to tell.”
Lincoln is not only referring to Alexandria, but also the Hilltop, a community that has been under the “protection” of The Saviors who demand half of the Hilltop’s supplies at certain times of the year. One Hilltop community member has also been cast, Jesus, played by Tom Payne (Luck; Waterloo Road; Wuthering Heights). Jesus is a key member of the Hilltop who performs similar duties as Aaron, scouting and recruiting local talent. He becomes a welcomed ally and friend to Rick down the line.
As a reader and fan of the comic, Negan will be quite the challenge to portray on the small screen. Not only is he a violent psychopath, he also seeks to liberate English language barriers one F-bomb at a time. (It’s almost too funny that the show can depict someone getting their throat slit like they did in Terminus, but will find difficulty dancing around a four letter word.)
Showrunner Scott M. Gimple also spoke to THR recently about how they seek to approach the character:
“There’s a particular story in that arc that I’m very excited for. But because we know where we’re going, we have some opportunities to play around with it and put some things in that will lead up to [Negan and Alexandria] in different ways, yet fulfill the story Robert told to the nth degree by utilizing some slightly different approaches: lineups and timelines and the whole nine yards.”
Are regular TV audiences ready for Negan or will his actions be too vicious to depict on the small screen?
The Walking Dead is currently running through the first half of Season 6. The second half typically picks back up around the second weekend of February, which falls on Valentine’s Day next year – a perfect day for red.
Source: The Hollywood Reporter
If you were a fan of the 1999 cult classic, Cruel Intentions, you’ll be thrilled to know that the film’s sequel is coming to the small screen. The original was a box office success for its time, grossing $75 million worldwide on a $10.5 million budget. It lived on in spirit as a direct-to-DVD franchise with two sequels, rightfully entitled Cruel Intentions 2 and Cruel Intentions 3. Sony TV hopes to revive and capitalize on the film’s previous popularity. Which brings up two important questions. Do we need a Cruel Intentions TV show? No. Do we want one? Hell yes.
Here’s the unofficial Cruel Intentions TV show plot synopsis, courtesy of Deadline:
Set in present day, Cruel Intentions follows the rags-to-riches story of 16-year-old Bash Casey, the son of the late Sebastian Valmont (played by Phillippe) and Annette Hargrove (Witherspoon). Upon finding his late father’s journal, Bash learns of the family legacy he didn’t know existed. In search of answers, he trades his small-town Kansas upbringing for a scholarship to the prestigious Brighton Preparatory Academy in San Francisco and soon finds himself in a world of sex, money, power, and corruption he never could have imagined.
NBC has hired the film’s original writer-director Roger Kumble (Just Friends; The Sweetest Thing) to spearhead the project. Producer Neal H. Moritz. Kumble, who has been working as a TV episodic director for the past five years, is set to helm the potential pilot and develop the script; he will also executive produce with Moritz and Pavun Shetty of Original Film. Lindsey Rosin and Jordan Ross, the duo behind the The Unauthorized Musical Parody Of Cruel Intentions, will also join the Cruel Intentions TV show team to help develop the script in addition to being co-executive producers.
The series joins a lineup of TV show remakes from Sony TV including My Best Friend’s Wedding (ABC), Think Like A Man (Fox), and In The Line Of Fire (NBC). Just this year alone, 2015 television has been privy to many series adapted from the silver screen, including Teen Wolf, Scream, Ash vs. The Evil Dead, Limitless, and 12 Monkeys. Sony also has its hands on three more film to television adaptations in the works, which includes My Best Friend’s Wedding for ABC, Think Like a Man for FOX, and In the Line of fire for NBC. Furthermore, Taken is being adapted for NBC, Lethal Weapon and Behind Enemy Lines for FOX, Training Day for CBS, and The Notebook for none other than the CW.
An official series premiere date has yet to be announced for the Cruel Intentions TV show, but we’ll keep you updated as the production gains momentum.
Source: Deadline
In the realm of gaming, there’s been an incredible lack of Mega Man titles as of late. And with the 30th anniversary of one of the most iconic characters ever created on the horizon, there will be justice as of 2017. Dentsu Entertainment USA has partnered with Man of Action Entertainment to develop a new 26-episode animated series based on Capcom’s little boy blue reploid (UPDATE: I was corrected on Tumblr that Mega Man is not a reploid, but in fact the reploids were based on his model and my false claim, despite some references to him being one, “hurts credibility” for the character.) Find out more about this development after the jump. Continue reading
Tonight the Broadcast Television Journalists Association held its 5th Annual Critics’ Choice Television Awards. Just like its sister organization (Broadcast Film Critics Association) has its own award show now going on its 21st year, the BTJA honors the greatest in television, as its name implies. The ceremony honored programs and performances that aired between June 1, 2014 and May 31, 2015. HBO walked away tonight the big winner with seven awards while the rest of the board was pretty scattered due to the recently excellent year on the small screen. See the full winners list and some brief commentary after the jump. Continue reading
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