Current News Archives

We'll be getting back to the regular The Weekly Static grind next week; but this week, we're wrapping up 2017 in a pretty little bow with a look back at the five biggest television screw-ups from the past year.

The squared circle just got a little more crowded, with The Sopranos alum Annabella Sciorra set for a recurring role on the second season of Netflix's hit '80s wrestling series GLOW.

Netflix and actor/writer/comedian (and killer Golden Globes host) Ricky Gervais have been making beautiful music together over the past few years, and it looks like that dance is going to go on a little longer.

Netflix‘s Ozark is staying a little closer to home with the newest addition to the show's cast, tapping Janet McTeer (Marvel's Jessica Jones) to join Jason Bateman (Arrested Development) and Laura Linney (The Big C) as a regular on the second season of the critically-acclaimed dramatic series.

If you're DJ/producer (and righteously huge Rick and Morty fan) Deadmau5, you make the pair an offer they can't refuse. At his New Year's Eve show at the NOS Events Center in San Bernardino, California, the performer had the mad genius and his grandson join him on stage via video monitors to ring in 2018.

The Americans' Frank Langella has joined the cast of Showtime's new half-hour comedy series Kidding; accompanying fellow actors Jim Carrey (The Truman Show) and Catherine Keener (Get Out, Death to Smoochy) on Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind helmer Michel Gondry's (Be Kind Rewind) newest project.

Streaming service Amazon has released their end-of-year tallies on what your eyeballs have been glued to in 2017. Here's the breakdown, separated between "streamed" and "downloaded"; and then further divided between domestic and international viewership:

The Gifted just received a gift of its own in the form of a second season renewal by Fox, who made the announcement during the network's Television Critics Association's (TCA) winter press tour.

If you're a Rick and Morty fan you can take some consolation in knowing that there's a dimension out there where a fourth season of the hit Adult Swim animated series actually sees the light of day in 2018. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like it's going to be this one.

Looks like the Shonda Rhimes "universe" is about to get a little smaller in a very big way, with the Scandal creator and How to Get Away with Murder creator Peter Nowalk confirming to Deadline: Hollywood that the two series would be part of a major crossover event on ABC later this season.

We're back once again for Bleeding Cool’s weekly recap of Syfy‘s Happy! and another round of “reminder recap;” and even though we don't get a new episode this week, we've still got our sights set on waxing nostalgically about last week's Episode 4, ‘Year of the Horse.’

All good things must naturally come to an end (which has still in no way, shape or form ever made me feel good about the process), and that's where IFC finds itself with their Portland-set hipster satire series Portlandia. Watch the trailer here!

With details on the third season of HBO's True Detective finally starting to surface, there comes word that Stephen Dorff (Blade, Wheeler) is set to star opposite Mahershala Ali (House of Cards, Luke Cage) and Carmen Ejogo (Selma) in the newest season of Nic Pizzolatto’s crime anthology series.

Actress Kate Beckinsale is going from Underworld to underground in the new drama-thriller The Widow, an eight-episode original series from Harry and Jack Williams (Fleabag) for Amazon and ITV.

While most of us know Disney's Haunted Mansion as a long-standing popular attractions, it was also recently the basis for two different (and currently unmade) animated series pilots written by Kubo and the Two Strings creator Shannon Tindle.

Not every Amazon member was a fan of Cord Hosenbeck (Will Ferrell) and Tish Cattigan's (Molly Shannon) major network debut as the co-hosts of this year's Rose Parade. Strangely enough, that might just be a compliment in disguise.

Saying that comedian Dave Chappelle has an "interesting" take on Louis C.K.'s recent sexual harassment allegations might just be the understatement of the year, and we haven't even made it to January 3rd yet.

With the 75th Annual Golden Globe Awards less than a week away, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) and Dick Clark Productions are making sure viewers get as immersed in the experience as possible.

Less than two months after its first season premiere, Spike Lee's She's Gotta Have It has been picked up for a second season by Netflix. Based on the 1986 film, the ten-episode first season stars DeWanda Wise along with Margot Bingham, Chyna Layne, Elise Hudson, Cleo Anthony, Lyriq Bent and Anthony Ramos.

Production news on Hulu's Castle Rock has been scarce: even with the opportunity to interview the cast and creative at New York Comic Con (NYCC) 2017, answers were very scarce on specifics on the Stephen King series.

No one understands the current state of working within television more than writer Grant Morrison (Animal Man, We3), who is currently developing and executive producing Syfy's adaptation of his and Darick Robertson's graphic graphic novel Happy!.

As a fan of AMC's The Walking Dead, if I read a headline like that the first think I'd think was, "Sweet! Makes sense! 'The Upside Down' would definitely explain what the hell happened to Heath after his disappearing act in Season 7's sixth episode 'Swear!'"

Not exactly the message I wanted this afternoon as I was ready for George Lucas' Howard the Duck, but the "cable wars" between Starz and Altice USA have shifted to DEFCON 3. At midnight, Starz and Encore channels were removed from Altice's 4.9 million subscribers in the New York area and several Midwestern states.

American Horror Story: Cult, Season 7 for FX's horror anthology,and one of our favorites so far. Using the 2016 U.S. Presidential Elections as a backdrop, the season avoided supernatural elements to show how monstrous we can be just being human; and how once person's "cult" can be another person's freedom.

Welcome to the third and final act in The Weekly Static‘s three-part mid-season finale! As we wrap up this little shindig, we hit the gas and don't look back as we charge into 2018 with a series that's giving us enough of the feels that it's earned the distinction of being our 2018 "Cusack" Series*: Hulu's Castle Rock.

After a "fool-proof" plan of Daryl (Norman Reedus) and Tara's (Alanna Masterson) proved to be anything but and some crafty thinking on Eugene's (Josh McDermitt) part, Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) and the Saviors staged a last-minute comeback by the end of The Walking Dead's Season 8 mid-season finale.

Welcome back to The Weekly Static‘s three-part mid-season finale! Today we take a look at a little basic cable network that's been quietly churning out a quality lineup of some very cool and original programming: TruTV.

I'm a big believer in the idea that one of the best ways to look ahead is to begin by looking back, so here's a look back at some of the key moments from Season 1 of American Gods.

Welcome to The Weekly Static's three-part mid-season finale — here, we take a look at one of the biggest television disappointments from 2017: Spike's The Mist.

I came up with the idea of the F*** It! List, a variation on a bucket list, almost eight years ago, when I was going through some particularly rough treatment for cancer. Read some of the awesome geeky things I'd like to do before I kick the bucket, and then tell me about yours!