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A new year brings a new lineup of international original animation from Netflix, with the streaming giant looking to build upon the success of last summer's slate of original series: Devilman Crybaby, Saint Seiya and Baki with Aggrestuko and B: The Beginning.

Continuing the growing wave of nostalgia-equals-money reboots/revivals that we've seen over the past few years, ABC is developing two series that are both unique takes on known names: The Greatest American Hero and The Jetsons.

Just because the NFL is in the middle playoffs doesn't mean all the action's taking place on the field. NBC has picked up another traveler on the road to Super Bowl LII, with singer/songwriter Pink tapped to perform The Star-Spangled Banner.

With the Television Critics Association's (TCA) press event in full swing and ahead of its Monday presentation, ABC released its midseason programming schedule.

NBC took advantage of the more than a few million eyeballs glued to last night's Golden Globes to "bless" viewers with the first official promo for their next live musical broadcast, Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert!.

NBC's  Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert! continues to gather "disciples" ahead of its Easter 2018 broadcast, adding platinum-selling singer/songwriter Sara Bareilles as Mary Magdalene to a line-up that currently includes singer John Legend as Jesus and rock star Alice Cooper as King Herod.

In the new teaser for Homeland Season 7 released by Showtime, Carrie has left her job at The White House but her work in Washington D.C. is far from over.

After OSHA issued a serious citation with the maximum fine amount allowed to The Walking Dead producer Stalwart Films, late stuntman John Bernecker's mother, Susan Bernecker, says that she intends to “seek justice" for her son.

With production on the second season of his BBC comedy series White Gold already suspended, the co-producers of BBC One's adaptation of Agatha Christie's mystery Ordeal By Innocence have announced that they are recasting the role that Gossip Girl actor Ed Westwick had already finished portraying.

From an official standpoint, some resolution was achieved this week - at least for now - in the tragic death of The Walking Dead stuntman John Bernecker.

Writer/director/producer Ryan Murphy is clearly a man who doesn't believe in the concept of "free time," taking to the stage at the Television Critics Association (TSA) press tour in Pasadena on Friday to promote three series (Pose, 9-1-1 and American Crime Story: Versace) and update others.

Netflix has found its teenage witch in the form of Mad Men alum Kiernan Shipka, who is set to take the lead in the streaming network's upcoming series based on Archie Comics' supernatural heroine Sabrina.

Viewers who mapped out their own version of Steven Soderbergh's HBO murder mystery limited series Mosaic through the film's app back in December will get their chance to compare notes with how their vision matches the filmmaker's.

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.