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The Weekly Static is our righteously desperate-yet-endearing look at the past week in the land of the networks, cable, streaming, smoke signals, cloud formations, and shadow puppets from what an interesting, unique and entertaining perspective. At least that's how it reads on paper - let's see how it goes...

HBO's vision of the totalitarian future from Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 is starting to get a little clearer, as the cable giant released the first teaser for their film adaptation of the classic novel.

Up-and-coming comedy cabler (and I'm sure proud recipient of The Weekly Static's 2017 Most Valuable Player award) truTV took to the stage at today's Television Critics Association (TCA) to give details on three new series as well as announce the premiere dates for several returning series.

Based on Lawrence Wright‘s Pulitzer Prize-winning book The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11, the trailer for Hulu's new dramatic series The Looming Tower focuses on the rivalry and distrust between the CIA and FBI throughout the ’90s that may have laid the groundwork for the 9/11 terrorist attack.

With Fox's animated hit series Family Guy about to drop its 300th episode, I'm not sure what's more impressive: that the Seth MacFarlane series bested a ton of early naysayers to achieve such a milestone; or that Adult Swim still rotates the same 26 episodes on a regular basis.

Thanks for joining us after a two week break for our fifth edition of Happy Trails!, Bleeding Cool’s live-blog of Syfy‘s Happy! and tonight’s fifth episode, ‘White Sauce? Hot Sauce?".

When it was announced that series creator Glenn Howerton would be spending some time outside of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia's Paddy's Pub to (hopefully) "teach" a couple of seasons of A.P. Bio at NBC, Sunny fans started to get a little nervous about Howerton's future with the FXX series.

So if you're like me you're probably going through a little Happy! withdrawal — but the wait's almost over, folks! Looks like the series took the week off the recharge the batteries because tonight's fifth episode, 'White Sauce? Hot Sauce?', seems to pick up where last episode's major cliff left us hanging.

Executive producer Bong Joon Ho’s series adaptation of his 2013 film Snowpiercer is set to fire up the engines on its perpetual journey. TNT has officially ordered the pilot to series, and set to star Hamilton's award-winning Daveed Diggs and Jennifer Connelly (A Beautiful Mind, Requiem for a Dream).

Sure, Barry might be a hitman...but what he really wants to do is act! Saturday Night Live‘s Bill Hader is stepping into the role of a lifetime: a living and breathing personification of the “comedy/tragedy” duality in the form of Barry, the lead character in and title of HBO‘s upcoming comedy series.

Castle's Stana Katic is making her return to state-side television this February with Amazon's new crime thriller drama Absentia. Produced by Sony Pictures Television Network's AXN, all ten episodes of the series will be available to stream on...

With less than three months before the network premieres its "pseudo-sequel" series to the modern Superman story, Syfy released the first official trailer for their highly anticipated series Krypton.

Why waste time leveling Tokyo for the millionth time when you can upgrade your stomping grounds to include the entire planet? While probably not the basic premise that the proposed trilogy's creators had in mind, it's where we find ourselves with Netflix's new anime, Godzilla: Planet of the Monsters.

Sometimes, being wrong isn't always a bad thing. Case in point: The Tick, who spent the first half of The Tick's Season 1 on Amazon trying to convince everyone that super-villain The Terror was actually still alive.

In what is a rare move on the part of a Netflix original series, the rerun rights to animated comedy series BoJack Horseman are being shopped to cable networks by producer Tornante Co. through distributor Debmar-Mercury.

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.

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!.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.