In a mash-up of media's past, present and future, cable network FX and streaming service Hulu are teaming with The New York Times for The Weekly. Produced in conjunction with Red Arrow Studios' Left/Right (This American Life), the weekly narrative docuseries will highlight key stories from the storied newspaper.
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Ricky Gervais's Tony is making some serious changes to his life -- whether his friends and family like it or not -- in the new Netflix series After Life. Created, executive produced, directed by and starring Gervais, the six, half-hour episode season is also executive produced by Charlie Hanson (Extras).
13 Reasons Why's Kate Walsh has signed for a recurring role in The Umbrella Academy, Netflix‘s upcoming series adaptation of Gerard Way and Gabriel Bá‘s comic book series from publisher Dark Horse Comics.
Springboarding off the sucess of series like Castlevania, Netflix is broadening its anime horizons internationally with original anime Seis Manos. Set to launch globally in 2019 from Viz Media LLC and Powerhouse Animation, Seis Manos is the streaming service's first original anime set in Mexico.
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Director/screenwriter Don Hahn (producer, The Lion King, Beauty and the Beast) reminds us of the beautifully creative life and times of famed lyricist Howard Ashman in his touching and informative documentary Howard, which had its premiere at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival; and Bleeding Cool had the opportunity to screen during the festival's run[...]
Looks like class will be back in session next year for NBC's A.P. Bio, as the network has renewed the Glenn Howerton/Patton Oswalt sitcom for a sophomore season.
Miyagi?
Join Bleeding Cool as we review the fourth episode ('Cobra Kai Never Dies') of Cobra Kai's freshman year and see if it keeps being a kick-ass story — or makes us want to tap:
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As part of our access to this year's Tribeca Film Festival in New York City, Bleeding Cool had the opportunity to screen writer/co-director Justin P Lange's feature film debut The Dark The unflinching horror-drama introduces us to Mina (Nadia Alexander), a young flesh-eater who haunts the woods near her childhood home[...]
Miyagi?
Join Bleeding Cool as we review the third episode ('Esqueleto') of Cobra Kai's freshman season and see if it keeps being a kick-ass story — or makes us want to tap:
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Netflix's Australian Outback zombie drama Cargo had its premiere at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival, and Bleeding Cool was able to screen the film ahead of its May 18th premiere as the first Australian Netflix Original feature film Co-directors Ben Howling and Yolanda Ramke's (who also wrote the screenplay) feature-length adaptation of their 2013 viral[...]
So we're now four episodes into AMC's Fear the Walking Dead season 4, and let's just say things have gotten dark -- and I mean dark.
I found 'Mac-Liv-Moore' -- The CW's iZombie season 4, episode 9 -- to be an especially dark and quite brilliant surprise with its direction. I was even more impressed that the episode addressed so many issues, which was a pet peeve of mine with this season: lack of consistency and dangling major topics.
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We're back once again with Bleeding Cool's weekly review/recap of AMC's Fear the Walking Dead Season 4, taking a look at the fourth episode of the season, 'Buried.' With last week's game-changing ending that no one – and I mean no one – saw coming, can our heroes pull it together in order to survive…and[...]
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If it's Sunday, then it's time for our next edition of Dead Man Blogging, Bleeding Cool's Fear the Walking Dead live-blog This week, our heroes must deal with the fallout from the ending to last week's 'Good Out Here'…
Seriously?!? Who am I kidding?!? No one saw that ending coming, not even from a mile away…wow!
Okay…we're going[...]
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As Bleeding Cool gets ready for tonight's live-blog of AMC's Fear the Walking Dead Season 4, we wanted to rewind you back to last week's third episode 'Good Out Here' to get you up to speed on our thoughts on the show's shocking and impressive fourth season start To be honest? The word "shocking" isn't even[...]
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One of the benefits that came with Bleeding Cool getting our hands on this year's Tribeca Film Festival was a better understanding of just how much content they offer beyond the big screen: television, gaming, VR demonstrations, and a number of aspects of the storytelling landscape One of the events that best[...]
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Welcome to our seventh edition of Bleeding Cool's weekly recap/review of Freeform's Siren, Eric Wald and Dean White's mermaid fantasy-action drama Last week, Bristol Cove continued inching closer to being ground zero for some kind of mermaid/government stand-off Helen (Rena Owen) and Donna's (Sibongile Mlambo) bond strengthened as our speculation about Helen grew[...]
Michelle Monaghan (Source Code) is joining modern-day prophet series Messiah, Netflix's upcoming ten-episode series co-starring Tyrant‘s Mehdi Dehbi and written by Michael Petroni (The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader).
Looks like America's voted, ABC, and you have... a winner on your hands! The network announced on Friday that singing competition series American Idol would be returning for a second season. Ryan Seacrest and judges Luke Bryan, Katy Perry, and Lionel Richie are also set to return.
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With all sorts of respect being thrown at professional wrestler Madison Rayne and singer Serg Salinas, here's a little reminder of the kinder, simpler (and painful to watch 25 years later) times of early '90s broadcast television in this week's edition of:
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The Weekly Static is Bleeding Cool's look at the past week in the land[...]
As we can see from Starz's official trailer for the fifth season of popular crime drama series Power, Ghost isn't going into his mission of vengeance alone: Kanan Starks (Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson) and Tommy Egan (Joseph Sikora) ride shotgun as Ghost scorches the streets of New York City, searching for revenge.
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In honor of 2018's edition of Star Wars Day (and just so I don't forget, May the 4th be with you!), Bleeding Cool wants to remind you that television's had a love affair with legendary sci-fi franchise for years — but we don't play around with the "standards" or clichés around here, people!
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Welcome back to Bleeding Cool's recap/review of NBC's Thursday night comedy series A.P Bio, starring It's Always in Sunny in Philadelphia's Glenn Howerton and Happy!'s Patton Oswalt With last episode's surprising turn of events for Jack (Howerton) – in a good way for once – we're back with the season finale 'Drenching Dallas.' And from[...]
AMC is urging viewers to "join the revolution" in the first official trailer and poster art for their series adaptation of Sarai Walker‘s 2015 darkly comic novel Dietland, scheduled to premiere at 9 p.m. ET on Monday, June 4th, with back-to-back episodes
Wunmi Mosaku (Kiri, The End of the F**king World) will be joining Jonathan Majors and Jurnee Smollett-Bell in HBO‘s upcoming drama series Lovecraft Country. Adapted from Matt Ruff‘s novel, the project stems from Jordan Peele‘s Monkeypaw Productions, J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot and Warner Bros. Television.
If we're to believe the words of David Lynch - and there aren't a lot in his answer to interpret - then it looks like Cooper (Kyle MacLachlan) and "Laura's" (Sheryl Lee) spiraling "Crisis on Infinite Twin Peaks" courtesy of "Judy" won't be getting a resolution any time soon.
Further proof that life can be "sunny" in more places than just Philly, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia co-creator Rob McElhenney, Rob Rosell (New Girl), and 20th Century Fox TV have received a pilot order from Fox for a half-hour comedy series.
During the media day for Brandon Boyce (Apt Pupil) and Dean Devlin's (The Librarians) upcoming thriller Bad Samaritan, actor Robert Sheehan (Mortal Engines, Mute) treated fans of Gerard Way and Gabriel Bá's The Umbrella Academy to some interesting status updates for Netflix's upcoming series adaptation.
Jonathan Majors (Hostiles) will be joining Jurnee Smollett-Bellhas on HBO's upcoming series roadtrip through Lovecraft Country. Adapted from Matt Ruff's novel of the same name, the project stems from Academy Award winner Jordan Peele‘s Monkeypaw Productions, J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot and Warner Bros Television.
Not content with shattering ratings records and elevating parade reporting with their coverage of the 2017 Rose Parade for Amazon, “broadcast legends” Cord Hosenbeck (Will Ferrell) and Tish Cattigan (Molly Shannon) are returning to lend their unique perspective to HBO's The Royal Wedding Live with Cord and Tish!