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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.

On January 22, HBO will premiere Soderbergh's linear miniseries of the story after giving those interested the opportunity to expand the film's "universe" on their own for the past several weeks. Developed for the cable giant by Soderbergh and Casey Silver; and based in conjunction with writer Ed Solomon, the app allowed users to build their[...]

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.

But over time, the networks were forced to contend with some heavy-hitting competition in the form of premium cable networks (HBO, Showtime), basic cable channels (AMC, TNT) and the growing influence of online/streaming services (Netflix, Hulu, YouTube Red) As more and more content providers started to pop up, there came the realization that to be[...]

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!

Credit: Kathy Hutchins / Shutterstock.com 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, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them) in the newest season of Nic[...]

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.

But over time, the networks were forced to contend with some heavy-hitting competition in the form of premium cable networks (HBO, Showtime), basic cable channels (AMC, TNT) and the growing influence of online/streaming services (Netflix, Hulu, YouTube Red) As more and more content providers started to pop up, there came the realization that to be[...]

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 to see this afternoon as I was getting ready to engage in another round of cinematic self-flagellation in the form of George Lucas' wrong-on-so-many-levels Howard the Duck, but apparently the "cable wars" between Starz and cable system Altice USA have shifted to DEFCON 3 At the stroke of midnight on January[...]

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.