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With production currently underway on Jane the Virgin creator/showrunner Jennie Snyder Urman‘s reboot of supernatural series Charmed for the CW, series co-star Sarah Jeffery (Maggie, youngest sister of The Vera Sisters) took to Twitter over the Memorial Day weekend to respond to outspoken critics.

With Syfy claiming that its sixth visit to the franchise well will be its last (at least until Day+4 ratings post), we have an official title and teaser for the finale to the Sharknado universe -- The Last Sharknado: It's About Time.

With a very large cast in place for Amazon’s series adaptation of Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson‘s comic book series The Boys, premiere episode director Dan Trachtenberg (10 Cloverfield Lane, Black Mirror) took to Instagram on Wednesday to "formally" announce that production on the project was underway.

The Weekly Static is Bleeding Cool‘s look at the past week in the land of the networks, cable, and streaming, from a (hopefully) interesting perspective. THIS WEEK: WWE/Fox deal Smackdown; Damon Lindelof talks Watchmen; Twitch marathons Doctor Who; NFL owners take a knee; and Castle Rock gets a Stephen King thumbs up.

Comedian and former The Daily Show correspondent Michelle Wolf is no stranger to grabbing that attention: the White House Correspondents' Dinner performer is taking to Netflix for her new series The Break with Michelle Wolf, debuting on the streaming service on Sunday, May 27. Credit: Netflix You can check out the most recent trailer and overview for Netflix's The[...]

Netflix has released a trailer for their upcoming comedy special starring Steve Martin and Martin Short, An Evening You Will Forget For The Rest Of Your Life The pair have of course been bastions of the comedy world for decades (not a crack at their respective ages, just the facts, folks), and this Netflix special is just the[...]

Credit: Showtime I'm Dying Up Here's Ginger Gonzaga isn't travelling too far network-wise for her next project, joining Jim Carrey (The Truman Show), Judy Greer (I'm Sorry), Catherine Keener (Get Out, Death to Smoochy), Frank Langella (The Americans, Frost/Nixon) and Justin Kirk (Weeds) in Showtime's upcoming half-hour comedy series Kidding. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind helmer Michel[...]

[rwp-review-recap id="0"] For those unfamiliar, Homestuck is a comedy webcomic by Andrew Hussie that riffs on point-and-click adventure games centered on John Egbert, Rose Lalonde, Dave Strider, and Jade Harley It's expanded and deepened as the series has run on, and it's even introduced elements of science fiction and fantasy. Homestuck Book 1 cover by Adrienne Garcia This[...]

This week's episode of the CW's iZombie was nothing less than a tear jerker. I wish I would have gotten the memo and had time to pick up a box of tissues...but that’s okay: being cleverly adaptable, I used a roll of toilet paper instead. [SPOILERS]

The Weekly Static is Bleeding Cool‘s look at the past week in the land of the networks, cable, streaming, smoke signals, cloud formations, and shadow puppets from an interesting and entertaining perspective. In this special edition, we look at our top takeaways from ABC, CBS, CW, Fox, and Freeform's upfronts.

Credit (top left): Sam Aronov-Shutterstock.com/(bottom left): USA Network/(top right): Curtis Brown/(bottom right): Eugene Powers / Shutterstock.com Portlandia co-creator Carrie Brownstein has signed up four more for her semi-autobiographical Hulu comedy pilot Search and Destroy Brad Morris (Great News), Leah Harvey (On the Road), Jessica Hecht (Red Oaks) and Imogen Tear (When Calls the Heart) are set to[...]

Credit: BBC While it would be tempting to throw in a "I don't want to go" joke here or something cutesy about The Doctor and his companions always finding their way back to one another, David Tennant and Catherine Tate are facing a deadly-serious menace unlike any they've face before: America. The Doctor Who alums are returning to[...]

Now that the CW has released their Fall 2018-2019 television schedule, it's time for first-looks and official images from the shows coming our way over the next few months. First up, we get an extended look at Jane the Virgin creator/showrunner Jennie Snyder Urman's reboot of supernatural series Charmed.

The upfronts to advertising executives are always a season of giving and taking -- so with the release of their Fall 2018-2019 television schedule, The CW also confirmed that Jane the Virgin, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend and iZombie will not be renewed after their upcoming seasons.

With the network's upfront presentation set for Thursday morning, the CW has released its Fall 2018-2019 schedule. Expanding its week to six nights with 12 hours of original scripted series, the network is using some of series like Riverdale and Supergirl to help jump-start a number of promising new projects.

and Amber Stevens West in a comedy about a 30-something happily married couple who begin to reconnect with their younger, cooler selves when Cooper (Felix Mallard), an exuberant young pop star drawn to their super-ordinary suburban life, unexpectedly moves in with them Austen Earl, Tim McAuliffe, Ben Winston, Harry Styles, Michael Rotenberg and Jonathan Berry[...]

Less than a week after the CW ordered the Charmed reboot from Jane the Virgin creator/showrunner Jennie Snyder Urman to series, we're getting our first look at "The Charmed Ones". Actress Madeleine Mantock (Macy) took to Twitter to share a first-look image from the upcoming CW series.

and Amber Stevens West in a comedy about a 30-something happily married couple who begin to reconnect with their younger, cooler selves when Cooper (Felix Mallard), an exuberant young pop star drawn to their super-ordinary suburban life, unexpectedly moves in with them Austen Earl, Tim McAuliffe, Ben Winston, Harry Styles, Michael Rotenberg and Jonathan Berry[...]

Lucy Dreaming finds Welz and Lucy trying to come to grips with their shared dreams, and Lucy goes to her mom for information. Does it make for a good read?

With 10 half-hour comedy series on their slate, the network continues to lead the broadcast networks when it comes to comedy; and that includes revisiting some older initiatives ABC is reopening their Friday 8-9 pm comedy block; and adding its first regular prime time talk show in nine years on Sunday night. Here's a look at ABC's[...]

Comedies The Cool Kids, Rel, and the returning Last Man Standing will debut in fall 2018; while dramas The Passage and Proven Innocent will premiere alongside the next installment of Cosmos during midseason. https://youtu.be/xsUa5ObfCMsVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: REL | Official Trailer | FOX ENTERTAINMENT (https://youtu.be/xsUa5ObfCMs) Inspired by the life of Lil Rel Howery[...]

Jimmy's Bastards are searching their island for thier hated father. He is hunting them as well, but he is still shaken and worried for Nancy. Does it make for a good read?

Looks like you can't keep a good - or bad- zombie down, especially now that the CW has renewed Rob Thomas' iZombie for a fifth season.

The Weekly Static is Bleeding Cool's look at the past week in the land of the networks, cable, streaming, smoke signals, cloud formations, and shadow puppets from an interesting and entertaining perspective.

Credit: Fox Philly just got a little less "sunny" today, with news that Fox is cancelling midseason comedy series The Mick Created by John and Dave Chernin and starring It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia's Kaitlin Olson, The Mick was only one of three series cancelled by the network today; with The Last Man on Earth and Brooklyn Nine-Nine also[...]

Scooby Apocalypse focuses in on the struggle of Daphne and Fred in clearing out the mall of the "Consumerites" while Shaggy and Velma eagerly await their return. Is it a good read?

If it's summer, then it must be time for the next chapter in Syfy's sweeping saga of love, loss, and D-level actors: Sharknado 6. Premiering Sunday, August 19 at 8 p.m., the sixth (and Syfy claims "final") film in the franchise also sees Ian Ziering, Tara Reid and Cassie Scerbo returning

Deadpool has reported his own position and is readying himself for the coming superhero assault. Captain America and Agent Preston just want to help Wade though. Will he let them? Does it make for a good read?

Castle fans barely had time to mourn the loss of star Nathan Fillion's presence from their ABC screens before today's news that the network has givena formal series order to former Castle executive producer/co-showrunner Alexi Hawley's light crime drama series The Rookie.

Credit: truTV With news of three new projects either ordered to series or in development, truTV announced a 2018-2019 programming slate that includes: a series pickup for Tacoma FD, from two members of the Broken Lizard comedy troupe; a pilot greenlight for a new comedic medical advice show from actor Ken Jeong (The Hangover); and an animated[...]