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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[...]

It's a 6 part, dark comedy, in which I play a man who, after the death of his wife, becomes suicidal but decides to live long enough to punish the world by saying and doing whatever the fuck he likes from now on pic.twitter.com/7AwmV6rEbd — Ricky Gervais (@rickygervais) May 7, 2018 Though Netflix is officially making the[...]

The Sex Criminals are at it again as Suzanne attempts to get to the bottom of her father's financial activities and Jon begins destroying his relationships left and right. Is it a good read?

This issue seems like less of an attempted homage, and it instead focuses on comedy and satirizing modern US media and society. This could work, and you could even have a heartwarming center to it all with the Fighting American trying to still do the right thing However, it's all undercut by the humor just not[...]

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.

Ware, the limited webseries is described as an offbeat surreal comedy that's directed by Amanda Cowper and executive produced by Trish Harnetiaux, with music by Missy Mazzoli, Rob Cantor, and Rob Erickson. To see if Driver Ed is a road we want to continue travelling down or something painfully on par with our first experience with[...]

In honor of 2018's edition of Star Wars Day, 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!

Credit: NBC 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