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Editorial credit: DFree / Shutterstock.com The Emmy-winning Hulu series The Handmaid's Tale is adding an Emmy-winning actor to the cast for season 2 The West Wing's Bradley Whitford has been added to the series about a dystopian world in a recurring role The veteran actor will be playing Commander Joseph Lawrence: a gruff, intimidating man with[...]

Justin Timberlake's comparably tame Super Bowl halftime show, Chrysler's questionable decision to use MLK in an ad, what the Game of Thrones creators' new Star Wars project could mean for HBO's Confederate, and more from the realm of TV this week!

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 an interesting, unique and entertaining perspective. At least that’s how it reads on paper, so let’s see how this goes…

This Sunday, Hulu is giving Super Bowl fans five million reasons to get excited for Castle Rock, the streaming service's new thriller-drama series from J.J Abrams that combines a number of author Stephen King's works into a "shared universe" narrative During the second quarter – possibly closer to halftime – of the NFL's national championship[...]

His acting credits also include the 2015 film The Boy Next Door and a series run on Hulu's Freakish from 2016-2017 Jail records show that Hicks was also arrested in July and September of 2017, and that he has an arrest record for battery and firing a gun. In a 2015 interview, Hicks discussed branching into other[...]

These stories are perfectly suited for portrayal on television and we are thrilled to once again bring a literary masterpiece to life with our partners at Anonymous Content, Angus Wall and Rock Paper Scissors Entertainment." – Amy Powell, President, Paramount TV Aside from this announcement, Atwood's work has also found huge success on Hulu with their series adaptation[...]

As executive producer, he has helped shepard a number series over the years, including: HBO's Westworld; Showtime's Roadies; and the upcoming Stephen King-themed Castle Rock at Hulu. Abrams is burning candles at both ends when it comes to film, too: writing, producing, and directing Star Wars: The Force Awakens; executive producing Star Wars: The Last Jedi; [...]

With actress Sofia Vergara's (Modern Family) Latino digital media company Raze set to celebrate its one-year anniversary, the presents have already started arriving in the form of production and development deals at Netflix, Hulu, and TNT. Co-founded by Vergara alongside Latin World Entertainment founder Luis Balaguer and Emiliano Calemzuk, the company is moving forward with production on original[...]

Hulu is making a big splash at the Television Critics Associations winter press tour as they announced that season 2 of The Handmaid's Tale would be premiering on April 25th and that Academy Award winner Marisa Tomei would be appearing in the new season Along with the announcement, a new trailer teasing what we might[...]

Expect this one sometime in May of 2018. Black Mirror technically came back in December of 2017, but after the holidays is sometimes the better for watching stuff like this. Sense8 gets to finish it's story with a 'season 3' 2 hour film, and is due to hit sometime in 2018. The OA got picked up for a second[...]

Credit: JoJo Whilden/Hulu Based on Lawrence Wright's Pulitzer Prize-winning book The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11, 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 the limited series set to[...]

Hulu and Blumhouse Television are getting into the horror anthology business, announcing a 12-episode series that will be a departure from the streaming service's usual format of releasing one new episode per week for an original series Variety reports that the series is set to debut in October 2018, the still-untitled Hulu Originals series will[...]

Hulu had a very good day yesterday The Handmaid's Tale took home a few Golden Globes, and to celebrate that fact, Hulu has announced that they are renewing two of their freshmen series: Marvel's Runaways and Future Man (via Entertainment Weekly). Marvel's Runaways debuted in late 2017 and has been slowly releasing its first season over the last[...]

One can only hope this bodes well for the Oscars later this year. Anyhow, on to the award counts and the winners: Fox Searchlight lead the pack tonight with 5 wins, HBO wracked up 4, 3 for A24, , 2 for Amazon, 2 for Hulu, and one each for NBC, FX, Neon, and 20th Century Fox. Best Actress[...]

Fans of the animated series Animaniacs are very familiar with the main characters- Yakko, Wakko, and Dot, and it looks like a new crop of kids will get to know them too. Classic- animated Spielberg with the Warners. Hulu just placed a 2 season series order for a new Animaniacs animated series, which will see the return of the[...]

Credit: Pinguino [CC BY 2.0], Wikimedia Commons Created by Sam Shaw (Masters of Sex) and Dustin Thomason (Lie to Me), Hulu's psychological suspense / thriller series Castle Rock is bringing together common elements from a number of Stephen King's works to create a terrifyingly new "shared universe." The fictional town of Castle Rock has figured prominently in works[...]

Hulu has released a new behind the scenes featurette that let's you get to know the six teenagers that make up the Runaways along with their unique superpowers Like all Marvel series, this takes place in the MCU, but doesn't have any crossover so far. The 10 episode series is being released every Tuesday with the[...]

This time, 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: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3U7Z94NHgg The fictional town of Castle Rock has figured prominently in a number of Stephen King's works[...]

Welcome to the first chunk of The Weekly Static's three-part mid-season finale, where we're going to take a look at our personal choice for 2017's "little engine that could" (truTV) and the show we've got the hots for going into 2018 (Hulu's Castle Rock). But first, it's time for a little clean-up by taking a look[...]

Is there a point to enforcing the law in the face of certain destruction? With the end of the world looming, how far would you go to make things right? Those are just some of the themes to be tackled by Neil Cross' (Luther) Hard Sun, a six-part "pre-apocalyptic" crime drama from BBC One and Hulu. Written[...]

All the while, he's navigating a contentious divorce and dealing with the troubles that have come upon his teenage daughter. Two seasons of Chance are streaming now on Hulu. https://youtu.be/o0WUiB8YTmI As we move into the holidays, that entertainment dead zone starting just before Christmas and ending just after New Year's, there is going to be a lot[...]

The parents are played by Angel Parker, Ryan Sands, Annie Wersching, Kip Pardue, Ever Carradine, James Marsters, Brigid Brannagh, Kevin Weisman, Brittany Ishibashi, and James Yaegashi. The project originated as a film, written by Vaughan, before being changed to a television series for Hulu Like all the Marvel properties, Runaways exists in the MCU with the Avengers,[...]

If you are current with the Hulu original series, Marvel's Runaways… then you know that one of the kids may be gone If you aren't caught up… go watch the show then come back. The character of Molly Hernandez (Allegra Acosta) returns home in episode seven to discover her parents packing up her room[...]

The series stars Jeffrey Donovan from Burn Notice, along with KaDee Strickland, Susan Misner, Emmanuelle Chriqui, David Zayas, Isabella Rossellini, Dylan Ray Schmid, and Havana Guppy. Donovan carries of the same charm that made Burn Notice work and thrives in the less-than-moral setting and his role of an underdog. The official synopsis reads: Jeffrey Donovan stars in this[...]

A new year means a new influx of viewing options from your friendly neighborhood streaming service, as Hulu readies members for films and programs that range from culinary (Beat Bobby Flay, Cutthroat Kitchen) and karate (The Karate Kid) to bad men (Reservoir Dogs) and "bad" jokes (Spaceballs). Here'a Hulu's programming line-up for January 2018: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7JhKCQnEqQ&t=28sVideo can't be[...]

It was the first question Peeples asked when he went in to talk about the project. Marvel's Runaways is currently streaming on Hulu with seven of the 10 episodes now available. https://youtu.be/N73m4aw5MP0Video can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Runaways Roundtable — Fan Questions and the Art of Waiting (https://youtu.be/N73m4aw5MP0) [...]

The Hulu VR interface just might be the oddest yet most interesting way you can watch your favorite shows I never really thought I'd be sitting here reviewing Hulu as games writer, but really, what else was I supposed to do with this? The setup is fantastic in its simplicity; Hulu drops you in the middle[...]

Credit:  JoJo Whilden/Hulu With what might be one of 2018's more controversial series, 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 Based on Lawrence Wright's Pulitzer Prize-winning account, the series will examine[...]

With less than a month to go before its third season premiere, Hulu has released the official trailer and key poster art for their cult (in both senses) drama The Path The streaming service will debut the first two episodes of the show's 13-episode Season 3 on Wednesday, January 17th, 2018. After two seasons of Calvin[...]

EW.com is reporting that will be happening on an upcoming episode of Marvel's Runaways, the new series on Hulu The site had a first look: Here the co-creator of most of the early days of Marvel Comics shows up as a limo driver during the episode debuting on Tuesday. Executive producer Josh Schwartz said: We heard it was[...]