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Looks like NBC is interested in telling the further adventures of Bad Boys II's Special Agent Syd Burnett, with the network giving a formal pilot production green light to an as-yet-untitled movie spinoff series starring Gabrielle Union. Credit: Kathy Hutchins / Shutterstock.com Written by The Blacklist writers-producers Brandon Margolis and Brandon Sonnier, the project would focus on Union's[...]

With a move that many are seeing as Amazon continuing their purge of ousted president Roy Price's original-programming strategy, Amazon has announced that they've cancelled three original series:  I Love Dick, One Mississippi and Jean-Claude Van Johnson Company founder Jeff Bezos mandated a move away from their current programming strategy and toward larger, broader series that can[...]

Gage Skidmore [CC BY-SA 3.0], Wikimedia CommonsWhat's one cable network's loss could possibly be another cable network's gain, with news of Michael Green's (Hannibal) current availability making its way around several production companies and a number of television series projects One of those projects that's of particular interest to comic book fans – and FX[...]

Abrams has apparently written a new science fiction drama television series that is the subject of a bidding war between two media behemoths: Apple and HBO Though specific details on the project are being kept strictly under wraps, Abrams would also serve as executive producer alongside Bad Robots Productions' Ben Stephenson Warner Bros Television will be[...]

How far would you be willing to go to save someone you love? Would you let someone die? Would you take a life so that someone else could live? Those are the questions raised and the themes examined in Amazon Prime's original thriller/drama series Breathe Produced by Abundantia Entertainment and set for a worldwide release[...]

Gareth Edwards's directorial debut will be sliming and crawling its way to our screens, as UK broadcaster Channel 4 is set to adapt the Rogue One helmer's Monsters as a television series. Ronan Bennett (Top Boy) is expected to serve as series showrunner, with newcomers Daniel Fajemisin-Duncan and Marlon Smith writing Edwards is expected to have some[...]

And we wanted to make the biggest, scariest, darkest, most thrilling series of Luther there's ever been So that's what we've come back to do." – Cross Here's a look a the video Elba posted to his Twitter account: It's good to be back in London, back in the coat #Luther @BBCOne pic.twitter.com/4CkLyrJebj — Idris Elba (@idriselba) January[...]

Credit: The Vampire Chronicles (Facebook) Following up on Bleeding Cool's earlier reporting, author Anne Rice's son, novelist/columnist Christopher Rice, has confirmed that American Gods writer/producer Bryan Fuller is officially part of the creative team behind the series adaptation of The Vampire Chronicles. The author originally announced in 2016 that she had reclaimed the rights to her novels,[...]

Up-and-coming comedy cabler (and I'm sure proud recipient of The Weekly Static's 2017 Most Valuable Player award) truTV took to the stage at today's Television Critics Association (TCA) to give details on three new series as well as announce the premiere dates for several returning series. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acic6NdSuiw Tacoma FD: A half-hour comedy from co-creators and stars Kevin Heffernan and[...]

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[...]

It's really chilling." / "All I'll say is that I want to go to the future." ●  As for what role series power-hitter Murphy star player Sarah Paulson will have, Murphy would only tease her character's look (and it definitely goes a long way towards confirming that whole "nothing to do with anything you've ever seen[...]

Executive producer Bong Joon Ho's series adaptation of his 2013 film Snowpiercer is set to fire up the engines on its perpetual journey, as TNT has officially ordered the pilot to series Starring Hamilton's award-winning Daveed Diggs and Jennifer Connelly (A Beautiful Mind, Requiem for a Dream), the series is set seven years after the world has[...]

Sure, Barry might be a hitman…but what he really wants to do is act! Saturday Night Live's Bill Hader is stepping into the role of a lifetime: a living and breathing personification of the "comedy/tragedy" duality in the form of Barry, the lead character in and title of HBO's upcoming comedy series[...]

Sometimes, being wrong isn't always a bad thing. Case in point: The Tick, who spent the first half of The Tick's Season 1 on Amazon trying to convince everyone that super-villain The Terror was actually still alive.

A new year brings a new lineup of international original animation from Netflix, with the streaming giant looking to build upon the success of last summer's slate of original series: Devilman Crybaby, Saint Seiya and Baki Working with some of Japan's top animation production, Netflix is readying a series based on popular Sanrio character Retsuko; and[...]

In the new teaser for Homeland Season 7 released by Showtime, Carrie has left her job at The White House but her work in Washington D.C. is far from over.

After OSHA issued a serious citation with the maximum fine amount allowed to The Walking Dead producer Stalwart Films, late stuntman John Bernecker's mother, Susan Bernecker, says that she intends to “seek justice" for her son.

Credit: Gage Skidmore / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 2.0) 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) With a number of other[...]

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. Credit: DFree / Shutterstock.com With Archie Comics' Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa and Jon Goldwater serving as executive producers alongside Lee Toland Krieger, Greg Berlanti, and[...]

Credit: landmarkmedia / Shutterstock.com 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 The 10-episode series is executive produced by Carrey, Holstein,[...]

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:

Credit: Ga Fullner / Shutterstock.com 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 Directed by Sam Donovan and Olly Blackburn, the series is set to be executive produced by Williams's Two Brothers Pictures, with Eliza Mellor[...]

While most of us know Disney's The 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 As a gift to animation fans and to possibly restart interest in the series, Tindle shared a[...]

Produced by the streaming service, the series is executive produced by Lee, Tonya Lewis Lee, Barry Michael Cooper and Lynn Nottage; with Lee also directing the season's episodes. Credit: Netflix Lee and his wife, Tonya Lewis, took to Instagram on New Year's Day to make the announcement via video and thank fans for all of the support[...]

American Horror Story: Cult, the seventh season for FX's horror anthology, was one of our favorite seasons from the series run so far Using the 2016 U.S Presidential Elections as a backdrop, the season avoided the use of supernatural elements to show just how monstrous we can be to each other by just being human;[...]

Instead of an ending, this year's mid-season finale of The Walking Dead served more as a beginning: the beginning of an all out final assault that will decide everyone's fate…as 'The Last Stand Begins': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUqnJJYhKZwVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: 'The Last Stand Begins' The Walking Dead Official Mid-Season 8 Teaser (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUqnJJYhKZw) With the start[...]

TruTV shifted in focus six years later, with the network retooling its brand to focus on scripted and reality-based comedy series and specials. With shows like At Home with Amy Sedaris, Hack My Life, I'm Sorry, Talk Show The Game Show and The Chris Gethard Show, TruTV has positioned itself to be more than just "The[...]

Since The Sound of Music taught me at a young age that the beginning is very good place to start, we begin with an overview of the series and the official trailer that offers us a number of scenes from the first episode, 'The Bone Orchard': https://youtu.be/3awG5wEE7LUVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: American Gods[...]

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[...]

If you're not familiar with the comic book series, then you should definitely keep that in mind as you keep reading or watching If you know what's coming, then spoilers probably aren't going to be a big deal for you; but there may be some discussion (translation: rants) of either subtle changes or drastic differences that you[...]