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Credit: AMC Though news of The Walking Dead's Lauren Cohan returning to the AMC series was first announced in April 2018, word that the actress' comedy-action pilot Whiskey Cavalier had been picked up for series by ABC reignited the "Maggie's leaving the show" rumor mill To update the matter, AMC has confirmed that Cohan will be[...]

Credit: FX Jumping from one project to the next isn't that big of a deal for Tyrant's Keon Alexander – but we're about to see if he can handle jumps just a little further than that as the actor is set for what's descrtibed as a "heavily recurring role" in YouTube Red's upcoming action drama series Impulse[...]

Netflix took to Twitter on Wednesday to offer viewers their first look at The Simpsons creator's upcoming adult animated series Disenchantment. Given a two-season, 20-episode order, the show's 10-episode first season is set to premiere on August 17th; with The ULULU Company producing for Netflix, and Groening and Josh Weinstein (The Simpsons, Futurama) serving as executive[...]

Credit: Netflix When the preview trailer for a new series ends with a righteously optimistic and uplifting line such as, "The point is, we're all gonna die", it tends to grab people's attention Comedian and former The Daily Show correspondent Michelle Wolf is no stranger to grabbing that attention: the White House Correspondents' Dinner performer is[...]

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[...]

In their exclusive post, Deadline Hollywood also reports that production on the series — which will follow the pair as they move to the United States – is already in advanced stages of development. https://youtu.be/330-Zdk5mykVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Creation of the Earth – Doctor Who – The Runaway Bride – BBC (https://youtu.be/330-Zdk5myk) Tate[...]

Credit: Peabody Awards (Jordan Peele) [CC BY 2.0], Wikimedia CommonsAmazon Studios is ready to join Oscar-winning writer-director Jordan Peele's The Hunt, giving a 10-episode straight-to-series order for the vengeance-driven Nazi-hunting series, Deadline Hollywood reports Produced by Peele's Monkeypaw Productions and Sonar Entertainment, the project was originally created by series writer/executive producer David Weil (Moonfall)[...]

Our friends over at TheOneRing.net have learned that the much-anticipated Lord of the Rings mega-series from Amazon's streaming arm will focus its first season around a young Aragorn Amazon Studios inked a deal late in 2017 representing a quarter-billion dollar literary rights contract for them to produce a multi-season series based on J R R[...]

Credit: Freeform/Allyson Riggs While they may think they've moved on to college and on with their lives, the reach of the Pretty Little Liars universe extends far and wide — as Alison (Sasha Pieterse) and Mona (Janel Parrish) are about to learn firsthand in Freeform's new 10-episode spinoff series Pretty Little Liars: The Perfectionists. Deadline Hollywood reports that original[...]

Credit: Kerry Hayes Academy Award-winning director Guillermo del Toro (The Shape of Water) is turning to Netflix to house the horrors of his new anthology series Guillermo del Toro Presents 10 After Midnight. Del Toro created the series, described as a collection of personally curated stories, equally sophisticated and horrific The filmmaker will write and direct certain episodes; and will[...]

Credit: NBC Not a bad week to be Dick Wolf, with NBC announcing that it has renewed all four of his series: Law & Order: SVU, Chicago: Fire, Chicago P.D., and Chicago Med. Law & Order: SVU's 20th season renewal now puts it into a three-way tie for longest-running drama series; on par with Wolf's original Law &[...]

Bio comes news that Fox has ordered comedy pilot The Cool Kids to series Written by executive producer Charlie Day, the series is produced by Howerton, Rob McElhenney, Paul Fruchbom, Kevin Abbott, and Nick Frenkel; and is one of two new series orders announced by Fox today, with Danny Strong-produced legal drama Proven Innocent being the other. The Cool[...]

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[...]

Produced in conjunction with Red Arrow Studios' Left/Right (This American Life, The Circus), the weekly narrative docuseries will highlight key stories from the storied newspaper to tell the stories behind the headlines The Weekly has received a minimum 30-episode commitment from FX, with the series set to premiere some time in late 2018 and Hulu streaming[...]

There will be darkness and light; terror and grace; and the heroic, mercenary and craven, all crashing together toward a new reality for Fear the Walking Dead. Credit: AMC AMC's Fear the Walking Dead's fourth season stars Kim Dickens, Frank Dillane, Alycia Debnam-Carey, Colman Domingo and Danay Garcia; as well as new series regulars Lennie James, Garret Dillahunt, Jenna Elfman and Maggie Grace[...]

There will be darkness and light; terror and grace; and the heroic, mercenary and craven, all crashing together toward a new reality for Fear the Walking Dead. Credit: AMC AMC's Fear the Walking Dead's fourth season stars Kim Dickens, Frank Dillane, Alycia Debnam-Carey, Colman Domingo and Danay Garcia; as well as new series regulars Lennie James, Garret Dillahunt, Jenna Elfman and Maggie[...]

There will be darkness and light; terror and grace; and the heroic, mercenary and craven, all crashing together toward a new reality for Fear the Walking Dead. Credit: AMC AMC's Fear the Walking Dead's fourth season stars Kim Dickens, Frank Dillane, Alycia Debnam-Carey, Colman Domingo and Danay Garcia; as well as new series regulars Lennie James, Garret Dillahunt, Jenna Elfman and Maggie Grace[...]

This time, our investigative teeth are biting a little deeper — past the Family Guy, The Big Bang Theory, Robot Chicken, and Friends references — to give you some interestingly obscure references that might've flown past you faster than the Millennium Falcon at hyperdrive (proud of that one): https://youtu.be/Cn6kEsloMdEVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled:[...]

Credit: CBS All Access The scientific and supernatural worlds are set to collide in out first look at Strange Angel, CBS All Access' new drama series from Mark Heyman (Black Swan) Directed and executive produced David Lowery (A Ghost Story), Strange Angel stars Jack Reynor as a brilliant janitor directly involved in the foundation of rocket[...]

Credit: Paramount Network Paramount Network has set a new premiere date for their series adaptation of Heathers, announcing that the long-awaited (and hotly debated) project is set to premiere on Tuesday, July 10th Based on the 1988 cult classic film starring Winona Ryder (Stranger Things), Christian Slater (Mr Robot), and Shannen Doherty (Charmed), the series premiere was[...]

Dan Trachtenberg accepts his Saturn for directing 10 Cloverfield Lane Director Dan Trachtenberg (10 Cloverfield Lane, Black Mirror) will be stepping up to direct the premiere episode of Amazon's series adaptation of Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson's comic book series The Boys. Created for series by Eric Kripke (Supernatural), Trachtenberg is stepping into the directorial seat vacated by[...]

The Weekly Static is our 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. THIS WEEK: Marvel, George R.R. Martin, Golderberg/Hulk Hogan, The Simpsons and 'Jack Ryan.'

There will be darkness and light; terror and grace; and the heroic, mercenary and craven, all crashing together toward a new reality for Fear the Walking Dead. AMC's Fear the Walking Dead's fourth season stars Kim Dickens, Frank Dillane, Alycia Debnam-Carey, Colman Domingo and Danay Garcia; as well as new series regulars Lennie James, Garret Dillahunt, Jenna Elfman and Maggie Grace[...]

Credit: YouTube Red With less than a month to go before Daniel LaRusso (Ralph Macchio) and Johnny Lawrence (William Zabka) reignite a old rivalry from over thirty years ago in YouTube Red's The Karate Kid continuation series Cobra Kai, we're getting a look at "bad sensei" Johnny's "teaching philosophy." Let's just say that Johnny's sensei style[...]

That's the situation Amy Adams finds herself confronting in the first trailer for HBO's limited series adaptation of Gillian Flynn's Sharp Objects, with Big Little Lies' Jean-Marc Vallée directing all eight episodes Marti Noxon (Dietland) adapted the novel for series, with Patricia Clarkson, Elizabeth Perkins, Madison Davenport, Chris Messina and Eliza Scanlen rounding out the cast. Here's[...]

Season 4's seventh episode of the CW's iZombie, 'Don’t Hate the Player, Hate the Brain,' stuck to it’s comedic guns when Olivia ‘Liv’ Moore (Rose Mclver) ingested the brains of a sleazy "wingman player".

Seven months after the network ordered the project to pilot, Syfy has ordered the pilot adaptation of Rick Remender and Wes Craig's graphic novel Deadly Class to series. Credit: Rick Remender/Wes Craig From executive producers Joe and Anthony Russo (Avengers: Infinity War), director Lee Toland Krieger (Riverdale), and showrunner Adam Targum (Banshee), the series is set in a dark, comic book world against the backdrop of late 1980s counter[...]

Credit: GIO_LE / Shutterstock.com Netflix has tapped actor/comedian Sacha Baron Cohen (Les Misérables) to bring the story of legendary Israeli spy Eli Cohen to life in their six-episode limited series The Spy Written and directed by Gideon Raff (Prisoners of War), the series will debut globally on the streaming service outside of France; and on OCS in France. Legende Films[...]

In what is being described as a "competitive situation," Apple has secured the rights to bring the writer's original seminal science fiction novel trilogy Foundation to television as a series. David S Goyer (The Dark Knight) and Josh Friedman (Avatar 2) developed the project, which has been put into development for straight-to-series consideration In their exclusive reporting,[...]

Credit: Gage Skidmore (Joe Hill) [CC BY-SA 2.0], Wikimedia CommonsWhat's Hulu's loss is AMC's gain, as the cable network is getting into the Joe Hill "business" with a 10-episode straight-to-series order to supernatural horror drama NOS4A2, based on Hill's bestselling 2013 novel.  Showrunner Jami O'Brien (Fear The Walking Dead, Hell On Wheels) is developing the project through[...]