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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: Weird Al, Ronda Rousey, M. Night Shyamalan, John Oliver and networks behaving badly.

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… let’s see how this goes.

Comedy Central renews Tosh.0, The CW expands their Sunday programming, first look at the new Karate Kid series Cobra Kai, and more from the past week in TV!

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…

With the State of the Union address, Showtime launched their new animated series Our Cartoon President based on the animated version of Donald Trump that appeared on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert The series is supposed to be a what it's like working in this administration The show is produced by Stephen Colbert and[...]

Showtime has released the first episode of their new animated series Our Cartoon President, which features an animated version of Donald Trump and other major figures from his administration and and Congress The comedic parody series is based on the animated version of Trump that appeared multiple times on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert[...]

It's this sort of brilliance and impatience with this bedrock of insecurity underneath that Hamilton and Kvothe both share. The TV series will appear at some point on Showtime, and will be set in the generation before "The Name of the Wind", sort of a backstory filler for the film (not in a bad way, just an[...]

Her new stand-up special "Tiffany Haddish: She Ready!" premiered on Showtime last year, and Haddish recently announced 2018 dates for her new stand-up tour…" Just to be clear? What I do ain't make-believe, though people say I sit and try But when it comes to being De La? It's just me, myself and I…and The[...]

Credit: Tinseltown / Shutterstock.com Showtime's series Billions is adding Emmy-winner John Malkovich for their upcoming third season He will play a Russian billionaire named Grigor Andolov in a guest-starring arc He joins a cast that includes Paul Giamatti, Damian Lewis, Maggie Siff, Toby Leonard Moore and Malin Ackerman. Series creators Brian Koppelman and David Levien said this[...]

I wanted to focus on this question of what does it mean to make television for a place like Hulu." – Joel Stillerman, Hulu Chief Content Officer Credit: Blumhouse This is just one of the recent deals that Blumhouse Television (part of Jason Blum's Blumhouse Productions) has secured over the past year, which also includes a series based[...]

Showtime boss David Nevins has reignited the fire for the long, long-gestating Halo show involving Steven Spielberg by saying it's more than just happening still — it's in active development. Cast your mind back to the now infamous Xbox One reveal in 2013 That show was overshadowed by Microsoft's always online PR nightmare that eventually got walked back, but if you[...]

Showtime has released the first full-length trailer four Our Cartoon President The 10-episode parody series spins out of the animated caricatures of Donald Trump that appeared on the Late Show with Stephen Colbert The series is said to follow the 'tru-ish misadventures' of the 45th president and his most trusted allies including his sons Eric[...]

Showtime has released the first trialer for Patrick Melrose, a five-part series starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Hugo Weaving and Anna Madeley The series is based on the semi-autobiographical novels by Edward St Aubyn. The books show Aubyn's life growing up in a highly dysfunctional upper-class English family, dealing with both of his parents death, his alcoholism, heroin addiction and recovery, and[...]

In the new teaser released by Showtime, Carrie has left her job at The White House but her work in Washington D.C is far from over With President Keane (Elizabeth Marvel) going back on her word and arresting 200 members of the intelligence community – including Saul Berenson (Mandy Patinkin) – all bets are off[...]

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,[...]

The Showtime political documentary series The Circus has been renewed for a third season The future of the series was a bit in doubt after one of the show's three hosts was fired Mark Halperin was fired by Showtime in the wake of sexual harassment allegations Alex Wagner of CBS News and the Atlantic will[...]

Welcome to The Weekly Static's three-part mid-season finale — here, we take a look at one of the biggest television disappointments from 2017: Spike's The Mist.

Earlier this year, we were treated to his turn as Las Vegas executive Duncan Todd in David Lynch and  Mark Frost's return to Twin Peaks for Showtime, and Fischler is currently stalking our screens as sociopathic mob enforcer Smoothie in Syfy's series adaptation of Grant Morrison and Darick Robertson's graphic novel Happy!. Credit: Showtime Fischler was kind enough to take[...]

Showtime's new half-hour comedy series, Our Cartoon President, will premier on February 11th at 8 p.m just prior to the season 7 premiere of Homeland at 9 p.m The new series from Stephen Colbert and Chris Licht will get an early preview on January 28th on multiple online platforms and on demand just prior to[...]

Editorial credit: carrie-nelson / Shutterstock.com Showtime's new half-hour comedy series Kidding is already a show of "firsts": the project marks actor/comedian Jim Carrey's first regular series role in twenty years Now comes word that Catherine Keener (Get Out, Death to Smoochy) has been cast opposite Carrey in her first series regular role. Created by showrunner Dave Holstein[...]

Showtime has released the first official trailer for the upcoming seventh season of Homeland The new season, which is currently filming in Richmond, Virgina, picks up closely after last season's finale There had been an assassination attempt on President Keane (Elizabeth Marvel), and even though she had promised Carrie (Claire Danes) she wouldn't, the president[...]

The actress has appeared on a number of series, including Showtime's Masters of Sex, NBC's Aquarius and CBS' Criminal Minds. But if you're looking for an early sign of the Bilquis-to-come, then look no further then her turn as the mysterious Keira in Crackle's Sequestered The 12-part mystery-thriller series begins as a courtroom drama and spirals[...]

Credit: George Pimentel Photography via Flickr (CC BY 2.0) Halt and Catch Fire's Mark O'Brien is wasting no time getting back to work, following up his three-season run on the critically acclaimed AMC series with a series regular role opposite Aldis Hodge (Straight Outta Compton, Underground) and Kevin Bacon (The Following, I Love Dick) in Showtime's drama pilot[...]

The cold, mean streets of The Windy City are about to get a little colder and a little meaner starting January 7th, 2018, with the premiere of Showtime's The Chi Created by Lena Waithe (Master of None), who also serves as executive producer alongside Common (John Wick 2) and Elwood Reid (The Bridge), the timely[...]

Showtime's new drama pilot City on a Hill has cast Kevin Bacon (The Following) and Aldis Hodge (Leverage) to lead The series is being executive produced by Ben Affleck and Matt Damon from an original idea by Affleck and Chuck MacLean It's being directed by Michael Cuesta (American Assassin), who took over after original director[...]

SHOWTIME's American adaptation of British tv series Shameless just got renewed for it's 9th season after the season 8 premiere three days ago.  That's pretty impressive, all things considered, especially after some of the issues that arose last year. Emmy Rossum as Fiona Gallagher in "Shameless" season 8 Some of you may recall the strange affair of the[...]

Perhaps the biggest head-scratcher this season was what exactly happened to Audrey Horne (Sherilyn Fenn) before and during Twin Peaks' third season.

Now that word has come by way of THR with the announcement that the broadcast network will be none other than Showtime.   The series, which follows the telling of the life story of a magician, warrior, and musician, Kvothe through a progression of tales related over three consecutive days It has long been considered to be[...]

The road to a possible fourth season of Twin Peaks is taking as many twists and turns as the back roads of the northwest, as Twin Peaks co-creator Mark Frost said in an interview on Thursday that the door hasn't been closed yet on more Peaks and that a fourth season is something that's being[...]