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Over the past 20 years, he's been actively composing various projects across film, television, and games recently and most notably for The Last of Us franchise While he worked on both PlayStation games in 2013 and 2020, he returned to help creators Craig Mazin and Naughty Dog visionary Neil Druckmann's vision to life for the[...]

Ashley Johnson has a unique relationship to The Last of Us franchise as the original star as Ellie Williams in both Naughty Dog PlayStation games in 2013 and the 2020 sequel in Part II The actress, who's obviously too old from a time-goes-by standpoint to be playing the adolescent character on the TV adaptation, with[...]

As HBO wraps up the final chapter for season one of The Last of Us, original Joel Miller actor and podcast aftershow host Troy Baker, who played James in the TV adaptation, responded to fan questions with his final thoughts on the controversial season finale and his costar Ashley Johnson, original Ellie, about her role[...]

With season one wrapped up on The Last of Us, original Joel Miller actor Troy Baker, who's also the host of the podcast aftershow, had some closing thoughts about how the HBO series tackled the events of Part I stars Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey as Joel and Ellie "There's this strange sadness that happens[...]

If Sunday night felt weird without a new episode of Neil Druckmann & Craig Mazin's Pedro Pascal (Joel) & Bella Ramsey (Ellie)-starring The Last of Us, you're definitely not alone So much so that Druckmann shared a tweet on Sunday addressing that very topic while also dropping an impressive visual teaser for the second season[...]

Making the BCTV Daily Dispatch menu board for today? Lesley-Ann Brandt shares an image from her audition tape for AMC's The Walking Dead Rick Grimes/Michonne, William Shatner talks "Star Trek" co-star Leonard Nimoy, Crunchyroll's My Hero Academia, Disney+'s X-Men '97, NBC's Quantum Leap, HBO's The Last of Us, ABC's The Rookie, Netflix's Dead Boy Detectives,[...]

We're seeing a perfect example of that today, with fans of  Neil Druckmann & Craig Mazin's Pedro Pascal (Joel) & Bella Ramsey (Ellie)-starring The Last of Us, taking to social media to confess that their Sundays are feeling a bit off without a new TLOU episode hitting their screens later (or on HBO Max)[...]

HBO's The Last of Us stirred a bit of controversy, particularly with its season one finale, "Look for the Light," which largely mirrored its video game counterpart in Part I The climactic sequence saw Joel Miller (Pedro Pascal) make the fateful decision to save Ellie (Bella Ramsey) from fatal surgery that could be a breakthrough[...]

Making the BCTV Daily Dispatch menu board for today? HBO's The Last of Us, The CW's Superman & Lois, Tencent's The Three-Body Problem, Rhett & Link's Mythical, USA Network's WWE Raw/NXT, AMC's Interview with the Vampire, Amazon's Blade Runner 2099, ABC's The Rookie, Amazon's A League of Their Own, Showtime's Yellowjackets, The CW's Gotham Knights,[...]

Pedro Pascal's Joel Miller might have gone all out in HBO The Last of Us season finale "Look for the Light," but so did creators Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann, pulling off the stealthiest of cameos only eagle-eyed fans might have caught The episode in question finds Joel making a fateful decision at a hospital[...]

With Ashley Johnson's appearance in the season one finale of HBO's The Last of Us, the circle is now complete on the core cast from Part I, the 2013 Naughty Dog PlayStation classic Johnson (Ellie) joined Troy Baker (Joel), Jeffrey Pierce (Tommy), and Merle Dandridge (Marlene) Only Dandridge reprised her role as Marlene on the[...]

Making the BCTV Daily Dispatch menu board for today? HBO's The Last of Us, Red Dwarf return, The CW's Superman & Lois, BBC's Doctor Who, FX's Justified: City Primeval, ABC's The Rookie, Disney+'s The Mandalorian, USA Network's WWE Raw, Paramount+'s Star Trek: Picard, Batman legend Kevin Conroy, FOX's HouseBroken, and more! Image: FX Networks Screencap, HBO,[...]

Any time a popular IP gets adapted for another, there are always creative decisions and sacrifices that have to be made and the PlayStation franchise The Last of Us is certainly no exception For the most part, the reaction to the HBO television adaptation has largely been positive, but there are the obvious detractors longing[...]

Making the BCTV Daily Dispatch menu board for today? Disney+'s X-Men '97, HBO's The Last of Us, Jimmy Kimmel/Oscars, The CW's Superman & Lois, Hulu's Only Murders in the Building, Amazon's Good Omens 2, Disney+'s Agatha: Coven of Chaos, NBC's Quantum Leap, BBC's Doctor Who/Red Nose Day 2023, NBC's Saturday Night Live & more! Image: Amazon,[...]

The season finale of HBO's The Last of Us in "Look for the Light" parallels the conclusion of Part I of the game almost note-for-note As consistent with the TV series, Pedro Pascal's Joel and Bella Ramsey's Ellie and their pilgrimage and the barbarism consistent with dystopian fantasy continues to be the focus rather than[...]

With only hours to go until the season finale of HBO, Neil Druckmann & Craig Mazin's Pedro Pascal (Joel) & Bella Ramsey (Ellie)-starring The Last of Us, we thought now might be a good time to have a little fun considering we're expecting things to get very dark and tense later on today Thankfully, this[...]

On top of currently owning the title of pop culture's favorite surrogate dad, Pedro Pascal was inevitably confronted with the crossover question between his two shows as HBO's The Last of Us wraps season one and Disney+'s The Mandalorian just premiered its second episode of season three What if Grogu, Din Darin's traveling companion in[...]

When creators Craig Mazin and Naughty Dog visionary Neil Druckmann were able to get their TV adaptation of The Last of Us greenlit by HBO, they set out to tell the kind of complete story the original 2013 PlayStation game never could while also honoring the source material Part of that, as a nod to[...]

That's something I thought you should know… now where's the BCTV Daily Dispatch?! BCTV Daily Dispatch: James Gunn/Henry Cavill, The Last of Us, WWE/Vince McMahon, Bob's Burgers/The Simpsons/Family Guy Crossover & More! Plus, check out our coverage of (no longer) Hulu's The Devil in the White City, DC Studios/DCU "Chapter 1," Showtime's Yellowjackets, The CW's The Flash,[...]

After a particularly brutal penultimate episode that left Joel (Pedro Pascal) and Ellie (Bella Ramsey) reunited, we're now less than a week away from the highly-anticipated season finale of HBO, Neil Druckmann & Craig Mazin's The Last of Us With a week ahead that will be spent analyzing what's to come, what's ahead for the second[...]

We come across the final two episodes of The Last of Us season one with a huge chunk leftover from the original 2013 game to cover The episode "When We Are in Need" finds Ellie (Bella Ramsey) desperate after going through the last of their rations and being forced to hunt for food While players[...]

Our line-up for this morning includes Paramount+'s Star Trek: Strange New Worlds star Anson Mount sharing heartfelt words for his "Dearest 'Discovery' Family," The Last of Us star Bella Ramsey predicting some massive divisions over the season finale, Big Finish Productions dropping some major intel on the first episode of its 60th Anniversary Doctor Who[...]

With only two episodes remaining on the first season of HBO, Neil Druckmann & Craig Mazin's Pedro Pascal (Joel) & Bella Ramsey (Ellie)-starring The Last of Us, the live-action series adaptation of the popular video game franchise might just be this close to cementing the title for best series of the year (it's still a[...]

Our line-up for this morning includes Disney+'s The Mandalorian Season 3 beginning a promising new journey, HBO's Succession offering up the official final season trailer, Paramount+'s Star Trek: Picard previewing a "No Win Scenario," Wednesday star Jenna Ortega taking on Hot Ones, HBO's The Last of Us star Jeffrey Pierce revealing animated efforts & another[...]

As many of you already know, before we were blessed with HBO, Neil Druckmann & Craig Mazin's Pedro Pascal (Joel) & Bella Ramsey (Ellie)-starring The Last of Us, there were efforts underway to bring the video game franchise to the big screen with a live-action adaptation But now, thanks to actor Jeffrey Pierce (Tommy Miller in[...]

And that's been the case this week with Buffy the Vampire Slayer & Wolf Pack star Sarah Michelle Gellar, who shared a look back at the brief yet meaningful on-screen time she spent with Pedro Pascal (The Mandalorian, The Last of Us) on "Buffy." In return, Pascal has some very kind words to share when[...]

Our line-up for this morning includes Joel McHale (still) finding it hard to believe that there's going to be a Community movie, The CW's The Flash S09E06 teasing a "new life" for Barry (Grant Gustin) & Iris (Candice Patton), FXX's It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia's Rob McElhenney teasing a Green Man/Gritty face-off, Amazon offering a[...]

With Neil Druckmann & Craig Mazin's Pedro Pascal (Joel) & Bella Ramsey (Ellie)-starring The Last of Us pretty much on everyone's minds these days, it's only fair that everyone who was involved in making the video game & (now) television franchise such a global success Like Supernatural co-stars Misha Collins (Gotham Knights) and Jensen Ackles[...]

The Last of Us is currently the most critically-acclaimed television series in the world It's been praised for its sensitive, compassionate, and moving portrayal of a gay couple who thrived in the apocalypse and its gradual reveal of its heroine Ellie (Bella Ramsay), as an LGBTQ heroine Homophobes and basically terrible people have condemned it[...]

When HBO tasked creators Craig Mazin and Naughty Dog Visionary Neil Druckmann with compressing the events of the 2013 classic PlayStation game The Last of Us Part I into a nine-episode first season, the two went above and beyond to include the optional downloadable side adventure "Left Behind." The adventure served as a backstory and[...]