ABC orders Get Christie Love pilot, Oprah debunks rumors of a 2020 presidential bid, Vince McMahon has some inflammatory comments regarding the new XFL, and more from the past week of TV!
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As if two Academy Award winners wasn't enough, HBO is stacking the deck for the second season of their Emmy-winning limited series Big Little Lies with none other than Meryl Streep.
Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Emmy Award-winning star of HBO's Veep, plans to resume filming the show's seventh and final season in August following her successful breast cancer treatment.
Welcome back! It's The Weekly Static, so that’s what you call us. That or - uh - "His Weekness", or - uh - "Weeker," or "El Weekerino," if you’re not into the whole brevity thing.
Looks like Watchmen's Damon Lindelof is pretty happy with the folks over at Warner Bros. TV with news that the Lost creator would be extending his overall deal with the studio.
With what can be viewed by some as his next step towards total film and television domination, the one-man walking Disney himself J.J. 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.
Sherlock fans have been clamouring in vain for a new season of the show, but fear not! HBO Asia has seen fit to produce their own remake of the popular BBC show in Japan — by switching genders. Introducing… Miss Sherlock.
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 what an interesting, unique and entertaining perspective. At least that's how it reads on paper - let's see how it goes...
HBO's vision of the totalitarian future from Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 is starting to get a little clearer, as the cable giant released the first teaser for their film adaptation of the classic novel.
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.
Viewers who mapped out their own version of Steven Soderbergh's HBO murder mystery limited series Mosaic through the film's app back in December will get their chance to compare notes with how their vision matches the filmmaker's.
We'll be getting back to the regular The Weekly Static grind next week; but this week, we're wrapping up 2017 in a pretty little bow with a look back at the five biggest television screw-ups from the past year.
With details on the third season of HBO's True Detective finally starting to surface, there comes word that Stephen Dorff (Blade, Wheeler) is set to star opposite Mahershala Ali (House of Cards, Luke Cage) and Carmen Ejogo (Selma) in the newest season of Nic Pizzolatto’s crime anthology series.
With the 75th Annual Golden Globe Awards less than a week away, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) and Dick Clark Productions are making sure viewers get as immersed in the experience as possible.
Welcome to the third and final act in The Weekly Static‘s three-part mid-season finale! As we wrap up this little shindig, 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.