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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: Buffy, C.M. Punk, Dr. Who, inclusion riders and Black-ish.

Limitless' Jake McDorman has been cast as Murphy Brown's adult son Avery in the upcoming revival of the 90's hit series for CBS.

Black Lightning Season 1: Jefferson Finds a Secret He Didn't Anticipate

Rick and Morty, our "Two Horsemen of the Inter-Dimensional Apocalypse," go the Quentin Tarantino/Pulp Fiction route with an ultimate Vincent and Jules "cosplay" in the new promotional video for Adult Swim Fest, set to Run the Jewels (El-P and Killer Mike) track "Oh Mama" from the rap duo's 2016 album Run the Jewels 3.

With the show going on a brief hiatus, you may wonder when the Flash will be back. We have the answer and the schedule for the rest of the season.

In the new description released for the upcoming seventeenth episode of Arrow season six, Curtis Holt gets a new boyfriend.

DC's Legends of Tomorrow have announced the title for their upcoming seventh episode of season three, the one that guest stars John Noble

Happy Endings actor Zachary Knighton has been cast in the role of Rick in CBS's pilot reboot of the classic 1980s series Magnum P.I.

In a clip from the upcoming Showtime series Patrick Melrose, Bennedict Cumberbatch plays the title character trying to satiate his addiction with food and alcohol while hearing voices.

Great news for fans of overcrowding, diners, @#$%head cops, and heroin epidemics! WrestleMania is returning to great state of New Jersey in 2019!

Bleeding Cool contributor Jude Terror likes to call Firefly and Serenity fans by the phrase "Firebronies" rather than the more popular term, "Browncoats". Many fans despise this and write it off as a mockery. But could it have more value than they believe?

Welcome back to Bleeding Cool’s recap/review of NBC’s Thursday night comedy series A.P. Bio, starring It’s Always in Sunny in Philadelphia's Glenn Howerton and Happy!'s Patton Oswalt. Two week's of consistent scheduling in a row means we're taking a look at tonight's sixth episode, 'Freakin' Enamored''

As the dust settles on WWE's ill-fated attempt to name a memorial battle royal after The Fabulous Moolah, it's becoming clear that it may have been candy bar manufacturer Snickers, not the WWE Universe, that ultimately convinced the pro wrestling company to drop the controversial Hall-of-Famer from the title.

Netflix has cast The 100's Tati Gabrielle in the role of Prudence in their upcoming untitled Sabrina the Teenage Witch project.

Actor Justin Kirk (Weeds) is set to star opposite Jim Carrey, Judy Greer, Catherine Keener, and Frank Langella in Showtime's upcoming half-hour comedy series Kidding from Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind helmer Michel Gondry.

Marvel's Luke Cage season 2 adds The Sopranos' Annabella Sciorra as Rosalie Carbone, a woman with mafia ties and an eye on Harlem.

After seasons of jokes, teases, and straight denials (mostly on creator Robert Kirkman's part), the worlds of The Walking Dead and Fear the Walking Dead are finally set to collide on Sunday, April 15th with AMC and Fathom Event's 'Survival Sunday: The Walking Dead & Fear the Walking Dead.'

Responding to negative reaction since they announced a memorial women's battle royal match named after deceased WWE Hall of Famer The Fabulous Moolah, WWE has dropped Moolah from the name. Now, the match will be known as the WrestleMania Battle Royal.

Gotham's Peyton List has been cast as the female lead in Fox's untitled pilot based on the novel Gone Baby Gone by Dennis Lehane.

In a new clip from this week's Marvel's Agents of SHIELD, the search for gravitonium leads them to a dangerous man from Mack's past.

Rookie Blue's Missy Peregrym has been cast as the female lead in Dick Wolf's new CBS Drama 'F.B.I.', about the internal workings of the Federal Bureau of Investigations.

The CW has released their mid-season 'Dare to Defy' video, which adds new shows like Black Lightning and Life Sentence to the mix of beautiful people.

Executive producer Jake Bell talks about how the rest of the season of Agents of SHIELD is about how not to blow up the planet and still stick the landing.

Global entertainment superstar John Cena is not known for backing down from a challenge, but we can't see any other way to explain the most recent turn of

If you're Saturday Night Live's Chris Redd and Pete Davidson and you have a chance to work with someone you've grown up respecting and idolizing, there's only one way to celebrate: a tribute rap (duh).

WWE announced plans this week to add a new women's battle royal to WrestleMania, dubbed the Fabulous Moolah Memorial Battle Royal. However, the announcement has been met with backlash as fans familiar with Moolah's history call out the company for whitewashing her past.

With Disney's 2018 version of Muppet Babies ready to take its first steps next week, the network is showing that even though times change, some things very much stay the same. Case in point? Kermit (Matt Daner) and Fozzie's (Eric Bauza) ability to amp up the drama on something as simple as "Show-n-Tell".

Let's talk about 'The X-Files' season 11 episode 9, "Nothing Lasts Forever". There's talk of organ harvesting this week, super exciting.

For the long-suffering hardcore fans of the prematurely canceled space Western Firefly, an end to the misery of living without their treasured favorite show is finally in sight... sort of! Star Nathan Fillion is donning his trademark uniform from the show once again for a guest appearance on American Housewife.

Morena Baccarin talks about what is coming up on Gotham for Lee Thompkins and Jim Gordon and what their long-term future might be.