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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…

The premiere episode of Showtime's Our Cartoon President is now available, but it's less witty political satire than mean-spirited parody.

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!

Emmy winner John Malkovich joins the cast of Showtime's Billions as a Russian Billionaire for the upcoming third season.

Actor William H. Macy used the occasion of the 24th Annual Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards on Sunday night to share his thoughts on the "Time's Up" movement and the role men play in eliminating the systemic sexual harassment and gender inequality that's haunted the entertainment industry for decades.

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.

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...

Showtime Releases Full Trailer for Our Cartoon President based on the animated caricature of Donald Trump from the Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Showtime has released the first trailer for Patrick Melrose, their new limited series starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Hugo Weaving.

In the new teaser for Homeland Season 7 released by Showtime, Carrie has left her job at The White House but her work in Washington D.C. is far from over.

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.

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.

Showtime renewed their political documentary series The Circus, minus host Mark Halperin, who had been fired due to sexual misconduct allegations.

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.

Welcome back to The Weekly Static‘s three-part mid-season finale! Today we take a look at a little basic cable network that's been quietly churning out a quality lineup of some very cool and original programming: TruTV.

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.

The Weekly Static is Bleeding Cool's righteously desperate-yet-endearing attempt at finding the lighter side of and an interesting perspective on the past week in our TV news coverage.

Patrick Fischler was kind enough to take time out of his holiday schedule to be our very first television show interview for The Weekly Static: Interviews.

Showtime has set a premiere date for their new animated series, Our Cartoon President, a spinoff from the Late Show with Stephen Colbert.

The Walking Dead mid-season finale drama, Hulk Hogan's possible return to WWE, Chris Hardwick's new scripted comedy, and more from this week in TV news!

Catherine Keener (Get Out, Death to Smoochy) has been cast opposite Jim Carrey in her first series regular role in Showtime's new series Kidding.

The 24th Annual Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards nominations were announced live on Wednesday morning from the Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood.

Showtime has released the first official trailer for Homeland season 7 as we see Carrie has quit the White House and is back in D.C.

No more Game of Thrones 'til 2019; Doctor Who is for Brexit voters, too; blasting The Exorcist homophobes; and more from the realm of television this week!

The Weekly Static offers the lighter side and interesting perspective on the past week in networks, cable, streaming, smoke signals, and shadow puppets.