Apple TV+ Reveals First Trailer for Star-Studded The Morning Show
We’ve finally got our first look at Apple TV’s star-studded upcoming series The Morning Show, and we’re eager to see more. Starring Jennifer Aniston, Reese Witherspoon, and Steve Carrell (how’s that for a lineup?), The Morning Show gives us an inside look at the brutally cutthroat world of morning TV, and what happens when a co-anchor on a popular morning show (Carrell’s Mitch Kessler) is fired in the wake of a scandal.
How the Emmy-Nominated Casting Director of When They See Us Found Her Talent
Ava DuVernay’s When They See Us was an instant Netflix hit, which even the normally secretive streaming site revealed to viewers in a tweet. Unsurprisingly, the show is also among the Emmy’s leading contenders, nominated in the best limited-run series category and garnering nods for DuVernay’s writing and directing and Bradford Young’s cinematography, among others. The show’s many noms also include eight actors, with Jharrel Jerome (the only person in the series to take on his role,
Ewan McGregor May Raise Lightsaber Again in Disney+ Obi-Wan Kenobi Series
It’s important to start with the fact that this has yet to be confirmed—but—Deadline is reporting that Ewan McGregor is in talks to return as Obi-Wan Kenobi for a Diseny+ series.
“The 48-year-old Scottish actor is in talks about reprising his role as the heartfelt but headstrong Jedi master known as Obi-Wan Kenobi in a yet-to-be-titled Disney+ series, Deadline has confirmed,” Dino-Ray Ramos and Geoff Boucher report.
Netflix Reveals Final Trailer for The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance
The last look we got at Netflix’s The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance was during Comic-Con, when the upcoming 10-episode series was one of the buzziest titles in San Diego. Now Netflix has released a new trailer for us to feast our eyes on, and we’re no less excited about this return to Jim Henson and Frank Oz’s world of gorgeous puppetry and richly realized worlds, only now benefited by fresh technologies and an incredible new cast.
Olivia Colman is Queen Elizabeth in First Teaser for The Crown
This will be one of those Tweets heard around the (TV) world. The great Olivia Colman, fresh off winning an Oscar for Best Actress thanks to her delicious turn as Queen Anne in The Favourite, is queen once again. This time, Colman is Queen Elizabeth, taking over for Claire Foy in season three of Netflix’s The Crown. Folks are excited. Very excited. Netflix dropped the first teaser on Twitter,
New Images for The Walking Dead Season 10 Reveal Troubles to Come
AMC’s hit series The Walking Dead returns for its 10th season, and a fresh batch of images gives us a glimpse of what’s to come. Pretty much all of your most crucial survivors are accounted for in the photos. These include the unkillable Daryl, (Norman Reedus), the former big bad villain Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan), the tough-as-nails Carol (Melissa McBride), the blind but wide Father Gabriel (Seth Gilliam), and the resourceful Aaron (Ross Marquand),
This Year’s Emmys Won’t Have a Host
Looks like the host-less awards show is becoming a thing. After the Oscars successfully pulled off a host-by-committee (or, in other words, a host-less) show this past February, the Emmys are now going the same route. Variety reports that Fox Entertainment CEO Charlie Collier confirmed the news on Wednesday morning during the network’s portion of the Television Critics Association press tour. As the September 22 event drew closer, it had become increasingly likely that the Emmys would go this route,
Game of Thrones Creators David Benioff & D.B. Weiss Sign Major Netflix Deal
David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, fresh off steering the record-breaking 8th and final season of Game of Thrones for HBO, have signed a massive new deal with Netflix. The Hollywood Reporter has the scoop that the duo has inked a $200 million multiyear deal that will see them develop new projects in both film and television.
“We are thrilled to welcome master storytellers David Benioff and Dan Weiss to Netflix.
HBO Reveals Brand New Recommendation Algorithm—Human Beings!
Now here’s a novel concept; imagine getting recommendations for new shows and films by, wait for it…actual human beings? That’s the idea behind HBO’s new program “Recommended by Humans,” which comes with this fairly awesome new website. Regular people (just like you!) offer you their takes on what to watch on HBO, helping you navigate their huge trove of shows, films, miniseries, docs, sports, and specials. Thinking about diving into season one of Succession?
Beanie Feldstein to Play Monica Lewinsky in Impeachment: American Crime Story
Yesterday we found out FX had picked up Donald Glover’s brilliant Atlanta for an additional fourth season. Now, we find out the great Beanie Feldstein (last seen in Olivia Wilde’s excellent Booksmart) will be playing Monica Lewinsky in FX’s brilliant anthology series American Crime Story. Titled Impeachment: American Crime Story, this installment will focus on Bill Clinton’s presidential sex scandal and impeachment.
Some Good News: FX Has Renewed Donald Glover’s Atlanta for a 4th Season
Atlanta fans everywhere are feeling very good right about now. FX has renewed Donald Glover’s brilliant, offbeat comedy for a 4th season, which is somewhat surprising considering filming hasn’t even begun on season three. FX’s announcement came at the Television Critics Association summer press tour. We already knew that FX had secured a third season for the singular series way back in June of 2018, but now they’ve added a fourth season before production for season three has begun.
Horror Anthology Series Are you Afraid of the Dark Reveals First Teaser
Nickelodeon’s beloved anthology horror series Are You Afraid of the Dark is back, and we’ve got our first sneak peek. The series was a mainstay for lots of folks who grew up in the 90s, and now it’s been rebooted for a brand new generation. The series centers on the Midnight Society, a group of kids who loved nothing more than to gather around the campfire and scare each other silly with horror stories.
Fleabag‘s Emmy-Nominated Cinematographer on Crafting a Nearly Flawless Second Season
There’s no such thing as flawless art. Flaws are baked right into anything a human being creates, and often they are hard to disassociate from the strengths that make any art worthwhile. Yet I’ve heard several people call Fleabag‘s second season flawless, and I’ve been hard-pressed to argue the point. Few shows on television are as personal, raw, and fearless as what Phoebe Waller-Bridge has created here, which is full of its creators’
Orange Is the New Black‘s Production Designer Malchus Janocko’s Favorite Sets
Production designer Malchus Janocko set out to be a painter and glassblower before he discovered show business as a livelihood. Janocko art-directed the glossy Gossip Girl, then channeled small-town Americana for the first season of The Leftovers before taking a deep dive into the muted world of incarceration dramatized in Orange Is the New Black. When he started designing the Netflix production’s fourth season,
Charlie Manson Appears in Mindhunter‘s Season 2 Trailer
Charlie Manson briefly appears in Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, yet his ghoulish specter hangs over the entire movie. In season two of Netflix’s excellent Mindhunters, Manson is back, and like Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, he’s played by Damian Herriman. You’ll see him in a brief shot in the season two trailer which Netflix has just released. The trailer is but a minute long,
Digging Doom Patrol‘s Signature Look With Costume Designer Laura Jean Shannon
The members of the Costume Designers Guild who joined the panel at San Diego Comic-Con hope you watch their shows multiple times in hi-def and that you hit the pause button now and then. They have always been obsessed with detail and they have always enjoyed putting little in-jokes and Easter eggs into those details for their own satisfaction and amusement, but for the first time, new technologies have made it possible for the audience to see and appreciate those details as well.
The Buzziest Non-Marvel Projects From San Diego Comic-Con
San Diego Comic-Con, now in its 50th year, draws an estimated 135,000 fans of comic books, movies, and pop culture. This year, the major studios dropped a slew of highly-anticipated movie trailers (like Top Gun: Maverick), TV productions teased scenes from new shows (like Netflix’s The Witcher), and fans geeked out over behind-the-scenes tidbits about popular and upcoming projects. Yes, there was a lot more happening at this year’s con than just Marvel’s return to Hall H.
Regina King’s Masked Vigilante Revealed in new Watchmen Images
HBO has finally released some images from their upcoming, highly secretive new series Watchmen, all of them focused on Oscar-winner Regina King’s character Angela Abar. King’s character is one of the new faces that series creator Damon Lindelof is introducing in his adaptation of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons iconic graphic novel. The little we know about Angela Abar is that she’s a Tulsa police officer who, after her family is attacked, dons a mask at night to mete out vigilante justice.
Daniel Brühl’s Reveals First Look at Zemo’s Return in The Falcon and the Winter Soldier
There has been so much news coming out of Comic-Con that it can be a little hard to keep up. One of the most fecund sources of information at the Con this year revolved around Disney’s new streaming service Disney +, and specifically, the upcoming Marvel series it’ll be exclusively hosting. So not only did Marvel return to Hall H with a ton to reveal about their upcoming film projects,
Amazon’s Mysterious The Lord of the Rings Series has a Cast Member
You have to hand it to Amazon—they’ve kept their upcoming The Lord of the Rings series so shrouded in secrecy, Gandalf himself would be impressed! We finally have some semi-concrete news, however, thanks to Variety. The upcoming series looks close to casting Markella Kavenagh, Variety reports, with sources telling them she’ll be playing a character named Tyra. Kavenagh starred in the Australian movie Romper Stomper,
