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In April, Arrested Development’s co-executive producer Brian Grazer offered fans a cryptic yet oddly specific update about the show’s future. Now comes news that the Netflix series is returning in 2016. Grazer dropped the news on Adam Corolla’s show this time, towards the end of their interview. The conversation starts around the one-hour mark, and…
Last night’s Game of Thrones was a welcome return to form. It was also a weirdly structured episode: Half a series of vignettes about faith and learning to read people, and half a rip-roaring apocalyptic action movie. But it was all tied together by the contrast between single-minded zombies and undependable humans. Spoilers ahead… In…
The Agents of SHIELD take on a new mission—shilling Coca-Cola—in these delightfully surreal Chinese commercials. I have absolutely zero idea what’s going on in them. All I know is that if Agent Ward doesn’t take orders from a polar bear in season 3 I’m gonna be seriously disappointed. Here’s a slightly less wacky but still…
On the heels of The Wicked + The Divine comic by Kieron Gillen, Jamie McKelvie and Matt Wilson landing three Eisner Award nominations, including best new series, the breakout books are headed to TV. Universal Television has optioned the rights to the property for Matt Fraction and Kelly Sue DeConnick’s Milkfed Criminal Masterminds; they will produce…
We’ve learned so much about the Duggars in the past couple weeks! Of course, we now know, in grisly detail, about how Josh Duggar molested five girls, four of whom were also his co-stars on TLC’s 19 Kids And Counting, i.e., his sisters. We’ve also been learning more and more about the creepy homeschooling cult the…
In the ongoing quest to figure out if Louis CK is a disgusting pervert who sexually abuses women, some interesting new information has come to light. To catch you up, two weeks ago there was a post on Gawker that talked about an alleged email exchange and phone conversation between Louis CK and and an…
As we all wait for July 26, 2015, which will finally see the premiere of the second season of Adult Swim’s Rick and Morty (and I’m assuming everyone else is waiting as excitedly as I am), I think we ought to look back at the eleven episodes that comprised the first season. I’ve now watched the season…
Start Article Post Content Netflix, which already eats up the fattest chunk of downstream bandwidth, is taking an even bigger bite: The No. 1 subscription-video service accounted for 36.5% of all downstream Internet bandwidth during peak periods in North America for March, according to a new report.Indeed, Netflix boosted its share of downstream bandwidth usage…
The pilot for this fall’s Supergirl TV series has appeared online, and here’s our spoiler-free review! If you were put off by the show’s six-minute preview from last week, I can assure you the show is significantly better than that. It still some of the same issues, but it’s far more charming than problematic. Honestly,…
The world was never graced with a Star Trek spinoff series devoted to commander William Riker’s escapades, but one YouTuber is giving us a tantalizing taste of what could have been. The (brief) pilot episode of Riker is cobbled together from The Next Generation, and it embraces the absurdity of the seminal sci-fi show to hilarious…