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HBO’s online-only service will cost $15 per month, report says ‘Game of Thrones’ received its first Golden Globes nomination since Season 1. Image: HBO By Jason Abbruzzese2015-03-04 20:26:40 UTC Details about HBO’s online streaming service emerged on Wednesday, including that it will be called “HBO Now” and cost $15 per month. The service could launch…
Watching Gotham continue its complete and utter lunacy in “Everyone Has a Cobblepot” last night, I was struck with a single, amazing thought. What if Gotham is an origin story not for regular Batman, but for the old Batman TV show from the ’60s? Because the ridiculousness is reaching that level. In fact, there are…
Start Article Post Content Women and minority writers have seen minimal progress in television, the Writers Guild of America West has reported.The guild’s television staff brief found that female writers accounted for 29% of TV staff employment during the 2013-14 season, down from 30.5%. Minorities accounted for 13.7% during the 2013-14 season, down from 15.6%….
Last week, director Joseph Kahn dropped his “dark as f*ck” POWER/RANGERS short. Soon, it was pulled from the internet, but now it’s back in full NSFW glory. So what happened? In an exclusive interview, Kahn explains how the internet saved his short. Plus why he doesn’t think the real Power Rangers show should be this…
close media-action-overlay The Man Who Was Spock Leonard Nimoy, best known for playing the character Spock in the Star Trek television shows and films, died at 83. Video by Robin Lindsay on Publish Date February 27, 2015. Photo by NBC, via Photofest. Leonard Nimoy, the sonorous, gaunt-faced actor who won a worshipful global following as…
© Provided by Deadline Jon Stewart finally explained at length why he is leaving The Daily Show. He started by showing clips of reaction to his announcement from the right — mostly Fox News Channel, where Megyn Kelly is seen talking about how “nasty” Stewart got, with “no foothold in the facts.” He challenged FNC…
Have you ever sat down to binge-watch your favorite box set, with the nagging feeling that you don’t have enough popcorn to make it through to the finale? If only there was a way to mainline the X-Files all at once—every episode playing simultaneously, on a single screen, a kind of dark magic that could…
James Van Der Beek and Katee Sackhoff star in Joseph Kahn’s (Detention, Toque) R-rated, NSFW Power Rangers short film. We did not think the Power Rangers could be this dark. We were so wrong. Created just for shits and grins, Kahn cobbled together what he’s labeling a “deboot FAN FILM.” Writing quite plainly in his…
Fox News host Bill O’Reilly threatened a New York Times reporter on Monday night, promising to come after the reporter “with everything I have” if he felt that any of the reporter’s coverage about his Falklands war controversy was inappropriate. “Mr. O’Reilly’s efforts to refute the claims by Mother Jones and some former CBS News…
[if lt IE 9]> Star Trek actor Leonard Nimoy has reportedly been hospitalized following complaints of severe chest pains. Nimoy, who portrayed Mr. Spock on the original Star Trek television series from 1966-1969, was sent to the UCLA Medical Center last Thursday. Nimoy’s hospitalization follows the actor’s recent hospital visits over the past several months,…