Netflix has announced – at the Edinburgh International TV Festival – the key cast, directors and episode titles – for the fourth season of Black Mirror. As usual, series creator Charlie Brooker has written every episode. The biggest name is Jodie Foster – who directs an episode entitled Arkangel. Some of the more familiar actors […]
Tag: Television
Starz Launching Monday Night Documentary Slate!
Beginning Monday, September 18th, Starz will be running never-before-seen documentaries on Monday nights – docs on climate change, giants, hikers and food waste and more. The first documentary scheduled is The Age of Consequences which investigates the impacts of climate change, resource scarcity, migration, and conflict through the lens of US national security and global stability.
Death Note Does Not Travel Well!
Trying to adapt a 2400-page manga into a 101-minute movie is what used to be called a mug’s game – a task so remarkably daunting/stupid that it wasn’t even worth considering. Adam Wingard’s Death Note is a bit better than that, but not much.
Where in the World Is Bojack Trailer: Bojack Horseman: Season 4!
Diane pours her heart out to Bojack’s voicemail in the new trailer for season four of Bojack Horseman. Bojack Horseman: Season Four premieres on Netflix on Friday, September 8th.
Focus Features Takes Trio of Its Classic Films To Facebook! #FOCUSFRIDAYS
Beginning Friday, August 25th, Focus Features will stream one of three classic films – The Motorcycle Diaries, The Constant Gardner and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind – on Facebook each Friday, as part of the company’s 15th Anniversary celebrations.
TCM To Remember Jerry Lewis with Five Movie Marathon On Labor Day!
TCM has set aside Labor Day for a marathon of five Jerry Lewis films – The Nutty Professor, The King of Comedy, The Stooge, The Bellboy and The Disorderly Orderly. The fun begins at 8/7C on Monday, September 4th.
Let’s Get Physical with Pop’s New Competitive Aerobics Comedy!
The spirit of the ’80s returns in the new Pop series Let’s Get Physical. Set in the present, Let’s Get Physical follows a slacker named Joe who, with every breath he takes, makes a reluctant comeback in the fitness industry after his dad, Colonel Tom Force, a.k.a. “The Godfather of Aerobics,” unexpectedly passes away and wills […]
Orange Is the New Black’s Diane Guerrero Snags Regular Role on Superior Donuts!
Orange Is the New Black’s Diane Guerrero has signed on to play Sofia – a young Uptown gentrifier who parks her food truck, which serves healthy, socially conscious breakfast foods, in front of Arthur’s old-school donut shop – a new regular character on CBS’ Superior Donuts. Superior Donuts returns for its second season on Monday, October […]
Grindr’s So Skanky Teaser: Will & Grace!
The new teaser for Will & Grace finds Jack (Sean Hayes) appalled by the state of Grindr. Will and Grace returns to NBC – after an absence of a decade – on Thursday, September 28th.
Getting Intimate with Lady Gaga: Gaga: Five Foot Two!
Gaga: Five Foot Two – an intimate and unfettered portrait of a year in the life of Lady Gaga – will premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival prior to its global premiere on Netflix on Friday, September 22nd.
The Sword of Shannara Trailer: The Shannara Chronicles!
A funny thing happened on the way to The Shannara Chronicles: Season 2 – the show went from unintentionally hilarious to really very good, peaking with a surprising, intense season finale. In season two, the re-emergence of magic has the populace terrified, and an organization called The Crimson is hunting down magic users. Only the Sword […]