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Crunchyroll and Adult Swim team for anime adaptation of SEGA’s Shenmue

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Crunchyroll has announced that it is partnering with Adult Swim for an anime series based upon the beloved SEGA video game franchise Shenmue. “The first Shenmue video game was released more than twenty years ago and we’re so excited to be working again with Adult Swim to bring this franchise to life through anime,” said […]

Amazon finds its Jack Reacher in Titans’ Alan Ritchson

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Amazon Studios upcoming Jack Reacher TV series has found its leading man, with Titans star Alan Ritchson set for the title role in the small screen adaptation of author Lee Childs’ best-selling book series. At 6’4” and 235 pounds, Richtson certainly fits the physical description of the 6’5″ Reacher, a U.S. Army veteran who now […]

Quibi renews Reno 911! for an eighth season

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Quibi and Comedy Central Productions have announced that the short-form streamer has renewed the Emmy-nominated Reno 911! for a brand new season, which will be its eighth overall. “We are thrilled about the pick-up, but we’re even more thrilled about getting to leave our living rooms for the first time in 5 months,” said series […]

The Boys Season 2 Episode 3 Review – ‘Over the Hill with the Swords of a Thousand Men’

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Martin Carr reviews the third episode of The Boys season 2… There is a bravado which goes hand in hand with the tag line lifted with flair from an early Eighties anthem by Tenpole Tudor. A rousing call to arms for those roustabouts who band together against an insurmountable force of superior foes. It harks […]

Silk live-action TV series in the works at Sony Pictures Television

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Sony Pictures Television is reportedly in early development on a live-action television series centered around the spider-verse character Silk, with Phil Lord and Chris Miller serving as executive producers. According to Variety, Lauren Moon, whose past credits include Good Trouble and the Netflix series Atypical, is currently in talks to write the Silk series. As mentioned above, Lord […]

The Boys Season 2 Episode 2 Review – ‘Proper Preparation and Planning’

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Martin Carr reviews the second episode of The Boys season 2… The Boys has always been about identity, either those we share in private, those we flaunt in public and to a lesser degree the one we don’t talk about at parties. In a society defined by misinformation, corporate spin and increasingly personal agendas, this […]

HBO Max to reunite The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air cast for reunion special

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Not content with reuniting the cast of Friends, HBO Max has announced that it will be bringing together the surviving cast members of another classic 90s sitcom with a reunion special for The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. The special will see Will Smith joined by series regulars Tatyana Ali, Karyn Parsons, Joseph Marcell, Daphne Maxwell […]

Exclusive Interviews – The Boys Season 2 Cast and Crew

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Tai Freligh interviews the cast and crew of The Boys Season 2… The Boys, on Amazon Prime Video, is an irreverent take on what happens when superheroes, who are as popular as celebrities, as influential as politicians and as revered as Gods, abuse their superpowers rather than use them for good. Showrunner Eric Kripke along […]

Lucifer Season 5 to resume production later this month, followed by Season 6 filming in October

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Earlier this year, it was announced that Netflix’s Lucifer was among the many films and TV shows that had to halt production due to the ongoing global health crisis, and now, it has been reported that filming is set to resume shortly. According to TVLine, Lucifer will resume production on 24th September 2020, at which time it […]