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Never doubt the public’s appetite for enormous, man-eating snakes…or at least movie studios’ perception of the public’s appetite for man-eating snakes. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Columbia Pictures has ordered a reboot of 1997’s monster horror hit Anaconda. Evan Daugherty, writer of Tomb Raider and Snow White and the Hunstman, is attached to write the

One of the first lines uttered in TBS’s Medieval comedy Miracle Workers: Dark Ages comes from young Alexandria Shitshoveler (yes, really) as she prepares to watch a public execution. After the executioner cheerfully cries “It’s time to kill a person!” Alexandria turns to her friend as asks “Do you ever feel like we’re living during

This Supernatural review contains spoilers. Supernatural Season 15 Episode 10 This episode opens on a monster version of Fight Club with classical music playing over it. It’s corny and it means to be — amid the bloodshed, it’s setting the tone that this episode won’t be a serious one. Although the beginning is vicious, we

Shogun is bringing its historical English-Japanese culture clash back to television on FX. Back in August 2018, FX initially announced that it was rebooting Shogun as a new 10-episode limited series. The classic property first arrived in the form of James Clavell’s 1975 novel, Shogun, which was subsequently adapted by NBC as an ambitiously epic

This Vikings review contains spoilers. Vikings Season 6 Episode 8 “You aren’t fit to be called a son of Ragnar.” With the death of Lagertha, attention now turns toward Bjorn Ironside, and Vikings appears ready to step up the pace of Ivar’s story in Rus and finally return to Floki’s settlement in Iceland. “Valhalla Can

Rosario Dawson cemented her exit from Netflix’s street-level Marvel shows last year; a move that proved prescient with the subsequent cancellation of Luke Cage, Iron Fist, The Punisher, Daredevil and Jessica Jones. Having moved on, Dawson will star on USA Network crime anthology series Briarpatch, which adapts the 1984 Ross Thomas novel of the same

This Arrow review contains spoilers.  Arrow Season 8 Episode 9 “Green Arrow & the Canaries” pulls off something pretty impressive in just an hour, managing to answer many questions about how the Crisis on Infinite Earths affected Arrow’s corner of the Arrowverse while the backdoor pilot gave the audience a sense of what the new show’s vibe

The kid who lived in the “creepy house on the corner” grew up to keep an eye on all the creepy corners. Paranormal Investigator and documentary filmmaker Steve Shippy, who is also an independent rapper known as Prozak, keeps things chill in the new Travel Channel series, Haunting in the Heartland. “Why do so many communities

This Manifest review contains spoilers. Manifest Season 2 Episode 3 Manifest has done the seemingly impossible with “False Horizon.” It has delved deeper into the back story of Saanvi, a much underutilized character last season, and set her up as a capable spy; it made the persistently vague Red X’er and Believer groups more relevant

Date Show Network Monday, January 13 Ackley Bridge Acorn TV Monday, January 13 The Healing Powers of Dude Netflix Monday, January 13 The New Pope (9:00 p.m.) HBO Monday, January 13 The Good Doctor (10:00 p.m.) ABC Tuesday, January 14 Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts Netflix Tuesday, January 14 Arrow (8:00 p.m.) CW Tuesday,

This article contains major Avenue 5 spoilers. If you haven’t watched Avenue 5 episode one then think twice before you keep reading. We have a spoiler free review here. Now that the first episode of Armando Iannucci’s highly-anticipated Veep follow up Avenue 5 has hit HBO, let’s talk about that massive twist. The show has

Apple TV+ heard you were in the market for some amazing stories and as fate would have it, so are they. Apple’s new streaming service has ordered anthology series Amazing Stories, a revival of the 1985 NBC series of the same name. Steven Spielberg will return to executive produce the series through Amblin Entertainment just

Pssst. Here’s an insider stock tip: Billions has been renewed for season 5 by Showtime. Deadline first reported the news. Also, don’t follow up on that tip. Insider trading is illegal. It sent Martha Stewart to jail Billions has evolved into Showtime‘s trademark drama. The stock market-centric show has inspired a cadre of devoted fans online and

Over his decades long career Armando Iannucci has crafted a catalog of incisive, biting, and often crude satire. From the scarily prescient takedown of salacious news coverage, The Day Today, all the way to the British political comedy in The Thick of It and its multi-award winning American reimagining Veep, Iannucci has been at the forefront

The True Crime genre may never be the same after Steve Martin and Martin Short search for clues on a new Hulu series. Co-created by Martin and John Hoffman, the as-yet-untitled series comes from This Is Us creator Dan Fogelman and 20th Century Fox TV. Martin and Hoffman will write the series and serve as

Julia Louis-Dreyfus has an immense influence over television comedy. She co-starred on Seinfeld, a show about nothing which defined the nineties. Her run as Selina Meyer on HBO’s Veep encapsulated government in a nihilistic political nutsack, from a do-nothing congress to the nothing-can-get-quite-done presidency. Louis-Dreyfus wasn’t merely presidential, Veep won so many awards it got embarrassing.  Now Louis-Dreyfus has signed

This Supernatural review contains spoilers. Supernatural Season 15 Episode 9 “All good things must come to an end.” Chuck’s comment in the beginning of “The Trap” is indicative both of his connection to Sam and the series’ end as a whole. It seems each episode is primed for a reference to the end, and it

The streaming service field is becoming more fractured, as more and more media companies break from Netflix, Amazon Prime, and Hulu in favor of creating their own streaming services. While Disney’s Disney+, HBO MAX, and Apple’s TV+ may be the most talked-about right now, NBCUniversal—the Comcast Corp. division that owns NBC, MSNBC, USA, and the Universal Pictures movie studio—is

We’ll be getting an Atlanta Season 3. It’s just going to take a while. Donald and Stephen Glover’s brilliant, Faulkner-esque series, Atlanta, has been a big hit for FX in some untraditional ways, evidenced by the network’s preemptive order last year for Season 4, which was made while Season 3 stood unproduced. Anecdotally speaking, it feels like

Paramount Network knows a good Kevin Costner when it sees one.  Variety reports that Paramount Network has picked up the Kevin Costner-starring series Yellowstone for season 3.  Yellowstone season 3 will feature 10 episodes, just like season 2.  Formerly Spike TV, Paramount Network was in dire need of a hit at launch. A prime candidate seemed to

This article contains nothing but Crisis on Infinite Earths spoilers. Well, they actually did it. The CW and Warner Bros. TV actually told a live-action version of Crisis on Infinite Earths that not only managed to touch on the vast majority of DC TV history, but even paid significant homage to the classic movies of

The Simpsons is celebrating yet another birthday. The first non-Christmas episode of The Simpsons, “Bart the Genius,” first premiered on Fox on January 14, 1990. The series had already run their Christmas special, “Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire” but this was their first non-holiday themed episode, and the show jumps right into their skewered reality

This Manifest review contains spoilers. Manifest Season 2 Episode 2 This week’s episode of Manifest began with some worrisomely stilted dialogue and built through a satisfying, self-contained passenger storyline to a conclusion that left us worried for Zeke, Olive, and Saanvi for completely different but equally compelling reasons. Upon reflection, the artificial-sounding conversations about callings

Shameless Season 11 is officially set, marking a monumental swan song for the veteran Showtime series. The confirmation of Shameless’s final season was made by Showtime Networks President of Entertainment, Gary Levine, at the Television Critics Association’s Winter Press Tour. With the final frame set, the irreverently-embattled working-class dramedy series – which launched on Showtime

This The Outsider review contains spoilers. The Outsider Episode 2 Early in The Outsider episode 2 “Roanoke,” there’s a meeting between Frank and Terry at the jail that is one of the most crackling, sharp exchanges in any television show in recent memory. It has the snap of real conversation, or the snap of a

Clarice Starling, the relentless FBI trainee as first played by Jodie Foster in The Silence of the Lambs, was once rated the sixth best movie hero ever by the American Film Institute. Well guess what, AFI! She’s a TV hero now. CBS announced today that it has given a series commitment to Clarice, a series

Waystar/Royco and the Roy family will continue their awful ways as HBO has officially ordered Succession season 3. HBO made the announcement from its Medium PR account. The Succession season 3 renewal came quite early for an HBO property, with HBO announcing the renewal as Succession season 2 was airing. Clearly, HBO likes what it sees from Succession‘s viewership

If you’re relatively new to the long history of Star Trek: The Next Generation, you maybe be ever-so-slightly confused as to why Jean-Luc Picard is living on a wine vineyard at the start of the new series, Star Trek: Picard. Is Jean-Luc drinking too much? Since when did he love grapes so much? Well, the

This Lincoln Rhyme: Hunt for the Bone Collector review contains spoilers. Lincoln Rhyme: Hunt for the Bone Collector episode 1 NBC’s Lincoln Rhyme: Hunt for the Bone Collector is a standard issue police procedural with a twist: the lead detective is brilliant and broken, but only physically. His keen sense of sleuthing and desire for revenge keep his

Adult Swim has been the home for many influential pieces of alternative comedy, but Childrens Hospital is a series that helped the fledgling network establish their brand. The Dadaist comedy helped bring live-action to the programming block as well as an enviable cast and crew of comedic talent. Childrens Hospital was a jewel in Adult