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Threatening to recklessly cross the streams of the various branches of geekdom—itself a dangerous reference to yet another beloved nerd property—Amazon announced today that it was hiring JD Payne and Patrick McKay to head up development on its long-anticipated Lord Of The Rings TV show. Payne and McKay are relative…

Because nothing says, “Fuck yeah, metal!” like meticulously curated data analytics, Spotify reported to shareholders this week that rock mainstays Metallica have apparently been using the service’s info to help plan its tours. According to the company’s CEO, Daniel Ek, the once-internet-hostile band has been using…

Variety reports that Walmart has moved another step closer to its rumored plans for a low-price streaming service for “middle America”—you know, because nobody in Indiana has a Netflix account. The retail mega-giant has just hired Mark Greenberg, former CEO of Epix (it’s a cable network) in order to help tease out the…

DuckTales has so far referenced Darkwing Duck and Gummi Bears in its current incarnation, and, outside of a quick reference to Cape Suzette in the pilot, finally looks to TaleSpin as another source to pull from (it would be interesting to see if they can reference Chip ‘N Dale: Rescue Rangers, but that may be a…

There’s been a lot of conversation over the years about how best to put comic book superhero costumes on the screen. After all, many of the primary color looks designed to pop against a painted background tend to look a little, well, silly in the real world; Superman can just about pull it off (except when he’s living…

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After a tumultuous few episodes, The Great British Baking Show returns to its typical approach with “Sweet Dough,” for better and worse. The episode begins with a brief refresher, catching viewers up on the non-elimination in “Pudding,” and the high stakes the bakers face this episode: two contestants will be going…

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Sure, these days Stephen Colbert is more about unpacking the day’s worth of traitorous bigotry and naked malfeasance issuing from the maw of Donald Trump than goofing about and making people feel uncomfortable in the field as he did back in his Daily Show days. But, perhaps imbued with the spirit of former Ed Sullivan…

Welcome to Development Hell, the fiery pit into which we fling recent developments in casting, distribution, and everything else that’s new and mildly interesting in the Boschian phantasmagoria of the entertainment industry.

After months of rumors that he was dissatisfied with its sister network—which has reportedly pushed back against creative decisions on his shows, including an episode referencing the NFL player protests—Black-ish and Grown-ish creator Kenya Barris has announced that he’s leaving his home at ABC Studios. Per The…

Terry Gilliams’ Time Bandits remains one of the most pleasantly weird movies of its generation (alongside just about everything else Terry Gilliam did in the 1980s), telling a sprawling story about an imaginative little kid who gets sucked into the—honestly, fairly crappy—adventures of a bunch of laid-off low-level…

I still don’t know how much credit to give Orange Is The New Black for understanding Piper Chapman’s privilege.

[Note: This article contains descriptions of sexual assault.]

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I have my issues with the haphazard plotting that Orange Is The New Black can fall into during the middle section of its seasons, but I can’t deny that the show knows how to use it to its advantage as its stories start to converge. I went into “Double Trouble” feeling like the season had failed to generate much…

Tremble, puny human, and see before you what your Ozymandias-like betters have crafted in their pursuit of ever more glorious riches. Today the Walt Disney and 20th Century Fox shareholders wept, for there were no more worlds to conquer.

“Famous fan fiction” is always a tricky concept to deal with; the oceans of online fan content are deep and strange, and it’s often hard to tell what’ll be a well-known inside joke for one set of readers, and some sort of bizarre, mutant cave fish for another. Still, a piece does occasionally float up to the top.…

When Taystee’s case was taken on by the ACLU, Orange Is The New Black gestured to the larger world of its story: the riot became national news, and Taystee’s case has galvanized the racial injustice that lies at the core of it.