0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 4/8/2015
With the fifth season of Louie set to premiere Thursday night (April 8) on FX, it’s probably long overdue for the show’s opening credits sequence to be parodied. Maybe there have been other parodies, and I just haven’t seen them. Or maybe combining Star Wars and Louie is much more likely to attract my attention. […]
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Whether or not Showtime intends to follow through with plans for a revival of 1990s TV series Twin Peaks hasn’t yet been announced. But in the view of former actors from the show which ran on ABC from 1990 to 1991, it’s just not Twin Peaks without series co-creator and director David Lynch involved. On […]
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This is something that might not intrigue everyone, especially if you’re not much of a podcast listener. But if you are a fan of podcasts, particularly what’s been on the Grantland network, you might find it interesting that one of their consistently best shows, “The Moment” with Brian Koppelman, has moved on to a different […]
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We have all done it. Our friends do it. Our family does it. Binge-watching TV shows is as common as renting a movie at a video store was in the 90’s. Now many of the most popular shows, or at least the ones that get the most internet coverage, are made specifically for all-at-once consumption. What […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 4/7/2015
If you’re like me and have been waiting for prices to come down a bit on the Star Wars Blu-rays and DVDs (especially for the original trilogy), this might be welcome news for you. According to Collider, Disney, Lucasfilm and 20th Century Fox will be releasing all six Star Wars films on Digital HD on […]
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Shortly after being the new host of The Daily Show last week, Trevor Noah found himself in some hot social media water over jokes he made years ago on Twitter. Some of the jokes were anti-Semitic, some were cruel toward fat women, but mostly they just weren’t that funny because they took aim at easy […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 4/6/2015
TV revivals have suddenly become all the rage with The X-Files, Coach and Full House all coming back to the small screen. Yet the show that may have started this wave of nostalgia might not be happening, after all. On Sunday, David Lynch announced that he was walking away from Showtime’s revival of Twin Peaks, […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 4/3/2015
April 1 has to be the worst day for reporters and bloggers. If not in politics and sports, then certainly on the pop culture and entertainment beats. Which stories are real? Which are April Fool’s Day jokes? Most of the time, it’s easy to tell what’s a goof and what isn’t. But in some cases, […]
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Apparently, just about any toy or game you played with as a kid could be made into a movie. Deadline is reporting that 20th Century Fox is talking with Hasbro about making a live-action movie involving Play-Doh. Furthermore, Paul Feig (Bridesmaids, The Heat) is in negotiations to direct the film. (Shouldn’t he be busy with […]
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Could we see The Muppet Show return to television? According to The Hollywood Reporter‘s Lesley Goldberg, ABC is developing a revival (or reboot) of the puppet-driven variety show, ordering a pilot presentation and filming a “proof of concept.” The script for the new pilot will be written by Bill Prady, co-creator of The Big Bang […]
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That TV revival wheel keeps on turning. Showtime is bringing back Twin Peaks. Fox is reopening The X-Files. NBC is putting Coach back in the game. Now, it appears we’ll be getting a whole new batch of Full House. According to TV Line’s Michael Ausiello, Netflix — which continues to ramp up its original programming — […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 4/2/2015
I would have put 1982’s Poltergeist among a list of films that didn’t need to be remade. Admittedly, I haven’t watched it in many years, so perhaps Tobe Hooper’s film doesn’t hold up. (By the way, there’s been a persistent rumor over the years that producer Steven Spielberg was the movie’s true director.) Besides, just about […]
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James Corden hasn’t even finished his second week as new host of CBS’ The Late Late Show, but he’s already participated in a moment that could be remembered for years, thanks to an April Fool’s Day prank pulled off by Katie Couric. Actually, the joke was kind of cruel in that it probably caused Corden’s […]
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Deadpool is one of those comic book properties that diehard Marvel Comics and X-Men fans are likely familiar with, but the character isn’t that well known among the general public. Yet Ryan Reynolds has been pushing hard to play “The Merc With a Mouth” for years, especially a version faithful to the ruthless, wise-cracking assassin […]
0 comments by Ian Casselberry on 4/1/2015
Was Trevor Noah not Comedy Central’s first choice for the new host of The Daily Show? That seems likely, given Noah’s relatively unknown profile. You have to figure the network took at least a couple of big swings to see if they could land a big name to replace Jon Stewart. According to Grantland’s Bill […]
