Month: April 2022

The CW today set summer premiere dates for a number of its returning series including sci-fi drama Roswell, New Mexico; crime drama In the Dark; and comedy Wellington Paranormal.  Also returning in the coming months are conspiracy thriller Devils, Canadian procedural Coroner and long-dormant docuseries Mysteries Decoded. See the full list below. Spring Premiere Dates
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The Hugo Awards is the biggest science fiction award in the world of books, and it has been running since 1953. The winners are chosen by popular vote of members of the World Science Fiction Society, and they are announced at WorldCon. This year, the organization received 1,368 nominating ballots, which have been narrowed down
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Late-night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel has responded to Georgia Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene‘s accusation that a joke told on Kimmel’s show was a “threat of violence.” On Wednesday night’s episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live, the comedian spoke about a tweet from Greene that accused other Republican senators of being “pro-pedophile” for supporting the
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EXCLUSIVE: Chris Smith, the four-time Emmy nominee who directed and exec produced Netflix’s true-crime docuseries Bad Vegan: Fame. Fraud. Fugitives., has signed with Cinetic Media for management, bringing his Library Films production shingle with him. Smith’s series Bad Vegan recently registered as a #1 hit on Netflix. It tells the stranger-than-fiction story of Sarma Melngailis,
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Tickets went on sale yesterday for Disney/Marvel’s highly anticipated Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, and Fandango reports it’s their best so far this year for a pic’s initial 24-hour period of sales, beating Warner Bros.’ The Batman. The movie which takes place following the events of Disney+/Marvel’s WandaVision, and Spider-Man: No Way Home, fires up summer on
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FX has ordered the pilot of an untitled half-hour comedy written by Lauren Ludwig (American Auto, Rob Riggle’s Ski Master Academy). The project is described as a metaphysical comedy about a group of queer twenty-somethings forced by the most unlikely source to confront their generational anxieties and unpack their emotional baggage. Ludwig, Academy Award nominees
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In the third novel in Tessa Wegert’s Shana Merchant series, our protagonist and her colleague, Tim Wellington, are called out to Wolfe Island, Ontario, where the body of a middle-aged woman has been found at the base of a wind turbine at a wind farm on the island. Tim thinks he recognises the strangled corpse,
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These days, it’s easy for many to forget that Riverdale star Cole Sprouse was once a child star on the Disney Channel. Musical stars and acting legends have arisen from that world, but these talented 30-year-olds were once underage stars. Stars like Miley, Selena, Demi, and others were simultaneously strictly controlled to portray a “chaste” image while
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The Bridgerton book series by Julia Quinn – which takes place in the Regency era in London – is a wildly popular series that follows the eight affluent Bridgerton siblings as they search for love and marriage. So, it wasn’t a surprise when Netflix unveiled that there was to be Shonda Rhimes-produced show based on
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A+E Networks Global Content Sales has hired Sony Pictures Television exec Kerstin Gühne as its Vice President for EMEA. This will see her overseeing distribution of A+E content throughout German-speaking Europe, the CIS region, Russia and Turkey. Her hire follows a 15-year spell at Sony, where she rose to Managing Director and Senior Vice President
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Poet and former attorney Tara M. Stringfellow makes her fiction debut with Memphis, drawing inspiration from her own family history to craft a wonder of a novel. Stringfellow’s grandfather was the first Black homicide detective in Memphis, Tennessee, and her grandmother was the first Black nurse at Mount Zion Baptist Hospital. Through her poignant and
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