Signs of further cash-driven turmoil in the streaming industry. Having saturated their own market, destroyed brand value by overloading us with content, and then basically re-invented linear cable TV complete with ads, the market is clearly feeling the pressure. Apple TV+ now looks as if they are backing away from
SATURDAY NIGHT Trailer Drops
Sony Pictures has unveiled the first trailer Saturday Night. The Jason Reitman project, telling the story of the first broadcast of Saturday Night Live, will be released on October 11th. That is the anniversary of that first broadcast. That 1975 show was hosted by George Carlin. Although nobody knew it
BORDERLANDS Gets 0%
It looked as if video-game to entertainment adaptions had finally cracked it. After years of truly awful adaptions, the animated Super Mario movie was an absolute delight, then The Last Of Us and Fallout showed that it could be done. Alas, it seems as if Borderlands may just be taking
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Isn’t it funny how you have seen some movies, but never really watched them? The other day, The Godfather was on UK TV and I realized that I hadn’t seen it in many years. Three hours later, it was as if I had just experienced the movie for the first
The Most Terrifying Alternate Realities in TV Sitcoms
Audiences have grown accustomed to dark visions of what could have been. Television alone has been bombarding the public with intriguing dramas that rewrite history, thus showing us the darker recesses of human behavior. Classics such as Sliders and Fringe or modern binge-worthy shows like Dark Matter and The Man