Television

‘The Boys’ prequel series, titled ‘Vought Rising’ will premiere on Amazon Prime Video with Jensen Ackles and Aya Cash starring.

'Invincible' has been renewed for Season 4 at Prime Video, creator Robert Kirkman revealed at Comic Con

"Solar Opposites" has been renewed for Season 6 at Hulu. The announcement was made during the show's panel at San Diego Comic-Con.

Meet Task Force M. From the mind of James Gunn and DC Studios, the new Max Original series #CreatureCommandos premieres this December exclusively on Max.

First it starts with a comedy video which turns into this weird creepy thing about kids running through the Paris sewers, encountering an alligator, then getting rowed out and into the Seine by a ghost and it cuts to reality and all the nations are going down the river on boats past a bunch of water jets because they're not doing this in a stadium.

This looks awful and ridiculous. Compare this to the spectacle of London 2012.

Now they're doing some weird old Hollywood movie musical style musical number with Lady Gaga and she's on a staircase, which is... somewhere in Paris?

I am so fucking confused.

Edit: They just cut to Macron and he looks as confused as I am.

FROM: Season 3 | Official Trailer | Harold Perrineau, Catalina Sandino Moreno

The countdown is officially on… FROM returns September 22 on MGM+.

Zaun's finest; make sneaking back into your lab look good.

Get ready for the epic conclusion of Arcane, when Season 2 premieres November, only on Netflix.

https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/halo-canceled-paramount-plus-1236075994/

Evidently screwing customers twice by making them watch ads for the same price they used to get ad-free has been profitable. Let the enshitification continue!

https://variety.com/2024/digital/news/netflix-subscribers-277-million-q2-2024-earnings-1236076843/

In other news, their ad sales VP left this week for some reason.

Not since AOL Time Warner has there been such a boondoggle of media mergers. Way to go Zaslav!

https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/warner-bros-discovery-rises-after-bofa-says-possible-sale-assets-likely-2024-07-16/

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/warner-bros-discovery-explore-strategic-options-1235949753/

https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/warner-bros-discovery-lays-off-1000-employees-finance-max-1236074169/

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/news/warner-bros-discovery-should-explore-a-potential-sale-or-strategic-alternatives-bank-of-america-says/ar-BB1q6Bq9

https://ghostarchive.org/archive/9cFeZ

I don't know much about Castlevania aside from watching a youtube retrospective of Symphony Of The Night. I started watching this show not even realizing it was a followup to a previous Castlevania anime.

Going in decently blind, I've been rather enjoying the show. The character design and especially the way faces are drawn reminds me of Aeon Flux, but toned back. The action is the main draw of this show for sure. I appreciate that every action scene has multiple angles and moving perspective. The integrated CGI aspects are for the most part not jarring.

The story is moving along, and while some of the twists are obvious, they aren't dragged out, so I'm feeling like the plot is clipping along. Similarly, the protagonist characters are not overly complex, but they've avoided pitfalls that would have made them unlikable. They each have flaws or quirks, but never to the point of derailing the flow of the main plot by going off on some character specific side tangent.

Anyway, not done with it yet but I wanted to post some unfiltered thoughts so far.

The war against "The Cosmic Order" ... begins.Watch Season 6 of THE DRAGON PRINCE July 26th, only on Netflix!

It just struck me recently and I'm sharing.

As a millennial who enjoyed these shows as a young(er) adult ... I cherished them both, and at the time probably like 30 Rock more, and probably would have said that it's "the better comedy".

Over time though I've noticed I basically don't really think about 30 Rock ... frankly I almost certainly think about Seinfeld more ... but Community has "seeped in" to my TV subconscious fabric.

If I were to re-watch either right now, it'd be Community hands down. It'd be heart warming and comfortable and, I suspect, more relevant or still meaningful. By comparison, I wouldn't be surprised if 30 Rock would feel more dated, "noisy", and kinda culturally narrow and specific in a not-coincidentally SNL-like way.

30 Rock may still be "the better" TV Comedy (whatever that means). But it was written by a TV writer about making TV in New York, while Community was written about TV and its fans, IE "us", living in any random city.

The stakes couldn’t get any higher. Don’t miss the two-episode premiere of FX’s The Old Man, September 12 on FX.

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