Television and Film
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Other reviews: - Screenrant: [What We Do In The Shadows Season 6 Review: The Stellar Cast Elevates Storylines That Play Too Safe](https://screenrant.com/what-we-do-in-the-shadows-season-6-review/) - Collider: ['What We Do in the Shadows' Season 6 Review: A Fond, Wild Farewell to Our Favorite Staten Island Vampires](https://collider.com/what-we-do-in-the-shadows-season-6-review/) - Slashfilm [What We Do In The Shadows Season 6 Review: The Final Bite Is Bloody Good Fun](https://www.slashfilm.com/1688397/what-we-do-in-the-shadows-season-6-review/)
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> Feathers McGraw is back! Netflix has released the first trailer for “Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl,” which sees the penguin supervillain making a grand return. The new 70-minute feature marks the first “Wallace & Gromit” feature since 2005’s Oscar-winning “Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit.” >“Vengeance Most Fowl” will have its world premiere at AFI Fest on Oct. 27. It will debut on Netflix on Jan. 3, 2025 https://youtu.be/kQqrBzJ5wIc
> Comedian and writer John Mulaney will host a live variety talk show on Netflix, the streaming company announced in a post on X. The show may be similar to Mulaney's *Everybody's in LA*, a live talk show that streamed on Netflix for six episodes in May 2024. > >Mulaney's production company will produce and he'll be the showrunner, but no other details were revealed. However, at an event in LA, Netflix's chief content officer Bela Bajaria said *Everybody's in LA* showed what a weekly live talk/variety show could look like on the service. "[It] was just so bold and original and fresh and then unpredictable," he said, "And I think it'll be really fun to get to do a live show with him."
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> The Righteous Gemstones' Walton Goggins (Fallout, Justified) posted a message and photo gallery to confirm he had wrapped filming Season 4.
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> In an interview with IndieWire, series writer and co-executive producer Mohamad El Masri teased time jumps and creator Dan Erickson's master plan for Emmy-winning Apple TV+ show. > “Severance” Season 2 will premiere January 17, 2025 on Apple TV+.
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> “I did not expect to have career renaissance in my mid-50s,” says Spin City, Scrubs and Cougar Town creator/co-creator Bill Lawrence, who has four series: Apple TV+’s Shrinking and Bad Monkey, an upcoming HBO comedy starring Steve Carell, as well as Jason Sudeikis’ Apple TV+ phenom Ted Lasso which has been plotting a Season 4 return. > > Add to that the long-rumored reboot of his NBC/ABC medical comedy Scrubs. In Part 1 of Deadline’s interview with Lawrence, he speaks about the Season 1 finale of Bad Monkey and teases a likely second season. Here, Lawrence addresses the status of the Scrubs revival and the prospect of more Ted Lasso as well his new series with Carell and its connection to Bad Monkey. > > The main obstacle for the Scrubs follow-up has been working out an agreement with Warner Bros TV, where Lawrence is under an exclusive overall deal, for him to be able to work on the reboot as Scrubs is produced by Disney’s 20th Television. > > “I think it’s getting really close to being figured out, and I think in a good way,” Lawrence said. “Big chunks of the creative team behind the camera, and most of it from in front of the camera, are all super invested and excited, so very close.” > > Lawrence envisions Scrubs 2.0 as a hybrid between a revival, revisiting original characters a decade and a half after the original series ended its run, and a reboot, revamping the concept with new characters.
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> In *The Most Wonderful Time of the Year*, Sideshow Bob teams up with the most infamous villains of Disney+ to share the true meaning for the Halloween season. Filled with music, mayhem, and madness, this short from The Simpsons is simply to die for.
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> *In the Shadow of the Cypress*, Iranian filmmakers Hossein Molayemi and Shirin Sohani’s animated short about a captain suffering from PTSD who lives with his daughter, wants to be a caring father, but struggles with a harsh life, has been named Best in Show. The win means the filmmakers and their film are now eligible for consideration at the upcoming Academy Awards. > Other winners include: > > * Diversity Award (Film) – *Hairy Legs* directed by Andrea Dorfman (Canada) > * Diversity Award (Organization) – Zombie Studio (Brazil) > * Jury Prize – *The Ones Who Never See the Moon* (France) from ECOLE MoPA students Solène Marché, Lou Thoby, Tom Saurel, Evelyne Philippart, Marie Fantini, Amélie Soto > * Director’s Prize –* Razor Ruckus* (Canada) directed by APPI > * Student Film – *Mum’s Spaghetti* (UK) directed by Lisa Kenney > * Music Video – *Hero* (Brazil) directed by Paulo Garcia > * Student Music Video – *Rabbits Have Red Eyes* (South Korea) from Kaywon University students Yoonsun Lee and Jiwon Choi > * GameVerse – Control - *Juno Hero Trailer* (USA) directed by Brian Horn
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>The series starred Mindy Kaling and was based on the beloved “Scooby-Doo” character. Season 2 of the show debuted back in April. The series served a prequel to “Scooby-Doo,” with Velma and the other members of Mystery Inc. as high school students solving mysteries in the town of Crystal Cove. >While there will not be a third season of “Velma,” a Halloween special debuted on Max on Oct. 3. > >“Velma” proved polarizing from the the outset, with the first season holding just a 38% critical approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes. In his review for Variety, Joshua Alston wrote “[These] characters are just really unpleasant to spend time with, and it starts at the top with Velma, whose selfish and misanthropic tendencies aren’t diluted by her moments of vulnerability.”
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>The comedian, who recently hosted *Saturday Night Live*, his second appearance in so many years, fronted two specials – *The Tennessee Kid* and *The Greatest Average American* – on Netflix in 2019 and 2021, respectively, before going to Prime Video for his *Hello World* special last year. > >He is now back at Netflix with *Your Friend, Nate Bargatze*, which will launch on December 24 and will then be followed by a second special in 2025 or beyond.
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> Netflix has decided not to return to Mount Olympus, canceling its series Kaos after a single season. > >The decision comes about six weeks after the dark comedy, based on Greek and Roman mythology and created by Charlie Covell (*The End of the F***ing World*), made its debut on the streamer. Kaos appeared in Netflix’s top 10 charts for English-language series in each of its first four weeks, topping out at No. 3 for the week of Sept. 2-8. It earned 14.9 million views (measured by total viewing time divided by running time) over those weeks, a middling number by the streamer’s standards. > >In the United States, the show had 3.34 million views as of Sept. 8, according to Nielsen’s streaming ratings (viewing totals for subsequent weeks aren’t yet available). > >*Kaos* puts Greek and Roman mythology in a present-day setting. The series stars Jeff Goldblum as Zeus, who has chained fellow god Prometheus (Stephen Dillane) to a cliff as punishment for interfering with Zeus’ rule. Prometheus then seeks to overthrow Zeus with the help of three humans, Eurydice (Aurora Perrineau), Ariadne (Leila Farzad) and Caeneus (Misia Butler). The cast also includes Janet McTeer, Cliff Curtis, David Thewlis, Rakie Ayola, Killian Scott, Nabhaan Rizwan, Debi Mazar, Mat Fraser, Stanley Townsend, Billie Piper and Suzy Eddie Izzard. > >In an [Instagram post](https://www.instagram.com/p/DA3cEtVv81k/?hl=en&img_index=1), Perrineau said of the cancellation that “this one hurts” but praised her castmates and the show’s creative team. “Everyone was brilliant and uniquely themselves. Every performance surprised and excited me,” she wrote. “I can’t believe I got to do this with all of you. We made something weird, dark, hilarious, deranged, and absolutely tragic — something entirely human.”
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>Shane Gillis claimed over the weekend that he was asked to play the former President of the United States for the entirety of Season 50 but turned it down. > >At Skankfest, a comedy festival in Las Vegas, it emerged that Gillis, who did spoof Trump when he hosted SNL last season, was asked by Lorne Michaels to do it again. > >"Nobody thought [Gillis] was coming to this festival this year," podcaster Luis J. Gomez said. > >"Explain why," Gillis replied. "Because he was offered to play Trump on the entire season of SNL and he turned it down to fucking be here, folks," Gomez added. Gillis said, "They said, 'Are you serious? You’re going to say no?' I said, 'Lorne, I've got to go to Coke Magic.'"
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> Netflix is not proceeding with more installments of *That '90s Show*, Deadline has learned. The news was confirmed on Instagram by star Kurtwood Smith who indicated that the comedy will be shopped. > > The cancellation comes a little over a month after Part 3 of the *That 70s Show* sequel was released Aug. 22. That translates to a two-season run as Netflix releases multi-cam comedies in Parts (aka half-seasons) after their initial run. > > The 10-episode first season of *That '90s Show* (aka Part 1), which featured appearances by several *That '70s Show* stars, including Topher Grace, Ashton Kutcher, Mila Kunis and Wilmer Valderrama, was followed by a Season 2 renewal for 16 episodes, split into two parts, Part 2 and 3.
> the sixth and final season of FX’s What We Do In The Shadows premieres 10.21 on FX
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> Reports first emerged last week that O'Brien was expected to visit the country in the coming days to film his Emmy-nominated travel show, *Conan O'Brien Must Go*. Part of that was said to include O'Brien participating in a world record *haka* attempt that had already been in the works in Auckland. > Writer/director/actor Taika Waititi joined O'Brien at the Kiwi celeb-filled event. > The world record attempt was a resounding success, with 6,531 people performing the ceremonial dance to beat the previous record of 4,028 participants held by France. > O'Brien’s Max travel series, *Conan O'Brien Must Go*, is currently in production on its six-episode second season.
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/20404230 > *Last June, fans of Comedy Central – the long-running channel behind beloved programmes such as The Daily Show and South Park – received an unwelcome surprise. Paramount Global, Comedy Central’s parent company, unceremoniously purged the vast repository of video content on the channel’s website, which dated back to the late 1990s.*
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cross-posted from: https://feddit.uk/post/18113853 > > Terry Gilliam has had such a hard time trying to fund his last few projects that he’s hinted about retirement. However, back in April, fansite Gilliam Dreams reported that the director was set to direct a new, maybe final, film, titled “The Carnival at the End of Days.” > > > >This past May, Gilliam claimed he had found funding for ‘Carnival.’ We already know that Johnny Depp will play Satan and that the rest of the cast would be composed of Jeff Bridges, Adam Driver and Jason Momoa. A January 2025 shoot was being eyed. (via Premiere) > > > >No surprise, five months later, Gilliam is now telling Czech media that he doesn’t have the sufficient funds to make ‘Carnival,’ and that he would have to creatively compromise his vision to make it happen (via Novinky). > > > >> I don't have all of the money for it right now. I would have to compromise some of my ideas. Which I don't want to. I’m angry with myself for not being able to do it. Which is not always a bad thing. When I get angry, some interesting ideas come out [..] Maybe I’ll start shooting it soon, albeit with a smaller budget. > > > > ... > > > > Here’s Gilliam describing the plot of ‘Carnival’: > > > >>This is a simple tale of God wiping out humanity for fucking up his beautiful garden Earth. There’s only one character who’s trying to save humanity and that’s Satan, because without humanity he’s lost his job and he’s an eternal character and so to live without a job is terrible. So he finds some young people and he tries to convince God that these young people are the new Adam and Eve. God still gets to wipe out humanity. It’s a comedy. > > > > The last time Gilliam directed a feature was 2018’s “The Man Who Killed Don Quixote,” a film he was trying to make for more than two decades. It came and went without much excitement, although I thought it was his, de facto, best film since the late ‘90s. The lack of commercial success on ‘Don Quixote’ is essentially the reason why Gilliam can’t find funding for his next projects. His films of the last 25 years have been both critical and commercial misfires.
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>The 6th & Idaho movie scripted by Matthew Aldrich is being made by a new animation studio out of New Orleans named Swaybox and that studio’s husband-and-wife creators Arthur Mintz and Theresa Andersson. Mintz will direct this movie, which follows the early days of Dick Grayson and Jason Todd aka the Robins. > > Note the storyline here isn’t connected to Matt Reeves’ *Batman* and *The Penguin* canon. > >Swaybox uses a technology known as “Momo animation,” which is a cross between CGI animation, practical elements of stop-motion, and live-action real-time performance. The result is long-form storytelling billed as visually breathtaking, dynamically expressive and more human.
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> Jim Gaffigan joined Maya Rudolph in the season premiere cold open as the affable Minnesota Governor and Harris’ running mate, while Andy Samberg appeared as the Second Gentleman. Also, Dana Carvey debuted his Joe Biden impression on “SNL.” > > “SNL” cast member James Austin Johnson returned as Donald Trump, and Bowen Yang stepped in as his running mate, JD Vance.
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> Cast members for “Black Mirror” Season 7 have been revealed during Netflix‘s Geeked Week. > >Awkwafina, Peter Capaldi, Emma Corrin, Patsy Ferran, Paul Giamatti, Lewis Gribben, Osy Ikhile, Rashida Jones, Siena Kelly, Rosy McEwen, Chris O’Dowd, Issa Rae, Paul G. Raymond, Tracee Ellis Ross and Harriet Walter are joining the sci-fi anthology series. > >Cristin Milioti, Billy Magnussen, Jimmy Simpson, Milanka Brooks and Osy Ikhile will also return for a follow-up to the Season 4 episode “USS Callister.” Season 7 will consist of six episodes and air on Netflix sometime in 2025.