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27 Oct

Jon Stewart Returns to Television with Apple TV+ Series

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Long before “fake news” was a rhetorical cudgel for the President to beat his perceived media enemies with, it was a term of endearment for a new breed of satirical news program. As first popularized by Comedy Central’s The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, news/comedy hybrids first had their moment in the early 2000s and then just never really went away. Now, after a lengthy hiatus, one of the genre’s godfathers is finally coming back to television. Today Apple TV+ announced that it has inked a multi-year partnership with Jon Stewart to produce content, including a current affairs series a…
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22 Oct

Tim Burton Finally Gets to Tackle The Addams Family… for Television

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Tim Burton meets The Addams Family is the kind of union of artist and material that appears obvious. Inevitable, even. Yet despite The Addams Family, which has been a brand since the 1930s, seeing a resurgence in the early ‘90s, around the time Burton was reaching his artistic and pop culture peak with projects like Edward Scissorhands (1990) and The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993), the filmmaker and material have never actually come together… until now. As per Deadline, Burton and MGM TV, which owns the movie and television rights to the characters, are shopping around a live-action television reboot of…
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08 Oct

How Helstrom Became One of Marvel Television’s Last Shows Standing

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Hell hasn’t quite frozen over on the Vancouver set of Marvel’s Helstrom but it’s close. A chill can be felt even inside the fabricated walls of St. Teresa’s Church as Tom Austen, who plays the titular Daimon Helstrom, sits down to talk with the press. It’s February and the show is months from its release date but Austen is already wearing the classic “Marvel leading man undercover” look, with a logo-less black hat atop his head. He’s prepared to discuss many aspects of Marvel’s first horror series, chief among them: just how much fun it is to set things on…
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17 Aug

Mr. Soul! Trailer Evokes the Feel and Sounds of Revolutionary Television

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llis Haizlip was never one to miss a beat, and Mr. Soul! is right on time. Innovative, political, and openly gay before Stonewall, Haizlip was America’s first Black nighttime talk show host. Before Oprah and Arsenio, his show aired live on public television from 1968 to ‘73, during the Civil Rights and Black Power movements.  Black Lives Matter is now louder than ever, speaking volumes on racism in a meaningful manner. But in the days before cell phone journalism, Haizlip’s weekly television show promised “the revolution would be televised.” That revolution was SOUL!. Directed, written and produced by Melissa Haizlip,…
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