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Stranger Things has become a cultural touchstone of the Netflix era.  Appealing to nostalgia of growing up in the 80s with a modern science fiction sensibility, the series has quickly penetrated the social consciousness. For Halloween The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon generally goes all out on guests and costumes.  Last night, they had Stranger Things […]

It was earlier this year when we’d reported on Lionsgate’s having secured the film, television, stage, and video game rights to the award-winning fantasy series, The Kingkiller Chronicle, by Patrick Rothfuss. Added to that the excitement that the executive producer will be none other than Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda, we’ve been anxiously awaiting any new […]

Even before it’s arrived in North America by way of HBO, Strike, the BBC series based on author J.K. Rowling’s series of books following the adventures of private investigator Cormoran Strike has been given the go-ahead for a third series. HBO has signed on for the North American broadcast sometime later in 2017, however the […]

During a Quantum Leap reunion Q&A panel at the Los Angeles Comic Con, series creator Donald Bellisario revealed that he has completed a script for a rebooted feature film. It’s hardly anything particularly new, because there’s been toying around about a feature length film ever since the early 2000s, when the news arm for the […]

Disney’s hit tween series Andi Mack returned with its second season opener and dropped a historic first for the House of the Mouse: a live-action teen’s coming-out storyline. While the signs had been there looking back on the series first season, with the character of Cyrus, played by Joshua Rush, having been teasing at a […]

It’s been a year to the day since David S. Pumpkins first appeared on Saturday Night Live and became truly his own thing.  The “Haunted Elevator” skit was written by Bobby Moynihan, Mikey Day, and Streeter Seidell for inclusion during s42e4 of the NBC series which Tom Hanks hosted. The sketch has since become a fan favorite for […]