Season 2 of Disney Plus’ Percy Jackson and the Olympians got its first look on Thursday at San Diego Comic-Con, revealing what Percy will get up to in the new live-action adaptation of The Sea of Monsters, the second book in Rick Riordan’s Greek mythical fantasy. Percy Jackson and the Olympians season 2 will pick up one year after the events of season 1 — based on The Lightning Thief...
Ahead of the fourth season even airing, The Legend of Vox Machina from Critical Role, Amazon MGM, and Titmouse has been renewed for season 5. What may be somewhat of a downer for fans of Vox Machina to hear is that it will also be the final season, concluding the adventures of this ragtag group that has captured the hearts of viewers even before it was first adapted into an...
A core part of the successful formula that drives Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is the choice to alternate between heavy science fiction drama and zany romance. But the start of season 3 leans into a frontier the optimistic franchise has often avoided: horror. The season premiere continues the season 2 cliffhanger finale, focusing on the threat of the monstrous, parasitic Gorn. Episode 3, “Shuttle to Kenfori,” which premieres on...
Critical Role, the multiplatform and multimedia entertainment phenomenon made up of talented actors across the entertainment industry, has announced at San Diego Comic-Con the release date of their newest upcoming Prime Video show, The Mighty Nein. News of the date of the premiere was revealed during Critical Role’s SDCC panel, where eager fans got a glimpse of some clips from the series featuring fan-favorite characters, as well as images of...
Netflix’s The Sandman stays fairly faithful to Neil Gaiman’s comic book series, though showrunner Allan Heinberg changed some of the source material in order to make protagonist Dream of the Endless (Tom Sturridge) more likeable, and to cut down on side plots. In the second half of the second and final season, which launched on July 24, cost-cutting considerations led to a new teamup that turned into a surprising romance....
The first trailer for Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 is making some solid promises to fans: more animatronic horror and more Josh Hutcherson. And just like Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 (the video game), Freddy’s mask becomes an important part of survival. Picking up where the first Five Nights at Freddy’s movie left off, FNAF 2 follows 11-year-old Abby (Piper Rubio), coming to terms with losing her “friends” in Freddy...
For a second there, it looked like South Park may never return. But now the show is back and waging its most direct assault on a public figure since Saddam Hussein was hooking up with Satan. Just a few weeks ago, creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone said season 27 was poised to premiere, but that incoming leadership at Paramount was jerking them around in anticipation of an acquisition deal...
Our Flag Means Death creator David Jenkins has been tapped to write the pilot for HBO Max’s upcoming Booster Gold TV series as part of James Gunn’s new DCU. If the pilot proves successful, Jenkins is set to serve as the showrunner of the superhero series, Deadline reported Wednesday. Jenkins issued a public statement about the new gig on his Instagram on Wednesday, saying, “It’s true y’all! I’m writing a...
Despite season 2 of Wednesday not yet airing on our screens, Netflix is confident enough in the series to have already given it the green light for a third season. Revealed via X, there have been no real hints on what we can expect from the third season (after all, the second is out in only a few days), but for any Wednesday-head (Wed-head, is that a thing?) out there,...
The WNBA’s been having a good year. Ratings are up, more people are attending games than ever before, and merch is flying off the shelves. Expansion is on the horizon with new teams joining the roster, and the league just signed a $2.2 billion media rights deal. Casual onlookers might be tempted to attribute this explosive success to the “Caitlin Clark effect;” the natural outcome of a sport gaining a generational...