Last year, I came away impressed with Lifetime's dark new drama series UnREAL - far more than I ever expected to be going into a show that centered around the backstage drama of a fictional reality dating show called Everlasting. The debut season was searing and satisfying, but it took depth and finesse - both of which UnREAL has in spades - to eventually become what the opening hours teased; to become what I hoped it would after viewing the first three episodes: something truly special.
Slasher enthusiasts were presented with two episodic genre offerings last year, but they probably didn’t exactly get what they were looking for from either. Fox’s gaudy, exhausting Scream Queens had the glitz and glam of a Ryan Murphy production, but it boasted little of the dreadful fear needed to reign in the astronomical campiness radiated by its opening title sequence alone.
In the newest addition to the "chillogy" of five films (just go with it), Ice Age: Collision Course finds Manny (Ray Romano), Sid (John Leguizamo), Diego (Denis Leary) and the gang of various prehistoric creatures, all running from an apocalyptic chain of asteroids bringing the end of the Ice Age with it.
Here's an interesting, out-of-nowhere bit of news: now that a few members of the press have seen the upcoming comedy Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping, new information is slowly starting to trickle out about the film. One scene in particular is sticking in memory, and it surrounds a full-frontal male nudity sequence.
Homeland fans not content with last season's white light cliffhanger - and desperate for more information immediately - should be happy with what showrunner Alex Gansa has to say about badass assassin Quinn, and his fate on the show.
As with most child stars, Nick Jonas is making a bold move into mature territory, this time starring in the erotic thriller Careful What You Wish For. A new trailer for the film launched today, centering around Jonas' character encountering a world of pleasure and danger on a summer vacation.
Another Stephen King adaptation is on the way, this time for the hardboiled detective thriller Mr. Mercedes, which pits a too-old-for-this detective against a maniacal killer who runs people over with a Mercedes (naturally). Originally announced last year, Mr. Mercedes has now been picked up by AT&T's Audience Network (home of boxing drama Kingdom) and has gotten a ten episode straight-to-series order.
HBO has announced its slate of upcoming fall TV shows, which excitingly includes the oft-delayed sci-fi theme park series Westworld, based on Michael Crichton's 1973 film of the same name. Earlier in 2016, HBO halted production of the series, confusing viewers as to when exactly they would be able to see it air. There's no specific date nailed down for it just yet, but at least we know it's coming at some point in 2016.
The truth can set you free. Unless you're an hour-long dramatic series centered around a mystery with potentially supernatural and/or science fictional aspects hiding in the wings. If that's the case, the truth can ruin you. Last year, Fox debuted Wayward Pines, a new series based on a series of mysterious books centering around a perpetually perturbed Secret Service agent and the indescribably weird town he wakes up in following a car accident, and it all worked - for five episodes.
It's a bad day to be a freshman comedy series on Fox, as the network confirmed that four of its new sitcoms - including The Grinder, Grandfathered, Bordertown, and Cooper Barrett's Guide to Surviving Life - won't be seeing a season two. The former two shows debuted in the fall, while Bordertown and Cooper Barrett were lower-profile midseason entries.
