A Fresh Prince reboot? According to multiple sources, Smith’s production shingle, Overbrook Entertainment, is in the very early stages of developing a present-day family comedy that puts a new spin on the fish-out-of-water tale while maintaining the spirit of Fresh Prince. – TV Line Okay. I am fine with a new show that is inspired by Fresh…
Sesame Street Will Soon be Brought to You by the Letters H, B, and O
Last week, I woke up singing “Imagine That,” by Ernie. The other day, it was “The Ladybug’s Picnic.” Cookie Monster songs are always a favourite and I will never forget my aunt, who is deathly afraid of airplane flight, talking about how drinking brandy and singing “Me Lost Me Cookie at the Disco” got her…
CW Resurrects John Constantine for Cross-network Crossover Episode
Constantine lives! Kind of. Mark Pedowitz of the CW announced that Matt Ryan would be reprising Constantine for one episode on his network—but the real question is will he be sticking around? NBC hyped (potentially overhyped) Constantine, but after accusations of straightwashing the beloved bisexual icon garnered national news attention, NBC appeared to have second thoughts…
Mighty Marvel Monday: What’s Next?
This week feels strangely anti-climatic to me. Or maybe it’s just that I’m still processing Fantastic Four, and mourning the movie we could have had. In case you haven’t heard, the reviews say that Fantastic Four is unforgivably bad, and while it’s far from a perfect movie, I think those reviews are unduly harsh, and…
Becoming a Sports Fan: My Trip to the Women’s World Cup
I’m tearing up at a Nike commercial. There are girls in the commercial, from middle to high school, all wearing soccer uniforms. It cuts from team to team, with the US Women’s National Team’s training interspersed. The US Team just won the World Cup, the third time for the nation and the first for this…
#CastingShadow: American Gods is Finally Making It to TV
On Tuesday, June 16th, Starz retweeted from a new Starz affiliated account— linking to a Deadline Hollywood article announcing that at long last, a live-action adaptation of American Gods had found its way out of development hell, still with Hannibal‘s Bryan Fuller at the helm. The American Gods Twitter followed it up with a tweet encouraging fans…
No Whitewashing Here: Lewis & Clark Mini’s Sacagawea Played By Native Actress
We’ve written A LOT about whitewashing in our media here on the site but this time, it won’t be another post about the erasure of people of colour. HBO is creating a Lewis and Clark miniseries and have cast Tanaya Beatty from the Da’naxda’xw First Nation in Canada to play Sacagawea (a Shoshone native woman). That’s already fantastic…
Mighty Marvel Monday
Another Monday, another Mighty Marvel Monday. This past week, Marvel did good, demonstrating once again that while the MCU is still disproportionately white and male, Marvel Comic and their animated universes are giving audiences what we want: more of us. Marvel made several big announcements this past week. The biggest is probably this: On Friday,…
Gods Among Us: The Wicked and the Divine is Being Adapted for Television
Back in February, Matt Fraction (Sex Criminals, ODY-C) and Kelly Sue DeConnick (Pretty Deadly, Bitch Planet) announced that their production company, Milkfed Criminal Masterminds, had signed a two year deal with Universal TV to adapt some of their favourite comic books for the small screen. Sex Criminals, Fraction’s Eisner Award- and Harvey Award-winning comic, which…
#DiversifyAgentCarter: More Than a Hashtag
With a second season of Agent Carter announced earlier this week, the internet was filled with joy, but also with hope for the coming season. One of those hopes was crystallized on Twitter under the hashtag #DiversifyAgentCarter. The hashtag was created by Mikki Kendall, @karnythia, when she tweeted: It didn’t take long before the tag…
The DC Daily Planet: What’s On TV?
Lots to unpack today, crusaders, so let’s get right to it: Renewals, cancellations, new orders — ’tis the season to finally know for sure what we’ll be getting for television next year, and while I’m sure we’ll all excited to know that there will be another season of Peggy Carter punching people in the face…
Good News Everyone! Agent Carter Gets a Second Season
Well ladies and gents, in the midst of all this Marvel hate stirred up by Joss Whedon and Age of Ultron, we have hope for this monstrosity of a franchise yet. That’s right, folks: whether due to the power of #RenewAgentCarter, or simply the magnificence that is Hayley Atwell, Agent Carter has been renewed for…
