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“Titans” continues to dump out its DC Comics toy chest, adding Red Hood, Dr. Jonathan Crane, and Barbara Gordon for its upcoming third season, which will be set primarily in Gotham City.

The casting announcements were revealed Saturday as part of DC Fandome.

Curran Walters, who plays Jason Todd (aka the second Robin after Dick Grayson) will don the new Red Hood identity on the coming season. In the comics Todd was killed by the Joker during the infamous “A Death in the Family” arc, only to be brought back from the dead by Batman arch nemesis Ra’s al Ghul. Warped and embittered by the experience, he takes the name and general aesthetic from one of Batman’s earliest villains, Red Hood — who as it happens was the original criminal identity used by the man who would later call himself Joker — and becomes a ruthless, often deadly vigilante.

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When Hulu announced The Great Season 2 had been ordered, it came as a welcome surprise. The period drama/comedy series was initially billed as a limited series, but throughout production it quickly became clear they had something special that was worth revisiting. Indeed, Elle Fanning and Nicholas Hoult deliver astoundingly good performances as Catherine the Great and her impulsive and power-mad husband Peter, respectively, as the first season chronicles their marriage and Catherine’s decision to stage a coup. The show is a tonal balancing act, weaving from drama to comedy to romance sometimes all within the same …

“Penny Dreadful: City of Angels” has been canceled at Showtime. The final episode of the show’s first and only season aired on June 28.

“Showtime has decided not to move forward with another season of ‘Penny Dreadful: City of Angels,'” Showtime said in a statement. “We would like to thank executive producers John Logan, Michael Aguilar and the entire cast and crew for their outstanding work on this project.”

A successor to Showtime’s “Penny Dreadful,” “City of Angels” was set in 1938 Los Angeles and starred Nathan Lane, Natalie Dormer, Daniel Zovatto, Kerry Bishé, Rory Kinnear, Adriana Barraza, Michael Gladis, Jessica Garza, Johnathan Nieves. Recurring guest stars included Lorenza Izzo, Adam Rodriguez, Amy Madigan, Brent Spiner, Lin Shaye, Thomas Kretschmann, Dominic Sherwood, and Ethan Peck.

“City of Angels” received decent reviews upon its release, with Season 1 holding a 75% critical approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Variety’s Daniel D’Addario wrote at the time,

During The Batman director Matt Reeves’ appearance during the DC FanDome event, and with a keen eye on corporate synergy, he discussed the upcoming Gotham P.D. live-action series that will debut on HBO Max (timing for that one is Tbd but we can safely bet it will be alongside The Batman’s theatrical launch next fall). Up until now the only thing we knew about the show was that it would be overseen by Reeves and Terrence Winter, who created Boardwalk Empire for HBO and wrote the script for Martin Scorsese’s The Wolf of Wall Street. Tonight, …

A French-Canadian remake of the hit cop comedy “Brooklyn Nine-Nine,” titled “Escouade 99” and transplanted to Quebec, has left people baffled. And that includes one of the original stars of the ongoing police procedural sitcom, once at Fox and now living at NBC. Melissa Fumero, who plays rule-abiding sergeant Amy Santiago, took to Twitter to blast the remake’s apparently whitewashed casting, with a non-Latina actress playing the Cuban-American star’s role. Another role, Fumero noted, also went to a non-Latina actress originally played by Stephanie Beatriz. In the new version, which just released a trailer, the characters are now dubbed as Fanny, portrayed by actress Mylène Mackay, and Rosalie, played by Bianca Gervais.

“This is like peeking through another dimension,” Fumero tweeted this week. “Gotta say though after watching this…I’m suddenly curious about the Latina population in Quebec. Just sayin’.”

Fumero continued to tweet her reactions to the new show.

HBO Max’s companion series to The Batman will in fact be a “Year One” prequel to the highly anticipated costumed crimefighter drama from director Matt Reeves.

When announced in July, the smaller-screen offshoot was said to “build upon the motion picture’s examination of the anatomy of corruption in Gotham City, ultimately launching a new Batman universe across multiple platforms. The series provides an unprecedented opportunity to extend the world established in the movie and further explore the myriad of compelling and complex characters of Gotham.” Boardwalk Empire creator Terence Winter will pen the script.

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For the first time in the show’s history, MTV is expanding access to this year’s VMAs by offering viewers broadcast access on The CW.

The CW is the latest addition to the live show’s growing list of simulcasts, which now amasses 12 total ViacomCBS brands. In addition, the annual awards show will produce a 90-minute VMAs pre-show, though that red carpet action will be exclusive to MTV.

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Davina Potratz wants “Selling Sunset” viewers to know that she’s happy.

The German real estate agent has been deemed by fans the villain of Netflix’s docusoap, but she doesn’t blame the producers. “If you don’t show me smiling or being warm and fuzzy, then it looks like all I am is the 10% where I had a bad moment,” she says in a recent Zoom interview with Variety.

Potratz knows the show needs drama, but she won’t let that define her. Instead of getting bogged down in the onslaught of online hate, Potratz simply blocks, deletes,

As we enter the final full week of August, it's time to reflect and think about how far we've come this year -- no, wait, we're exactly where we were in March. Ok, so it's a time to watch even more TV while trying not to melt in the excessive heat. Luckily, this week is offering up some truly

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Seven-and-a-half years after Fringe‘s end, Jasika Nicole has shared that as “a black woman with a name that white people seem to find incredibly difficult to pronounce,” she found the running joke about Astrid’s name to be “pretty tasteless.”

As fans of the acclaimed Fox sci-fi series know, John Noble’s Dr. Walter Bishop had great trouble getting right the name of FBI agent/lab assistant Astrid Farnsworth, addressing her as “Astro,” “Asterisk” “Asgard” and the like. But while Walter’s slip-ups were accounted for by the storyline and obviously had no malice behind them, Nicole says the

Freeform’s four-part limited series Love in the Time of Corona kicked off on Saturday night with a scene that might cause some traumatic flashbacks: It’s a few weeks into the pandemic, and Sade (The Affair‘s Nicolette Robinson) is preparing her husband James (Smash‘s Leslie Odom Jr.) to go for a grocery run. He’s covered in head-to-toe protective gear, while she reminds him to avoid crowded aisles, stay six feet away from other people, wipe his credit cards, not touch his face, etc. And off to battle get food he goes! It’s a moment that,

During the DC FanDome virtual event, women of color in the DC universe gathered to discuss their experiences in their roles and why representation is so important and impactful in today’s world.

Moderated by Estelle and D-Nice, the panel consisted of Meagan Good, Darla in “Shazam!”; Candice Patton, Iris West-Allen in “The Flash;” Nafessa Williams, Thunder in “Black Lightning;” Chantal Thuy, Grace Choi in “Black Lightning;” Anna Diop, Starfire on “Titans;” Damaris Lewis, Blackfire on “Titans;” Tala Ashe, Zari Tarazi from “DC’s Legends of Tomorrow” and Javicia Leslie, who was recently announced as the titular character in the second season of “Batwoman.

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The Flash Season 6 got thrown for a loop when production shut down due to the outbreak of Covid-19, but the show is pushing full steam ahead for Season 7! In fact, some of the banked content that didn't get to air in Season 6 has already been adapted into a Season 7 trailer, which you can check out

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The first trailer for The Flash Season 7 has arrived, and it's full of even more Mirrorverse drama! The trailer debuted during a sneak peek at The Flash's DC FanDome panel, where the cast previewed the new season and how old Season 6 footage would be incorporated.

In the trailer, Iris (Candice Patton

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The Titans in Season 3 will be saying farewell to San Francisco and hello to Gotham — and meeting some familiar characters along the way.

During the live-action superhero series’ (virtual) panel at DC FanDome on Saturday, it was revealed that “circumstances draw our heroes to Gotham City” in Season 3, “where they will reunite with old friends and face new threats.”

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Zack Snyder fans finally got their wish during DC's digital FanDome event: They got a glimpse at the infamous "Snyder Cut" of the 2017 movie Justice League, by way of a brand new trailer.

The Snyder Cut trailer, which leaked online earlier in the day, displays several scenes that weren't in the

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The Flash‘s Season 7 trailer reveals that Barry’s imminent power outage has come at a very bad time, while Iris’ entrapment inside the mirror realm may cost her her mind.

Revealed at DC FanDome on Saturday, the two-minute sizzle reel showed Iris being haunted inside the mirror realm by a doppelganger of sorts which described itself as “a product of your broken mind.”

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Kenya Barris and Janet Mock were among the special honorees at Saturday’s 2020 Aafca TV Honors ceremony, which celebrated the best in entertainment on the small screen. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, the African American Film Critics Association’s second annual celebration was held virtually, with stars like Sterling K. Brown, Viola Davis, John Legend and Mindy Kaling accepting their awards from home.

Barris picked up the Icon Award, presented by his “#Black-af” co-star Rashida Jones, joking, “It’s something I never thought that I would be in the position to get…so many thoughts and questions come to my mind,

DC fans still have to wait until 2021 for the highly anticipated Zack Snyder cut of Justice League to arrive on HBO Max, but their appetites will surely be whetted by the movie’s dark and moody first trailer.

Released Saturday following the extended director’s cut’s DC FanDome panel, the trailer (embedded above) offers loads of titillating details to soak in. Set to Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah,” we catch first glimpses at Superman’s black Recovery Suit, along with scenes featuring Darkseid (Almost Famous‘ Ray Porter), a villain left out of the theatrical release entirely. Porter’s character will

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