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When Netflix announced it was making a sitcom about Blockbuster employees, the irony was lost on absolutely no one.

The Vanessa Ramos-created workplace sitcom was about the last Blockbuster video store in America, and Netflix was the primary reason that most of those stores shuttered. Netflix’s original business model of sending DVDs through the mail was a major obstacle for the iconic video store chain, but its eventual pivot to streaming proved to be an insurmountable death blow to Blockbuster.

To many, the sitcom was a declaration of victory, one corporation asserting its dominance by dancing on the grave of a competitor. But when the show began streaming in November, it never broke through as the nostalgia-invoking cultural phenomenon that its champions expected it to be. So Netflix decided to end “Blockbuster” for the second time.

Sources have confirmed to IndieWire that Netflix opted not to renew “Blockbuster” for a second season.

Jessica Chastain wasn’t going to play anyone’s pawn onscreen.

The Oscar winner transformed into “Stand By Your Man” crooner Tammy Wynette for Showtime series “George & Tammy” opposite Michael Shannon as George Jones. Chastain, who also produces the series through her Freckle Films banner, revealed that she objected to dialogue in the first episode of the series.

During the scene in question, Shannon as George tells Tammy’s soon-to-be-ex-husband Don (Pat Healy) that he is going to sleep with Tammy and hire the husband an escort.

“I read it and I was deeply disturbed,” Chastain told Marie Claire. “[Tammy] was just kind of sitting there. People were creating stuff so she could be caught rather than her making decisions.”

The prostitute subplot was removed, and co-star Shannon agreed that the dialogue needed to be changed.

“[Michael] changed the line from, ‘Yes, I’m going to fuck her’ — excuse the language — to,

The “Yellowstone” prequel series “1923” at Paramount+ has cast Joseph Mawle, Variety has learned exclusively.

Mawle joins a stacked cast that includes Helen Mirren, Harrison Ford, Robert Patrick, Jennifer Ehle, Jerome Flynn, James Badge Dale, Sebastian Roché, Darren Mann, Michelle Randolph, Marley Shelton, Brian Geraghty, and Aminah Nieves.

Like “1883” before it, “1923” tells the story of a previous generation of the Dutton family as they work to establish the ranching empire featured in “Yellowstone.” Mawle will star as Captain Shipley, described as “the captain of a British cargo ship, who has seen a lot during his years at sea.”

Mawle is

Meghan and Harry’s long-awaited docuseries, “Harry & Meghan,” threw plenty of punches – mostly aimed at the Royal Family with the British media (specifically sister papers the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday) next in the firing line.

So far, the royals have not responded publicly, declining to release any kind of official statement. But “Palace sources” did brief the U.K.’s royal reporters after Volume I (comprised of the first three episodes of the series) aired last week. The sources claimed Harry’s dad, King Charles, and brother, Prince William, hadn’t been contacted for comment, contrary to the

The Museum of the Moving Image and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation announced 2022 award recipients from the Sloan Film Program on Friday. A pilot script titled “Until Then We Keep Breathing” by UCLA student Samantha Sewell and a feature script called “Woodside” by Florida State University student Gerard Shaka were among the projects recognized.

“While the four honored scripts (two winners and two honorable mentions) deal with a broad range of settings, genres, and scientific and technological themes — from cystic fibrosis and congenital disability to climate change and permafrost, from marine conservation and mangrove systems to IVF and reproductive medicine

Netflix is getting out of the “Be Kind, Rewind” business.

The streamer has cancelled the workplace comedy Blockbuster after one season, TVLine has learned. The news comes just six weeks after the release of Season 1, which dropped in its entirety on Nov. 3.

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Randall Park (Fresh Off the Boat) and Melissa Fumero (Brooklyn Nine-Nine) starred in the single-camera sitcom that explored “what it takes — and,

The comedy series “Blockbuster” has been canceled after just one season at Netflix.

The 10-episode series launched its one and only season on November 3. The show was a single-camera workplace comedy about the employees of the last Blockbuster Video in the world.

The series starred Randall Park, Melissa Fumero, Olga Merediz, Tyler Alvarez, Madeleine Arthur, Jb Smoove, Kamaia Fairburn, Leonard Robinson, and Keegan Connor Tracy. Vanessa Ramos created the series and served as executive producer. David Caspe and Jackie Clarke also served as writers and executive producers. John Davis and John Fox executive produced via Davis Entertainment. Universal Television was the studio.

Homelander can come home with you for the holidays, thanks to Vought International’s Nft trading cards for the superhero that parodies a certain someone’s 2024 presidential campaign.

The Prime Video series “The Boys” took to Twitter to spoof Donald Trump’s viral digital trading cards that imagined the former president as a superhero, an astronaut, an Old West sheriff, and other costumed characters.

“Huge announcement: Official Homelander digital collectible cards have arrived!” the Vought International Twitter page posted. “Celebrate our greatest hero’s life and crimefighting career by owning an authentic and non-fungible Jpeg of him. Buy now for 777 VoughtCoin while you still can!”

The image shows Anthony Starr as Homelander in a similar pose to Trump, with the Vought corporate headquarters building in the background.

While Trump shared in a video that the 99 digital products were like baseball cards, the nonfungible tokens (NFTs) are digital files that do have an incentive trading approach,

Editor’s note: This article includes mild spoilers for “Adult Swim Yule Log.”

All due respect to James Cameron and his underwater actors in “Avatar: The Way of Water,” but you can’t beat the filmmaking gamble of Casper Kelly’s “Adult Swim Yule Log.” Adult Swim’s first feature-length live action endeavor dropped without warning December 11 after the season finale of “Ricky and Morty”: A cozy two-minute yule log video morphs into a disturbing home invasion horror movie that becomes a supernatural cabin-in-the-woods thriller with a young couple (Justin Miles and Andrea Laing) who may be at the mercy of a haunted fireplace.

And then things get really weird, with everything from time travel to UFOs figuring into an unclassifiable odyssey. “My dream has been making movies,” Kelly told IndieWire over Zoom this week. “I thought now that I’ve got one, I’m going to put in everything I can.

We’ve got questions, and you’ve (maybe) got answers! With another week of TV gone by, we’re lobbing queries left and right about lotsa shows including Fire Country, The White Lotus, The Cleaning Lady, FBI and Ghosts!

1 | Catching up on The Rookie…. Can we get a moratorium on those episodes filmed almost exclusively from the point of view of body/car/doorbell cams? Also, did you just know that Lucy would end up using the “turn in your playbook” line?

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It’s a big week for Dame Helen Mirren. Not only is “1923,” her upcoming Paramount+ series debuting on Sunday, but she is also the narrator in the “Barbie” trailer that just dropped and plays the therapist in Kendrick Lamar’s “Count Me Out” video — two things she can’t help but laugh at during our interview.

“I do love to mix it up,” she told Variety on Friday morning. “I love to do whatever is quite different from the last thing I’ve done, and I’m very, very fortunate that I’m sort of being allowed to do that.

Taylor Sheridan, the creator of “Yellowstone” and tireless workhorse of Paramount+, has already proven himself a prolific writer with a fully articulated vision of the stories he wants to tell. He’s built an impressive slate of dramas populated with cowboys, cobras and compromised cops, including three “Yellowstone” spin-offs. Sheridan could probably continue with his aggressive expansion with Paramount’s blessing. Instead, Sheridan has shrewdly chosen quality over quantity.

“1883,” the first prequel to branch off of “Yellowstone,” was initially presented as an open-ended series that would follow the earliest days of the powerful Dutton family as they led a wagon train westward.

If you ask almost anyone in WWE what the company’s most important event of the year is, the answer isn’t necessarily WrestleMania. It’s Tribute to the Troops, a patriotic holiday tradition that sees a special card of matchups, and pays homage to the United States Armed Forces and their families. Braun Strowman is proud to be among the WWE superstars participating during the 20th anniversary along with superstars including Sheamus, Imperium, SmackDown Women’s champ Ronda Rousey, and more. It’s especially meaningful for “The Monster of All Monsters” as the imposing figure returned to WWE a few months ago after his surprising release in June 2021. Since then the big Carolina boy got himself in top shape, ready if or when the call came from his former employer. Ahead of the 2022 Troops, Strowman opens up about his comeback. What have the last few months been like for

As we catch up with Brandi Carlile in a phone call, she is able to talk at some leisure because she’s traveling by train, headed from Washington, D.C., where the night before she sang in honor of U2 and Amy Grant at the Kennedy Center Honors, to New York City, where she’s just about to perform with Marcus Mumford and Jon Batiste for a War Child benefit. From that show, she will be heading right into rehearsals for her second “Saturday Night Live” appearance of the year. This whirlwind east coast actually started a few days earlier up in NYC,

Laura Molen, a senior ad-sales executive at NBCUniversal who was often viewed as a potential successor to the company’s chairman of advertising and partnerships, Linda Yaccarino, will leave the company early next year.

“These past few years have been full of enormous changes for all of us, both personally and professionally,” said Molen, a president in NBCU’s ad-sales division, in a statement to staffers. “While I love NBCUniversal and this team, it is time for me to re-prioritize my focus, have more family time and fully explore my numerous passions. I’m particularly interested in utilizing my expertise

What are your best movies of 2022? If you’re a movie geek like I am, then you’ve probably seen a handful of movies this year, some regrettable and the others spectacular. Welcome to the grand jury where together we crown the best movies of 2022, the ones that have been at the center of pop-culture conversations.

2022 saw the theaters back to full capacity after a long year of stiff regulations and restrictions to crowding due to the coronavirus pandemic. The return to the cinema seems to unleash the best in film producers and creators. They simply went all guns blazing with several headline-grabbing films. Perhaps, a testament that while the cinemas were on break, the producers must have been creating and dreaming for when the cinema doors opened again.

Read on for our ranking of the best movies of 2022 as collated across several platforms. This roundup features the best of

Life on Wisteria Lane is nothing compared to what two former Desperate Housewives stars are about to experience on Fantasy Island.

Teri Hatcher and James Denton guest-star in the third episode (Jan. 16, 8/7c) of the Fox reboot’s upcoming sophomore season, and TVLine has an exclusive first look at the dangers awaiting them upon their arrival.

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Viewers can party along with celebrities like Miley Cyrus and Ryan Seacrest throughout the night on Dec. 31 with a diverse slate of live television programming set to ring in the new year. Networks such as NBC, CBS and ABC are scheduled to air festive TV specials in celebration of the holiday.

Below is a rundown of what programming to watch leading up to the ball drop, with updates to come throughout the month.

NBC’s “Miley’s New Year’s Eve Party”

“Miley’s New Year’s Eve Party” debuted on NBC last year to solid viewership. Similar to last year’s event,

When Jimmy Fallon’s popular late-night segment-turned-spinoff “That’s My Jam” launches on the BBC on Saturday, British comedian Mo Gilligan will be at the helm, making his debut in a major primetime slot.

Gilligan and Fallon have a lot in common: Both have reinvigorated late-night TV on their respective sides of the pond. With catchy segments like “History of Rap” and “Lip Sync Battle,” Fallon brought a musical flavor to late night long before James Corden’s “Carpool Karaoke” ever pulled up. Meanwhile, Gilligan, host of Channel 4’s “The Lateish Show” and “The Big Narstie Show,” shepherded a new wave of British late-night programming.

The new year is upon us and Amazon Prime Video is kicking things off in grand fashion. Not only are they debuting the third season of their Tom Clancy adaptation “Jack Ryan,” they’re also debuting the final season of the ambitious, Al Pacino-starring actioner “Hunters.”

Initially debuting to the service in February of 2020, right as the pandemic started, the series’ first season follows a ragtag group of Nazi hunters in 1977 New York City. The so-called Hunters discover that hundreds of high-ranking Nazi officials are living in the United States and are conspiring to create a Fourth Reich in America. The Nazi hunters, led by Pacino, will embark on a bloody quest to bring the Nazis to justice and thwart their genocidal plans. The series concluded in 2020 and has taken some time to get back to screens. Unfortunately, this second season will be a finale as well so fans