Avatarninakat674 days agoTop Producer of ‘60 Minutes’ Quits, Citing a Loss of Independenceverified_publisherThe New York Times - By Michael M. Grynbaum and Benjamin MullinThe news program has faced mounting pressure from both President Trump and its corporate ownership at Paramount, the parent company of CBS News. CBS News entered a new period of turmoil on Tuesday after the executive producer of “60 Minutes,” Bill Owens, said he would resign from the long-running …
Avatarninakat675 days agoThe Department Q first look marries Cold Case with Sherlockverified_publisherThe A.V. Club - Mary Kate CarrIt’s about damn time Matthew Goode clocked in for his shift as an irascible Sherlock Holmes-esque detective. The actor (A Discovery Of Witches, Downton Abbey) is teaming up with Scott Frank, writer-director of The Queen’s Gambit, for a new take on the ol’ “brilliant but cantankerous detective” …
Avatarninakat67Apr 19Ryan Coogler’s Next Project? A “Really Scary” Reboot of ‘The X-Files’bloody-disgusting.com - John SquiresOriginally reported a couple years back, Sinners director Ryan Coogler has confirmed in a new interview this week that his next project will bring “The …
Avatarninakat675 days ago‘The Last of Us’ Didn’t Soften the Blowverified_publisherThe Atlantic - By Shirley LiThe show went too far in the wrong direction with its most shocking moment. This article contains spoilers through the second episode of The Last of Us Season 2. Players of the game on which HBO’s postapocalyptic drama The Last of Us is based knew it was coming—“it” being the death of the show’s …
Avatarninakat67Apr 20‘Black Mirror’ Showed Us a Future. Some of It Is Here Now.verified_publisherThe New York Times - By Maya SalamThe long-running tech drama always felt as if it took place in a dystopian near future. How much of that future has come to pass? Since “Black Mirror” debuted in 2011, the dystopian sci-fi anthology series has taken seeds of nascent technology and expanded them to absurd and disturbing …
Avatarninakat67Apr 17How Black Mirror learned to stop worrying about the future and cope with the presentverified_publisherThe A.V. Club - Leila LatifWhen Black Mirror debuted back in 2011 on Channel 4, the premise of its first episode, “The National Anthem,” was simple: Social media creates a firestorm around the kidnapping of a British princess, and her captor blackmails the prime minister into having sex with a pig to secure her release. That …