Some great contributor pieces today and a lot of news on my end, so this is a loaded day! A lot of reading material for the weekend. I’m very behind on a lot of things here and really need an assistant! I’ll be working all weekend here and more…
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Orson Scott Card’s Canceled Sci-Fi Series Extinct Cracks Prime Video’s Top 10, Novel Follow-Up Announced
Orson Scott Card’s post-apocalyptic series Extinct has landed in the top ten on Prime Video, nearly nine years after BYUtv killed it after one season, and Card used the moment to announce a new novel set in the same world.
Roblox’s Senate Investigation Follows a Year of Lawsuits, State Settlements, and an FTC Complaint
Senators Josh Hawley and Dick Durbin opened a Senate Judiciary Subcommittee investigation into Roblox on August 12, sending a letter to founder and CEO David Baszucki that gave the company until August 31 to preserve records and turn over documents tied to child safety on the platform. Their letter cited a specific figure: Roblox reported 65,381 instanc…
Doctor Who Writer Mark Gatiss Says the BBC’s Tender Will ‘Quietly’ Fail Like It Did in 1989
Mark Gatiss has spent three decades inside Doctor Who from every possible angle. He wrote nine episodes of the modern series, appeared on screen five times, and wrote An Adventure in Space and Time, the BBC’s own dramatization of the show’s 1963 creation. Before any of that, he was a working actor and comedy writer with The League of Gentlemen, the sketch troupe he built alongside Steve Pemberton, Reece Shearsmith, and Jeremy Dyson. In 2010 he co-created Sherlock with Steven Moffat and played Mycroft Holmes across its run. Few people alive have a longer relationship with this franchise.
Amazon Accidentally Streams Jason Statham’s Mutiny Days Before Its Theatrical Debut
Jason Statham’s new action thriller Mutiny showed up free on Prime Video this week, days before Lionsgate ever intended anyone to see it. Deadline reports Amazon mistakenly posted the full film to the movie’s Prime Video product page, the spot normally reserved for trailers. Subscribers who clicked in watched the entire 95-minute film before the error g…
Lanterns Outpaced Agatha All Along’s Viewership in Less Than Half the Time
Lanterns pulled 9.3 million global viewers in its first three days on HBO and HBO Max, according to Warner Bros. Discovery. Marvel’s Agatha All Along posted the same 9.3 million figure on Disney+, but that number covered seven days, not three.
What Is Woke In Star Trek & Today’s Film & Television?
Star Trek: The quintessential American science fiction franchise! It was also THE pole bearer for human exceptionalism. What was, at first, a silly, goofy, far-flung …
Sweet Baby Inc. CEO Kim Belair Gave Us the Progressive Playbook, And Almost Everyone Missed It
Kim Belair, CEO of Sweet Baby Inc., gave the entire postmodern playbook away in 2019 and most people quietly ignored it. At a GDC panel that year she observed that the project of training people not to see color had not succeeded. What it produced, she said, were token characters. People who had been instructed to notice race and sex in a certain way we…