Tag: Television
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‘Only Murders in the Building’ Heading to ABC
Only Murders in the Building, the hit Hulu show starring Steve Martin, Martin Short, and Selena Gomez, is headed to ABC this winter. The comedy series will be coming to ABC starting in January. It will be aired in two-hour blocks on Tuesday nights. This will start on January 2, 2024. For three weeks, it…
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Star Wars Movies Heading to Disney-Owned Linear Television Stations
The Star Wars movies are heading to Disney-owned linear television stations. Starting on October 7th, Star Wars movies will begin to be broadcast on ABC, FX family of networks, and Freeform. Things will kick off with a marathon on FX on October 7th. The arrival of the Star Wars movies on Disney-owned stations come after…
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Disney CEO Bob Iger Shares More Details About New Disney Streaming Service Including Potential Name and Price
Disney CEO Bob Iger has shared more about the Disney streaming service. Set to arrive in 2019, details have been trickling out about this effort to compete with Netflix. Iger said that competing with Netflix and other streaming services is Disney’s “biggest priority” in 2019. “We have the luxury of programming this product with programs…
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Disney Media Networks Earn a Combined 39 Emmy Nominations
The nominations for the 2018 Primetime Emmy Awards were announced yesterday on July 12th. The result was a healthy 39 Emmy nominations for media networks owned by the Walt Disney Company. 31 one of these nominations were given to ABC. Disney XD and Disney Channel were given five additional nominations. This led to a total of…
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Marvel Comics News Digest Featuring Fresh Start Spider-Man, Captain America and Thor
This week contains more previews of Fresh Start Marvel beginnings including Captain Marvel and Amazing Spider-Man. More info on the wedding event of Kitty Pryde and Colossus. Also a Marvel Television panel schedule for WonderCon, which will be later on this month. We will be covering the annual comic convention, so be sure to follow…
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Disney TV Apps Become DisneyNOW
Disney is changing how TV is watched on its app platforms. Up until recently, multiple apps were needed to watch the different Disney channels. One app for the Disney Channel, Disney XD, Radio Disney, and another for Disney Junior. Now, these can all be watched on the DisneyNOW app. Rather than log in individually for…
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Freeform Orders Full Season of Marvel’s New Warriors with Squirrel Girl
New Warriors has had several iterations of comics in Marvel Comics. Much of them have been about super heroes that are trying to make their way in the world, and this world has the likes of the Avengers in it. Many times they’ve been costumed heroes with great power, but not much responsibility. Marvel Television…
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The Power Rangers Disney Connection – DAPs From the Past
There is a new Power Rangers movie that is premiering in theaters this weekend. It’s not a Disney produced movie, BUT there is a Power Rangers Disney connection from the past. Disney actually owned the Power Rangers franchise from 2001 to 2010. It was part of a deal that got Fox Family to become ABC…
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Marvel and ABC Announce Inhumans TV Series
Marvel and ABC are producing an Inhumans television series that will first premier in IMAX in theaters. At one point, an Inhumans film was set to be in the lineup of phase 3 of the cinematic universe. It was taken out of the lineup, and this may have been why. “Marvel’s The Inhumans” will have…
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Runaways To Be New Marvel Series on Hulu
Marvel has just announced a new television series to be developed for Hulu of the comic Runaways. What is Runaways? It’s a story about a group of kids that have one thing in common: their parents are super villains. The group came together because once a year their parents perform a deadly ritual. When they…
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Disney Buys Stake In MLB’s BAMTech Streaming Service – So What Now?
Disney, as of August 9, owns a minority stake in the MLB (that’s the official baseball company if you weren’t sure about the acronym) owned streaming service called BAMTech. The 33% is priced at $1 billion and comes with an option to become a majority stakeholder in the future. Disney says they will team with…
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The Muppets S1E6: The Ex Factor – Mr. DAPs’ Review
One of the worst things that can happen after a breakup is when your ex crosses paths with your new beau. This is exactly what happens in the first moments of this week’s episode of The Muppets. That’s right, Denise is back…. and it is her birthday. This episode also features Kristin Chenoweth who sings…
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The Muppets S1Ep2: Hostile Makeover – Mr. DAPs’ Review
Kermit and the gang are back for the second episode of The Muppets. This episode had a lot more of the feel one would come to expect with the Muppets, moved the overall story along a bit more, and had some extra side stories going on that were quite enjoyable. Episode Description In an attempt to…
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Magic of Muppets Panel – D23 Expo
The Muppets took the stage in one of the first 2015 D23 Expo panels. The presentation opened with the sizzle reel from the upcoming show. Steve Whitmire, Dave Goelz, Eric Jacobson, Matt Vogel, and Bill Barretta were on stage to answer questions and talk about the new show. They pointed out how much being a…
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Kermit & The Muppets Gets Greenlit by ABC For TV Reboot
MUPPET NEWS FLASH: It may not be easy being green, but today it is good to be green. The Muppets are making their way back to where it all began: TV. ABC has officially given the green light for a new Muppet television show. This show will be more adult and in the form of…
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Christopher Lloyd and More Coming to Phoenix Comicon 2015
With Phoenix Comicon 2015 just under two months away, more and more guests are being added to the line up! Here’s a recap of recently announced media guests attending the Convention. Christopher Lloyd Christopher Lloyd is best known for playing Doc Emmett Brown in the Back to the Future trilogy, Uncle Fester in The Addams…
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Marvel Projects Casting – Dr. Strange and Jessica Jones
Two roles were given out to an actor and actress today regarding some upcoming Marvel projects. The first confirmed is Dr. Strange will be played by Benedict Cumberbatch. This has been rumored for a little while now, and also surrounded with some dispute. But, I think Cumberbatch will bring a sophistication to the role that…
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New Great Movie Ride Coming From Disney/TCM Partnership
A refresh for an opening day Disney’s Hollywood Studios attraction was announced. The Great Movie Ride has been entertaining guests since the 1989 opening of the park. This attraction has featured great moments from movie history. The attraction was the biggest partnership between Disney and MGM Studios, who was originally brought in to help anchor…
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Gotham Recap- 'Penguin's Umbrella'
Greetings Gothamites! Welcome to this week’s Gotham Recap. Once again real life has made me quite tardy but here we are. This week’s episode was great and heavily featured Robin Lord Taylor, who plays Oswald Cobblepot, the Penguin. So without even more delay, let’s get started. Oh and yes there are spoilers! The Episode This…
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Gotham Recap- 'The Spirit of the Goat'
Greetings Gothamites! Thanks for joining me for this week’s Gotham Recap. Real life took hold this week so I apologize for the delay. This week we are talking about Gotham’s spookiest episode to date, The Spirit of the Goat. So without even more delay, let’s get started. Oh yes and as usual, there are spoilers!…
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Netflix's Daredevil Update
Out of the New York Comic Con has come many interesting news items. One Marvel bit of news is more about the upcoming Netflix series of Daredevil. A lot was revealed to show what this series is taking shape around. Daredevil isn’t the hero we’ve seen in many comic book movies. It’s a great take…
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Walt Disney Biopic Coming to PBS Fall 2015
A new biopic about legendary Walt Disney is to air on PBS in the fall of 2015. This four hour, two night special looks at the life of Disney along with his accomplishments. According to Variety, archival footage and interviews will be used in this project. Producer Sarah Colt will be working on this film,…
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Arrow/The Flash and the Justice League?
Recently, DC Comics has declared that the television and movie universes will not crossover at all. But, there’s still some epic things happening in the television universe. Though movies will not have any crossover, television series can. Arrow has already spun-off The Flash and it will continue to function connectedly. There’s already episodes planned for…
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Marvel Announcement on The View
MARVEL ANNOUNCES AN ALL-NEW THUNDERING TITLE ON “THE VIEW”! New York, NY – July 14th, 2014 – Marvel is excited to announce that on Tuesday, July 15th, at 11AM EST, it will be announcing its latest explosive title live on the Emmy-Winning, daily talk show “The View”. “The View,” a live, one-hour daily talk show from ABC…