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A connection, in fact, you’d be mad not to advertise. Zig-zagging political thriller Bodyguard was a gargantuan hit, and here in the UK, Line of Duty is more popular than sunshine. (The arrival of a new series featuring AC-12 prompts the nation to a similarly giddy high, but instead of men walking around without tops on and women taking photos of their legs in the park, we all start calling each other ‘Fella’ and harbouring suspicions about the probity of Sandra in Accounts....

Doctor Who has a rich tradition of supporting BBC charities – including a 1999 Comic Relief special penned by none other than Steven Moffat – and there have been six further Doctor Who specials for Children in Need in the three decades since ‘The Five Doctors’. They range from the sublime – aka ‘Time Crash’ in 2007… …to the ridiculous. And we mean really, brilliantly ridiculous: It’s partly because it was actually supposed to be a 30th anniversary celebration of Doctor Who, so the somewhat rushed feel and bizarre choice to set it in EastEnders’ Albert Square was a bit off-putting, especially considering they’d convinced five original Doctors to take part (from Pertwee to McCoy), as well as much-loved companions Mel, Ace and Sarah Jane Smith....

The first step was actually completing post-production on “A Certain Doom,” the season’s originally planned finale, an action-packed final battle between the heroes and the Whisperers that also featured lots of walkers. The crew was still tinkering with the episode when the lockdown began, which meant AMC couldn’t realistically air it last April. “A Certain Doom” finally hit in October on what would’ve been the traditional start date for a new season of the show....

Brooklyn Nine-Nine Season 8 Episodes 1 and 2 It would an understatement the size of Terry’s pecs to say that the world has changed a lot since Brooklyn Nine-Nine’s last episode. Besides a historic pandemic that has changed the way we operate at work and in public, America also reckoned with egregious examples of police brutality that found many discussing police reform, systemic racism, and even abolishing policing as we know it altogether....

That Benedict Cumberbatch superhero movie is being directed by Sam Raimi, marking the filmmaker’s first superhero picture since Spider-Man 3 and his first collaboration with Marvel Studios, period. So the movie invariably came up during our conversation with Campbell about The Evil Dead and it’s 40th anniversary. But when we ask the actor whether he’d be interested in doing cameos in superhero movies again now that Raimi’s back in the game, Campbell pauses for a half-second before saying, “We’ll have to wait and see, won’t we?...

“CANDYMAN, at the intersection of white violence and black pain, is about unwilling martyrs,” DaCosta wrote. “The people they were, the symbols we turn them into, the monsters we are told they must have been.” It’s an apt analysis of the Candyman story, and when presented in shadow puppet vignette, it’s downright haunting. In the video, we see in a way far more explicit than Bernard Rose’s original ’92 movie that there is a clear straight line to be drawn between the origin story of Candyman and the day-to-day violence we see against Black bodies in the U....

Castle Rock Season 2 Episode 10 Was that the ending you expected? While there was a sense that the show always knew where it ultimately had to go, the journey Annie Wilkes takes throughout the season is nothing short of breathtaking. Lizzy Caplan turns in her best performance to date as the nurse, mother, and daughter who’s just trying to survive the “filth” of the world and shield her daughter from it....

Speaking of Thomas Harris, as with NBC show Hannibal, Clarice has some pretty strict boundaries when it comes to its copyright, as the rights of the fictional world are divided between MGM and Dino De Laurentiis Company. While Hannibal did not have rights to the character of Clarice Starling, Clarice does not have rights to Hannibal Lecter and therefore is not allowed to even mention the character by name. “I’m still trying to understand how the rights are divided,” Kurtzman told EW....

Why aren’t there more Asians in Cobra Kai? Since Cobra Kai first premiered on YouTube, The Los Angeles Times, Vanity Fair, and other publications have called out the series for its lack of Asianness. The series also scored poorly on UCLA’s 2020 Hollywood Diversity Report. Miguel (Xolo Maridueña) and Carmen (Vanessa Rubio) are the only non-white main characters. This was exacerbated when the recently-released season 3 excluded Aisha (Nichole Brown), a major character of color who was a fan favorite....

Dinner parties are rubbish, they’re just dinner with added pressure. Why add pressure to dinner? It’s probably the best meal of the day. Come Dine With Me dinner parties on the other hand, are amazing. Intrigue! Underhand tactics! People riffling through strangers’ bedroom drawers! They’ve got it all. For those who don’t know, Channel 4’s Come Dine With Me entails people from the same area each putting on a dinner party on consecutive nights in the hope of winning £1000....

Counterpart Season 1 Take the multiverse of Fringe and add the political intrigue of The Americans (with a sprinkle of Charlie Jade for those who know it), and that’ll provide some idea of what Starz’ new sci-fi thriller, Counterpart, is all about. The show pits spy versus spy in a cold war between parallel Earths where everyone has a double in the other world, and the ways in which the differences between existences can be exploited are numerous and underhanded in the extreme....

The movie will follow up 2018’s Creed II, in which Adonis Creed (Michael B. Jordan) faced off in the ring against Viktor Drago (Florian Monteanu) — son of the man who killed his father, Ivan Drago (Dolph Lundgren) — while also becoming a family man and continuing to come to terms with the legacy of his dad, Apollo Creed. Not nearly as fresh and urgent as 2015’s original Creed, the second movie was still received warmly enough by audiences and critics to make a third entry possible....

When his new film, Crimes of the Future, was announced, it already signaled to diehard Cronenberg fans that a possible return to those ideas was afoot: after all, this was also the title of his second feature film, which he made back in 1970 as a student at the University of Toronto. In that film he set, somewhat crudely given his resources, the template for a good-sized portion of his work to come....

If you follow gaming at all, you’re probably familiar with class action lawsuits and how they’re typically filed by groups of fans/consumers who are disappointed with a particular product. Nintendo, for example, has been battling class action lawsuits related to the Joy-Con’s “drifting” issues for quite some time now. So while these kinds of lawsuits are fairly common in the gaming industry, there are a couple of aspects of the lawsuits filed against CD Projekt Red over Cyberpunk 2077 that make them comparatively unique and have left many analysts wondering how CD Projekt Red will manage them....

Meet the Kendricks: Tom and Kate, a GP and a primary school teacher with three young girls living in an idyllic Scottish village. Good jobs, nice house, lovely kids. They’re best friends with the Campbells, Steve and Jess, a police officer and a teaching assistant with two boys from his first marriage, now trying for their own baby. Together, they all drink wine and swap recipes and watch their children play....

While it’s understandable that you may be wary of another remake of a classic Blizzard game after Warcraft 3: Reforged, everything that we’ve seen of Diablo 2: Resurrected so far suggests that this will indeed be the Diablo 2 update that fans have been begging for. In fact, there’s a chance that the quality of this remaster may put the Diablo 4 team on their toes. If you want to get in on one of our most anticipated PC games of 2021 a bit early, then here’s what you need to know about the Diablo 2: Resurrected technical alpha:...

Despite being available for mobile devices and despite embracing some MMOARPG ideas seen in games like Lost Ark, Diablo Immortal is still a Diablo game in many of the ways that matter most. That means that you’ll start the game by picking which of the game’s six classes you want to play as, and it also means that your choice of character class will end up impacting the rest of your experience in several ways....

In an open letter posted by (and added to by) the Science Fiction Writers of America, the writer, who is living with an advanced form of cancer, says that Disney has not paid royalties for the Star Wars books, which are still in print, and that they haven’t even issued a royalty statement for the Alien novels. He also said that Disney refuses to negotiate with him unless he signs a non-disclosure agreement prior to negotiations....

Entitled Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, the project was touted as the MCU’s first horror movie, which seemed about right because Derrickson had originally come into the fold with a background in genre filmmaking. He’d already helmed the likes of Sinister and The Exorcism of Emily Rose, so he could likely balance the craft of unsettling audiences whilst maintaining a firm grasp on the Master of the Mystic Arts’ ongoing evolution....

When Karvanista told the Doctor in ‘The Halloween Apocalypse’ to stop asking about the Division because it wasn’t a question he could answer, what if he meant that literally? Heard for the first time, it sounded as though the Lupari soldier was citing some kind of intergalactic omertà/non-disclosure agreement about his time with the Division, but what if he really can’t answer the Doctor’s question? What if the Doctor wasn’t the only Division agent whose memories were wiped?...