While The Orville: New Horizons launches in June, Seth MacFarlane’s attentions may be elsewhere… Thanks to a piece in Deadline last week, we find ourselves considering whether the long-awaited third run of The Orville will be its last. Debuting in 2017 the Seth MacFarlane-fronted show won fans by presenting a very 1990s style of science … >
The original cast member has closed a deal to voice Futurama’s popular cigar-chomping robot. Last month, the US streamer confirmed their plans to once again revive Matt Groening’s enduring sci-fi comedy animation Futurama. The show follows a slacker named Fry who is accidentally cryogenically frozen and wakes in the 31st Century. However, there was one … >
The enduringly popular animation is coming back for another encore. After months of negotiations, the US streamer Hulu have ordered a new season of twenty Futurama episodes. The animated sci-fi comedy, from The Simpson‘s Matt Groening and David X. Cohen, follows the story of Fry – a slacker who accidentally becomes cryogenically frozen and is … >
Showrunner Eliza Clark tells fans “it doesn’t look like it’s going to happen” Ever since the news last October that Y: The Last Man is not getting a second series with FX and Hulu, fingers have been crossed. Unfortunately, it appears that attempts to find the show a home at another network have been in … >
Destin Daniel Cretton has signed an ongoing deal with Marvel & Hulu’s Onyx Collective. Via a news exclusive from Deadline, we’ve learned that the Shang-Chi and Legend of Ten Rings director Destin Daniel Cretton has signed an exclusive multi-year overall deal with the the House of Mouse. As well as announcing the deal, Disney has … >
The gun toting comic book assassin comes to television on 17th November. As the trailer shows, Hit-Monkey tells the story of a Japanese snow monkey who is on a quest for revenge, joined by the wise-cracking ghost of an American assassin. It is based on the original comic book series created by writer Daniel Way and … >
FX and Hulu drop the show, but its showrunner is looking for a new home. Y: The Last Man‘s showrunner, Eliza Clark, has announced that FX and Hulu will “not be moving forward” with a second series of the show. Despite the first run still airing, it appears the network have already decided a recommission … >
It’s Halloween season, and this year Hulu is holding Huluween Hulu deserves credit for the merging of its name with the season, but even more credit for what it’s done in terms of content. First off you can go to the Huluween section of its website. Yes, it’s a marketing hook to some promotional material for various … >
Andrew Garfield and Daisy Edgar-Jones are to lead the cast of Under the Banner of Heaven, according to NME. Based on Jon Krakauer’s non-fiction bestseller, the story about the LDS fundamentalist movement follows a devout detective whose faith is tested as he investigates a brutal murder, seemingly connected to an esteemed Utah family’s spiral into … >
It’s success for The Falcon and the Winter Soldier as Disney+ tops this week’s Nielsens As we suggested last week, Disney+ tops this week’s Nielsens (US streamed viewing figures of certain services) and we expect some celebration later. There’s plenty of churn, several new entries, and even a Hulu show coming into range. As ever we’ve processed the Nielsen data, … >