Futurama Fry celebrating

Futurama lives! A further revival is announced by Hulu

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 … >

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Y: The Last Man – hopes of a second series dashed

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 … >

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Y: The Last Man fails to get a second series (updated)

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 … >

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Huluween

Huluween — Hulu pulls out all the stops for Halloween

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 … >

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Andrew Garfield

Under the Banner of Heaven: Andrew Garfield and Daisy Edgar-Jones cast

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 … >

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Disney+ tops the chart with Falcon and the Winter Soldier s1 ep2 A New Captain America

Disney+ tops the Nielsens as Hulu comes in at #10 and more new entrants

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, … >

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