Television

Thought I should start a thread for this as this is anticipated to be significantly different from 2017 Theatrical version (aka, "Josstic League"). "Zack Snyder's Justice League, commonly referred to as the "Snyder Cut", is the upcoming director's cut of the 2017 American superhero film Justice League. It presents Justice League—the fifth film of the DC Extended Universe (DCEU) and based on the DC Comics superhero team of the same name—as director Zack Snyder had intended it before he left the production. Like the theatrical release, Zack Snyder's Justice League follows the Justice League: Batman (Ben Affleck), Superman (Henry Cavill), Wonder Woman (Gal Gadot)…

The Queen's Gambit Release Date: 23 October 2020 (US) The Queen's Gambit is a 2020 American coming-of-age period drama miniseries based on Walter Tevis's 1983 novel of the same name. It was created for Netflix by Scott Frank and Allan Scott. Beginning in the mid-1950s and proceeding into the 1960s, the story follows the life of an orphaned chess prodigy on her rise to the top of the chess world while struggling with emotional problems, drug problems, and alcohol dependency. Cast Anya Taylor-Joy Bill Camp Moses Ingram Isla Johnston Christiane Seidel Rebecca Root Chloe Pirrie Akemnji Ndifornyen Marielle Heller…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raised_by_Wolves_(American_TV_series) Raised by Wolves is an American science fiction drama television series created by Aaron Guzikowski that premiered on HBO Max on September 3, 2020.[1] The first two episodes were directed by Ridley Scott, who also serves as a producer for the show.[2] Raised by Wolves centers around "two androids — Father and Mother — tasked with raising human children on Kepler-22b after the Earth was destroyed by a great war. As the burgeoning colony of humans threatens to be torn apart by religious differences, the androids learn that controlling the beliefs of humans is a treacherous and diffic…

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (DS9) is an American science fiction television series created by Rick Berman and Michael Piller. It originally aired from January 1993 to June 1999, in syndication, spanning 176 episodes over seven seasons. The fourth series in the Star Trek franchise, it served as the third sequel to Star Trek: The Original Series. Set in the 24th century, when Earth is part of a United Federation of Planets, it is based on the eponymous space station Deep Space Nine, located adjacent to a wormhole connecting Federation territory to the Gamma Quadrant on the far side of the Milky Way galaxy.

Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness (titled onscreen as simply Tiger King) is a 2020 American true crime documentary miniseries about the life of zookeeper Joe Exotic.It was released on Netflix on March 20, 2020. The series received good reviews from critics and was watched by 34.3 million people over its first ten days of release, ranking as one of Netflix's most successful releases to date.

The Orville is a science fiction comedy-drama television series created by and starring Seth MacFarlane. The Orville is set on the titular USS Orville, a mid-level exploratory space vessel in the Planetary Union, a 25th-century interstellar alliance of Earth and many other planets. Inspired by several science-fiction sources, but mainly the original Star Trek as well as its Next Generation successor, both of which it parodies and homages, the show follows the crew of the starship USS Orville on their episodic adventures. Cast: - Seth MacFarlane: Captain Ed Mercer - Adrianne Palicki: Commander Kelly Grayson - Penny Johnson Jerald: Dr Claire …

The Mandalorian (aka a Star Wars: The Mandalorian) is an American space Western web television series that premiered on November 12, 2019. Set in the Star Wars universe, the series takes place five years after the events of Return of the Jedi and follows a Mandalorian bounty hunter beyond the reaches of the New Republic. Jon Favreau serves as creator, head writer, and showrunner, as well as executive producer. The show stars Pedro Pascal in the title role.

Is anyone watching this? I have to say that my expectations going in were limited because I'm not Damon Lindelof's biggest fan. Surprisingly this has been a very good TV show, continuing to build upon the universe originally created by Alan Moore and somehow expanding and even improving upon it. The sixth episode was especially great, perhaps the best hour of TV I have seen all year long.

My favorite tween tv show! Starring: Philippa Coulthard as Amber Mitchell, Lucy Fry as Zoey, and Jessica Green as Kiki.

Screencaps from the second season of "The Catch". The show aired on the ABC Network and was produced by Shonda Rhimes (Shondaland). STARRING: Mirrielle Enos, Peter Krause, Sonya Walger, and Philippa Coulthard as Tessa Riley. Philippa Coulthard as Tessa Riley in "The Catch": https://youtu.be/dazTkzx4s2Y

Maigret is a British television series from ITV set in mid 1950s France. Its first episode aired on 28 March 2016, and the second on Christmas Day 2016. A second series (also of two episodes) aired in 2017. It is an adaptation of the books by Georges Simenon featuring his fictional French detective Jules Maigret, who is played by Rowan Atkinson.

"An anime music video (AMV) is a fan-made music video consisting of clips from one or more Japanese animated shows or movies set to an audio track, often songs or promotional trailer audio. The term is generally specific to Japanese anime, however, it can occasionally include other animation footage or video game footage" Here is a place to share your favorite AMVs!

So, Disney finally announced the details of its own streaming service last month and four new MCU shows have since been confirmed, with some of the more popular fringe characters who don't, and probably won't, have their own standalone movies to return in greatly expanded roles. WandaVision The official (and quite appalling) title for the Scarlet Witch/Vision series. Joining the cast is Teyonah Parris as Monica Rambeau, who last appeared as a kid in the 90s-set bits of Captain Marvel. In the books, she's also the hero Spectrum. Falcon and The Winter Soldier Sebastian Stan and Anthony Mackie to return and team up, with Daniel Bruhl t…

FX’s “What We Do in the Shadows,“ a small screen continuation of the world established by Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement in the same-named 2014 horror-comedy, is set to premiere on March 27, and the network has this week unleashed two brand new pieces of poster art that show off the show’s vamps with a fun blacklight effect. Set in Staten Island, FX’s “What We Do in the Shadows” series follows three vampires who have been roommates for hundreds and hundreds of years. "Much like the movie, the series follows three vampires who live together: Laszlo (Matt Berry), Nadja (Natasia Demetriou), and Nandor (Kayvan Novak) — the former two are husband and w…

LOL, they actually made a series on this ultraviolent, X-rated comic!

I figured it would obviously be appropriate for this show to have a thread here....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_Is_America%3F Who Is America? is an American political satire television series created by Sacha Baron Cohen that premiered on July 15, 2018, on Showtime.

Marco Polo is an American drama web television series inspired by Marco Polo's early years in the court of Kublai Khan, the Khagan of the Mongol Empire and the founder of the Yuan dynasty (1271–1368). The show premiered on Netflix on December 12, 2014. The series was written and created by John Fusco and stars Lorenzo Richelmy in the title role with Benedict Wong as Kublai Khan. On January 7, 2015, Marco Polo was renewed by Netflix for a 10-episode second season, which premiered on July 1, 2016. On December 12, 2016, Netflix announced they had canceled Marco Polo after two seasons (but the first two seasons are great anyway).

Psycho-Pass ( サイコパス) is a Japanese cyberpunk anime television series, co-directed by Naoyoshi Shiotani and Katsuyuki Motohiro and written by Gen Urobuchi, with character designs by Akira Amano featuring music by Yugo Kanno. The story takes place in an authoritarian future dystopia, where omnipresent public sensors continuously scan the mental states of every passing citizen. Collected data on both present mentality and aggregated personality data is used to gauge the probability of that citizen committing a crime, the rating referred to as that citizen's Psycho-Pass. Authorities are alerted whenever excessive ratings are detected, and officers of the Public Sa…

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The Expanse is an American science fiction television series on Syfy, developed by Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby, based on the series of novels by Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck (writing under the pseudonym James S. A. Corey). Set in a future where humanity has colonized the Solar System, it follows United Nations executive Chrisjen Avasarala, police detective Josephus Miller, and ship's officer Jim Holden and his crew as they unravel a global conspiracy. The series premiered in 2015 on Syfy. Synopsis Two hundred years in the future, in a fully colonized Solar System, police detective Josephus Miller, born on Ceres in the asteroid belt, is assigned to fi…

Altered Carbon is an American science fiction television series created by Laeta Kalogridis and based on the 2002 novel of the same title by English author Richard K. Morgan. It premiered on Netflix on February 2, 2018. The series takes place over 350 years in the future, in the year 2384. In the future, a person's memories have been decanted into "cortical stacks", storage devices of alien design which have been reverse engineered, duplicated en masse, and surgically inserted into the vertebrae at the back of the neck. Physical bodies, called "sleeves", are disposable vessels that can accept any "stack". Takeshi Kovacs, a political opera…

Single mother Mary Harris (Caroline Dhavernas) is an ER doctor by day, but by night she and her partner, a former plastic surgeon, moonlight as underground angels of death who help terminally ill patients slip away on their own terms. Season 1 cast promos

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RuPaul's Drag Race RuPaul's Drag Race is an American reality competition television series produced by World of Wonder for Logo TV and, beginning with the ninth season, VH1. The show documents RuPaul in the search for "America's next drag superstar." RuPaul plays the role of host, mentor, and head judge for this series, as contestants are given different challenges each week. RuPaul's Drag Race employs a panel of judges, including RuPaul, Michelle Visage, Ross Mathews, Carson Kressley, and a host of other guest judges, who critique contestants' progress throughout the competition. The title of the show is a play on drag queen and drag racing, and t…