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CBS Renews 18 Series Including NCIS & FBI Franchises, The Unicorn And More

According to Deadline, CBS has renewed 18 additional series for the network’s 2020-2021 season including All Rise, Blue Bloods, Bull, FBI, FBI: Most Wanted, MacGyver, Magnum P.I., NCIS, NCIS: Los Angeles, NCIS: New Orleans, Seal Team, S.W.A.T., and comedies Bob Abishola, The Neighborhood, and The Unicorn, as well as news programs 60 Minutes and 48 Hours and the reality series Undercover Boss.

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The 18 pickups join the previously renewed CBS series Evil, Mom, Young Sheldon, Survivor, and The Amazing Race, totaling 23 renewals for the network.

Four series were also canceled, including midseason sitcom Broke, Patricia Heaton’s Carol’s Second Act, Edie Falco’s Tommy, and Matt LeBlanc’s Man with a Plan, and other CBS veteran shows are ending this season including Hawaii Five-0, Madam Secretary, Criminal Minds, and God Friended Me. The network also recently announced that they had pulled the plug on David E. Kelley’s The Lincoln Lawyer series adaptation.

CBS also announced that they will be unveiling new series in the coming weeks. The network will be presenting on May 19 during a two-day virtual upfront for advertisers.

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“Thanks to these exceptional shows, we’re going to win the current season by 1 million viewers,” said Kelly Kahl, President of CBS Entertainment. “Next year, we’ll have these strong returning series as our foundation…and Super Bowl LV too. It’s a well-balanced lineup across Entertainment, News and Sports that will put us in an incredibly stable position for 2020-2021.”

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According to insiders, Disney is planning to reboot the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise with a female lead.

I’ll be honest, I completely forgot that there was a Clerks: The Animated Series in the early 2000s! Well, Kevin Smith has been going back to his roots recently with Clerks 3 and his Mallrats sequel, and the filmmaker recently revealed that he’s also been looking at trying to revive the Clerks animated series!

The original series only lasted for six episodes on ABC before it was canceled, but Smith still sees the potential in it. Consequence of Sound is releasing an oral history of Clerks: The Animated Series in honor of the show’s 20th anniversary, and during the development of that, they learned Smith wanted to bring the show back, but one of the big issues that he’s come across is who owned the right to the property. That’s the thing that has always held him back. Smith explained:

“Figuring out who owns the fucking thing has honestly been the biggest struggle of the last decade. Because we didn’t know who owned it. It was a Miramax television product, and Miramax television doesn’t exist, and Miramax certainly doesn’t exist the way it did back then. It was a Disney thing, but it’s never shown up anywhere on any fucking Disney outlet. You’re certainly not going to see it on Disney Plus or something like that. So, for years, we were trying to figure out who owns that version of the Clerks cartoon.”

Well, it turns out that Disney still owns the rights to the show and Smith’s longtime producing partner Scott Mosier, who recently directed the Illumination Entertainment adaptation of The Grinch, thinks that there might be the possibility to get the reboot set up at Hulu:

“Scott’s point was like, ‘Right now, they’re trying to figure out how to put a bunch of people on the T.V. set or the movie set post-quarantine. How to work together and still socially distance. But the one thing you could do right now, and you’re doing today, I guarantee you, is that everybody could still make animation. Maybe we walk into Hulu and say, ‘Look, this is the story. Here we did these six episodes. Disney owns them. You guys aren’t doing anything with them. We have all these designs and a bunch of people we’d like to be involved. The voice cast could come back, a bunch of the writers could come back, and stuff. But all the heavy lifting has been done. It’s been time tested and vetted. So all we have to do is turn the lights back on. You could always do any Clerks cartoon you want, but if you want to do that Clerks cartoon, the one we all love, the one that would make the most sense to do, this is the very thin bridge we cross upon which may be how it gets built.”

That seems like a smart move, especially right now. If they already haven’t tried to jump on that, they should! There’s an audience out there that would love to see Smith bring back Clerks: The Animated Series. I don’t see why Hulu wouldn’t be interested in reviving the property. There’s a built-in fan base and it’s not an expensive series to produce.

It will be interesting to see if anything comes from this. Would you be interested in seeing Clerks: The Animated Series make a comeback? Did you enjoy the episodes of the series that did air back in 2000?

Amazon developing series adaptation of The Horror of Dolores Roach

Amazon is continuing its work developing series adaptations of hit podcasts by acquiring the rights to Gimlet’s The Horror of Delores Roach, which they are developing in partnership with Blumhouse Television, according to Deadline.

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The series, which is being showrun by Home Before Dark co-creator Dara Resnik, is a Sweeney Todd-inspired tale of Eat or Be Eaten, an urban legend of love, betrayal, weed, gentrification, cannibalism and survival of the fittest. The story will follow the titular character as she returns to a New York City neighborhood that has changed drastically in the sixteen years she’s been locked up in prison, with her boyfriend missing and her family long gone. The only connection Dolores has is her old stoner friend Luis, who give her room and board and give massages for cash in the basement apartment under his empanada shop, but the promise of stability is threatened and Dolores is driven to extremes to survive, including strangling a number of clients.

Resnik is set to develop the series alongside podcast creator Aaron Mark, who signed a first-look deal with Blumhosue, which won the rights to adapt the podcast last year in a heated bidding war. The podcast itself is based on Mark’s one-woman play Empanada Loca which starred Daphne Rubin-Vega, a breakout star of Broadway’s Rent.

Mark is penning the script for the series from his podcast script along with Rubin-Vega, with Gimlet Pictures’ Chris Giliberti and Justin McGoldrick set to executive produce the series alongside Jason Blum, Marci Wiseman and Jeremy Gold of Blumhouse Television.

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Delores Roach marks the latest podcast to be picked up for a series adaptation by Amazon after the acclaimed mystery drama Homecoming, which is debuting its second season on May 22, as well as the Tessa Thompson-starring The Left Right Game.

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The Batman writer Mattson Tomlin is working on a ‘spiritual sister’ to 1984 entitled 2084.

Joe Russo explains the parameters for making an Extraction sequel.

Back in 2003 Star Wars: Clone Wars was released. It lasted two seasons and looked to explain what happened between Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith before being retconned by Star Wars: The Clone Wars in 2008.

It was masterfully animated by Genndy Tartakovsky and his team, and I have fond memories of my best friend coming over to watch the new episodes on Friday nights. The action was incredible and I loved how it helped explain why Grievous was coughing (Windu crushed his lungs while he was trying to kidnap the Chancellor).

Honest Trailers recently covered this beloved series and overall it’s great work. However, I’m pretty sure Durge and Assajj both had names, just not said in the show since the first season especially had little to no dialogue. If you’ll excuse me, I’ve got to go rewatch this show now.

Most people are currently stuck at home looking for things to do. Well, some celebrities have teamed up with Wizarding World to read Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (Sorcerer’s Stone for those of us in the USA). The first chapter is up now and is read by Daniel Radcliffe! That’s incredible. Future chapters are set to be read by David Beckham, Noma Duemzweni, Dakota Fanning, Stephen Fry, Claudia Kim, Eddie Redmayne, and many more.

There’s even a video of Radcliffe reading “The Boy Who Lived” now online that you can watch. You can also enjoy the audio version with either the Spotify or Spotify Kids app. All 17 chapters of J.K. Rowling‘s novel will be available, and Harry Potter at Home promises some “surprise cameos” as well.

If you’re unable to, or simply don’t care to, watch the video, there’s an audio-only version that you can enjoy. This is the closest we’ll ever get to seeing Radcliffe come back to the Harry Potter franchise.

Tom Cruise partnering with NASA for space-set project

After teaming up with Elon Musk’s SpaceX for a space-set adventure film, Tom Cruise has formed a partnership with NASA to shoot a film aboard the International Space Station, with NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine taking to Twitter to reveal the news.

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NASA is excited to work with @TomCruise on a film aboard the @Space_Station! We need popular media to inspire a new generation of engineers and scientists to make @NASA’s ambitious plans a reality. pic.twitter.com/CaPwfXtfUv

— Jim Bridenstine (@JimBridenstine) May 5, 2020

It’s unclear at this point if the film aboard the International Space Station is connected to the project Cruise is working on with SpaceX, but given Musk replied to Bridenstine’s tweet by saying “Should be a lot of fun!,” all signs point to the two science organizations working together on the movie. The film announced on Monday with SpaceX is set to be the first narrative feature shot in outer space and is reportedly not attached to Cruise’s long-running hit franchise Mission: Impossible.

Cruise has become notorious in Hollywood for his meticulous nature of doing almost exclusively his own stunts, rivaling Jackie Chan (The Foreigner) for the heights and extremes he will go to deliver pulse-pounding set pieces throughout his various blockbuster films. While the first Mission: Impossible was a generally tame effort for stunts, Cruise has taken it bigger with each follow-up, beginning with the no-wire climb in Mission: Impossible 2 in Utah’s Dead Horse Point State Park and continuing with the Shanghai skyscraper run in 3, scaling the Dubai skyscraper the Burj Khalifa and executing stunts 123 floors up in Ghost Protocol.

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The most notorious came in the sixth and most acclaimed installment in the Mission: Impossible franchise, Fallout, which saw him hang from a helicopter in flight and scale a hanging payload, followed by flying the chopper itself around the Siachen Glacier and conducting a real High Altitude Low Opening (HALO) jump. He also leaped between multiple rooftops for a foot chase sequence, which resulted in him infamously breaking his ankle and forcing production to halt on the film for two months.

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American Horror Story Season 10 might change its planned theme

In a recent interview with The Wrap, creator Ryan Murphy has opened up about the current status of FX’s forthcoming tenth season of American Horror Story, revealing that there’s a possibility that he might change his original idea for the new season’s theme because it has to be filmed during warmer months. Like other film and TV productions in Hollywood, the production for AHS Season 10 has also been delayed due to the ongoing global pandemic.

“Well I don’t know, because a lot of what I was going to shoot was dependent on a very specific moment, it was a weather-dependent show,” Murphy said. “So now I don’t know. I don’t know what we’re going to do. I don’t know what I’m gonna do next with that show. I don’t know if I’ll accelerate another season or wait till next year to shoot this one.”

He further confirmed that there is currently no plans of when production will be able to begin. “You know, nobody so far has called me up and said, ‘OK, we have a plan to move forward for shooting. So until that day, everybody is kind of on pause. I honestly don’t know. But it’s a great season and I know all the actors are chomping at the bit to get into it, so that’s all I know.”

RELATED: Ryan Murphy Teases Key Returning Character in American Horror Story

American Horror Story Season 10 will be led by series alums stars Sarah Paulson, Evan Peters, Kathy Bates, Leslie Grossman, Billie Lourd, Adina Porter, Lily Rabe, Angelica Ross, and Finn Wittrock. It will also feature new cast member Macaulay Culkin (Home Alone), which will mark his first major TV role since appearing as a guest-star in last year’s Hulu comedy series Dollface.

Details on the latest installment of the anthology horror series are being kept under wraps, though the video Murphy shared could possibly be full of clues for the upcoming season. Orville Peck’s “Dead of Night” plays over a dark, overcast beach scene as the cast list fades in and out.

Last Season 9, titled AHS: 1984, was set in the summer of 1984, five friends escape Los Angeles to work as counselors at Camp Redwood. As they adjust to their new jobs, they quickly learn that the only thing scarier than campfire tales is the past coming to haunt you.

It starred series alums Emma Roberts, Cody Fern, Billie Lourd, Leslie Grossman, and John Carroll Lynch along with new cast members Olympic gold medalist Gus Kenworthy, Zach Villa (Destroyer), and DeRon Horton (Dear White People). Glee vet Matthew Morrison and Pose star Angelica Ross, who have both worked with Murphy’s other shows, also appeared last season.

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FX reports that the series’ total audience is over 1 billion total viewers across its 103 episodes and nine seasons. American Horror Story, which has featured stars Sarah Paulson, Kathy Bates, Evan Peters, Billie Lourd, Jessica Lange, Emma Roberts, Taissa Farmiga, Lady Gaga, Angela Bassett, Dylan McDermott, Connie Britton, and many more during its run, has received 95 Emmy nominations and won 16 times, as well as two Golden Globe awards.

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