Netflix recently announced their lineup for their 2022 "Netflix and Chills" annual Halloween celebration, and noticeably absent from the list was the anticipated "Wednesday" series from Tim Burton, starring Jenna Ortega as Wednesday Addams. The series is expected to debut sometime in the fall of 2022, but without it on the schedule, it seems as if audiences will have to wait just a little while longer to see the newest live-action interpretation of Charles Addams' beloved creation. First appearing as a comic strip in 1938, "The Addams Family" has been adapted to television, film, animation, video games, comic books, a Broadway musical, and countless items of merchandise. Regardless of age or interest, there's a form of "The Addams Family" for everyone.
As groundbreaking as the family has been for alternative subcultures and sardonic humor, Wednesday Addams has been a seminal role model for unconventional girls for generations. If you've ever worn black lipstick,...
As groundbreaking as the family has been for alternative subcultures and sardonic humor, Wednesday Addams has been a seminal role model for unconventional girls for generations. If you've ever worn black lipstick,...
- 9/11/2022
- by BJ Colangelo
- Slash Film
Anna Kendrick is a woman of many talents — she's a great actor, a fantastic singer, a hilarious Twitter follow, a wonderful Barbie spokesperson, and now she can finally add "director" to her growing list of multi-hyphenates. The star of films like "A Simple Favor," "Pitch Perfect," "Up in the Air," and a flurry of teen films that people mock her for having starred in will be directing, starring in, and producing the true-crime thriller "The Dating Game," based on the real story of 1970s would-be bachelorette Cheryl Bradshaw. The script comes from Ian McDonald, whose original draft "Sheryl & Rodney'' wound up on the prestigious unproduced list of screenplays, The Black List.
For those unaware of the story behind the film, Kendrick's Cheryl Bradshaw was a real-life contestant on "The Dating Game," who ultimately picked contestant number 1, a man by the name of Rodney Alcala. He seemed charming and handsome enough...
For those unaware of the story behind the film, Kendrick's Cheryl Bradshaw was a real-life contestant on "The Dating Game," who ultimately picked contestant number 1, a man by the name of Rodney Alcala. He seemed charming and handsome enough...
- 9/7/2022
- by BJ Colangelo
- Slash Film
Exclusive: Universal Television is heading into the fantasy realm.
The studio has come on board a TV series adaptation of Mercedes Lackey’s Valdemar literary universe.
The Universal Studio Group company is developing The Heralds of Valdemar, based on a series of trilogies of novels.
Kit Williamson, who created Netflix’s LGBTQ comedy series EastSiders, is adapting with author Brittany Cavallaro, who wrote the Charlotte Holmes series of books. The pair bonded over the books in school and will now write and produce the TV adaptation.
It comes a year after Wheel of Time producer Radar Pictures, founded by Interscope Records co-founder Ted Field optioned the rights to the book, as revealed by Deadline.
The Last Herald-Mage, The Arrows, The Mage Winds and The Mage Storms trilogies create the world of Valdemar, a place millions of readers return to again and again. Valdemar follows three teenagers chosen by fate to protect the realm–Vanyel,...
The studio has come on board a TV series adaptation of Mercedes Lackey’s Valdemar literary universe.
The Universal Studio Group company is developing The Heralds of Valdemar, based on a series of trilogies of novels.
Kit Williamson, who created Netflix’s LGBTQ comedy series EastSiders, is adapting with author Brittany Cavallaro, who wrote the Charlotte Holmes series of books. The pair bonded over the books in school and will now write and produce the TV adaptation.
It comes a year after Wheel of Time producer Radar Pictures, founded by Interscope Records co-founder Ted Field optioned the rights to the book, as revealed by Deadline.
The Last Herald-Mage, The Arrows, The Mage Winds and The Mage Storms trilogies create the world of Valdemar, a place millions of readers return to again and again. Valdemar follows three teenagers chosen by fate to protect the realm–Vanyel,...
- 9/7/2022
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Bill Camp (The Queen’s Gambit) will reunite once again with his American Rust and The Looming Tower co-star Jeff Daniels in A Man in Full, Netflix’s six-episode limited series from David E. Kelley and Regina King based on Tom Wolfe’s 1998 novel.
In A Man in Full, when Atlanta real estate mogul Charlie Croker (Daniels) faces sudden bankruptcy, political and business interests collide as he defends his empire from those attempting to capitalize on his fall from grace.
Camp will play Harry Zale. Known in business circles as “The Workout Artiste,” a term to describe the “bootcamps” he puts debtors through, Zale stands between any hope Charlie (Daniels) has of saving his business empire.
Diane Lane also stars in the series, along with William Jackson Harper, Tom Pelphrey, Aml Ameen, Sarah Jones, Jon Michael Hill and Chanté Adams.
Kelley serves as writer, executive producer and showrunner, with...
In A Man in Full, when Atlanta real estate mogul Charlie Croker (Daniels) faces sudden bankruptcy, political and business interests collide as he defends his empire from those attempting to capitalize on his fall from grace.
Camp will play Harry Zale. Known in business circles as “The Workout Artiste,” a term to describe the “bootcamps” he puts debtors through, Zale stands between any hope Charlie (Daniels) has of saving his business empire.
Diane Lane also stars in the series, along with William Jackson Harper, Tom Pelphrey, Aml Ameen, Sarah Jones, Jon Michael Hill and Chanté Adams.
Kelley serves as writer, executive producer and showrunner, with...
- 8/26/2022
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
The first season of Killer Camp, which was imported from the UK, drew pretty low ratings for The CW. The horror series was renewed with the network commissioning a season of its own. Will more people tune in this time around? Could it become a hit? Will Killer Camp be cancelled or renewed for season three? Stay tuned.
A reality series with a scary whodunnit twist, the Killer Camp TV show is an homage to campy horror flicks from the 1980s. Camp Counselor Bobby (host Bobby Mair) welcomes a mix of 13 unlucky American and British campers to Camp Pleasant. They're ready for fun but are quickly reminded that not everyone will survive. After all, one of them is a killer who will engage the help of homicidal Handyman Bruce to kill their new friends, one by one. The campmates are immediately thrown...
A reality series with a scary whodunnit twist, the Killer Camp TV show is an homage to campy horror flicks from the 1980s. Camp Counselor Bobby (host Bobby Mair) welcomes a mix of 13 unlucky American and British campers to Camp Pleasant. They're ready for fun but are quickly reminded that not everyone will survive. After all, one of them is a killer who will engage the help of homicidal Handyman Bruce to kill their new friends, one by one. The campmates are immediately thrown...
- 8/21/2022
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
Which campers will survive the second season of the Killer Camp TV show on The CW? As we all know, the Nielsen ratings typically play a big role in determining whether a TV show like Killer Camp is cancelled or renewed for season three. Unfortunately, most of us do not live in Nielsen households. Because many viewers feel frustrated when their viewing habits and opinions aren't considered, we invite you to rate all of the second season episodes of Killer Camp here.
A CW reality series with a scary whodunnit twist, the Killer Camp TV show is an homage to campy horror flicks from the 1980s. Camp Counselor Bobby (host Bobby Mair) welcomes a mix of 13 unlucky American and British campers to Camp Pleasant. They're ready for fun but are quickly reminded that not everyone will...
A CW reality series with a scary whodunnit twist, the Killer Camp TV show is an homage to campy horror flicks from the 1980s. Camp Counselor Bobby (host Bobby Mair) welcomes a mix of 13 unlucky American and British campers to Camp Pleasant. They're ready for fun but are quickly reminded that not everyone will...
- 8/20/2022
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
Happy birthday to Percy Jackson, and a very happy day to the Percy Jackson fandom! To celebrate the beloved fictional character’s birthday on Thursday, August 18, Disney+ shared the first photo of the Percy Jackson and the Olympians cast on set in Canada. The photo shows the main trio, Walker Scobell, Leah Sava Jeffries, and Aryan Simhadri as Percy, Annabeth, and Grover. “It’s a very special day, demigods,” the tweet read. “Happy birthday, #PercyJackson! We’re celebrating with a gift just for you.” The photo shows Scobell, Jeffries, and Simhadri smiling from ear to ear, their arms around each other’s shoulders while standing in a forest. This appears to be the first glimpse of the actors in costume, and an exciting look at the filming location for Camp Half-Blood. It’s a very special day, demigods Happy Birthday, #PercyJackson! We’re celebrating with a gift just for you…...
- 8/18/2022
- TV Insider
Your favorite HBO Max originals may not be available to stream much longer.
As Warner Bros. Discovery prepares to combine HBO Max and Discovery+ into a single, unified streaming service, HBO Max is doing away with more than three dozen titles — including 20 original series.
More from TVLinePretty Little Liars: Original Sin Unmasks 'A' in Fatal Finale -- Grade It! Plus, the EPs Address That Important Loose EndSummer Camp Island Creator Reacts to HBO Max Content Purge: They Pulled Our Show 'Like We Were Nothing'Pretty Little Liars EP on the Importance of Original Sin's Assault Storyline: 'I Genuinely Hope It Can...
As Warner Bros. Discovery prepares to combine HBO Max and Discovery+ into a single, unified streaming service, HBO Max is doing away with more than three dozen titles — including 20 original series.
More from TVLinePretty Little Liars: Original Sin Unmasks 'A' in Fatal Finale -- Grade It! Plus, the EPs Address That Important Loose EndSummer Camp Island Creator Reacts to HBO Max Content Purge: They Pulled Our Show 'Like We Were Nothing'Pretty Little Liars EP on the Importance of Original Sin's Assault Storyline: 'I Genuinely Hope It Can...
- 8/18/2022
- by Ryan Schwartz
- TVLine.com
According to the horror genre, summer camps are teeming with killers and other unusual dangers. These seasonal getaways designed for adventure and fun quickly turn into fights for survival. And it’s not just in the movies where a young camper’s sleeping bag doubles as their body bag; books also present camps as hotbeds of death, murder and mystery. Carol Ellis’ 1993 young-adult novel Camp Fear joins the popular club of sleepaway terror when the characters find themselves menaced one summer. And as the title of this Point Horror entry suggests, the culprit is preying on people’s greatest fears.
Lousy food, surprise pests and unpleasant accommodations are the universal challenges of most fictional summer camps, but Silverlake has a problem most others don’t — a person, hellbent on revenge, is terrorizing the staff. Before the place can reopen for business, teens are hired to clear the cobwebs, sweep the...
Lousy food, surprise pests and unpleasant accommodations are the universal challenges of most fictional summer camps, but Silverlake has a problem most others don’t — a person, hellbent on revenge, is terrorizing the staff. Before the place can reopen for business, teens are hired to clear the cobwebs, sweep the...
- 8/11/2022
- by Paul Lê
- bloody-disgusting.com
The "Predator" franchise is back with fresh blood this summer in the form of "Prey," a 1700s-set prequel that's being hailed as one of the best entries of the franchise. The film stars Native American actress Amber Midthunder, a member of the Fort Peck Sioux Tribe, as a Comanche warrior named Naru. In the male-dominated action world, Midthunder's Naru is a more-than-capable hero. On screen, she braves raging rivers, wields a tomahawk, and faces off against the technologically advanced alien species known as the Predator.
Off screen, Midthunder is apparently just as capable as her character: in an interview with /Film's Ben Pearson, the...
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Off screen, Midthunder is apparently just as capable as her character: in an interview with /Film's Ben Pearson, the...
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- 8/6/2022
- by Valerie Ettenhofer
- Slash Film
“Peaky Blinders” boss Steven Knight is teaming up with “The Handmaid’s Tale” star Elisabeth Moss for a new limited series from FX for Hulu — “The Veil.”
Knight will write and executive produce the series, while Moss will star in the newly-ordered series and serve as an EP.
Described by FX as a “gripping thriller,” “The Veil” “explores the surprising and fraught relationship between two women who play a deadly game of truth and lies on the road from Istanbul to Paris and London. One woman has a secret, the other a mission to reveal it before thousands of lives are lost,” per a logline from the network.
Also Read:
Elisabeth Moss Has Blood on Her Hands in ‘Handmaid’s Tale’ Season 5 Teaser (Video)
Knight and Moss will both executive produce alongside PatMa Productions’ Denise Di Novi and Nina Tassler. Moss with Lindsey McManus will executive produce under their Love & Squalor Pictures banner.
Knight will write and executive produce the series, while Moss will star in the newly-ordered series and serve as an EP.
Described by FX as a “gripping thriller,” “The Veil” “explores the surprising and fraught relationship between two women who play a deadly game of truth and lies on the road from Istanbul to Paris and London. One woman has a secret, the other a mission to reveal it before thousands of lives are lost,” per a logline from the network.
Also Read:
Elisabeth Moss Has Blood on Her Hands in ‘Handmaid’s Tale’ Season 5 Teaser (Video)
Knight and Moss will both executive produce alongside PatMa Productions’ Denise Di Novi and Nina Tassler. Moss with Lindsey McManus will executive produce under their Love & Squalor Pictures banner.
- 8/2/2022
- by Jolie Lash
- The Wrap
Judy Judy Judy After five weeks of nothing but Camp films, including pageant mockumentary Drop Dead Gorgeous, 3D monstrosity Nurse, and a pair of shocking and offensive 70s titles from John Waters (Female Trouble) and Paul Morrissey (Flesh for Frankenstein), Trace and I – along with returning guest Ten Backe – have reached our magnum opus: […]
The post Re-Evaluating the Trans “Twist” in ‘Sleepaway Camp’ [Horror Queers Podcast] appeared first on Bloody Disgusting!.
The post Re-Evaluating the Trans “Twist” in ‘Sleepaway Camp’ [Horror Queers Podcast] appeared first on Bloody Disgusting!.
- 8/1/2022
- by Joe Lipsett
- bloody-disgusting.com
Is Ricky about to Zefron his way into another leading role?
Camp Shallow Lake holds auditions for its production of Frozen on Wednesday’s episode of High School Musical: The Musical: The Series, and TVLine has an exclusive first look at Joshua Bassett‘s latest moment in the spotlight.
More from TVLineDisney+'s Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special: James Gunn Confirms Whether It's MCU Phase 4 or 5Andor Delayed: Disney+ Announces New Premiere Date for Rogue One Prequel -- Plus, Watch Full TrailerHigh School Musical EP on 'Crazy Meta' Season 3, Camp Romances and Nini's New Path -- Grade the Premiere!
Camp Shallow Lake holds auditions for its production of Frozen on Wednesday’s episode of High School Musical: The Musical: The Series, and TVLine has an exclusive first look at Joshua Bassett‘s latest moment in the spotlight.
More from TVLineDisney+'s Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special: James Gunn Confirms Whether It's MCU Phase 4 or 5Andor Delayed: Disney+ Announces New Premiere Date for Rogue One Prequel -- Plus, Watch Full TrailerHigh School Musical EP on 'Crazy Meta' Season 3, Camp Romances and Nini's New Path -- Grade the Premiere!
- 8/1/2022
- by Andy Swift
- TVLine.com
Avalon Fast was a young director to watch at this year’s Fantasia, bringing her 2022 feature “Honeycomb” to the Canadian fest as well as upcoming horror “Camp,” presented in Frontieres’ official selection.
Set to be produced by Michael Peterson (Peterson Polaris Corp), Peter Kuplowsky (Lowsky Productions), Taylor Nodrick and Fast herself, it will see a camp counselor for troubled youth who, reeling from a past tragedy, starts suspecting her female colleagues of witchcraft in service of a woodland spirit.
The project, currently in advanced development, will allow the audience to feel a “real sense of magic,” promises Fast.
“I want it to be bold,” she tells Variety.
“I love [Nicolas Cage-starrer] ‘Mandy’, which has been a huge inspiration. Having a bigger budget allowed me to finally incorporate some ideas I have been storing away. I want people to keep wondering if my protagonist is losing her mind or if...
Set to be produced by Michael Peterson (Peterson Polaris Corp), Peter Kuplowsky (Lowsky Productions), Taylor Nodrick and Fast herself, it will see a camp counselor for troubled youth who, reeling from a past tragedy, starts suspecting her female colleagues of witchcraft in service of a woodland spirit.
The project, currently in advanced development, will allow the audience to feel a “real sense of magic,” promises Fast.
“I want it to be bold,” she tells Variety.
“I love [Nicolas Cage-starrer] ‘Mandy’, which has been a huge inspiration. Having a bigger budget allowed me to finally incorporate some ideas I have been storing away. I want people to keep wondering if my protagonist is losing her mind or if...
- 7/25/2022
- by Marta Balaga
- Variety Film + TV
Keeping a relationship in a good state requires communication.
We tv provided TV Fanatic with an exclusive look at the next episode of Marriage Boot Camp: Hip Hop Edition, airing Thursday, April 21 at 9 pm Et/Pt.
The clip finds Gangsta Boo (Three 6 Mafia) and her lover, Emmet, sitting down with Dr. Ish to speak about the lack of communication between the pair.
It shows the couples being vulnerable with one another, something that Dr. Ish says is the key to working through issues.
Dr. Ish also says that the pair look to one another for the go-ahead to answer questions, which is not a sign of a healthy relationship.
The beauty of Marriage Boot Camp is that couples learn to work through issues in the marriage to allow them to flourish when they leave the compound.
Elsewhere in the episode, "the couples must learn to fight fair, but when Lyrica...
We tv provided TV Fanatic with an exclusive look at the next episode of Marriage Boot Camp: Hip Hop Edition, airing Thursday, April 21 at 9 pm Et/Pt.
The clip finds Gangsta Boo (Three 6 Mafia) and her lover, Emmet, sitting down with Dr. Ish to speak about the lack of communication between the pair.
It shows the couples being vulnerable with one another, something that Dr. Ish says is the key to working through issues.
Dr. Ish also says that the pair look to one another for the go-ahead to answer questions, which is not a sign of a healthy relationship.
The beauty of Marriage Boot Camp is that couples learn to work through issues in the marriage to allow them to flourish when they leave the compound.
Elsewhere in the episode, "the couples must learn to fight fair, but when Lyrica...
- 4/21/2022
- by Paul Dailly
- TVfanatic
Welcome to this week’s 205 Live review, right here on Nerdly. I’m Nathan Favel and we have Nick Cave talkin’ real deep and singin’ real low. I’m tired of this. Where’s my beach ball? Spike! Okay. Let’s get to the matches before I swipe right. Did I ju…a Tinder joke?! Noooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!! Damn IIIIIIIiIIIIIIIIIIITTTT!!!!!!!!!!
Match #1: Legado del Fantasma def. Ever-Rise The following is courtesy of wwe.com:
Chase Parker & Matt Martel of Ever-Rise were riding high after picking up a big tag team win last week on 205 Live, but Joaquin Wilde & Raul Mendoza of Legado del Fantasma brought them crashing back to Earth in a tandem bout this week. Legado del Fantasma landed the first big blow when Wilde made a blind tag to Mendoza and caught Parker off guard by driving him into the canvas with a ring-rattling Ddt. With Martel attempting to incite a “de-fense” chant,...
Match #1: Legado del Fantasma def. Ever-Rise The following is courtesy of wwe.com:
Chase Parker & Matt Martel of Ever-Rise were riding high after picking up a big tag team win last week on 205 Live, but Joaquin Wilde & Raul Mendoza of Legado del Fantasma brought them crashing back to Earth in a tandem bout this week. Legado del Fantasma landed the first big blow when Wilde made a blind tag to Mendoza and caught Parker off guard by driving him into the canvas with a ring-rattling Ddt. With Martel attempting to incite a “de-fense” chant,...
- 8/17/2020
- by Nathan Favel
- Nerdly
Sneak Peek new images of actress Anna Kendrick ("Pitch Perfect") in the Summer 2020 issue of "Shape" magazine:
Kendrick's first starring role was in the 1998 Broadway musical "High Society", earning her a 'Tony' Award nomination for 'Best Featured Actress in a Musical'.
She made her film debut in the musical comedy "Camp" (2003), followed by "The Twilight Saga" (2008–2012).
She achieved further recognition for the comedy-drama film "Up in the Air" (2009), which earned her a nomination for the 'Academy Award' for 'Best Supporting Actress', followed by the "Pitch Perfect" film series (2012–17).
Kendrick also appeared in "Scott Pilgrim vs. the World" (2010), "50/50" (2011), "End of Watch" (2012), "Into the Woods" (2014), "Cake" (2014), "Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates" (2016), "Trolls" (2016), "A Simple Favor" (2018), "Noelle" (2019) and "Trolls World Tour" (2020).
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Kendrick's first starring role was in the 1998 Broadway musical "High Society", earning her a 'Tony' Award nomination for 'Best Featured Actress in a Musical'.
She made her film debut in the musical comedy "Camp" (2003), followed by "The Twilight Saga" (2008–2012).
She achieved further recognition for the comedy-drama film "Up in the Air" (2009), which earned her a nomination for the 'Academy Award' for 'Best Supporting Actress', followed by the "Pitch Perfect" film series (2012–17).
Kendrick also appeared in "Scott Pilgrim vs. the World" (2010), "50/50" (2011), "End of Watch" (2012), "Into the Woods" (2014), "Cake" (2014), "Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates" (2016), "Trolls" (2016), "A Simple Favor" (2018), "Noelle" (2019) and "Trolls World Tour" (2020).
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- 8/13/2020
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
Television host and philanthropist Rachael Ray announced today the launch of Rachael Ray’s Yum-o! Cooking Camp delivered by Shipt powered by the Food Network & Cooking Channel New York City and South Beach Wine & Food Festivals presented by Capital One.
The Free 16-part live virtual cooking camp will help provide a fun and accessible activity to support families whose camps and child care centers are closed this summer. The interactive online series will connect viewers to their favorite chefs, celebrities and lifestyle personalities who will teach them simple recipes, skills and techniques that will up their culinary game all while providing an unforgettable summer learning experience. The Free cooking camp series is sponsored by Barilla, Birds Eye, Duncan Hines, PotsandPans.com, Reddi-wip, Shipt, and Vlasic.
Recipes will be easy enough for kids 8-15 to follow along, but everyone is welcome to join. We encourage parents to participate with kids and cook along with our instructors.
The Free 16-part live virtual cooking camp will help provide a fun and accessible activity to support families whose camps and child care centers are closed this summer. The interactive online series will connect viewers to their favorite chefs, celebrities and lifestyle personalities who will teach them simple recipes, skills and techniques that will up their culinary game all while providing an unforgettable summer learning experience. The Free cooking camp series is sponsored by Barilla, Birds Eye, Duncan Hines, PotsandPans.com, Reddi-wip, Shipt, and Vlasic.
Recipes will be easy enough for kids 8-15 to follow along, but everyone is welcome to join. We encourage parents to participate with kids and cook along with our instructors.
- 7/24/2020
- Look to the Stars
Tonight, the U.K. reality show Killer Camp is set to make its debut here on U.S. airwaves on the CW at 8:00 pm Est. The setup involves 11 participants showing up for a new show called “Summer Camp,” but when they arrive, they’re in for a huge shock as they are told that the project they’re involved in is actually a horror whodunit where most of them will be “murdered,” and one of them is actually the camp “murderer.”
As someone who doesn’t partake in a lot of reality shows, I wasn’t sure how I was going to feel about Killer Camp, but I really enjoyed how they mix up the formula here, and instead of giving audiences a straight-up competition show, there’s a bit of a dramatic flair going on as well, which I thought was rather refreshing.
Earlier this week, Daily Dead...
As someone who doesn’t partake in a lot of reality shows, I wasn’t sure how I was going to feel about Killer Camp, but I really enjoyed how they mix up the formula here, and instead of giving audiences a straight-up competition show, there’s a bit of a dramatic flair going on as well, which I thought was rather refreshing.
Earlier this week, Daily Dead...
- 7/16/2020
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
A Michigan high school teacher is accused of stealing money from her school’s student activity fund and gambling it away at a casino, according to a statement by the Macomb County prosecutor.
Lydia Johnson, 29, was charged with one count of embezzlement from a non-profit organization. She faces a maximum sentence of 10 years.
Johnson was Dakota High School’s student activity coordinator and was responsible for funds related to school events. Based on attendance for the 2016 Homecoming dance, the fund should have taken in nearly $30,000, but Johnson deposited $11,000 into the account, according to the prosecutor.
• Want to keep up with the latest crime coverage?...
Lydia Johnson, 29, was charged with one count of embezzlement from a non-profit organization. She faces a maximum sentence of 10 years.
Johnson was Dakota High School’s student activity coordinator and was responsible for funds related to school events. Based on attendance for the 2016 Homecoming dance, the fund should have taken in nearly $30,000, but Johnson deposited $11,000 into the account, according to the prosecutor.
• Want to keep up with the latest crime coverage?...
- 9/22/2017
- by Elaine Aradillas
- PEOPLE.com
In an interview with Filmmaker Magazine, Dean Fleischer-Camp described the tone of his 2014 web series “Catherine” as “The New Banality.” With “David,” he adds yet another gem to his self-described banal canon.
The five-episode series premiered yesterday on Super Deluxe and stars Nathan Fielder (“Nathan For You”) as David, a recently-fired divorcee, as we learn from an uncannily accurate Tarot reader (Sally Berman). David’s vacantly concerned psychic tells him that he has a “black stone, like a rock, growing every minute” in his chest. If he doesn’t get rid of it, his body will de-compose in five weeks — hence the five episodes.
Read More: Comedy Studio Super Deluxe Signs Stephen Gaghan As Executive Producer
His search for answers leads to a therapist (who stuffs David’s last bill into an overflowing money drawer), an unhelpful priest (“Sometimes the Bible is really vague”) and a small-time baseball game. After...
The five-episode series premiered yesterday on Super Deluxe and stars Nathan Fielder (“Nathan For You”) as David, a recently-fired divorcee, as we learn from an uncannily accurate Tarot reader (Sally Berman). David’s vacantly concerned psychic tells him that he has a “black stone, like a rock, growing every minute” in his chest. If he doesn’t get rid of it, his body will de-compose in five weeks — hence the five episodes.
Read More: Comedy Studio Super Deluxe Signs Stephen Gaghan As Executive Producer
His search for answers leads to a therapist (who stuffs David’s last bill into an overflowing money drawer), an unhelpful priest (“Sometimes the Bible is really vague”) and a small-time baseball game. After...
- 9/9/2016
- by Jude Dry
- Indiewire
Yesterday, the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences opened voting for this year's Emmy nominations, including the public release of ballots showing who submitted themselves and in what categories. That means it's time for my annual thought exercise, where I pretend that I'm an Academy member and try to figure out how I would fill out my ballot in the major categories. The whole thing becomes trickier with each passing year, just because there are so many shows and performances worthy of at least consideration: when I made my first run through the ballot, jotting down contenders in each big category, I wound up with 26 potential Outstanding Comedy Series nominees, for instance. It does give me a sense of how challenging this must be for the actual Emmy voters, especially since most of them have much less time to actually watch TV than I do. I'm using the same rules as usual: 1)I only consider shows and performances that were submitted. So even if I wanted to put, say, Hugh Dancy on my ballot for his work in the final season of Hannibal, I couldn't, because he only submitted his work on Hulu's The Path. 2)I can't move things into other categories to suit my preference. I can't treat Horace and Pete like a limited series, even though that's clearly what it was, because the Academy let Louis C.K. submit it in the drama categories, and I can't take a largely dramatic half-hour like Transparent or Togetherness out of the comedy categories. 3)I don't consider shows and performances that I didn't watch much, if at all, this season. Based on the last time I was a regular viewer of Penny Dreadful and Orphan Black, for instance, I suspect Eva Green and Tatiana Maslany would both be incredibly strong contenders for the drama lead actress category, but I haven't seen a second of either show's eligible season. Back in the days before Peak TV, it would make me crazy when actors were obviously nominated based on their work from previous seasons, rather than anything they had done in the current year, so I'm not going to make any nominations based on similar assumptions. Also, because so much of the biggest action this year is in the limited series categories (even sans Horace and Pete), I'm going to make picks there, when usually I've stuck with the comedy and drama fields. So here we go... Outstanding Comedy Series black-ish (ABC) Master of None (Netflix) Review (Comedy Central) Transparent (Amazon) Veep (HBO) You're the Worst (FX) As I alluded to above, this was a tough one, especially since there are so many different kinds of "comedy" up for consideration. I could have surrounded Transparent and You're the Worst with a bunch of other half-hours that trended more towards the dramatic this year (say, Casual, Baskets, Togetherness, and Girls), or put on both of the CW's delightful Monday hour-long comedies in Jane the Virgin and Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, or loaded up on the resurgent broadcast network comedy scene and paired black-ish with the likes of The Grinder, The Carmichael Show, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, and Fresh Off the Boat. And I haven't even mentioned Broad City or Lady Dynamite or Catastrophe or Silicon Valley or Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt or a bunch of others that I'm not happy to not have on my final list. But these six were ultimately the ones that stuck with me the most, in some cases very long after they first aired. Outstanding Drama Series The Americans (FX) Better Call Saul (AMC) Happy Valley (Netflix) Horace and Pete (LouisCK.net) The Leftovers (HBO) UnREAL (Lifetime) Because so many great shows like Fargo and American Crime and The People v. O.J. Simpson have gotten themselves categorized as limited series, this wasn't quite as impossible a category to cull down to six choices, even if I changed my mind five different times between including UnREAL, Mr. Robot, or Halt and Catch Fire for that last spot. The Leftovers was my favorite show of last year, and assuming its final season gets bumped to 2017, Horace and Pete and The Americans are the two front-runners to finish atop my best of list for this year. With Mad Men gone, and limited series more competitive, I'm holding out the faintest of hope that Americans can follow the Friday Night Lights pattern and start getting nominated late in its run after being largely ignored early on. Outstanding Limited Series American Crime (ABC) Fargo (FX) The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story (FX) Roots (History) Show Me a Hero (HBO) What an amazing resurgence for a format the rest of the TV business had all but ceded to HBO for the last decade. All six of these projects were extraordinary in different ways, and any one of them would be a more than deserving winner, though I'm assuming People v. O.J. is going to sweep its way through most of the limited series categories. Outstanding Lead Actor In A Comedy Series Anthony Anderson, black-ish Andrew Daly, Review Chris Geere, You're the Worst Rob Lowe, The Grinder Fred Savage, The Grinder Jeffrey Tambor, Transparent Some years, I set a rule that I will only nominate one actor per show, but I couldn't choose between the two Grinder leads, who were as perfect a crazy man/straight man pairing as TV has had in quite some time. Anderson and Geere did great work flipping back and forth between silliness and pathos this year (I still choke up thinking about Dre's Obama speech from the black-ish episode about how to talk to your kids about black people being shot by cops), Tambor was once again stunning in a largely dramatic performance (that is, again, eligible here, in a category that isn't Funniest Actor in a Comedy Series), and Daly's absolute commitment to the awfulness of Forrest MacNeil's life made the second Review season even funnier, and darker, than the first. Outstanding Lead Actor In A Drama Series Steve Buscemi, Horace and Pete Louis C.K., Horace and Pete Rami Malek, Mr. Robot Bob Odenkirk, Better Call Saul Matthew Rhys, The Americans Justin Theroux, The Leftovers Horace and Pete was another case of my inability to choose between two actors from the same show, as by the end, C.K.'s work was just as nuanced and devastating as the more experienced Buscemi's. Malek was so riveting that he made a lot of pieces of Mr. Robot work that would have failed utterly in the hands of an even slightly less gifted performer, Theroux's work in the last few Leftovers season 2 episodes left me a wreck, Odenkirk continues to demonstrate surprising depths as a dramatic actor, and it's absurd that Matthew Rhys has yet to be nominated for all he does on Americans. Outstanding Lead Actor In A Limited Series Or Movie Bryan Cranston, All the Way James Franco, 11.22.63 Oscar Isaac, Show Me a Hero Regé-Jean Page, Roots Courtney B. Vance, The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story Patrick Wilson, Fargo Cranston and Franco both gave tremendous performances in ultimately flawed projects. Isaac somehow made all the exposition and policy wonkery of Show Me a Hero entertaining and tragic, Page and Vance were enormously charismatic as men who were flashy on the outside and deeply pained on the inside, and Patrick Wilson basically turned into Gary Cooper and became the powerful, still center around which all the craziness of Fargo season 2 could orbit. Outstanding Lead Actress In A Comedy Series Rachel Bloom, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend Aya Cash, You're the Worst Gillian Jacobs, Love Ellie Kemper, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Veep Michaela Watkins, Casual Louis-Drefyus will — deservedly — keep winning this category until either Veep ends or she pulls a Candice Bergen and withdraws herself from consideration. So it almost doesn't matter who gets nominated alongside her. But the other performances I chose were all wonderfully nuanced and complicated as they painted very different portraits of women who are all damaged in some way, and any of them would make an incredibly deserving winner if Louis-Dreyfus were to pull a Larry David and somehow offend everyone in Los Angeles at the same time. Outstanding Lead Actress In A Drama Series Shiri Appleby, UnREAL Kerry Bishé, Halt and Catch Fire Carrie Coon, The Leftovers Sarah Lancashire, Happy Valley Krysten Ritter, Jessica Jones Keri Russell, The Americans The Pov structure of Leftovers season 2 rendered everyone but Theroux a supporting player, but since Coon submitted herself here, I'm picking her, because when she was on screen, she was spectacular. Bishé was the highlight of the much-improved second season of Halt, Lancashire remains indelible on Happy Valley, Ritter lived up to all of my hopes for Jessica Jones, and refer to my Matthew Rhys comment when it comes to his TV spouse. The real surprise of the group is Appleby, who had never suggested the kind of depth and force that her role on UnREAL has allowed her to play. Outstanding Lead Actress In A Limited Series Or Movie Kirsten Dunst, Fargo Felicity Huffman, American Crime Riley Keough, The Girlfriend Experience Rachel McAdams, True Detective Sarah Paulson, The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story Lili Taylor, American Crime As with the corresponding male category, we've got a couple of performances here (Keough and McAdams) that transcended iffy shows. You could argue that any or all of Dunst, Huffman, and Taylor belong in the supporting field, but they were all wonderful, even if they all understandably seem destined to lose to Paulson. Outstanding Supporting Actor In A Comedy Series Louie Anderson, Baskets Andre Braugher, Brooklyn Nine-Nine Jaime Camil, Jane the Virgin Christopher Meloni, Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp T.J. Miller, Silicon Valley Timothy Simons, Veep Honestly, I could make this an all-Veep category — say, with Simons, Tony Hale, Kevin Dunn, Gary Cole, Sam Richardson, and Matt Walsh (or swap any two of them out for Hugh Laurie and Reid Scott) — and it would be a completely respectable list. Instead, I decided to limit myself to one guy, and the New Hampshire election story has given Simons a chance to shine like never before. As for the others, Braugher is a national treasure, Camil may be playing the most reliable joke machine on television, Meloni stole First Day of Camp the same way he stole the original movie, and Miller got to add some surprising emotion to Erlich Bachman's usual hilarious buffoonery. And Anderson is, like Tambor, giving an almost entirely dramatic performance (and also playing a woman), but in a way that never feels like a gimmick. Outstanding Supporting Actor In A Drama Series Alan Alda, Horace and Pete Dylan Baker, The Americans Jonathan Banks, Better Call Saul Kevin Carroll, The Leftovers Peter Dinklage, Game of Thrones Lance Reddick, Bosch Even if the Academy at large didn't watch Horace and Pete, I expect Alda will be nominated on name recognition alone, and when they see him give the performance of his career, he'll hopefully win. Baker sketched out a complicated and tragic character in the space of 13 episodes, Banks continued finding new gravitas inside Mike Ehrmantraut, Carroll knocked me out as much as his more well-known co-stars, Dinklage remains so much fun that he can even carry a long scene where he's acting against thin air disguised as CGI dragons, and Reddick also did the best work of his career on the largely unheralded Bosch. Outstanding Supporting Actor In A Limited Series Or Movie Sterling K. Brown, The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story Ted Danson, Fargo Connor Jessup, American Crime Hugh Laurie, The Night Manager Zahn McClarnon, Fargo Bokeem Woodbine, Fargo Unfortunately, I assume John Travolta has one of these spots in the bag. And the only reason Jessup is here and not in the lead category is because he's young and relatively unknown. But this is still one of the most competitive groups in the whole field, and I'd love to see one of the more unheralded actors eligible win it, even though Danson and Laurie were both superb in the kinds of roles they don't usually play. Outstanding Supporting Actress In A Comedy Series Loretta Devine, The Carmichael Show Kether Donohue, You're the Worst Allison Janney, Mom Kate McKinnon, Saturday Night Live Amanda Peet, Togetherness Kristen Schaal, Last Man on Earth Janney, like Louis-Dreyfus, may have a stranglehold on her category for a while, and she's terrific enough — at both the light and dark parts of Mom — that I can't get too annoyed with it. This is another extremely deep category, which I tried to cover with a variety of different kinds of performances from different kinds of shows. There's Devine playing extremely big — and yet still human enough to be at the center of an episode about clinical depression — on Carmichael (where David Alan Grier would also be a fine nominee on the male side), McKinnon carrying SNL, Donohue and Peet doing a mix of utter silliness and something much messier, and Schaal turning out in time to be the very best part of Last Man. I'd have liked to find room for some of the Transparent actresses or Zosia Mamet or a bunch of others, but you've gotta make choices when you play this game. Outstanding Supporting Actress In A Drama Series Amy Brenneman, The Leftovers Ann Dowd, The Leftovers Regina King, The Leftovers Rhea Seehorn, Better Call Saul Alison Wright, The Americans Constance Zimmer, UnREAL Nope. Not gonna leave out one of the three Leftovers ladies here. (As a past winner, King is the most likely to get an actual nomination.) Seehorn, meanwhile, essentially became co-lead for much of Saul season 2, and was so likable and vulnerable and interesting that it felt like she was adding to Jimmy's story rather than taking away from it. Wright was stronger than ever on Americans, even though Martha was in crisis throughout, and Zimmer was every bit Shiri Appleby's dramatic equal as part of the UnREAL two-hander. Outstanding Supporting Actress In A Limited Series Or Movie Olivia Colman, The Night Manager Rachel Keller, Fargo Regina King, American Crime Cristin Milioti, Fargo Anika Noni Rose, Roots Jean Smart, Fargo Another category where I went with three from one show, reflecting both the great work of Keller, Milioti, and Smart, but also the relative shallowness of this particular field. King is one of several actors this year who, thanks to the proliferation of limited series and shows with shorter seasons, has a realistic shot at being nominated for two different performances. Colman had a bunch of great moments during The Night Manager (particularly the monologue about why her character was so interested in taking down Hugh Laurie), and Rose was one of the best parts of the outstanding Roots ensemble. What does everybody else think? What nominations are you most hoping to see? Alan Sepinwall may be reached at sepinwall@hitfix.com...
- 6/14/2016
- by Alan Sepinwall
- Hitfix
James Franco is set to star in another Stephen King project! It will be a feature film adaptation of a short story called "Drunken Fireworks." There’s also a chance that Franco could direct it, but he hasn’t decided if he wants to do that or not yet.
Franco most recently worked on Hulu’s Stephen King and J.J. Abrams series 11.22.63, which was incredible! That series was just a perfect storm of awesomeness, and it’s great to see that Franco is taking on another of King’s creations. This sounds like it will be a great project for him.
Drunken Fireworks is a darkly comic tale of a blue-collar mechanic and a retired mob boss who go head to head in an increasingly antagonistic annual Fourth of July fireworks competition. The tale is set in small-town rural Maine, where local good ol’ boy Alden McCausland (Franco) strikes up...
Franco most recently worked on Hulu’s Stephen King and J.J. Abrams series 11.22.63, which was incredible! That series was just a perfect storm of awesomeness, and it’s great to see that Franco is taking on another of King’s creations. This sounds like it will be a great project for him.
Drunken Fireworks is a darkly comic tale of a blue-collar mechanic and a retired mob boss who go head to head in an increasingly antagonistic annual Fourth of July fireworks competition. The tale is set in small-town rural Maine, where local good ol’ boy Alden McCausland (Franco) strikes up...
- 6/6/2016
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
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