The making of television is never an easy or predictable pursuit during the most normal of times, and one thing we can say for certain about the last 12 months is that things have definitely not been normal. Even without a pandemic making production extraordinarily complicated and costly, the industry has been in a state of flux; forever gone are the days when all shows premiered in the fall and wrapped in the spring....

TheDragon Ballfranchise is widely regarded as one of the greatest manga and anime series in history, having inspired a number of anime shows that fans enjoy today. Whilethere are still more stories to uncover in theDragon Balltale, the whole franchise (along withDragon Ball Superand the recently concludedDragon Ball Daima) have been put on hold mostly due to the passing of the legendary creatorAkira Toriyama. However, in a recent interview by the DB Times (viaCBR), animator andDragon Ballcharacter designerKatsuyoshi Nakatsurusays a remake is possible despite the franchise’s uncertain future....

Action-adventure video gameAmerican McGee’s Aliceis pursuing the adaptation route once again. In an exclusive withThe Hollywood Reporter, Radar Pictures was announced to have secured the rights to a television series based around the game.David Hayter, writer of the 2000X-Menmovie, has been tapped as the series showrunner. The videogame franchise, created and designed byAmerican James McGee, features two games, the aforementioned 2000American McGee’s Alice,often shortened to justAlice,and its 2011sequelAlice: Madness Returns. The series is a dark retelling of the children’s classicAlice’s Adventures in Wonderland, which sees the heroine as an asylum patient after witnessing her family die in a house fire....

We might think we’ve seen it all when it comes to war movies, but almost every year a new movie comes along to show us that war involves so many personal stories that we can get about a million different angles for as long as cinema and TV want to tell them. The new trailer for Netflix’sAll Quiet on the Western Frontunderscores this – and then some. The war drama has already premiered at several film festivals, with a limited theatrical run (eyeing an Academy Award nominations), ahead of its Netflix premiere next week....

One of the most action-packed movies of this year has beenMichael Bay’sAmbulance. Now, you can experience the rush on Peacock! TheJake GyllenhaalandYahya Abdul-Mateen IIvehicle takes us on a trip with two brothers, Danny Sharp (Gyllenhaal) and Will Sharp (Abdul-Mateen II) as they try to escape a bank robbery gone wrong. Thrown into an ambulance as their only means of escape, the two take an EMT (Eiza González) hostage in their pursuit of freedom....

Disney has worked with many animators who have used their artistic talents to bring their animated characters to life. One of these isAndreas Deja, who was inspired to become an animator upon seeing late Silver Age movies like101 DalmatiansandThe Jungle Book. After graduating, he joined Disney in 1980 as the old guard was retiring, which saw Deja become a supervising animator for some of Disney’s most iconic charactersduring their Renaissance. Though he no longer works at Disney, Deja is still involved in animation, be it through sharing his knowledge through books or producing his own short film,Mushka....

Apple TV has Picture in Picture (PiP) capabilities on compatible Apps that lets you watch a small video in a floating window while using other apps or watching a second show on the full screen. The steps to enable PiP will vary slightly based on the App you’re using and the model of Apple TV you have (including the tvOS version you’re running). PiP is a particularly great function to use with sports when you want to watch multiple games at the same time and apps like YoutubeTV will have multi-streaming functions built right in to make it even easier....

Apparently oblivious to the fact that Netflix has declared it Geeked Week, our other streaming overlord Apple has unveiled a summer preview highlighted by its hot Sundance acquisitionCODAand new footage from Season 2 of bothTed LassoandThe Morning Show. The sizzle reel offers a first look at new Apple TV+ series such asFoundation,Invasion,The Shrink Next Door,Schmigadoon!andMr. Corman, the latter of which featuresJoseph Gordon-Levittas a fifth-grade teacher. Meanwhile, our brief look atThe Shrink Next DoorfeaturesWill Ferrelllike you’ve never seen him before, and he’s paired with fan favorites such asPaul RuddandKathryn Hahn....

After six years, seven seasons, and the creation of an entire small-screen comic book universe, The CW’sArrowis set to backflip off into the sunset after season 8. But the show isn’t going out on an easy note. Speaking toEW, star Stephen Amell and the minds behind the series discussed how the final go-around will be a “different show”, and how that extends to more than just the factEmily Bett Rickards' Felicity Smoakwon’t play a part....

Since the Bat Trophies washed up on the shores of Gotham City at the end ofBatwomanSeason 2, anyone has been able to pick up one of the wayward relics and become a baddie.Javicia Leslie’s Batwoman has already had to deal with new incarnations of Mad Hatter and Killer Croc, and now — after sightings of nefarious vines across a number of episodes thusfar — a classic supervillain of the DC roster is coming into play: Poison Ivy....

Look, we know you want to Netflix and Chill. Who doesn’t? But until Netflix creates a real “Netflix and Chill” category, you might find yourself struggling to come up with new movie suggestions to keep things fresh. Sure, you might have your tried and true, go-to make-out movies, but if you’re tired of watchingTitanicorPretty Womanfor the 100th time, you need to change it up. That’s where we come in. We put together an eclectic and unique list of movies available on the streaming giant for your next Netflix and Chill session, so you’re welcome....

In Hasbro and Paramount’s live-actionTransformersfranchise, shepherded byMichael Bay, the reimagined heroic Autobots and the villainous Decepticons have called all manner of criticisms upon themselves. On the extreme end of things, some of those characters have been called out for their apparentracist and misogynistic depictions. Now thatTravis Knightis heading up a new installment of the franchise inBumblebee, it looks as if the series is keeping the familiar look of the Robots in Disguise but wisely shying away from anything that could conceivably be called socially controversial (though I’m sure someone, somewhere, somehow will find a way....

In the latest round of the seemingly interminable discourse around Marvel movies vs. real cinema, MCU starsChris Evans,Scarlett Johansson, andChadwick Bosemanare weighing in. A comment from directorMartin Scorseselikening Marvel movies to theme parksback in early October began the trend and it hasn’t stopped since. In the month since that first comment, wave upon wave of reactions from industry professionals likeFrancis Ford Coppolaand Disney CEOBob Igerhave been shared with the public. The discourse eventually led toScorsese publishing a New York Times op-edattempting to clarify at length how the dominance of Marvel movies in the cinematic landscape have left him with doubts about the health of the medium....