Variety has reported that HBO Max has canceled six upcoming animated series, including Batman: Caped Crusader.
The project was ordered to series in May 2021 with Bruce Timm (Batman The Animated Series), J.J. Abrams (Star Wars – The Rise Of Skywalker, Matt Reeves (The Batman) attached to executive produce.
Written by Cavan Gilbey
It’s that time of the year again where Eccleston and Big Finish bring us a fresh batch of adventures with the Ninth Doctor, a fact which still feels miraculous to this day. In previous sets we’ve had the Ninth Doctor face off against familiar foes, namely the Cybermen in a Dalek to Parting of the Ways style of progression, so here we have the Sontarans who feel like a natural fit for this Doctor given his Time War guilt. However where we deviate from those previous sets is in theming; in the first series of four sets in this range we saw thematic boxsets with three stories that represented the primary settings for RTD era narratives. But with series two we get boxsets, that while still thematically linked in their stories, focus on just story setting and explore as many avenues with it as possible. Back To Earth gave us three story set across Earth’s history so to contrast that Into The Stars sends beyond Earth to see life beyond the stars.
Demon Records presents the narrated TV soundtrack of a ‘lost’ Doctor Who TV serial, starring William Hartnell as the Doctor.
British stage and television character actress Josephine Ann Tewson has died at the age of 91.
Tewson was best known for her roles in British television sitcoms, such as Edna Hawkins aka “Mrs H” in Shelley; Elizabeth “Liz” Warden, the long-suffering next door neighbour of Hyacinth Bucket in Keeping Up Appearances (1990–1995); and Miss Davenport in Last of the Summer Wine (2003–2010).
A former contest of RuPaul’s Drag Race has been accused of stealing hundreds of dollars during a Drag Brunch performance in Las Vegas.
Bryan Watkins, known under his stage name as Shannel, has been accused of stealing a ‘wad of bills’ out of a woman’s purse during a performance at Señor Frog’s in Las Vegas on 13th August.
Netflix‘s has released the official trailer for it’s upcoming Addams Family series Wednesday.
Superman & Lois series regular Jordan Elsass will not be returning for the upcoming third season of the CW’s DC series. As a result, his role, Jonathan Kent, will be recast.
The second season for William Hartnell’s First Doctor is the next release to come to Blu-ray with Season 2.
VH1 has renewed both RuPaul’s Drag Race and RuPaul’s Drag Race: Untucked for Season 15.
Sources told Variety in “Drag Race’s” upcoming landmark installment, the Emmy-award winning series will return and introduce a new batch of queens all leading up to the show’s big 200th episode.
Review by Jacob Licklider
*** Warning: Spoilers Ahead ****
Let’s cut to the chase, Purity Undreamed is a set with a very weird starting point as an audio drama. Following on from Water Worlds and continuing on the development of Hebe Harrison it sets out to introduce several side characters who are attempting to recur, a new villain for the series, and end by setting up next year’s box sets for the Sixth Doctor and Mel (or at least that’s the assumption since they have not been formally announced yet to feature Mel). It’s a three-hour box set that is almost entirely setup from three different writers: Paul Magrs, Jonathan Morris, and Robert Valentine. Valentine is also serving as script editor with producer Jacqueline Rayner, both contributing as guides for the overarching story arcs. The biggest issue with Purity Undreamed comes from something that happens in the third story, setting up the villain which will be spoiled in this review, if you want non-spoiler thoughts then listen to this if you enjoyed Water Worlds as it maintains a lot of what went really well with that set although is a bit inconsistent. The behind the scenes for the second story, Reverse Engineering, reveals that Jonathan Morris had less time to complete the story, implying that another story may have fallen through. Because of this there is a disconnect between how the character of Patricia McBride, played by Imogen Stubbs, is characterised. This is not an issue of action, but of the character’s beliefs as the third story, Robert Valentine’s Chronomancer is a character piece meant to reveal that Patricia McBride is a woman harbouring bigotry going so far as to advocating for eugenics so the future is “better” and without disability.
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