Blog Archive: November 2022

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Space Vampires

So the internet is abuzz with reports that Jennifer Lawrence regrets her Passengers role - the creepiest "romance" film we've ever seen - and that Adele advised her not to do it.

Did Adele not like the script? No.

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Wright Out?

In a pair of recent tweets Stargate SG-1 and Atlantis executive producer Brad Wright has seemingly confirmed the leaked reports of Amazon not proceeding with him or his script for their new Stargate series.

Instead, according to the same leaker, Amazon have engaged The Expanse writers Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby.

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The First of Us

HBO's post-apocalyptic zombie drama The Last of Us based on the popular PlayStation game has been given a January 16 release date in Australia on Binge and Foxtel.

Which on our calendar will be the first new sci-fi series to launch next year.

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Atomic Release

We now have a release date trailer for alternate history retro-futuristic Soviet action roleplaying game Atomic Heart.

Another one. This is gaming. No release date is set in stone until a game has actually released.

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Avatar Trailer

Approaching thirteen years after the original's cinematic release, today we have the highly anticipated trailer for Avatar: The Way of Water.

As anyone would expect, it looks fabulously pretty. But doesn't include any shocking reveals.

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Prodigy on the Prime

Readers of our blog would probably be aware that of the current era Star Trek's, Prodigy is the only one we reckon is proper Star Trek.

In February we credited it with not retconning the Prime Directive, but on watching the first episode after its mid-season break, sadly discovered that honour was premature.

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Doctor Who Viewership

For much of their history, Radio Times were owned by the BBC and unsurprisingly tend never to speak ill of Doctor Who.

When discussing the recently revealed viewing numbers for Jodie Whittaker's final episode (spoilers ahead), again they don't speak ill of that or the Chibnall era, but do throw in a few extra numbers to show that the final episode only had half as many viewers (5.3 million) as his first (10.9 million).

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Brand Convergence

For US customers only at this point, but we consider it interesting, YouTube have rolled out their new Primetime Channels.

Not to be confused with Amazon's Prime Video Channels. Though they appear to be much the same - optional subscriptions to third party content.

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DC Divergence

A few weeks back, DC's Black Adam released in cinemas alongside action roleplaying game Gotham Knights. It looked like dark day for the franchise with generally unfavourable critic response to the film, and mixed but quite savage reviews for the game from several major publications. Today on Rotten Tomatoes, Black Adam sports a 40% critic and 90% viewer score. Only half a world between those.

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