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Strange New Reviews
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Multiple sites are running stories with titles to the effect that Star Trek's latest offering, Strange New Worlds, has a perfect score on Rotten Tomatoes.

Discovery was widely acclaimed by critics at launch, with few detractors and those often dismissed as bigots. Its current RT score is critics 86% and viewers 36%.

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US FTC Investigate Sony
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Sony's proposed $3.6 billion (US) acquisition of game developer Bungie will be the subject of a US Federal Trade Commission anti-trust investigation.

When the deal was announced Bungie released a statement to the effect that their games, present (eg. Destiny 2) and future, would not become Sony (i.e. Playstation) exclusives but the FTC has doubts.

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Quantum Leap Go Ahead
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The Quantum Leap reboot has leapt ahead of the competition to be the first of this year's US Network pilots to get a series order, i.e. season 1 production has been approved.

NBC made the announcement 29 years to the day after the final episode of the original show aired in the US.

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Surgery Is The New Sex
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Warning. You may want to skip this one if you are at all squeamish.

A trailer - from which we pulled our blog title - has been released for upcoming Cannes contender Crimes of the Future.

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How to Reverse Aging
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You've probably seen a great many ads for terrifyingly expensive cosmetics which claim to reverse the signs of aging, full of terrifyingly beautiful people smiling and rubbing ointments into their skin.

Scientists report having successfully reversed several key signs of aging in mice in a manner which may challenge the cosmetic companies' marketing teams. Poo.

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Stargate AI 2.0
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Former Stargate cast are re-uniting again for a table read of an AI generated script though this time they promise the script is better.

Also, Richard Dean Anderson is at this virtual table and tells us that this is the first dialog he's read since leaving.

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Beware My Power
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Warner Bros. have released a trailer for their upcoming animated film, Green Lantern: Beware My Power.

"Beware my power" is feistier language than we typically hear from hero types but derives from the standard Green Lantern oath.

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Super Pets Trailer
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DC may be second fiddle in the superhero business but they're not rolling over and playing dead as Doctor Strange does his multiverse thing this week.

Instead, they're rolling out the pets and trying to bowl you over with puppy power giving us their second DC League of Super-Pets trailer.

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Lightyear Special Look
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All eyes being on Star Wars and Doctor Strange this week, many might regard it as not the best time to put out a trailer.

But what about a "special look"? Does that grab your attention?

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Star Wars & Oz Politics
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It's an interminably slow news week courtesy of a few of the big players dominating the field so please forgive us for sinking into the murky realms of politics.

The Australian Labor Party yesterday tweeted three Star Wars themed campaign images to coincide with the Star Wars May the 4th (as in may the force with be you) celebrations.

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