Tag: NBC
MacGruber Announcement Video Accompanies Peacock Pickup
NBC and Roku need to sort out their differences post haste because Peacock has released an announcement that they’ve picked up the MacGruber series! MacGruber started as a Saturday Night Live sketch that parodied MacGyver; MacGruber, played by Will Forte, would find himself in desperate situations...
Read MoreREVIEW: Brave New World – Season 1
I had always thought that an adaptation of Brave New World would be little more than a dream. I remember when it was first announced as a Syfy project with Steven Spielberg involved as a producer and immediately put the book on my “to be read” pile. However, when the show failed to mater...
Read MoreNBC Picks Up Sci-fi Show Debris
A new sci-fi duo is on the case for NBC. Deadline reports that the network has ordered Debris to series. This was one of the few pilots that were able to complete filming in a way not too dissimilar to the way The Blacklist’s season finale came together. The plot centers on a CIA agent &hell...
Read MoreMacGruber Show Coming to NBC’s Peacock
America’s favorite MacGyver spoof (by default) just defused a bomb with a paper clip, as NBC’s Peacock streaming service will resurrect MacGruber as a TV show. MacGruber began as a sketch on Saturday Night Live back when it was a comedy show, in which Will Forte portrayed an incompetent adventur...
Read MoreFresh Prince Spinoff in the Works
Get really to chill out and relax all cool once again. Entertainment Weekly has announced that the digital arm of Will Smith’s production company Overbrook Digital Media is developing a spinoff of the hit 90s sitcom that catapulted Smith to superstardom, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. No other detai...
Read MoreJimmy Smits to Star in Bluff City Law for NBC
Jimmy Smits is taking another shot at the legal drama, as Deadline reports that the actor has been cast as the male lead in NBC’s pilot Bluff City Law, about a father/daughter duo taking on civil rights cases. This is exciting to me. I’ve been following Smits since his first appearance as Bail O...
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