Stephen Mulhern is a regular face on the telly when it comes to Saturday night entertainment.
14.02.2022 - 21:04 / variety.com
Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorAfter three years in the works, Critical Role’s animated “The Legend of Vox Machina” finally lit up streaming screens on Prime Video last month — delighting fans with a raucous, foul-mouthed spree of action and adventure.The show, based on Critical Role’s first Dungeons & Dragons campaign, is currently No. 3 on Prime Video’s Top 10 ranking in the U.S.
(after action-thriller series “Reacher” and rom-com “I Want You Back”). It also has an impressive 100% critics’ score on Rotten Tomatoes and a 93% audience score.The first nine episodes of “Vox Machina” were released in three-episode batches over the past three weeks.
The 10th and final episode in Season 1 drops Thursday (Feb. 17), leading into a second season, whose premiere date is TBA.
So what’s next for the Critical Role crew? Right now, they’re in the midst of the Campaign 3 livestream, and they are in discussions with partners about a video game adaptation.And the company’s founding cast members tell Variety they would be very much on board for a live-action movie or TV adaptation. “As you’ve heard from us before, there’s a chance for anything to happen,” said Sam Riegel, who plays diminutive gnome bard Scanlan Shorthalt, a fan favorite.
Stephen Mulhern is a regular face on the telly when it comes to Saturday night entertainment.
Joe Otterson TV ReporterThe “Quantum Leap” pilot at NBC has cast Raymond Lee in one of the show’s lead roles, Variety has learned.Serving as a sequel series to the original “Quantum Leap,” the new version takes place 30 years after Dr. Sam Beckett stepped into the Quantum Leap accelerator and vanished. Now a new team has been assembled to restart the project in the hopes of understanding the mysteries behind the machine and the man who created it.Lee will star as Dr.
She has played Mandy Dingle for the best part of 27 years but there's way more to Lisa Riley than leopard print and the Dingle clan.
Jennifer Maas TV Business WriterMary J. Blige’s iconic ’90s song “Real Love” is being turned into a Lifetime movie, with the Queen of Hip-Hop Soul executive producing the made-for-TV film.One of her most beloved and memorable tracks, “Real Love” was Blige’s first song to hit the Top 10 and was certified gold two months after its release in 1992.Per Lifetime, in the coming-of-age romantic drama “Real Love,” Kendra sets off on her own for the first time to a college in upstate New York, determined to focus on her studies.
Everyone’s favourite aardvark could be coming to the big screen.
Chesney Brown has grown up in front of Coronation Street fans' eyes.
Megan Fox and Machine Gun Kelly are two of the many celebs who sat court side at the NBA All-Star Game in Cleveland, Ohio, on Sunday (February 20).
Phoebe Dynevor has an exciting new movie in the works!
Megan Fox was «a little surprised» by the news that her ex-husband, Brian Austin Green, and his girlfriend, Sharna Burgess, are expecting a child together.A source tells ET, «Megan was a little surprised when she found out that Sharna and Brian were expecting.
“Peacemaker” headliner John Cena is set to star in the Warner Animation Group live-action/animated hybrid “Coyote vs. Acme,” according to an insider with knowledge.“Coyote vs.
Following the massive success of its recent Peacemaker series that included a season 2 renewal, Warner Bros. and John Cena are staying in business with each other as Cena is set to star in the WB’s Looney Tunes animated hybrid pic Coyote vs. Acme. Dave Green will direct with a screenplay from written by Samy Burch, based on the Looney Tunes characters & The New Yorker humor article “Coyote v. Acme” by Ian Frazier.
Joe Otterson TV ReporterParamount Plus is mining even more Nickelodeon content to fill out its content slate.The streamer announced a slew of new projects that will be produced by Nickelodeon and Nickelodeon Animation as part of the ViacomCBS investor day presentation on Feb. 15.
The latest incarnation of the live-action “Barbie” feature film is quickly a wild and utterly unexpected affair. After moving to Warner Bros., the movie was gifted a script from an unlikely duo, Greta Gerwig (“Little Women,” “Lady Bird”) and Noah Baumbach (“Marriage Story”).
Jennifer Maas TV Business Writer“9-1-1: Lone Star” has already featured guest appearances by two “Angel” alums, Julie Benz and Amy Acker, during the first few episodes of its currently airing third season. And if showrunner Tim Minear — who was a writer and executive producer on “Angel” and brought in Gina Torres, a vet of the WB series, as a lead on “Lone Star” at the start of Season 2 — is down for it, an actress from one of Minear’s other beloved series would love to make another reunion happen: “Firefly” star Morena Baccarin.“Oh, that would be fun! I haven’t seen those guys in forever,” Baccarin told Variety Friday, during an interview for her upcoming NBC drama “The Endgame.” “I love Tim.