‘The Boys’ spinoff ‘Gen V’ balances strength and weakness

The Mediapro Studio will shoot from November Season 3 of “The Head,” its biggest international hit, filming in the Sahara Desert with John Lynch (“The Fall”) and Katharine O’Donnelly (“Mary Queen of Scots), attached once more to star. Olivia Morris also returns to her role as Rachel Russo, the morally conscionable daughter of ambition-crazed biologist Arthur Wilde, played by Lynch. “The Head” Season 1 took place at an Antarctic research station cut off in winter, Season 2 on a hulking freighter at mid-Pacific’s Point Nemo, the most distant place on earth from nearest land.

Like lots of children across the UK this week, Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis have left the classroom behind them to enjoy their school half-term holiday. And there’s another familiar scenario playing out too as their parents, the Prince and Princess of Wales, juggle the young royals’ very different focuses.

Alison Herman TV Critic Season 7 of “Rick and Morty” is the first volume of the Adult Swim animated sitcom, a “Back to the Future” riff tracking the adventures of a mad scientist and his bumbling grandson, not to star co-creator Justin Roiland as the voice of both title characters. The network fired Roiland in January after the actor was charged with domestic violence; though the charges have since been dropped, an NBC News report last month alleged a pattern of inappropriate sexual conduct.

It might have been dwarfed by events at the season's end but Manchester United's most successful campaign could easily have been derailed by takeover talk.

Mick Jagger has responded yet again to Paul McCartney‘s comment that The Beatles were a superior band to The Rolling Stones.McCartney made the comments in an interview with Howard Stern in 2020, when he agreed with the host’s assertion that his band were better.“[The Stones] are rooted in the blues. When they are writing stuff, it has to do with the blues.

Megan Thee Stallion has revealed she will be releasing her next album independently and will be financing it herself.While speaking to fans on Instagram Live, the rapper confirmed that she is without a record deal but is proceeding to make new music regardless, funded out of her own pocket.“This part of my album is definitely very much funded by Megan Thee Stallion because y’know… we tryna get off [laughs]… y’all know what’s the tea,” she said. “But I have no label right now and we’re doing everything funded by Megan Thee Stallion’s pocket.

For Manchester’s many bars, restaurants and pubs, we are coming up to what can be a bit of an uncertain period.

Jimi Hendrix Experience cover of The Beatles ‘Sgt Peppers’ Lonely Hearts Club Band’ has been unearthed and released to the public – listen to it below.The track had its world premiere on the SiriusXM radio show Breakfast With The Beatles, which was guest hosted by former Rolling Stone editor David Fricke. “Here is the sound of the most exciting new group in the world, the Jimi Hendrix Experience, live in rock’s greatest year – and performing the opening theme song from The Beatles’ Summer of Love masterpiece,” Fricke said as he introduced the song.He added: “It is a pleasure and honour to play it, for the first time anywhere, on the Beatles Channel.” The cover serves as the lead song on ‘Jimi Hendrix Experience: Hollywood Bowl August 18, 1967’, which is set for release on November 10.In addition to their re-imagining of ‘Sgt.

The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon.READ MORE: ‘The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon’ first reviews draw comparisons to ‘The Last Of Us’Season two of the series is still in production and is set to debut in 2024, however the season one finale, which will reportedly feature McBride in a guest appearance, will be aired on October 15 on AMC and AMC+ in the US. A UK release date for the series is yet to be announced.Fans of the Emmy-winning post-apocalyptic series, The Walking Dead will see two of the show’s most popular characters reunited in the spinoff’s finale, with Norman Reedus continuing in the titular role.The fan-favourite actors have both hinted at Carol’s return, with Reedus saying, “How do you know she’s not gonna come back?” when asked by Variety, and with McBride telling Entertainment Weekly in 2022, “I feel like Carol has more story to tell.

The Libertines have returned with new single ‘Run Run Run’, as well as announcing details of their long-awaited fourth album ‘All Quiet On The Eastern Esplanade’ and some intimate Margate shows.Arriving on March 8, ‘All Quiet On The Eastern Esplanade’ is the long-mooted follow-up to 2015’s ‘Anthems For Doomed Youth’, with the first taster arriving in the form of launch single ‘Run Run Run’ – a classic yet subtly raucous Libs indie dancefloor anthem that sees them reflect on their standing after more than two decades, as Carl Barat begins: “It’s the lifelong project of a life on the lash”.“It’s about being trapped, and trying to escape your dismal life, a bit like the man in Bukowski’s Post Office,” said Barat of the track. “The worst thing for The Libertines would be to get stuck in a ‘Run-run-run’ rut – constantly trying to relive our past.”As well as sharing a name with Erich Maria Remarque’s anti-war novel, the album’s title is in honour of the band’s Margate hotel, studio, restaurant and bar, The Albion Rooms – which is also depicted on the sleeve with a dramatic cast of characters from the world of faded seaside glamour.Consisting of 11 new tracks with songwriting credits shared among all four of the band, ‘All Quiet On The Eastern Esplanade’ was produced by Dimitri Tikovoï (The Horrors/Charli XCX/Becky Hill) and recorded at The Albion Rooms in just four weeks back in February and March of 2023, before being finished over a wee at La Ferme de Gestein Studios in Normandy.

Princess Eugenie made the powerful decision to show her scar from undergoing major spinal surgery as a child in her statement wedding day look.The poignant moment the princess, 33, walked down the aisle with her scar purposely on show five years ago will go down in history as the royal wanted to show others how she became "very proud" of her journey with a health condition. Princess Eugenie was diagnosed with scoliosis – a condition in which a person’s spine is curved – just before her teenage years, and underwent surgery at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital in 2002.

Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent Bertrand Bonello‘s “The Beast,” a dystopian romance drama starring Lea Seydoux (“No Time to Die”) and George MacKay (“1917”), has been bought by distributors in all major markets following its world premiere in competition at the Venice Film Festival. Represented in international markets by Kinology, “The Beast” has sold to the U.K. (Vertigo Releasing), Italy (iWonder), Spain (Caramel), Australia and New Zealand (Rialto), Benelux (Imagine), Scandinavia (NonStop), Latin America (Impacto), Middle East (Front Row), Poland (New Horizons), Greece (Weirdwave), Portugal (Alambique), CIS (Capella), Romania (Transilvania), Bulgaria (Cinelibri), Ex-Yugoslavia (MCF Megacom), India (Superfine) and Indonesia (P.T.

Nicki Nicole traveled to Miami for the Billboard Latin Music Awards. During rehearsals, she told HOLA! USA about her excitement about attending an Inter Miami game while in town to support her country’s most famous footballer, Lionel Messi.

Jennifer Maas TV Business Writer “The Boys” are back in town — and this time on campus. In Amazon’s new drama “Gen V,” a spinoff of its popular R-rated superhero series, we follow a new crop of humans with superhuman abilities. The show is set at Godolkin University, a college run by supe corporation Vought, the company that runs the superhero industry and boasts The Seven, featured in “The Boys,” as its team.

Alison Herman TV Critic Is “The Boys” a satire of superhero franchises or a superhero franchise itself? Such is the question posed by a show that is, among other things, a cautionary tale about corporate monopoly that airs on Amazon. So far, though, the answer is both — a delicate balance “The Boys” has sustained through three acclaimed seasons, an animated anthology series and, now, a live-action spinoff, the college-set “Gen V.” The contradictions of success may eventually take their toll on the pitch-black comedy and its satellites, which portray so-called superheroes as pawns of the rapacious Vought International.

Naman Ramachandran Signature Entertainment has acquired U.K. and Ireland rights to writer-director Warwick Thornton’s Australian drama “The New Boy” from The Veterans. The film follows a nine-year-old Aboriginal orphan boy who arrives in the dead of night at a remote monastery run by a renegade nun, disturbing the delicately balanced world.

Animation Is Film revealed Thursday that its 2023 edition next month will open with Gkids and Studio Ghibli’s The Boy and the Heron, the latest film from Hayao Miyazaki that just opened the Toronto Film Festival. It is getting its U.S. Imax premiere at TCL’s Chinese 6.

An all-new trailer for “The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes” sees District 12 tribute Lucy Gray Baird (Rachel Zegler) meet her “rebel” mentor, a young Coriolanus Snow (Tom Blyth), for the first time.

Jennifer Maas TV Business Writer Amazon is taking back to school shopping to a whole new level with a virtual experience to promote the Sept. 29 debut of “The Boys” college spinoff “Gen V.” On Tuesday, the e-commerce giant launched GodolkinUniversity.com, a “Gen V”-themed website that includes an online campus tour for the show’s fictional superhero college, Godolkin University, that gives users the chance to purchase 150 items from Amazon.com through the company’s first-ever “title-themed virtual store.” The “Gen V” tie-in website allows you to explore the campus, including the campus store, and gives you multiple opportunities to purchase Godolkin University merchandise through the Amazon website, as well as standard dorm room supplies already available on Amazon.

allegations of rape and sexual assault.The allegations from four women emerged over the weekend in a joint investigation by Channel 4, The Times and The Sunday Times, with the claims spanning a seven-year period between 2006 and 2013. Brand has denied the accusations.The Times now reports that more women have come forward since the release of the report and Channel 4’s Dispatches special on the comedian on Saturday (September 16), with several contacting the paper and The Sunday Times regarding Brand’s alleged behaviour since the early 2000s.