In Brief: ‘Sharknado’ turning 10, and more

In Brief: ‘Sharknado’ turning 10, and more

Black Mirror topped Nielsen’s streaming chart for the week of June 12-18 following its season 6 premiere, according to Deadline. Netflix’s dystopian series topped both the overall and streaming originals charts, racking up 1.4 billion viewing minutes over its 27 episodes of season 6. S.W.A.T. took second place with 1.2 billion viewing minutes this week…Read More…

CW Network and Roku tap ‘Survivor’, ‘American Ninja Warrior’ vets as part of upcoming ‘Fight to Survive’

CW Network and Roku tap ‘Survivor’, ‘American Ninja Warrior’ vets as part of upcoming ‘Fight to Survive’

CW/RokuRoku and CW Network announced Thursday they’ve joined forces for a new survival reality show. The call it “a social experiment in primitive survivalism — with a competitive twist. 17 competitors, including former Survivor, Alone, Naked and Afraid and American Ninja Warrior contestants must survive 25 days on a remote tropical island combatting brutal conditions…Read More…

SAG-AFTRA national board votes to approve strike

SAG-AFTRA national board votes to approve strike

FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP via Getty ImagesThe national board of the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, or SAG-AFTRA, voted Thursday to go on strike, summoning its 160,000 members to hit the picket lines, union officials said. But even before the announcement, the stars of Oppenheimer made their voices heard. Matt Damon, Cillian Murphy, Robert Downey Jr., and Emily…Read More…

‘Star Wars: Young Jedi Adventures’ dropping new episodes August 2

‘Star Wars: Young Jedi Adventures’ dropping new episodes August 2

LucasfilmOn Thursday, July 13, Lucasfilm and Disney+ announced that six new episodes of its kid-skewing cartoon Star Wars: Young Jedi Adventures will debut on August 2. The first batch of seven shows following the adventures of the Jedi-in-training dropped on May 4, known colloquially as Star Wars Day. The full first season will have 25…Read More…

‘What We Do in the Shadows’ returns Thursday night on FX

‘What We Do in the Shadows’ returns Thursday night on FX

FXOn Thursday, July 13, at 10 p.m., FX’s hit vampire mockumentary What We Do in the Shadows returns for its fifth season. Like the 2014 movie of the same name from Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi, the Emmy-nominated comedy centers on a group of vampires living in the New York City borough of Staten Island.…Read More…