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CBS All Access, the CBS Television Network’s digital subscription video on-demand and live streaming service, announced today the second season renewal of its hit original series Star Trek: Discovery. The launch of Star Trek: Discovery on CBS All Access broke a new record for subscriber sign-ups in a single day, week and month for the service. Here’s what Marc DeBevoise, President and Chief Operating Officer, CBS Interactive, had to say in a statement....

Warning: This article covers minor plot points of Stranger Things Season 4. The final two episodes of season 4 of Netflix’s hit streaming show Stranger Things have come and gone, and the stage is set for the final season. The Battle for Hawkins and the rest of the world will be epic. Additionally, it will feature the remaining beloved characters in one place and all-together. Before that occurs, though, audiences were left with new information regarding The Upside Down and some of its inhabitants, as the origins of both unfolded a little more throughout a terrifying season 4....

Many youngsters remember their first kiss, and while on the press tour for Enola Holmes, Stranger Things star Millie Bobby Brown commented on how her co-star Finn Wolfhard was a “lousy kisser” when it came to some of their early scenes together on the hit Netflix fantasy-horror series. Now Wolfhard has had the chance to respond to the tongue-in-cheek comments Brown made concerning his on-set lip-locking. While appearing on The Drew Barrymore Show, Wolfhard said:...

SAG CHIEF: STRIKE WOULD NOT SHUT DOWN INDUSTRY Screen Actors Guild National Executive Director Doug Allen insisted today (Tuesday) that should the union go on strike it would in “no way” shut down the industry. In an email message to union members, he observed that the strike would have no effect on work done under commercial contracts, or those for basic cable, video games and independent movie projects. Significantly, he also noted that actors who have dual membership with AFTRA would also be able to continue to work on “any AFTRA-covered projects in [AFTRA’s] jurisdiction....

NO STOPPING CBS ON THURSDAYSFiguring that it would probably be up against a fifth game of the World Series on Thursday night, CBS aired a rerun of its hit drama CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. But with the baseball series settled after four games the night before, the rerun ended up attracting almost as big an audience as a new episode, drawing a 16.0 rating and a 23 share. By contrast, NBC’s competing The Apprentice drew an 8....

HOCKEY TAKES ANOTHER FALL Ratings for NBC’s coverage of the Stanley Cup Finals, which fell to a record-low 2.6 rating and a 4 share a year ago Monday, slid even further – to a 2.2/4 for the comparable game this year. The tiny ratings impacted the rest of NBC’s schedule, which averaged a 1.7/3 for the rest of the night, which translates to just 3 million viewers. Meanwhile, the third season of Hell’s Kitchenon Fox cooked up a 6....

COMCAST MAY PUT FOX BUSINESS CHANNEL IN BUSINESS News Corp’s plans to launch a Fox business news channel has received a major boost with the agreement of Comcast, the nation’s largest cable operator, to carry the channel on its systems. Today’s (Tuesday) New York Times, citing people with knowledge of the deal,reported that Comcast had agreed to carry the channel as part of its basic service to its 12 million digital subscribers....

Ever since actress Cynthia Addai-Robinson signed on to play A.R.G.U.S. agent Amanda Waller in September, fans have been wondering whether or not the Suicide Squad will show up on Arrow sometime during Season 2. Today, this group’s presence has been confirmed, with the first photos of this deadly team, including Ben Turner/Bronze Tiger (Michael Jai White), Mark Scheffer/Shrapnel (Sean Maher), Floyd Lawton/Deadshot (Michael Rowe), Lyla Michaels (Audrey Marie Anderson), Diggle (David Ramsey) and Amanda Waller (Cynthia Addai-Robinson)....

Supernatural star Jared Padalecki has spoken out on social media for the first time since his arrest at the end of October. The actor was not able to attend the convention for the beloved show in Washington D.C. over the weekend. While Padalecki wasn’t able to attend, many of his co-stars did and Alexander Calvert and Jake Abel came in specifically to fill in for him. Jensen Ackles took some time during the convention to make light of the situation, even gently teasing his co-star and long-time friend....

During the peak of The Twilight Saga’s popularity, the fandom had been split into two separate camps: Team Edward and Team Jacob. The movie series, inspired by the books authored by Stephenie Meyer, tell the story of a teenage girl, Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart), who must decide which supernatural being is the one for her. It’s between the vampire Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson) and the werewolf Jacob Black (Taylor Lautner). Up to the end of the fifth and final film, fans were rooting for one or the other to have the happy ending they wanted with Bella....

The epic streaming giant Netflix is no stranger to exciting and cutting-edge content, and their library of compelling thrillers is no exception. Some of the most spine-tingling and gripping pictures are a part of the ever-growing collection of Netflix movies, featuring Hollywood’s most innovative storytellers and dynamic performers. Whether you’re in the mood for watching Kevin Bacon portray a marvelously menacing bad guy in Cop Car, Jake Gyllenhaal as a troubled 911 call dispatcher in The Guilty, or witnessing the disturbing and thought-provoking international Spanish horror thriller The Platform, Netflix is sure to scratch your movie itch....

Sci Fi Wire recently spoke with Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen screenwriters/producers Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman about the film. Here’s a brief segment of the interview below, where Orci talks about the inception of the sequel’s plotline. CLICK HERE to read the rest of the revealing interview from Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen opens in theaters nationwide on June 26. The theme started coming out of Sam leaving home, now....

The Good A well put together DVD that tells you everything you could want to know about this film. The Bad I wish there had a been a separate featurette with members of the boxing world talking about this franchise. Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone) has reached a crossroads in his life. He has lost his beloved wife Adrian (Talia Shire), his son Robert (Milo Ventimiglia) is trying to get out from his shadow, and Paulie (Burt Young) is angrier and crankier than ever....

We’ve heard rumors that the min-series may be a backdoor pilot for an actual series. We’re wondering if there is any truth to those rumors. Ryan Carnes: Yes, there is truth to those rumors in terms of the way that the project was presented originally. It was presented as a backdoor pilot. And, you know, at this time we don’t know what’s going to happen. We don’t know what the fate of the min-series is going to be, but obviously the more people that watch, the better chance this thing has of getting some legs and getting a following and becoming a series....

The original series began in 1968 with Planet of the Apes, based on the novel La planete des singes by Pierre Boulle. Charlton Heston starred as astronaut George Taylor who left Earth in 1972 and lands 2006 years later on what he thinks is another planet run by apes with human-like intelligence and speech. One of the most shocking endings to a film ever occurs in Planet of the Apes when Taylor sees the ruins of the Statue of Liberty and realizes that he is not on another planet, but rather Earth in the future....

The film is based on the first arc of the popular comic book by writer Andy Diggle and artist Jock about a CIA Special Forces team that is burned by their handlers, left for dead and forced to seek revenge on the people responsible in order to get their lives back. Originally created for DC Comics in the ’70s by Robert Kanigher as a WWII Special Forces group who fought along side other WWII DC characters like Sgt....

You can enjoy one of Guy Ritchie’s enduring crime saga’s in high definition this December. Snatch will be released on Blu-ray on December 1. The disc will be priced at $28.95 SRP and you can take a look at the special features below. The film stars Jason Statham, Brad Pitt, Benecio del Toro, Vinnie Jones and Dennis Farina. Guy Ritchie, writer/director of Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, delivers another awe-inspiring directorial masterpiece, SNATCH - an edgy and hilarious film about a diamond heist gone wrong, a colorful Irish gypsy-turned-prize fighter…and a very temperamental dog....

The sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live has been poking fun at some of pop culture’s biggest stories for nearly 50 seasons, but many viewers feel that some topics should be kept off-limits. On Saturday night’s episode, the cold open segment satirized the defamation trial involving Johnny Depp and Amber Heard. The former spouses are suing one another with each accusing the other of domestic violence with the entire court proceedings televised....

Julie Taymor has been holding casting calls for Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark across the country, and while she still hasn’t come any closer to revealing casting for Peter Parker, Mary Jane Watson or new villain Swiss Miss, it seems she may be eying a big name for the role of the Green Goblin - none other than X2: X-Men United’s Alan Cumming! According to a report in The New York Post, Cumming was seen in a production meeting with Taymor, where they were examining Eiko Ishioka’s costume designs....

Spike TV has announced their programming highlights for March: ORIGINAL SERIES PREMIERE • BULLRUN Premieres Tuesday, March 13 (10:00 - 11:00 PM, ET/PT); encores Tuesday, March 13 (11:00 PM - Midnight, ET/PT), Thursdays (11:00 PM - Midnight) and Saturdays (11:00 AM - Noon, ET/PT). Wrestling icon and devoted car enthusiast, Bill Goldberg, hosts Spike TV’s new original series, Bullrun. Based on the international automotive rally of the same name, Bullrun features 12 teams of two drivers who use their own cars in a rally that takes them across America....