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We're talking about everything from news and reviews to interviews and opinion pieces- all for your television-obsessed enjoyment Making the BCTV Daily Dispatch menu board today? AMC's Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire, AEW Dynasty, Ally McBeal/Calista Flockhart, Paramount+'s Star Trek: Discovery, Crunchyroll's Spy x Family Code: White, Paramount+'s Knuckles, Netflix's Dead Boy Detectives, Prime Video's Invincible, Taylor Swift/"Buffy," DC Studios'[...]

On November 9, 1988, the film Child's Play arrived in theaters (centered on a murderous "Good Guy" doll), which, over time, has generated six sequels, an ongoing television series, a less-popular remake, comic books, a video game, DLC content for ensemble horror games, and of course, the always profitable tie-in merchandise But with the recent[...]

We're talking about everything from news and reviews to interviews and opinion pieces- all for your television-obsessed enjoyment Making the BCTV Daily Dispatch menu board today? NBC's Saturday Night Live, CW's Superman & Lois, Disney+'s X-Men '97, Melrose Place, Crypt TV's The Faceless Lady, Heroes: Eclipsed, Netflix's Arcane, TBS's AEW Dynamite, Prime Video's Fallout, CBS's Ghosts, CBS's Young Sheldon, Disney+'s Echo, Max's Velma,[...]

We're talking about everything from news and reviews to interviews and opinion pieces- all for your television-obsessed enjoyment Making the BCTV Daily Dispatch menu board today? CBS's Young Sheldon, HBO's Watchmen/Louis Gossett Jr., Fraggle Rock: Elmo/Larry David, AMC's The Walking Dead: Dead City, WWE 2K24, TNT's AEW Rampage, MTV's RuPaul's Drag Race, Prime Video's Invincible, FX's American Horror Story: Delicate, FX's What[...]

We're talking about everything from news and reviews to interviews and opinion pieces- all for your television-obsessed enjoyment Making the BCTV Daily Dispatch menu board today? HBO's The Last of Us, Prime Video's Fallout, Peacock's Twisted Metal, Black Kiss/Zack Snyder, ABC's The Rookie, Wheel of Fortune, NBC's Saturday Night Live, BBC's Doctor Who, FXX's Archer, AEW, Supernatural[...]

Long before streaming entered the scene and changed the pop culture landscape forever, the gateway to your favorite films & television series was the DVD For the most part, the way you got those DVDs was to head out to either a Blockbuster or your local DVD store (RIP York Ave DVD in NYC) to[...]

We're talking about everything from news and reviews to interviews and opinion pieces- all for your television-obsessed enjoyment Making the BCTV Daily Dispatch menu board today? FX's American Horror Story: Delicate, Paramount+'s Star Trek: Discovery, Hulu's Only Murders In The Building, Paramount+'s Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, SYFY's SurrealEstate, USA Network's WWE NXT, Netflix's Daredevil/Steven DeKnight, Samoa Joe/CM Punk, The Wheel of Fortune[...]

We're talking about everything from news and reviews to interviews and opinion pieces- all for your television-obsessed enjoyment Making the BCTV Daily Dispatch menu board today? AMC's The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon, Netflix's One Piece, TBS' AEW Dynamite, The CW's Nancy Drew, Disney+'s Ahsoka, Bray Wyatt, HBO's The Last of Us, WGA/AMPTP, BBC's Doctor Who, ABC's Sabrina[...]

If DA Fani Willis announces an indictment against Donald Trump later this week, he will be the subject of a VERY different "reality show."

We're talking about everything from news and reviews to interviews and opinion pieces- all for your television-obsessed enjoyment Making the BCTV Daily Dispatch menu board today? SAG-AFTRA & WGA Strikes, SDCC 2023, Marvel's Runaways, HBO's The Last of Us, Disney+'s Spider-Man: Freshman Year, TNT's AEW Rampage, The CW's Riverdale, Amazon's Invincible, FOX's WWE SmackDown, Vice-TV's[...]

We're talking about everything from news and reviews to interviews and opinion pieces- all for your television-obsessed enjoyment Making the BCTV Daily Dispatch menu board today? Twitter's Linda Yaccarino & Elon Musk, NBC's Saturday Night Live, Adult Swim's My Adventures with Superman, Amazon's The Boys, Netflix's Sonic Prime, FX's What We Do in the Shadows,[...]

We're talking about everything from news and reviews to interviews and opinion pieces- all for your television-obsessed enjoyment Making the BCTV Daily Dispatch menu board today? Adult Swim's Rick and Morty, AMC's The Walking Dead: Dead City, AEW/NJPW Forbidden Door, Netflix's The Sandman, Lance Armstrong, Paramount+'s Frasier, Disney+'s Secret Invasion, San Diego Comic-Con 2023, FOX's[...]

With 87% of those voting (6,728 members out of 16,321 who were eligible) voting in favor of ratifying the new collective bargaining agreement – a percentage exceeding turnouts for previous ratification votes – the Directors Guild of America (DGA) announced a new, three-year deal with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) Taking[...]

Netflix's viewing data metric change sees Wednesday now replacing Stranger Things 4 as the most popular English-language series of all time.

You don't make television shows feel lesser than films (especially when DC's suck-to-not-suck ratio when it comes to films is pretty lousy) You don't make people who've spent their time & money on DC stuff over the years feel like they're not a part of the new DCU. The Flash/Supergirl (Image: The CW; DC Studios) SPECIAL NOTE:[...]

We're talking about everything from news and reviews to interviews and opinion pieces- all for your television-obsessed enjoyment Making the BCTV Daily Dispatch menu board today? Adult Swim's My Adventures with Superman, Tucker Carlson/FOX "News," WWE Raw/NXT, Disney+'s Steamboat Silly, Stephen Colbert, Paramount+'s Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, Donald Trump, Peacock's The Continental, James Gunn[...]

Here's why The Dresden Files, Preacher, Alphas, Happy!, and Dollhouse deserve much more respect (and proper series finales, too).

Even as the Writers Guild of America (WGA)/Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) writers' strike continues and SAG-AFTRA members just authorized the reunion to call for a strike at the end of the month if a deal with AMPTP isn't reached, the Directors Guild of America (DGA) and the AMPTP are one step[...]

We're talking about everything from news and reviews to interviews and opinion pieces- all for your television-obsessed enjoyment Making the BCTV Daily Dispatch menu board today? Life on Mars sequel pilot Lazarus, FXX's It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, The CW's Riverdale, Disney+'s Ahsoka, Crunchyroll's Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba – Swordsmith Village Arc, YouTube's The[...]

We're talking about everything from news and reviews to interviews and opinion pieces- all for your television-obsessed enjoyment Making the BCTV Daily Dispatch menu board today? WBD CEO David Zaslav, AMC's Fear the Walking Dead, Showtime's Yellowjackets, FOX's The Great North, Buffy the Vampire Slayer star Nicholas Brendon, Paramount+'s Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, ABC[...]

Because unless you start your day "Uncle Scrooge McDuck-ing" your vast wealth, there's no way you can see what the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) brought to the table was anything more than a dismissive slap across the face In fact, considering important key issues such as streaming residuals and AI copyright[...]

We're talking about everything from news and reviews to interviews and opinion pieces- all for your television-obsessed enjoyment Making the BCTV Daily Dispatch menu board today? Hulu's The Orville, Paramount+'s Star Trek: Picard, Amazon's The Boys, WWE/Bad Bunny, ABC's The Rookie, CBS' Ghosts, Stephen Amell/Arrow, The CW's The Flash, The CW's Superman & Lois, USA[...]

If the Writers Guild of America was looking to send a message to the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers as negotiations over a new deal ramble on, the union's members gave them the ability to do that earlier today After the ballots were counted (9,218, or 78.79% of WGA membership), an overwhelming majority[...]

Before I dive any further into today's BCTV Daily Dispatch editorial, now might be a good time to address the elephant, the gorilla & every other metaphorical animal chillin' in the metaphorical corner of the metaphorical room we create in our minds to convey "there's some important shit we need to discuss sooner rather than[...]

We're talking about everything from news and reviews to interviews and opinion pieces- all for your television-obsessed enjoyment Our line-up for this morning includes Paramount+'s Star Trek: Strange New Worlds star Anson Mount sharing heartfelt words for his "Dearest 'Discovery' Family," The Last of Us star Bella Ramsey predicting some massive divisions over the season[...]

We're talking about everything from news and reviews to interviews and opinion pieces- all for your television-obsessed enjoyment Our line-up for this morning includes Paramount+ releasing an official teaser for the Joshua Jackson & Lizzy Caplan-starring Fatal Attraction, Disney+'s The Mandalorian updating Cara Dune's status post-Gina Carano, Sarah Michelle Gellar & Pedro Pascal going full-circle[...]

We're talking about everything from news and reviews to interviews and opinion pieces- all for your television-obsessed enjoyment Our line-up for this morning includes looking at a new "home" for Superman & Lois, making the case as to why DC Studios' James Gunn & Peter Safran should bring back Batman: Caped Crusader, David Fincher waking[...]

We're talking about everything from news and reviews to interviews and opinion pieces- all for your television-obsessed enjoyment Our line-up for this morning includes Adult Swim cutting ties with Justin Roiland but Rick and Morty continuing on, us wondering if Brendan Fraser's Oscar nomination could result in HBO Max bringing back Doom Patrol for Season[...]

Was Claire Dunphy (Julie Bowen) from ABC's Modern Family an influence on today's wave of "Karens"? Here's why it might just be true...

The time of disregarding or disposing of female or queer-centered content on television continues to push against progress, and it is mainly thanks to men (specifically cisgender, straight, and often white) The gatekeeping of topics and genres are often found in genres directed at men, such as sci-fi, horror, thriller, action, and many others like[...]