The first teaser trailer for Amazon’s new original series Lord of the Rings: The Rings associated with Power is here. The Super Bowl brought us our 1st eye-popping teaser for Lord of the Bands: The Rings of Power , Amazon Studio’s prequel fantasy series. Until late last week, Amazon had kept pretty much every detail […]
Enlarge / Temuera Morrison and Ming-Na Wen (supposedly) star as Boba Fett and Fennec Shand, respectively, in The Book of Boba Fett . (credit: Disney+) When The Book of Boba Fett was still in production, creator Jon Favreau jokingly dubbed the spinoff series ” The Mandalorian season 2. 5. ” It turns out that wasn’t really […]
Enlarge / Ewan MacGregor stars in the hotly anticipated spinoff series Obi-Wan Kenobi, debuting on Disney+ on May 25, 2022. (credit: Disney+) Disney+ has dropped new poster art and announced a release date for its highly anticipated Star Wars spinoff series Obi-Wan Kenobi. The first episode will drop on the streaming platform on May 25, […]
Amanda Seyfried stars as Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes in Hulu’s new original series, The Dropout. Regular Ars readers have no doubt been following our ongoing coverage of the Elizabeth Holmes fraud trial. The disgraced Theranos founder’s meteoric rise and equally rapid fall has already been the subject of a 2018 nonfiction book and the HBO documentary […]
The Orville: New Horizons returns, after a nearly three-year hiatus, to its new home on Hulu. We’re unabashed fans of The Orville here at Ars Technica, and like everyone else, we’ve keenly felt the absence of the series following its explosive S2 finale way back in April 2019. We thought we were getting a third […]
Enlarge (credit: Paramount+) The Star Trek franchise continues to expand on Paramount+ with the upcoming prequel series, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, which debuts in May. The show’s executive producers and key cast members were on hand this week for a virtual panel discussion as part of the 2022 Winter Television Critics Association (TCA) meeting. In […]
The second season of Star Trek: Picard premieres March 3, 2022 on Paramount+. It has been a long, pandemic-fueled wait, but the second season of Star Trek: Picard is almost here, and we now have an official trailer. In addition to seeing Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) encounter his mischievous former frenemy, Q (John de Lancie), fans’ hearts […]
Enlarge / Rhys Darby stars as gentleman pirate Stede Bennett in the upcoming HBO Max comedy series Our Flag Means Death. (credit: YouTube/HBO Max) It’s no secret that Ars staffers are big Taika Waititi fans. He always brings his distinctly quirky sensibility to his projects, from What We Do in the Shadows, Wellington Paranormal, and Hunt for […]
Oscar Isaac plays Steven Grant/Marc Spector, who becomes the conduit for an Egyptian god in Moon Knight . Fans finally get to welcome Oscar Isaac to the MCU. As promised, Marvel Studios dropped the official trailer for its forthcoming series, Moon Knight , during the NFL Super Wild Card matchup, along with a new poster […]
Enlarge / Dina Shihabi co-stars as Melody Pendras, a documentary filmmaker whose fire-damaged 1994 tapes end up in the hands of archivist Dan Turner (Mamoudou Athie) in the Netflix series Archive 81. It’s loosely based on a podcast of the same name. (credit: Netflix) A troubled archivist finds himself drawn into the mystery of a […]