Phileas Fogg (David Tennant), Abigail Fix (Leonie Benesch), and Jean Passepartout (Ibrahim Koma) set out on the adventure of a lifetime in a new TV adaptation of Jules Verne’s Around the World in 80 Days The series debuts January 2, 2022. Jules Verne’s 1873 novel, Around the World in Eighty Days , inspired numerous real-life […]
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Why is it still so hard to find coverage of women’s sports?
Sedona Prince started it this year with an uncomfortable truth. The Oregon basketball player, famous for a TikTok video earlier this year that pointed out the discrepancy between the workout palace provided at the NCAA men’s basketball tournament and the meager triangle of dumbbells for the women, has made it safe to… Read more…
NFL Sunday Ticket on a streaming service? Yes… PLEASE! ?
The dream may finally soon become a reality: NFL Sunday Ticket accessible without a satellite dish. The Athletic reported in September that the NFL’s preferred destination for Sunday Ticket is Apple, but this process is obviously going to be a competition with the rights going to the highest bidder. Now Sports… Read more…
What a shame that even Inside the NBA bowed down to football
If, by instinct, you turned on TNT last night at 8 p. m. EST expecting to see Ernie, Charles, Kenny, Shaq setting up a prime time basketball game, you received an unpleasant surprise: Hotel Transylvania 2. Read more…
The Weeping Angels are as terrifying as ever in Doctor Who: Flux trailer
Jodie Whittaker returns for one last stint as our favorite time lord in Doctor Who: Flux. We got the briefest of teasers for the upcoming 13th season (or series) of Doctor Who during San Diego Comic-Con in July, hinting at the return of some of the show’s most classic villains. Now we finally have the […]
New Jeopardy! host Mike Richards resigns on first day of production
Enlarge / Jeopardy! EP Mike Richards was chosen to replace longtime host Alex Trebek just last week. He resigned in the wake of controversy surrounding comments made during a podcast he co-hosted in 2013-2014. (credit: Sony Pictures Television) Drama and controversy continue to swirl over the selection of a replacement host for Jeopardy! within the […]
Zombies are coming to SyFy with first Day of the Dead series trailer
At this year’s Comic-Con@home, SyFy dropped the first trailer for its new series, Day of the Dead —the ultimate love letter to the godfather of zombies, George A. Romero. Somehow I missed the news last February that SyFy had greenlit a TV reboot of George A. Romero’s classic 1985 zombie horror film, Day of the […]
This week in The Ladies Room: NBC Sports Bay Area’s Jessica Kleinschmidt
Welcome to the Ladies Room – A Deadspin Sports Podcast. Read more…
Review: The Nevers makes abrupt turn in disorienting midseason finale
Enlarge / Laura Donnelly stars as Amalia True in HBO’s Victorian-era sci-fi drama, The Nevers. (credit: HBO) I’m not sure what I was expecting from the midseason finale for The Nevers, HBO’s inventive and alluring science fiction drama set in Victorian England. But I certainly didn’t foresee being so disoriented that I briefly wondered if HBO Max […]
Review: Shadow and Bone is a worthy adaptation of the Grishaverse novels
Jessie Mei Li stars as Alina Starkov, a cartographer in the First Army of Ravka. [credit: Netflix ] A lowly orphan and military cartographer in a war-torn world discovers she may be the key to her country’s survival in Shadow and Bone, a new Netflix series based on young adult author Leigh Bardugo’s bestselling “Grishaverse” novels. […]