Great news for fans of American Dad! TBS has officially announced that they have decided to renew the show for two new seasons, meaning that American Dad will be staying on the network through 2018.
Both of the new seasons (Seasons 12 and 13 respectively) will have 22 episodes apiece. Before that, American Dad fans can catch Season 11 on TBS and Adult Swim in early 2016 when it will begin airing.
Thoughts on the renewal? Are you looking forward to watching two more seasons of American Dad?
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By Ruari Williamson
Many parts of the Empire are receiving an upgrade for Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens including the Stormtrooper armour and TIE Fighters, but if you recall in the second teaser trailer (released at Celebration Anaheim) a quick scene was shown with Imperial ships heading towards what looked like a new Star Destroyer.
Details have been scarce on the new Star Destroyers until now, but a rumoured schematic has been found. A photo has been found which is believed to be of a page from the upcoming Star Wars: Ships of the Galaxy book showing a detailed look at various parts of the ship and revealing its name, Finalizer.
Star Wars: Ships of the Galaxy is scheduled to be released on September 4th (Force Friday).
Thoughts on the schematic? Are you excited to see more of the new Star Destroyers in The Force Awakens?
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By Ruari Williamson
Even though some of us may still be recovering from the amazing “The Siege of Lothal” episode released over the summer, Star Wars: Rebels Season 2 is looming and now we know when it will begin airing!
The first episode of Season 2 will debut on October 14th. The premier episode is titled “The Lost Commanders” and will feature Captain Rex, Captain Gregor and Commander Wolffe from the popular Star Wars: The Clone Wars animated series in guest-star roles.
The date was revealed in a short 15-second teaser for the second season that was recently released but swiftly taken down.
Thoughts on the premier date? Are you excited for the second season of Star Wars: Rebels?
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By Ruari Williamson
A new report suggests that Amazon Studios is looking to sci-fi comedy Galaxy Quest (released in 1999) into a TV series. Paramount Television are said to be partnering up with Amazon to develop the series.
Several crew members who worked on the original film are confirmed to return. The crew members include the following- Dean Parisot (director of the original film) returns to direct and executive produce), Robert Gordon (co-writer of the original film) will serve as the writer and an executive producer on the pilot episode and Mark Johnson and Melissa Bernstein (executive producers on the original film) will return as the executive producers of the TV series.
While the film featured a stellar cast (including the likes of Sigourney Weaver and Alan Rickman), there is currently no word on whether any of the original cast will be asked to return as the series is still in early planning stages. As it’s being made for TV it will probably look for an entirely new cast.
Thoughts on this report? Would you watch a Galaxy Quest TV series?
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By Ruari Williamson
While at the Wizard World Chicago convention last weekend, Jeremy Renner teased to fans attending his panel that his favourite Hawkeye costume was the latest one.
And now, maybe fans will understand why. Jeremy took to Twitter to reveal a first look at Hawkeye’s costume in Captain America: Civil War (with Ant-Man shrinking for a ride on his shoulder). This confirms that both Hawkeye and Ant-Man will be on Captain America’s side as Renner previously confirmed that Hawkeye would be Team Cap.
Captain America: Civil War is officially released on May 6th, 2016.
Thoughts on Hawkeye’s Civil War costume? Are you excited to see more of Hawkeye in Captain America: Civil War?
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By Ruari Williamson
Yahoo have released the first look at Michael Fassbender as the lead character in the upcoming Assassin’s Creed film.
Michael, who is best-known for playing Erik Lehnsherr/Magneto X-Men: First Class and X-Men: Days of Future Past (and reprises the role in next years X-Men: Apocalypse) will play a character called Callum Lynch in Assassin’s Creed. The movie may be based on the popular game series by Ubisoft but they have decided to go with a new protagonist and not use one from the games.
Yahoo also stated that the movie will be set in the same world as the video games and Callum Lynch is being introduced into that world. Note: This all but confirms that the events of the movie are of the same canon and within the video game series.
Production for the Assassin’s Creed movie begins on Monday August 31st.
Thoughts on the first look? Are you planning to watch the Assassin’s Creed movie?
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By Ruari Williamson
Anticipation for Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens is already at an insane level, and it just got even more insane. We’ve already had two teaser trailers (the second released at Celebration Anaheim in April) but a new teaser has just been released. This teaser is much shorter in length but still contains enough footage to get people talking.
If you’re looking to avoid any The Force Awakens spoilers, you should probably not watch this teaser as the ending spoils something major (if you didn’t see Drew Struzan’s The Force Awakens poster for D23 attendees). Therefore, this is your official SPOILER alert warning.
The teaser features new footage and footage we’ve seen before, as well as (what appears to be) a new score from John Williams. The new footage features Rey and BB-8 on a green planet and one of the new trio holding a lightsaber. Note: We won’t say who it is so only look if you really want to know before the release of The Force Awakens. The lightsaber being held appears to be the old lightsaber of Luke Skywalker though.
Thoughts on the teaser? Are you excited for the release of The Force Awakens?
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By Ruari Williamson
The return of Star Wars to the big screen this year is a big deal for many, but for a lot of people the return of the popular Star Wars Battlefront video-games is just as big of a deal. Even though the game is still not due out until November 17th, there is massive hype surrounding the first DLC for the new Battlefront.
Not only is the first DLC, “The Battle of Jakku”, related to this year’s Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens release but the events of the DLC are canon to and tie in directly with the film. To preview the DLC, EA have released two pieces of concept art and a description for the DLC. Note: One of the pieces of concept art was shown at the D23 Expo prior to its official release).
EA’s description of the DLC reads: “
Taking place in the aftermath of the Rebel victory in the Battle of Endor, players will experience the events that created the massive, battle-scarred landscape of Jakku shown in Star Wars: The Force Awakens.”
DICE concept artist Anton Grandert previewed the DLC further, saying this about the highly anticipated DLC:
“There’s a David and Goliath theme to this. The epic, huge super structures of the Star Destroyers contrast against the tiny but brave Rebel soldiers fighting the Imperial forces.
We wanted to portray a battle completely surrounding you, in every direction. Debris is falling from the sky, telling the story of battles above. On the surface of the planet you can see ground troops as well as X-wings, all taking part of the fight”
Fans who have pre-ordered Battlefront can play the DLC on December 1st, but everyone who hasn’t pre-ordered will have to wait until December 7th when it is made free to the public.
Thoughts on the preview? Are you looking forward to playing the first DLC when it’s made available?
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By Ruari Williamson
Even though Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens is getting closer by the day, Star Wars fans shouldn’t forget that more Star Wars films are on the way after it is released. The first of these is Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, a spin-off film which will cover the Rebels stealing the Death Plans as mentioned in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope.
At Disney’s very own D23 Expo recently, the cast, crew and official logo for Rogue One were all revealed and it was confirmed that filming on Rogue One had begun. With new filming means new leaked set photos with filming currently rumoured to be taking place at Cardington Sheds in Bedfordshire, England.
If you don’t want to know anything about Rogue One this is your SPOILER alert warning:
A stone façade can be seen in the first pictures which looks similar to the stone structure seen in the cast picture. The final picture appears to have a wooden cut out of an X-Wing which could definitely indicate that Rogue One is being filmed there.
Thoughts on the set photos? Are you looking forward to the release of Rogue One?
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By Ruari Williamson
A new report has indicated that the television network FX is now developing a spin-off for its popular Sons of Anarchy series.
The spin-off, if the report is accurate, would focus on the motorcycle group from the original series- the Mayans. This group regularly had conflicts with Son of Anarchy’s SAMCRO crew and also ran numerous operations in the series, including drug and prostitution.
Sons of Anarchy creator and producer Kurt Sutter is said to be working with FX on the series and is said to be serving as an executive producer on the spin-off.
Thoughts on this report? Would you watch a Sons of Anarchy spin-off series focusing on the Mayans?
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By Ruari Williamson
