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Fans of The Walking Dead in the U.K. have complained about episodes being ruined because of spoilers, since the show airs five days after its U.S. debut. Fox UK is changing that starting in February 2014, with new episodes to air Monday nights, 24 hours after airing in the U.S. The change will take place in February 2014, when the show returns from its mid-season hiatus. Season 4’s seventh episode, “Dead Weight”, which aired on Sunday, November 24 in the U....

Howdy folks. I apologize for the lack of a column last week, but for some reason I couldn’t get almost anything on the site to load up right until late Wednesday. But I’m back, so let’s get this party started with this week’s Notables. NOTABLES “Dennis Haysbert Joins Breach” - Monday, November 14 This true-story adaptation sounds like a very solid thriller. Haysbert joins Ryan Phillipe and Chris Cooper in this FBI drama where Phillipe plays an up-and-coming agent who trains alongside Cooper, a legendary g-man, only to discover that Cooper might be a national security threat....

TNT and Dean Devlin are developing the action series, Leverage. The show is a Mission: Impossible-type, in which six professionals in various fields pull their expertise to fight underworld mobsters, and corruption among international corporations and government officials, says Variety. Joining Leverage on TNT’s development slate is Mrs. America, an hourlong drama series from Warner Horizon TV dealing with a woman trying to juggle the responsibilities of family and job....

Now that all the secrets are out, Marvel Studios can really lean into the fact that Spider-Man: No Way Home features not one, not two, but three variants of Spider-Man. And lean in they do in the latest promo for the Spider-Man: No Way Home digital release, which features several shots of Tom Holland, Andrew Garfield, and Tobey Maguire uniting to tackle the madness of the multiverse. Shared by the YouTube channel Binge Watch This, the action-packed promo reveals that Spider-Man: No Way Home will be released digitally on March 23, 2022....

Written, directed and executive produced by Emmy-nominee and 2013 Sundance Best Director winner Jill Soloway, Transparent is a ten episode, half hour novelistic series that explores family, identity, sex, and love. The series stars Jeffrey Tambor as Maura, who has spent her life as Mort-the Pfefferman family patriarch. When she reintroduces herself to her family, everyone’s secrets finally start to come out. This includes her ex-wife Shelly (played by Judith Light), and their children-meandering Ali (played by Gaby Hoffmann), record producer Josh (played by Jay Duplass), and sexually conflicted Sarah (played by Amy Landecker)....

Under the Dome, television’s #1 summer series in viewers and key demographics, will return in summer 2014 with 13 new episodes, it was announced today by Nina Tassler, President, CBS Entertainment. Stephen King, whose bestselling novel is the basis for the series, will write the premiere episode of the second season. Here’s what CBS president Nina Tassler had to say about the renewal in a statement. Under the Dome is a serialized drama from Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Television based on Stephen King’s bestselling novel of the same name....

USA Network will advance the ‘Characters Welcome’ brand by inviting a CIA linguist, an inner city trauma surgeon and a salesman turned morgue investigator among others to join the ambitious development slate for the 2008-09 season. A slate of three new pilot scripts, Covert Affairs, Operating Instructions and Stiffs, were announced today by Jeff Wachtel, executive vice president, USA original programming & co-head, original programming, Universal Cable Productions. “Our development slate continues our commitment to creating uniquely appealing characters,” said Wachtel....

The long-awaited YouTube Red series Cobra Kai is now available to stream for free on the exclusive platform. It’s been over 30 years since the events of The Karate Kid and a lot has changed for Ralph Macchio’s Daniel LaRusso and William Zabka’s Johnny Lawrence. LaRusso is seemingly on top of the world, running a car dealership while Lawrence seems to have fallen on some hard times, which sees him reopen the Cobra Kai dojo in the Valley, leading to a new run-in with LaRusso....

If you recently missed an episode of your favorite show, don’t sweat it. TV Daily has you covered. Every day, we will be updating you with the funniest, most exciting series out there. Finally, you can catch all of these water cooler conversation starters in one convenient place. Today, we have brand new episodes of Glee, Parenthood, V, Modern Family, Castle, Mercy, Minute to Win It, and Happy Town. To get started, click on one of the boxes below:...

Last night, Fox’s long-running animated series The Simpsons celebrated yet another TV milestone, airing its 600th episode, which served as this year’s annual Treehouse of Horror episode. A few days before this landmark episode, the show’s lovable patriarch, Homer Simpson, gave late night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel a brief “tour” of Springfield in a new video you can see below. Jimmy Kimmel got to see several of the iconic Springfield sights that fans have enjoyed for nearly three decades....

Spoiler Warning: Umma (2022) Many audience members go to film as a way to escape, to feel detached from the world and state they’re in, even if just for a short while. They need to feel as if there is something better out there. Some turn to film for a sense of connection and catharsis, as a way to see themselves, all they are, and all they’ve struggled with represented on screen....

Last week, amidst a slew of new trailers for all different kinds of upcoming shows and movies, HBO unveiled the trailer for their upcoming and highly anticipated Game of Thrones prequel series, House of the Dragon. Like any good trailer should, it shows just enough to keep people interested while at the same time leaving mysteries as to which direction the show will ultimately take before debuting in August of this year....

Kevin Costner has been an accomplished actor throughout his long career. As one of the most familiar Hollywood faces of the late 80s and early 90s, by the 2000s, he arguably faded away a little after the critical and commercial of two massive epics he directed, Waterworld and The Postman. He did continue to work during this period, making a string of movies, and taking part in other projects as well....

In August, it was reported that, after years of attempting to get the project off the ground, Disney was, at last, moving forward with a sequel to the 1991 film The Rocketeer. With award-winning actor and producer David Oyelowo onboard, the premise of The Return of the Rocketeer involves a Tuskegee airman who unexpectedly inherits the jetpack of the original Rocketeer, Cliff Secord. Although the film is still in writing, Oyelowo went on record earlier this month saying that the sequel “[is] still in that 1940s milieu” - news that will please fans of the original....

Cicada is going to make life for Barry Allen very tough in Season 5 of The Flash. The Flash Team came together to protect Central City from the Thinker in Season 4, but the arrival of Allen’s daughter Nora from the future has put a big wrinkle in the timeline after she admits to making a mistake. The stakes have never been higher for Allen and his team with the addition of the mysterious Cicada and his black lightning bolt-shaped dagger....

The classic family adventure film The Goonies is celebrating its 25th anniversary with a new collector’s edition DVD and Blu-ray set, which will be available on November 2nd. The seminal 1985 film was produced by Steven Spielberg (E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial), written by Chris Columbus (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone) and directed by Richard Donner (Superman). The movie features a mix of excellent young actors and seasoned veterans, indcluding future Oscar nominee Josh Brolin (Milk), Sean Astin (The Lord Of The Rings: The Return of The King), Corey Feldman (Stand By Me), Jeff Cohen (Amazing Stories), Jonathan Ke Quan (Indiana Jones & The Temple Of Doom), Martha Plimpton (Parenthood), Kerri Green (Lucas), Lupe Ontiveros (As Good As It Gets), Robert Davi (Die Hard), Joe Pantoliano (The Matrix), John Matuszak (Caveman) and Oscar nominee Anne Ramsey (Throw Momma From The Train)....

What exactly are distractions, and what is their value? Are movies merely distractions? What about sports, beauty, and sex? What are they distracting us from, if not just the pains of life? Paulo Sorrentino’s rambling autobiographical film The Hand of God asks these questions and others without providing any tangible answers. “You gotta figure it out yourself,” an aged director says near the end of the film, implying that each person must answer these questions in their own unique way....

What makes a teen show or movie work, and what tends to be overused? Teen movies thrive on a select set of tropes and plot devices, even though some stick out and go against the usual clichés. Unfortunately, plenty of teen shows and movies get stuck in the same storylines or trapped in their strive to tell a different version of the same high school classic. While some take big swings or purposefully make fun of well-known tropes by using satire or parody, others lean into them without having anything of substance to say....

The new horror-thriller The Retaliators has an official release date. From Better Noise Films, the movie has been acquired by CineLife Entertainment for its North American release with Trafalgar handling international screenings. The movie, which has garnered an impressive perfect score at Rotten Tomatoes, has been set for a worldwide theatrical release on Sept. 14, 2022. In the film, per Better Noise Films: “An upstanding pastor uncovers a dark and twisted underworld as he searches for answers surrounding his daughter’s brutal murder....

Following The Strain Season 4 preview that debuted a few weeks ago, FX has finally announced when the final episodes will debut. FX revealed today that The Strain will return for its fourth and final action-packed season on Sunday, July 16 at 10 PM ET/PT on FX. The trailer teased a mysterious new organization known as The Partnership, which appears at first to be trying to get people to donate blood, but there may be mysterious motives afoot....