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Spoilers ahead for “Mythic Quest,” Season 4, Episode 8

“Mythic Quest” may be a consistently strong comedy, but there is one aspect of the Apple TV+ original that has always stood out in this crowded TV landscape: its standalone episodes. Every season has one, an installment that is often set decades before the main timeline and stands as a major tonal departure. But even for a show that loves to challenge and reinvent itself, Season 4’s deep dive into Pootie Shoe is surprising.

“We love that character,” series co-creator and executive producer Megan Ganz told TheWrap. “It just felt like a natural moment to bring him in.”

“[Megan Ganz] really has been wanting to make an episode focused on Pootie that was less comedically driven and more about the relationship between father and son that is clearly fractured and quite complicated,” series co-creator, executive producer and star Rob McElhenney told TheWrap. “We felt like,...

What is Cold Harbor? What's with the goats? What really happened to Gemma? What is Lumon Industries up to? What does it all mean?

These are just a few of the questions that occur to Severance fans during any given moment of the show. The knotty sci-fi office drama has fascinated fans since its very first episode dropped on Apple TV+ back in 2022. Now that we're approaching the end of the second season, speculation is at a fever pitch.

In this post, we'll go over some of the biggest theories out there that explain the who, what, and why of Severance, all so we can be proven wrong in the coming weeks. Let's dive in!

Patricia Arquette in "Severance," now streaming on Apple TV+. | Severance "The whole world is Lumon"

Let's start with a broad question: where does Severance take place? Well, somewhere cold, obviously; whenever we venture outside the Lumon offices,...

The following contains major spoilers from Mythic Quest Season 4, Episode 4, "The Villain's Feast," now streaming on Apple TV+.

Mythic Quest Season 4, Episode 4, "The Villain's Feast" sees the main characters spend time away from video game development to have a murder mystery party. As the group tries to figure out who among them is the culprit, the party culminates in Dana Bryant proposing to her girlfriend Rachel Mayee. Meanwhile, Poppy Li makes a surprise discovery that will change her life forever. What seemed at first like a fun diversion is actually one of the season's biggest episodes.

In an interview with Cbr, Mythic Quest co-creator and showrunner Megan Ganz, who directed "The Villain's Feast," and writer Humphrey Ker share how their mutual love of Agatha Christie and past work informed the script. They also provide behind-the-scenes details in crafting this important bottle episode. The duo additionally reflect on how working on...

Spoilers ahead for “Mythic Quest” Season 4, Episode 5.

It sounds like a “Mythic Quest” opener, but it all started with an omniscient dream from Rob McElhenney.

“I messaged [Rob McElhenney] to be like, ‘Hey, do you have time to jump on the phone today?’ And he called me back in the middle of his Thanksgiving lunch and he was like, ‘Usually, I would be like, can we chat tomorrow? But I had a dream last night, and it would be so crazy if you are calling me because of what I think you are calling about,'” series star Charlotte Nicdao told TheWrap.

That dream was that Nicdao was pregnant on the set of Season 4, a premonition that started the process of this Apple TV+ comedy restructuring itself to account for its lead actor’s pregnancy.

“We would caution her to maybe not to tell this story because it makes Rob seem like some sort of God,...

From its first episode, there has always been an echoing quality to “Mythic Quest,” Apple TV+’s comedy about the sacrifices, victories and heartbreaks of trying to make a career in art. For a long time, those voices were loudest around Charlotte Nicdao’s Poppy, a brilliant and passionate game developer whose arc was reminiscent of that of series co-creator Megan Ganz.

Ganz first started working with Rob McElhenney and David Hornsby during Season 12 of “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia,” a series she used to love watching in college. However, it wasn’t until “Mythic Quest” that she developed a creative partnership with McElhenney. Much like Poppy, Ganz had to figure out how to work with a creator she had admired for years.

“We just put in a lot of like our own selves into it. The reality of the situation was I had been watching him on TV for...

Mythic Quest Season 4 has moved the ensemble of misfit game developers into new roles, which present them with new challenges. The company's new head of monetization, Rachel Mayee, has to acclimate to her changed responsibilities while the company endures unwanted public attention. But Rachel takes a major step forward in her personal life, along with the rest of the surrogate workplace she's come to know and love.

In an interview with Cbr, Mythic Quest actor-director Ashly Burch (who plays Rachel) and co-creator Megan Ganz discuss how they approached Season 4. The duo also share which comedic moments they each like the most. Plus, they tease the second Mythic Quest spinoff series Side Quest, which will come to Apple TV+ in March 2025.

Cbr: Every season of Mythic Quest involves mixing up the character pairings. Megan, how did the creative team decide which characters to pair together for Season 4?

Megan Ganz: This season,...

Crunchyroll announced a big treat for anime lovers this week. Starting Friday, the platform will stream the English dub of the anime adaptation of Mato Kousaka’s light novel, I May Be a Guild Receptionist, But I’ll Solo Any Boss to Clock Out on Time. Alongside this, they revealed some exciting details about the cast and production team behind the dub.

On top of that, Crunchyroll plans to add even more content in February. The English dub of One Piece Season 15 Voyage 2 (episodes 1097-1108) and Special 13 will drop on February 11 at 4:00 p.m. Est. It’s shaping up to be a great month for anime fans.

The English voice cast for I May Be a Guild Receptionist features Jill Harris as Alina, Kamen Casey as Jade, Sarah Wiedenheft as Laila, Mike Smith as Ganz, Dakota Farnsworth as Lowe, Kate Bristol as Lululee, and Spencer Liles as Slay.

Manuel Aragon...

Apple TV+ has finally released a full trailer for Mythic Quest season four. Season three premiered on November 3, 2022, and season four is set to debut on January 29, 2025 with the release of the first two episodes.

New episodes of the 10-episode season arrive on Wednesdays. The season will wrap up on March 26th.

The popular comedy was created by Rob McElhenney, Charlie Day, and Megan Ganz. McElhenney stars along with Charlotte Nicdao, David Hornsby, Danny Pudi, Ashly Burch, Imani Hakim, Jessie Ennis, and Naomi Ekperigin.

Apple TV’s season four synopsis: “The reunited team at Mythic Quest confronts new challenges amongst a changing video game landscape as stars rise, egos clash, relationships bloom, and everyone tries to have a little more work work life balance.”

Season four executive producers include McElhenney, Day, Ganz, Michael Rotenberg, Nicholas Frenkel, Margaret Boykin, David Hornsby, Austin Dill, and Gérard Guillemot. Lionsgate, 3 Arts Entertainment, and...

Apple TV+ has released a chaotic new trailer for Mythic Quest Season 4. The highly anticipated new installment of the workplace comedy debuts on the streaming service on Jan. 29.

The one-minute and 48-second clip begins with Rob McElhenney's Ian visiting Charlotte Nicdao's Poppy in the middle of the night to tell her about a crazy dream he had. The trailer then cuts to David Hornsby's David telling the staff at the titular gaming studio about everything they have accomplished over the years. Viewers are then treated to a montage of hilarity which includes Dana (Imani Hakim) basking in her newfound fame, while the company faces a lawsuit related to their new game.

Related Mythic Quest's Fictional Company Gave Real Christmas Bonuses to Fans

Some lucky fans of Apple TV+'s Mythic Quest were personally contacted on social media and given "Christmas bonuses" from the show's fictional company.

Can a game recover from slipping popularity? The Apple TV+ series “Mythic Quest” is back for a fourth season. New episodes see its reunited team facing a difficult task — making their once in-demand game a hit again. ‘Quest’ hails from creators Rob McElhenney, Charlie Day, and Megan Ganz. McElhenney and Day star on the hit series “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia,” with Ganz serving as executive producer, writer, and director on various ‘Sunny’ episodes.

Continue reading ‘Mythic Quest’ Season 4 Trailer: Rob McElhenney & Charlotte Nicdao Return In Apple TV+’s Comedy This Month at The Playlist.

Today, Apple TV+ dropped the official trailer for the fourth season of Mythic Quest, the hit workplace comedy from creators Rob McElhenney, Charlie Day and Megan Ganz.

The 10-episode new season will premiere globally on Wednesday, January 29 on Apple TV+, with the first two episodes, followed by one new episode weekly through Wednesday, March 26, 2025.

Season four sees the return of stars McElhenney, Charlotte Nicdao, David Hornsby, Danny Pudi, Ashly Burch, Imani Hakim, Jessie Ennis and Naomi Ekperigin under the same fluorescent office lights.

The reunited team at Mythic Quest confronts new challenges in a changing video game landscape as stars rise, egos clash, relationships bloom, and everyone tries to have a little more work work-life balance.

Mythic Quest is executive produced by Rob McElhenney and Charlie Day under their Rcg banner, Michael Rotenberg and Nicholas Frenkel on behalf of 3Arts, and Margaret Boykin, Austin Dill, and Gérard Guillemot for Ubisoft Film & Television.

There’s more than one hit workplace-set series on Apple TV+, and this January, two of its buzziest shows are back: “Severance,” and also “Mythic Quest.”

For the fourth season of “Mythic Quest,” co-creator and lead star Rob McElhenney returns to the office of video game programmers alongside his series co-stars Charlotte Nicdao, David Hornsby, Danny Pudi, Ashly Burch, Imani Hakim, Jessie Ennis, and Naomi Ekperigin.

The official synopsis teases that the ensemble will reunite “under the same fluorescent office lights as the team at Mythic Quest confronts new challenges amongst a changing video game landscape as stars rise, egos clash, relationships bloom, and everyone tries to have a little more work work life balance.”

McElhenney co-created the show with longtime collaborator Charlie Day and Megan Ganz. The show is executive produced by McElhenney and Day under their Rcg banner, Michael Rotenberg and Nicholas Frenkel on behalf of 3Arts, and Margaret Boykin,...

Apple TV+ has announced that the fourth season of its hit comedy Mythic Quest, hailing from creators Rob McElhenney, Charlie Day and Megan Ganz, will make its global debut on Apple TV+ with two episodes on Wednesday, January 29, followed by one new episode weekly through Wednesday, March 26.

Mythic Quest Season 4 brings stars Rob McElhenney, Charlotte Nicdao, David Hornsby, Danny Pudi, Ashly Burch, Imani Hakim, Jessie Ennis and Naomi Ekperigin under the same fluorescent office lights as the reunited team at Mythic Quest confronts new challenges amongst a changing video game landscape as stars rise, egos clash, relationships bloom, and everyone tries to have a little more work work life balance.

Plus, as the upcoming fourth season of Mythic Quest reaches its finale, the much-anticipated anthology series, titled Side Quest (formerly known as “Mere Mortals”), will make its global debut on March 26 with all four episodes. An expansion of the Mythic Quest universe,...

“Mythic Quest” Season 4 is finally around the corner.

The long-anticipated fourth season of the Apple TV+ workplace comedy returns with new episodes on Jan. 29, 2025. The season premieres with a two-episode drop before weekly releases culminating in a March 26 finale.

The Season 4 release date is only part of the news… because the “Mythic Quest” universe is expanding with a spinoff called “Side Quest.” The four-part anthology series will drop all it’s episodes on March 26 along with the Season 4 finale of “Mythic Quest.”

The spinoff series explores the lives of other employees, players and fans who are affected by the in-universe Mythic Quest game. It is developed and executive produced by Ashly Burch, John Howell Harris and Katie McElhenney. Megan Ganz, Rob McElhenney, David Hornsby, Charlie Day, Todd Biermann, Nick Frenkel, Michael Rotenberg, Margaret Boykin and Genevieve Jones also EP the new show.

“Mythic Quest” proper will continue exploring the lives...

Nearly 36 years have elapsed between the release of the original Beetlejuice and the new sequel Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, but in that span of time, the “Ghost with the Most” still popped up occasionally on the small screen, first in the beloved ‘90s animated series, and later in one episode of Community — if you were looking closely enough, that is.

As we’ve discussed before, back in 2011, Community gave us one of the most impressive pop-culture Easter eggs of all time. One that somehow took three whole years to set up.

In Season Three’s “Horror Fiction in Seven Spooky Steps,” Annie mentions the Beetlejuice soundtrack while prepping for a Halloween party. Since this was the third time in the show’s history that the name “Beetlejuice” had been intoned, following brief references in each of the first two seasons, he showed up!

As per the lore of the movie, saying his...

"A League of Their Own" was one of those movies that always seemed to be airing on cable when I was growing up -- and I mean always. It's not a dad movie, per se; technically, its nearly all-women cast makes it the opposite of one. Yet, it hits a lot of the same pleasure centers. It even stars America's Dad himself, Tom Hanks! At the time, though, the actor was coming off a string of box office misfires and was far from the national treasure that he is today. Hence, he asked his old buddy Penny Marshall -- who had directed him in the 1988 hit "Big" (a problematic fantasy-comedy that I still have a soft spot for) four years earlier -- to cast him in "A League of Their Own," hoping it would change his fortunes. And boy, did it ever.

Marshall's sports dramedy tells a fictional story...

It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia Season 17 is underway — at least in the writers’ room, that is.

It’s been one year, four weeks and five days since the last new episode of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia aired, but who's counting, right? Well, the fans, for one — anyone who has scrolled the nearly 1.2 million user-strong subreddit or peeked in the replies of any one of Rob McElhenney's tweets in that time will see that the greater It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia online following has been dealing with this dearth of new Always Sunny content like they're a sober Dennis, Dee, Mac and Charlie locked in the bathroom in “The Gang Gets Quarantined.”

Between the end of The Always Sunny Podcast and McElhenney’s many side projects that some spiteful fans think are distracting the series creator from his first hit, the wait for It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia Season...

Intro: Marriage. Divorce. Dating. Unplanned pregnancy. Psychological counseling. Gambling debts. Sexual awakening. Absentee fathers. Balloon animals. Cowboys. It’s all covered in the 1989 comedy Parenthood – which tells the stories of parents, grandparents, and a whole lot of kids. This led to Oscar nominations, financial success, and even a couple TV series follow-ups – and we’re about to hear all about it, because it’s time for Parenthood to be Revisited.

Set-up: Legendary producer Roger Corman gave Ron Howard his first shot at directing a feature film with 1977’s Grand Theft Auto. At the time, Howard was best known for his acting roles, having played Opie Taylor on many episodes of The Andy Griffith Show and then Richie Cunningham on many episodes of Happy Days. It was while he was working on Happy Days that he met the writing duo of Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel, as Ganz was a supervising...

Yesterday was the first birthday of the last episode of The Always Sunny Podcast, but don’t celebrate so much that you burn all your party energy before the first birthday of the last episode of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia tomorrow.

The podcasting sphere is replete with sitcom stars from the 1990s and early aughts who cashed in on the nostalgia factor and behind-the-scenes intrigue of the popular rewatch series format as the fanbases of The Office, Boy Meets World and Scrubs all rallied around their respective retrospectives. However, when Rob McElhenney, Glenn Howerton and Charlie Day dropped the first episode of what was supposed to be a simple, steady rewatch podcast in January 2022, I don’t think they had any inkling of how much fun a show with the Always Sunny creators behaving and riffing as their natural selves would be for their devoted fanbase — or for the creators,...

Continuing their streak of restorations seemingly nobody would even think to undertake, The Film Desk will soon premiere a program of ten shorts directed by Rhody Streeter and Tony Ganz. Titled America: Everything You’ve Ever Dreamed Of, it’ll start a week-long run at New York’s Anthology Film Archives on June 21 with the filmmakers in attendance. Ahead of this we’re pleased to exclusively debut a new trailer edited by Jake Perlin and Dee Hamid.

Here’s the synopsis: “As funny as they are unsettling, as affectionate as they are trenchant, and made with a refreshing concision that belies the depth of their cultural and social observations, the short documentaries of Rhody Streeter and Tony Ganz are ripe for rediscovery. Featured in their day on the public television series ‘The Great American Dream Machine’ and ‘The 51st State,’ and screened in the 1970s at MoMA, Film Forum and the Whitney Museum,...

Things were going badly on Saturday Night Live‘s 1980-1981 season, even before producer Jean Doumanian realized than the January 10, 1981 episode was headed towards disaster.

The previous season had seen the departure of Lorne Michaels and the entire cast, including founders Gilda Radner, Jane Curtin, Garrett Morris, and Laraine Newman, as well as Bill Murray and Harry Shearer. Doumanian had tried to pitch her incoming group of comedians as the next generation for the hit series, but the performers quickly gained reputations as also-rans. Charlie Rocket was a less funny Chevy Chase, Gail Matthius an off-brand Jane Curtin, and so on.

But on that Jan. 10, 1981 episode, hosted by actor Ray Sharkey, things were going particularly badly. The skits went faster than anticipated and the show had five extra minutes to fill. So in an act of desperation, Doumanian followed the advice of writer Neil Levy and pushed 19-year-old featured player...

The stars of "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" are very funny people, and since three of the central gang are also writers on the show, they have an extra-intimate understanding of their characters. That means that they're able to really riff and ad-lib with the best of them, tweaking their scripted lines to make them even better or coming up with new bits wholesale if the inspiration strikes. What's on the written page and what's been added or adjusted on-set used to be a bit more secret, but since the guys co-host "The Always Sunny Podcast," where they talk about the making of the series, fans now get to know exactly who's responsible for some of the series' funniest moments. 

On an episode where co-producers and stars Charlie Day, Glenn Howerton, and Rob McElhenney (along with writer and co-producer Megan Ganz) discussed some of their biggest, funniest bloopers, the gang...

A Chinese film-maker and an Arsenal-supporting widower converge in a small Essex town in this strange but absorbing take on pastoral England

There’s an eccentric Englishness in this quirky, microbudget feature from screenwriter Adam Ganz and director Marc Isaacs. They have created a kind of docu-fictional guided reality, a weird soap set in the picturesque Essex town of Thaxted, known for its association with the composer Gustav Holst who was entranced by its beauty and established a music festival there with the encouragement of its Christian socialist vicar, Conrad Noel.

Ganz and Isaacs have got some present-day Thaxted inhabitants to play heightened or fictionally modified versions of themselves, in a story interspersed with black-and-white clips from Ripe Earth, the Boulting brothers’ early short film from 1938, also set in Thaxted. Lori (Yingge Lori Yang) is a young Chinese film-maker who has come to Thaxted to record the local traditions, especially the morris dancing,...

"It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" is a somewhat unique comedy series in that the central cast and creative team have known one another for years, working together long before FX picked up their homemade pilot and they had a cable TV show together. That means that some of their inside jokes and gags go back decades, and in at least one instance, they ended up plagiarizing themselves by reusing a gag from one of their homemade shorts to create a major character for "Always Sunny." Then again, maybe plagiarism is too strong a word, considering the fact that the short wasn't really shown to the masses prior to "Sunny" blowing up and it's a very basic character premise, but they definitely still copied themselves. 

On an episode of "The Always Sunny Podcast" aptly titled "The Waitress," actor Mary Elizabeth Ellis joined the regular "Sunny" podcast crew of Charlie Day, Glenn Howerton,...

There are a lot of memorable moments in the "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" episode "The D.E.N.N.I.S. System," but perhaps the best is the final scene in which Dennis (Glenn Howerton) tries to win back the affection of his pharmacist ex-girlfriend (Jill Latiano Howerton) with the help of his (fake) grandmother, Gladys. As a part of his system for winning over women, he pretended to have a sick grandmother in order to flirt with the pharmacist and he needed a grandmother to prove to her that his story was true. They go to the carnival to purportedly get Gladys some fresh air, but the whole plan falls apart after the rest of the gang shows up with their own versions of Dennis' system. The gang leave, abandoning poor Gladys in front of one of the carnival booths without a way to get home. The gang are pretty awful people,...

Not every work of art withstands the test of time. Sometimes that's just because a new generation has different tastes in stories and storytelling styles. Sometimes it's because the artwork is the product of a very specific moment, and is difficult to appreciate without understanding the cultural, political, sociological, and/or artistic context in which it was created.

It's usually a treat to discover that a film or a TV show made decades before you were born still retains most, if not all of its power. But sometimes it's also deeply sad. That's because many films and TV shows attempt to speak about the tragedies of society, and the evils we encounter every day and must remain ever vigilant against. To watch those films generations after they were produced and discover that their themes and their warnings are still relevant — and maybe even more relevant than ever — speaks highly of the artists who created them,...

Rick and Morty’s Dan Harmon addressed the sexual assault and misconduct allegations leveled against his co-creator Justin Roiland, as well as the long deterioration of their relationship in a new interview with The Hollywood Reporter.

“I’m frustrated, ashamed, and heartbroken that a lot of hard work, joy, and passion can be leveraged to exploit and harm strangers,” Harmon said.

Roiland was fired from Rick and Morty earlier this year after it was publicly revealed that he’d been charged with domestic violence back in 2020. He’d pleaded not guilty,...

Downfall is a controversial film for humanizing Hitler, but war historian praises Bruno Ganz's accurate portrayal in the movie. Other actors, like Taika Waititi and Charlie Chaplin, have also portrayed Hitler on screen, each with their own approach and tone. Alec Guiness, Anthony Hopkins, David Bamber, and Martin Wuttke have all portrayed Hitler in different films, but Ganz's portrayal in Downfall is considered the most accurate.

A war historian praises Downfall for its controversial take on Hitler and explains why so many other actors have failed in the role. Released in 2004, the German-language film takes place during World War II's Battle of Berlin with the Nazis on the brink of defeat and depicts the final days of Adolf Hitler (played by Bruno Ganz). Downfall is controversial due to how it humanizes Hitler despite his indefensible actions and ideology. The film also inspired the popular parody videos known as "Hitler Finds Out About.

Plot: This year alone, Mac battles with allergies and long-distance dating, Charlie takes on his long-forgotten sisters, Dee fights for rent control and women’s athletics, Frank wrestles for his gun, and Dennis struggles to improve his mental health. At the end of the day, they’re navigating 2023 with 16 years of baggage as a few figures from their past rear their heads.

Review: I love It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia. There are few series that have managed to be as hilarious for as long. In comparison, many shows have been signing off after short runs while Sunny returns for a sixteenth season chock full of hilarious episodes that work as well as any during the series’ prime years. After a couple of seasons featuring hit-or-miss episodes and extended storylines, the new season of Sunny returns to standalone stories that highlight the various quirks of the Gang as well as...

Updated with statement: After a story this week from Deadline’s sister publication Rolling Stone detailed allegations against Oscar-winner F. Murray Abraham, the actor has issued a statement on the matter, the text of which Deadline has confirmed with his representative.

“This is a sincere and deeply felt apology,” reads Abraham’s statement.

It goes on to reference Lionsgate’s decision last year not to bring him back for Season 3 of Mythic Quest. “Though never my intention to offend anyone, I told jokes, nothing more, that upset some of my colleagues and as a result lost a great job with wonderful people.”

It continues, “I have grown in my understanding from this experience, and I hope they will forgive me.”

Previously on April 19: The Mythic Quest team will be one key member short, with F. Murray Abraham leaving the series before it returns for Season 3.

“F. Murray Abraham will...

It is a miracle that Dan Harmon's groundbreaking sitcom "Community" lasted more than a half-season on NBC. The series about seven misfits who form a study group at the fictional Greendale Community College was aggressively dense in its world-building and proudly esoteric in its references. How esoteric? In only its second season, the show turned what was set up as a "Pulp Fiction" homage into an invigoratingly cerebral riff on "My Dinner with Andre" provoked by a character's extra work on Bill Lawrence and Kevin Biegel's "Cougar Town." Not so shockingly, "Community" ranked a dire 138 in the Nielsen ratings that year.

Harmon and a crack staff of writers that included Megan Ganz, Dino Stamatopoulos, Liz Cackowski, Chris McKenna, and Andy Bobrow shredded the outside of the envelope of what was acceptable on a network sitcom. It made "Seinfeld" look like "Full House." Critics and a cult following kept...

Disney is such an all-consuming, slickly mechanized corporate beast that it is easy to forget that, just a few decades ago, it was a family business that had fallen into disrepair and was painfully uncool to the rest of Hollywood.

Thankfully, Tom Hanks is here to remind us.

Hanks was a guest on Sirius Xm’s “The Jess Cagle Show,” and when Cagle brought up the fact Hanks once appeared on “Happy Days,” it led to a fascinating story about how that brief appearance (where Hanks played a guy who kicks Fonzie through a plate-glass window) would lead to the biggest break of his nascent career – his role in “Splash.” Watch above.

As it turns out, Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel were the head writers on “Happy Days” when Hanks filmed his episode. Ron Howard had already left “Happy Days” and was working on what would be the 1984 hit “Splash” with the film’s writers.

Updated with lawyer statement: Rick and Morty co-creator Justin Roiland is facing some serious incarceration time over domestic violence charges.

In a semi-sealed case kept out of the public until today, Roiland has been charged with one felony count of domestic battery with corporal injury and one felony count of false imprisonment by menace, violence, fraud and/or deceit by the Orange County District Attorney’s office. The incident in question against a Jane Doe allegedly occurred in January 2020, according to a May 2020 complaint (read it here).

Based on California sentencing guidelines, that means, the voice of the Adult Swim series’ scientist Rick Sanchez could be behind bars for up to seven years and face some hefty fines if found guilty.

Having said that, no trial date has been set yet for the case and it looks like a plea is in the offering, according to a hearing held Thursday.

Apple has released the first full trailer for the third season of its comedy series “Mythic Quest,” showing Rob McElhenney’s Ian and Charlotte Nicdao’s Poppy helming GrimPop Studios and teasing a rivalry between the pair and their old company.

“Joe Manganiello? Nobody’s going to believe he could play me. He’s not big enough!” Ian exclaims in the trailer, reacting to news of the beefy actor (playing himself) being booked to portray the egotistical developer in motion-capture.

New episodes of “Mythic Quest” follow Ian and Poppy at the helm of their new banner GrimPop, making a name for themselves in the video game developer world. Over at rival studio Mythic Quest, tensions brew and loyalties are tested.

The third season of “Mythic Quest” will consist of 10 episodes, the first two of which will debut on Apple TV+ on Nov. 11. After that, each new episode will be released...

Paramount Network shared the official trailer for the fifth season of “Yellowstone,” which returns on Nov. 13 with two episodes. The new trailer opens with Kevin Costner’s John Dutton being sworn in as Governor of Montana, and previews the chaos that immediately follows.

“Yellowstone” comes from “Wind River” director Taylor Sheridan, and the show’s cast alongside Costner includes Luke Grimes, Kelly Reilly, Wes Bentley, Cole Hauser, Kelsey Asbille, Brecken Merrill, Forrie Smith, Denim Richards, Ian Bohen, Finn Little, Ryan Bingham and Gil Birmingham. Mo Brings Plenty, Wendy Moniz, Jen Landon and Kathryn Kelly have been upped to series regulars. The upcoming season will also feature the return of Josh Lucas as young John Dutton alongside Jacki Weaver, Kylie Rogers and Kyle Red Silverstein with Kai Caster, Lainey Wilson, Lilli Kay and Dawn Olivieri joining the cast.

Watch the trailer below.

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Apple today unveiled a first-look teaser for the third season of its critically acclaimed workplace comedy Mythic Quest, which is slated to premiere on Apple TV+ this fall.

The series created by Rob McElhenney, Charlie Day and Megan Ganz follows a group of video game developers tasked with building worlds, molding heroes and creating legends, but the most hard-fought battles don’t occur in the game — they happen in the office. While its second season watched as the company’s creative director Ian Grimm (McElhenney) and co-creative director Poppy Li (Charlotte Nicdao) departed to pursue their own venture, today’s teaser promised that this decision has actually “changed nothing.”

This time around, Ian and Poppy will continue to navigate the gaming world and their partnership at the newly formed GrimPop Studios, with Dana (Imani Hakim) being forced to play mediator to her bosses’ incessant bickering. Back at Mythic Quest, David...

Fans of “A League of Their Own” have a new Amazon Prime Video series to look forward to, but if things had gone just a bit differently, there could have been a second movie as well. In a new interview with The Hollywood Reporter to commemorate the film’s 30th anniversary, the film’s screenwriter Lowell Ganz spoke about plans for a prequel that were made in the wake of the initial film’s success. While it never materialized, the second movie would have focused on the baseball career of Tom Hanks’ character Jimmy Dugan.

“We actually wanted to do a prequel sequel — we wanted to do a movie about Jimmy,” Ganz said. “It was going to talk about his career before he got involved with the women’s baseball league, and then it would sort of skip over that, and the last act was going to be his career afterward,...

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When A League of Their Own premiered 30 years ago on July 1, 1992, it was not expected to be a hit.

Director Penny Marshall, coming off of Big (1988) and the Oscar-nominated Awakenings (1990), had watched a PBS documentary about the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, which launched in the 1940s, and sent the doc to Lowell Ganz, co-creator of her sitcom Laverne & Shirley and a baseball fanatic. With a deal at Fox expired, Marshall, who died in 2018 at age 75, made it clear to interested studios that League, focusing on fictionalized Aagpbl players, would be her next picture.

“I don’t know how enthusiastic all the studios were about doing a movie about women’s baseball, but they were very enthusiastic about Penny,” Ganz, who co-wrote the film with Babaloo Mandel, not to mention Splash and Parenthood, tells The Hollywood Reporter.

Geena Davis played league standout Dottie Hinson,...

When A League of Their Own hit theaters on July 1, 1992, it was up against a crowded slate of blockbusters, including Batman Returns, Lethal Weapon 3, Patriot Games, and Universal Soldier, that were expected to linger around multiplexes all summer. But when Labor Day rolled around two months later, all those other movies had faded away, and A League of Their Own was still packing in crowds on its way toward a 107.5 million domestic gross.

Love for the Penny Marshall-directed film about the World War II-era All-American Girls Professional Baseball League,...

Apple TV+ is heading down to San Diego Comic-Con for the first time, with a huge spotlight on its genre series including See, Severance, For All Mankind, Mythic Quest, Invasion and Foundation.

Apple TV+’s original series panels at San Diego Comic-Con International will include:

Inside Severance with EP and director Ben Stiller, creator and EP Dan Erickson and cast members Adam Scott, Britt Lower, Tramell Tillman, Dichen Lachman and Jen Tullock who’ll share “innie” secrets from season one.

The Endeavor Content series follows Mark Scout (Scott), who leads a team at Lumon Industries, whose employees have undergone a severance procedure, which surgically divides their memories between their work and personal lives. This daring experiment in “work-life balance” is called into question as Mark finds himself at the center of an unraveling mystery that will force him to confront the true nature of his work… and of himself.

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Bruno Ganz, the renowned Swiss actor who portrayed Adolf Hitler in 2004’s Downfall and an angel in 1987’s Wings of Desire, died Friday at the age of 77.

The actor died at his home in Zurich, his management confirmed to the BBC, who added that Ganz reportedly suffered from colon cancer.

“Bruno Ganz was one of the greatest and most versatile actors ‘who inspired generations of film fans,’ the Berlinale Film Festival tweeted Saturday. “We are incredibly saddened by the loss of a long-standing festival companion and outstanding figure of the international film history.