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Dead Meat is bringing to their fans worldwide some bloody good cheer this holiday season with their special A Bloody Dead Meat Christmas.

On Sunday, December 22, at 4 pm Pt, James A. Janisse and Chelsea Rebecca of the beloved horror YouTube channel Dead Meat will be hosting A Bloody Dead Meat Christmas at the historic Dynasty Typewriter Theatre in Los Angeles. This special horror holiday extravaganza will be a live, non-YouTube show both in front of a live audience and internationally live-streamed through direct-to-consumer streaming powered by Kiswe.

Joining Janisse and Rebecca to make this a holiday celebration to die for will be the Dead Meat crew, including everyone’s favorite Tremors expert, Zoran Gvojic, and surprise special guests. They will play some ghoulish holiday games and raffle prizes for both in-person and live-stream guests. For fans who want to buy a livestream ticket to witness the bloodshed virtually, they will...

Silent Witness Star Emilia Fox To Host True Crime Podcast

Emilia Fox, the star of long-running BBC crime drama Silent Witness, is to host a true crime podcast with leading criminologist, Professor David Wilson. If It Bleeds It Leads will see the pair tackle topical true crime stories dominating headlines and will take a deep dive into true crime-focused entertainment. It will feature guests including former police officers, crime reporters and former offenders and will also discuss true-crime in culture from books, series and films. The series will launch on March 12 via Global and is produced by Alaska TV, the company behind History’s Spy Wars with Damian Lewis and UK talent agency Money Group Entertainment. Chris Baughen, Managing Editor for Global Player said that it would “delve into a subject that keeps millions of us enthralled and intrigued”, while Alaska TV co-founder and creative director Ian Lamarra said that...

In today’s TV news roundup, Showtime announced the premiere date for Season 3 of “Desus & Mero,” and Rooster Teeth and All Elite Wrestling unveiled plans for a podcast premiering Jan. 18.

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Showtime revealed that “Desus & Mero” will return for Season 3 on Jan. 31. The late-night talk show — which marked the first venture into late-night for Showtime — will air at 11 p.m. each Sunday and Thursday. Co-hosts Desus Nice and The Kid Mero bring guests on each episode to discuss relevant topics from politics, sports, entertainment and other pressing moments from the week. The series is executive produced by Desus Nice, The Kid Mero, Lilly Burns, Tony Hernandez, Victor Lopez, Suzanne Fagel and Mike Pielocik.

Executive News

Allen Media Group announced the hiring of April Ryan to the position of White House correspondent and Washington, D.C. bureau chief for broadcast network TheGrio.TV. She will take on the position starting Jan.

Rooster Teeth is uncoincidentally debuting its latest comedy competition series on 4/20. Titled Last Laugh, the venture -- part social experiment, part game show -- will see 12 contestants trapped in a room for six hours; whoever laughs, smiles, or smirks three times is eliminated until only one creator is left standing.

The unscripted series -- which will offer a $1,000 cash prize for one winner -- comes courtesy of Funhaus, a Rooster Teeth-owned gaming and comedy channel. The series was created by longtime Funhaus member and gaming personality Elyse Willems, with Rooster Teeth co-founder Geoff Ramsey serving as host, and Rooster Teeth’s Stephanie Ard directing.

The contestants are: James Willems, Adam Kovic, Willems, Jon Smith, Lindsay Jones, Michael Jones, Alfredo Diaz, Fiona Nova, Gus Sorola, Chris Demarais, Blaine Gibson, and Jessica Vasami. Each contestant has three lives, with one life lost for every smile, snicker, or full-on giggle.

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More than three years after they left Machinima, the original Inside Gaming crew has returned to their own home. On June 8, Adam Kovic and Bruce Greene hosted a special episode of their old show, in which they discussed the upcoming game Fallout 76 and shared a clip from the new movie Tag.

As part of the reunion, Kovic and Greene introduced a fake segment called "Tag Watch," in which James Willems riffs about the film's development. The video ends with an exclusive clip from Tag, which follows a group of friends who have been playing the same game of tag for 30 years.

Calling the new Inside Gaming episode a reunion is a bit of a misnomer, since most of the show's old hosts -- including Kovic, Greene, and Willems -- make videos together on the Rooster Teeth-owned channel Funhaus, which they launched days after airing their last Inside Gaming episode. On that hub,...

James Willems & Johnny Mundo on Professional… by Uinterview It was always James Willems‘ life-long dream to wrestle professionally. He was an incessant viewer of the sport as a kid and even built a ring in his backyard where he and his friends would practice their favorite moves. But when he grew older, he set his […]

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James Willems & Johnny Mundo on ‘Haus of Pain’ by Uinterview James Willems always wanted to be a professional wrestler. As a kid, Willems would watch wrestling giants thrash about in the ring, hoping one day to join them. At age 15, he built a ring in his backyard where he and his friends would […]

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In 2015, Austin-based Rooster Teeth expanded into Los Angeles with the launch of Funhaus, a channel that brought over most of its hosts from Machinima's old Inside Gaming crew. Two years later, Funhaus has flourished, picking up a dedicated following thanks to a combination of gameplay, humor, nonsense, and even scripted content, such as the new animated series Sex Swing. The members of the Funhaus gang -- (from left to right above) James Willems, Elyse Willems, Bruce Greene, Lawrence Sonntag, Matt Peake, and Adam Kovic -- now count more than a million subscribers on their channel, and we caught up with Greene and Kovic to hear some of their thoughts.

Tubefilter: How does it feel to have one million subscribers? What do you have to say to your fans?

Bruce Greene: It constantly blows our mind. It's one of those things where it feels like just a number until we...

Rtx 2016 is in full swing, and with it has come a deluge of announcements. The sixth annual gaming and internet culture event conceived of and orchestrated by Austin-based digital entertainment company Rooster Teeth kicked off in the beloved internet entity's hometown of Auston on July 1, 2016. And as is typically the case, several upcoming series and projects for the Fullscreen-owned brand were revealed.

At the Funhaus Live panel, the gaming group’s Bruce Greene, James Willems, Elyse Willems, Lawrence Sonntag, and Adam Kovic played several interactive games with audience members before closing out the session with the announcement of the upcoming series Sex Swing: The Animated Series. While no further information has been revealed as of yet, the animated show will likely be based on two popular Funhaus shorts where Greene, Willems, Sonntag, Kovic, and other Funhaus employees play returning members of the fictional rock band Sex Swing (who only play...

In this week's episode, Ben and Tyler are joined by guest James Willems of Funhaus to rank their Top 5 James Bond movies of all time. Agree? Disagree? Sound off in the comments and let us know what you think and what your own list is!

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Rooster Teeth is giving its fans more gaming content to consume through an all-new channel based not in Texas, but on the West Coast. The Austin production company famous for animated web series like Red vs. Blue and Rwby has launched the Funhaus channel which will create content from Rooster Teeth’s newly-formed Los Angeles office.

Funhaus will feature content from gaming veterans Adam Kovic, Bruce Greene, Lawrence Sonntag, James Willems, Joel Rubin, Matt Peake, and Sean Poole. The seven cast members are already known online from Machinima’s old Inside Gaming department, and have previously appeared on season two of Rooster Teeth’s competition show The Gauntlet.

The Funhaus guys will not only play games on their channel, but will also release a podcast, cover related events, participate in fan Q&A sessions, contribute to Rooster Teeth’s news show The Know, and appear on Rooster Teeth’s video podcast.