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A recent trend of articles has popped up across the net recently talking about the "proposed' eight season of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Never an actual idea that was considered, but the former showrunner for the series, Ira Steven Behr revealed on the 2018 documentary "What We Leave Behind" an idea that he came up with alongside fellow DS9 writers.

They hammered out an episode for the eight-season concept, and Behr revealed it in the documentary. It'd essentially see the death of Nog, the return of Benjamin Sisko to the station, and a war with the Jem'Hadar. The idea has some legs, but with how popular Nog and his actor Aaron Eisenberg were, it seems like a tough sell. Especially since he was still very much alive in 2015.

Eisenberg has since passed away, dying in 2019, making the crux of the episode a bit more difficult to pull off now. Plus,...

Exclusive: Ahead of the release of his Paramount holiday comedy Dear Santa, starring Jack Black, Bobby Farrelly has found his next project in Sporkinfeesten, a “finding your roots” style family vacation comedy loosely inspired by true events, which has landed at Amazon MGM Studios.

Farrelly will work from a hot spec by Aaron and Will Eisenberg, which the studio recently acquired, with Cobra Kai‘s Counterbalance Entertainment producing. Further plot details are under wraps.

Aaron Eisenberg and Will Eisenberg

Prior to his work on Dear Santa, which has not yet announced a release date, Farrelly directed the Special Olympics dramedy Champions, a remake of the 2018 Spanish film for Focus Features, starring Woody Harrelson and Kaitlin Olson. Along with his brother Peter, he’s best known for iconic comedies like Dumb & Dumber and There’s Something About Mary, though he’s also worked on hit shows like Loudermilk and Trailer Park Boys,...

Warning: Spoilers for Star Trek: Prodigy Season 2's Finale - "Ouroboros, Part II"

The USS Prodigy's crew saved all of Star Trek timelines, earning promotions and a new starship. Unlike Red Squad's tragic history, the USS Prodigy crew embodies Starfleet's ideals and optimism. Prodigy's young heroes, mentored by the best Starfleet Officers and will avoid Red Squad's mistakes and hubris.

Star Trek: Prodigy season 2's finale saw the launch of the USS Prodigy, and Starfleet's newest ship and crew won't repeat the tragedy of Red Squad in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Written by Kevin & Dan Hageman and Aaron J. Waltke, and directed by Ruolin Li, Star Trek: Prodigy season 2's ending saw the young heroes of the USS Protostar led by Dal R'El (Brett Gray) and Gwyndala (Ella Purnell) save every Star Trek timeline with the help of Wesley Crusher (Wil Wheaton) and the crew of the USS Voyager-a.

Nog's potential as a Starfleet officer was evident early on in Deep Space Nine. In "The Storyteller" episode, Nog's ability to negotiate and cite the Rules of Acquisition proved his potential as a mediator, showcasing his skills for a future career in Starfleet. The legacy of Nog and the late Aaron Eisenberg in Star Trek could be honored by including more Ferengi in Starfleet, as seen in Star Trek: Lower Decks, highlighting their value as strong negotiators.

Nog (Aaron Eisenberg) proved that he was Starfleet material from as early as Star Trek: Deep Space Nine season 1. The youngster became the first Ferengi to join Starfleet, thanks to the support of Captain Benjamin Sisko (Avery Brooks) and Chief Miles O'Brien (Colm Meaney). However, Nog began DS9 as a bit of a tearaway, and his very first scene saw him get arrested by Constable Odo (Rene Auberjonois). However, the positive influence...

Warning: Contains Spoilers for Star Trek: Lower Decks' season 4 finale!

Both Nova Squadron and Red Squad were elite groups of Starfleet Academy students, but Red Squad's actions were more egregious, resulting in a higher body count. Nova Squadron, led by Nick Locarno, made a fatal mistake during a maneuver, but ultimately took responsibility and protected their team. Red Squad, under the leadership of Tim Watters, made reckless decisions that got their crew killed. While Nova Squadron's mistake was dangerous, Red Squad's decision to engage a Jem'Hadar battleship during the Dominion War was far riskier and resulted in a larger loss of life.

Both Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine introduced their own elite groups of Starfleet Academy students - Nova Squadron and Red Squad - but one team's crimes were worse than the others. An elite flight team, Nova Squadron comprised Starfleet Academy's best pilots...

Warning: Contains Spoilers for Star Trek: Lower Decks, season 4, episode 9, "The Inner Fight."

"Star Trek: Lower Decks" reminds viewers of the horrors and tragedy of "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine's" Dominion War, highlighting the mental toll it has left on veterans like Mariner. The Dominion War was a brutal and unflinching portrayal of warfare, with no honor, only death and destruction. It interrogated what Starfleet would sacrifice to protect the Federation. Mariner's experiences in the Dominion War are why she refuses promotions and doesn't want to be responsible for sending her friends to their death. Her reunion with Nick Locarno may help her move past the war's tragedy.

Star Trek: Lower Decks contains a stark reminder of the horror and tragedy of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine's Dominion War. In Lower Decks season 4, episode 9, "The Inner Fight", the reckless behavior of Lieutenant junior grade Beckett Mariner (Tawny Newsome) causes...

In "The Nagus" Zek names Quark as his successor, but it was a ploy to expose his son's murderous intentions. Quark's reckless behavior and lack of consideration for consequences make him unfit for the role of Grand Nagus, despite his strong business skills. Rom, despite being seen as inferior to Quark, became a better Grand Nagus due to his progressive politics, and his curiosity for different alien cultures.

Quark (Armin Shimerman) was never going to become Grand Nagus in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, as proved by DS9's first Ferengi episode. In the season 1 episode "The Nagus", DS9 introduced the character of Grand Nagus Zek (Wallace Shawn), the leader of the Ferengi Alliance, the most powerful figure on Ferenginar. Quark's Bar became a vital location for expanding Ferengi business interests into the Gamma Quadrant, which won the DS9 bartender favor with the Grand Nagus, with many believing that Quark...

As well as playing Captain Benjamin Sisko, Avery Brooks played several other characters across Star Trek: Deep Space Nine's seven seasons. It's appropriate that Brooks took on multiple roles during his time on DS9 as Sisko himself had to simultaneously occupy the roles of Starfleet Captain, Bajoran Emissary, and devoted father to Jake Sisko (Cirroc Lofton). Captain Sisko was played by one of the best actors to lead a Star Trek series, and Brooks' creative influence took DS9 into hitherto uncharted territory when it came to portrayals of race, religion, and family.

These themes were reflected in the additional characters that Avery Brooks played in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. From Benny Russell to Benjamin Sisko's Mirror Universe counterpart, Brooks ensured that each character he played was markedly different. Aside from these more serious characters, Avery Brooks also enjoyed being able to cut loose. Here's every character that Avery...

There are multiple story ideas from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine's hypothetical season 8 that can be made canon in the wider Star Trek universe. DS9 season 8 was conceived as part of the retrospective documentary What We Left Behind - Looking Back at Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. The documentary reunited showrunner Ira Steven Behr with writers Ronald D. Moore, Robert Hewitt Wolfe, René Echevarria, and Hans Beimler to "break" the story for a possible reunion series. As well as providing insight into where the writers saw DS9's characters in the years since the series ended, it also provided a demonstration of how their writers' room worked back in the day.

The overall storyline of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine season 8 centered around a Section 31 plot to destroy the Celestial Temple. This plot to remove religion from the Star Trek universe would have pitted old friends against each other,...

Into the Dark: Good Boy is a Blumhouse horror comedy directed by Tyler MacIntyre, starring Judy Greer. The ninth episode of the horror anthology series – Into the Dark.

A “terrifying” satire on Hulu about a not so adorable pooch.

Premise

Maggie is at a crux. She is fired from the job, undergoes hormone treatment to have her eggs extracted and frozen, is on the dating scene in search of Mr. Perfect, and while she awaits all the grand events in her life to happen, she recurs to mindfulness and to adopting a sweet emotional support pooch. The canine will not be as wonderful as she had expected, as she soon will realize. It will act out, channeling any anxiety she feels, and he will do so in horrifying ways.

Movie Review

A movie produced for TV, back in 2020…. It is a horror comedy about a very, very bad boy that...

Exclusive: Nicole Byer (Nailed It!), Harvey Guillén (What We Do in the Shadows), Jessica Lowe (Minx) and Andrew Lewis Caldwell (Danger Force) will lead the ensemble cast of Comedy Central’s original movie Cursed Friends from Propagate and Will Arnett’s Electric Avenue. The film premieres October 8 at 8 p.m. Et/Pt.

The supernatural comedy also stars Joey Fatone, James Austin Johnson, Nikki Glaser, Kathy Griffin and Nicole Richie, along with Ken Marino and Rob Riggle, with an appearance by Arnett.

Written by Aaron Eisenberg and Will Eisenberg, Cursed Friends follows four thirtysomething childhood friends who wake up on Halloween following a drunken reunion to realize that a predict-your-future game of M.A.S.H. (Mansion Apartment Shack House) that they played in 2002 is starting to come true for them in hilarious and disturbing ways. They must band together to help each other escape the wild fates that have turned their lives upside...

A dog that removes anxiety from its human’s life by killing the people who cause her stress may be a heightened, fantastical look at emotional-support animals, but because there is now such a wide range of small-screen content depicting such therapeutic resources, one does not have to represent all. Education about them is mixing with entertainment.

A killer emotional-support dog is at the center of Blumhouse Television’s latest “Into the Dark” installment for Hulu, “Good Boy.” But even this horror satire may expose an audience to the idea of emotional-support dogs for the first time. That is why, according to Sheila Goffe, vice president of government relations, American Kennel Club, no matter the genre or format, the most important thing when depicting such dogs is to do so accurately for their classification.

“These dogs mitigate individual disabilities, and they’re simply amazing,” she says. “A dog that helps...

An emotional support dog helps his owner by killing the sources of her stress in the trailer for Good Boy, this year's June installment of Blumhouse and Hulu's horror anthology series Into the Dark.

Directed by Tyler MacIntyre (Tragedy Girls) from a screenplay by Aaron Eisenberg and Will Eisenberg, Into the Dark: Good Boy stars Judy Greer, Steve Guttenberg, Ellen Wong, Elise Neal, Maria Conchita Alonso, McKinley Freeman, and Chico the Dog.

You can check out the new trailer below, and keep an eye out for Good Boy when it's released on Hulu beginning Friday, June 12th.

Synopsis: "When Maggie (Judy Greer) gets an emotional support dog to help quell some of her anxiety, she finds him to be even more effective than she imagined...because unbeknownst to her, he kills anyone who adds stress to her life."

Series Description: "In partnership with Blumhouse Television, Into The Dark...

The Writers Guild Awards honor outstanding writing in film, television, new media, videogames, news, radio, promotional, and graphic animation categories. Today the nominees for the 2019 Writers Guild Awards were revealed. Check out the list below.

Television, New Media, And News Nominees

Daytime Drama

Days of Our Lives, Head Writer: Ron Carlivati; Writers: Sheri Anderson, Lorraine Broderick, David Cherrill, Joanna Cohen, Lisa Connor, Carolyn Culliton, Richard Culliton, Rick Draughon, Cydney Kelley, David Kreizman, David A. Levinson, Rebecca McCarty, Ryan Quan, Dave Ryan, Katherine Schock, Elizabeth Snyder, Tyler Topits; NBC

General Hospital, Head Writers: Shelly Altman, Christopher Van Etten; Writers: Barbara Bloom, Anna Theresa Cascio, Suzanne Flynn, Charlotte Gibson, Lucky Gold, Kate Hall, Elizabeth Korte, Daniel James O'Connor, Donny Sheldon, Scott Sickles; ABC

Drama Series

The Americans, Written by Peter Ackerman, Hilary Bettis, Joshua Brand, Joel Fields, Sarah Nolen, Stephen Schiff, Justin Weinberger, Joe Weisberg, Tracey Scott Wilson; FX Networks

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Christmas is only a few short weeks away, but one little animated tree has been celebrating for weeks!

Meet Albert, the tiny and hilarious Douglas-Fir-that-could, who dreams of being the Empire City’s most famous Christmas tree. His journey to big city glory comes to life in Albert, the new Nickelodeon animated holiday TV movie premiering Friday.

The one-hour, heartwarming tale, is packed with celebrity voices — including Saturday Night Live vet Bobby Moynihan as Albert.

“He’s kind of like the kid in the candy story, but it’s his first time there,” Moynihan told People. “He just wakes up every day like,...

Laura Marano is only 20 years old - though that's not what her flip phone might tell you! The singer and actress, who rose to fame on Disney's hit show Austin & Ally and is currently vying for the "Song of Summer" title with her hit-single "Boombox," sports technology that would normally be associated with someone much older than her. But she swears the move isn't because she's a square. "It's not a burner phone," she protests to People Now's Aaron Eisenberg on the heels of her performance Thursday at the People Now Concert Series Presented by Toyota Music. "In our [age of] social media and email,...

Laura Marano is only 20 years old - though that's not what her flip phone might tell you! The singer and actress, who rose to fame on Disney's hit show Austin & Ally and is currently vying for the "Song of Summer" title with her hit-single "Boombox," sports technology that would normally be associated with someone much older than her. But she swears the move isn't because she's a square. "It's not a burner phone," she protests to People Now's Aaron Eisenberg on the heels of her performance Thursday at the People Now Concert Series Presented by Toyota Music. "In our [age of] social media and email,...

Get ready! Nathan Sykes is set to perform at the People Now Concert Series Presented by Toyota Music, which will be streamed on People.com and other Time Inc. digital platforms at 4 p.m. Et on Thursday. But before he takes the stage, the 23-year-old singer chatted with Aaron Eisenberg about his upcoming album, Unfinished Business, which features collaborations with G-Eazy, as well as, Sykes' ex Ariana Grande. When asked how the former couple is able to keep things harmonious in the studio, Sykes says it boils down to one word: "Maturity. Kind of just being like, 'The music is the most important thing,...