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Imagine, if you will, standing in line for hours covered head-to-toe in full body paint, surviving on overpriced concession food, and shuffling through massive crowds for the fleeting chance to see Robert Downey Jr. wink mid-gum chew. For years, that was the mystique of Hall H at San Diego Comic-Con. It wasn't merely a convention room; it was a modern-day coliseum, a rite of passage for the most committed pop culture devotees. Hall H once felt alive — a collective organism of cheers, gasps, and groans erupting in perfect synchronicity. For a few charged hours, before everyone stumbled out sweaty, overstimulated, and high on adrenaline, it was unfiltered nerd nirvana.

But in recent years, the roar has faded to a murmur. Marvel understandably forewent Hall H in 2020 and 2021 due to the pandemic, missed it in 2023 due to the dual strikes, and recently announced that they'll sit out 2025 as well. The throne is vacant — or would be,...

Jon Stewart is in L.A. ahead of some FYC promotion for The Daily Show and he stopped by his old friend Jimmy Kimmel’s show to find out who’s stoned.

Stewart crashed the ‘Who’s High?’ segment on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, where announcer Lou Wilson was helping the late-night host find out which member of the public on Hollywood Blvd. was stoned.

The Daily Show host, clad in a bandana, trapper hat and sunglasses, interrupted the segment and also a bus full of tourists. “I heard if you were high, you could win prizes,” Stewart said, before being gifted a bag of Funyuns. “I thought this was network,” he joked at the bag of chips.

Stewart, who appeared on the show last year to surprise Kimmel’s kids on the way to school, then wandered into the studio ahead of an interview with Seth MacFarlane, getting Funyuns everywhere.

Spoiler Alert: This story contains spoilers for Episode 1 of “Dimension 20: Cloudward, Ho!” streaming now on Dropout.

As one of “Dimension 20’s” regular cast members (a.k.a. “Intrepid Heroes”) Lou Wilson has played everything from a cyborg engineer to a foul-mouthed wooden puppet. But for the first time in nearly three years, “D20” fans meet a new Lou Wilson player character (PC) in “Dimension 20: Cloudward, Ho!” which hit indie streamer Dropout Wednesday.

The new series, which debuted just days after “Dimension 20’s” live show at the Hollywood Bowl, is an Indiana Jones-meets-Jules Verne-style adventure installment of the role-playing game TV show that follows the crew of an airship as they “Join forces and take to the skies in search of the missing Professor Comfrey MacLeod, [venturing] off to a fantastical world of machine wonders and perils known as Gath.”

Ahead of the “Dimension 20: Battle...

For Brennan Lee Mulligan, juggling the many stories and skyrocketing popularity of his Dropout series “Dimension 20” comes down to two key things – “dissociation and compartmentalization.”

For the uninitiated, “Dimension 20” is a tabletop role-playing game series where a group of comedians and actors play through a story – usually using a “Dungeons and Dragons” ruleset, but not always. The format has ballooned in popularity over the years, with shows like “Critical Role” and podcasts claiming equally large fandoms.

“Dimension 20” and Mulligan kicked off 2025 with a bang in January by playing a live show at Madison Square Garden with the core players known as the Intrepid Heroes – Lou Wilson, Emily Axford, Brian Murphy, Siobhan Thompson, Ally Beardsley and Zac Oyama.

Now the show is prepping another bout of live shows starting with one at the Hollywood Bowl on June 1, while also premiering the next season for the Intrepid Heroes on...

Say “sky,” Intrepid Heroes! Dropout has released the first full trailer for the new season of the anthology tabletop actual play series “Dimension 20.”

The new season, titled “Cloudward, Ho!,” features returning game master Brennan Lee Mulligan and Dimension’s main cast of players, known as the Intrepid Heroes.

According to a synopsis, the new season follows the Intrepid Heroes as they “venture off to a fantastical world of machine wonders and perils known as Gath, where they’ll join forces and take to the skies in search of the missing Professor Comfrey MacLeod.”

Beardsley will play Olethra MacLeod, a young woman who’s “extremely into the adventuring legacy of her family” and searching for her missing grandfather, Comfrey. Joining Olethra’s quest are Van Chapman (Thompson), a bruiser type with a mechanical arm who “comes from an old sailor family,” and the heavily-accented Marya Junkova (Axford), who is “gaunt with starvation,...

For anyone who has made the sane decision to not have a podcast, Pro Tools is Avid’s audio editing suite and is the most common Daw (digital audio workstation) in use once you reach a certain level of production. It has all sorts of plugins to enhance or alter audio files and can mix in Dolby Atmos, if that’s your bag. It also has a limit of 1,024 discrete tracks to hold audio files in a single project. For one recent episode of the”Worlds Beyond Number” podcast, producer Taylor Moore hit the Pro Tools track limit. Twice.

“Worlds Beyond Number” is an audio actual play series currently concluding its first arc of fantasy tale “The Wizard, The Witch, and the Wild One,” before it transitions to a new setting for an as-yet-unnamed science-fiction story. But every two weeks for the past two years, players Aabria Iyengar, Erika Ishii,...

From the very first episode of “Game Changer” — in which players were confronted with a lie detector machine that was revealed to be under the control of their significant others — the show has played with making and breaking classic game show and comedy formats. The Dropout series has continually tried to “one-up” and “yes-and” itself over the course of its run. Looking toward Season 7 of “Game Changer” on an episode of the Filmmaker Toolkit Podcast, the show’s host and mostly gentle dom Sam Reich wasn’t sure how “Game Changer” was going to keep topping itself.

The answers to that worry are starting to come in, now that Season 7 has opened with “One Year Later,” wherein Reich gives players Vic Michaelis, Lou Wilson, and Jacob Wysocki one calendar year to complete a series of tasks, ranging from keeping a sourdough starter alive to getting the most followers on a...

Shane Gillis is back and ready to turn his business around in “Tires” Season 2, releasing June 5 on Netflix.

Following the success of their major marketing plan, Will (Steven Gerben) and Shane (Gillis) rush to grow their business professionally. The official synopsis reads: “Will, the nervous and unqualified heir to an auto repair chain, attempts to turn his father’s business around despite constant torture from his cousin and now employee, Shane.”

Gillis self-financed Season 1’s first six episodes before Netflix acquired the show as part of a deal including a stand-up special. The show is created by Gillis, Steve Gerben and John McKeever with a cast featuring Chris O’Connor, Kilah Fox and Stavros Halkias, including guest star Andrew Schulz.

Watch the first clip from Netflix below.

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“The Summer I Turned Pretty” has unveiled the first look at its third season, which will also be the show’s last.

“Game Changer” is officially returning on Dropout starting April 7, with the ten-episode Season 7 dropping episodes biweekly on the comedy streaming service.

This season’s cast includes Brennan Lee Mulligan, Vic Michaelis, Lisa Gilroy, Lou Wilson and Oscar Montoya as the game show changes its premise every episode. Last season, the contestants faced unpredictable challenges revolving around art, bingo, trivia questions and false personas.

The show is hosted and executive produced by Dropout CEO Sam Reich, with co-executive producers including Chloe Badner, Ryan Creamer, Sam Geer, Mulligan and Paul Robalino. Sam Geer edited and directed all ten episodes.

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Eli Baldrige has been promoted to EVP of development at A. Smith & Co. Productions, where he will continue to lead unscripted television.

Since joining the company in 2018, Aldridge has served as VP and SVP of development. He spearheaded the development process on Magnolia Network’s...

Before they made history playing a sold-out show at Madison Square Garden, “Dimension 20” dungeon master Brennan Lee Mulligan and the intrepid heroes that star on the Dropout tabletop role-playing game TV series sat down with Variety for a game of “Most Likely To.”

While everyone agreed that all six players do their fair share of causing problems, Mulligan admitted there’s one intrepid hero with a particular aptitude for antagonizing the dungeon master:

“As the Dm, I’m pointing at a specific person that is right for me [Thompson],” Mulligan said. “I’ve only been told to ‘eat my fucking dice’ on camera by one person. If ‘antagonize’ is an active verb, I think it’s Siobhan.” Thompson, for her part, agreed wholeheartedly: “Oh yeah, I’m not antagonizing him, I’m actually bullying him.”

Though Thompson may be the most outwardly adversarial, Mulligan and the rest of the...

Madison Square Garden was sold-out and packed with screaming fans on Friday night, but it wasn’t for a Grammy-winning artist or New York sports team: It was a group of “intrepid heroes” who have taken over the world of Dungeons and Dragons.

Dimension 20, a group of D&d players who specialize in monster slaying and absurd improv on the streaming service Dropout, took Msg by storm for their first major live show, “Gauntlet at the Garden.” Led by their dungeon master Brennan Lee Mulligan, the Dimension 20 crew, made up of Zac Oyama, Emily Axford, Lou Wilson, Brian Murphy, Ally Beardsley and Siobhan Thompson, revisited their popular NYC-inspired Unsleeping City campaign. However, D20 fans were in for a treat as surprise crossover characters from other games popped into the show after being influenced by random dice rolls from the audience. Once considered a niche, nerdy hobby, Dungeons and Dragons has rocketed to mainstream popularity,...

The Unsleeping City will awaken Friday night with a live version of Dropout’s “Dimension 20” at Madison Square Garden. The Dungeons-and-Dragons-actual-play-esque show will feature game master Brennan Lee Mulligan and his cast of “intrepid heroes”: Ally Beardsley, Brian “Murph” Murphy, Emily Axford, Lou Wilson, Siobhan Thompson and Zac Oyama.

As the team preps for the sold-out event, dubbed “Gauntlet at the Garden,” Mulligan breaks down his game plan for their first live show of this scale and how he’s constructed a new storyline within the New York City-set “Unsleeping City” season of “Dimension 20” that will involve the audience.

What’s your prep plan for the show?

Be with my wife and kiddo. I’m going to open up my laptop, go over notes, get my little D&d Beyond campaign open, go over my encounters, make sure all my stat blocks are good.

Back in my college days, I was a theatre performance major and became the first woman to serve as captain in the history of my underfunded state school's improv team (no one who reads /Film regularly is shocked), which meant I spent an excessive amount of time on YouTube consuming sketch clips and illegally uploaded episodes of "Who's Line Is It Anyway?" This fixation led me to the CollegeHumor channel and I became obsessed with a show called "Hello My Name Is." Each episode had Josh Ruben being transformed into a new character with prosthetics, wigs, and costumes, after which he would have to sit down for an improvised, in-character interview upon seeing the result. Nearly 15 years later, my college friends and I still quote a few of the episodes.

"Hello My Name Is." ended long ago, but "Very Important People" hosted by Vic Michaelis has continued to carry that...

Fast-paced television shows filled with plot twists, drama, and thrills can keep audiences on their toes. Well-executed TV shows can create shocking plot holes that are believable and fulfilling. Incredibly fast-paced TV shows have to balance the act of complex storytelling, enriching characterizations, and maintaining an exciting pace while also creating a solid groundwork for the show's future plot.

Audiences in the mood for amazing TV shows filled with shocking plot twists and drama can rely on fast-paced TV shows to keep them on the edge of their seats. Impeccably executed plot twists and cliffhangers can elevate a show's storytelling and keep audiences invested in it. Fast-paced TV shows keep viewers guessing and engaged with the show. From action-filled thrillers to tense murder mysteries, there is no shortage of fast-paced TV shows filled with plot twists to binge-watch.

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Brennan Lee Mulligan and his intrepid heroes are headed out west for additional live shows of their tabletop role playing game TV series, “Dimension 20,” following the Dropout brand’s already sold-out upcoming appearance at New York City’s Madison Square Garden in January.

Hosted by comedian and dungeon master Mulligan, “Dimension 20” launched in 2018 as a show from the CollegeHumor (now Dropout) team featuring comedians playing several campaigns of Dungeons & Dragon set across various fictional fantasy worlds.

“Dimension 20: Live” will host one show at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles on June 1, 2025 one at the Climate Pledge Arena in Seattle on July 20, 2025 and one at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas on Nov. 1, 2025.

The cast for the West Coast shows include Mulligan and “Dimension 20” players Emily Axford, Ally Beardsley, Brian Murphy, Zac Oyama, Siobhan Thompson and Lou Wilson, the same lineup set for “Gauntlet at...

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Dimension 20 alumni Brennan Lee Mulligan, Aabria Iyengar, Lou Wilson, and Erika Ishii created Worlds Beyond Number, an independent creator-owned narrative-play audio drama in 2023. The podcast's main storyline is set in Umora, a world created by Mulligan with Iyengar playing a wizard named Suvi, Ishii playing a witch named Ame, and a spirit named Eursulon. Throughout the first three arcs, the trio of childhood friends reconnect, but learn that while their destinies may be intertwined, their duties and alliances are not.

Worlds Beyond Number has also featured a number of one-shots, some set in Umora, like "Interlude: Twelve Brooks," while others are outside this world, including "Space Cram" and "A Country Affair." Arc 4 will launch October 8 with two Patreon exclusive one-shots debuting beforehand "Interlude II: The Clearing" and "Children's Adventure Halloween Special" both of which take full advantage of spooky season. Worlds Beyond...

Dropout has ordered a second season for its “Misfits & Magic” edition of table-top roleplaying game show “Dimension 20,” which is scheduled to premiere Sept. 25 on the streamer.

“Years after the events of season one, the Pilot Program must embark on a quest for the future of magic,” the show’s logline teases.

The 11-episode season, led by game master Aabria Iyengar, will rollout out new episodes weekly on Wednesdays.

The cast for the second season of “Dimension 20: Misfits & Magic” will include Brennan Lee Mulligan as Evan Kelmp, Erika Ishii as K , Danielle Radford as Sam Black and Lou Wilson as Whitney Jammer.

The most recent season of Dropout’s Dungeons & Dragons actual play show “Dimension 20” concluded Aug. 28 with the 10th and final episode of “Never Stop Blowing Up,” an ’80s action-movie-themed installment.

The “Dimension 20″ franchise is among the most popular programs in the small but growing...

CBS Studios discusses potentially reviving the mockumentary show American Vandal after regaining rights. Fans have clamored for a third season ever since its cancellation. Creators Dan Perrault and Tony Yacenda already have a game plan for the potential American Vandal Season 3,and are ready for when audience demand and timing align. American Vandal was a Peabody Award-winning comedy masterpiece that satirized true crime series and Gen Z.

Netflix's critically acclaimed mockumentary series, American Vandal, might be seeing a glimmer of hope for revival. The innovative comedy series enjoyed a warm reception, boasting a 98% approval rating from critics and 91% from audiences on Rotten Tomatoes after its two-season run. A hilarious satire of true crime docuseries, social media, and Gen Z, American Vandal was the kind of artistically brilliant show that could spend an entire season focused on penis drawings and still be intelligent enough to win a Peabody Award.

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"Misfits and Magic" features a compelling reimagining of Voldemort with a more complex character arc than in Harry Potter. Evan Kelmp's story subverts Voldemort's one-dimensional villainy, showing genuine growth and self-acceptance. The humorous and critical contrast to Harry Potter in "Misfits and Magic" highlights the potential for more nuanced character arcs.

Dimension 20's comedic riff on Harry Potter has a Dark Lord plot that's far more compelling than the storyline for Voldemort. Dropout's Ttrpg series, Dimension 20 largely functions as an anthology that hops around between stories from season to season. While some revisit characters and settings from previous parts of the series, with a rotating cast joining the one-off "Side Quests" that typically are expansions on previous seasons or well-known media archetypes. Among the best seasons of Dimension 20 is "Misfits and Magic," which dives into a world clearly designed to resemble the wizarding world of Hogwarts and Harry Potter.

An executive reveals that efforts have been made to revive American Vandal. CBS Studios is exploring the possibility of bringing back the show after it was originally cancelled. The cancellation was due to Netflix wanting to produce its own content.

American Vandal, the two-season Netflix comedy, gets a promising update more than five years after it was cancelled on Netflix. Created by Tony Yacenda and Dan Perrault and helmed by showrunner Dan Lagana, the story is presented as a parody of popular true-crime podcasts like Serial and Making a Murder. With an American Vandal cast that included Tyler Alvarez, Griffin Gluck, and Jimmy Tatro, the comedy was cancelled late in 2018 despite awards recognition and positive reviews. CBS Studios, one of the production companies behind the series, is hoping for a comeback.

In an interview with Deadline, the chances of an American Vandal revival get an honest update from CBS Studios President David Stapf.

Spoiler Alert for “Ratfish (Part 1)”: Coming out in 2019 after the success of unscripted content for Dropout, Game Changer was an instant hit on the platform. Now, six seasons later, host Sam Reich is still working to bring “consistently original” ideas to the show with no signs of stopping. “Every season, I feel like I fly a little closer to the sun,” says Reich. “And every season, the response I get from the audience is like, ‘This was the best yet,’ which is a very dangerous thing to tell me as I push it more and more, further and further.”

Hosted by Reich, Dropout’s Game Changer is a game show where the premise changes every episode and the contestants must learn the rules as they play. Among the assortment of games, season 6 has seen contestants search for buzzers in a simple trivia game-turned-scavenger hunt for “Beat the Buzzer”, trapped...

Your browser does not support the video tag. The Bad Kids face challenging academic years, mysteries, and corrupt faculty in Fantasy High Junior Year. Ally Beardsley shares insights on Kristen's growth, relationships, and chaos in the Dimension 20 show. K2, the British simulacrum, brings hilarious moments in the finale, leaving Brennan Lee Mulligan scrambling.

Dimension 20: Fantasy High Junior Year picked up with the Bad Kids defeating the Night Yorb before they are faced with their most difficult academic year yet. Struggling to balance challenging course loads, emotional changes in their personal lives, and antagonistic peers, the Bad Kids stumble upon another mystery that threatens not only them but the school and Spyre at large. When they discover the true villains are not only their rivals, the Rat Grinders, but trusted faculty members, they will once again have a showdown with powerful evil in the Aguefort gymnasium to decide the fate of the world.

Dimension 20, Dropout‘s Dungeons & Dragons show, is coming to Madison Square Garden for a night of live Ttrpg adventure.

Dimension 20: Gauntlet at the Garden will bring together the full D20 squad, including dungeon master Brennan Lee Mulligan and players Emily Axford, Ally Beardsley, Brian Murphy, Zac Oyama, Siobhan Thompson, and Lou Wilson, who’ve been dungeoning and dragoning together since 2018.

The show will be part of the group’s Unsleeping City campaign, which is set in a fictional (as far as we know…) and clandestine sixth borough of New York City that’s powered by magic and populated by supernatural residents. So, of course, it is appropriate that the event–which is Dimension 20‘s first U.S. live show since 2019–is also taking place in NYC.

Dimension 20: Gauntlet at the Garden takes place Jan. 24, 2025. Since the show’s unveiling earlier this month, there’s been...

Worlds Beyond Number's "The Wizard, The Witch, and The Wild One" storyline follows three friends on a quest in a grand world full of magic and mystery. The podcast features rich sound design and original music by Fortunate Horse's Taylor Moore, taking performances to the next level. The new Umora one-shot started with nothing but quickly developed a deep and immersive story, giving listeners a sneak peek into the world of Umora.

Worlds Beyond Number is an independent creator-owned narrative-play audio drama created by Dimension 20 alumni Brennan Lee Mulligan, Lou Wilson, Aabria Iyengar, and Erika Ishii. Their main storyline, "The Wizard, The Witch, and The Wild One," follows three childhood friends who, after being reunited by adults, begin a quest to discover their place in a grand world full of magic and mystery. Ishii plays Ame, a young witch who inherits incredible power and responsibility to the world; Iyengar plays Suvi,...

Faster, Purple Worm! Kill! Kill! takes on science fiction in a departure from its usual fantasy genre for a gutbusting and thrilling episode. The comedic elements in the latest episode are balanced with fun action and moments of tragedy, making it a must-watch for D&d fans. Ify Nwadiwe also discusses taking over Um, Actually..., torturing Brennan Lee Mulligan at Dropout, and his hopes for an anime-inspired Dimension 20 season.

The latest episode of Faster, Purple Worm! Kill! Kill! steps away from the usual fantasy genre it has become known for and jumps straight into science fiction. When the secondary retrieval team must find out what happened to the primary team, who has disappeared while exploring a ship. As they discover terrifying hints of a tragic end for their crewmates, they discover a way to save them, but it may cost them their own lives.

The new episode of Faster, Purple Worm!

Faster, Purple Worm! Kill! Kill! reunites Skeet Ulrich and Matthew Lillard for a hilarious Dungeons & Dragons adventure. The D&d show features a new cast in every episode setting off on a hilariously doomed adventure. Ulrich shares insight into the original pitch for his return in the new Scream trilogy and his desire to work with Lillard again.

Faster Purple Worm! Kill! Kill! brought together a new group of adventurers, but unlike the usual heroes, the party was made up of thieves. Hoping to steal an ancient relic, the rogues are forced to face down the individuals protecting it as well as the religious force that it honors. Unable to escape, the nefarious criminals will meet an untimely end, but with surprising twists for each of their own stories.

Founders of Beadle and Grimm's, Matthew Lillard, Bill Rehor, Jon Ciccolini, Paul Shapiro, and Charlie Rehor created Faster, Purple Worm!

Fantasy High Junior Year brings back the Bad Kids as they navigate new challenges and rival groups, while questioning their future. Spyre is the extensively built world of Dimension 20, with three seasons of Fantasy High and two spin-offs. Zac Oyama discusses Gorgug's journey, growth as a player, and the development of his character in the new season of Dimension 20.

Fantasy High Junior Year brings Dimension 20 fans back to the world of Spyre for an all-new adventure with the Bad Kids. As they start the new school year, each of the kids begins questioning their future, with Riz desperate to keep the party together as a new rival group, the Rat Grinders, steps onto the scene. After failing to help Casandra, a new mystery is afoot that begins to pull the Bad Kids in, but each has vastly different priorities and expectations of what Junior Year will bring.

It’s not just video games that dominate the digital airwaves on platforms like Twitch — there’s a huge contingent of viewers who yearn for the old days of pen and paper, with tabletop RPGs making a huge splash virtually in the last few years. In fact, once-niche games like Dungeons & Dragons (which turns 50 this year) have taken on new life in the age of livestreaming, and more popular than ever.

Leading the charge are “actual plays,” podcasts or web shows that feature groups of players creating narratives from their imaginations,...

Fantasy High Junior Year returns with the Bad Kids in the midst of a thrilling battle with the Night Yorb, surprising fans. The new season allows the characters to evolve and explore new aspects of themselves, especially as they navigate high school and their future. Viewers can expect to see more of Aguefort Adventuring Academy and the challenges of finding a work-life balance while on epic quests.

Dimension 20 once again returns to Spyre to continue the adventures of the Bad Kids as they try to navigate being teenage heroes. Fantasy High was the season that kicked off the Dimension 20 series, and now they are finally returning to show what happened after the massive cliffhanger set up at the end of Sophomore Year. Fantasy High balances the classic fantasy adventures that Dungeons & Drgaons is famous for with the drama and comedy of high school.

Fantasy High Junior Year features...

After five months off the air, a staple of broadcast television is back. This week marks the return of late night following the conclusion of the WGA strike.

Just like the 2007-2008 writers’ strike, late night shows were the first to be impacted. The day after the WGA announced it was going on strike in May, “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon,” “Late Night with Seth Meyers,” “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert,” “Jimmy Kimmel Live!,” and “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver” all closed up shop. But unlike the strike from over a decade ago, the five biggest hosts in the game decided to work with each other instead of against one another.

Instead of the more icy relationships between late night hosts like David Letterman and Jay Leno during the last strike, Oliver, Colbert, Fallon, Kimmel and Meyers joined forces on a podcast, dubbed “Strike Force Five,” the...

The amount of versatility within a single premise is the test of a truly great game show. “Jeopardy” has the clues, “Match Game” has the risqué answers, and “Survivor” has the challenges. But maybe the most versatile game show on air right now — and going for the Emmy that “Jeopardy” has won the last three years running — is one where its entire DNA is based on being a radically different competition every episode.

Now in its fifth season on Dropout (the streaming heir to CollegeHumor), “Game Changer” features a rotating cast of improvisers standing at some very colorful podiums without any idea of the game they’re about to play. “The only way to learn is by playing, the only way to win is by learning, and the only way to begin is by beginning,” host and series creator Sam Reich says at the top of every episode. The Dropout...

Dimension 20 returns to the world of Calorum with The Ravening War, set twenty years before the events of A Crown of Candy. Following a new group of characters, a combination of royals and those they trust, brought together by a secretive organization, The Fellowship of Destiny's Architects, for a mysterious task. The season takes place over the course of the Ravening War, with political intrigue, betrayal, and a continent-wide conflict in one of the bloodiest eras of Calorum's history.

Each season of Dimension 20 tells an original story with new characters in genre-merging adventures. Matt Mercer (Critical Role) returns to the dome, but this time he's helming the story as Game Master. Long-time Dimension 20 stars Brennan Lee Mulligan, Lou Wilson, Zac Oyama, and Aabria Iyengar serve as players, along with Dimension 20 newcomer Anjali Bhimani (Critical Role Exu).

Related: Dimension 20: All The Side Quest Seasons, Ranked

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Dimension 20 is jumping back into the world of Calorum with The Ravening War. This prequel to A Crown of Candy, which is described as Candyland meets Game of Thrones, will take place twenty years earlier during one of Calorum's bloodiest eras. The Ravening War follows an eclectic group of food-based characters, some royals while others are not, as they try to navigate the deadly politics of Calorum during a time of war.

Dimension 20 is an anthology Ttrpg series, with each season telling an original story with new characters. Matt Mercer (Critical Role) joins the table as Game Master. Long-time Dimension 20 stars Brennan Lee Mulligan, Lou Wilson, Zac Oyama, and Aabria Iyengar serve as players, along with Dimension 20 newcomer Anjali Bhimani (Critical Role Exu).

Related: How Critical Role's Calamity Ties Into The Exandria Unlimited Series

Screen Rant spoke with Anjali Bhimani about joining Dimension 20 for The Ravening War.

The newest season of Dimension 20 is called The Ravening War, and it's a prequel to the popular A Crown of Candy, which combines a world based on Candyland with the high-stakes politics of Game of Thrones. The Ravening War takes place 20 years before the events of A Crown of Candy, during Calorum's bloody worldwide war. The Ravening War will follow a new group of food-based characters as they attempt to navigate the deadly politics of the world during a time of war with potential death and betrayal around every turn.

Dimension 20 is a popular Ttrpg actual play anthology series, with each season telling a new story on Dropout TV. The Ravening War stars Matt Mercer (Critical Role) as a guest Game Master with long-time Dimension 20 stars Brennan Lee Mulligan, Lou Wilson, Zac Oyama, and Aabria Iyengar serving as players along with Dimension 20 newcomer Anjali Bhimani (Critical...

Dropout.tv's Dimension 20 may not have the sprawling world of Critical Role, but it does have fascinating new locales with each season from a magical realism take on New York City to a horror-drenched fairytale world. For those new to the actual-play series, the various seasons are divided into two categories The Intrepid Heroes and the Side Quests. An Intrepid Hero season of Dimension 20 has Brennan Lee Mulligan as the Dungeon Master with players Lou Wilson, Ally Beardsley, Emily Axford, Brian Murphy, Zac Oyama, and Siobhan Thompson, lasting about 20 episodes.

To date, there have been six full Intrepid Hero seasons of Dimension 20 with the seventh, Neverafter, currently airing on Dropout.tv. Each of the Intrepid Hero seasons of the show are truly a testament to Brennan Lee Mulligan's ability as a Dm and the table of players that craft such compelling and lovable characters over and over again.

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After a second Covid-caused week off in less than a month, Jimmy Kimmel returned to “Jimmy Kimmel Live” on Monday, where he poked fun at how the media, and his friends and family, treated his second Covid case.

He also took a test to determine if he’s suffering from the condition popularly known as “Covid brain fog,” and of course failed miserably.

“As you probably heard, I had Covid three weeks ago. I tested positive three weeks ago, I was positive for a week. Then I was negative for a whole week between that. And then I was positive for another week. And now, what I’m saying is I’m weak,” Kimmel joked during his monologue.

“I wasn’t very sick either time. Fortunately, I had two boosters. And whole bottle of Flintstones vitamins to help me. But it was a reality check. Once, I tested negative I was like,...

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In many ways films like this are the hardest to write about, The King of Staten Island lacks in any narrative structure and struggles to find its purpose. The narrative causes the film to feel long and the script has a lethargic feel to it. Yet, despite this, the characters come on to the screen fully formed, each and everyone feeling like real people, unique in their own individual way. It’s the charm and likability of these characters that drives the film forward and keeps you engaged for the entire runtime.

The King of Staten Island focuses on Scott (Pete Davidson) a 24 year old still living at home,...

Over his storied career, Judd Apatow has elevated a series of promising young comedy talents to their first major big-screen performance, including Steve Carell, Seth Rogen, Jonah Hill, Jason Segel, Kristen Wiig, Amy Schumer and Kumail Nanjiani.

This year, Apatow directed Saturday Night Live breakout Pete Davidson in The King Of Staten Island, the bracing comedy about love, loss and laughter on Staten Island.

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Stars: Pete Davidson, Bel Powley, Ricky Velez, Lou Wilson, Moises Arias, Carly Aquilino, Marisa Tomei, Maude Apatow, Pauline Chalamet, Lynne Koplitz, Joseph Paul Kennedy, Kevin Corrigan, Bill Burr, Steve Buscemi | Written by Judd Apatow, Pete Davidson, Dave Sirus | Directed by Judd Apatow

In many ways films like this are the hardest to write about, The King of Staten Island lacks in any narrative structure and struggles to find its purpose. The narrative causes the film to feel long and the script has a lethargic feel to it. Yet, despite this, the characters come on to the screen fully formed, each and everyone feeling like real people, unique in their own individual way. It’s the charm and likability of these characters that drives the film forward and keeps you engaged for the entire runtime.

The King of Staten Island focuses on Scott (Pete Davidson) a 24 year old still living at home,...

(from left) Scott Carlin (Pete Davidson) and Papa (Steve Buscemi) in The King of Staten Island, directed by Judd Apatow. Courtesy of Universal

At 24, Scott (Pete Davidson) is stuck in perpetual adolescence, living with his mother Margie (Marisa Tomei) in the Staten Island home where he grew up. Traumatized when his firefighter father was killed trying to rescue someone when Scott was seven, he has never recovered despite years of therapy and in fact, has built his persona around the trauma. His well-meaning, kind-hearted mother, an overworked ER nurse, has built her life around her son’s care, treating him as if he were a fragile patient. If fact, everyone seems to tip-toe around Scott as if he might break from his childhood trauma.

Scott himself embraces this view, dodging jobs and hanging out with high school pals Oscar (Ricky Velez), Igor (Moises Arias) and Richie (Lou Wilson), playing video games and smoking pot.

Aimlessness, tragedy, grief, trauma, depression, mental illness, thoughts of suicide — all these things figure in The King of Staten Island. It’s a comedy because, well, laughs (along with some weed) can help you get through life. That life belongs to Pete Davidson, the youngest (he’s 26) and quirkiest current cast member on SNL, who’s figured the movie is at least 75 percent him. He’s playing a differently named version of himself who’s not an established comedian but an aspiring tattoo artist — better to think of it as...

Art imitates life for Saturday Night Live comedian Pete Davidson. The King of Staten Island is a slice of life dramedy about a maladjusted stoner's inability to cope with change. Set against the backdrop of New York City's most unheralded borough, the film's wonderful ensemble cast paints a vivid portrait of Staten Island's working class residents. The characters are funny, poignant, and endearing. Director Judd Apatow brings a deft touch until a somewhat contrived and melodramatic final act.

Pete Davidson stars as Scott Carlin, an unemployed twenty-four-year-old pothead with serious emotional problems. He lives with his doting mother, Margie (Marisa Tomei), and college bound sister, Claire (Maude Apatow). Scott's father was a fireman killed in the line of duty. The loss of his father as a child dominates Scott's psyche. He considers himself stupid and worthless. Scott spends his days getting high in a basement with low-level drug dealer friends.

Judd Apatow knows talent when he sees it. For years, he has made a career out of giving cinematic showcases to comedians. Whether it was Steve Carell in The 40 Year Old Virgin, Seth Rogen in Knocked Up, or Amy Schumer in Trainwreck, he’s shined the spotlight on them, launching the talented actors and actresses to A-list careers. He’s done it as a director, as well as a producer, making his stable of talent truly enviable. Now, he returns to directing with another effort that does just that. The King of Staten Island, like Trainwreck with Schumer, has a script written by its star (co-written here), based on real life. Here, it’s Pete Davidson, and his tragic childhood loss is the basis for a stunningly terrific work. Capturing the pain and the pathos, as well as the humor, that define Davidson, this is not just one of Apatow’s top tier efforts,...

Available On Demand June 12 is The King Of Staten Island.

“This movie is, like, a love letter to my mom…and trying to end that part of my life…” – Pete Davidson

Check out the new featurette now.

Over his storied career, Judd Apatow has elevated a series of promising young comedy talents to their first major big-screen performance, including Steve Carell, Seth Rogen, Jonah Hill, Jason Segel, Kristen Wiig, Amy Schumer and Kumail Nanjiani.

This summer, Apatow directs Saturday Night Live breakout Pete Davidson in a bracing comedy about love, loss and laughter on Staten Island.

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(from left) Margie Carlin (Marisa Tomei) and Scott Carlin (Pete Davidson) in The King of Staten Island, directed by Judd Apatow.

Scott (Davidson) has been a case of arrested development ever since his firefighter father died when he was seven. He’s now reached his mid-20s having achieved little,...

The trailer for NCBUniversal's The King of Staten Island dropped today, featuring Saturday Night Live cast breakout star Pete Davidson in the lead role, in a movie directed by Knocked Up and Trainwreck creator Judd Apatow. The movie is set for a fully digital release, as it debuts June 12 on Pvod.

Over his storied career, Judd Apatow has elevated a series of promising young comedy talents to their first major big-screen performance, including Steve Carell, Seth Rogen, Jonah Hill, Jason Segel, Kristen Wiig, Amy Schumer and Kumail Nanjiani. This summer, Apatow directs Saturday Night Live breakout Pete Davidson in a bracing comedy about love, loss and laughter on Staten Island.

Scott (Pete Davidson) has been a case of arrested development ever since his firefighter father died when he was seven. He's now reached his mid-20s having achieved little, chasing a dream of becoming a tattoo artist that seems far out of reach.

Pete Davidson flounders and flails and tries to grow up in the new trailer for The King of Staten Island, which is set to hit on-demand services June 12th.

The new film, directed by Judd Apatow, is loosely based on Davidson’s own life: It finds him playing an unambitious 20-something named Scott with half-baked dreams about being a tattoo artist — plus, he still lives at home and spends most of his time smoking weed with his friends. He also still isn’t quite over the death of his firefighter dad 17 years prior.

Pete Davidson’s “The King of Staten Island” character isn’t much of a stretch for the “SNL” star. In the upcoming Judd Apatow flick, Davidson plays an inked-up young man whose firefighter father died in the early 2000s. Sadly, Davidson’s real-life dad, a first responder and a fireman, died on 9/11.

In the Apatow comedy, Davidson’s (mostly) ficticious Scott lives with his mom (Marisa Tomei) in the least-sexy borough of New York City. That location — and stage of life — should sound familiar to Davidson fans.

Here’s the film’s synopsis: Scott (Davidson) has been a case of arrested development ever since his firefighter father died when he was seven. He’s now reached his mid-20s having achieved little, chasing a dream of becoming a tattoo artist that seems far out of reach. As his ambitious younger sister (Maude Apatow) heads off to college, Scott is still...

Universal Pictures has released the first trailer for Judd Apatow’s ‘The King of Staten Island’ featuring Pete Davidson.

Scott (Davidson) has been a case of arrested development ever since his firefighter father died when he was seven. He’s now reached his mid-20s having achieved little, chasing a dream of becoming a tattoo artist that seems far out of reach. As his ambitious younger sister (Maude Apatow) heads off to college, Scott is still living with his exhausted ER nurse mother (Marisa Tomei) and spends his days smoking weed, hanging with the guy’s – Oscar (Ricky Velez), Igor (Moises Arias) and Richie (Lou Wilson) – and secretly hooking up with his childhood friend Kelsey (Bel Powley).

But when his mother starts dating a loudmouth firefighter (Bill Burr), it sets off a chain of events that will force Scott to grapple with his grief and take his first tentative steps toward moving forward in life.

Universal released the trailer for Pete Davidson’s summer comedy, “The King of Staten Island” on Thursday, starring the “SNL” comedian in his first lead feature role.

The semi-autobiographical comedy, directed by Judd Apatow, incorporates elements of Davidson’s own life, including losing his firefighter father during the Sept. 11 attacks.

The film centers around Scott (Davidson), who has been a case of arrested development since his father died when he was 7. As his younger sister heads off to college, Scott, now in his mid-20s, spends his days smoking weed and giving his friends tattoos. It’s not until his mother starts dating a new man, Ray, whom Scott disapproves of, that he begins to finally confront his grief and reevaluate his life.

The trailer makes good use of Davidson’s and Apatow’s comedic backgrounds, showing Scott’s friends make fun of his disfigured tattoos and Scott bearing his...

If you can’t get enough Pete Davidson in your life, Judd Apatow has just the thing: “The King of Staten Island” is coming this summer, and NBCUniversal just dropped the trailer for the upcoming comedy film.

“The King of Staten Island” sees the “Knocked Up” director revisiting familiar territory, as his latest film tracks another weed-smoking slacker who dreams big but does little — until life forces his hand. Apatow also co-wrote the script with Davidson and “Saturday Night Live” alum Dave Sirus. The film, once set to open SXSW before a theatrical release, will premiere June 12 on Pvod.

Here’s the film’s synopsis:

Scott (Davidson) has been a case of arrested development ever since his firefighter father died when he was seven. He’s now reached his mid-20s having achieved little, chasing a dream of becoming a tattoo artist that seems far out of reach. As his...