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In the wake of a devastating season finale, Trigun Stampede has announced that a "final phase" is on the way, which the show teased with a familiar looking bounty poster. The 12th and final episode of the first season of Trigun Stampede only just aired, depicting a major event from the manga for the first time on screen. While Trigun Stampede hasn't been a 1:1 adaptation of the manga, it has reached out to cover a number of events that weren't included in the first Trigun anime, and seems to be set to adapt a lot of other manga content which was only created after the original Trigun anime ended.

Following the finale, production studio Orange set fans at ease by confirming that another season of Trigun Stampede was on the way, referring to it as the "Final Phase" on Trigun's official Twitter account. Accompanying the announcement was a bounty poster showing Vash,...

Welcome to this week’s Nxt review, right here on Nerdly. I’m Nathan Favel and there better be some damn wrestling on here, or I’ll be pissed.

Match #1: Angel Garza def. Isaiah “Swerve” Scott The following is courtesy of wwe.com:

Riding high after laying out Rey Mysterio on Raw, Angel Garza picked up an impressive victory over Isaiah “Swerve” Scott and has one thing on his mind: recapturing the Nxt Cruiserweight Championship. Garza came into this one holding a grudge with “Swerve” after he was the one to eat the pinfall in their Fatal 4-Way Match back at WWE Worlds Collide, costing him the title. But Nxt’s resident lothario delivered his message in convincing fashion, defeating Scott with the Wing Clipper after again demonstrating the aggression he showcased against Humberto Carrillo and Mysterio. Afterward, Garza was sure to point out that he’d have his...

Welcome to this week’s Nxt review, right here on Nerdly. I’m Nathan Favel and we have the aftermath of Nxt dominating Survivor Series. This better be good or Elton John will stick his tongue down the throat of a “Tiny Dancer”. Hold me close Ti…always be closing!

Match #1: The Undisputed Era def. Keith Lee & Dominik Dijakovic – Nxt Tag Team Championship Match The following is courtesy of wwe.com:

After suffering their defeat in TakeOver: WarGames’ eponymous main event, it seemed that The Undisputed Era’s title reigns might be running on borrowed time. But in the case of the Nxt Tag Team Championships at least, they found a way to flip the hourglass Wednesday — even in the face of injury. The Undisputed Era retained their titles against the team of Keith Lee & Dominik Dijakovic, despite Roderick Strong needing to step into the match early on as...

Welcome to this week’s Nxt review, right here on Nerdly. I’m Nathan Favel and we have more from Triple H’s Turkish bath house. Like After-m.A.S.H, this show has potential, but it still feels like it’s only working towards feeling different from the WWE, rather than just being great wrestling. Well, it’s better than living at the Dmv.

Match #1: Tommaso Ciampa def. Angel Garza The following is courtesy of wwe.com:

Tommaso Ciampa is back and appears as dangerous as ever, and that could mean bad news for Nxt Champion Adam Cole. The Blackheart went a long way Wednesday toward extinguishing any doubts about his recovery from injury. In his first action since February, Ciampa showed little ring rust during a defeat ofAngel Garza, securing the victory after an elevated hanging Ddt dubbed Willow’s Belle.

My Opinion: 3.2 out of 5 – This was way too short.

Welcome to this week’s Nxt review, right here on Nerdly. I’m Nathan favel and Nxt is going to the USA Network, which could be great or a disaster. Until that time, Nxt is here as a one hour WWE Network program and that’s just fine. Okay, let’s see what the golden goose has brought us this time.

Match #1: Io Shirai def. Cami Fields The following is courtesy of wwe.com:

The winner of this match was never in doubt. Io Shirai dominated Cami Fields from start to finish and could have easily pinned her after executing her trademark Moonsault. Instead, The Genius of the Sky chose to inflict more pain, breaking the pin and forcing a submission via the Harajuku Clutch (the same hold Shirai used to defeat Candice LeRae at TakeOver: Toronto).

My Opinion: 2.1 out of 5 – This wasn’t much, but it was something,...

Welcome to this week’s review of Nxt, right here on Nerdly. I’m Nathan Favel and Nxt has a big main event to show us, so let’s…watch the match. I couldn’t think of a joke so that’s all you get.

Match #1: Dominik Dijakovic def. Shane Thorne The following is courtesy of WWE.com:

Shane Thorne came prepared for his battle against the dominant Dominik Dijakovic, and he executed his savvy game plan to near perfection. The cunning Aussie relentlessly kicked Dijakovic down to size, then tenaciously went after the big man’s left arm, and when The Rare Breed kept coming at him, Thorne suplexed him on his noggin.

No amount of strategizing, however, could properly account for Dijakovic’s freakish athleticism. While both Superstars tussled on the top turnbuckle, the 270-pound Dijakovic backflipped out of danger and nailed Thorne with a superkick that...

From the AP:

Maureen O’Hara, the flame-haired Irish movie star who appeared in classics ranging from the grim “How Green Was My Valley” to the uplifting “Miracle on 34th Street” and bantered unforgettably with John Wayne in several films. She was 95.

O’Hara died in her sleep at her home in Boise, Idaho, said Johnny Nicoletti, her longtime manager.

O’Hara received an Honorary Award at the 2014 Governors Awards.

“She passed peacefully surrounded by her loving family as they celebrated her life listening to music from her favorite movie, ‘The Quiet Man,'” said a statement from her family.

“As an actress, Maureen O’Hara brought unyielding strength and sudden sensitivity to every role she played. Her characters were feisty and fearless, just as she was in real life. She was also proudly Irish and spent her entire lifetime sharing her heritage and the wonderful culture of the Emerald Isle with the world,...

McLaglen with his father Victor on the set of Rawhide with Clint Eastwood.

Andrew V. McLaglen, the son of famed character actor Victor McLaglen, who went on to a successful career as both a television and feature film director, has died at age 94. McLaglen got into directing by working on popular television Westerns in the 1950s and 1960s such as "Rawhide" and "Have Gun, Will Travel". He collaborated with John Wayne on the 1963 Western comedy "McLintock!", which proved to be a boxoffice smash. He would collaborate with Wayne on numerous other films such as "Hellfighters", "Cahill: U.S. Marshall", "The Undefeated" and their most acclaimed joint project, the 1970 Western "Chisum" which proved to be a favorite of President Richard M. Nixon. (Some of Nixon's  political adversaries  theorized that the film inspired him to launch the secret war in Cambodia.) McLaglen also excelled at making action adventure films such as...

A melancholy history of Hollywood recounted in terms of the offspring of its greatest personalities would reveal a litany of also-rans, failures and addicts. Harry Carey Jr was one of the happy exceptions to that rule. His father was John Ford's favourite actor; the director dedicated his 1948 film Three Godfathers to "the memory of Harry Carey – bright star of the early western sky". Ford's The Searchers (1956) ended with John Wayne standing, one arm across his chest, in a pose made famous by Carey Sr.

Carey Jr worked prolifically with Andrew V McLaglen, the son of Victor McLaglen, another of Ford's stock company. For that director he made many episodes of TV westerns and roughly a dozen films, often starring Wayne and James Stewart, including The Rare Breed (1966), Bandolero! (1968), Something Big (1971) and Cahill (1973).

Carey was sought out by American directors who recalled the golden era of their national cinema and his part in it.

A group of donkeys have had their dreadlocks trimmed for the first time in 17 years. The pack of seven donkeys, who live at Norley Farm near Lymington in Hampshire, have been groomed to stop them from getting too hot in the summer weather. The Baudet du Poitou breed of donkey is incredibly rare; they are now more endangered than white rhinos and giant pandas, with only 50 foals being born each year worldwide. The rare breed are naturally extremely hairy and are actually not meant to be groomed. Their fur is left to grow into dreadlocks reaching (more)...

Don Galloway, the likable character actor best known for his long-running role as Sgt. Ed Brown on the NBC show "Ironside," died Thursday in Reno, Nev., after suffering a stroke. He was 71.

Galloway broke into show business in 1962 on the CBS soap opera "The Secret Storm" and over the years appeared in nearly 70 films and TV shows. His big break came in 1967 when he was cast as Raymond Burr's sidekick on "Ironside," and he stayed with the show for its entire eight-year run.

His first movie role came in 1966 on the Jimmy Stewart Western "The Rare Breed," but his most famous film role was on the 1983 feature "The Big Chill," in which he played JoBeth Williams' straight-arrow husband.

Galloway left show business in the 1990s and served briefly as a deputy sheriff for the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department in Southern California. Since then, he worked as a corporate spokesman and consultant,...