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Derry Girls star Saoirse-Monica Jackson will make her New York stage premiere this spring in Irishtown.

The play, written by Ciara Elizabeth Smyth, will make its world premiere at the Irish Repertory Theatre’s Francis J. Greenburger Mainstage starting April 2, ahead of an April 13 opening night. The show, which also stars Kate Burton (Grey’s Anatomy), will play a limited Off-Broadway run through May 25.

In addition to Burton and Jackson, the play will feature Kevin Oliver Lynch (Purgatory, After Yeats), Brenda Meaney (Little Gem, Uncle Vanya), and Angela Reed (Harry Potter and the Cursed Child), with voiceover work by Roger Clark (Red Dead Redemption Two).

Directed by Nicola Murphy Dubey, Irishtown follows a Dublin-based theater company that begins rehearsals for their new play, only to discover that the playwright has made the story too dark and experimental, and not Irish enough. The company decides to take matters into their own hands...

Legendary Slayer guitarist Kerry King kicked off his first-ever headlining North American tour with his eponymous band on Thursday (January 15th) at the Regency Ballroom in San Francisco. The outing features support from Municipal Waste and Alien Weaponry.

Last year, King debuted his new band at a number of European festivals, as well as a support slot on Lamb of God and Mastodon’s co-headlining summer North American run. The outfit is rounded out by drummer Paul Bostaph (Slayer), bassist Kyle Sanders (Hellyeah), guitarist Phil Demmel (ex-Machine Head), and lead singer Mark Osegueda (Death Angel).

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At Thursday night’s headlining tour kickoff, King and company performed a 19-song set, including 12 of the 13 tunes from their debut album, From Hell I Rise (one of our top metal albums of 2024). The rest of the setlist was made up of five Slayer songs {“Repentless,” “Disciple,” “At Dawn They Sleep,...

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When Lost first debuted in 2004, it became an immediate success. The show premiered on September 22, 2004, which was just one year after The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King's 2003 release date. The extreme success of the Peter Jackson movies proved that fantasy was still a force to be reckoned with in theaters, and Lost was preparing to prove that the same was true for TV. It introduced mystery, science fiction, and fantasy — all without needing to debut on the big screen.

Like The Lord of the Rings, the show had an enormous cast. The ensemble included Matthew Fox as Jack, Jorge Garcia as Hugo, Evangeline Lilly as Kate, Dominic Monaghan as Charlie, and countless others. All had storylines and arcs of their own, while they attempted to...

Supernatural ran for fifteen seasons, delivering 327 episodes of Sam and Dean Winchester traveling across America on their monster-hunting adventures. Despite having some standout episodes, some fan favorites, and some total duds, the series churned out a mostly consistent level of quality during its run on air.

Supernatural has plenty of underrated episodes in fifteen seasons (Credit: Warner Bros).

As a result, when revisiting the series and its fifteen seasons, some episodes fly under the radar. The fifth episode of season 8 is easily one of these underrated episodes that showed fans have mostly forgotten twelve years later. However, the episode is the reason why Jensen Ackles is a true fan-favorite, and here is what you need to know about it.

Supernatural Season 8 Episode 5 is One of the Show’s Most Underrated

Supernatural stars Jensen Ackles as Dean Winchester, who faces a fresh set of challenges in season 8 after escaping from Purgatory.

“Pitfall” a movie that shares many similarities with “Woman of the Dunes” and Shohei Imamura’s works, was Hiroshi Teshigahara‘s feature debut and also marked the first of four collaborations with Kobo Abe, the aforementioned included. However, unlike the others, which are based on novels by Abe, “Pitfall” was originally a television play called “Purgatory” (Rengoku). The production had its share of problems, as Teshigahara often disagreed with his film crew, and fired two assistant directors who did not wish to include the rape scene in the movie. It was distributed by the Art Theatre Guild on a limited release, in one of the first distribution efforts of the company, and was later acquired by Toho which released it in the United States in 1964.

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Next stop: Purgatory! Not long after its Tubi special back in September, the Wynonna Earp series continues to take audiences on a wild adventure to the Weird West with their latest audio drama, Wynonna Earp: Tales from Purgatory. Following Wynonna Earp (Melanie Scrofano) once again, the newest installment sees the show's beloved heroine as she rides off into the sunset with the love of her life, Doc Holliday (Tim Rozon). With more demon hunters and even more shocking revelations, Wynonna Earp: Tales from Purgatory promises to whip up chaotic supernatural mayhem outside our screens and through our speakers.

Paul Di’Anno, the lead singer of Iron Maiden from 1978 to 1981 which included the heavy metal band’s first two albums, died in England on Monday after suffering ill health in recent years. He was 66.

His death was announced on the band’s Instagram page.

“We are all deeply saddened to learn about the passing of Paul Di’Anno earlier today,” the band said in a statement. “Paul’s contribution to Iron Maiden was immense and helped set us on the path we have been travelling as a band for almost five decades. His pioneering presence as a frontman and vocalist, both on stage and on our first two albums, will be very fondly remembered not just by us, but by fans around the world.

“We were very grateful to have had the chance to catch up a couple of years ago and to spend time with him once more. On behalf of the band,...

Just like many of the biggest franchises currently running, Supernatural created a multiverse, but unlike the cinematic universes, most of these other worlds were explored within the main show. Considering the show's extraordinary run from 2005 to 2020, there was a lot of time to fill with stories across 327 episodes of Supernatural. While the show started with humble horror beginnings that saw it lean heavily into supernatural horror stories with demons and terrifying monsters, it quickly evolved into an emotional and dramatic fantasy series that revolved around two brothers.

Sam and Dean Winchester made Supernatural what it is, from the minute the duo appear on-screen together up to the emotional finale of season 15. But, over time, the brothers are faced with increasingly challenging enemies, including the aforementioned demons, then angels, then supernatural beings who are as old as time, and eventually, even god himself. And the action did not stop at the...

Jd Souther, a Songwriters Hall of Famer whose collaborations with The Eagles, Linda Ronstadt and James Taylor helped define the country-tinged Laurel Canyon/Southern California rock sound of the 1970s, has died. He was 78.

His reps said Souther died peacefully at his home in Sandia Park, Nm, but did not provide a cause or date of death.

Born John David Souther on November 2, 1945, in Detroit — he went by Jd, sans periods, throughout nearly all of his professional career — Souther was raised in Amarillo, Texas. He moved to Los Angeles in the late 1960s, where he soon, and fortuitously, formed a band called Longbranch Pennywhistle with musician-songwriter Glenn Frey, a fellow Detroit native. The two would continue their songwriting collaboration even after Frey went on to cofound The Eagles, one of the most successful rock bands in history.

Together, Souther and Frey would contribute some of the Eagles’ most enduring and beloved songs,...

Jd Souther, the singer and songwriter who co-wrote songs with the Eagles and Linda Ronstadt, has died. He was 78.

Souther died peacefully at his home in New Mexico, according to his rep. No cause of death was given. He was about to embark on a tour with Karla Bonoff.

Souther, a Songwriters Hall of Fame inductee, was responsible for some of the Eagles’ biggest hits, including the songs “Best of My Love”, “Victim of Love”, “Heartache Tonight”, and “New Kid in Town”. “How Long.” With Ronstadt, he wrote and duetted on the classic songs “Prisoner in Disguise,” “Sometimes You Can’t Win” and “Hearts Against the Wind.” He also enjoyed a successful solo career and penned the hit songs “You’re Only Lonely” and “Her Town Too,” the latter a duet with Taylor.

Born John David Souther on Nov. 2, 1945 in Detroit, Michigan, he was raised in Amarillo, Texas. He started...

John David “J.D.” Souther, a member of the Songwriters Hall of Fame known for co-penning hits with the Eagles, James Taylor, and Linda Ronstadt, has died at the age of 78.

The singer-songwriter died peacefully at home in New Mexico, according to reps at Solters PR. A cause of death was not given.

Souther was born in Detroit, Michigan, on Nov. 2, 1945, and raised in Amarillo, Texas. After moving to Los Angeles, California, in the late Sixties, he formed a longtime partnership with the Eagles’ Glenn Frey. The duo briefly formed...

By now, you have seen Wynonna Earp: Vengeance on Tubi, and you know this special is much more than a fun detour in Purgatory.

This is a story with real consequences, and we caught up with creator Emily Andras to get her take on it.

Like all things Earp, Emily is passionate and filled with life. Don’t be alarmed when it appears as if the claws come out. The conversation was lighthearted and emotional and packed a punch. It’s exactly what you’d expect from the woman who brought Wynonna, Waverly, Doc, and Nicole to life!

Warning: Massive Spoilers Ahead! Don’t proceed if you haven’t already watched Vengeance!

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Well, what a fantastic, if somewhat jarring, return to Wynonna!

I know. How mad are you? How mad are you? There’s not enough of you yelling at me.

The following contains an Earpin’ amount of spoilers from Wynonna Earp: Vengeance, the 90-minute reunion special/don’t-call-it-a-movie now streaming on Tubi.

Your favorite demon-slaying gunslinger was put back to work in Wynonna Earp: Vengeance, now streaming on Tubi.

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Werewolf: The Apocalypse fans are being treated to a new video game adaptation, courtesy of developer Different Tales (who developed Werewolf: The Apocalypse – Heart of the Forest) and Paradox Interactive. Coming to Steam in Q3 2024, Werewolf: The Apocalypse — Purgatory is a blend of fantasy thriller, visual novel, and tabletop RPG set in the World of Darkness universe.

Purgatory follows Samira, an Afghan werewolf and refugee. Players will follow her path of darkness as she flees her motherland and gets struck by a life-changing tragedy. Play in a world where evil comes in both human and supernatural shapes, and investigate the horrifying secrets hidden across the city of Warsaw. Will Samira sink into despair, overwhelmed by the tragedies of her past? Or will she give in to her rage and fight for a better future?

Drawing inspiration from its predecessor, Heart of the Forest, Purgatory continues the saga with familiar faces...

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For 15 seasons, Supernatural mined the combined mythologies of the globe for its monsters of the week, seasonal big bads and paranormal settings. One thing that makes this series unique is that everyone, from angels to demons and humans to gods can die. Of course, death isn't always the end in Supernatural, and it has as vibrant an afterlife as it did a mortal plane. But how did it work? When Sam, Dean, Castiel and other characters died on Supernatural, chances were viewers would see them again in the afterlife: Heaven, Hell, Purgatory, the Veil or the Empty.

While some of these elements are well-known or self-explanatory (at least in the case of the Empty), there were complex rules.

A potential Supernatural spinoff set in Purgatory could explore Benny's character and storyline in more depth, addressing his past and providing a better story arc for him. With Dean as a primary draw and the inclusion of action-packed scenes, a Purgatory spinoff could be successful and feature Dean and Benny team-ups. While past Supernatural spinoffs haven't worked, ruling out a Purgatory and Benny spinoff may be premature, as Jensen Ackles has expressed interest in the character and there is a desire to explore the Supernatural universe in more projects.

Over its 15 seasons, Supernatural has explored many locations and various lore, but there's one spinoff that could fix a complaint that lead actors Jensen Ackles and Jared Padalecki have about the show. The Supernatural cast is understandably expansive, from the popular angel Castiel (Misha Collins) to the panicked prophet Kevin Tran (Osric Chau). With this, comes many beloved character interactions and relationships.

“I was outside digging a grave,” quips Lil’ Punkin at the start of our call. He’s running a few minutes late, perhaps a little out of breath, but slides into the conversation. Lil’ Punkin joins Norman Crates, and DeepKutz as we talk all things spooky and macabre.

The trio – known together as Lvcrft (a reference to author H.P. Lovecraft) – have built their careers on making infectiously gooey, throwback Halloween pop music. Think “Monster Mash” but with a glistening modern pop edge. They slashed onto the scene with 2019’s This is Halloween Volume 1, which introduces the pivotal character of Skeleton Sam (as seen in press photos and around town) and includes such tracks as a cover of Kim Wilde’s debut single “Kids in America.” The work is deliciously dark, often seductively playful, and always guaranteed to get your cold, dead heart beating again. Three more albums followed, including 2020’s...

In conversation, Eric Roberts is everything you might think he is: gregarious, uninhibited, honest, outspoken, and full of spirit. The actor has turned heads in standout film and television roles in outings like Star 80 (alongside Mariel Hemingway), The Dark Knight, Inherent Vice, The Expendables, Lovelace, and TV series like Crash, Heroes, and Suits, which is currently experiencing a newfound surge in popularity with talks of a reboot.

Roberts is at the helm in dual roles in front and behind the screen in My Last Best Friend, an engaging New York City pandemic drama about two men, both named Walter, whose lives get turned upside down. It’s a challenging role for Roberts, who plays two very different characters who are only linked by their looks. One “Walter” is battling an ominous illness, the other a probing investigation from the FBI.

Eric Roberts opened up about why he took on the film,...

On a recent drive from Cleveland, Ohio, back to his home in Austin, Texas, Miles Miller had ample time to reflect along the 1,400-mile route.

“I thought about how much I thought about these moments without knowing what they would look like,” Miller tells Rolling Stone. “Even when I was younger, I knew that these moments would happen — I just didn’t know how it would look or how it would feel.”

One of those moments Miller is talking about include hitting the stage last month as a solo artist...

Gordon T. Dawson, who parlayed a stint as a costumer for Sam Peckinpah into a career as a writer and producer with credits including The Ballad of Cable Hogue, The Rockford Files, Bret Maverick and Walker, Texas Ranger, has died. He was 84.

Dawson died March 6 in West Hills Hospital of complications from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, his family announced.

A former firefighter, Dawson spent three months in a Columbia Pictures basement using a blowtorch, paraffin and glue to age the principal soldier uniforms for the Peckinpah-directed Major Dundee (1965). When the extras’ costumes did not match the ones Dawson had prepared, Peckinpah shut down production on the first day of shooting.

Dawson was summoned to the set in Mexico to age the other costumes, noting in the 1993 documentary Sam Peckinpah: Man of Iron that he was “terrified” to meet the intimidating director. He needn’t have worried, though; Dawson fixed the other costumes,...

While The Vampire Diaries spinoff Legacies ended without reuniting Landon and Hope, this was a bad mistake for The Originals follow-up. Much as it tried not to be, Legacies was always destined to be the Landon and Hope Show. The follow-up to The Originals (which was itself a spinoff of The Vampire Diaries) was ostensibly intended to be the story of Hope Mikaelson, a student at the Salvatore School for the Young and Gifted, discovering the extent of her supernatural powers and the dark history of her famous family.

However, from the moment that Hope first saved Landon Kirby from seemingly certain death, the dynamic of almost every future Legacies episode was set in stone. In particular, the first two seasons of Legacies made the mistake of focusing on Landon and Hope’s familiar on-again, off-again relationship dynamic instead of spending more of its screen time fleshing out characters like Mg,...

Agustí Villaronga, one of the most versatile of higher-profile Spanish auteurs, is attached to direct “Purgatory,” a project which will be presented at Locarno’s Match Me! Event by Nati Escobar at Spain’s Galápagos Media.

“Purgatory” turns on Father Tomás, a scholar of ancient history and biblical theology sent to a remote sanatorium as a penance for his sins. There, the priest discovers that the small community seems to be entranced by the teachings of a patient.

A title to track at Match Me!, a large networking event, “Purgatory” promises a study of the frontiers between faith and superstition, conviction and manipulation.

The project will be produced by director-producer Pau Calpe and Nati Escobar at Spain’s Galápagos Media and co-produced by Xavier Crespo at Dacsa Produccions. Calpe has just directed “Tros,” a Film Factory-sold drama thriller.. Galápagos has been recently involved in the co-production of Icíar Bollaín’s “Yuli.

Patrika Darbo and Anna Maria Horsford will host the 12thAnnual Indie Series Awards on April 7, producers announced today.

Emmy-winning actress and four-time nominee Patrika Darbo is a veteran of over 35 years in film and television. She has guest starred on countless series including 9-1-1 Lonestar, The Big Bang Theory, The Middle, Devious Maids, Desperate Housewives, Dexter, Seinfeld, Roseanne and she was a series regular on the sit-com, Step by Step. She recently returned to the NBC daytime drama Days of our Lives in a role she originated in 1998.

As one of the most recognizable faces in Hollywood, Emmy-nominated actress Anna Maria Horsford continues to inspire audiences through cinema, television and theater. Her career and influence span generations, bringing to life some of our favorite characters including Thelma Frye on Amen, Mrs. Jones in Friday, Friday After Next, Dee Baxter on The Wayans Brothersor Vivienne Avant in The Bold and Beautiful.

Linking to Paris-based Nadia Turincev and her producer partner Omar El Kadi to develop and produce two new Swiss films, Geneva-based Akka Films is also ramping up TV production, with Stéphanie Chuat and Véronique Reymond, writer-directors of the acclaimed “My Little Sister,” Switzerland’s Oscar submission, teaming to create a new TV series .

Headed by Nicolas Wadimoff and Philippe Coeytaux, Akka is readying with Turincev and El Kadi “O Jacaré,” the third feature from Swiss-Portuguese filmmaker Basil Da Cunha whose debut, “After the Night” played the Cannes Festival’s Directors’ Fortnight in 2013. Its follow-up, “O film do mundo,” screened in main competition at Locarno in 2019.

Presented at 2021’s online Industry Village, part of France’s Les Arc Film Festival, “O Jacaré” concludes Da Cunha’s trilogy set in the humble district of Reboleira on the outskirts of Lisbon. Described by its producers as a breathless ensemble thriller in the line of his previous features,...

MTV Documentary Films has acquired worldwide rights to “Krimes,” the new non-fiction feature by award-winning filmmaker Alysa Nahmias. The deal comes before the film’s screening at Doc NYC on Sunday.

“Krimes” had its world premiere at the Heartland Film Festival. It chronicles the story of a clandestine masterpiece by an incarcerated artist. Isolated in a segregated environment where personal expression is verboten, 26 year-old artist Jesse Krimes covertly creates conceptual art during his six-year prison sentence. His work includes a large-scale mural made out of bed sheets, newspaper and hair gel. Jesse’s detailed crafting of this artwork provides a mental escape from the dehumanizing surroundings, while inspiring connections in unexpected places. With the help of fellow artists, he smuggles out individual panels of his work piece-by-piece to avoid being caught with contraband, only seeing his artwork in totality after coming home. His creations, Apokaluptein: 16389067 and Purgatory, mark his experience...

Not that Earpers needed the extra nudge, but the Wynonna Earp cast is here to extend an invitation to the “WayHaught” wedding that will wrap up the supernatural drama’s four-season Syfy run.

“It’s everything I ever wanted for them,” Nicole’s portrayer, Kat Barrell, professes in the exclusive teaser video below, which among other things revisits a slew of WayHaught moments (including the Otp’s proper introduction).

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With the Season 4 finale,...

Well, every streak comes to an end eventually.

The third season has been excellent so far with its story-over-style storytelling.

Unfortunately, American Gods Season 3 Episode 4 chucked that into the water.

It's a shame, too, because it would have been worth examining more of what Bilquis revealed about herself.

But instead of an in-depth exploration of her roots and how important the African gods were to the enslaved around the world, we got stylistic flashes hinting at the depth we would have enjoyed.

That's the reason I wasn't a fan of American Gods Season 2. American God Season 1 had the tone well established. The story unfolded with intricate and stylish embellishments. By the second season, the embellishments took over the narrative.

I'm holding out hope that this is not the way the remainder of American Gods Season 3 will unfold.

Again, it's all a shame because there was some good stuff here that...

Wynonna Earp fans are quite familiar with unexpected hiatuses, after having to wait two years between the third and fourth seasons. Now, Earpers will have to wait once again before they can return to Purgatory for the second half of Season 4, which has been delayed amid the coronavirus pandemic. But

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Intimacy can take many forms, and Wynonna Earp excels at depicting many of them. From hot lesbian sex scenes to sisters sharing their vulnerabilities with one another, this soft-yet-gory show is filled with examples of people letting each other in, and it’s riveting as hell.

While starcrossed lovers Wynonna and Doc have not always let their walls down for one another, their relationship has been pretty steady this season. In this sneak peek from Sunday’s episode, titled “Holy War Part One,” we see them getting closer than they normally do to discussing some much-avoided sensitive subjects. And also Doc Holliday pulling an Edward Cullen as one of his new (or maybe not so new?) hobbies seems to be watching Wynonna sleep. #vampirestereotypes Check it out…

Um, I love this scene. In it, we learn that Doc doesn’t sleep and that Wynonna sleeps with a pistol under her pillow.

Life is never boring for Wynonna Earp.

Whether she's being strung up on the street and subsequently arrested for murder or participating in a chili cook-off for her freedom or even being kidnapped by shady government operatives, we never know what life will throw at Wynonna next.

Unfortunately, the writers threw one too many things at our favorite badass heroine, which, in part, made Wynonna Earp Season 4 Episode 3 just like her chili: somewhat of a hot mess.

After the revelation that 18 months had passed at the end of Wynonna Earp Season 4 Episode 2, the sky seemed to be the limit.

There was so much to be explored -- how Nicole had fared during the year and a half, what exactly happened to Purgatory since Wynonna, Waverly, and Doc had been gone -- and while the episode did touch upon those issues, we never got firm answers.

Wynonna: This is a Russian doll of suckage.

What the heck is going on in Purgatory?

How did a ghost town become something out of The Handmaid's Tale in just 18 months?

Whatever's happened, things aren't looking great for our heroes after Wynonna Earp Season 4 Episode 2.

One possible answer to this question is Eve, who seems to be shaping up as this season's Big Bad.

Like the Garden, she's pretty different than the description offered in the Bible.

From the brief time the audience spent with the character, this Eve is an angry shapeshifter who was hellbent on getting out of the Garden, which makes sense if she had been trapped in that prison for eons.

Waverly: Whatever you are, Doc’s gonna kill you.

Eve (as Nicole): Save your heteronormative hero hogwash for humanity, sweetie, which incidentally I preclude by eons.

Waverly: Just say you’re old, you pretentious bitch.

Eve (as Nicole): I am a nightmare unto the world,...

The following contains major spoilers from the Aug. 2 episode of Syfy’s Wynonna Earp.

Wynonna Earp this week located Waverly and Doc and escaped the Garden of Eden, but life proved to be thorny in a different and most unexpected way upon the trio’s return to Purgatory.

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Coming out of the season premiere, Waverly herself laid eyes on a buck-naked Nicole inside the Garden,...

Join us on a journey through the next stage of our retrospective series on the Hellraiser franchise on this episode of Daily Dead's official podcast!

Following in the footsteps of Dante's trip through the domains of the dead in the Divine Comedy, we continue our Hellraiser retrospective series by visiting Purgatory and diving into three more Hellraiser movies: Inferno, Bloodline, and Hell on Earth.

Corpse Club co-hosts Bryan Christopher and Jonathan James are joined by special guest Joe Lipsett (co-host of the Horror Queers podcast), who helps guide us through Purgatory as we discuss this trio of Hellraiser films, including their stories of deadly pleasure and eternal pain, the memorable performances by Doug Bradley as Pinhead, and the creative direction by filmmakers Scott Derrickson, Kevin Yagher, and Anthony Hickox.

This is the second part of our Hellraiser retrospective, as we'll dive into Hellraiser and Hellbound: Hellraiser II on our Heaven episode.

They say good things come to those who wait.

Well, Earpers, I guess we must have been pretty good because Wynonna Earp finally returned after two years.

While we wish it hadn't taken that long, Wynonna Earp Season 4 Episode 1 went a long way toward making up to viewers during those torturous months when they were deprived of their favorite snarky, generally badass (former) heir and her demon-fighting friends.

Starting with Wynonna, on the surface, she seems like her same old self -- confident, brave, always quick with a joke, willing to do whatever it takes to save her friends and family.

And even though she's still very much Wynonna Earp, she's also struggling with who she is at her very core now that she's not the heir anymore.

Being the Earp heir has been her main identity throughout the entire series.

She may have loathed it at times, but it...

Warning to all revenants: She's back. After nearly two years off the air, Wynonna Earp leaves behind TV purgatory and returns to...well, Purgatory, with the titular heroine back to defend her hometown for another season. The path to getting the Syfy fan-favorite back on the air was a bit of a bizarre one. The cable network renewed the show all the way back in 2018, just one day after season three premiered, but when the time the show would normally return to production came and went, it was clear something was wrong. Thanks to the show's unique co-production model, financial troubles at Idw Entertainment—the publishing house responsible for the show's comic book source...

The Challenge is gearing up to wrap one of its most dramatic seasons to date. 

Total Madness, the 35th season of the venerable reality series, is airing Wednesdays at 8/7c on MTV, and with the finale inching closer, it's time to take a look at who has the best shot of winning. 

The series typically flips the script on contestants ahead of the finale, and there's a good chance it will pull off a similar feat this year. 

The Challenge: Total Madness has been a season like no other, and that's thanks to the format tweak that has forced everyone into an elimination challenge to earn a red skull. 

Without one of the most coveted skulls in the game, you have no shot of running in the final. 

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Johnny is a familiar face to the franchise. He knows what he has to do to win the game, and...

As The Challenge‘s finale rapidly approaches, the remaining contestants can smell the million dollars like blood in the water. So in this week’s episode, it’s the perfect time for Tj to make everybody sweat with another double elimination!

It’s crunch time on Total Madness, and those without a red skull are starting to trip. (Josh, Kyle and Bayleigh are the only ones who haven’t punched their tickets to the final yet.) With the ultimate challenge looming, Josh, Bananas and Kyle are worried about running it with Aneesa. “I think her best days are behind her...

Join us on a descent into Hell as we kick off a new retrospective series on the Hellraiser franchise on this episode of Daily Dead's official podcast!

Following the footsteps of Dante's trip through the domains of the dead in the Divine Comedy, we begin our Hellraiser retrospective series by visiting Hell and diving into the last five Hellraiser movies: Hellseeker, Deader, Hellworld, Revelations, and Judgment.

Corpse Club co-hosts Bryan Christopher and Jonathan James are joined by special guests Joe Lipsett (co-host of the Horror Queers podcast) and Annie Rose Malamet, who serve as our guides through Hell as we discuss our introductions to the Hellraiser series, why many of the later films miss the mark, what we like about them, our favorite and least favorite of the bunch, and we also talk about what we want from the future of the franchise.

This is only the beginning of our Hellraiser retrospective,...

Exclusive: Syfy is expanding the slate of its Tzgz weekly late-night animation block with three series orders and two pilot greenlights.

The network has picked up a second season of Hell Den. Tzgz licensed the first season of the series, but season 2 will be an original, comprised of six 15-minute episodes. It is the same approach Syfy took with the acquired Magical Girl Friendship Squad, which became Tzgz’s first original series after the network in January ordered supersized new episodes to air this summer.

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Also in January, Tzgz ordered its first internally developed animated pilots, the 15-minute Wild Life and Devil May Care. Wild Life has now been picked up to series. Devil May Care, which remains in consideration,...

Dee Nguyen from The Challenge: Total Madness is firing back at a number of fans following what recently transpired on the show’s second episode. It involved Dee not liking how her ex-boyfriend Rogan was flirting with newcomer Jenn West. That played into the elimination in Purgatory, where Dee had an opportunity to get rid of Jenn herself, but instead had...

The Magicians has been a force of nature from the very start, growing a loyal audience and weaving a tale that bridged our world with the storybook land of Fillory and has become more and more complex ever since. Given its massive appeal, including our glowing reviews over the years, the anticipation was high for the return of season 5, which turned out to be the show’s final season.

The logline for The Magicians season 5 spoke of plenty of magical mayhem that was in store:

Last season, magic was saved, but at a terrible cost: the life of Quentin Coldwater, who died heroically to save his friends— and the world. Julia, Alice, Eliot, Margo, Penny and their friends (and frenemies) must learn to navigate a world without him. Now, a new threat has arisen: in freeing magic, the balance tipped the other way and there’s too damn much of it,...

Alison Brie is the producer and star of Netflix's feverish new drama Horse Girl. Brie plays the titular horse girl Sarah, a socially awkward woman who spends her days working at an arts and crafts store called Great Lengths and her nights binge-watching a supernatural crime show called Purgatory. She has a roommate (played by Insatiable's Debby Ryan), who doesn't quite understand her, and a close coworker (Molly Shannon) who tries her best to.

When Sarah is suddenly plagued by a string of lucid visions so surreal that she can't tell her dreams from reality, we're taken along on her haunting and emotional journey - one that encourages us to help Sarah distinguish what's real and what's in her head, exhibit empathy for her struggles, and reflect on our own self-truths. Horse Girl delves into mental illness and psychoticism so deeply that the audience has no choice but...

Do you know that romantic-comedy cliché in which the mousy young woman whips off her glasses — and suddenly the brainiac “ugly duckling” blossoms into a beautiful swan that turns heads and gets the guy? That’s not what happens to the title character of Horse Girl, though for the first 15 minutes or so of Jeff Baena’s movie, you assume some variation of this is lurking just around the corner. Our heroine, Sarah (Alison Brie), is single, sweet but slightly socially awkward, and works at an arts & crafts store. In her off hours,...

Alison Brie had an interesting task with “Horse Girl”: She had to write a script for the drama, but given that it’s mostly an improvised film, they had to be very specific in describing the actions of the characters.

“Almost all was improvised except for the TV show in the movie, ‘Purgatory,'” director and co-writer Jeff Baena told TheWrap’s Steve Pond at the Sundance Film Festival. “That was completely scripted.”

“It was certainly different for me this time around having written it together,” Brie added. “Basically, we created a very detailed 35 page outline, and the scenes are thorough — they talk what the characters come in and talk about. It’s pretty complex, there are major objectives that people have to get across in scenes, so it’s pretty specific. Then we start out shooting a wide shot, and then workshop the dialogue in the first few...

Whenever a TV show that has gone on for long enough ends in a planned finale, it’s typical for many of its previous supporting characters to make cameo appearances, and the very final episode of Arrow was no exception. In fact, here’s a full rundown of everyone who was featured.

First off, there’s Team Arrow. The group has varied in size and members over the years, but its current lineup of Diggle, there from the very beginning, and Dinah, Laurel and Rene, each a fixture since season 5, were the ones to see it through to the end.

The episode’s flashbacks were an appropriate choice given their prominent use in the show’s narrative, and allowed for Oliver’s participation in the finale. This being his show, it would feel wrong for its ending to not feature him, despite him being dead. The first brought us back to season 2 episode “Seeing Red,...

A funny thing happens about a third of the way into “Horse Girl,” Jeff Baena’s fourth Sundance feature after “Life After Beth,” “Joshy” and “The Little Hours.” Or rather, a funny thing stops happening: the familiar, steady-heartbeat rhythms of the low-budget social awkwardness comedy become erratic, tachycardiac, as the initially endearing foibles of the film’s heroine, Sarah (a revelatory Alison Brie), are found to have deeper roots and more painful ramifications than feels right to laugh at. It’s the point at which we realize that “Horse Girl” is not your classic, hackneyed Sundance indie and is instead a far weirder, harder and sadder subversion of just that stereotype. It’s the point at which the movie stops being cute, and starts being good.

The setup is such a convincing red herring though, that for a while it functions just fine as your standard offbeat dramedy, laden with...

January’s home media releases are ending on a high note, as there are a bunch of great titles headed to Blu-ray and DVD this week. My very favorite film of 2019, Bong Joon Ho’s Parasite is making its debut on both formats, and if you missed it in theaters last year, Terminator: Dark Fate is hitting multiple formats as well.

For those of you who dig totally bananapants filmmaking, Tammy and the T-Rex is being released this week courtesy of Vinegar Syndrome. Vs is also keeping busy with Berserker, Beyond the Door 3, and Unmasked Part 25, and Scream Factory is bringing home Body Parts, Let’s Scare Jessica to Death, as well as a Steelbook Edition of The Slumber Party Massacre, too.

Arrow Video has put together a special edition release of Edge of the Axe, and the Warner Archive Collection is showing some love to the criminally underseen Two on a Guillotine.

In addition to spawning an entire superhero universe on The CW, Arrow‘s accomplishments include bringing weekly close-quarters clashes to broadcast TV, as Oliver Queen and friends faced off against all manner of foes.

On the occasion of Arrow‘s series finale (titled “Fadeout” and airing Tuesday, Jan. 28 at 9/8c, following a one-hour preview special), TVLine invited stunt coordinator-turned-producer and director James Bamford — who this season alone has helmed the premiere, the action-packed “Purgatory,” and the series finale itself — to survey the 170 episodes gone by and offer up his list of the Top 25 Fights.

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“Crisis on Infinite Earths” has been an exhilarating ride for DC fans, but it’s also somewhat bittersweet as it marks the end of an era. In a couple of weeks’ time, Arrow is coming to a close with the conclusion of its shortened eighth season. The ever-sprawling franchise that is the Arrowverse wouldn’t even be here if it wasn’t for the initial success of the Green Arrow’s solo show, so it was only fitting that “Crisis” climaxed with the death of Oliver Queen.

Following the airing of the two-part finale last night, star Stephen Amell took to Twitter to share a poignant message about why he decided to hang up his quiver for good. “8 seasons and an entire Universe seems like a pretty good time to step away.” Amell wrote. “What a ride.”

8 seasons and an entire Universe seems like a pretty good time to step away.

“Crisis on Infinite Earths” concluded last night, with the final two episodes – unfolding across Arrow and Legends of Tomorrow – seeing the heroes rebooting reality and saving the multiverse. But it came with a cost. Oliver Queen, who already died rescuing the people of Earth-38 in the first episode of the crossover, perished for a second and final time in “Part 4” while battling the Anti-Monitor.

Having been imbued with the cosmic powers of the Spectre by Jim Corrigan while in Purgatory, Oliver was able to take on the evil villain for a while and release a massive amount of energy that kickstarted the birth of a new multiverse. It was then up to the seven Paragons to focus on the concepts they represent – Hope, Faith, Love, Destiny, Humanity, Strength and Truth. After it was done, Barry and Kara found the dying Oliver and stayed with him until he passed away.

And as expected,...