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BBC Buys HBO Max Thriller ‘Spy/Master’

The BBC has acquired HBO Max thriller Spy/Master as it continues to beef up its iPlayer offering. Acquired from Warner Bros. Discovery, the show stars Happy Valley’s Alec Secăreanu as the most trusted advisor to Romanian President Nicolae Ceaușescu. With his government poised to uncover that he’s a secret agent for the Soviets, Godeanu uses a diplomatic trip to Germany as a springboard to defect to the U.S. The series also stars Aidan McArdle, Ana Ularu (Who Is Erin Carter?), Laurențiu Bănescu (Boss), Andreea Vasile (Umbre), Nico Mirallegro (Our Girl), lulian Postelnicu (Arest) and Elvira Deatcu (Clanul). “A classic spy drama set at the height of the Cold War, Spy/Master is an atmospheric, complex thriller, dripping with style and suspense,” said Sue Deeks, Head of BBC Programme Acquisition. The show was nominated for the inaugural...

Anime villains often rely on their intelligence and manipulative personalities rather than brute power to be major threats. These villains understand what makes other people tick, manipulating them to act in their favor. They utilize tactics such as creating cult-like followings, employing illusions, and exploiting insecurities to achieve their goals.

Some of anime's most manipulative villains don't need power to be major threats. Many of them get by on their smarts and their ruthless personalities. Whether working in the background or deceiving everyone right under the heroes’ noses, they are running the show and influencing everyone to act in their favor.

The best of these characters make viewers understand very clearly why they have gotten their way for so long: sometimes longer than the heroes have been alive! They are not only smart, but charismatic and convincing, understanding exactly what makes other people tick. Often, they are older than the...

Allison Holker Boss made her first public appearance since the devastating passing of her husband, Stephen ‘tWitch’ Boss, in December 2022.

The “Dancing With The Stars” alum was joined by her 14-year-old daughter, Weslie, on Friday as they stepped out to accept the National Alliance of Mental Illness Westside Los Angeles (Nami Wla) Heart of a Champion Award in honour of Stephen, who died by suicide at 40.

During the organization’s annual Mental Health Gala, Holker, 35, gave a speech and began by thanking Derek Hough and Jenna Dewan “for coming out and helping to present this award for our family and our beloved Stephen.

“I call him Stephen, you call him Stephen and tWitch, and we love him for being both,” she said.

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Keke Palmer has graced us with her latest project: a new album and an accompanying 41-minute film. The star released the project, called "Big Boss," on May 12, and it tells the story of Palmer's early years in a male-dominated music industry.

"It's a huge thing for me in more ways than one, directing and writing for the first time as well as actually being able to tell my story," she told HuffPost on the day of the project's release, adding that she "didn't budge on any aspect of putting this together. I really was fully sound and clear in my mind and what I wanted for this, and I followed through in a way that I never did before. I think it's easy to just get sidetracked and just give up. And this time, I didn't do that."

She also told the outlet...

The Pokémon Trading Card Game’s upcoming Paldea Evolved expansion will include many new cards, building on the base created by the preceding Scarlet and Violet set. Of course, as with any set, some of these cards will be more interesting than others, either to play with or simply collect. Those already revealed promise to bring stunning new designs and mechanics to the Trading Card Game.

With the release of the Paldea Evolved expansion, there will be new Pokémon ex cards added to the Pokémon Tcg, including the final evolutions of Paldea’s starter trio. Most of Paldea Evolved’s full Western appearance has not been officially revealed, although several have leaked on social media, and Paldea Evolved is already known to be collecting cards from several smaller Japanese sets. As a result, it is clear that some truly exciting additions are coming to the Tcg.

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While primarily a movie-based pay cable channel, the Starz network has made original television content since 2005. It took a few years for the network to find its footing, yet with such acclaimed historical dramas as Spartacus, Black Sails, and now Outlander, Starz has begun to compete with the high-quality storytelling on par with HBO and Showtime.

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With several upcoming Starz Original series in development, including a Spartacus sequel and a Weeds spinoff, it's worth looking back to see what IMDb users feel about the network's historical track record. Luckily, there's a little something for everyone's TV tastes.

Power Book IV: Force (2022-Present) IMDb Rating – 8.1

A recent network addition, Power Book IV: Force, has been renewed for a second season. The show marks the third spinoff of Starz's popular crime drama Power and follows Tommy Egan, a drug dealer trying to find direction after his release from prison.

Exclusive: With the Frasier sequel series for Paramount+ wrapping production, star and executive producer Kelsey Grammer and his Grammnet Nh Productions has closed a first-look television deal with CBS Studios, the studio behind the Cheers/Frasier franchise.

The pact marks a homecoming for Grammer at CBS Studios. The actor-producer’s previous Grammnet banner had a series of overall deals at the studio and its predecessor Paramount Network TV, which yielded such hit series as Medium for NBC/CBS, Girlfriends for Upn/The CW, its spinoff The Game, which aired for nine seasons on Upn/The CW/BET. In addition to the Frasier sequel, Grammnet Nh Productions is collaborating with CBS Studios on The Game dramedy revival for Paramount+.

The new incarnation of Frasier, which brings the famous psychiatrist (Grammer) back to Boston, comes from writers Chris Harris (How I Met Your Mother) and Joe Cristalli (Life In Pieces), who executive...

Gillett has been appointed to the newly-created role of head of documentary at Misfits.

Lizzie Gillett, the producer behind Lady Boss, Merkel and The Territory, has joined McQueen producer Misfits Entertainment as head of documentary.

In the newly-created role, Gillett brings her expertise in docs features to London-based Misfits to build on the company’s slate of award-winning titles, which span documentary series and feature-length titles.

Gillett joins Misfits from Searching For Sugarman producer Passion Pictures, where she spent five years as head of feature docs, part of the documentary division led by David Moulton.

During her tenure, Gillett produced...

The newest trailer for Armored Core 6: Fires of Rubicon, the long-awaited new entry to FromSoftware's sci-fi mecha video game franchise, revealed both a concrete release date and concrete footage of the gameplay. The core gameplay for Armored Core 6 refines what was codified in previous Armored Core titles - a hard-to-kill "Raven" mercenary customizes their giant "AC" mech with different weapons and parts, then wage war on brutal battlefields. However, the spectacular boss fights and level designs shown in the trailers seems to draw inspiration from Dark Souls, Sekiro, and other more recent FromSoftware titles.

The stories of FromSoftware's Armored Core games are rarely happy ones, revolving around morally neutral mech-piloting mercenaries who fight each other to the death in grungy industrial complexes and polluted wastelands on behalf of mega-corporations or authoritarian states. Dialogue in Armored Core 6 suggests a similarly dark set of affairs, referring to the protagonist with...

In the latest TV show ratings, ABC’s Afv and American Idol tied for the Sunday demo win, while CBS’ 60 Minutes clocked in with the night’s largest audience.

ABC | Afv (with 4.7 million total viewers and a 0.6 rating) ticked up in the demo, while Idol (5.1 mil/0.6) was steady week-to-week.

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The Never Game is officially afoot at CBS.

A series adaptation of Jeffery Deaver’s 2019 novel, starring This Is Us actor Justin Hartley, has found a home at the Eye Network, TVLine has learned. The project, which first went into development back in January, is moving forward with a pilot production commitment.

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The Never Game follows Hartley’s lone-wolf survivalist Colter Shaw,...