The Simpsons has responded to the Apu stereotyping controversy, and not everyone is down with how it was handled. In the fifteenth episode of Season 29, “No Good Read Goes Unpunished,” Marge reads Lisa “her favourite book ever,” The Princess in the Garden, which has troubling stereotypes of Irishmen and…
[embedded content] A lot has happened for Facebook since Saturday Night Live last aired at the end of March. Mostly, Cambridge Analytica, and all the terrible fallout (for Facebook executives and for the rest of the world) from Cambridge Analytica. So obviously Mark Zuckerberg (Alex Moffat) brought his ongoing apology…
[embedded content] Saturday Night Live‘s Aidy Bryant is a Cardi B superfan. So when the “Bodak Yellow” star appeared as a musical guest on the show, Bryant felt inspired. Watching “Aidy B” take no shit from her co-workers (even when there’s no shit being given) is delightful. But watching her…
[embedded content] John Oliver’s legal tussle with a man he once called a “geriatric Dr. Evil” is over and the HBO late night host has every reason to be happy. West Virginia judge Jeffrey Cramer has dismissed the defamation lawsuit filed against Oliver by Robert Murray, the coal baron behind…
As the largest cable and Internet TV service company around the nation, Comcast hopes to provide a more convenient and seamless TV experience for its users after the releasing of the X1 TV entertainment platform in 2014 and the X1 voice remote in the next year. According to Comcast, they…
If you lived under a rock during 2017 (can I come too?), it was a year in which various sexual harassers were outed for being awful. It was a year that the conversation around harassment, power and abuse started to be taken seriously, but it seems like Australian television station…
[embedded content] The cult Australian horror film which we’re pretty sure would put any tourist off from visiting the country, Wolf Creek, returned as a television series late last year. Well, it’s back again for a six-part second season, set to premiere on December 15 on Australian streaming service Stan….
“The first note we got from Syfy said, ‘Don’t hold back, don’t edit yourselves, go for it,’” recalled Brian Taylor, executive producer of Happy!, during the show’s New York Comic-Con panel. “‘We don’t want you to do something safe. We want dangerous TV. We want something on the edge.” From…
If you’re a fan of The Simpsons, you’ve likely long enjoyed Frinkiac, the search engine which whips up GIFs and memes from the animated series in a jiffy. Now the same people behind Frinkiac — Paul Kehrer, Sean Schulte, and Allie Young — have put together Master Of All Science,…
The world at large will have to wait til August 18 to check out Marvel’s The Defenders. But a few thousand lucky fans got an early peek at Comic-Con’s Hall H on Friday. Netflix played the entire first episode of The Defenders to an enthusiastic crowd – including your faithful…
