Category: TV
“Arthur” Has Been Canceled After 25 Seasons
Shocking news outta PBS (said no one ever)! The legendary kids’ show Arthur has been canceled after 25 seasons. Arthur, based on the books by Marc Brown, debuted in 1996, which makes it the longest-running children’s animated series in America. It’s the winner of four Daytime Emmys for Outstanding Children’s Animated Program, a Peabody Award, and the 2019 episode where Mr. Ratburn gets gay-married was banned in Alabama. That last one just might be the highest honor of all.
Donald Glover Says That TV Is Boring Because People Are Afraid Of Getting Canceled
Remember when TV shows used to get canceled simply because they were terrible? According to Emmy-winning TV actor and director Donald Glover, there’s a current persistent fear of television series creators that’s so pervasive and terrifying, and no, it’s not a focus group filled with Amish people or the cable-impaired. Donald Glover recently tweeted that, in his humble opinion, television sucks right now because too many people are afraid of getting canceled.
A Mental Health Group Says Will Forte’s Upcoming Suicide Drama Is “Wildly Irresponsible”
Earlier this week it was announced that Will Forte had signed on to star in a new Peacock drama series created by brothers Harry and Jack Williams (who executive produced Fleabag). The show is called Expiration Date, and it follows a grieving man who takes out an insurance policy that covers suicide, providing he doesn’t kill himself within one year. So he sets his “expiration date” and gets ready to live his final year and plot his suicide. Very dark. And, according to the nonprofit mental health group Inseparable, also very reckless. Continue reading
FX’s “Pose” Will End With Season 3
FX’s Pose, the series all about the ballroom scene, is coming to an end, as series creators Ryan Murphy and Steven Canals revealed that its upcoming third season will be the last. So you’re saying FX can have a thousand different iterations of American Horror Story but no more Pose? First, gay pride events get canceled for coronavirus, and now Pose is gone too? The gays haven’t taken this many hits since Ellen Degeneres told us she loves George Bush.
“Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman” Is Getting The Remake Treatment
Earlier this week, we learned that the ’90s NBC sitcom Frasier was the latest show that Hollywood planned to dig out of the vintage TV graveyard. At this point, that graveyard has got to be mostly broken shovel handles and giant piles of dirt, because there’s not a left to reboot, remake, or revive at this point. But Hollywood managed to find the one grave that I was sure was obscured by a large tree. And that’s the weird, dark, cult 1970s satire soap opera Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, which is getting remade by Norman Lear and Schitt’s Creek star Emily Hampshire.
“The Queen’s Gambit” Is Netflix’s Most-Watched Limited Series
The Queen’s Gambit, that show about an orphan chess prodigy who loves poppin’ pills and drinkin’ booze in the swinging sixties, is Netflix’s most-watched limited series ever. In its first 28 days, it has been watched in 62 million households. It stars Anna Taylor-Joy, who you also may recognize (sans floofy red wig) from her starring roles in Emma, Split, and The Witch. Peter Friedlander, VP of Netflix Original Series, detailed the show’s success in a blog post.