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Star Wars Toys Prove That the Legends Expanded Universe Isn’t Dead

Disney’s 2012 acquisition of the Star Wars franchise obviously proved consequential, especially after it redefined the Skywalker Saga with a Sequel Trilogy, two standalone films, a successful live-action series, and an array of animated shows. Yet, one sore point (of many) for longtime fans has been the company’s erasure of decades’ worth of beloved Expanded Universe Star Wars novels, comic books, and video games, which were relegated to the non-canon label Legends. However, said erasure doesn’t mean the old canon is gone completely, as exemplified this week by Hasbro, which is dedicating a whole new wave of action figures to…
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Are You Afraid of the Dark? Season 2 Trailer Shows a Scary Expanded Scope

The Midnight Society’s campfire was restoked—figuratively and literally—for the 2019 Halloween season by Nickelodeon’s Are You Afraid of the Dark? three-episode miniseries, which enticed audiences old and new for more chilling exploits from a new generation of the classic kid coterie of scare-chasers. Thus, the network subsequently greenlit Season 2, this time for six episodes, which begin their weekly run in February. Are You Afraid of the Dark?: Curse of the Shadows is the title of Season 2, indicating that the series will again eschew its classic single-episode story format to utilize the entirety of a season to tell one…
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How His Dark Materials Expanded Its Writing Staff For Season 2

The His Dark Materials TV series is massive in scope—not only in terms of film production, but in the sheer ambition of the story it is trying to tell. Adapted from the trilogy of the same name from Philip Pullman, the children’s fantasy saga brings together different worlds and the very different kinds of people and creatures who live in them. It’s an enormous project for one storyteller to undertake. In Season 1, the ridiculously prolific Jack Thorne wrote all eight episodes of His Dark Materials by himself. In Season 2, he has help. Up-and-coming British writers Namsi Khan, Francesca…
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The Walking Dead to End with “Expanded” Two-Year Season 11

AMC has confirmed The Walking Dead will end with an expanded, two-year season 11. The final season will span 24 episodes and will premiere in 2021 and run through late 2022. The new season is reportedly set to begin filming this October. The Walking Dead finale will then be followed by a spinoff series focusing on Daryl (Norman Reedus) and Carol (Melissa McBride), which will premiere sometime in 2023. Current Walking Dead showrunner Angela Kang will return to helm the new spinoff. TWD chief content officer Scott M. Gimple is also developing an anthology series called Tales of the Walking…
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