Tag: TV

At BGN, ‘All the Pretty Mermaids: Racist Narratives in Entertainment for Children’

Click here to read Jahkotta Lewis’s article at Black Girl Nerds.

This is stomach-turning.

Feejee the mermaid in Season 2, Episode 3 of The Adventures of Puss in Boots

Feejee the mermaid in Season 2, Episode 3 of The Adventures of Puss in Boots

Watch: ‘Wayward Pines’ Season Two First Look Promises Psychological Thrills

Click here to read at Variety.com.

‘The Magicians’ Is At Its Best When It Goes Dark, And It’s Getting Darker

Read at io9.com.

The Magicians stars Arjun Gupta, Jason Ralph, Stella Maeve, Olivia Taylor Dudley, Hale Appleman, and Summer Bishil.

Actor Arjun Gupta

Actor Arjun Gupta

Finally. Asian Guys On TV Get To Be Sexy Too.

Click here to read at Salon.com.

Steven Yeun in The Walking Dead

Steven Yeun in The Walking Dead

Ruth Negga: ‘I never fitted anywhere – in life or in Hollywood’

Read at The Guardian.

Actress Ruth Negga

Actress Ruth Negga

Ana de la Reguera and Hugh Dillon Join ‘Twin Peaks’ in Unnamed, Undescribed, Unknown Roles

Read at Vulture.com.

Mexican actress Ana de la Reguera

Mexican actress Ana de la Reguera

Javier Grillo-Marxuach: Xena Reboot Will Be “Very Different” From The 100

LINK: After how he fridged Lexa, can this guy handle Xena and Gabie as a couple?

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‘Planet of The Titans’: The ‘Star Trek’ Movie You Never Saw

Click here to read at Den of Geek.

Star Trek creator, producer and writer Gene Roddenberry , 1976. - Photo Credit: Larry D. Moore

Star Trek creator, producer and writer Gene Roddenberry , 1976. – Photo Credit: Larry D. Moore

‘Walking Dead’ Actor Steven Yeun to Star in Action Movie ‘Mayhem’

Click here to read at Variety.com.

Actor Steven Yeun at the 2015 San Diego Comic Con - Photo by Gage Skidmore

Actor Steven Yeun at the 2015 San Diego Comic Con – Photo by Gage Skidmore

Beals, Ali, and Hudson In Casting News From Deadline.com…

Actress Jennifer Beals at the GLAAD Awards in 2009

Actress Jennifer Beals at the GLAAD Awards in 2009

Looks like Jennifer Beals (The Bride, The Book of Eli, Flashdance) is set as the female lead in Taken, the NBC prequel to the Taken film franchise. Beals will co-star opposite Clive Standen in the role of Christina Hart the special deputy director of National Intelligence.

House Of Cards’ Mahershala Ali has joined the cast in director Ted Melfi’s Hidden Figures, the story of former NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson. Ali’s role? Love interest of main character, Johnson, played by Taraji Henson.

Also confirmed is Ernie Hudson of Ghostbusters fame (also set to appear in the “controversial” remake) as Sgt. Ed Conrad in the pilot for Fox detective show APB.