Tag: Altered

08 NOV

Antiques Roadshow expert’s warning against ‘criminal offence’ as item ‘illegally altered’

Antiques Roadshow star Alastair travelled to Buckfast Abbey for the valuation in question, with the guest bringing along a giant silver plate. The relic was brought on the off-chance it might have had some value, but the owner was left in disbelief when he realised the item had a very interesting backstory. This led him […]

27 AUG

Altered Carbon Taps Power’s Lela Loren to Play Governor in Season 2

RELATED STORIES Looks like Power star Lela Loren won’t be out of a job for long: Just days after her character on the hit Starz drama was killed off, she’s set to be a series regular in Season 2 of the Netflix sci-fi series Altered Carbon, TVLine has learned. Loren will play Danica Harlan, “the […]

17 OCT

Report: Former top Waymo engineer altered code to go on “forbidden routes”

Enlarge (credit: Caitlin O’Hara/Bloomberg via Getty Images) In the early days of what ultimately became Waymo, Google’s self-driving car division (known at the time as “Project Chauffeur”), there were “more than a dozen accidents, at least three of which were serious,” according to a new article in The New Yorker. The magazine profiled Anthony Levandowski, […]

12 APR

‘The Predator’ Reshoots Have Altered the Majority of Its Third Act

We’ve been waiting for years to see writer/director Shane Black‘s sci-fi sequel The Predator, and this fall, we’ll finally get to see his take on the iconic alien race of big game hunters. Now one of the movie’s actors has revealed that recent reshoots have significantly changed a majority of the film’s final act. Find […]

16 FEB

‘Altered Carbon’ Director Miguel Sapochnik on His Influences, Imagining the Future, and ‘Blade Runner’ [Interview]

Over the past few years, Miguel Sapochnik has been directing some of the most exciting episodes on television. Sapochnik’s Game of Thrones episodes, “Hardhome” and “Battle of the Bastards,” are unforgettable and earned him a well-deserved Emmy. Before returning for the final season of that HBO series, the director (who has also helmed episodes of House and True Detective) worked on one […]

11 FEB

Altered Carbon somehow nails the sci-fi book-to-TV landing on Netflix

Enlarge (credit: Netflix) Fans of the dystopian-noir novel Altered Carbon surely had to wonder what form it would take when turned into a TV series. Or, to borrow the 2002 book’s lingo, what “sleeve” the show would slip into. The result, whose entire first TV season debuted last week on Netflix, is a pretty surprising […]

11 FEB

‘Altered Carbon’ is more than just a ‘Blade Runner’ ripoff

Altered Carbon is the very definition of a guilty pleasure. The show, adapted by Laeta Kalogridis from Richard Morgan’s novel, isn’t exactly well written. And, like most Netflix joints, it goes on for way too long. But it’s gorgeous, it’s filled with charismatic actors and its cyberpunk aesthetic feels like a ’90s anime brought to […]