RELATED STORIES Hero pizza for everyone! TVLine has learned that just days after black-ish premiered its seventh season, ABC has ordered an extra six episodes, bringing this season’s total to 21 — with the possibility for even more to come. Once again airing on Wednesday nights following a three-season move to Tuesdays, black-ish this week […]
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Hulu’s expanded Funimation deal gives it first dibs on anime shows
Hulu likes to see itself as a go-to source for anime in the US (with certain exceptions), and it just cemented a deal reflecting that. The streaming service has struck an expanded “multi-year” deal with Funimation that gives it more access to desirable shows. It’ll have “first look” at US streaming rights to anime series […]
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend Gets Expanded Episode Order for Final Season
Rebecca Bunch just got a bunch of episodes added to her swan song. The CW is expanding Crazy Ex-Girlfriend‘s upcoming fourth and final season to a total of 18 episodes, TVLine has confirmed. That makes Season 4 the show’s biggest since its freshman season, which also had 18 episodes. (Seasons 2 and 3 were 13 episodes […]
McLaren’s expanded eSports program includes mobile racing games
McLaren is enamored with eSports — so much so that it’s expanding the scope of its program. The 2018 edition of the Shadow Project promises to be more “open and inclusive” than you might expect, letting you compete for virtual motorsports glory not just with die-hard PC racing simulators like iRacing and rFactor 2, but […]
‘UK & US want OPCW powers expanded to justify future attacks against Syria’
London’s effort to empower the UN chemical watchdog with the right to assign guilt serves Western interests in finding loopholes and justifications for new attacks against Damascus, investigative journalist Rick Sterling told RT. “The UK in alliance with the US is hoping to have the OPCW able to assign blame and provide a rationale for […]
Mental health services for Ontario First Nations being expanded
The federal and Ontario governments are putting up $ 5 million each to establish 19 new mental wellness teams for First Nations communities.
China expanded its controversial anti-corruption probe to focus on every official in the country
FRED DUFOUR/AFP/Getty Images China has created a new anti-corruption agency that can investigate any government employee in the country, including managers who work in schools, hospitals, universities, and state-run companies. The National Supervision Commission works outside the court system, and can hold suspects for up to six months without granting access to a lawyer. Corruption […]
The New Expanded Universe: Where to Start with ‘Star Wars’ Comics
Ever since Disney acquired Lucasfilm in 2012, the company has been trying to reinvent the vast, fluid, and beloved Star Wars Expanded Universe. For those of us who loved the EU, it was an upsetting decision, but one that made a whole lot of business sense. Disney is a corporation who likes to control the […]
Humans expanded out of Africa 40,000 years earlier than we thought
Enlarge / Not a lot to go on, but clearly human. (credit: Israel Hershkovitz, Tel Aviv University) There’s not much left of this person who lived and died in a cave on the slopes of Israel’s Mt. Carmel between 177,000 and 194,000 years ago. All that remains is the left half of an upper jaw, […]
Why Lucasfilm Decided to Dump the Expanded Universe Before Making ‘Star Wars’ Sequels
It’s been over a month since the release of Star Wars: The Last Jedi, so you’re all probably very familiar with the complaints about the movie by now. One of the most popular sounds something like this: “The Luke Skywalker I know would never act like that.” Basic translation: “I read a ton of novels featuring that character in which […]