The Marvel Cinematic Universe is growing at an incredibly fast pace, and the newest heroes we’ll get to see join that world are Cloak and Dagger, who are getting their own TV show at Freeform (formerly ABC Family).
The project had been relatively quiet ever since its announcement in April of 2016, until today. Deadline is reporting that Marvel has officially cast its two young runaway superheroes and has revealed new descriptions for the characters: Continue reading
“The Walking Dead” executive producer Gale Anne Hurd raised eyebrows on Wednesday, Jan. 18 at the National Association of Television Executives conference in Miami when she seemed to confirm suspicions that producers may have toned down some violence on the show after the reaction to the gruesome season 7 premiere in which two characters were bludgeoned with a barbed wire-covered baseball bat. “We were able to look at the feedback on the level of violence,” said Hurd on a NATPE panel, first reported by Variety. “We did tone it down for episodes we were still filming for later on in the season.”
However, two exec producers tell EW that they did not change their approach at all after many viewers were critical of the graphic nature of the premiere. Showrunner Scott M. Gimple points out that the explicitness of that premiere baseball bat beating was intended to be above and beyond what the zombie drama usually does, and that nothing that came after was ever intended to come anywhere close to it. Continue reading
