[Dormant, move to !television@lemm.ee] Shows and TV

I am watching Severance and playing Hades 2 lately, and I noticed that 'respawn' as a plot device has really increased in last few years.

It's not just respawn, but it's the mechanism where each spawn helps push the narrative further.

The Good Place was similar. Mickey 17 seems to be doing the same thing from what I can tell in the trailer.

Am I just cherry picking or is this a real trend? And does this reflect some other underlying phenomenon?

I was hopeful of this show after seeing the trailer a while back, but the pilot exceeded all expectations. Really loving the balance they struck between comedy and serious action. It's a fantastic vibe.

https://www.metacritic.com/tv/ghosts-2021/

Samantha (Rose McIver) and Jay (Utkarsh Ambudkar) inherit a country estate and plan to turn it into a bed-and-breakfast, but they soon realize it is haunted by a great number of previous residents in this comedy based on the BBC series of the same name.

Nothing ground breaking, but a well made show with a nice vibe and humor.

A few episodes go into the background of some ghosts and make their more appealing.

A good show to watch just to unwind.

In Theaters Christmas 2026

I was hoping it would be sooner.

Amazon MGM Studios is developing science fiction TV series Consider Phlebas. It is an adaptation of the novel by Iain M Banks, the first in the late Scottish author’s classic 10-book Culture book series about an interstellar post-scarcity society.

Interior Chinatown creator Charles Yu is writing and executive producing. The potential series also is executive produced by Nomadland Oscar winner Chloé Zhao through her production company Books of Shadows, Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner for Plan B Entertainment as well as Adele Banks.

In Consider Phlebas, while war rages between the utopian Culture and the Idiran Empire, a Culture Ship AI “Mind” takes refuge on a forbidden planet. Both Horza, a shape-shifting mercenary working for the Idirans, and Balveda, a “Special Circumstances” Culture agent, have been tasked with retrieving it to tip the balance in a galaxy-spanning conflict. Consider Phlebas pits sentience against AI in an epic and bloody quest across the cosmos.

Amazon first teamed with Plan B to adapt Consider Phlebas six years ago as Prime Video was just getting into genre/sci-fi series in a major way with the mega rights deal for The Lord of the Rings TV series. A couple of months after setting Consider Phlebas for development with Utopia creator Dennis Kelly as writer, the streamer rescued canceled Syfy drama The Expanse, which was followed by the green light for shows like The Wheel of Time, The Boys, The Peripheral and Fallout. That initial Consider Phlebas TV incarnation ultimately didn’t go forward.

The 5.4 million viewers who tuned in more than doubles viewership for the "Yellowstone" prequel's Season 1 premiere

Actress Michelle Trachtenberg, known for a wide range of TV and film roles including in “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” and “Gossip Girl,” has died at the age of 39, sources told The Post.

Trachtenberg was found by her mother around 8 a.m. Wednesday at One Columbus Place, a 51-story luxury apartment complex in Manhattan’s Central Park South neighborhood, the sources said.

The actress recently underwent a liver transplant and died of natural causes, according to the sources.

Season two will officially launch on Saturday 12 April at 8am on BBC iPlayer and later that day on BBC One in the UK. At the same time, those outside of the UK can watch the Doctor and Belinda on their epic adventures on Disney+ where available.

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