Unsurprisingly, Alien Earth has been renewed for a second season, which will be filmed near London in 2026.
A new overall deal will see showrunner Noah Hawley broaden his scope to all of Disney Entertainment TV, which also includes ABC and Hulu Originals. So more Alien, but probably Fargo too 🤞
"Sax was famously accident prone. He was left in a coma after falling down stairs aged 2, poisoned himself twice, swallowed a needle, was hit by a gunpowder explosion, put in a coma again by a falling roof tile and fished out of a river unconscious at the age of ten"
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I was taught at an early age not to trust the government.
Witness the world come to terms with humans not being alone in the universe in Disclosure Day, a new film from Steven Spielberg coming to theaters on June 12.
For the FT this weekend, I wrote about the foundation and fallout of Disco Elysium: how two Estonian novelists' successes and failures in literature led to the creation of a video game masterpiece, and an endless font of strife.
www.ft.com/content/5ae5...
Peter Coviello: "To my mind, Pynchon is, preeminently, two things: a comic fabulist and a scrupulous, far-sighted antifascist." ✊
When Dennis Potter’s Blackeyes outraged Britain
www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/2026/03/0...
"Two things one seldom hears about getting older: one’s ears get larger and one’s dick gets smaller."
@emmavj.bsky.social interviews reluctant national treasure Alan Bennett, who observes that if he stabbed Judi Dench with a pitchfork, "I should still be a teddy bear".
Last night I discovered that the excellent Maori revenge western Utu is up on Tubi (in the UK). Hugely recommended!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsTq...
"Something that I’m trying to achieve with these books is to create a feeling of here-and-now."
—Karl Ove Knausgård, interviewed by Rebecka Bülow
www.thebeliever.net/logger/2013-...
James Mason In A Cave With A Cat, everybody.
An answer, at last.
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You once explained the dilemma of journalists who dare to ask the tough questions, “If you duff them up, they won’t come back.”
I suspect Shawn McCreesh of NYT will get his WH pass revoked for this but at least he’s highlighted the timidity of his colleagues.
In 500 years time the Phantom Menace will be studied as the epic of its time, recording a true history of events.
Clearly it was an amalgam of multiple writers though - no single person could write a story of such genius.
Czechia's Ondřej Satoria, who is a full-time electrician, leaves his final career game to a standing ovation after throwing 4.2 shutout innings against Japan!
I spoke to Jack White about his new lyrics/poetry book, his weird dreams, feeling like a misfit and why he hates autobiography. Such a strange and fascinating character
Couldn't agree more!
The Lady in Red is a fantastic film: great performances, beautifully shot, a whip-smart script by John Sayles and to cap it all, an awesome car chase!
It's also free to view in the UK on tubi:
tubitv.com/movies/46681...
You can watch this little gem of a film on Tubi, if you like surreal fables of oppression, female commodification, violence and obsession - told through the medium folk horror and cute woodland creatures.
tubitv.com/movies/51417...
Blood Tea and Red String "falls into a more poetic space in a way on this front than a purely iconographic one, closer in spirit perhaps to the approach to the horrific of fellow animator, Czech surrealist genius-hero Jan Švankmajer."
www.fangoria.com/blood-tea-an...
Theory of Flames is an opera that asks: how do you love a conspiracy theorist? ft.trib.al/rf86Zcx
Stop threatening me with a good time.
"...the pair performed music from the film at London’s Barbican, backed by a six-piece ensemble – ululations, sex noises, animal-like vocalisations and all – with Seyfried, armed with a set of handbells, seated stage right."
www.telegraph.co.uk/films/2026/0...
The BBC is planning a major Bowie celebration concert in 2026 to fill the gap left by Glastonbury’s fallow year.
It is expected to take place at London’s O2 Arena, feature a range of artists performing Bowie’s music, and be broadcast around the world.
Which artists would you like to see take part?
Soviet realist painting of a woman operating a port crane. Our perspective is from behind her so we see the lofty view of the port out the window of the crane’s cab
“From the height of the port crane” Rudolf Baranov, 1974
Counterpoint: Charles Mingus deserved every penny he had coming to him for his revolutionary jazz music and cat toilet training guide.
My BBC Radio 4 adaptation of Iain M. Banks' The State of the Art can now be found and played here: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
A great heart warming antidote to AI slop, the delightful hand-drawn short, Snow Bear, by legendary animator Aaron Blaise 🐻❄️
youtube.com/watch?v=xOXo...
Obama: "We are living in a time where it can be hard to hope. Each day we wake up to some new assault on our democratic institutions. Another setback to the idea of the rule of law ... but this man - Rev. Jesse Jackson - inspires us to take a harder path ... bc if we don't step up, nobody else will"
