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With drawing to a close, a spin-off centered on Georgie and Mandy was officially ordered by CBS earlier this year. Now, the spin-off — which the network has recently confirmed to be releasing this Fall — will be called

PlayStation maker Sony is considering a purchase of movie studio giant Paramount, according to reports.

The immortal SEGA brawler Golden Axe is being resurrected as a comedic animated series, of all things. Ordered by Comedy Central and produced by CBS Studios in collaboration with Sony Pictures, the series will undoubtedly feature buxom men and women battling dragons and various beasts, and presumably, hilarity will ensue.

Comedy Central has ordered a 10-episode animated series based on the SEGA game series Golden Axe, the company announced.

There are few TV pleasures as dependable as the weirdo detective. It’s a trope as old as Arthur Conan Doyle — the skills necessary to deduce the wily ways of evildoers either demand someone be stranger than their peers or eventually make them that way. This can be misanthropic (Dr. Gregory House), endearingly annoying (the Psych boys), or some combination of the two (Castle), but it’s always good fuel for TV. Not only do you have a mystery to solve every episode, but you get to have fun watching normal-ass people just dealing with these characters — the weirder the better. And now, they’re making a comeback. Adrian Monk, Charlie Cale, Detective Danner — names new and old to the weirdo detective pantheon are cropping up on TV, joined this week by a face very familiar to some: Elsbeth Tascioni.

A 14-karat gold Lego piece sold for $24,501 at Goodwill’s online auction house on Wednesday. The Lego piece is the golden Kanohi Hau mask from Lego’s Bionicle line, which was produced in the 2000s.

The best Super Bowl of 2024 wasn’t broadcast by CBS out of the Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas. It took place beneath the crystalline cartoon waters in Bikini Bottom.

Taken one way, Tracker, the new CBS drama premiering after the Super Bowl, is perhaps the most generic procedural ever devised. It stars a blandly charming white guy (Justin Hartley of This Is Us fame to most, Smallville fame to me) who makes a living finding missing people and collecting reward money, using his skills as a survivalist to travel the country and notice things others don’t, charming a local lady cop or doctor along the way. On the surface, Tracker is about as generic as network dramas come, the most smooth-brained 42 minutes you can spend between ads shouting WHOPPER WHOPPER WHOPPER WHOPPER or listing pharmaceutical side effects. But I think Tracker is fascinating, actually, based entirely around what it isn’t about.

CBS has finally released the first-look images for the upcoming third season of the hit comedy series, starring Rose McIver and Utkarsh Ambudkar as Woodstone’s bed-and-breakfast hosts Sam and Jay. The highly anticipated Season 3 will premiere on February 15, 2024.

If the $3,499 price tag didn't give it away, the first-gen Vision Pro is for developers and early adopters, not the average consumer. Apple-watchers expected a second-gen version for the masses down the line, but supply chain issues may have killed the low-cost Vision Pro.

So, you're well into Ultimate Team or Career Mode on EA Sports FC 24. You're scoring a plethora of glorious goals, you're dominating the flanks, and all is groovy on one side of the pitch...

Tim Cook is not ready to give up on Twitter.

Apple announced the iPhone 15 and Apple Watch Series 9 last week, and if you watched the presentation, you caught a few glimpses of Apple's upcoming Vision Pro, a $3,499 AR/VR headset that launches in 2024.

The Apple Vision Pro is on track for an early 2024 release, but it should be no surprise that the company’s first mixed-reality headset is in the possession of CEO Tim Cook. While previous reports mentioned that the Chief Executive uses the device daily, in a recent interview, Cook recently stated that he watched an entire season of the American sports comedy-drama series Ted Lasso on it.

It’s a somewhat slow week in streaming TV; sure, as ever you’ve got a million shows that you could catch up on, current or otherwise. But as far as actual new premieres go, it’s a relatively quiet week.

Even in a world where sequels to successful movies are a foregone conclusion, My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3 still feels like a surprise. The story that began with 2002’s My Big Fat Greek Wedding, about young Greek American woman Toula Portokalos (Nia Vardalos), her extremely Greek family, and the hijinks that ensue when she gets involved with a non-Greek man (John Corbett) did not scream “franchise.” And yet it became one, not by repeating the success of the first movie — which still eludes the series — but by centering on a family just quirky enough to feel real, with a light enough touch to keep them from getting too complicated.

Twitch streamer Kai Cenat has been taken into custody after a giveaway event held in New York city took a turn.