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Catch-Up Tuesday (FKA Fandom Friday)

2/16/2016

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When you get a surprise like your co-host coming to visit you on a holiday weekend, it's hard to concentrate on putting Fandom Friday up on your website in a timely manner.  That being said, I bring you what was supposed to be Fandom Friday with a few tweaks to add in news that broke this weekend.  Christina and I both hope you had a wonderful three-day weekend and a very happy Valentine's Day!  We definitely had a blast spending the weekend geeking out together!

And now back to our regularly scheduled programming.....

A new installment in the Harry Potter series, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, will be published this summer and set to be released on Harry’s birthday: July 31st

TV News
  • Friends star Matt LeBlanc gets a new series, I’m Not Your Friend, at CBS 
  • Star Trek is coming back to the small screen with showrunner Bryan Fuller 
  • Take a look at the first full trailer for Fuller House, coming to Netflix at the end of the month 
  • Olaf the snowman will be making an appearance in Disney Channel’s Sofia the First 
  • Milo Ventimiglia, Jared Padalecki, and David Sutcliffe return for Netflix’s Gilmore Girls revival  
  • Broadway’s Sutton Foster signs on for the Netflix Gilmore Girls revival 
  • Check out the first intense trailer for the remake of the Roots miniseries that premieres this Memorial Day 
  • Aziz Ansari confirms a second season of his Netflix series Master of None 
  • Take a look at the new teaser trailer for Game of Thrones Season 6 
  • Disney XD announces Star Wars: The Resistance Rises, a series of LEGO prequel shorts leading up to the events of The Force Awakens 

Movie News
  • The Vampire Diaries’ Arielle Kebbel signs on for the third Fifty Shades movie, Fifty Shades Freed 
  • The final film in the Divergent series, Ascendant, loses its director 
  • Ewan McGregor is rumored to return as Obi-Wan Kenobi in Star Wars - Episode VIII 
  • With the surprise success of Deadpool, Deadpool 2 is already being written 
  • The Young Han Solo movie is already in pre-production and we still don’t have our star!
  • Star Wars - Episode VIII is officially in production according to this teaser from director Rian Johnson 
  • Congratulations to Star Wars’ breakout star John Boyega who won the BAFTA this weekend for EE Rising Star 
  • Take a look at the first trailer for another Garry Marshall-directed holiday ensemble film, Mother’s Day 

Theatre News
  • Glee’s Amber Riley will play Effie in London’s West End version of Dreamgirls 
  • Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical Cats may be coming to the big screen 
  • The Frozen stage musical is coming to Broadway in 2018! 
  • Ken Watanabe has postponed his return to The King & I to undergo treatment for stomach cancer 
  • The classic American novel, To Kill A Mockingbird, is headed to the Great White Way 
  • The 9/11 musical Come From Away will make its debut on Broadway next year

Misc News
  • Our thoughts are with the families of the British indie band Viola Beach whose members tragically died this weekend in a car accident in Sweden 
  • Missed any of the Super Bowl commercials?  Check them all out! 
  • Missed any of the epic movie trailers that aired during the Super Bowl?  Check them all out! 
  • James Corden rides along with one of the biggest musical names yet in a Carpool Karaoke with Sir Elton John 
  • Anna Kendrick, Adam Devine, and Zac Efron join James Corden in acting out The History of Sports Movies 
  • Game of Thrones’ Maisie Williams supports Idris Elba as the next Doctor 
  • A capella group Pentatonix announce world tour dates for this year  
  • OK GO just outdid themselves again!  They shot a zero-gravity music video 
  • Robert Downey Jr. cheers on Iron Boy as he saves Sydney 
  • A service dog named Ace’s day is made when he meets Pluto at Disneyland   
  • Missed the Grammy’s?  Take a look at some of the greatest moments! 
  • James Corden and Justin Bieber carpooled to the Grammy’s.  We all wish we were a part of this Carpool Karaoke 
  • In honor of the Grammys, Jimmy Kimmel releases Mean Tweets Music Edition #3 
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