Fandom Friday 5/22/15

Shows are getting renewed, picked up, cancelled, and ending left and right.  Check out ALNM's Renewal Scorecard to see the fate of your favorite shows and miniseries.

TV News

• Glee alum Harry Shum Jr. joins ABC Family’s Shadowhunters as the warlock Magnus Bane
• Game of Thrones causes even more controversy with the brutal rape of Sansa Stark (played by Sophie Turner)
• Congratulations to the winner of The Voice, Sawyer Fredericks!
• Congratulations to the winner of Dancing with the Stars, Rumer Willis & her pro Valentin Chmerkovskiy
• Jimmy Kimmel, James Corden, and Seth Meyers pay tribute to David Letterman
• The Foo Fighters perform their classic, Everlong, on the final Letterman show 
• Another trailer for Scream Queens has debuted
• Alfonso Ribiero will replace Tom Bergeron as the host of America’s Funniest Home Videos
• Producer McG tweets out the first look of Clary and Jace from ABC Family’s Shadowhunters

• Seth Meyers says everything we’ve been thinking about Netflix
• The Teen Wolf season 5 trailer is here!! 
• First cast photos are released for Ryan Murphy’s American Crime Story: The People vs. O.J. Simpson
• Heroes: Reborn will see the return of Greg Grunberg as Matt Parkman
• Even though Kaitlyn Bristowe was chosen as The Bachelorette, the booted Bachelorette Britt Nilsson is still dating the contestant who quit the show to go after her: Brady Toops
• With the season premiere only a few weeks away, here’s a behind the scenes look at the next season of Hannibal 

Movie News

• The first trailer for The Maze Runner: Scorch Trials is here!!
• Could Academy Award Winner Matthew McConnaughey be headed to the new Spiderman films?  (Alright, alright, alright!)
• The trailer for Batkid Begins brings tears to our eyes here at ALNM 
• Director Brad Bird turned down Star Wars: The Force Awakens direct Tomorrowland
  
• The Joker slaps around Harley Quinn in this new Instagram video from the set of Suicide Squad
  
• Allegiant - Part 1 begins filming in Atlanta
  
• Bryan Singer takes more selfies on the set of X-Men: Apocalypse, this time with Jennifer Lawrence and Nicholas Hoult 
  
• Bill Murray and Sofia Coppola reunite for a Christmas musical special for Netflix
  
• Reese Witherspoon has been cast as the famous pixie in Disney’s live-action movie Tink 
  
• The sequel to 2001’s My Big Fat Greek Wedding is being released on March 25, 2016 against the highly anticipated Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice 

Misc News 

• Shake it off with the newest parody from The Hillywood Show: Supernatural!  It features all your favorite Supernatural stars.  Seriously.  ALL of them! 
• Rebel Wilson is caught in a lie: she’s actually 35 and her name is Melanie Elizabeth Bownds
• Austin Swift’s photo from the Billboard Music Awards after party has graced the internet with its awesomeness 
  

• It’s official!  Taye Diggs will succeed Darren Criss as Broadway’s next Hedwig in Hedwig and the Angry Inch
• Anna Kendrick as the new Indiana Jones?  Don’t we wish! 
• Mariska Hargitay says that her appearance in Taylor Swift’s Bad Blood music video has “upped her cool factor”  
• JK Rowling totally “moms” Matthew Lewis for his sexy new photoshoot