Fandom Friday

Happy Friday everyone!  Join me in wishing my co-host Kelly a speedy recovery.  In the meantime, you're stuck with me for all your Fandom Friday news needs.  Also, be sure to check out the latest in our "ALNM's Path to Civil War" article series for all your Captain America needs.

TV News

• Check out which shows CBS has renewed for the 2016-2017 fall season!
• ​Exactly 22 years after the premiere episode, The All That Reunion will grace our televisions
• Supergirl ratings skyrocket with The Flash crossover
• ​NBC’s Hairspray Live! sets an open casting call to find its Tracy Turnblad
• Melissa Joan Hart says that a Sabrina the Teenage Witch reboot could happen and all the 90’s kids rejoice!
• Aaron Sorkin’s A Few Good Men will receive a live NBC broadcast
• Kat Graham will be leaving The Vampire Diaries after Season 8
• Sherlock Season 4 has begun filming
• Kocktails with Khloe has been cancelled after only 14 episodes
• Melissa McCarthy is officially returning to Gilmore Girls

Movie News

• DC releases a timeline for the next ten films
• Deadpool is now the highest-grossing R-rated movie of all time
• Take a look at the second trailer for The Lego Batman Movie
• Harrison Ford will be auctioning off Han Solo’s jacket from Star Wars: The Force Awakens
• The video of Daisy Ridley’s audition for Star Wars: The Force Awakens shows us that she was meant to play Rey
• We catch a glimpse of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story in the first trailer
• Oscar Isaac will reunite with his Ex Machina director for the film Annihilation
• Fans want Batman v. Superman director Zack Snyder booted out of the DC Cinematic Universe
• Disney is developing a live-action film about Snow White’s sister Rose Red
• Ewan McGregor confirms that the Trainspotting sequel will begin filming next month
• Check out the first trailer for Swiss Army Man starring Paul Dano and Daniel Radcliffe
• Dylan O’Brien is healing very well after his accident on-set of The Death Cure, according to his co-star GIancarlo Esposito
• Take a look at Disney’s BFG in the newest trailer for the movie based on the beloved Roald Dahl novel
• Could Captain America: Civil War have a crossover with Luke Cage?
• Break out the celebratory chimichangas! Ryan Reynolds has closed the deal for Deadpool 2
• Check out the first set photos of Tom Cruise in the reboot of The Mummy

Music News

• Take a look at the music video for Rooney’s newest song “My Heart Beats 4 U”
• Check out the acoustic version of Kelly’s new favorite song “Am I Pretty” by The Maine
• Backstreet’s back!  They’ll be starting a trial run for a Las Vegas residency soon!
• A judge has dismissed Kesha’s hate-crime and human-rights complaints against her producer Dr. Luke
• American Idol ends with a star studded finale 

Theatre News

• Book of Mormon’s Rory O’Malley will take over for Jonathan Groff has King George in Hamilton
• Tuck Everlasting, starring Newsies’ Andrew Keenan-Bolger, will offer tickets for $19.75 in honor of the novel’s publication year
• Alfie Boe has taken the stage as the newest J.M. Barrie in Finding Neverland
• Waitress the Musical sets a box office record in its first weekend
• Take a look at Saoirse Ronan in The Crucible on Broadway
• Christian Borle, Stephanie J. Block, and Andrew Rannells will star in the revival of Falsettos
• Sara Bareilles made her Broadway debut during an impromptu performance at Waitress the Musical
• Check out Glenn Close as Norma Desmond in Sunset Boulevard on the West End 
• Aaron Tveit, Tituss Burgess, Gavin Creel, and more delight us all in this year’s Miscast
• Diane Lane will return to Broadway in The Cherry Orchard
• Sara Bareilles, Darren Criss, Rebel Wilson, and Tituss Burgess headline The Little Mermaid at the Hollywood Bowl
• BroadwayCon will expand to Javits Center for its 2017 return
• Oscar Isaac set to headline Hamlet

Misc News

• British comedy team Hamish and Andy pull off the best April Fool’s Prank: Jurassic Carpark
• Wentworth Miller shuts down the body-shaming meme floating around the internet
• Check out the beautiful cover art for Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets: Illustrated Edition
• LEGO introduces Disney minifigures
• The Plastics get the plastic Funko treatment with these new Mean Girls POP! Figures
• Congratulations to Dancing with the Stars’ Allison Holker and her husband tWitch on the birth of their baby boy!
• MAC will introduce a Star Trek cosmetics line
• Tom Hiddleston gives Chicago its weather forecast and blames thunderstorms on Thor
• Congratulations to Seth Meyers and his wife on the birth of their son, Ash!
• Darkwing Duck will make his return to comic books!
• Game of Thrones’ stars Rose Leslie and Kit Harrington go public with their romance with a red carpet debut
• Congratulations to Rob Kardashian and Blac Chyna on their engagement