Fandom Friday

Zayn Malik officially leaves British boy band One Direction.  The internet subsequently explodes as millions of teens mourn.

TV News

• The OC's Adam Brody joins CBS pilot from the writers of Modern Family
• The HBO series Looking starring Jonathan Groff is cancelled after two seasons, it's not over yet!  The story lines will be resolved in a full-length movie to air on the network.
• The first photo from the Louisiana set of Ryan Murphy's Scream Queens hits the web and Lea Michele is definitely no longer Rachel Berry
• Pretty Little Liars finally reveals the mysterious A
• HBO releases the first trailer of J.K. Rowling's Casual Vacancy.  The miniseries begins on April 29th
• NBC orders First Dates, a new reality show from producer Ellen DeGeneres
• Melissa Joan Hart will guest star on The Mysteries of Laura as a radio show host mimicking the popular podcast  Serial
• The Mentalist's Owain Yeoman is cast as Supergirl's first villain of the series
• Patti Labelle is confirmed to return for Empire Season 2
• NBC orders Coach revival to series with Craig T. Nelson returning
• NBC sets their summer premiere dates!
• Season 6 of Downton Abbey will be its last
• Fans of The OC rejoice!  Autumn Reeser (who played Taylor Townsend on the popular 2003 show) will appear on Hart of Dixie with fellow OC alum Rachel Bilson
• The talented cast of The Flash finally sing!  A gospel version of the theme song to Firefly, that is
• Nickelodeon reveals the young cast of it's School of Rock television series
• The Walking Dead spin-off series is titled Fear the Walking Dead
  

Movie News

• The first look of Jesse Eisenberg as Lex Luthor in Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice is released
• The new Fantastic Four movie poster shows off the team's superpowers, but the internet accidentally leaks the first photo of "The Thing" AKA Ben Grimm, played by Jamie Bell
• Vivica A. Fox has confirmed that she will return for Independence Day 2
• Rumors suggest that former Doctor, Matt Smith, might be up for the lead role, Newt Scamander, in the movie adaptation of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
• How I Met Your Mother alum, Jason Segel is writer and co-director of the Lego Movie spin-off
• Steven Spielberg will direct the film adaptation of Ernest Cline's sci-fi debut novel, Ready Player One
• Idris Elba may be the new villain in Star Trek 3
• Ben Mendelsohn (The Dark Knight, Exodus: Gods and Kings) is rumored to be cast as the lead in Star Wars: Rogue One
• X-Men: Apocalypse casts newcomer Lana Condor as Jubilee
• Fifty Shades of Grey director Sam Taylor-Johnson will not return for the movie's sequels
• The greatest live-action adaptation ever, Beauty and the Beast, casts Broadway legend and six-time Tony Award winning actress Audra McDonald as Wardrobe
• Ryan Reynolds debuts his Deadpool costume!
• The $2 million Indiegogo campaign for a second Super Troopers film has been surpassed, ensuring that there will be a sequel more than 14 years after the original was released
• The teaser trailer for the upcoming James Bond film, Spectre, will premiere tonight!
  

Misc News

• Darren Criss becomes the third Glee star to have his Twitter hacked within a year. Hack activity suggests that popular ship CrissColfer (shipping him with costar Chris Colfer) is real.

• J.K. Rowling has the perfect response to a fan who still can't seem to wrap their head around the fact that Dumbledore is gay.
• Netflix introduces "God Mode" for desktop users
  
• Tony Award nominee Ramin Karimloo to end his stint as Jean Valjean in Broadway's Les Miserables at the end of August
• George Lucas mocks FOX News on The Daily Show
• Remaining members of One Direction, Harry Styles, Liam Payne, Louis Tomlinson, and Niall Horan, speak out about bandmate Zayn Malik's departure from the group
• In good deeds this week, Ed Sheeran crashes the wedding of a deserving young couple and it's adorable!