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http://www.comingsoon.net/tv/news/963361-breaking-patrick-stewart-to-star-in-new-star-trek-series According to Deadline, Sir Patrick Stewart has personally announced at the Las Vegas Star Trek Convention that he will officially be stepping back into the role of Jean-Luc Picard in a new Star Trek show for CBS All Access! Star Trek: Discovery co-creator and executive producer Alex Kurtzman will oversee development on the new show, which is not a Star Trek: The Next Generation reboot but rather a continuation of Picard’s story.

And Mrs. Garrett died at age 92 on Sunday. http://ew.com/tv/2018/08/05/charlotte-rae-dead-mrs-garrett-facts-life-dies/

Yup, Hollywood is done. http://www.comingsoon.net/tv/news/963163-the-facts-of-life-reboot-now-in-the-works-at-sony-tv Deadline reports The Facts of Life reboot of the classic 1980’s sitcom is currently in the early developing stages at Sony Pictures Televison. Leonardo DiCarpio’s Appian Way (The Wolf of Wallstreet) and Jessica Biel’s Iron Ocean Films (The Tall Man) are in talks to produce the series. The Facts of Life follows the lives of Edna Garrett, played by Charlotte Rae (Ricki and the Flash), and four girls at the Eastland School which is an all-female boarding school in Peekskill, New York. The series dealt with the issues that teenage girls face such as drug use, sex, eating disorders and peer pressure. The rest of the main cast of The Facts of Life are Rae as Edna , Lisa Whelchel as Blair, Mindy Cohn as Natalie, Nancy McKeon as Jo and Kim Fields as Tootie.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/national-march-on-the-nra-rally-planned-for-saturday-outside-washington/2018/08/03/dd1650d6-966e-11e8-810c-5fa705927d54_story.html?utm_term=.3b44a0545757 Halfway through their national tour of registering young people to vote and raising awareness about gun violence, survivors of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting will step off their bus Saturday at the Fairfax headquarters of the National Rifle Association. The teens will be joined by activists, protesters and survivors of gun violence to protest the NRA’s role in blocking gun-control laws and defending sales of guns such as the AR-15, the semiautomatic rifle used in the Parkland, Fla., massacre. The protest, dubbed the “National March on the NRA,” will begin at noon. It is expected to last three hours. Demonstrators say they will come with a number of demands and policy proposals. Among them are a ban on high-capacity magazines and “any weapon of a caliber higher than .30 caliber or more and any rifle, long gun, or short-barreled rifle that fires in semi-automatic and takes self-loading magazines,” and the institution of universal background checks through the National Instant Criminal Background Check System. They also want a searchable database of gun owners run through the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

http://www.comingsoon.net/tv/news/962745-fox-developing-two-24-spin-offs-with-prequel-series-legal-thriller FOX officially confirmed today that they’re developing two spin-off shows of the hit series 24. The first will be a prequel focusing on the origin story of Kiefer Sutherland‘s character, Jack Bauer, and the second a legal thriller that will be set in the 24 hours ticking down until a prisoner’s execution.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/nationals-journal/wp/2018/08/02/nationals-vs-reds-series-preview-is-washington-ready-to-make-a-run/?utm_term=.ade68a2a6509 The Washington Nationals have their team now. They did not trade away their biggest pieces. They are going to try to make things work. Their general manager sent a message, too. “If you’re not in, you’re in the way,” he said after he designated reliever Shawn Kelley for assignment early Wednesday morning. Mike Rizzo is standing behind Dave Martinez, and he hopes this group and this manager will be enough to make a run. If they are going to do so, they must make it soon and must show well against the resurgent Reds this weekend at Nationals Park. Below, find a few things to think about ahead of their four-game series with Cincinnati, a team they have not played since early April, when everything was far different than it is now.

http://ew.com/tv/2018/07/30/24-prequel-potential-series-fox/ You may be in luck, 24 fans: EW has confirmed that talks are underway about a possible prequel at Fox. Series creators Joel Surnow and Bob Cochran are putting their heads together with franchise executive producer Howard Gordon to figure out a way to tell new stories about one of TV’s most popular antiheroes.

http://www.darkhorizons.com/glow-none-stranger-things-s3-updates/ Finally, the streamer has also confirmed that not only will the third season of “Stranger Things” take place during the Summer, it will also be released at that point with the show holding back its third season launch until mid-2019.

http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2018/07/26/eric-church-says-nra-is-to-blame-for-las-vegas-festival-mass-shooting.html Eric Church, who was one of the headlining acts at the Route 91 Festival in Las Vegas, said the NRA is to blame for the mass shooting that occurred in October 2017. A crazed gunman opened fire at the crowd of festivalgoers while Church's fellow country star Jason Aldean was performing, taking the lives of at least 59 people. It was the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history. Church, who said he considers himself a "Second Amendment guy," blamed the NRA and gun lobbyists for being a "roadblock" to gun safety in a new interview. "There are some things we can't stop," Church told Rolling Stone. "Like the disgruntled kid who takes his dad's shotgun and walks into a high school. But we could have stopped the guy in Vegas." But he added, "I blame the lobbyists. And the biggest in the gun world is the NRA." The "Desperate Man" singer said the NRA has "been a bit of a roadblock."

Gotta give y'all credit for coming up with something original to break up a no hitter. http://www.espn.com/mlb/recap?gameId=380724117 CINCINNATI -- Austin Gomber was ready to start the bottom of the seventh, still working on a no-hitter, when a siren sounded and lights started flashing. Great American Ball Park's fire alarm had malfunctioned. That was a new one for the St. Louis Cardinals' rookie left-hander, who got an unexpected 7-minute, 30-second break. "At first, I didn't know what was going on," Gomber said. "I turned around and saw everything was flashing." Gomber lost his no-hitter and his shutout after the alarm was silenced in the seventh inning, but Dexter Fowler hit a two-run shot in the 11th on Tuesday night, leading the Cardinals to a 4-2 victory over the Cincinnati Reds.

Trailer for "Glass": https://www.traileraddict.com/glass-2019/trailer

http://www.comingsoon.net/movies/news/959873-jay-and-silent-bob-reboot-aiming-for-november-start-date Smith confirmed that the upcoming movie is scheduled to begin shooting in November and will see the title duo learning that the film made about them in the first Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back movie (the superhero movie Bluntman and Chronic) is about to be rebooted. The pair then decide to drive across country to stop filming once again, just like they did for the first film.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ny-news-mgm-resorts-las-vegas-shooting-20180716-story.html MGM Resorts International claimed in a new lawsuit that it has no liability in any of the injuries or deaths in the October mass shooting in Las Vegas. The company, which owns Mandalay Bay and the Route 91 Harvest festival venue, argued that its security vendor took all necessary precautions, approved by the Department of Homeland Security, for “protecting against and responding to acts of mass injury and destruction,” according to the suit acquired by the Las Vegas Review-Journal.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2018/07/11/get-ready-your-twitter-followers-are-about-drop/?utm_term=.3dae450f9352 On Wednesday, the social media service said it would begin removing large numbers of Twitter profiles that had been included in people’s follower counts — even though these profiles had been frozen by the company’s security team for suspicious behavior, rendering them completely inactive for significant periods of time. Twitter said the most popular accounts could experience a “significant drop” in followers over the next week. Twitter appeared to be getting a head start on the purge Tuesday night: President Trump lost about 100,000 of his 53.4 million followers and President Obama lost about 400,000 of his 104 million followers. The move by Twitter is the latest in a series of hard choices that the company is making to prioritize cleaning up its platform – rife with spam, trolling, and other questionable practices – over metrics that inflate the service’s popularity. The company said the effort would affect about six percent of follower counts across the service. Twitter has 336 million users logging in monthly, but many of the frozen profiles were not active at least once a month. The company’s Legal, Policy, Trust, and Safety Lead Vijaya Gadde acknowledged in a blog post that some users might be disappointed, but said the move was necessary to regain trust. “Most people will see a change of four followers or fewer; others with larger follower counts will experience a more significant drop,” she said. “We understand this may be hard for some, but we believe accuracy and transparency make Twitter a more trusted service for public conversation.”