[This story includes mild spoilers for Upload season three, episode three “Cyber Discount Day” and episode four “Download Doctor.”]
In Upload‘s version of the future, where people live and work is horrifying.
To be fair, creator Greg Daniels’ mind isn’t entirely responsible for season three’s terrifying visions of what society’s personal and professional spaces could be amid the rapid expansion of tech and digital life. Much of the responsibility for this bleak-looking future — the secret upload call center, temporary temp agency and “Reduced Circumstance Housing” where Nathan (Robbie Amell) and Andy (Andy Allo) come to stay with his mom (Jessica Tuck) — in episodes three and four were based on real concepts and places tied to homes and offices.
Director Tom Marshall, says he pulled from the “very real world of this time,” including Hong Kong’s coffin houses for episode three’s housing design. According to The Guardian, one such version was just 500 square feet featuring up to 30 residents, cut up with plywood bunk beds...
In Upload‘s version of the future, where people live and work is horrifying.
To be fair, creator Greg Daniels’ mind isn’t entirely responsible for season three’s terrifying visions of what society’s personal and professional spaces could be amid the rapid expansion of tech and digital life. Much of the responsibility for this bleak-looking future — the secret upload call center, temporary temp agency and “Reduced Circumstance Housing” where Nathan (Robbie Amell) and Andy (Andy Allo) come to stay with his mom (Jessica Tuck) — in episodes three and four were based on real concepts and places tied to homes and offices.
Director Tom Marshall, says he pulled from the “very real world of this time,” including Hong Kong’s coffin houses for episode three’s housing design. According to The Guardian, one such version was just 500 square feet featuring up to 30 residents, cut up with plywood bunk beds...
- 10/28/2023
- by Abbey White
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
“What happens when a guitar has a soul of its own?” narrator Fred Savage wonders in the new podcast Sugar Maple, a dramatic fictional account of a guitar that’s passed from musician to musician with inspiring results.
Presented by Osiris Media and premiering Tuesday, March 15, Sugar Maple features 16 original songs by artists like Phish’s Trey Anastasio and Nashville soul singer Maggie Rose. Rose’s contribution — the lush “Two Arms to Hold On To” — arrives today. “It’s hard to keep my roots deep down in solid ground/’cause...
Presented by Osiris Media and premiering Tuesday, March 15, Sugar Maple features 16 original songs by artists like Phish’s Trey Anastasio and Nashville soul singer Maggie Rose. Rose’s contribution — the lush “Two Arms to Hold On To” — arrives today. “It’s hard to keep my roots deep down in solid ground/’cause...
- 3/1/2022
- by Joseph Hudak
- Rollingstone.com
Ted Lasso became the feelgood hit of the summer last year with Jason Sudekis even persuading a group of hardened British football fans to fall in love with the Apple TV+ original comedy. The series was also a hit in Hollywood, picking up a slew of awards including Sudekis winning best actor at the Golden Globes. It also won a Peabody Award this week.
Sudekis, who developed the series with Bill Lawrence based on the popular character Sudeikis played in NBC Sports videos several years ago, stars as Lasso, an American football coach who tries to replicate his success in the UK with a much rounder ball. He joins AFC Richmond, a team that has echoes of its neighbor AFC Wimbledon meets Chester City Fc, a struggling Premier League team recently taken over by Rebecca Welton (played by Hannah Waddingham). Welton takes ownership of the team after a nasty divorce and,...
Sudekis, who developed the series with Bill Lawrence based on the popular character Sudeikis played in NBC Sports videos several years ago, stars as Lasso, an American football coach who tries to replicate his success in the UK with a much rounder ball. He joins AFC Richmond, a team that has echoes of its neighbor AFC Wimbledon meets Chester City Fc, a struggling Premier League team recently taken over by Rebecca Welton (played by Hannah Waddingham). Welton takes ownership of the team after a nasty divorce and,...
- 6/24/2021
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Tom Marshall met Trey Anastasio in the eighth grade in Princeton, New Jersey, and they’ve been making music together ever since. Marshall is the lyricist behind some of Phish’s most well-known staples, including “Wilson,” “Bouncing Around the Room,” “Chalk Dust Torture,” “Sample in a Jar,” “Rift,” and more. He has writing credits from the mid-Eighties all the way through Sigma Oasis, the album that Phish released last year. “I have to stay creative to get in shape to be ready for Trey’s incredible [ability] to spit out music,...
- 2/11/2021
- by Patrick Doyle
- Rollingstone.com
Trey Anastasio has spent the last several months in his New York apartment, recording the raw, lo-fi album Lonely Trip. But on Tuesday, he ventured out to become late-night television’s first in-person guest since March, performing his excellent new song “I Never Needed You Like This Before” with the Roots on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. The episode airs on Tuesday at 11:35 p.m. Et on NBC.
Anastasio showed up at New York’s Rockefeller Center alone, according to a source, with his amp and guitar. After...
Anastasio showed up at New York’s Rockefeller Center alone, according to a source, with his amp and guitar. After...
- 8/12/2020
- by Patrick Doyle
- Rollingstone.com
Trey Anastasio had just returned to New York City from a weekend songwriting session with his collaborators Tom Marshall and Scott Herman when the city started shutting down in the wake of Covid-19.
Anastasio — who stayed busy in 2019 with Phish tours, a documentary, his band Ghosts of the Forest, Trey Anastasio Band and solo acoustic shows — suddenly had a lot of free time on his hands. So, he started recording songs in his apartment, ranging from the arena-rock stomper “I Never Needed You Like This Before,” where he channeled Black Sabbath,...
Anastasio — who stayed busy in 2019 with Phish tours, a documentary, his band Ghosts of the Forest, Trey Anastasio Band and solo acoustic shows — suddenly had a lot of free time on his hands. So, he started recording songs in his apartment, ranging from the arena-rock stomper “I Never Needed You Like This Before,” where he channeled Black Sabbath,...
- 7/30/2020
- by Patrick Doyle
- Rollingstone.com
Trey Anastasio has left his New York apartment exactly three times in the past month. The first of those outings was March 21st, when he went for a walk in Central Park with his wife, Sue. The following day, Gov. Andrew Cuomo told reporters he was angry people were still hanging out in parks, playing pickup basketball games. Anastasio has since only gone outside twice, to run to the store. “It’s tense,” he says. “It’s not really a pleasant walk. You can go out, but then you immediately feel like,...
- 4/24/2020
- by Patrick Doyle
- Rollingstone.com
Could the coronavirus quarantine be a boon for new music? Last night on his Instagram live stream, John Mayer said that he expects it to. And there are signs that it’s already starting: Phish’s Trey Anastasio has steadily been posting new songs, all recorded within the last week, that perfectly capture the fear, isolation, and uncertainty of our moment.
Anastasio started with two heartfelt acoustic tracks, “Lost in the Pack,” and “When the Words Go Away,” about trying to heal broken relationships while being shut off from the world,...
Anastasio started with two heartfelt acoustic tracks, “Lost in the Pack,” and “When the Words Go Away,” about trying to heal broken relationships while being shut off from the world,...
- 3/23/2020
- by Patrick Doyle
- Rollingstone.com
Exclusive: Rising British comedy star Samson Kayo and Absolutely Fabulous’ Jane Horrocks are to star in a comedy about a pair of paramedics for Sky.
Bloods, which is produced by Roughcut TV, the production company set up by The Office producer Ash Atalla responsible for BBC’s People Just Do Nothing, sees Kayo, who stars in BBC’s Famalam and ITV2’s Timewasters, and Horrocks, who played Bubble in the classic BBC sitcom, play paramedic partners in the South London ambulance service.
When tough-acting loner Maleek (Kayo) is paired with over-friendly divorcee Wendy (Horrocks), their partnership looks dead on arrival. But pretty soon they’re giving each other life support. An ensemble comedy, set within the fast-paced, never-ending rush of 999 call outs, Bloods charts Maleek and Wendy’s struggle to gain the respect of their fellow paramedics.
The Comcast-backed broadcaster has ordered six-episodes of the series. Created by Kayo,...
Bloods, which is produced by Roughcut TV, the production company set up by The Office producer Ash Atalla responsible for BBC’s People Just Do Nothing, sees Kayo, who stars in BBC’s Famalam and ITV2’s Timewasters, and Horrocks, who played Bubble in the classic BBC sitcom, play paramedic partners in the South London ambulance service.
When tough-acting loner Maleek (Kayo) is paired with over-friendly divorcee Wendy (Horrocks), their partnership looks dead on arrival. But pretty soon they’re giving each other life support. An ensemble comedy, set within the fast-paced, never-ending rush of 999 call outs, Bloods charts Maleek and Wendy’s struggle to gain the respect of their fellow paramedics.
The Comcast-backed broadcaster has ordered six-episodes of the series. Created by Kayo,...
- 2/12/2020
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Netflix is leaning into its strengths in 2020. Not only is the streaming giant pumping out dozens, if not hundreds of new shows, but many of their original series meet the demand illustrated by past successes or fill holes left by departing favorites.
So is there a new “Stranger Things” on the horizon? Perhaps a worthy follow-up to “Orange Is the New Black?” What about a replacement for syndicated sitcoms like “The Office” and “Friends”? You better believe Netflix is working to give subscribers what they want, and the below 2020 preview should illustrate exactly that.
With more competition than ever from Disney and Apple, and even more services on the way (hello HBO Max and Peacock), 2020 will be a critical year for the current king of streaming. So here’s what they’re working with:
“Locke and Key”
Release Date: Friday, February 7
Cast: Darby Stanchfield, Jackson Robert Scott, Connor Jessup, Emilia Jones,...
So is there a new “Stranger Things” on the horizon? Perhaps a worthy follow-up to “Orange Is the New Black?” What about a replacement for syndicated sitcoms like “The Office” and “Friends”? You better believe Netflix is working to give subscribers what they want, and the below 2020 preview should illustrate exactly that.
With more competition than ever from Disney and Apple, and even more services on the way (hello HBO Max and Peacock), 2020 will be a critical year for the current king of streaming. So here’s what they’re working with:
“Locke and Key”
Release Date: Friday, February 7
Cast: Darby Stanchfield, Jackson Robert Scott, Connor Jessup, Emilia Jones,...
- 1/7/2020
- by Ben Travers
- Indiewire
Kip Niven, a veteran character actor whose career ranged from early-’70s TV and the first two Sensurround films to regional theater and starring in 2014’s Jayhawkers, has died. He was 73. Local media outlets in his native Kansas City, Mo, said Niven died Monday of a heart attack.
Born on May 27, 1945, he got his start with guest roles in such 1970s TV dramas as Night Gallery, Escape and Emergency! before landing a key role in the first Dirty Harry sequel. In 1973’s Magnum Force, Niven played “Red” Astrachan, one of the vigilante rookie cops who terrorize San Francisco’s underworld — and eventually Clint Eastwood, who eventually gets his revenge. Astrachan’s comrades were played by future stars Robert Urich, Tim Matheson and David Soul.
After that, Niven would appear in dozens of TV shows and more than a dozen features including Earthquake (1974) and Midway (1976), the first two movies released in...
Born on May 27, 1945, he got his start with guest roles in such 1970s TV dramas as Night Gallery, Escape and Emergency! before landing a key role in the first Dirty Harry sequel. In 1973’s Magnum Force, Niven played “Red” Astrachan, one of the vigilante rookie cops who terrorize San Francisco’s underworld — and eventually Clint Eastwood, who eventually gets his revenge. Astrachan’s comrades were played by future stars Robert Urich, Tim Matheson and David Soul.
After that, Niven would appear in dozens of TV shows and more than a dozen features including Earthquake (1974) and Midway (1976), the first two movies released in...
- 5/9/2019
- by Erik Pedersen
- Deadline Film + TV
Stars: Anthony Forrest, Tom Marshall, Georgina Kean | Written and Directed by Alan Birkinshaw
What would you do if you thought you were in a dream? What do you think four lunatics would do if they were programmed to believe they were dreaming would do? That’s pretty much what Killer’s Moon is about.
The lunatics Mr. Trubshaw, Mr. Smith, Mr. Muldoon and Mr. Jones having escaped from the hospital in which they were being held are on the loose and living out their dreams. They have no morals in their dreams so they can do what they want, and they do. This includes murder, rape, theft and anything else they feel like doing. Why not, it’s only a dream right?
While these lunatics are lurking around the English countryside a bus full of school girls has broken down near a closed down hotel. Making their way to the...
What would you do if you thought you were in a dream? What do you think four lunatics would do if they were programmed to believe they were dreaming would do? That’s pretty much what Killer’s Moon is about.
The lunatics Mr. Trubshaw, Mr. Smith, Mr. Muldoon and Mr. Jones having escaped from the hospital in which they were being held are on the loose and living out their dreams. They have no morals in their dreams so they can do what they want, and they do. This includes murder, rape, theft and anything else they feel like doing. Why not, it’s only a dream right?
While these lunatics are lurking around the English countryside a bus full of school girls has broken down near a closed down hotel. Making their way to the...
- 4/17/2017
- by Paul Metcalf
- Nerdly
Louisa Mellor Jul 26, 2016
E4’s new comedy, starting tonight, about a group of West Country 20-somethings boasts a star turn from Sean Bean…
Looking back now, the most outlandish part of brilliantly inventive 1999 sitcom Spaced isn’t a movie parody, cutaway gag or eccentric character, but the idea that you could rent a fully furnished two-bedroom flat in Zone Two for ninety quid a week. If Tim Bisley and Daisy Steiner were house-hunting in London today, they’d be forced to pack up their Gillian Anderson posters and typewriter and head back to their respective hometowns to crash on a mate’s sofa.
That’s the fate of Kent (Dylan Edwards) in the first episode of Wasted, a new UK comedy series starting tonight on E4.
Having failed to make it as a Bristol-based DJ, Kent goes back to the village of Neston Berry and to the bosom of his...
E4’s new comedy, starting tonight, about a group of West Country 20-somethings boasts a star turn from Sean Bean…
Looking back now, the most outlandish part of brilliantly inventive 1999 sitcom Spaced isn’t a movie parody, cutaway gag or eccentric character, but the idea that you could rent a fully furnished two-bedroom flat in Zone Two for ninety quid a week. If Tim Bisley and Daisy Steiner were house-hunting in London today, they’d be forced to pack up their Gillian Anderson posters and typewriter and head back to their respective hometowns to crash on a mate’s sofa.
That’s the fate of Kent (Dylan Edwards) in the first episode of Wasted, a new UK comedy series starting tonight on E4.
Having failed to make it as a Bristol-based DJ, Kent goes back to the village of Neston Berry and to the bosom of his...
- 7/25/2016
- Den of Geek
A brand new comedy series Wasted is coming to E4 which combines a gang of four twenty-something wasters, one West Country village and the ex-Lord of Winterfell!
Danny Kirrane (represented by Gordon & French) stars as the lovable fantasy fanatic Morpheus,who manages a bong shop, (Stoned Henge). A 25-year-old virgin, he’s massively into fantasy – Game of Thrones, Lord of the Rings, computers. He’s in love with one of his best friends, Alison, and has been since the age of about 5, he’s a bit of a loser, but he’s also got an inner strength.
Rose Reynolds (represented by Conway van Gelder Grant) plays his neurotic sister Sarah. Of the four she seems to be the one that is most likely to leave her hometown. At the beginning we find her planning to go away to India and then Kent arrives back from uni and that puts a...
Danny Kirrane (represented by Gordon & French) stars as the lovable fantasy fanatic Morpheus,who manages a bong shop, (Stoned Henge). A 25-year-old virgin, he’s massively into fantasy – Game of Thrones, Lord of the Rings, computers. He’s in love with one of his best friends, Alison, and has been since the age of about 5, he’s a bit of a loser, but he’s also got an inner strength.
Rose Reynolds (represented by Conway van Gelder Grant) plays his neurotic sister Sarah. Of the four she seems to be the one that is most likely to leave her hometown. At the beginning we find her planning to go away to India and then Kent arrives back from uni and that puts a...
- 7/5/2016
- by noreply@blogger.com (ScreenTerrier)
- ScreenTerrier
Giving UK horror fans yet another reason to attend their scare-packed festival, the fine folks at Film4 FrightFest have announced their short film lineup that features over thirty shorts, including the cannibalistic wrestling tale, El Gigante:
Press Release: "Film4 FrightFest 2015 has expanded its Short Film Showcase event, with three strands and over thirty shorts from around the world, including eleven World Premieres and seven European Premieres. With films from thirteen countries, this is the most diverse and exciting shorts event yet programmed.
Highlights include the London premiere of actress Karen Gillan’s intense directorial debut Coward, and the UK premiere of Shevenge, a darkly funny tale of revenge, directed by Buffy The Vampire Slayer alum Amber Benson. Local FrightFest alumni will also be returning: screenwriter and director James Moran is back with screams and laughter in Ghosting, and Dan Auty brings us nostalgia and magic children in his new...
Press Release: "Film4 FrightFest 2015 has expanded its Short Film Showcase event, with three strands and over thirty shorts from around the world, including eleven World Premieres and seven European Premieres. With films from thirteen countries, this is the most diverse and exciting shorts event yet programmed.
Highlights include the London premiere of actress Karen Gillan’s intense directorial debut Coward, and the UK premiere of Shevenge, a darkly funny tale of revenge, directed by Buffy The Vampire Slayer alum Amber Benson. Local FrightFest alumni will also be returning: screenwriter and director James Moran is back with screams and laughter in Ghosting, and Dan Auty brings us nostalgia and magic children in his new...
- 7/30/2015
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
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