Tag: The Tick
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Griffin Newman Won His Role In Disenchanted Thanks To A Zoom Table-Read [Exclusive Interview]
The new Disney+ film “Disenchanted” is a long time coming, following up the 2007 comedy that served as Amy Adams’ breakout role. In “Disenchanted,” Giselle, an animated princess who winds up in New York City, inadvertently brings fairytale characters, like her old friend Pip the chipmunk, to our world. This time around, Pip’s a lot chattier,…
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‘The Tick’ Won’t Be Picked Up Anywhere Else After Amazon’s Cancellation Last Month
Sorry, The Tick fans, but it seems the superhero’s big blue destiny is officially cancellation. Last month, Amazon canceled The Tick after two seasons, and fans were rightfully disappointed. But at the time, series creator Ben Edlund offered a spark of hope that the series might be picked up somewhere else. However, that spark was…
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Golden Trailer Awards: ‘Black Panther,’ ‘Stranger Things’ Among Nominees
Netflix and Warner Bros. topped the nominations, announced Wednesday, for the Golden Trailer Awards with 61 each.Winners will be announced May 31 at the Theatre at the Ace Hotel in Los Angeles with Michelle Buteau (“The Tick”) hosting.Netflix was represented by work on “Stranger Things” Season 2, “The Crown,” “Icarus,” and “Mudbound,” while Warner Bros.…
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‘The Tick’ Cast and Crew on Season 2 and Its Wide-Open Storytelling Possibilities
The Amazon Prime original series The Tick exists in a world where superheroes have been real for decades and a strange man in a blue suit with antennae, aka The Tick (Peter Serafinowicz), along with his sidekick Arthur (Griffin Newman), an accountant learning to overcome his own issues, must save the world from supervillains. With…
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‘The Tick’: Amazon’s Superhero TV Show Got Better When It Stopped Trying to Be a Movie
[Editor’s note: The following contains spoilers for the ending of “The Tick” Season 1.]Woe to the next showrunner who triumphantly stands before a group of TV writers and proclaims their series to be more like a “[insert number here]-hour movie.” That formulation has plagued many shows over the past decade, even if there’s not always…