Tom Bacon

3 days ago | screenrant.com | Tom Bacon

Link copied to clipboard Sign in to your ScreenRant account The Acolyte may have been controversial, but showrunner Leslye Headland has just revealed how she was focused on a single principle: What would George Lucas do? The Acolyte was easily Star Wars' most controversial TV show to date, with the online fandom schisming over almost every element of the story. Some of the arguments seem frankly absurd when you look back at them; I refuse to believe anybody really cared Ki-Adi-Mundi's age,...

3 days ago | innercitynews.com.au | Tom Bacon

A bitterly fought VCAT case has concluded, where a lot owner residing in her unit was found to have breached the rules of the owners’ corporation (OC) by engaging in acts of screaming, yelling, wailing and thumping for extended periods of time. But the case was dismissed as the applicant property manager did not engage in the OC’s dispute resolution process properly. The applicants were the owners of several units on the third floor of a residential building in Carlton.

4 days ago | screenrant.com | Tom Bacon

Link copied to clipboard Sign in to your ScreenRant account Andor showrunner Tony Gilroy has finally explained the real reason he thinks there will never be anything like this show again - and it's because "streaming is dead." I confess I was rather surprised when, a month ago, I first read comments from showrunner Tony Gilroy saying nothing like Andor would ever happen again. At first glance, they seemed more than a little egotistical; but that isn't how they were meant to come across. That...

5 days ago | screenrant.com | Tom Bacon

Andor is an unusual Star Wars TV show, one with an overtly political message that marries up perfectly with everything George Lucas had to say. Set during the Dark Times of the Empire's reign, Andor is an unusual Star Wars TV show. There's a sense in which it's the antithesis of everything Lucas attempted to do, because it's so much more grounded and mature; it even features the first mention of the word "rape," a fact that shocked some parts of the fanbase.

6 days ago | screenrant.com | Tom Bacon

Link copied to clipboard Sign in to your ScreenRant account Jodie Whittaker's unexpected (and delightful) Doctor Who return actually tried to fix a major plotline from her time as the Thirteenth Doctor. The first female Doctor, Jodie Whittaker sadly never got to appear in a proper multi-Doctor story; she had the misfortune of starring in the role during COVID, which made production so much more difficult. That made an unexpected cameo in Doctor Who season 15's finale, "The Reality War," all...