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NBC To Stream All Episodes Of “Constantine” This Friday
There have been many premature reports that NBC has canceled “Constantine.” Truth is, there is still is some (small) hope for the series. With executive producer Daniel Cerone citing that he has a meeting with NBC executives next week. There, he’ll pitch season two to them, and on the long shot that they decide to pick it up, the show will live again. NBC is still open to the idea of more “Constantine” and to show how open they are, they’ve chosen to stream all 13 episodes of the series starting Friday on their website.
Typically when a network is done with a show, they handle it like a bad breakup. The network ignores the show’s existence and just hopes it will go away. This streaming plan shows that there may yet be viability in the show. Hopefully there is renewed interest in this weekend’s stream.
Admittedly the show got off to a rocky start. It had to recast one of the series leads, and took its time growing out of its procedural roots. By the end of the first season “Constantine” had matured into a confident and scary show worthy of the Hellblazer himself. The show really found its footing with the introductions of major supporting players like Papa Midnight, Felix Faust and Jim Corrigan. This increased effort on world building would do wonders in a second season.
It’s still perhaps a long shot, but if you dig the show tuning in this Friday would do a whole helluva lot to save it for another year. We’ve been pretty big fans of the show here at the site, and would be overjoyed by a renewal. Check out our past coverage here, and our interview with Chas himself, Charles Halford.
IDW Dark and Paramount recently joined forces to launch limited comic book tales set in the worlds of Smile and A Quiet Place, and we’ve learned today that they’ll continue hanging around in those franchise universes with two brand new limited series tales.
Entertainment Weekly has exclusively revealed this afternoon that IDW Dark’s Any Given Smile debuts in September, while A Quiet Place: Rising Tides arrives in November.
First up, from writer Stephanie Williams and artist Pablo Collar, Any Given Smile puts a football-themed twist on Parker Finn’s successful Smile movie franchise.
The five-part limited series is “set in January 1995, during the American Arena League football championship game in St. Augustine, Florida. The rising superstar of the Sharks, backup quarterback Dupree, is feeling the pressure from his teammates, the fans, and also the city’s gambling underworld, to whom he owes a considerable debt. Meanwhile, a sports journalist investigates a string of suicides that may be connected to the big game. At the very least, they are connected to a sinister entity that preys on the minds of its victims.”
From writer Declan Shalvey and artist Luke Sparrow, A Quiet Place: Rising Tides will also be a five-issue limited story. The comic book tale “brings the creatures to the Florida Keys, where a father-daughter duo attempt to survive on water in a houseboat.”
EW further details, “This tense family reunion coincides with the arrival of the vicious creatures that hunt through sound. Grace and her dad find safety on the open ocean, but she’ll have to make landfall sooner or later; the father’s oxygen tank and their supplies are running low, while a hurricane swiftly approaches.”
Learn more about both comic books over on Entertainment Weekly.
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