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Joe Bob Briggs Says the Return of “MonsterVision” is “Very Close”
Maybe it’s true what he used to say: “The Drive-In will never die.”
TNT’s “MonsterVision” began in the early 1990s, but it was when Joe Bob Briggs took over as host in 1995 that the show really became a beloved Saturday night staple for horror fans. Essentially, Briggs played the role of horror host for the show, introducing different horror movies each week and popping up to talk shop throughout.
Briggs hosted the show until it was removed from TNT’s lineup in September 2000; the final episode aired on July 8, 2000, and included Children of the Corn II.
Earlier this year, Briggs took to Twitter to let his followers know that the streaming service Shudder was considering a reboot – and he needed our help. At the time, he was asking “MonsterVision” fans to submit video testimonials to joebob@joebobbriggs.com, and now Briggs has tweeted an exciting update on that front.
“We’re getting really really close,” he teased on Twitter this week!
All I can say, Garth, is that we’re getting really really close. https://t.co/a42rNUvPhA
— Joe Bob Briggs (@therealjoebob) March 13, 2018
Today, Prime Video announced that Emily Mortimer (Relic), Manny Jacinto (The Acolyte), and Thomasin McKenzie (Victorian Psycho, Eileen) have joined the cast of Season Three of Fallout.
The hit series begins production on its third season this month in Los Angeles.
The series based on the video games tells “the story of haves and have-nots in a world in which there’s almost nothing left to have. Two hundred years after the apocalypse, the gentle denizens of luxury fallout shelters are forced to return to the irradiated hellscape their ancestors left behind—and are shocked to discover an incredibly complex, gleefully weird, and highly violent universe waiting for them.“
The series stars Ella Purnell (Yellowjackets, Sweetpea), Aaron Moten (Emancipation, Father Stu), Walton Goggins (The White Lotus, The Righteous Gemstones), Kyle MacLachlan (Twin Peaks), Moisés Arias (The King of Staten Island), Frances Turner (The Boys), Annabel O’Hagan (Rent Free), and Dave Register (FBI).
Aaron Paul (Anything But Ghosts) has also joined the cast for Season Three, as previously announced.
Geneva Robertson-Dworet and Graham Wagner serve as executive producers, creators, and showrunners.
Catch up on both seasons ahead of Season Three on Prime Video now.
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