TWD’s Midseason Finale Was Its Second Lowest Rated
The latest episode of The Walking Dead, "Hearts Still Beating," was the second-lowest-rated midseason finale in the series' history.
The episode had a 5.1 rating among adults 18-49, topping only the fall finale of The Walking Dead's second season. For comparison, Season 6's midseason finale, "Start to Finish," posted a 7.0 among the same demographic, according to TV by the Numbers.
With 10.58 million viewers, Sunday's episode was also the least-watched midseason finale since Season 3.
After kicking off Season 7 with the series' second-most-watched episode ever, viewership for the AMC series has declined considerably. While The Walking Dead's viewership still dwarves that of many other shows, Season 7 has seen the fewest amount of viewers since Season 3.
Salem Ending With Season 3
WGN America has opted not to order a fourth season of the supernatural drama Salem.
The show's cancellation will make the last episode of the third season the series finale, according to Deadline.
"We knew this would be the third and final season and were able to craft an exciting climax to Mary’s transformational saga,” said series creators Brannon Braga and Adam Simon.
Salem originally debuted in 2014 and was WGN America's first original scripted series. Its premiere drew in 1.5 million viewers, but its current third season averages between 200,000 and 300,000 viewers for live and same day viewership, according to Deadline.
Suicide Squad Director Helming Harley Quinn/Gotham City Sirens Movie
Suicide Squad director David Ayer has signed on to direct Gotham City Sirens, the upcoming DC movie based on the comic series of the same name.
Ayer will direct and produce the movie, which will see him working once again with Harley Quinn actress Margot Robbie, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
In addition to again taking on the role of Harley Quinn, Robbie is also an executive producer on the project. Geoff Jons and Jon Berg are also on board as producers.
The comic series focused on Gotham City's female villains, including Catwoman, the aforementioned Harley Quinn, and Poison Ivy. Which female villains make the film's roster is just one of many details, including a release date, still up in the air.
SpaceX Delays First Manned Flight to 2018
The first manned flight from SpaceX won't take off until 2018, a delay of about a year.
The Denver Post reports that Elon Musk's company has pushed back the manned Dragon launch to the second quarter of 2018. Originally, the flight was scheduled for spring 2017.
The delay might be linked to problematic loading of supercooled fuels. That was apparently the cause of the unmanned Falcon 9 explosion in September.
Back in 2014, Musk originally talked about the Dragon spacecraft carrying people to orbit as soon as late 2016. And he also has plans of colonizing Mars in the future.
Modern Warfare Remastered Update Adds Maps, Supply Drops
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered's latest update out today is adding the remaining original maps as well as new modes and microtransactions in the form of supply drops.
As originally promised, the six remaining maps, Bloc, Countdown, Pipeline, Showdown, Strike, and Wet Work, will all be added for free. The Winter Crash map, originally exclusive to PC, will also be available to play. In addition, Gun Game and Hardpoint are being added as two new game modes.
Activision also revealed that two special weapon camos, Gift Wrap and Ugly Sweater, can be unlocked by completing challenges on Winter Crash.
Overwatch’s ‘Winter Wonderland’ Event Now Live
Overwatch's latest seasonal event, the holiday-themed Winter Wonderland, has rolled out to players starting today and will end on January 2, 2017.
If you're familiar with Overwatch events then you know the drill. All earned or purchased loot boxes during the event have been replaced with Winter Loot Boxes housing over 100 appropriately themed cosmetic items including icons, sprays, victory poses, emotes, highlight intros, and skins like the Torbjorn Santa skin and Winston amazingly imagined as a yeti.
Additionally, the Winter Wonderland event is adding a new brawl: Mei’s Snowball Offensive. The brawl is a six-versus-six, single-elimination mode where everyone plays a modified version of Mei. Her weapon no longer sprays frost or fires icicles, but instead shoots one-hit-kill snowballs, and must be reloaded by finding piles of snow around the map. In this brawl Mei's ultimate has similarly changed, turning her blaster into a semi-automatic, continuously firing version when activated.
Fast 8 Trailer Has Most Watched First Day of All Time
After the cast and crew took over Times Square to debut the first trailer, The Fate of the Furious' premiere look has broken a worldwide record as the most-watched trailer in its first 24 hours.
Director F. Gary Gray (Straight Outta Compton) revealed on his website that the first trailer for the eighth Fast and Furious film was viewed 139 million times in its first 24 hours of availability around the world. That number beats the previous record-holder, the first Beauty and the Beast trailer, which racked up 127.6 million views during its first day of release. Disney's live-action remake of the animated hit had taken the record from Star Wars: Episode VII — The Force Awakens.
Ben Affleck Talks Batman Solo Film Status
It seems Ben Affleck is in no rush to make his solo Batman movie, as the script for the film is still not finished.
While doing an interview with The New York Times during a Facebook Live Event, Affleck talked about his career and why he decided to star as Batman in the DC Cinematic Universe. The discussion eventually turned to the upcoming solo Batman movie, titled The Batman, and how its script is coming along. According to Affleck, he doesn't want to get the film out just to meet a release date.
"I’m a real believer in not doing, not reverse engineering projects to meet a window or a date, but rather like when you get the right story or you get the right idea or you get the right thing, then you make the movie," Affleck told The New York Times.
Pokemon TCG Getting Sun and Moon Expansion
Break out your Pokemon trading cards; the game is getting a Pokemon Sun & Moon expansion pack.
The Pokemon Trading Card Game: Sun & Moon expansion will be available on February 3, 2017. Fans can pick up the expansion—which introduces more than 140 new cards—at Toys "R" Us, GameStop, and other hobby shops across the United States and Canada.
Lunala & Solgaleo in the Pokemon TCG Sun & Moon expansion
40 brand new Pokemon straight from Pokemon Sun & Moon are heading into the TCG, along with new Alolan variants of classic Pokemon. The expansion will also introduce Pokemon-GX, which are super-powered Pokemon with "a huge impact on the game," according to The Pokemon Company. Of course, those who pick up the Sun & Moon expansion will have the chance to receive Legendary Pokemon Solgaleo and Lunala.
South Park Funko Pop Figures to Be Released Next Year
Funko has revealed a set of figures based on Comedy Central's animated hit South Park.
Five characters from the show will be getting the Pop! vinyl figure treatment, including Cartman, Butters, Ike Broflovski, and Mysterion. Zombie Kenny will also be available exclusively at Hot Topic. You can view the figures below, courtesy of Funko.
The four-figure series plus the exclusive Kenny figure from Hot Topic will be available in February.
Other popular franchises to recently get Funko figures include The Witcher, Stranger Things, and Batman: The Animated Series.