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The NaturePodcast Singers - I Am The Very Model Of A Miniature Tyrannosaur

Did we miss it again? Anyhoo. Non-political update: a new challenger has entered. Soo Kim of Standard General - one of those weird, anonymous, multi-level, Pythonesque conglomerates - is in talks to buy CNN. (Which is still, surprisingly, quite profitable in a cable-cutting age - especially its Bloomberg-type data arm.) Taking that and the cable assets out of the deal would make it much more palatable to Netflix, and remove some of the trickier bits from the deal entirely.

Gorillaz - Damascus

Would just like to mention we just watched a trailer rather than the movie. There’s plenty more time in 120 minutes to do different layers of story beats. even GOTG punched hard sometimes. I still think GOTG3 is the weakest and most confused of the trio by a mile, but darn if I wasn’t weeping for a CGI rodent and his friends.

Christian Borle & Amir Talai - Stayed Gone (Hazbin Live On Broadway)

Jeff Bridges & The Abiders - Never Let Go (Live)

Small updates x2 via the FT: WB/D will formally advise shareholders to reject the Paramount offer… …and in the last hour, Kushner & his Affinity Partners crew have dropped out of the deal. So while they still have Ellison’s personal connection, there may not be quite the loyalty they were expecting…

Not much beyond an announcement teaser, I'd guess: here is a thing we'll be doing if Lucasfilm doesn't cancel us, and the engine doesn't experience some light glitches and then, y'know, explode. I get why a small studio might want to make a big noise about that kind of thing, especially if they need to staff up on devs and artists. Big, long-term commitment, not to a mention a move to Edmonton. Eesh. Not your high-vibe city, eh.

Following up on what m'learned coll' said in concealed orange boxes above: A first teaser for Doomsday should be dropping this week alongside Avatar: Fire And Ash. Running prior to that will be a new anti-piracy ad from Marvel warning people not to film the clip. It's suspected there may be some newfangled DRM tech/watermarking kit baked into the trailer (and the anti-piracy ad, if anyone's feeling snarky). Disney, Marvel and the theatre corps will aggressively pursue anyone leaking the contents, from copyright strikes upwards. Because of course...

Small update: for reasons best known to themselves, Amazon now drops S2 tomorrow (Dec 16th), a full week early. EDIT: They've also dropped an oddly warm and fuzzy little bonus: The Ghoul Log. (And no, the music isn't fake or AI: they've raided the dustiest vaults of production/trailer music for some seasonal bits and pieces that you'll likely never have heard anywhere else.) https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/video/detail/B0G55YPJXT

Much as when Ozzy went, there are so many good stories out there about Rob & Michele. But I think the one that's killed me is this one. When Harry Met Sally was supposed to have a downbeat ending. After getting divorced from Penny Marshall (Laverne from Laverne & Shirley, amongst many other things), he didn't have a stable relationship again for a while, and basically stopped believing in love. Then he was introduced to Michele early on during filming. And then, well... "We started seeing each other during [the making of] this film, and one thing led to another and, you know, I changed the ending of the movie. I didn't figure I was ever going to be with anybody, I couldn't figure out how to be with anybody, and I had it where Harry and Sally don't get together. They run into each other in New York, they talk a little bit and then they walk in opposite directions. "But then I meet Michele. And I said, 'well, I see how this works', and I changed it. I reshot the ending where you see Billy running and seeing Meg at the New Year's Eve party." ...and the sequence with the old married couples at the end.

Spinäl Täp - Tonight I’m Gonna Rock You Tonight

There is only one word for how I’m feeling right now. It is… inconceivable… that one of the officially nicest, kindest, most talented couples in all of Whollyodd are no longer with us. You’re supposed to say may their memory be a blessing. They already are: you’ll remember them every time you remember the three ages of Hollywood, deal with rodents, can’t handle the truth, have what she’s having, or turn it up to 11. Rock in peace, you two.

A surprise, to be sure... but a welcome one. (If it actually turns up and doesn't get cancelled, that is.) It's described as a "spiritual successor" to the original KOTOR RPG rather than the MMO. It's developed by Lucasfilm and a new Canuck outfit called Arcanaut - led out by Casey Hudson (Neverwinter, KOTOR, Mass Effect and Anthem). Given SW games have a habit of getting mind-tricked out of existence, I'll believe it when they shove a lightsaber into my trembling, aged hands. But it'd be nice to revisit some old friends and stomping grounds.

Subliminal Doubt - Christmas Wrapping