We have a while to go before the new season of "The Walking Dead," but that doesn't mean we can't get excited for for a glimpse of Rick and the rest of the gang.

AMC debuted the first artwork for season six and it hints at a potential rift between Rick and his old buddy Morgan (Lennie James).

Warning: Some spoilers ahead!

Remember, Morgan just joined the group at Alexandria at the very end of the season 5 finale.

He walked in at essentially the worst moment ever, moments after Rick was told to kill a member of the Alexandria clan.

Since we recently learned Morgan has taken up a rather spiritual existence — he doesn't really believe in the whole killing thing — it will be exciting to see how he and Rick interact at the top of season six.

"The Walking Dead" crew will be heading to San Diego Comic-Con where we can expect to see the first preview of the new season. 

Their panel will kick off Friday, July 10 at 3 p.m. EST. Expect to see some footage online not too long afterward.

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As the cast of “Mad Men” begin to do more press appearances following the series finale, we are getting some interesting behind-the-scenes knowledge on how some of our favorite scenes came together.

One of the most memorable is the final shot in the show’s finale episode in which Don Draper meditates on a cliff overlooking the Pacific Ocean and then cuts to a famous Coca-Cola commercial, “I’d Like to Buy the World a Coke.” 

While on “Jimmy Kimmel Live” Tuesday, Jon Hamm, who played Draper, gave some insight on that ending.

“Matt Weiner, who writes the show, had seized on this idea around season four,” Hamm told Kimmel.

The show ran for seven seasons.

But getting the commercial in the episode was far from easy.

“There was a couple of years process of clearing that with Coca-Cola,” he revealed.

Following the finale, Coca-Cola told People that “no money exchanged hands” between the show and Coke for the use of the commercial in the finale. 

Watch Hamm's full interview with Jimmy Kimmel below.

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Note: Spoilers ahead if you haven't watched through Episode 5 of Fox's "Wayward Pines."

Across his body of film work, director M. Night Shyamalan has built a reputation for unexpected plot twists.

Arguably, it was best executed in 1999's "The Sixth Sense," with varying degrees of success in subsequent films like "The Village" and "The Happening."

While some may see the director's plot twists as gimmicky, Shyamalan said that he doesn't see them as "thin and meaningless."

"It is all a continuation of character’s awareness for me," the director explained on a recent press call. "If I put myself in the shoes of a main character and that person is learning more about their world, more about their situation, that feels very organic to me. Things aren’t right, I’m feeling clouded, obscured. I’m feeling like suffocated, why, why, why, and getting those answers feels very organic.  It’s an increasing of our main character’s knowledge." 

In his first television venture, Fox's "Wayward Pines," Shyamalan used the same technique to spin the series 180-degrees on its fifth episode.

Shyamalan explained, "My job as the storyteller is to make you in sync with the main character so that your misunderstanding is the same as theirs and every piece of information that they have you have, and you’ve misunderstood it the exact same way. Then when it comes, it should’ve been inevitable in retrospect."

He promises that Thursday's sixth episode will continue to provide answers after revealing that the citizens of "Wayward Pines" are the last living humans of their kind. Outside the town's borders, hundreds of years had passed while they were kept in a cryogenic sleep by a visionary scientist. Meanwhile, humans de-evolved into powerful and fast animals referred to as "abbies," short for "aberrations."

"For me, Episode 5 and 6 are the answers episodes," Shyamalan told reporters. "Then for me, post-that, is the 'Oh my God, how are we going to deal with what we know now?'" 

So, what can fans of "Wayward Pines" expect now that the big plot twist is out?

Shyamalan says there are moral questions that need to be answered.

"There’s a thing that we take for granted, because there’s so many of us right now that freedom and lack of rules or flexibility of social environment is a given—that’s a right," Shyamalan said. "But, if there was only X number of us, does one of us get to jeopardize the group? Well, no that couldn’t be allowed, right?  Those kinds of freedoms couldn’t be allowed because there’s so few of us, so we’re going to have to make really stringent rules."

Later, Shyamalan added, "You can assume it’s not going to be warm and fuzzy."

Watch a preview of Episode 6 below:

"Wayward Pines" airs Thursdays at 9 p.m. on Fox.

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WARNING: Spoilers of the show's finale below

When the 'Game of Thrones' finale finally dropped on June 13, fans were devastated.

Many actors were shown the door as their characters were killed off, never to return. 

Well, at least not for now.

The final moments of the episode left fans guessing the fate of huge characters like Stannis and Jon Snow.

As can be expected, many people involved with the show are tight-lipped about it all.

Luckily, Emilia Clarke, who plays Daenerys Targaryen in the show, is making the media rounds right now to promote her role in the new "Terminator" movie coming out soon called "Terminator: Genisys."

We got word via UPROXX about a great interview with MTV Clarke recently did, where she talks about her own reaction when she found out about all the death and destruction.

When she was asked about the finale she said, "I read the script; I read the script, and I cried, and I called David and Dan and took Kit out for numerous drinks and was like, what the? What the?? You're leaving me? You're abandoning us?"

She went on to say she has no idea what's going to happen in the show going forward, and she has no idea if Jon Snow is coming back — although she does note there's plenty in place to make it possible.

Here's the interview with MTV if you want to see it all for yourself:

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PBS has halted production on its family history series "Finding Your Roots" after its internal review found that Ben Affleck asserted "improper influence" on the show when it came to excluding the fact that his ancestors owned slaves, according to a press release on Wednesday.

PBS and WNET has decided that producers didn't protect the creative and editorial process from Affleck's influence and further failed to report to them that the actor was trying to change program content.

Currently in production on its third season, the show will now be postponed to make some changes ordered by PBS and WNET, including hiring an additional researcher/fact checker and employing an independent genealogist to review episodes for accuracy.

Additionally, PBS is pulling Affleck's episode from "all forms of distribution including on-air, digital platforms, and home video."

Affleck's request of show producer Henry Louis Gates, Jr. to exclude his slave-owning ancestors from the program was discovered in emails uncovered in the Sony hack in mid-April.

In response to reports, the "Batman" actor later apologized for asking that his family's history of slave-ownership be excluded from the program.

"I didn't want any television show about my family to include a guy who owned slaves. I was embarrassed," he wrote on Facebook Tuesday. "The very thought left a bad taste in my mouth."

Gates would also release a statement saying that he and his fellow producers made their creative choices based on what they felt was most compelling.

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Univision won't be airing the upcoming Miss USA pageant and has said it won't work with its parent company, the Miss Universe Organization, in response to part-owner and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's recent remarks on Mexicans and immigration.

In a statement released on Thursday, the media company called Trump's comments "insulting":

Today, the entertainment division of Univision Communications Inc. announced that it is ending the Company’s business relationship with the Miss Universe Organization, which is part-owned by Donald J. Trump, based on his recent, insulting remarks about Mexican immigrants. At Univision, we see first-hand the work ethic, love for family, strong religious values and the important role Mexican immigrants and Mexican-Americans have had and will continue to have in building the future of our country. We will not be airing the Miss USA pageant on July 12th or working on any other projects tied to the Trump Organization.

Univision News and the local news division will continue to provide comprehensive coverage of all candidates, including Mr. Trump, to ensure our audience continues to have access to all points of view.

Univision is referring to comments Trump made in his mid-June announcement that he would be running for president.

According to Reuters:

In his speech, Trump said Mexico was not a friend of the United States ... describing Mexican migrants to the country as drug-runners and rapists.

The freshly minted Republican candidate pledged to build "a great, great wall on our southern border," adding that he would ensure that Mexico pay for it.

The Trump organization released the following statement on Univision's decision:

The Mexican government and others are putting tremendous pressure on Univision to break their signed and fully effective contract with the Miss Universe Organization because Mr. Trump has been exposing to the public, and the world, the significant damage that is being done at the southern border, and the terrible and costly trade deals that the United States is  incompetently making with Mexico (these deals are great for Mexico and horrible for the United States). This has been sharply and openly brought out during Mr. Trump’s run for President of the United States.

"Mexican leadership has been doing serious damage to the United States by out-negotiating our representatives and political leaders. They are taking our jobs, taking our money and at the same time hurting us at the border with illegals from all over the world freely flowing into our country." 

Mr. Trump cannot be silenced on this very important problem for the United States. I have great respect for Mexico and love the Mexican people, but my loyalty is to the United States and making our country great again!

Additionally, Colombian reggaeton singer J Balvin canceled his performance at the Miss USA pageant, citing Trump's remarks as being offensive to not just Mexicans, but all Latinos.

Later on Thursday afternoon, Trump's attorney told politics blog Politico that the real estate mogul is suing Univision for breach of contract and defamation.

Previously on Wednesday evening, Trump stood by his comments, blaming the media for distorting their meaning.

"I am personally offended by the mainstream media's attempt to distort my comments regarding Mexico and its great people," he said. "I have many successful business relationships with Mexican companies and employ, and am close friends with, many Mexican people. I also have tremendous respect for the leaders of Mexico, who, frankly, are much smarter and tougher than our politicians here in the United States."

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TLC is building an impressive new roster of stars for the upcoming summer season of its popular documentary series, "Who Do You Think You Are?"

Business Insider can exclusively report that "Breaking Bad" star Bryan Cranston, "Once Upon a Time's" Ginnifer Goodwin, "Dancing With the Stars" host Tom Bergeron, and Oscar-nominated actress Alfre Woodard will explore their family history on the new season, which kicks off on Sunday, July 26 at 9 p.m.

Additionally, BI can exclusively report that TLC will air "Harry Potter" author J.K. Rowling's "Who Do You Think You Are?" episode from the British version of the series this summer, as well.

Here's what to expect from the summer season lineup, according to TLC:

· Tom Bergeron, who is aware of his French Canadian roots on his paternal side, but wants to know what brought his ancestors to North America. He goes as far back as his 10x great grandmother to find the answer.

· Bryan Cranston, who comes to discover an unfortunate pattern amongst the men in his family.

· Ginnifer Goodwin, who sets out to learn about her mysterious paternal great grandparents, whom her father, regretfully, does not know much about either.

· Alfre Woodard, who strives to find out more about the paternal side of her family, and explores how her surname came to be.

· J.K. Rowling, who sets off to uncover her maternal French roots and discovers a surprising twist in an old family war story.

Produced for TLC by Shed Media and Lisa Kudrow and Dan Bucatinsky's Is or Isn’t Entertainment, Emmy-nominated "Who Do You Think You Are?" and sponsor, Ancestry.com, has helped dozens of stars discover their family's roots over its previous six seasons, including Tony Goldwyn, America Ferrera, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, and Cynthia Nixon.

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Netflix has announced the launch date for its next big series, "Narcos," a ten-episode drama chronicling the conflict between drug kingpins and law enforcement in the 1980s — most notably notorious cocaine king Pablo Escobar.

The series will launch at 12:01 a.m. Friday, August 28, and will star "Game of Thrones" alum Pedro Pascal alongside Boyd Holbrook as real-life DEA agents Javier Peña and Steve Murphy, opposite Brazillian actor William Moura's Pablo Escobar. 

The company released a 15-second teaser to accompany the premiere announcement.

It has no actual footage, but a lot of cocaine. 

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NBC's "Hannibal" has always been a poster child for the critically adored but little-watched television series.

The average person is far more likely to read about "Hannibal" than they are to actually see it, as it has inspired countless essays about why you should drop everything and watch it now, or how its current, third season is one of the best things on television right now. The show, however, was fortunate enough to inspire a passionate fanbase — who have dubbed themselves "Fannibals"— that, in response to the show's cancellation, mounted a feverish effort to save the series.

The good news is they're on to something. This is, after all, the age of TV miracles, where shows are saved from the brink of cancellation ("Community"), are brought back after being gone too soon ("Arrested Development"), or are straight-up resurrected whether people remember them fondly ("The X-Files") or not ("Heroes"). 

"Hannibal," however, has a better chance than most.

Immediately following news of the show's cancellation, creator Bryan Fuller was featured in a flurry of interviews that seem fairly bullish on the show's future — and cleared up why petitioning Netflix to keep the show alive is a futile effort. 

"There’s certain avenues that I know we wouldn’t be able to do, for instance Netflix because our deal with Amazon precludes a Netflix component,"Fuller told The Hollywood Reporter. "The contract limits what they could do with it."

Amazon, then, quickly becomes the front-runner for Hannibal's new home, because it's already the series' digital home — the company has exclusive streaming rights to the first two seasons in the US. It's also not the only game in town. "We’re at a dance and we want to be asked out on the floor," Fuller told THR.  "All suitors are welcome."

If "Hannibal" does see a fourth season, there could be a longer than normal wait for it — Fuller is currently committed to running the Starz adaptation of Neil Gaiman's "American Gods" with creative partner Michael Green, and he'd have to find a way to fit both into his schedule. That said, teaming up with a digital partner could have benefits, allowing Fuller and co. to be as experimental with the delivery of the show as they are with the presentation. 

"I do think that there is great benefit for 'Hannibal' to be on a streaming service in terms of the enthusiasm of the fanbase and the accessibility that streaming services offer,"Fuller said in an interview with Deadline."I love the idea of serving out to an audience course by course. So even if it ends up on a streaming service it might be interesting to break it down in a way that redefines streaming services ... like courses. So you get one or two episodes and then a break. Then two or three more episodes and a break and then another two or three more episodes and another break."

Such a strategy would certainly fall within the "Hannibal" team's penchant for completely reinventing the show every year. What's more, Fuller already has tantalizing ideas for a possible fourth season. 

"Season four would be a reexamination and reinterpretation of the Will Graham–Hannibal Lecter relationship in a fashion that is unlike anything else we’ve done in the show," Fuller told Vulture's Matt Zoller Seitz. "The idea that I have for season four is so terrifying creatively, and also inspiring ... to do something that is once again completely different from what we’ve done in the previous three seasons."

Fuller won't say anymore than that — there still are ten whole episodes of season three yet to air, and saying anything about a fourth season would ruin what he promises would be a satisfying conclusion to the current season. Given how much of a mic drop the first two finales were, odds are the "Hannibal" team will deliver.

If only they could find the home for a fourth.   

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I like HBO programming for many reasons. The production value is unparalleled, the acting is Emmy-worthy, and the stories are fascinating. But for all the variation in HBO's programming, there is one subtle consistency that only longtime viewers of the network are starting to pick up on: the actors and actresses. 

When I settled in to watch HBO's new Sunday-night lineup last weekend, I couldn't help notice that the guy who plays Teague Dixon in "True Detective" season two is the same person who played Dan Dority in "Deadwood." Or that the actor who plays Zeke Tilson in "The Brink" is also Nick Sabotka from "The Wire."

In fact, HBO has a stable of actors it uses to fill tertiary roles in many of its programs.

Zack Grossbart recently put together an epic infographic showing exactly which actors have appeared in which HBO shows. It's called the HBO recycling program, and it illustrates the relationship between actors and actresses and the HBO shows on which they have appeared.

Let's take a closer look at the "HBO Recycling Program" below:

Aiden Gillen

You may know him as the baby-faced, sharp-tongued Littlefinger from "Game of Thrones."

But Littlefinger was honing his skills as a politician well before he ever set foot in Westeros as the morally conflicted mayor of Baltimore in "The Wire."

Edie Falco

You might know her as Carmela Soprano, the complicit wife of New Jersey-mafia kingpin Tony Soprano.

But before Carmela surrounded herself with criminals, she was protecting society from them as Officer Diane Whittlesey in "Oz."

Michael K. Williams

You might know him as Omar, the endearing gangster who robs drug dealers for a living in "The Wire."

But he also played an endearing gangster in another HBO crime drama, "Boardwalk Empire," although in finer threads.

Paul Ben-Victor

HBO must love Paul Ben-Victor, because the actor has been featured in four different programs. He has played Alan Gray, the head of Warner Brothers studio, who gave Vinnie Chase his big break with "Aquaman" on "Entourage."

But he also plays Vondas in "The Wire."

Palaka from "John from Cincinnati."

And he even showed up for an episode of "Curb Your Enthusiasm." 

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Maybe in the next "Terminator" movie they can go back in time and make some script revisions.

"Terminator Genisys," the latest sequel to the time-traveling sci-fi franchise, adds yet another timeline to puzzle over. “Genisys” begins in a familiar place as a companion of sorts to the first film, and then criss-crosses across dimensions. 

"Genisys" kicks off in the future, where Kyle Reese (Jai Courtney) fights with mankind's last hope John Connor (Jason Clarke) in the resistance. John finds out that Skynet, the evil robotic corporation that turned against mankind, plans to kill his mother, Sarah Connor (Emilia Clarke), to prevent him from ever being born. He sends Reese over to protect her and just like that, we are back to “The Terminator” in 1984. 

Suddenly, T-1000 (Byung-hun Lee) has made its way into the 1980s as well as some other major changes to this timeline. Once again, fate has been messed with in a major way.

It doesn’t take very long for "Genisys" to jump the shark.

Early on, some scenes from the original "Terminator" are re-created, and they're both kind of cool and a little uncanny to watch.

It is as if they're saying, "Here is how we would have made that classic scene if we had this technology back then," despite the fact that the aged effects actually add some charm to the early films. This might have come off as nostalgic pandering, but the filmmakers literally had no choice, given that they didn't have the rights to footage from the original film owned by Orion and Hemdale. 

Naturally, the T-800 (Arnold Schwarzenegger) is back, and he wants to remind you why he became a movie star in the first place. As James Cameron realized with the first two films, Schwarzenegger is at his best in silence. This brings out both his funniest and most menacing qualities.

In "Genisys," the way he tries to smile like a normal human is worth it for all the clunky time travel exposition he has to deliver throughout.

It is also a shame that Emilia Clarke, who is so great as Mother of Dragons Daenerys Targaryen on “Game of Thrones,” doesn’t get as much of a chance as she deserves as Sarah Connor. In "Thrones," Clarke brings a lot of compassion to a tough character, the same way Linda Hamilton did with Sarah Connor. However, Clarke has to wade through so much weak dialogue that she barely gets to showcase her talent. 

"John sent me here to save you," Reese says at one point.

"From the Terminator that was sent back to kill me, I know. But don't worry, we already took care of him," Connor replies.

Lines like this feel less like something a human would say in an emergency and more like a moment tailored for a movie trailer.

As the franchise has carried on, Schwarzenegger has gone from terrifying killer to father figure.

Sarah even refers to him as "pops." This relationship borders on sappy (The Terminator collected her childhood drawings), but at moments it really clicks. In an early scene, Terminator hits Reese over the head and lets Sarah know that he did not kill him (this is something of a callback to "Terminator 2"). Their chemistry in this scene and others can be endearing.

Other times, it's a bit weird. Cyborgs aren't supposed to feel, as we're reminded numerous times, so it's strange when you see him holding on to items of sentimental value, like childhood drawings of himself and Sarah pinned to a wall. Somewhere buried deep in here, is a fun spin-off about the misadventures of Sarah Connor and her T-800. 

The biggest problem with "Genisys" is that the script is a complete mess, and the idea of re-launching the franchise is bogged down in franchise nostalgia.

That's not to say nostalgia can't be done right.

Take one or two of the scenes in “Jurassic World.” That stuff had been dormant for a long time, yet always present in popular culture. Given that Arnold most recently turned “I’ll be back” into a punchline in "The Expendables 2," this line no longer feels special anymore.

The “Terminator” franchise was once groundbreaking in many ways.

By sticking with a PG-13 rating, “Genisys” lacks the edge of the first two “Terminator” movies. After all, the first one feels less like a summer blockbuster and more like “No Country for Old Men” but with a cyborg. 1991's “Judgment Day” truly made you believe that its villain could not be destroyed. In “Genisys,” the central villain is an Apple-like operating system, clearly as a way to mine off of modern tech fears. From the Cold War threat of nuclear annihilation to the modern fear that Siri could murder us, you've got to hand it to the "Terminator" franchise: it has closely followed both the evolution and the downside of technology for the past 31 years.

Still, modern AI was tackled in a much bolder way in this year’s “Ex Machina.” 

However, like some of its predecessors “Genisys” is a tour-de-force of visual effects. The fights are all solid, and one scene in which a bus dangles off the Golden Gate Bridge is especially eye-popping through a pair of 3D glasses.

This makes for good summer fun, but again, it all goes back to the story, and it feels like if this franchise truly wants to reboot itself, then it needs to stay away from time travel because it has more than run that idea into the ground.

"Terminator Genisys" is about the fight to save humanity, so the stakes should feel higher than ever. However, it is hard to have any emotional stakes if you can change everything by simply adjusting the timelines. T-800 has already come back from the dead enough.

With one character too many confronting their younger selves, the time travel science reaches a level of unintentional self-parody. It is less elegant than “X-Men: Days of Future Past” and more like “Austin Powers.” Even with great action, “Genisys” gets bogged down by science that it really doesn’t understand. The thing that once made the "Terminator" movies so great might now be a bigger threat than Skynet.

In the end, this reboot could probably use a reboot.

"Terminator: Genisys" is in theaters July 1.

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"Humans," AMC's upcoming new drama series, asks what would happen as we become more and more reliant on our devices.

The thriller takes place in a similar time to ours, except that robot technology is more advanced and its use is widespread.

"They share our homes, our jobs, and our lives and so become objects of our fear, love, and lust, and hatred,""Humans" executive producer Derek Wax told Business Insider.

"We just take them for granted," he continued. "I mean I just love the idea that they’re as normal to us as an iPhone or a tablet is today what would have seemed very odd 50 years ago. We’re all looking at our phones every five minutes now seems completely normal. The idea that in 50 years’ time this could be completely normal."

The drama focuses on three groups: Two human families and a connected group of human-like robots or "synths" as the series calls them. One family struggles with owning their new synth. In another, a man (played by "Captain America: Civil War's" William Hurt) creates a fatherly relationship with his and can't allow it to be replaced by a newer, more effective model.

"I think what we want to do is keep the audience torn and divided in their response to robots," Wax said. "They’re performing an incredible function. They are performing many of the things that humans don’t want to do and therefore they’re providing an incredible service. But at the same time, they’re also making certain people obsolescent."

The third group is a tightly connected band of synths led by a man named Joe ("Merlin" star Colin Morgan) whose backstory unravels over the course of the season.

"What we’re really doing is asking a big question, what makes us human?" Wax explained. "Can conscious machines ever be thought of as human or at least worthy of human level status and rights? At what point if a machine is capable of thinking and feeling, is capable of love and being loved? The Synths in the forest, there’s a real bond between them. They’re like a family." 

The series will certainly get viewers to think about our relationships to the things that make our lives easier, like a vacuuming Roomba, or like the "Battlebots" competition, which has robots ripping into each other for our entertainment.

"Already we are a gadget and machine dependent society," Wax pointed out. "iPhones, tablets, we call up the bank and we get an automated teller, we speak to a robot essentially. There’s drones that are flying planes and it’s robots that are operating on people in hospitals. Already people are talking about driverless trains, driverless cars, planes within a few years, people are saying there will not be any human pilot in a plane."

"Humans," a co-production with Channel 4, has already premiered in the UK earlier this month and it scored Channel 4's highest-rated show launch in at least 13 years.

It will debut here in the U.S. on Sunday, June 28 at 9 p.m. on AMC. 

Watch a featurette on the series below:

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Note: Spoilers ahead if you haven't watched through Episode 5 of Fox's "Wayward Pines."

Across his body of film work, director M. Night Shyamalan has built a reputation for unexpected plot twists.

Arguably, it was best executed in 1999's "The Sixth Sense," with varying degrees of success in subsequent films like "The Village" and "The Happening."

While some may see the director's plot twists as gimmicky, Shyamalan said that he doesn't see them as "thin and meaningless."

"It is all a continuation of character’s awareness for me," the director explained on a recent press call. "If I put myself in the shoes of a main character and that person is learning more about their world, more about their situation, that feels very organic to me. Things aren’t right, I’m feeling clouded, obscured. I’m feeling like suffocated, why, why, why, and getting those answers feels very organic.  It’s an increasing of our main character’s knowledge." 

In his first television venture, Fox's "Wayward Pines," Shyamalan used the same technique to spin the series 180-degrees on its fifth episode.

Shyamalan explained, "My job as the storyteller is to make you in sync with the main character so that your misunderstanding is the same as theirs and every piece of information that they have you have, and you’ve misunderstood it the exact same way. Then when it comes, it should’ve been inevitable in retrospect."

He promises that Thursday's sixth episode will continue to provide answers after revealing that the citizens of "Wayward Pines" are the last living humans of their kind. Outside the town's borders, hundreds of years had passed while they were kept in a cryogenic sleep by a visionary scientist. Meanwhile, humans de-evolved into powerful and fast animals referred to as "abbies," short for "aberrations."

"For me, Episode 5 and 6 are the answers episodes," Shyamalan told reporters. "Then for me, post-that, is the 'Oh my God, how are we going to deal with what we know now?'" 

So, what can fans of "Wayward Pines" expect now that the big plot twist is out?

Shyamalan says there are moral questions that need to be answered.

"There’s a thing that we take for granted, because there’s so many of us right now that freedom and lack of rules or flexibility of social environment is a given—that’s a right," Shyamalan said. "But, if there was only X number of us, does one of us get to jeopardize the group? Well, no that couldn’t be allowed, right?  Those kinds of freedoms couldn’t be allowed because there’s so few of us, so we’re going to have to make really stringent rules."

Later, Shyamalan added, "You can assume it’s not going to be warm and fuzzy."

Watch a preview of Episode 6 below:

"Wayward Pines" airs Thursdays at 9 p.m. on Fox.

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In an interview featured in Judd Apatow's new book, "Sick in the Head," comedian Louis C.K. revealed that he had an intense disagreement with "Saturday Night Live" showrunner Lorne Michaels when hosting the show for the second time in 2014. 

Relaying the story to Apatow, C.K. explained that he was very displeased when Michaels wanted to cut down his 12 minute rehearsal monologue — which C.K. had "obsessed" over and crafted at open mic nights — to eight minutes. 

While C.K. was adamant that all 12 minutes stay in, Michaels disagreed, saying "It was good, but there was a lot of air in it, a lot of stopping and starting. I know there are cuts in there."

"My face turned red," C.K. said. "I was angry. I was like, "Well, I don't know. I thought [the set] was pretty good. And f--- you.'"

Michaels responded by showing him the rehearsal tape, and that's when C.K. realized that the routine wasn't as tight as he thought it was.

"My point was to prove how great it was," C.K. said. "And I watched it and I was like, God damn, it's not that good. Tons of air. And a lot of stopping and starting. I had a whole fart thing. A whole thing about farting on a baby that f---ing killed, and [Michaels] was like, 'You're winning without it. I wouldn't do it.' So I realized the farting on babies was stupid and it's going to ruin the monologue." 

The monologue that finally made it on to the live show was eight minutes of Louis C.K. at his best — featuring dark and hilarious material on third world hunger, feminism, and religion. 

Despite their heated disagreement, C.K. expressed his respect for Michaels — "He's so smart, but he scared me. And I needed to go in scared"— and ultimately, C.K. returned to host for a third time this year with an even more controversial monologue, which dipped into off-color comments on child molestation and racism.

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Hollywood's recycling bin is filling up -- especially for movies being adapted to TV.

In the upcoming season alone, there's numerous TV shows based on movies, including ABC's "Uncle Buck," CBS's "Limitless" and "Rush Hour," Netflix's "Wet Hot American Summer," MTV's "Scream," and Fox's "Minority Report."

In the crowded TV landscape, networks are looking for anything that can break through. Projects which existed in another medium (book, movie, stage play), and better still if they were hits, mean viewers already have knowledge of the show and possibly a connection.

Here are 19 movies currently being developed for TV.

"The Mortal Instruments"

Titled "Shadowhunters," the series is based on Cassandra Clare's "Mortal Instruments" book series. Set at ABC Family, the series has cast "Vampire Academy" actor Dominic Sherwood in the lead role of Jace.

"The Omen"

A&E's follow-up to 1976's "The Omen" finds Damien Thorne all grown up. With very little knowledge of the ungodly forces around him, he'll have to face the truth that he is the antichrist.

"American Gigolo"

Jerry Bruckheimer ("CSI" franchise) is developing the TV adaptation with Paramount TV. In the 1980 film, Richard Gere plays a male escort who's accused of murder.

I like HBO programming for many reasons. The production value is unparalleled, the acting is Emmy-worthy, and the stories are fascinating. But for all the variation in HBO's programming, there is one subtle consistency that only longtime viewers of the network are starting to pick up on: the actors and actresses. 

When I settled in to watch HBO's new Sunday-night lineup last weekend, I couldn't help notice that the guy who plays Teague Dixon in "True Detective" season two is the same person who played Dan Dority in "Deadwood." Or that the actor who plays Zeke Tilson in "The Brink" is also Nick Sabotka from "The Wire."

In fact, HBO has a stable of actors it uses to fill tertiary roles in many of its programs.

Zack Grossbart recently put together an epic infographic showing exactly which actors have appeared in which HBO shows. It's called the HBO recycling program, and it illustrates the relationship between actors and actresses and the HBO shows on which they have appeared.

Let's take a closer look at the "HBO Recycling Program" below:

Aiden Gillen

You may know him as the baby-faced, sharp-tongued Littlefinger from "Game of Thrones."

But Littlefinger was honing his skills as a politician well before he ever set foot in Westeros as the morally conflicted mayor of Baltimore in "The Wire."

Edie Falco

You might know her as Carmela Soprano, the complicit wife of New Jersey-mafia kingpin Tony Soprano.

But before Carmela surrounded herself with criminals, she was protecting society from them as Officer Diane Whittlesey in "Oz."

Michael K. Williams

You might know him as Omar, the endearing gangster who robs drug dealers for a living in "The Wire."

But he also played an endearing gangster in another HBO crime drama, "Boardwalk Empire," although in finer threads.

Paul Ben-Victor

HBO must love Paul Ben-Victor, because the actor has been featured in four different programs. He has played Alan Gray, the head of Warner Brothers studio, who gave Vinnie Chase his big break with "Aquaman" on "Entourage."

But he also plays Vondas in "The Wire."

Palaka from "John from Cincinnati."

And he even showed up for an episode of "Curb Your Enthusiasm." 

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Warning: MAJOR spoilers.

Following last week’s season premiere of “True Detective,” in which many thought it was slow and boring, episode two contains an important moment for the season.

A lot happens in Sunday's episode, from Vince Vaughn’s incredible bedroom monologue at the open to the classic police procedural traits taking form.

But the moment that should have confirmed your allegiance to the latest season (or made you kick in your TV) is the final scene when following a tip provided by Frank Semyon (Vaughn), Ray Velcoro (Colin Farrell) enters Ben Casper’s mysterious second residence and is shot-gunned in the chest and left for dead.

Needless to say, people were shocked on Twitter.

But let’s pause for a second for those who need a refresher.

This season is set in the fictitious city of Vinci in Los Angeles County. From episode one we know that city manager Ben Casper has been brutally murdered and now police officers Velcoro, Ani Bezzerides (Rachel McAdams), and Paul Woodrugh (Taylor Kitsch) — all from different departments; all with ulterior motives — are investigating what happened to Casper.

But Casper also means a lot to one shady businessman, Semyon. The two have been working closely on developing a lucrative high-speed rail line through the middle of California that will thrust Semyon out of the underworld and make him fully legitimate.

Episode two follows all parties as they try to figure out who is behind Casper’s murder.

However, the lead-up to the episode’s shocking ending gives us a whole lot to chew on.

For starters, how Semyon got the intel about Casper’s second place.

Semyon is on the warpath to make sure the creation of his rail line doesn’t get sabotaged due to Casper’s untimely death. That includes finding out who killed Casper (and where’s all that money Semyon gave him).

But when it comes to investigating where Casper spent his final moments, Semyon passes Velcoro the address., telling him, “my people ain’t that proficient in evidence handling.”

Velcoro enters Casper’s Hollywood residence to find a pool of blood on the floor, the walls sound-proofed and bizarre masks hanging on them.

He also discovers a camcorder in a small room that has a two-way mirror that looks into the living room.

Then suddenly a person wearing all black and a crow mask walks in and shoots Velcoro.

If you were watching episode one carefully you’ll remember this is the second time the crow mask has made an appearance. It was sitting next to whoever was driving around Casper in last week’s episode.

Now Velcoro is lying on the ground with two shotgun blasts to the chest from some costumed madman.

So is Semyon or one of his goons in that crow mask? Maybe it’s the father Velcoro beat up in the first episode?

Regardless, folks on Twitter are trying to figure out if they have a “Game of Thrones” Ned Stark death on their hands.

What should be certain is your thoughts about the show.

If a moment like this doesn’t make you want to keep watching, then this season isn’t for you.

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This fall, controversial up-and-coming South African comedian Trevor Noah will replace Jon Stewart as host of the hit Comedy Central satirical news show "The Daily Show."

But finding a replacement for the beloved Stewart was not easy.

In a New York Times Magazine profile of the network that was published over the weekend, it was revealed that many A-listers turned down the job, including Amy Poehler ("the quickest no in history") and Chris Rock, who reportedly wanted to do it for only one year.

The Daily Beast also reports that comedian Amy Schumer was offered the gig but didn't want it.

"Yes," Schumer told The Daily Beast when asked whether she was offered the job of host of "The Daily Show."

"I was so honored to be asked and considered," said the comedian, who already has the show "Inside Amy Schumer" on the network. "With Comedy Central, I project so much 'You're my parents!' on the network and the people that run it, so them saying, 'We believe in you and trust that you can do this,' I thought, 'Oh my god, thank you!'"

But when the comedian — who wrote and who stars in the coming Judd Apatow-directed movie "Trainwreck"— thought about the future of her career, the "Daily Show" job sounded too safe.

"And then I thought, 'Well, I could give everyone I love a job and we could all be together for five years, but picturing being in a building and knowing what I was going to do for five years — I love not knowing," Schumer said. "And I've never done anything safe or to make money for that reason. So, you know, I said, 'I can't start now.'"

Back in March, Grantland's Bill Simmons seemed to have a bit of insight:

Schumer's film debut, "Trainwreck," hits theaters July 17 and so far has an impressive 100% score on the review aggregator RottenTomatoes.

Stewart will host his final "Daily Show" on August 6.

In November, Stewart speculated to NPR's Terry Gross about what it would be like to leave "The Daily Show," and he implied that the idea held some appeal for him: "I do feel like I don't know that there will ever be anything that I will ever be as well suited for as this show. That being said, I think there are moments when you realize that that's not enough anymore, or that maybe it's time for some discomfort."

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Comedy Central's "South Park" is guaranteed to run for two more seasons thanks to a deal that secured the show through 2016. But that hasn't stopped the show's creators, Matt Stone and Trey Parker, from envisioning how their long-standing animated series will eventually conclude.

In an interview with IGN promoting their new video game, "South Park: The Fractured But Whole," Stone and Parker revealed how they see the series finale going down. 

"I think it's going to end with a fizzle, for sure," Parker said, laughing. "I think it's just going to end with some dud, and we're gonna go, 'F--- this, man,' and walk away."

"Some sort of whimper," Stone added. "Either drop the mic, get sued, get thrown off television — something like that."

Stone and Parker also discussed how they've felt that the show, which concluded its 18th season last December, has always been on the precipice of a collapse that they somehow seem to consistently avoid.

"Yeah, we've thought that for 18 years," Parker said. "We're like, 'Okay, well, they're going to cancel us, for sure!' We've been waiting to get canceled for 18 f---ing years."

"We won't stop until we get canceled," Stone added. "We're renewing. They have to f---ing cancel us, goddammit!"

For now, before season 19 starts up in September, the guys are busy promoting their hilariously titled "South Park: The Fractured But Whole," a sequel to their 2014 video game "South Park: The Stick of Truth." 

Watch the E3 announcement for the game below:

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MTV's "Scream" is just one of the dozens of movie adaptations making its way to the small screen.

For new, younger audiences, MTV's series may be the first experience with the franchise. Others may have grown up with the self-referential horror franchise. So, where does MTV's "Scream" sit on that spectrum?

"First off, it completely honors the franchise and fans of the franchise will love this and I think it also will bring a whole new group of fans to it,"former MTV programming president, founder of production studio DiGa, and an executive producer on the "Scream" series, Tony DiSanto, tells Business Insider.

"You don’t have to have seen the films to jump right into this. It’s almost like the Christopher Nolan sort of reboot of 'Scream.'"

Making the "Scream" TV series has brought together several personal and career points for DiSanto: From working with one of the original producers of 1996's "Scream," Bob Weinstein, and returning to MTV with the project (where he also produces "Teen Wolf.")

On MTV's "Scream," a viral video begins to cause havoc for the teenagers of Lakewood. Those escalate into a murder and secrets begin to become uncovered.

Here are three things DiSanto told us to expect from the new "Scream" series:

1.) This is a complete reboot. 
DiSanto continued, "It’s starting over, but you’ll recognize the DNA of the original storylines but it’s not continuation. It’s not characters that reference anything that’s happened in the original franchise. It’s a completely fresh start."

2.) A reboot doesn't mean we won't see some old friends.
When we asked DiSanto if we'd get any cameos from the movies' stars, he didn't say no.

"I don’t want to give too much away but I think it’s safe to say that you’ll see some surprises along the way," he teased.

3.) The body count on Season 1 may not be as high as the movies.
"Our goal of this was to have a cast of characters, a scenario, a world that we’re living with them and not rebooting every season like Season 2 isn’t 'Scream 2,' DiSanto explained. "You’ve got to be living with these people for a longer period of time. People can’t just be cannon fodder. They need to be characters and people that you care about. So all of that was part of the development process of this and the creative challenge of taking the franchise and adapting it to TV."

"Scream" premieres Tuesday at 10 p.m. on MTV.

Watch a trailer below:

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