Browsing: ShortLived

Before he was running the streets of Baltimore or solving heinous crimes in London, Idris Elba was going up against creatures of the night in a short TV series titled “Ultraviolet.” In case you missed it during its original run, you can now stream the series on Plex. Whether you enjoy seemingly lost media, or you’re a…

In 1990, author H.G. Bissinger published a popular nonfiction book that detailed the story of the Periman High School football team, the Tigers, through their 1988 season. It was called “Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream,” and it was terrifically popular, becoming a #1 New York Times Bestseller, a fact the publishers…

The 2021 NBC sci-fi series “Debris” was a classic post-“Lost” mystery-box-style show, but it had a more intriguing premise than most. Six months prior to the start of the series, a massive alien spacecraft exploded in Earth’s orbit, and huge chunks of debris rained down on the planet. This alien spacecraft was made of materials…

Most readers may know Nugh Howley from his novels “Wool,” “Shift,” and “Dust,” which have collectively been adapted into the hit sci-fi Apple TV series “Silo,” currently in its third season. “Silo,” as its many fans know, is set in a very distant future after an unknown cataclysm has rendered the surface of Earth uninhabitable. Thousands of survivors live…

If you grew up in the mid-2000s and regularly tuned into the Discovery Kids channel, chances are you stumbled across a niche animated series that took ancient Greek mythology, superheroes, and teen angst, and threw them all into a blender. That show was the cleverly titled “Class of the Titans” — clearly a cute riff…

One of the really great things about horror as a genre is that we don’t just get singular movies but instead frequently get entire franchises. What starts with one good movie often turns into sequels, spinoffs, and more. Just look at things like Saw, Paranormal Activity, Halloween, and so many. more. Sometimes, those movie franchises…