Welcome to The Extras! A daily dose of all the smaller movie related news, clips and just plain cool stuff that you might have missed! Last Updated: September 25, 2014

In the famous words of the very meta Abed Nadir: “Cool. Cool cool cool.” Community, Dan Harmon’s cult favourite sitcom, had built up quite the following in its lifetime, despite NBC’s attempts of sabotage by shuffling it around to the graveyard shifts on their schedule, and removing the perfectionist Harmon as showrunner for the admittedly limp fourth season. So of …

As you may have heard, killing season is officially underway over in American TV land . This seasonal cut has been especially brutal, with not even names like JJ Abrams and Alfonso Cuaron able to get shows off the ground, never mind keep them afloat. It would seem that for shows to truly make it, you need a little magic. …

If you, like me, watched Starz’s Michael Bay produced pirate series, Black Sails, and thought, “Man, if only this show was, you know, good,” then do I have a treat for you today. The words “John Malkovich is Blackbeard” would already have been enough to get me quite interested in Crossbones, a new pirate show from NBC, but to sweeten the pot …

“Six seasons and a movie!” What began as just a slogan and in-joke shouted out by Danny Pudi’s Abed on fan-favourite self-aware comedy Community, may just become prophecy. Much like it’s comedy compatriot on NBC, Parks and Recreation, Community has been very highly praised, but it’s never been a ratings hog meaning that a threat of cancellation was always looming. Never more so than in …

If ever there was one comic book property that was perfect for primetime TV, it had to be Hellblazer: John Constantine. Magic, mysteries and a con artist who managed to trick the devil himself, Constantine has always been one of my favourite experts of the occult. But let’s face it, his big screen debut in 2004 was a tad underwhelming, …

Once upon a time, before Marvel Studios had everybody going superhero crazy, there was a show called Heroes. It had compelling characters, an intriguing storyline, made a star out of Zachary Quinto and even boasted an immortal cheerleader. It was damn good. And then it stopped being good. Unfortunately the show didn’t stop with it, and instead continued on a downward …

Welcome to The Extras! A daily dose of all the smaller movie related news, clips and just plain cool stuff that you might have missed! Last Updated: January 22, 2014