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Geek Tyrant
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Geek Tyrant
THE REAL GHOSTBUSTERS Is Now Streaming Online For Free and It Still Rules! — GeekTyrant
The classic cartoon series, The Real Ghostbusters , which spun off from the original 1984 Ghostbusters film is now streaming on The Roku Channel for free. No subscription required, just fire it up and dive into the glorious weirdness of that show! While the franchise has mostly lived on through movies, merch, and nostalgia-fueled reboots, The Real Ghostbusters holds a special place in the hearts of fans who grew up in the late '80s and early '90s. Airing from 1986 to 1991, the show delivered seven seasons and 140 episodes of wild ghost-hunting mayhem that pushed the franchise into crazy, stranger territory than the films ever dared. And now, 117 of those episodes are available to stream. If you've never used The Roku Channel, it works a lot like Pluto TV or Tubi, it's free and ad-supported, available on Roku devices, web browsers, and most streaming platforms. It's a simple, low-barrier way to revisit old favorites or discover cult classics. This resurgence in interest isn't just about nostalgia, either. Ghostbusters is back in the cultural spotlight with recent films like Ghostbusters: Afterlife and Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire bringing in a new generation of fans, and there's more coming. An animated Ghostbusters series is currently in the works at Netflix, executive produced by Jason Reitman and Gil Kenan. Kenan offered an encouraging update not too long ago, teasing some behind-the-scenes progress on the new series: 'I just watched an entire art presentation for the show. I've seen the sets and the environments, and I just saw my first glimpse at a world of supernatural characters as realized by our brilliant creative team. 'All I can say is the work is being done as we speak. It's in what we call full development. Scripts are being written, art is being created, and it's a great time to be a Ghostbuster.' So whether you're revisiting childhood memories or discovering these ghost-chasing adventures for the first time, now's the perfect time to dive into The Real Ghostbusters . It's weird, it's wild, it's wonderful, and it's finally easy to watch again. Just don't cross the streams.
Yahoo
05-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Is ‘Saturday Night Live' New Tonight? ‘SNL' 2025 Return Date Info
There's a lot of fun Saturday Night Live content to stream before the show's historic 50th anniversary show airs live on Sunday, February 16. Jason Reitman's biographical dramedy Saturday Night is now streaming on Netflix. I heard mixed things about the film, but I found it to be a fun, tongue-in-cheek homage to the legendary sketch series. If you're looking for a new documentary to stream, SNL50: Beyond Saturday Night and Ladies & Gentlemen… 50 Years of SNL Music are now on peacock. Finally, a special Saturday Night Live musical event hosted by Jimmy Fallon, SNL50: The Homecoming Concert, takes place at Radio City Music Hall on February 14. Thankfully, you don't have to be in New York to enjoy the one-night-only event because it'll be streaming live on Peacock. But let's get back to tonight's SNL, shall we? Is Saturday Night Live new tonight? Here's everything you need to know. Nope. NBC is reairing the Season 50 episode hosted by Bill Burr (with musical guest at 11:30 p.m. ET. SNL is off until the show's hotly anticipated 50th anniversary special. SNL50: The Anniversary Special airs live Sunday, February 16 at 8:00 p.m. ET on NBC and Peacock. As I mentioned above, the recently announced Radio City Music Hall show, SNL50: The Homecoming Concert, will stream live on Peacock on February 14 at 8:00 p.m. ET. You can stream SNL live on NBC or (with a valid cable login). You can also watch the long-running sketch show with an active subscription to Sling TV, fuboTV, Hulu + Live TV, DirecTV Stream, or YouTube TV. All of the services above offer an NBC live stream. FuboTV, Hulu + Live TV, and YouTube TV provide free trials for new subscribers. Yes! New episodes of SNL are available to stream live on Peacock. They're also available for next-day streaming on the platform.
The Guardian
30-01-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
Saturday Night review – unbearably self-indulgent sketch of an iconic comedy show
Even the superest superfan of the legendary US TV comedy show Saturday Night Live is going to struggle with the unbearable self-indulgence and self-adoration of this exhausting film from director and co-writer Jason Reitman. It's a frantically dull dramedy about the supposedly adorable chaos that attended the show's first ever live broadcast in 1975, with all the iconic players including Chevy Chase (Cory Michael Smith), Dan Aykroyd (Dylan O'Brien), John Belushi (Matt Wood), Gilda Radner (Ella Hunt), and Garrett Morris (Lamorne Morris). For some obscure and not obviously funny reason Nicholas Braun plays both Jim Henson (of Muppets fame) and Andy Kaufman, and Gabriel LaBelle plays the show's presiding producer-genius Lorne Michaels, who announces that his experimental comedy wackfest is 'the first television show by and for the generation who grew up watching television'. The film is filled with endless swooping travelling shots as everyone rushes around corridors in wacky costumes, arguing about scripts, panicking about overruns, accidentally smoking weed (yikes!) and, underneath it all, Michaels suspects that the station chiefs have secretly set his show up to fail as part of their contract negotiations with Johnny Carson, to persuade the great man to keep working weekends. JK Simmons has a cameo as obnoxious oldster comic Milton Berle, boasting about and indeed displaying his fabled manhood and Willem Dafoe is NBC exec David Tebet, who is unsure whether these crazy kids are any good. Tina Fey's TV masterpiece 30 Rock (based on her writing work on SNL, with Alec Baldwin as the Lorne-Michaels-esque boss Jack Donaghy) has frankly covered all this kind of thing much more entertainingly and the same could be said of Richard Benjamin's 1982 film My Favorite Year, about SNL forerunner Your Show of Shows. There's an odd, disconcerting tone of solemnity to this slice of cultural history. Saturday Night is in UK and Irish cinemas from 31 January.
Yahoo
27-01-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
This Box Office Bomb Is A Top Movie On Netflix Right Now
'Saturday Night' is currently one of the most popular movies on Netflix, according to the platform's public ranking system. The biographical comedy-drama revolves around the first episode of NBC's 'Saturday Night' ― later renamed 'Saturday Night Live' ― and what happened on the day of the show's 1975 premiere. Directed by Jason Reitman, the movie features an ensemble cast including J. K. Simmons, Gabriel LaBelle, Rachel Sennott, Dylan O'Brien, Finn Wolfhard, Nicholas Braun, Cory Michael Smith, Ella Hunt, Kaia Gerber, Willem Dafoe and Matthew Rhys. Although the film received mostly favorable reviews from critics, 'Saturday Night' had a disappointing box office performance, grossing less than $10 million against its $25–30 million budget. Read on for more trending movies of the moment across streaming services including Amazon Prime Video, Hulu, Max and Paramount+. And if you want to stay informed about all things streaming, subscribe to the Streamline newsletter. The 2018 sci-fi movie 'Rampage' became available to stream on Amazon Prime Video on Jan. 26. Starring Dwayne Johnson, the film follows a primatologist who has a special bond with a silverback gorilla. After a rogue experiment goes wrong, he must save the world from disaster with help from his primate friend and others. 'Rampage' also stars Naomie Harris, Malin Akerman, Jake Lacy, Joe Manganiello and Jeffrey Dean Morgan. 'Arcadian' is the most popular movie on Hulu at the moment. The post-apocalyptic horror film premiered at South by Southwest in March 2024 and had a limited theatrical release in April. Nicolas Cage, Jaeden Martell and Maxwell Jenkins star as a father and two teenage sons trying to survive in world where much of humanity has been wiped out by a pandemic and monstrous creatures that come out at night. The 2024 historical epic 'Gladiator II' is now streaming on Paramount+. A sequel to 2000′s 'Gladiator,' the movie stars Paul Mescal as the son of the first film's protagonist as he embarks on a journey of revenge against the Romans. The cast also includes Pedro Pascal, Denzel Washington, Joseph Quinn, Fred Hechinger and Connie Nielsen. 'Your Monster' is trending on Max following its release on the platform on Jan. 24. Based on a 2019 short film, the rom-com horror movie tells the story of an aspiring Broadway actor going through a rough patch. She rediscovers her confidence, however, after meeting a scary but surprisingly charming monster who lives in her closet. The Biggest Snubs And Surprises Of The 2025 Oscars Nominations People Are Really Upset About This Casting In An Upcoming Film Adaptation The Blake Lively, Justin Baldoni Case Is A Hollywood PR Disaster
