News

Just like the Winslow family on Family Matters, whenever you think you’re clear of Steven Q. Urkel, he’ll burst right through the door and back into our lives. Warner Bros. Animation has released the trailer for an all-new animated holiday adventure that continues the adventures of one of the biggest sensations of the 90s with Urkel Saves Santa: The Movie! While legacy sequels dominate pop culture in an effort to recapture the magic of certain IP, for someone like Steve Urkel, who is immortalized as a nerdy teenager, to bring him back in an animated project helps cover a lot of logistical hurdles. The trailer has been released, courtesy of ComicBook.com.

The synopsis reads,

“The holiday season is here, and brilliant but accident-prone super genius Steve Urkel has only one mission: to make the holidays the best they can be for everyone! However, things are off to a...

The first episode of "Rick and Morty" is probably one of the most successful pilots of an animated sitcom ever made, at least from a creative standpoint. Whereas "The Simpsons" starts off with an episode that feels completely different from the version of the show we'd come to know and love, the first episode of "Rick and Morty" already feels like a regular episode. Whereas Dan Harmon's previous show "Community" took nearly half a season to really find its groove, "Rick and Morty" seemed to know exactly what it was from day one. 

According to co-creator Justin Roiland, the executives at Cartoon Network agreed that the pilot was great. They just had one complaint: they didn't like Roiland's voice work for Morty. Roiland recalls Dan Harmon saying to him after talking to the executives: 

"Okay, I'm just gonna rip the Band-Aid off here. They loved the pilot, they don't like the voices.

WarnerMedia Kids & Family is building out a new family programming block called Acme Night on Cartoon Network, with a Steve Urkel animated musical film among the first projects greenlit.

“Did I Do That to the Holidays? A Steve Urkel Story” was announced alongside titles like “Merry Little Batman” and an untitled ”Looney Tunes Cartoons” movie.

Acme Night, named after the fictional corporation from the Looney Tunes cartoons, will debut Sunday Sept. 19 at 6 p.m. Et/Pt. Each week will start off with a family-friendly film, with the first being the DC superhero movie “Shazam.” Acme Night programming will also be available on HBO Max starting next year.

“In the world of Acme anything, and I do mean anything, is possible,” said Tom Ascheim, president of Warner Bros. Global Kids, Young Adults and Classics. “We know families want to spend time together, so we’ve created a destination for multigenerational stories...

[Editor’s Note: The following review contains spoilers for “Rick and Morty” Season 4, Episode 3, “One Crew Over The Crewcoo’s Morty.”]

Let’s start with one unassailable fact: Rick Sanchez is wrong about “Ocean’s Twelve.”

Much like many other rants that fuel episodes of “Rick and Morty,” it’s rage that somehow morphs into an appreciation of the thing someone hates. The latest example comes in “One Crew Over The Crewcoo’s Morty,” an episode-length version of a space-set Soderberghian battle of wits between Rick and one of his creations.

It all starts when an act of attempted “cynical grave-robbing” leads Rick and Morty to discover that they’ve been outflanked by Miles Nightly, Rick’s archnemethief. Fueled by revenge, Rick constructs an opposing plan that ropes in all the attendees at HeistCon, a fan expo for heist gadgets, plans, and perpetrators that literally has its own Hall H.

It’s always been part of the “Rick and Morty” toolkit,...

2013 was an absolutely amazing year for television, with shows like Breaking Bad and Spartacus going out with some of their best episodes yet and new series like Hannibal and Orphan Black bursting onto the scene. While the jury’s still out on how this year will compare to last, at the halfway point, 2014 is shaping up to be pretty darn great year as well. Continuing favorites have come back stronger than ever and just like last year, a few new series have quickly made strong names for themselves as well; the variety of truly great television, from comedy to drama to the many series that don’t so easily fit either description, has never been so pronounced.

However, with so much TV out there, some of the best episodes (and series in general) of the year have flown under the radar, so a handful of Sound on Sight’s podcasters...