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The Fates have spoken: Kaos has been cancelled after just one season at Netflix, TVLine has confirmed.

On Thursday, series creator Charlie Covell (who also wrote the U.K. series The End of the F***ing World) said he was “gutted” by the news that Kaos would not return for Season 2, urging fans to keep the show in the TV conversation despite its cancellation.

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“Beetlejuice Beetlejuice” is bringing some beloved characters back to fans, but the sequel is also introducing a few fresh faces — relatively speaking, considering they might be dead.

Once again directed by Tim Burton, the sequel takes place 30 years after the original, bringing the Deetz family back together for Charles’ death. At this point, Lydia (Winona Ryder) is fully grown with a daughter of her own, who discovers the mysterious remnants of Beetlejuice left in the attic.

We won’t spoil anything here, but we will give you a rundown of who’s who in the “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice” cast and the characters they’re playing, old and new.

Beetlejuice (Michael Keaton) Warner Bros.

The juice is loose yet again, and he’s played by Michael Keaton once more. Keaton is, of course, perhaps best known as Beetlejuice and Batman, but you’ll also from “Spider-Man: Homecoming,” “Spotlight” and “Birdman.”

Lydia Deetz...

The Netflix algorithm is a presumably all-knowing yet unknowable piece of math that can make kings and tumble empires. It has allowed shows like "Arrested Development" and "Lucifer" to get a second chance at life after their original networks canceled them. The algorithm has made Netflix shows into huge worldwide phenomena, like "Squid Game" and "Stranger Things," but it has also made big productions disappear into the ether as no one knows when they get released, let alone watch them — like "The Irishman."

No one knows whether a show will be a hit or not, as even if one tops the charts upon its release, there is no guarantee that it will remain there and prove itself worthy of more episodes. The latest show to embark on the herculean task of climbing the Netflix charts, the odyssey of trying to reach enough subscribers to guarantee a second season, is a...

The star of stage and screen on playing Persephone in Netflix’s bold take on Greek mythology, going viral and being uncool about awards

Actor, producer and campaigner Rakie Ayola, 56, was born in Cardiff to a Sierra Leonean mother and a Nigerian father. She trained at the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama. She won a Bafta for the BBC drama Anthony and a Bafta Cymru for The Pact, but is perhaps best known as nurse Kyla Tyson in Holby City and for playing Hermione Granger in the West End production of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. She now stars in Netflix series Kaos, a modern-day retelling of Greek mythology.

What attracted you to the role of Persephone, queen of the underworld?

My character’s first scene at Mount Olympus. Hades and Persephone arrive for breakfast, then she proceeds to just help herself to the breakfast bar. I...

Welcome back to Origins, our recurring series that gives artists a space to break down everything that went into their latest release. Today, the Australian singer-songwriter hannah bahng talks through the rich symbolism in her new single, “Pomegranate.”

At just 20 years old, singer-songwriter hannah bahng is crafting her own destiny. After founding a self-owned label, she released her debut project, The Abysmal EP, which has quickly racked up over 20 million streams across streaming platforms thanks to the momentum from its first two singles. Humor is the wind in hannah’s sails; there’s something deeply refreshing about the way she communicates, not just through her music, but through her unguarded social media presence, too.

“All in all, I’ve just like wanted to put this EP out for so long,” she shares. “I’ve been sitting on it for a year and a half just to get to where I...

Blood of Zeus: Do Persephone and Hades End Up Together in Season 2? Mythology Explored - Main Image

The official trailer for Blood of Zeus season 2 teased Persephone joining Hades in the underworld. However, as much as fans are hyped to see their romance bloom on-screen, are they canon in the original mythology? Here's what you need to know.

Persephone is the Goddess of Spring, Vegetation, and Prosperity, while Hades is her complete opposite for being the God of the Dead and Darkness, making him King of the Underworld.

Who wouldn't expect a love story of complete opposites?

Content Spoilers & Warning: This article contains spoilers for Netflix's Blood of Zeus and includes descriptions of rape/sexual assault, so proceed with caution.

Will Persephone and Hades End Up Together in Blood of Zeus Season 2?

According to what the Blood of Zeus season 2 trailer has shown, Persephone (voiced by Lara Pulver...

Is Persephone Evil in Blood of Zeus? S2 Villain Arc Explained - Main Image

Blood of Zeus is finally coming back with a new season later this week. Ahead of its premiere, fans are wondering if Persephone is evil in Blood of Zeus Season 2.

While Persephone did not appear in the first season, she made an impression on fans in the show’s official trailer. That’s because the trailer confirmed that the queen of the underworld will play a big role in the upcoming events.

Spoiler Warning: This article includes spoilers for Blood and Zeus Season 1, so proceed with caution.

Persephone Makes a Splash in the Blood of Zeus Season 2 Trailer

It has been over three years since the first Blood of Zeus season, and fans will finally get to see its continuation with Season 2 this week.

Over the past few months, Netflix has been promoting the show at various events,...

Live from Mount Olympus, the award-winning podcast by the Onassis Foundation, Prx and the Team, for kids and families weaves timeless Greek myths created through the artistry of contemporary theater-makers and told through the imaginative power of audio, launches season four today.

The podcast is available free on-demand on all major podcast platforms. Tony-, Emmy-, and Grammy-Award winner André De Shields returns as Hermes, host of this “GodsPod,” to tell the story of an unlikely friendship between Zeus and the young Titan Prometheus, played by Ato Blankson-Wood. New episodes will drop every Tuesday for five episodes and will then resume with a different myth for part two in October 2024.

The first three seasons of this lively, engaging podcast have been downloaded more than a million times. Now, Live from Mount Olympus Prometheus brings listeners a fast-paced adventure about a god with an unusual gift. Though Prometheus can see the future,...

Stars: Darrell Griggs, Toby Redpath, Sian Altman, Rob Kirtley, Connor Powles, Chrissie Wunna, Dorothea Jones | Written by Harry Boxley | Directed by Victor De Almeida

We’re barely seconds into Jurassic Triangle when three nameless individuals run past something odd, a pile of logs, a tarp and what looks like a gas-powered garden tiller. Why would that be odd? Because they’re trapped on an uncharted island that’s overrun with dinosaurs and other strange creatures, not the kind of place you can run off to Peavy Mart for some gardening supplies, or hang around long enough to plant a garden for that matter.

The hapless trio quickly become dinner for the dinos, and we cut to Drew is waking up from a nightmare and remembering he’s on a helicopter with Issac, Beth and their pilot Captain “Call me Andy” Rawson.

It’s one of two choppers carrying corporate types...

Lola Tung, best known for her role as Belly in Amazon Prime’s The Summer I Turned Pretty, will make her Broadway debut next month in a Hadestown limited engagement.

Tung will take over the role of Eurydice from Solea Pfeiffer on February 9 (Pfeiffer’s final performance is February 4). Tung’s limited engagement will run through March 17. She’ll star alongside Grammy winner Ani Difranco, who takes over the role of Persephone from Betty Who beginning February 9 through June 30.

“I saw Hadestown in February of 2020 and immediately fell in love with the show,” Tung said in a statement. “I’d had dreams of being on Broadway since I performed in my middle school musicals, and after seeing Hadestown I instantly added it to the little list of dream shows in my mind.”

The casting was announced today by producers Mara Isaacs, Dale Franzen, Hunter Arnold, and Tom Kirdahy. The role...

When she was playing Catherine on Hulu’s The Great, Elle Fanning’s co-stars often encouraged her to do theater. Many of them had stage experience, and after watching Fanning’s Emmy-nominated turn on the show, which itself was adapted from a play, they told her she was ready. With that encouragement, and her own motivation to try the medium, Fanning accepted the offer to make her Broadway debut in Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ darkly comedic family drama Appropriate this winter.

It’s her first stage experience, aside from playing Persephone in a mandatory sixth-grade school play, and she’s been learning the ropes from co-stars including Sarah Paulson and her director, Lila Neugebauer. She’s quick to admit that she’s still “extremely nervous” to act onstage, but she’s learned to welcome that feeling.

“I always want to challenge myself. I feel safe when I feel nervous or terrified because...

Singer-songwriter Ani Difranco will make her Broadway debut as ‘Persephone’ in the hit musical Hadestown, performing the role she originated on the 2010 studio-concept album by composer Anaïs Mitchell.

Difranco will begin performances at the Walter Kerr Theatre on February 9, 2024. The announcement was made today by producers Mara Isaacs, Dale Franzen, Hunter Arnold, and Tom Kirdahy.

Difranco’s history with Hadestown began when she invited Mitchell to release the original studio album of Hadestown on Difranco’s label Righteous Babe Records. Difranco originated the role of ‘Persephone’ on the album, leaving what the producers’ announcement today described as “an indelible imprint on the character as the show evolved over the course of several years.”

“I could not be more thrilled to be joining the cast of Hadestown,” Difranco said in a statement. “It’s like I get to rewind to my New York youth and follow the road not taken.”

Said Mitchell,...

As you may have heard, the 2023 San Diego Comic-Con International was not the usual Sdcc experience.

On July 14, the American actors’ union SAG-AFTRA joined their writing counterparts in the WGA by going on strike and picketing the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) for its refusal to grant them a fair deal. Since the details of the strike preclude actors and writers from promoting their union-backed films and TV shows, many of the planned panels, promotions, and guests at Comic-Con had to bow out.

The end result was a Con that very much resembled the event’s earlier days before it became a action item on the calendar for big studios like Marvel, DC, and others to showcase their upcoming blockbusters. And you know what? It was all still pretty cool!

Like we’ve done for almost our entire existence, Den of Geek was on the ground at...

Changes are coming to the Greek underworld — at least as it appears on Broadway. Australian pop musician Betty Who and Tony nominee Phillip Boykin are set to take over the leading roles of Persephone and Hades, respectively, in the hit musical, Hadestown, starting Sept. 5.

The complex, fraught relationship between Persephone and Hades provides one of the two main storylines in Hadestown. In Greek mythology, Persephone is the daughter of Zeus and Demeter, and Hades (technically her uncle) is allowed to abduct her and make her Queen of the Underworld. In Hadestown,...

Nominations for the 21st Americana Honors and Awards were announced during a special event at the National Museum of African American Music in Nashville on Monday. The annual celebration of roots music will return to the Ryman Auditorium on Sept. 14.

Brandi Carlile, Allison Russell, and Yola all picked up three nominations this time around, thanks to their strong 2021 albums and singles. All three performers are nominated the same categories: Album of the Year, Artist of the Year (which Carlile actually won in 2021), and Song of the Year. Other Artist of...

Exclusive: Ming-Na Wen (The Book of Boba Fett) and Esai Morales (Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning – Part One) have signed on to star alongside Brianna Hildebrand (Deadpool) in the long-gestating sci-fi thriller Persephone, from director Jeffrey Morris (Oceanus: Act One).

Morris’ first feature follows refugees from a dying earth, who are traveling aboard an enormous space vessel called Odyssey. Their destination is Proxima b—a planet orbiting the nearest star. When a crew is dispatched to repair a shield designed to protect their colony from deadly solar flares, a computer malfunction causes them to crash-land on the alien planet. The crew then discover that they may not be the only life on this hostile world. A mystery unfolds that may not only derail their mission, but also prevent the colonists from ever setting foot on the planet.

Morris penned the script, also co-authoring a companion novel with New York Times bestselling...

We have a mythic new delight for fans of Scarlett St. Clair, the bestselling author of the Hades & Persephone Saga, the Hades Saga, "King of Battle and Blood", and "When Stars Come Out."

Anyone who's read St. Clair's fan-favorite "A Touch of Darkness" knows that she's obsessed with Greek Mythology, mysteries and intrigue of all sorts, and the afterlife. So, is it any surprise that in her newest book, "A Game of Retribution" ($26), published by Bloom Books, she approaches the mysteries of a new love affair from Hades, the God of the Dead's, dark and brooding perspective? The entire book is told from Hades's point of view, and he's at odds with Hera, the Goddess of Women, who had approached him with a plan to overthrow Zeus. Hades doesn't take sides and never bends the rules . . . not for his lover, Persephone, and not for the Queen of Olympus either. Hera,...

If you're a part of #BookTok, you most likely know the name Scarlett St. Clair. Or at least, you know her bestselling self-published book that everyone on TikTok loves, A Touch of Darkness, which tells a love story between Hades and Persephone. Her latest novel, King of Battle and Blood ($15), doesn't come out until Nov. 30, but luckily, we've got something to keep you busy while you wait - an exclusive alternate point of view of a very important scene.

To give you some background on the novel, this upcoming book follows Isolde de Lara, a princess who must, in order to save her kingdom, marry the vampire king, Adrian Aleksandr Vasiliev, and kill him. Unfortunately, her assassination attempt fails, and Adrian threatens to raise Isolde as the undead if she tries again. Faced with becoming the thing she hates most, she seeks to survive the horrible vampire court while secretly defying Adrian,...

The 1980s was a rough decade for Halston. Though it was a time full of excess, both personally and professionally, the designer was forced to reckon with the consequences of his choices, all of which came crashing down at once. (Surely, the loads of cocaine didn’t help much.)

But it was also during this time that a friend granted him a new opportunity, sparking fresh inspiration and helping him reclaim a part of himself he lost throughout all the contracts, kinks and clubbing. So, how’d it all end for Halston? Read on for highlights from the limited series’ finale.

Watch the Short Film The Lonely Host: "‘The Lonely Host’, starring Lulu Antariksa (‘Legacies’), Emily C. Chang (‘Babysplitters’) and Katie Featherston (‘Paranormal Activity’) made its international online debut this week on Gunpowder & Sky's hit Horror YouTube Channel Alter. The short was written and directed by Lisa J Dooley and produced by Supersight Media, Inc.

Nightmarish Conjurings praised 'The Lonely Host', saying "From compelling characters to a clever plot, 'The Lonely Host' is the total package" (Adrienne Clark), and Morbidly Beautiful raved "Lisa J Dooley's horror short 'The Lonely Host' is a sharp and gripping ride that'll have you hooked until the very last frame." (Claire L. Smith). 'The Lonely Host' also won 'Best Horror Comedy Short Film' at the 2020 Seattle Film Festival, and 'Best Actress in a Horror Comedy Short Film' (Emily C. Chang) at the 2020 Fright Night Horror International Film Festival.

Dooley, who recently graduated from USC’s Mfa Film/TV program,...

Persephone is an action adventure feature, for fans of sci-fi. Still in early development, the film is set in the year 2185. Earth's environment is degrading and a space vessel is in search of a new home - in Alpha Centauri. Director and writer Jeffrey Morris has developed the concept through artwork, an early trailer and a concept art reel. As well, the cast includes: Brianna Hildebrand (Deadpool), Malcolm McDowell (Halloween) and Mary-Louise Parker ("Weeds"). Some of the film's early artwork is hosted here. The logline mentions three astronauts and an alien planet. And, the synopsis talks of a damaged radiation shield, near a potential settlement. This trio will have to repair the shield. Meanwhile, an alien lifeform already inhabits this far off planet. The Visuals & Concept Art Reel is a good one. The short clip shows some of the settings, space craft and computer generated imagery. Persephone is a film with a lot of imagination.

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The crew of Serenity is back with this official tie-in novels. Enter to win a copy of the first book in the new series...

Most nerds can agree that space western Firefly was taken from us too soon. Now, the story is continuing with the first original, officially-licensed novel set in this rich storytelling universe, and we're giving away a copy!

The book is called Firefly: Big Damn Hero, and it follows all of the main characters we know, love, and miss—even Badger—from the world of Firefly and Serenity.

Here's the official synopsis:

A perilous cargo

It should have been a routine job, transporting five crates from the planet of Persephone to a waiting buyer. And Lord knows, Captain Mal Reynolds needs the money if he’s to keep Serenity flying. But the client is Badger, and nothing that involves him is ever straightforward. The crates are full of explosives,...

I hope they've got good cell reception in space, because Deadpool franchise star Brianna Hildebrand has just signed on to join the cast of Persephone, a sci-fi space adventure written and directed by Jeffrey Morris. Set in the outer reaches of our known galaxy, the upcoming film revolves around three astronauts from Colony One, a space vessel carrying 20,000 colonists from a…...

Deadpool‘s Brianna Hildebrand has joined Mary-Louise Parker, Emile Hirsch and Malcolm McDowell in Persephone, a sci-fi space adventure written and directed by Jeffrey Morris in his feature debut. Lance Reddick has also boarded the pic, produced by Pixomondo Studios, FutureDude and Evolutionary Films.

Producers are Anne Marie Gillen, John Adams and Diane Shorthouse. Evolutionary Films is selling rights at the American Film Market.

The plot centers on three astronauts from Colony One, a space vessel carrying 20,000 colonists from a dying Earth to the nearest star system of Alpha Centauri in the late 22nd century. The trio have been dispatched to repair a system designed to shield their new world of Proxima B — also known as Persephone — from constant and deadly solar flares, the outpost the only option for the survival of the species. While commanding a critical mission to the planet Proxima B, shuttle pilot Darcy (Hildebrand) goes head-to-head...

Deadpool 2 star Brianna Hildebrand has lined up another film in the genre space. Hildebrand is joining the cast of Persephone, which also stars Mary-Louise Parker, Malcolm McDowell, Emile Hirsch and Lance Reddick.

Jeffrey Morris wrote and is directing the project, which takes place in the late 22nd century and centers on three astronauts from Colony One, a giant ship transporting 20,000 colonists from a dying Earth to a planet orbiting Alpha Centauri, Proxima B (known as Persephone). It's is a seemingly lifeless mass double the size of Earth with double the gravity. Hildebrand plays Darcy Webb, a shuttle pilot for ...

Deadpool 2 star Brianna Hildebrand has lined up another film in the genre space. Hildebrand is joining the cast of Persephone, which also stars Mary-Louise Parker, Malcolm McDowell, Emile Hirsch and Lance Reddick.

Jeffrey Morris wrote and is directing the project, which takes place in the late 22nd century and centers on three astronauts from Colony One, a giant ship transporting 20,000 colonists from a dying Earth to a planet orbiting Alpha Centauri. The planet is Proxima b (known as Persephone) and emits deadly solar flares. It's is a seemingly lifeless mass double the size of Earth with double the gravity....