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The cult monster movie classic TREMORS spawned five straight-to-video sequels and, over a decade later, its own SYFY tv series! But how the heck do you turn a movie about folks stranded in the desert with underground sonar monster worms into an episodic TV show? The answer... may surprise you. But what we really want to know is, was TREMORS: THE SERIES canceled too soon?! Film critics William Bibb...

Disney made a sequel to MALEFICENT... for some reason... and it's called MALEFICENT: MISTRESS OF EVIL! And it's really dumb! Bibbs and Witney review this blockbuster dud on an all-new CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED, as well as the all-star horror sequel ZOMBIELAND: DOUBLE TAP and the new Netflix haunted hospital movie ELI! Plus, Bibbs and Witney review two of the most anticipated arthouse movies of...

Before Stephen Moffat updated Sherlock Holmes for the 21st century, in the megahit BBC series SHERLOCK, he went back in time and brought back a monster. JEKYLL stars James Nesbitt (THE HOBBIT) as Dr. Tom Jackman, a mild-mannered scientist who keeps transforming into an amoral, violent and uncontrollable new personality. But there's more to the story than meets the eye, and more than you'd...

You have burning questions and we've got burning answers! In this week's episode of WE'VE GOT MAIL, film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold tackle the misunderstood concept of objectivity in film criticism, come up with new ways for filmmakers to use high frame rates, reflect on their favorite movies that became musicals that became movies again, and consider the very real pos...

Everyone's second-favorite 1960s sitcom about a family of monsters living in suburbia got an all-star reboot with 2012's MOCKINGBIRD LANE! This reimagining of THE MUNSTERS stems from HANNIBAL producer Bryan Fuller, and stars Jerry O'Connell, Portia De Rossi, Charity Wakefield and Eddie Izzard as creepy creatures trying to live inconspicuously in polite society, while also occasionally...

They're creepy and they're kooky, but are they altogether  ooky? Film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold visit the brand new animated version of THE ADDAMS FAMILY in the latest episode of CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED, and also review the new releases PARASITE, MARY, GEMINI MAN and HIGH STRUNG FREE DANCE! Plus, Bibbs and Witney bid a fond farewell to one of the great character actors, Osca...

It's a brand new podcast on the CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED network, and this one is all yours! WE'VE GOT MAIL is the podcast where film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold answer your emails, and in this debut episode they tackle everything from mental health in movies, to bad movie subtitles, to how they'd recast CASABLANCA, to whether JOKER is the worst movie of the year! Email us...

It's GHASTLYTOBER, and all throughout the month on CANCELED TOO SOON we're reviewing spooky short-lived TV shows, as chosen by our Patreon subscribers!  First up: MISTRESS OF SUSPENSE (aka CHILLERS) a disturbing anthology series based on the works of STRANGERS ON A TRAIN and THE TALENTED MR. RIPLEY author Patricia Highsmith! Anthony Perkins hosts an all-star cavalcade of British actors, bu...

William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold are taking their movie review show CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED to its new home, right here on the CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED NETWORK! This week, Bibbs and Witney review the new releases JOKER, PAIN & GLORY, IN THE TALL GRASS, LUCY IN THE SKY, DOOM: ANNIHILATION, LOW TIDE and SEMPER FI, and tell you all about the future of this podcast feed.  Subscribe on Patreon  at www....

Eric Idle from MONTY PYTHON stars in American sitcom about a pair of upper class ghosts haunting the middle class family that moves into their old house! It sounds like BEETLEJUICE but it's not. It's NEARLY DEPARTED, and it lasted only six short episodes in 1989. Was this supernatural sitcom with a low-key catchy as hell theme song... CANCELED TOO SOON? We'll find out in this week'...

Celebrated sci-fi author Harlan Ellison created a show Amish people who learn they're living in outer space, in a ship containing everyone on Earth as they flee an uninhabitable Earth! It's the very ambitious and extremely cheap TV series THE STARLOST, starring Keir Dullea from 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY! Harlan Ellison had his name taken off THE STARLOST and replaced with, for some reason, &#3...

It's our first cooking show! This week on CANCELED TOO SOON, internet sensation Christine McConnell gets her own Netflix series about how to make delicious, spooky desserts. But it's also a sitcom about living with adorably homicidal monsters, brought to life as charmingly creepy puppets! It's THE CURIOUS CREATIONS OF CHRISTINE MCCONNELL, and it may very well have been... CANCELED TOO...

The AMERICAN GOTHITHON concludes! The second failed TV series called AMERICAN GOTHIC aired for one season in 2016, and it stars a huge ensemble of great actors in an old-fashioned whodunnit murder mystery about one of the richest families in America. One of them is a serial killer, but who? WHO?! AMERICAN GOTHIC failed to find an audience when it premiered three years ago, but maybe, just maybe, i...

Gary Cole plays a satanic small town sheriff in AMERICAN GOTHIC, a horror series from the co-star of THE HARDY BOYS and the director of THE EVIL DEAD! Sarah Paulson and Lucas Black co-star in this creepy, kooky, sometimes very spooky series about temptation, murder, mayhem, and the ghost of the Boston Strangler. AMERICAN GOTHIC was one of the most acclaimed cult shows of the 1990s, but was it real...

The year is 2005 and severe droughts have left the world in post-apocalyptic disarray, and gangs of ROAD WARRIOR-esque bandits roam the wastelands. It's up to Perfect Tommy from BUCKAROO BANZAI, a robot played by Miguel Ferrer and, naturally, Sharon Stone to protect the world from eccentric bad guys using high-tech cars in BADLANDS 2005, directed by George Miller! How the heck did BADLANDS 200...

"Weird" Al Yankovic is one of the most popular comedy and music superstars in the world, but even he couldn't keep a kids show on the air on CBS! Yankovic starred in THE WEIRD AL SHOW as an insecure goofball living in a cave, and despite cameo appearances by Hanson, Barenaked Ladies, Patton Oswalt, John Tesh, Alex Trebek and Randy Savage, it only lasted one season. Was THE WEIRD ALL SH...

When there's murder in your suburban neighborhood, you don't call the cops! You call Dee Wallace from CUJO, Heather Langenkamp from A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET, Shelly Fabares from COACH and acclaimed singer Patti Austin! They're housewives who solve violent crimes, get in car chases and take a murderer's dictation in SUBURBAN BEAT! It's funny, it's clever, and it's got a...

Dana Delany and Alison Lohman lead an all-star cast of despicable billionaires in PASADENA, a sadistic and sexy soap opera created by Mike White (SCHOOL OF ROCK). When a teen debutante discovers her family covered up a murder 20 years ago, she risks everything to uncover the truth, and drudges sex scandals, financial corruption and all-new murders in the process! It's smart, it's funny, it...

SIX FEET UNDER and TRUE BLOOD producer Alan Ball has made a several hit shows out of several tricky premises, but he couldn't find a way to make HERE AND NOW last more than one season! It's an ambitious dramatic series starring Oscar-winners Holly Hunter and Tim Robbins as the parents of children from all across the world, who are all grown up and just as screwed up as mom and dad! Oh yeah...

The year was 1983, DUNGEONS & DRAGONS was being played across the country, and on Saturday nights there was only one show where you could find magic, sword fighting, invisible dragons and silly jokes: WIZARDS AND WARRIORS! It won an Emmy for Best Costume Design, but was it really... CANCELED TOO SOON? Film critics William Bibbiani and Witney Seibold dive into this overlooked fantasy series to...

Everybody knows that Gene Roddenberry created STAR TREK, the utopian sci-fi series about overcoming mankind's frailties and taking our place amongst the stars. But he also created a show about orgies and demons called SPECTRE, starring Robert Culp and Oscar-winner Gig Young as paranormal investigators who get wrapped up in an occult conspiracy involving John Hurt and fetish outfits. It's o...

Just a few weeks after STAR WARS first came out, a new superhero premiered on television, and his named  wasn't  IRON MAN, but everyone thought it was! From the director of SIX MILLION DOLLAR MAN came EXO-MAN, the story of a physics professor who testifies against the mob, gets attacked and paralyzed, and uses his scientific knowhow to build a terrible-looking supersuit and seek vigilante just...

William Shakespeare's ROMEO & JULIET was nothing more than a prelude to STILL STAR-CROSSED, an epic drama from SHONDALAND - the producers of GREY'S ANATOMY and SCANDAL - about what happened  after those ill-fated lovers took their own lives. If you thought the Capulets and Montagues learned a valuable lesson... you were wrong! The fighting only gets worse in STILL STAR-CROSSED, but was...

It's time to bring CHRIS CARTER MONTH to an appropriately abrupt conclusion with THE LONE GUNMEN, one of the most notorious one-season wonders in TV history. The comic relief sidekicks from THE X-FILES got their own TV series, with decent ratings and critical acclaim, with conspiracy-driven storylines that accurately predicted tech companies spying on consumers and - in the show's shocking...

A group of mismatched strangers are stuck together in the middle of the apocalypse in THE AFTER, a failed TV pilot written and directed by Chris Carter, the producer of THE X-FILES! It's a series about twisting-turning revelations and mysterious characters, kinda like LOST but... not. Despite a big budget, a big cast and a big push by Amazon, THE AFTER never made it past the pilot episode. Was...