Snervous (that’s “scared” and “nervous” combined) follows Oakley’s life on the road. In the first trailer, we get a glimpse both at Oakley’s hectic tour life, as well as a few personal moments. The brief clip shows Oakley being surprised by his best friend and assistant Korey Kuhl, snapping pictures with countless fans, confronting his father over their estrangement related to Oakley’s LGBTQ+ identity, and celebrating the moment he hit 7 million subscribers (he’s since racked up another 700,000).

Oakley recently told the Daily Dot that Snervous would pick up on the emotional thread of his first memoir, Binge, which hit shelves last month.

“The movie really is a good extension of the book,” he said. “Things that I explore, whether it’s relationships or family or struggles with some level of notoriety or figuring out identity, the movie shows it.”

Snervous is currently available for pre-order and will be released in theaters and on video on demand Dec. 11. Until then, fans can keep up with Oakley, as always, on his YouTube channel.

Screengrab via Tyler Oakley/YouTube

One of the best impressionists of our time is getting his own TV show full of impressions.

Dana Carvey will be hosting First Impressions, a half-hour reality competition series on USA, which will pit amateur impressionists against one another every week. Carvey, who is an executive producer on the show, will serve as an expert mentor to the contestants along with celebrity guests.

“There are so many great impressionists and ‘First Impressions’ gives them an opportunity to showcase their talents,” Carvey said in a press release. “Besides, I’ve always enjoyed watching an impressionist nail somebody—as in capture their voice. Now I get paid to watch.”

USA Network’s EVP of original programming Jackie de Crinis praised Carvey, adding, “The expertise and humor that he will bring to the series is unsurpassed and we can’t wait to have his world famous celebrity impersonations on our network.”

There’s no word on when First Impressions will premiere on USA, any of the celebrity guests, or how exactly the format of the show will play out, but we do know one thing: Carvey’s range of impressions and impersonations is unrivaled, and it’s practically a guarantee that we’ll get to see some of his own work on the show.

From Saturday Night Live to his more recent stints on late-night TV, Carvey has an entire wardrobe of impressions just waiting to come out and play. Here’s hoping we’ll see some of these once First Impressions comes to TV.

1) Presidents

Carvey has been impersonating former and current presidents since his SNL days, and it’s easy to see why: He excels at it.

By far, President George H.W. Bush is his most famous of them as Carvey portrayed Bush Senior as a bit of a bumbling idiot. He kept bringing back the impression even after he left SNL, and in one particular monologue in the show’s 20th season, Bush himself came and took Carvey to task for some aspects of the impression.

“In all my years of service,” the real Bush said to Carvey, “I never once said ‘Na-ga-da.’”

The next time he hosted SNL in 2000 he brought out George W. Bush and Al Gore as he talked about the upcoming presidential election.

Carvey reunited with other SNL stars in 2010 to create a supersized presidential sketch for Funny or Die. Naturally, he’s Bush Sr. while Darrell Hammond and Will Ferrell reprise their SNL roles as Clinton and Bush Jr. haunting Barack and Michelle Obama (Fred Armisen and Maya Rudolph) in their dreams.

But Carvey isn’t just on top of presidential impressions—he knows his politics too. He brought out his impressions of President Obama, George W. Bush, Clinton, and Ronald Reagan, while talking about each of them on Conan.

Just because someone’s not the president doesn’t mean he or she is immune to Carvey’s impersonations.

He took on Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and then-NBC Nightly News anchor Tom Brokaw back in 2008 following a presidential debate, complete with body motions for Jay Leno.

Not only can Carvey portray various musicians, he can probably sing like them too.

He brought George Michael to the Weekend Update desk in 1989 to explain why he didn’t collect his Grammy as well as complain about how his commercial didn’t focus on his butt. You know, the important things.

His Bob Dylan was so unintelligible speaking about his new lifetime achievement award that Weekend Update anchor Dennis Miller translated Dylan-speak for the rest of us. Tom Petty joined him, and soon actual subtitles followed.

And can Carvey pull off Neil Young singing? Of course he can.

Carvey’s resume is impressive, no matter which way you look at it. On SNL he’s pulled out Miller while Miller was in front of him (with an assist from Tom Hanks) as well an older Jimmy Stewart.

He’s also always game to try out whoever comes his way with Fallon’s “Wheel of Impressions,” whether it be Al Pacino, Arnold Schwarzenegger, or Matthew McConaughey in wacky situations.

5) Miscellaneous

But Carvey has also done real-life impressions along the way that weren’t as well-known. During his time at SNL he also brought radio DJ Casey Kasem, French explorer Jacques Cousteau, and reporter and writer Robin Leach to the table.

H/T Zap2It | Screengrab via The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon/YouTube

Serial fans may finally get the ending they were waiting for.

Following the release of the hit podcast, Adnan Syed—who has served over a decade in prison for the murder of Hae Min Lee—petitioned to re-open his trial. Baltimore attorney Justin Brown reported on Friday that Syed’s motion to re-open post-conviction proceedings has indeed been granted.

This means that Syed will be allowed to present new evidence that came to light during the podcast and after. The evidence in question could potentially exonerate Syed as it relates to his alibi and the cell tower evidence that was used in his original trial—and which has been analyzed at length by fans of the podcast.

According to Brown, the hearing date has yet to be determined.

And good news for those who just can't for the next chapter: Brown also provided the full text of the judge’s order. 

Need a fellow fan to gush to? You can always join the party going on over at the Serial podcast subreddit.

Photo via Casey Feisler/Flickr (CC BY 2.0)

It was inevitable that it would happen eventually, but now it’s official: Star Trek is returning to the small screen.

In recent years, Trek has been dominated by the controversial reboot films—yes, I know they’re not technically a reboot—shepherded by J.J. Abrams. Now that he’s switched galaxies to the Star Wars franchise, Trek is in a time of transition, with a new film, Star TrekBeyond, due out next year, directed by Fast & Furious’ Justin Lin. On the television front, it’s been 10 years since the departure of Enterprise ended a decades-long streak of new televised Trek. Now Gene Roddenberry’s creation is returning to the medium that spawned it—sort of—with a new Trek series headed for CBS’ All Access streaming service beginning in January 2017.

It’s just another example of a continuing resurgence of classic, space-based science fiction on both the big and small screens. It had fallen out of vogue somewhat in recent years, but the success of Guardians of the Galaxy and the return of Star Wars have made the space opera cool again. Even Syfy—which had largely shifted toward cheaper, more Earthbound programming in the past decade—is getting back to its roots with shows like Killjoys, Dark Matter, and the much-anticipated The Expanse.

So it’s just a matter of time before the major streaming nets try their hand at the genre as well. Both Netflix and Amazon have tackled science fiction with Sense8 and The Man in the High Castle, respectively, but those aren’t the sort of epic, star-hopping shows we’re talking about here. And since there have been a spate of older shows getting unexpected revivals of late—The X-Files, Heroes, Gilmore Girls, even freaking Twin Peaks—why not bring back a fan favorite that still has a strong following today? Here are three beloved space-based science-fiction shows perfectly primed for a streaming revival, as well as why—and where—they might work best. And you already know which one we’re gonna start with, don’t you?

1) Firefly

Where should it land?

Still, if Firefly were to stage a streaming resurrection, where would it go? Netflix seems the obvious answer, if only because it’s the biggest fish in that particular pond, it’s a content-generating machine these days, and it’s shown a predilection for bringing back shows nobody would have expected (Arrested Development, Gilmore Girls). Firefly and the other shows in the so-called “Whedonverse” have also been a staple of Netflix’s streaming catalog for ages now. And while Netflix hasn’t worked with Whedon yet, they did recently work with two of his disciples: Marvel’s Daredevil was shepherded to series first by Drew Goddard and then by Steven S. DeKnight, both of whom who worked on Whedon’s Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel and count him as a mentor. At this point more Firefly is definitely a long shot just given how many schedules would have to be coordinated, but you never know. (It could also be one hell of a get for Hulu, which has been rather bold this year, snagging the exclusive rights to Seinfeld, partnering with Showtime, and swiping a ton of movies from Netflix.)

What would it look like?

Bringing back the cast is crucial, because this is one property for which a spinoff set in the same universe but starring other characters simply wouldn’t cut it. Fans love the ’verse Joss Whedon created, sure, but Firefly is all about Malcolm Reynolds and the crew of Serenity; accept no substitutes. And don’t even consider a reboot: The Browncoats would go Reaver and things would get ugly fast. Any future Firefly would need to follow in the footsteps of the upcoming X-Files and Twin Peaks revivals and bring us more of the characters we love, not just new versions of them played by somebody else.

2) Babylon 5

Where should it land?

But if he gets the greenlight from the powers that be to bring Babylon 5 back to the small screen, he’s already got an in with a perfect home: Netflix.

Straczynski has already brought an original science-fiction series to Netflix in the form of this past summer’s cult hit Sense8, which he co-created with the Wachowskis and which is due to return for a second season. Space-based science fiction inevitably involves a high price tag for effects, CGI, and all the other elements necessary to convince us that the characters we’re watching are exploring the cosmos, rather than an unairconditioned warehouse in front of a green screen. Netflix has repeatedly proven it isn’t afraid of a large budget, and Sense8 itself made use of location shooting all over the world—certainly not a cheap endeavor. With the financial backing and creative freedom of Netflix behind it, a new Babylon 5 series could be something truly special, especially if it abandoned the reboot concept and instead just set out to explore the vast corners of the fictional universe Straczynski created, which is still bursting with narrative potential even all these years later.

Honestly though, I’d just be happy if we could get Babylon 5 on one of the freaking streaming services already.

What would it look like?

Far more so than Firefly, a Babylon 5 revival would lend itself to telling new stories set within the show’s universe, but not necessarily set aboard the titular space station or limited to the cast of characters we already know. The Telepath War, the Technomages, or something else entirely: Straczynski created a rich and detailed future history we’ve only seen a small fraction of, so applying a Star Trek approach of “let’s see what’s out there” could work very well with a new B5 series. My personal vote, however? I’d love to see the ill-fated Crusade spin-off done right and given time to tell the story it was actually trying to tell. It was poorly treated and manhandled by TNT, but so much has come out in the years since about where that show was headed. It could truly have been amazing, and that’s one case where I wouldn’t object to an outright do-over, even if it meant leaving behind that series’ admittedly excellent cast.

3) Farscape

Where should it land?

Like Joss Whedon with Firefly and Straczynski with Babylon 5, Farscape was very much the baby of its creator, Rockne S. O’Bannon. Also like Babylon 5, there have been rumblings of Farscapereturning as a movie in recent years. But I think, if you’re not going to go forward with a whole new series, the X-Files model of returning as a limited series is the way to go.

Obviously Netflix is the king of years-later show resurrections in the streaming world, and it’s the only of the three major streaming services where you can watch Farscape in its entirety (well, excepting the Peacekeeper Wars miniseries). But it’s Amazon that has an in with O’Bannon, thanks to its exclusive streaming deal for Syfy’s Defiance, which O’Bannon developed along with Kevin Murphy and Michael Taylor. Amazon has also spent big bucks to get exclusive streaming rights to sci-fi series such as Orphan Black, Extant, and Under the Dome, so they’re definitely embracing the genre. All the more so with this month’s The Man in the High Castle, based on an acclaimed classic of the field and easily the most ambitious project Amazon has been involved with thus far. Netflix has dipped its toe into sci-fi with Sense8, but Amazon could dive in headfirst with its very own space opera in the form of more Farscape. Defiance just wrapped up its three-season run on Syfy… Somebody get Rockne on the phone before his schedule fills up!

What would it look like?

Thankfully, Farscape’s ending provides a perfect excuse to return to it all these years later: the child of John Crichton and Aeryn Sun. The series left us with the proud parents introducing their infant son to the wonders of the universe in which he would grow up, so why not make D’Argo “Deke” Sun-Crichton our viewpoint character for a return journey into the Uncharted Territories? The Peacekeeper Wars miniseries aired 11 years ago, but there’s no reason we can’t fast forward a bit to see what Deke is like in his 20s, and that would still allow series stars Ben Browder and Claudia Black to participate without having to be “aged up” too much. Given how important Crichton’s relationship with his father was in the original Farscape, it would be perfect to see Browder shift into the paternal/mentor role for a new series, passing the torch to whoever plays his son.

Photo via Gage Skidmore/Flickr (CC BY SA 2.0)

Kim Kardashian released an epic new video on her YouTube channel over the weekend, and while Kim is fully clothed the entire time, it just might be the wildest thing on the internet.

The video is a double header, featuring Kris Jenner’s totally bizarre music video celebrating her 30th birthday in 1985, and—for those brave souls who make it all the way to the 4:04 mark—a contemporary remake of said music video featuring all five of Jenner’s daughters.

For those who haven’t seen the original before, it’s a play by play of all of Jenner’s favorite people and places, including an alarming cameo by OJ Simpson.

Young Kris was a big fan of tennis, the Cheesecake Factory, Bible study, and church on Sundays. Jenner playfully vogues on a treadmill, drives a convertible, and sings “I love my friends” to the tune of Randy Newman’s “I Love LA.”

Much like their mother, the Kardashian girls mug on a treadmill, but they’ve replaced her ‘80s skivvies with contemporary sleek black workout gear. They also list all her favorite places. Unfortunately, Cheesecake Factory and “Bible study” don’t make the cut in the contemporary production—nor is there an appearance by OJ Simpson.

There is, however, an adorable cameo by Justin Bieber (5:51), a painfully long interlude by Katy Perry (6:57), and a startling final bathtub shot of Caitlyn Jenner (7:20), who can’t seem to get the simple refrain “She loves you!” quite right.

True Kardashian fans will walk away with many questions: Why so much Scott? Why so little Rob? And the repeat use of footage of the deceased Robert Kardashian might even tug at your heartstrings.

But one thing’s for sure: this video is bizarrely, undeniably mesmerizing.

The repetitive refrain, the cheesy photo-montages, and the monotonous singing voices of the sisters all come together to create a strange spell. Watch the whole thing a couple of times and you’ll find yourself vacillating between horror and awe, giggling, dazzled and wondering if this is in fact art.

In the past, they've taught us how to make party favorites like the Spa Lady Cheese Ball and a hamburger wedding cake, much to Twitter's enjoyment. But their October creation, "Disney Princesses Reimagined as Hot Dogs," went viral in a whole new way.

The premise was elegant and simple: They took four hot dogs, four buns, and some accessories, and assembled them in homage to the Internet's Disney Princess fatigue.

The princesses quickly spread across the content wastelands, catching the attention of people like the Fat Jew, who first posted Ariel without credit but later updated by tagging Lucky Peach. The dishes also caught the art world's attention; people like designer Todd Oldham have regrammed. Just this Thursday, the princesses were shouted out on ABC's daytime food and lifestyle show The Chew.

If you search #hotdogprincess or #disneyprincesshotdogs on pretty much any platform, you'll find someone who saw the pic and recreated it at home. 

The Daily Dot emailed the ladies to talk about what happens when your joke about a meme gets absorbed by the meme itself. 

Anna Hezel: At some point, we were on a real kick with meat crafts, and Gabriella just turned to me with a sparkle in her eye and whispered, "Anna, what if we reimagined Disney Princesses as hot dogs?"

Gabriella Paiella: Yeah, I think I tweeted it as a joke months ago and then I realized "wait, I'm the master of my own destiny" and here we are. Also we happen to have a platform that pays us to make disgusting things out of gross meat products, so we are very #blessed to have that support. 

Why hot dogs? Why Disney Princesses?

AH: I would say that we've always found hot dogs to be really inspiring to our work. Even though Gabriella is a vegan and I'm not, we both kind of agree that meat is really gross, and there's a lot of space for humor and beauty in that grossness. Disney Princesses are just a blank canvas for a lot of people to project their nostalgia and anxieties onto. They've sort of turned into this bottomless fount of Internet content, and we wanted to make fun of that.

GP: The endless iterations of Disney Princesses were just begging to be made fun of.  And there's something so inherently grotesque about a hot dog that made the juxtaposition of these fanciful, beautiful characters with a tube of meat extra powerful. 

What was making them like? How long did it take?

AH: I would say we probably spent about 30 minutes making the hot dogs and then about 30 minutes just giggling about it and taking pictures. Making a tiny dress out of cheese is surprisingly difficult and surprisingly fun. Everybody should try it once.

GP: And another minute feeding them to my dog, who ate them whole. 

What did you think the reaction to the piece would be? Was that even a consideration?

AH: Most of the work we do for Lucky Peach is very disturbing and very deranged, but I think we kind of knew (or at least hoped) that incorporating a lot of people's favorite childhood movie characters would take things up a notch.

GP: Our pieces tend to be inside jokes that we hope to share with a broader audience. I think that the reaction to these was expected because they came out at a time when Disney princess iterations are super clickable and popular—and there was a lot of fatigue over that. It appealed to people who just took the reimagining at face value as something cute, and it appealed to people who wanted to make fun of them. 

Walk me through the tiers of reaction that ended up happening. I feel like it was such a solid case study in meme digestion, and the further it got away from you guys, the more it seemed to become the thing you'd been poking fun at in the first place. 

AH: At first, places like Cosmo and MTV and Paste started re-posting our pictures with really funny, self-aware commentary. Paste's headline was "Good Night to Reimagined Disney Princesses. They're Hot Dogs Now." But then, in a weird halo effect, a lot of other publications started posting about them as just a genuinely good thing to try out with hot dogs, with headlines like "Iconic Disney Princesses Reimagined as Mouth-Watering Snacks."

GP: Exactly. Some of the Twitter and Facebook reactions immediately wrote it off as another silly reimagining—I remember one guy said that "someone please pity bang the person who thought of this." If you're reading this, guy: Fuck you. 

Where's the weirdest place you've seen them, or the most surprising person you've seen post them?

AH: At some point, an Internet comedian complained about them, and (BoJack Horsemanproduction designer) Lisa Hanawalt reprimanded him, defending the hot dogs as art. Gabriella and I are both huge fans of Lisa Hanawalt and her art, so this was extremely exciting and flattering and unexpected.

GP: Yes, that was huge! We love Lisa! Someone also let me know that Jessie J posted one, and I'm still not really sure who she is, but I do know that she recorded a song with Ariana Grande and Nicki Minaj, so I hope she showed it to them in a group text. 

Screengrab via Lucky Peach

BY KAYLA HAWKINS

As the description of the video says, the a cappella band Pentatonix can sing anything. The group has teamed up with music streaming service Deezer and are turning tweets submitted to them under the hashtag #SingMyTweets into cute little songs.

And the best part is that for a couple of the tweets, they don’t even do parodies of existing songs: Not only can Pentatonix create music with no instruments, they can also create their own songs. And of course, each one is perfectly harmonized. The group even introduces themselves in harmony.

RELATED: Pentatonix puts an a capella twist on ‘Elvira’ at CMAs 2015

Every member of the group is on point, of course, but Mitch Grassi is a standout by really nailing the high notes, especially in the Pentatonix take on Disney’s “Small Potatoes” theme song.

RELATED: Pentatonix’ ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ music video is an ode to pizza

Oh, and their version of the “Go, Go, Powerrangers!” sting not only blows the original out of the water, but also might even top their ode to the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles theme.

Screengrab via Deezer/YouTube

Sometimes you just have to do it yourself.

With the development process for television shows resembling the Donner Party—the corpses of fine ideas strewn along the trail while others remain living, cannabilized—there is inevitably a quiet desperation concerning all that wasted effort.  

“It’s a gut-wrenching process, investing time and your soul writing TV pilots with characters and relationships and stories that you have wanted to tell all your life, only to see those scripts and those characters die months later,” comedy writer Christy Stratton told the Daily Dot via email. “And then you have to move on to telling another story from deep down in your soul that will also die. The best thing about the webseries medium is it lives!”

And that’s how the story that Stratton most wanted to tell ended up as Everyone’s Crazy But Us—a webseries starring Janet Varney and Diedrich Bader, and featuring guest appearances by talent like Keegan-Michael Key, Grey’s Anatomy’s Kate Walsh and Guy Branum. While Stratton had previously written episodes of shows such as King of the Hill, Raising Hope, and MTV teen comedy Awkward, this time she’d find humor directly from her own relationship.

“I’ve wanted to do a married couple show, because, at the time I created it, there hadn’t really been one since Mad About You. My husband and I have very different backgrounds and we disagree about most things—even how much water one should use when scrubbing a baking sheet,” said Stratton. “But where we absolutely, unwaveringly come together is when it comes to other people and their craziness. That feeling of us against the world.”

And that’s the defining sentiment that you get from the performances of Varney and Bader: Even though they may chafe at a cosmetic level, fused by marriage, they’ve become symbiotic in their need for security and reassurance; it’s everything else that’s a threat. It’s sort of touching until you start contemplating co-dependency issues or you’re reminded of how even thieves can band together for a selfish cause.

But this is to overanalyze what is a comedy, and a smart one at that. Each episode crackles with enthusiastic vigor helped along by the terrific cast. And the way the two leads use each other to avoid confronting the nauseating characters that enter their lives—the strategic teetotalers, the self-diagnosed allergy sufferers—while also finding fault with those that must think the same of them is prime comedic fodder. It’s not that the couple think they’re perfect, or even normal; it’s just that to them no one else seems even to be trying.

That it is so enjoyable is actually a bit surprising. It perhaps wasn’t a bad thing that Mad About You didn’t inspire a legion of imitators because marriage (and the later seasons of pregnancy and babies) can make for some of the most hackneyed comedy. Odd cravings, being kept up all night, kids saying crazy stuff, and a treacly through-line of smug, mutual love may amuse the apparatchiks of Mumsnet, but to everyone else it just seems like a boring function of life that we’re not looking forward to or would prefer to forget.

Yet Everyone's Crazy But Us is fun and nuanced in its depiction of its central relationship so it avoids the pitfalls of cliché and shows that there can actually be something to the genre. Perhaps it has something to do with who writes them. For Stratton it’s only something she has been able to achieve having actually lived through it: “I couldn’t write well about having a kid ten years ago, but now I can write about that, about teen angst, and everything in between. Seriously, I can remember my numerous failed cheerleading tryouts like they were yesterday because I am sixteen years old forever and ever,” she recalled. “Alexis Wilson beat me out for that one last slot junior year, and although she is a dear friend now, I will NEVER FORGIVE HER.”

Screengrab via Funny or Die

Bradley Cooper’s mix-up of some Guardians of the Galaxy plot points and characters briefly made fans wonder if he'd spoiled the upcoming Marvel sequel.

Cooper, who voices Rocket Racoon in Guardians of the Galaxy, and his Burnt costar Sienna Miller sat down with MTV International to talk about their new movie. The interviewer eventually asked Cooper about Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, and he began talking about Josh Brolin’s Thanos right away—which was where he got into a bit of trouble.

“Josh Brolin’s the villain—or he’s the main villain, no?” he said. “He was in the first one, he played what’s his name’s dad. You know what I’m talking about? The Dark Lord—the main guy.”

He was referring to Thanos and Peter “Star Lord” Quill (Chris Pratt) and appeared to be suggesting that Thanos is Peter’s father. From Miller's reaction, it was clear that, while she might not have played a Marvel character yet, she was familiar with how tight security is at the studio.

“You just leaked a Marvel script, Bradley,” she told him.

But director James Gunn, who often chats with fans about his movies (as much as he can, anyway), quickly cleared up any confusion on Twitter. He had already said that Peter’s father won’t be the same character from the comics, but he further elaborated that Cooper didn’t actually reveal anything from the new film—because at the time that interview took place, he hadn’t received the new script yet.

H/T Entertainment Weekly | Screengrab via Marvel Entertainment/YouTube

The family released a statement on their Facebook explaining Caleb’s cause of death as “a heart condition called Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy.” It is a condition whereby the heart muscle becomes abnormally thick, and the Bratayley family says it went undetected at his yearly checkups. The said their other children have now been tested and their hearts “look the way they should right now.” 

Screengrab via Bratayley/YouTube

The team behind Honest Trailers on Tuesday announced Screen Junkies Plus, a premium subscription service that offers access to 11 new original titles. While the service is slated to cost $4.99, fans can also opt for a $59 annual fee (for a savings of 88 cents) or a $99 package that includes Screen Junkies merchandise.

As for the new titles, they “will focus on pop culture commentary and satire,” according to Re/code. The first scripted series of the bunch is  Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D send-up Interns of F.I.E.L.D, which stars Jamie Kennedy and Jonathan Lipnicki.

Screen Junkies Plus joins a crowded fray of subscription streaming services, including the aforementioned YouTube offering and former Hulu CEO Jason Kilar’s Vessel.

Defy Media’s Screen Junkies Plus is slated to launch Nov. 17.

H/T Variety | Illustration by Max Fleishman

A press release Tuesday detailed the partnership, stating that Youku Todou would become the official platform for RocketJump, the company Wong founded. It expands on his original channel, freddiew, and hosts most of his popular content.

The exclusive collaboration between the two companies will start with content sharing but will progress to joint original content production, according to the release.

RocketJump hosts 236 videos with almost 7.7 million subscribers and more than 1.2 billion views. Through Youku Todou, Chinese viewers will have access to RocketJump content, including their completed TV series Video Game High School. RocketJump will also be releasing a second series through Hulu called RocketJump: The Show, which debuts Dec. 2. With Hulu, RocketJump will also be venturing into the virtual reality realm.

Photo via RocketJump

Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson wants to rock a new nickname: Proud Papa Bear.

The 43-year-old actor and former wrestler took to Instagram today to announce that his longtime girlfriend, Lauren Hashian, is pregnant with a baby girl.

The Rock’s inner softie has long made him a fanfavorite: In just the last six months, he’s saved a puppy, lip-synced some Taylor Swift, officiated a wedding, and shared a touching story of meeting a fan with cancer. Now, he’s made a stand for “amazing and strong women” of the world.

If his daughter’s lucky, she’ll be a chip off the ol’ Rock.

Breaking Bad has been over for more than two years, but in a new miniseries from Wisecrack’s Earthling Cinema, aliens are discovering the hit drama that practically consumed our lives for six years.

With Better Call Saul still on hiatus, Wisecrack host Garyx Wormuloid—a bonafide extraterrestrial being—is taking viewers through Breaking Bad one season at a time. He mostly focuses on the relationship between Walter White and Jesse Pinkman, and while he doesn’t understand some of the finer points, he’s got Walt nailed down pretty accurately—and well before most of us turned against him.

We can’t wait to see how he handles “Ozymandias.”

Stephen Colbert’s doppelgänger may have been right under his nose this whole time.

After Ash vs. Evil Dead actress Lucy Lawless realized that her costar Bruce Campbell looked just like Colbert if he put on glasses, Campbell had to test it out for himself. So when he and and Lawless visited The Late Show Tuesday night, he briefly took over Colbert’s desk.

His vocals may need some work, but once the glasses come on and he starts hitting the pen on the desk, something magical happens. (And Colbert now has someone to fill in for him if he takes a sick day.)

Screengrab via The Late Show with Stephen Colbert/YouTube

Digital stars and mainstream television will once again intersect on the next season of The Amazing Race, which will fill out its cast with YouTube and Vine celebrities accustomed to doing crazy things on camera for fun and profit.

First to be announced is YouTuber Tyler Oakley, joined on the journey by his best friend and podcast co-host Korey Kuhl. Other cast announcements are trickling out on various YouTuber and Vine accounts. Beauty and fashion vlogger Blair Fowler has announced that she'll be running the race with her dad, and Rooster Teeth founder Burnie Burns will run with his partner Ashley.

More announcements are expected to follow throughout Wednesday.

Oakley said on Twitter that teams are leaving for the race immediately. The show will play to the digital strengths of its cast, with host Phil Keoghan livestreaming the start of the race on his Facebook page.

The digital celebs will have to endure a total social-media blackout during filming, meaning that fans will have to do without their favorite YouTubers for almost a month. 

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However, it's not the ones you're thinking. Meyer's Twilight series has grossed more than $3.3 billion, and now she's partnering with Lionsgate again to develop someone else's novel, The Rook.   

Daniel O'Malley's 2012 novel deals with supernatural and mystical powers, something with which Meyer is extremely familiar. The novel follows a magical agent in a secret government organization that users powers to fight other supernatural enemies. According to Tubefilter, the show will premiere on Hulu in the U.S. and with another distributor in the U.K. 

This is far from Lionsgate's first partnership with Hulu. It picked up the TV series Casual, Video Game High School, and the forthcoming RocketJump: The Show from the studio.

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The Pfeffermans are back! 

Amazon released the first trailer for season 2 of its show Transparent today, along with an announcement that the premiere date will now be Dec. 11 instead of the previously announced Dec. 4. 

The trailer doesn't reveal too much, but it looks like there's an outdoor wedding in store for Amy Landecker's character Sarah: 

The show has already been renewed for a third season.

Shoukath, who's a doctor when he's not co-starring on Aziz's Netflix series Master of None, mentioned recently that a big part of his accepting the role was getting to spend more time with his kid. The comment really hit home with Aziz, and he had this to say:  

My dad took off most of his vacation time for the year to act in Master of None. So I'm really relieved this all worked out. Tonight after we did Colbert together he said: "This is all fun and I liked acting in the show, but I really just did it so I could spend more time with you." I almost instantly collapsed into tears at the thought of how much this person cares about me and took care of me and gave me everything to give me the amazing life I have. I felt like a total piece of garbage for all the times I haven't visited my parents and told them I wanted to stay in New York cause I'd get bored in SC. I'm an incredibly lucky person and many of you are as well. Not to beat a dead horse here and sorry if this is cheesy or too sentimental but if your parents are good to you too, just go do something nice for them. I bet they care and love you more than you realize.
I've been overwhelmed by the response to the Parents episode of our show. What's strange is doing that episode and working with my parents has increased the quality of my relationship to my parents IN MY REAL LIFE. In reality, I haven't always had the best, most open relationship with my parents because we are weirdly closed off emotionally sometimes. But we are getting better. And if you have something like that with your family - I urge you to work at it and get better because these are special people in your life and I get terrified when my dad tells me about friends of his, people close to his age, that are having serious health issues, etc. Enjoy and love these people while you can. 
Anyway, this show and my experiences with my parents while working on it have been very important in many ways and I thank for you the part you all have played in it.

So hey, maybe say thanks to a dad you know today.

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