Arts & Entertainment This SF-Invented Toy is Getting Its Own Animated TV Series Fidget toy the Tangle was invented in 1980 here in the city, and 250 million units sold later, will be anthropomorphized into the the star of an upcoming animated children’s television show.
Arts & Entertainment 90s Nostalgia Mousses Up as 'Nash Bridges’ Reboot Premieres Saturday The trailer for the ‘Nash Bridges’ reunion just dropped before Saturday’s premiere, and it might be worth tuning in just to see Willie Brown in a pot dispensary.
Arts & Entertainment Amazon Greenlights SF-Based Series 'Tong Wars', Wong Kar-Wai To Direct San Francisco is getting some of its big-budget TV location cred back after the disappointing cancellation of Netflix's local darling series Sense 8. Amazon is stepping into the void, according to Variety, ordering
Arts & Entertainment Video: Hundreds Show Up For 'American Idol' Audition In Oakland On Sunday, the American Idol crew swung through the Bay Area sans celebrity judges to hear some local folks audition for the (is it still popular?) ABC singing competition. As local affiliate KGO
Arts & Entertainment House Used For MTV's Original SF 'Real World' Season Hits Market For $7M The Russian Hill house that was home to seven strangers getting "real" on MTV in 1994, also known as 949-953 Lombard Street, is hitting the market again at the eye-popping price of $7
Arts & Entertainment Step Aside, YouTube: Facebook To Launch Its Own TV Shows In August Staying on FB while watching TV is about to get even easier. Next month or maybe later because it's already behind schedule social media giant Facebook will launch its own television section, mercifully
Arts & Entertainment Good News, 'Sense8' Fans: There Will Be A Finale Movie Following an outpouring of tears and outrage in reaction to Netflix's cancellation of cult favorite series Sense8, it was revealed Thursday that they will be letting the Wachowski sisters give the fans some
Arts & Entertainment Video: Every Tiny Tech-World In-Joke Hidden Within The Title Sequence Of 'Silicon Valley' Part of the reason that HBO's Silicon Valley which just had its fourth season finale on Sunday has such a short, rapid-fire opening title sequence is that creator Mike Judge didn't really want
Arts & Entertainment SF-Set 'Girlboss' Is Latest Casualty In Netflix Cancellation Spree #Bye #Girlboss. The Netflix series Girlboss, shot in San Francisco last year in and around the Haight and elsewhere, has been canceled after just a single season, the latest in a wave of
Arts & Entertainment Video: Cal Grad Makes Total Fool Of Himself On 'The Bachelorette' The internet is laughing loudly at 30-year-old Lucas Yancey. The Cal grad and Woodside resident is one of the contestant bachelors on the latest edition of The Bachelorette, and if the above video
Arts & Entertainment 'Not Hotdog' App From HBO's 'Silicon Valley' Now Available For Download Sunday night's episode of Silicon Valley was another winner for the continuously hilarious series, and one that had some of the series' characteristic comic twists involving the sometimes absurd pivots that tech companies
Arts & Entertainment Hacker Steals Upcoming Season Of 'Orange Is The New Black,' Releases Most Of It Online After Ransom Isn't Paid Those who engage in illegal file-sharing on pirating sites can already watch the first 10 episodes of Orange Is the New Black Season 5, thanks to a hacker using the handle "thedarkoverlord." Netflix
SF News KQED Sells Chunk Of Its Airwaves To FCC For $95 Million The Bay Area's public radio and TV broadcasting station KQED is selling six megahertz of broadcast spectrum to the FCC for $95.4 million — a figure that's seriously in excess of its $70
Arts & Entertainment Trailer Finally Drops For 'Sense 8' Season Two, Two Years After Season One After December's brief tease with that Christmas special, Netflix finally gives us a glimpse of the second season of the Wachowskis' Sense 8, the globe-spanning supernatural thriller in which San Francisco plays a
Arts & Entertainment YouTube Launches $35 Streaming TV Service, But Will Anyone Watch? Entering the fray of hopeful cable-killing streaming services today is YouTube with the launch of YouTube TV. Lots of people, especially younger people, already consume a ton of their TV programming via YouTube
Arts & Entertainment TJ Miller Mansplains Mainsplaining In Full 'Silicon Valley' Season 4 Trailer Silicon Valley is back on April 23rd with a fourth season on HBO, meaning the series has officially outlasted most startups. Creator Mike Judge infuses his comedy with careful details and research, making
Arts & Entertainment 'Budding Prospects', Amazon's New Weed Comedy Set In Northern California, Premieres Pilot One of the new shows in Amazon's pilot season is Budding Prospects, based on the 1990 novel of the same name by TC Boyle, and it centers on three guys from San Francisco
Arts & Entertainment How HBO's 'Big Little Lies' Fudges Monterey Geography It's hardly the largest deception on Big Little Lies, the HBO drama starring Reese Witherspoon, Nicole Kidman, Laura Dern, and Shailene Woodley as a quartet of Monterey mothers, but it's an emblematic one.
Arts & Entertainment Nerd Alert: First Trailer For 'Silicon Valley' Season 4 Silicon Valley, the HBO Comedy from Mike Judge that skewers, roasts, and generally devours the world of tech and startups, is back on April 23rd for its 4th Season, which has got me
Arts & Entertainment Local Toy Store Owner And Children's TV Show Host 'King Norman' Has Died: Long Live The King! PHOTOS: #KingNorman, #BayArea man know by many Baby Boomers for children's 1950s TV show, dies at 98. https://t.co/WhyjARq0mr— ABC7 News (@abc7newsbayarea) January 4, 2017 Norman Rosenberg, royalty to a set
Arts & Entertainment It Turns Out The 'Full House' House In SF Was Bought By Show Creator Jeff Franklin "Whatever happened to predictability?" Back in the late '80s the Full House theme song longed for a simpler time, but at least we can rest assured now that the touchstone location of the
Arts & Entertainment 'Silicon Valley' Fans Delight Over Hillary's Use Of 'Middle Out' Chalk it up to coincidence feeding Twitter chatter, but even my ears perked up when Hillary Clinton dropped the phrase "middle out" during Wednesday night's presidential debate. Clinton was referring to her economic
Arts & Entertainment San Francisco-Set And Shot 'Chance' Drops On Hulu Today San Francisco is a common setting for big and small screen TV shows, but it's rare that more than an occasional establishing scene is actually shot on our streets (Murder in the First,
Arts & Entertainment Real-Life Feminist Bookstore From 'Portlandia' Cuts Ties With Show, Says It's Anti-Feminist, Transphobic Depicted as humorless on the IFC show Portlandia, Portland's real-life feminist bookstore In Other Words the basis of the show's Women and Women First, and also its shooting location has lost its sense
Arts & Entertainment 'Fuller House' Season 2 Premieres Dec. 9 On Netflix Renewed for a second season just a week after premiering on Netflix in its entirety this February, Fuller House could be giving its predecessor, the long-running San Francisco-set sitcom Full House, some competition
