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Star Trek is often family-friendly, but one early episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation was banned by the BBC for being too violent. Following the adventures of Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) and the USS Enterprise-d, Tng is not known for being particularly dark or gory. Captain Picard usually attacks problems with words and diplomacy rather than phaser fire, but he takes a different approach in Tng season 1, episode 25, "Conspiracy".

"Conspiracy" almost didn't air at all because even some of the producers worried it was too much. However, in the UK, the network hosting Star Trek: Tng was much stricter when it came to gore and violence. At that time, it was the BBC, the UK's taxpayer-funded network, that had broadcasting rights for Star Trek: The Next Generation. There was one scene in "Conspiracy" that the BBC took incredible chagrin with, and so in the UK it became a...

In the "Star Trek: Voyager" episode "Hope and Fear", a visiting alien named Arturis (Ray Wise) helpfully translates some coded information that the U.S.S. Voyager had recently discovered on an abandoned communications network. Arturis unexpectedly decodes the location of a nearby empty Starfleet vessel called the U.S.S. Dauntless, an experimental craft that is equipped with a new kind of warp "slipstream" technology. The Dauntless, unbeknownst to the Voyager crew, was sent specifically out to the Delta Quadrant to bring the Voyager crew back to Earth, and Captain Janeway (Kate Mulgrew) is elated.

It will eventually be revealed, of course, that the Dauntless is an elaborate booby trap constructed by Arturis, who had been secretly hellbent on revenge. His species had recently been assimilated by the Borg, and he blamed Janeway for his planet's destruction. About a year earlier, Janeway had allied with the Borg to pass...

“It was not going to be this.”

Terry Matalas doesn’t mince words about the difficulty of getting the “Next Generation” band back together for Season 3 of “Star Trek: Picard.” In fact, when he came onboard as showrunner prior to the second season, there was no plan for a reunion of the beloved Enterprise-D crew (nor an appearance from the ship itself).

“Because that was not the show they had set out to make,” he added in a new interview with IndieWire, alongside production designer Dave Blass. “‘Picard’ was the deconstruction of Jean-Luc Picard, and it had a new cast, and there’s nothing wrong with that.”

Matalas knew, though, that bringing back the full “Next Generation” cast for one final adventure — after their voyages came to a thud of an end with 2002’s “Star Trek: Nemesis” — would be electric if it happened.

He made it so.

Fans greeted...

Quick, think of your favorite episode of ’90s Star Trek. When one of the crew members talks with the ship’s computer, whether it be Commander Riker asking about the location of Captain Picard or Captain Sisko calculating his team’s chances against the Dominion, what do you hear?

You hear the voice of the late, great Majel Barrett Roddenberry, often called “the First Lady of Trek.” In addition to being the wife of Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry and voicing Starfleet’s computer AI, Barrett Roddenberry played a number of other important characters on the various series, namely the original Number One on the first Trek pilot (a role now played by Rebecca Romijn on Strange New Worlds) and Lwaxana Troi, the meddlesome Betazed mother of Counsellor Troi.

As most people know, the upcoming Picard season 3 will bring back many elements of ’90s Trek, especially from The Next Generation.

Star Trek: Picard‘s final season looks like it’ll be quite the homecoming — and it never hurts to have a little extra security at these things.

In the latest installment of our 2023 First Look series, TVLine has an exclusive sneak peek at Michael Dorn reprising his Next Generation role as Worf, the Enterprise‘s Klingon chief security officer, in Season 3 of the Paramount+ series. (This Friday also happens to mark Dorn’s 70th birthday — so happy birthday, Michael!) In the photo above, Worf comes face-to-face once again with his former captain Jean-Luc Picard, and we see that the years...

Netflix has released the official trailer for Bad Trip, the new hidden camera comedy movie starring Eric Andre. With Jackass co-creator Jeff Tremaine producing, the Borat-style movie follows two friends taking a road trip with the cast pulling off hidden camera pranks on the unsuspecting public. It looks to be just as insane as it sounds, and you can catch a peek at what it will be like by watching the trailer below.

The trailer wastes no time in teasing the insanity to be found in Bad Trip. Andre's clothes are completely sucked off by a shop-vac while he's detailing a customer's car, leaving him completely naked in front of several onlookers. Some of the other shenanigans teased in the trailer include breaking into a police car, a man getting stuck in a porta-potty, crashing through a display at a nightclub, and even Andre wrestling a gorilla at the zoo.

The green and red band trailers for Eric Andr&#233's Bad Trip have been unveiled. Andr&#233 is known for pushing the envelope with his stunts, but the movie looks like he as stepped it up in a major way. Fans of The Eric Andr&#233 show have been waiting a long time for season 5 and Bad Trip should be the perfect way to help pass the time, while adding another dimension to the movie and popular series. Even if you had no idea the movie was coming out, you should have a pretty good idea of what to expect. You can check out both versions of the trailer below.

Orion Pictures is inviting viewers to go on a Bad Trip with Eric Andr&#233, Lil Rel Howery, and Tiffany Haddish in the official green and red band trailers from the upcoming hidden camera comedy. The comedian-actors star in the wildly inventive movie...

The Eric Andre Show remains one of the most unique and fearless programs on Adult Swim’s eclectic programming block. Right out of the gate, the show pushed Eric Andre to his limits with stunts and pranks. There have been plenty of series that try to blend unscripted chaos with the unsuspecting public, whether it’s Jackass, Nathan For You, or the works of Sacha Baron Cohen. But shooting The Eric Andre Show has resulted in injuries, the wrath of the law, and shocking body transformations for its star. Never one to turn down a challenge, Andre has made sure that the upcoming The Eric Andre Show season 5 is the craziest one yet.

The faux talk show subjects its guests to torturous, unsuspected acts. Even when guests think they know what they’re getting themselves into, Andre will make sure that everyone is thrown for a loop. Few comedians would...

The 2020 edition of SXSW has announced its features and episodic premieres for the 27th edition of the film festival, running March 13 – 22 in Austin. The 102 features and episodics in this release will be shown across the nine days of SXSW. The 2020 program was selected from 2,316 feature-length film submissions, with a total of 8,362 films submitted this year.

As has become its tradition, the festival will open with a highly anticipated studio crowdpleaser. Judd Apatow’s “The King of Staten Island,” his first feature directorial outing since 2015’s “Trainwreck,” stars Pete Davidson in a lightly fictionalized version of the “SNL” star’s own life story. The film is set for a June release from Universal Pictures.

Apatow has been a regular at SXSW, where “Knocked Up” and “Trainwreck” both launched to strong reactions, but this is his first time opening the festival. “It’s a great film,” SXSW Director of Film Janet Pierson...

Exclusive: The Eric André Show Ep and director Kitao Sakurai’s next movie Bad Trip from Orion Pictures/Bron Creative will now open on April 24, 2020. Pic was originally dated for Oct. 25, 2019 nationwide.

Eric André, Tiffany Haddish, Michaela Conlin and Lil Rel Howery of Uncle Drew and Get Out also stars.

The hidden camera comedy from a producer of Jackass and Bad Grandpa follows two best friends as they go on a cross-country road trip and pull zany inventive pranks, while pulling its real-life audience into the mayhem. Pic is from the minds of Dan Curry, Kitao Sakurai, and André, who also produces with Jeff Tremaine, Dave Bernard, and Ruben Fleischer.

Conlin, who is a new addition to the project, plays Maria. She’s Chris’ (André’s) high school crush. Conlin has a recurring arc in Alan Ball’s HBO series Here, Now as well as Taylor Sheridan’s Paramount Network series Yellowstone.

Daniel Kurland Mar 8, 2019

We answer every question you could ever have about Eric Andre Show's strangest character and his new political special.

The Eric Andre Show has often been described as a nightmare version of a talk show. To call the show unconventional or alternative is a massive understatement. The Adult Swim series is a massively surreal deconstruction of the talk show and for years it's been surprising its audience in new ways. Arguably the weirdest character from the exceptionally weird Eric Andre Show is the cheese-centric Kraft Punk, a bizarre, loathed mystery man who can never die.

In a particularly surprising move, Adult Swim announced that Kraft Punk would be getting his own half hour political special wherein his strange style mingles with Washington D.C.'s finest. The results are some of the weirdest and most interesting material to come out of The Eric Andre Show.

Somehow this...

This is Part Three in a series about Chicago’s Experimental Film Coalition; and covers their annual experimental film festival. You can read Part One here and Part Two here.

In addition to their monthly screenings, the Coalition founded what was initially called either the Festival of Experimental Film or the Experimental Film Festival. The first one was most likely in 1984. By 1987 it was called the Onion City Film Festival, which it has been called ever since. The Coalition ran Onion City annually until 2001 when it was taken over by Chicago Filmmakers, and continues to run to this day.

1984

Of the first Experimental Film Festival, the dates it ran and the exact list of films that screened are not known as of this writing. However, filmmaker Paul Glabicki lists that his film, Film-Wipe-Film won a Jury Award.

1985

For the second Experimental Film Festival, again the dates and films screened are not known.