Going back to your Roots
After Kendrick Lamar made referencing Kunta Kinte cool again, A+E, History and Lifetime have confirmed that a co-produced remake of the game-changing slave drama Roots will air in 2016
Sideshow Boba
The Star Wars origin story that you sort-of wanted to see is on the way, with reports that the 2018 spin-off film will focus on Boba Fett.
PC gone mad
PC Music are asking fans to remix the jingle for their Pop Cube TV channel, with the best effort winning tickets to the station’s launch party. First you’ll have to get past the migraine-inducing competition website.
Critical mass
Pulverising eardrums this week is Dumb Flesh, the debut album from Fuck Buttons man Benjamin John Power’s side project Blanck Mass. So loud that it makes his other gig sound like Clannad.
Wand direction
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell still not enough sorcery for you? Fear not, Syfy are adapting Lev Grossman’s grand fantasy novel The Magicians for TV.
Grand Theft orca
A new PC mod for Grand Theft Auto V allows you to hurl whales on to the streets of Los Santos, with destructive, though oddly beautiful results. Watch here.
Go figure!
What do you get when you cross the Chemical Brothers, Q-Tip and Michel Gondry? Some futuristic women pretending to be a train, judging by the vid for the Chems’ new one Go. Watch here.
