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'4400' Remake, 'Powerpuff Girls,' DC's 'Naomi' Moving Forward at The CW The network has also ordered a pilot about nuns from 'Jane the Virgin's' Jennie Snyder Urman. The CW is planning for the return of The 4400. The broadcast network has handed out a straight to series order for a remake of the sci-fi series that aired on USA from 2004-07. Additionally, The CW has ordered pilots for a live-action, grown-up  Powerpuff Girls from Diablo Cody and for projects from Ava DuVernay and Jane the Virgin showrunner Jennie Snyder Urman. The CW put a remake of The 4400 in development more than two ye...

According to Deadline, the reboot of The 4400 is bypassing the pilot process and going straight to series. The original show ran for four seasons on the USA Network from 2004 to 2007 and focused on a group of 4,400 individuals who had disappeared over the past century and suddenly returned all at once in the present, with no memory of what happened in between and no change in age. The series starred Joel Gretsch — a veteran of other sci-fi series like Taken and V — as well as Jacqueline McKenzie and, in one of his first major roles, Mahershala Ali, who has since won two Oscars and w...

Take a deep dive into comic books with library book club Pioneer Library System For those who have read comic books for decades, or those just interested in learning more about the perhaps unexpected depth of the genre, the Pioneer Library System is offering a discussion group centered on the genre.  Sacred Panels: A Comics Book Club, will meet at 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 18. The group will continue into the future with monthly meetings generally scheduled on the third Thursday of each month. Access to the Zoom presentation is available by signing up in advance at http://pioneer.libnet.info/ev...

Let these new and forthcoming titles welcome the changes to come in 2021. Top, L to R: "Milk Blood Heat" (Grove Atlantic), "Just As I Am" (HarperCollins), "We Too" (The Feminist Press), "Four Hundred Souls" (One World/Random House). Bottom, L to R: "This Close to Okay" (Grand Central), "Firekeeper's Daughter" (Henry Holt + Co.), "The Echoing Ida Collection" (The Feminist Press), "Love is an Ex-Country" (Catapult). Illustration Credit: Courtesy CLG We will never go back to a time before the devastating losses and surreal political theater seen during the COVID-19 pandemic. The year 2020 chang...

Can a Comic Book Contain the Drama and Heat of Activism? From “The Black Panther Party” By Ed Park Feb. 2, 2021 “Writing this book broke my heart,” David F. Walker admits in the afterword to his ambitious and informative graphic history THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY (Ten Speed, 183 pp., $19.99), crisply illustrated by Marcus Kwame Anderson. Founded in 1966 by Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton, the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense was the most famous exponent of the Black Power movement. Its Ten Point Program (reproduced in full in these pages) was a forceful manifesto demanding “land, b...