Wallace & Gromit (Untitled Project, 2024)

Wallace & Gromit have been on some bold journeys together.  They traveled to the moon to get cheese in A Grand Day Out.  Gromit receives some techno-trousers from Wallace that would take him on walks in The Wrong Trousers (which featured the adorable yet villainous penguin Feathers McGraw).  And they even had to deal with sheep coming into their house in A Close Shave.  

The latest Wallace & Gromit short was A Matter of Loaf and Death that was released in December 2008.  To date, Wallace & Gromit have been featured in four short films and one major film (Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit).  

Interestingly enough, Wallace & Gromit will be featured in yet another film on Netflix.  Aardman Animations’ founder Peter Lord revealed that the next film will feature a robotic gnome who will be the main villain of the film.  It will even center on Gromit’s concern on Wallace’s dependence on his inventions.  As always, Gromit is led to defeat the enemy.

Aardman Animations has done more than just the Wallace & Gromit series.  They created TV shows and films like Shaun the Sheep, Chicken Run, Flushed Away, Angry Kid, and Morph.  Interestingly enough, Shaun the Sheep is a spin-off series that started after Wallace and Gromit: A Close Shave.

With that, we have a new Wallace & Gromit film coming this year.  It will be the latest Wallace & Gromit project since Wallace and Gromit: A Matter of Loaf and Death.  Wallace and Gromit will deal with a villainous robotic gnome in the next movie.

#GrandTheftAutoGamesCometoNetflix

Netflix offers all sorts of entertainment – TV shows, movies, documentaries, and even video games.  They have simple puzzle games like Cut the Rope Daily and Shovel Knight Pocket Dungeon.  Better yet, they have famous indie games like Kentucky Route Zero and World of Goo Remastered.  Even if you don’t have a video game console, you can still play video games through Netflix.

And this month, Netflix is getting three games from one of the greatest video game franchises of all time.  That franchise is Grand Theft Auto.

Rockstar’s Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition is coming to Netflix.  This collection will include the Grand Theft Auto games Grand Theft Auto III, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, and Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.  It will be made available December 14th.

Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition already came out in November 2021 for the PC, Xbox One/Series X, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, and PlayStation 5.  For $59.99, players could relive one of three Grand Theft Auto games.  Now that collection will be made for Netflix.  This is building up anticipation for Grand Theft Auto 6, the first major release in a decade.

This is the kind of thing boosting publicity for Netflix and Rockstar Games.  Rockstar Games gets to re-release three great Grand Theft Auto games while Netflix adds three games into their library.  Both companies win in the end.

With that, Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy – The Definitive Edition is coming to Netflix this December.  Grand Theft Auto III, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, and Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas will be available to play.  Rockstar Games and Netflix will benefit through this move AND it will drum up hype for Grand Theft Auto 6.  It’s a win-win situation for everyone all around. 

#HammondGreatStandUptoCancerAppearance

Season 11 of The Great British Baking Show starts this Friday on Netflix.  The series already premiered yesterday in Great Britain with fourteen new bakers in the competition.  Besides the new contestants, we even have the new co-host Alison Hammond.

But interestingly enough, Alison Hammond is already familiar with The Great British Baking Show.  She appeared in the series not as one of the hosts, but one of the competitors.  

Alison Hammond appeared in season 3 episode 4 of the series The Great Stand Up to Cancer Bake Off in March 2020.  She competed with James Blunt, Alex Jones, and Joe Sugg.  The signature challenge was traybake, technical challenge were mini Yorkshire puddings, and they had to create a future aspiration biscuit scene for the showstopper challenge.  It was the highest viewed episode for that season.  

So not only has Alison Hammond appeared in various reality TV series, but she even appeared in The Great Stand Up to Cancer Bake Off.  That’s quite an interesting history for someone being the new co-host of The Great British Baking Show.  First she was one of the bakers and now she is one of the co-hosts.

It’s little tidbits like this that make TV series like The Great British Baking Show that much more interesting.  Alison Hammond may not have been star baker, but she will be the star co-host this year.

Great British Baking Show (Season 11)

Summer may be ending by Thursday, but one of the best things to look forward to in the Fall is a new season of The Great British Baking Show.  The Great British Baking Show (also known as The Great British Bake-Off in Britain) pits bakers against each other in a series of challenges.  They bake various foods like cookies, cakes, breads, pastries, and other fancy deserts.  Judges Paul Hollywood and Mary Berry (now Prue Leith) selects one star baker and eliminate the contestant that did the worst.  Each episode features the Signature Challenge, the Technical Challenge, and the Showstopper Challenge.  

Not only is a new season being aired in Great Britain, but the new season is coming to Netflix as well.  Season 11 of The Great British Baking Show will begin the last week of September.  The first episode will air in the UK on September 26th and will release on Netflix September 29th.  Each episode will air on the UK on Tuesdays and come to Netflix on Fridays.

Paul Hollywood and Prue Leith will return to the series as well as Noel Fielding.  Matt Lucas will be replaced by Alison Hammond.  Hammond is a TV personality known for being on Big Brother, Celebrity Coach Trip, Celebrity Masterchef, Strictly Come Dancing, Doctors, and even The Dumping Ground. 

So what can we expect this season on The Great British Baking Show?  Who will receive the Paul Hollywood handshake?  Which baker will stand out the most?  What categories will we see this season?

Only way to find out is to catch The Great British Baking Show on Netflix.  On your mark, get set, bake!

Scott Pilgrim (The Anime)

Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World was one of those quirky films that was a hit back in 2010.  Michael Cera starred as Scott Pilgrim, a musician who was trying to win a competition for a record.  He also fought off against seven evil exes of his girlfriend Ramona Flowers.  While the film bombed at the box office, Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World gained a cult following and received over 70 nominations as well as awards.

Interestingly enough, Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World was adapted from the graphic novel Scott Pilgrim.  That graphic novel ended up becoming a video game titled Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World: The Game.  Now the franchise is being turned into an anime.

Yes indeed, folks – Scott Pilgrim is being made into an anime called Scott Pilgrim Takes Off.  The original cast of Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World returns to this upcoming anime series on Netflix.  Its similar to the movie, but now as an anime.  Scott Pilgrim Takes Off will premiere on November 17th.

So Scott Pilgrim, the original graphic novel series that started it all, is now getting an anime-adapted series.  That is quite a branch the Scott Pilgrim franchise is extending to these days.  There was the graphic novel, the film, the video game, and now the anime.  It goes to show that Scott Pilgrim can do it all.

With that, Scott Pilgrim Takes Off comes to Netflix November 17th.  The anime-adapted series will feature the original cast from the movie coming back as an anime.  From the graphic novel to anime, Scott Pilgrim really adapts well as a franchise.  This is the kind of success cult followings have in the world of entertainment.