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Quantum Leap’s Ready to Jump Back to Your TV

Image: NBCIt’s been a full month since NBC’s pretty solid Quantum Leap revival went on a midseason break to account for the holidays. But it won’t be too long a wait before the show returns: per Deadline, the remaining episodes of season two will begin airing on Tuesday, January 30.Ernie Hudson | First FandomsFor its last run of episodes, Quantum Leap will be migrating to Tuesday nights at instead of its previous Wednesday timeslot. The first three episode will air weekly, while the final pair will pair together on

Russell T. Davies Teases One of Doctor Who’s New Mysteries

Bendy and the Ink Machine is headed to the big screen. Pixar’s Jay Ward teases the future of Cars. Could the Quantum Leap revival actually give Ben his happy ending? Plus, get a look at the car-themed heroes of the next Super Sentai series. Spoilers now!Making the Freddy Fazbear Pizza Band Come to Life for Five Nights at Freddy’sBendy and the Ink MachineFollowing the success of the Five Nights at Freddy’s movie, the official Bendy and the Ink Machine Twitter page revealed a film is now in development at Radar Pictures.The…

11 Fairly Competent Time Travelers

X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST - Official Trailer (2014)When giant, mutant-killing robots called Sentinels have nearly annihilated mutantkind (and all those that help them), Professor X (Patrick Stewart) and Kitty Pryde (Elliot Page) cobble together a plan to send Wolverine’s (Hugh Jackman) mind back in time to prevent Mystique (Jennifer Lawrence) from assassinating the Sentinels’ creator, Bolivar Trask (Peter Dinklage), in 1973. It works, and per their older selves’ instructions, Logan finds the younger versions of Xavier…

10 Reason to Watch the Reboot Sequel on NBC

Photo: Ron Batzdorff/NBCQuantum Leap—a reboot/sequel of the 1990s sci-fi series about a scientist trapped in time, temporarily “leaping” into other people and helping them solve problems along the way—has been a success for NBC, so much so that the network extended its order for the show’s first season. Now that the first eight episodes have aired, including last Sunday’s fall finale, the show goes on hiatus until January 2, returning with 10 more episodes following the decade-hopping adventures of Dr. Ben Song (Raymond

NBC’s Quantum Leap Reboot Is Faithful to the Sci-Fi Classic

Addison (Caitlin Bassett) and Ben (Raymond Lee) brace for impact.Photo: Ron Batzdorff/NBCIt’s been nearly 30 years since Scott Bakula’s Dr. Sam Beckett vanished into time (and from the airwaves), but Quantum Leap—a popular show during its five-season run—has since maintained a cult following. It’s no surprise NBC has dipped back into the time-travel well with a reboot, which premieres today.This new Quantum Leap is actually a sequel in addition to being a reboot. Sam and his companion, Al (the late Dean Stockwell, to whom

Scott Bakula Explains Why He Won’t Be in New Show

Image: NBCUniversalNext week, NBC’s reboot-revival of Quantum Leap will air. While it’s been up in the air for some time if the revival would ever happen, the question has since shifted to if Scott Bakula would return to reprise original hero Sam Beckett. And if you were hoping for some kind of legacy mantle story, you’re about to be disappointed. On the acting side, we’ve known for some time that Bakula wouldn’t be appearing in the show, since he was already cast in NBC’s upcoming drama, Unbroken. But his Twitter thread

Hocus Pocus 2 Reveals Ted Lasso’s Hannah Waddingham as Witch

Image: DisneyChad Coleman is joining Superman & Lois. Sarah Michelle Gellar’s Teen Wolf spinoff adds another star. Ernie Hudson really wants the new Quantum Leap to bring Sam Beckett home. Plus, Halo season 2 begins filming, and what to expect from Rick & Morty. Spoilers now!Scream 6In conversation with Collider, Melissa Berrera stated bringing the Scream franchise to New York City will make it “20 timesmore mortifying” than either Los Angeles or the town of Woodsboro, California. It’s, like 20 times more

NBC’s Quantum Leap Reboot-Sequel Showrunner Interview

Dr. Ben Song (Raymond Lee) tries to help a man in the Quantum Leap series premiere while Addison (Caitlin Bassett) looks on.Photo: Ron Batzdorff/NBCQuantum Leap is back—or at least, a reboot-sequel that introduces a whole new cast into the show’s preexisting time-travel set-up. Rather than Scott Bakula’s Dr. Sam Beckett, the new series follows Dr. Ben Song (Raymond Lee) as he leaps between decades, helping out people in need, while his lab team back in 2022 tries to figure out how to get him home.At a recent press event