Author: Heath Andrews

We’ve covered our fair share of odd lawsuits here on Nerdbot. We’re not even strangers to the subject of weird music-related lawsuits at that. We spent more than a few articles covering the saga of the kid from the Nirvana album, Nevermind, trying to sue the band. It didn’t work out well for him. Now we have another lawsuit to tell you about in the form of the opening chant from The Lion King. Lost in Translation “Nants’ingonyama bagithi Baba” are the iconic words that open the film version of the song, “The Circle of Life.” If you ask comedian…

If you were a child of the ’80s or early ’90s, you may have very fond memories of Jessica Fletcher. The author turned detective was the main character of Murder, She Wrote. The CBS mystery show starred Angela Lansbury as Fletcher, solving murders through her keen author’s mind. She was the cool grandmother every kid wished they had. She also may have been cursed, explaining why death and murder surrounded her. It’s been 30 years since the show ended, but it’s coming back with a film and a new star. One Icon to Another No one can replace Angela Lansbury;…

On March 25, 2026, HBO dropped its first official trailer for its upcoming Harry Potter series. We’ve been reporting on this for a while now and keeping up with casting news specifically. We all knew the trailer had to come eventually, and here it is, nine months before the series will premiere. Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone is part of HBO’s big bet on branding. They want to capitalize on their existing IP’s, and they know that Harry Potter is a big one. So how did the trailer come across? It’s perfectly fine. Playing it Safe Basically, we can…

Stephen Colbert’s career has had some wonderfully unexpected twists. Colbert got his first big break on the short-lived The Dana Carvey Show before becoming a correspondent on The Daily Show. Eventually, he’d land his own program and take over The Late Show. Now, he’s working on perhaps his biggest gig yet, writing a Lord of the Rings film. Stephen Colbert: Tolkien Superfan It’s funny to think that a writing job would be the crowning achievement of a TV host’s career, but Colbert is a unique soul. It’s well known that Colbert is a massive fan of J.R.R. Tolkien and his Middle-earth saga.…

An already bad week for fans of Buffy the Vampire Slayer has just taken a turn for the tragic worse. It is with a heavy heart that we report the passing of Nicholas Brendon. Brendon rose to popularity by playing the character of Xander Harris, one of Buffy’s closest friends. The news comes on the heels of fans learning the pilot for the Buffy revival was not going forward at Hulu. It’s a horrendous one-two punch of news. This second hit is far more tragic for obvious reasons. Brendon was one of only a few characters that was there from…

Unsung heroes are all over the place; you just need to know where to look for them. The notion of YouTube rabbit holes is nothing new. When you go down one, you never quite know what you’ll bring back with you when you come back up. Sometimes you find conspiracy theories. Sometimes you encounter things you’ll never understand. And then there are times you discover the hero you didn’t know the world needed. We discovered one of those heroes and his trusty ukulele. The History of Kentauros Owen A little over 9 years ago, on March 2nd, 2017, the first…

Mergers between large companies are rarely a good thing in the long run for consumers. Competition helps drive the market in favor of buyers. When companies start buying out the competition, suddenly, there are fewer options for consumers. We see this in any number of industries, but we’re specifically seeing it more in the media landscape. The upcoming, dangerously Donald Trump-friendly acquisition of Warner Bros. by Paramount is not helping things. But as an episode of The Simpsons (now owned by Disney) once famously exclaimed, “Won’t somebody please think of the children!” Or Netflix and the children, in this case.…

Last week, we reported on some fairly shocking news about Hulu’s reboot of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Despite all expectations, the pilot episode was not picked up for a series order. This is despite the talents of Academy Award-winning director Chloé Zhao behind the camera. Even the reappearance of the original Buffy, played by Sarah Michelle Gellar, didn’t help. At the time of the initial report, all we could do was speculate. Now, more information is coming out as to why the pilot got staked through the chest. Please keep in mind that all of the information is speculative and comes from…

A network TV shocker has just imploded on the national scene. This Sunday, March 22nd, ABC was set to air the premiere of its latest season of The Bachelorette. A lot of heavy promotion poured into this show already. Taylor Frankie Paul was set as the lead in the show. Paul has risen in stardom thanks to appearing on The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives. As quickly as her star has risen, its now plummeted and taken The Bachelorette with it. We’re not entirely sure what Disney was expecting to happen here. Paul and her former partner, Dakota Mortensen had…

Kumite, Kumite, Kumite, Kumite! This chant of the Japanese word for “grappling hands” is no stranger to anyone who has watched the film Bloodsport. The film has a wild history and brought actor Jean-Claude Van Damme into the mainstream. It’s the kind of film that could only have come out when it did in the late 80s. It is a bombastic mess of cliches, over-the-top acting, fight choreography, and gloriously ’80s music. It’s also getting a reboot. What is Bloodsport? Is Bloodsport the kind of film that needs a remake? No, it really doesn’t. At least, not in the traditional…