Author: Heath Andrews

If there is one bastion of television programming left that traditional networks can hold onto, it’s sports. Yes, cable has been involved in this as well, but even if you don’t have a cable package, you can still count on watching sports when their respective seasons are in swing. ABC, CBS, NBC, and Fox have paid a pretty penny over the decades to secure rights to the NFL, NBA, MLB, NASCAR, and other leagues. Their respective streaming platforms help complement the terrestrial and cable broadcasts, but Netflix doesn’t do that. The streaming juggernaut currently doesn’t have much of a live…

The last couple of years have given us the goods in terms of festival news. A number of pop-up events have happened that keep ending in disaster. Maybe it’s poor planning, maybe it’s overpromising to the point of ridiculousness. Whatever the reason is, they keep happening. There was Wonka, Bridgerton, and going way back, the Dashcon fiasco. Now you can add “Barbie Dream Fest” to that list. Barbie Florida Fiasco Last weekend, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, played host to the “Barbie Dream Fest.” It was supposed to be an event for Barbie fans to attend a roller-skating party with an interactive…

Last month, we reported that chocolate theft was rising in the UK. In fact, it’s getting so bad that it’s becoming the second most commonly stolen item. The most common? Alcohol. Economic hardship is causing certain items to rise in price, and chocolate is among them. Thieves can steal chocolate and then resell it at their own price to make a pretty penny. We’re not sure if that’s the motivation behind this theft, but how else do you explain stealing 12 tons of KitKat bars? The Heist Last week, a truck going along its route from central Italy to Poland…

In late December of 2025, Sydney Sweeney scored a much-needed hit in the form of The Housemaid. The dark thriller also stars Amanda Seyfried and made a killing at the box office. On a budget of about $35 million, it grossed just shy of $400 million. That’s a reason for people to rejoice. Of course, when Hollywood rejoices, they do it in the form of making sequels. Sure enough, a sequel is coming, but the wisdom behind the release date could be disastrous. The movie industry can be very specific about release dates for films. Some of these make sense,…

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…