Having faced so many critiques and setbacks that we’re now officially out of “What’s your damage?” jokes, the Heathers TV reboot has now been dumped by yet another network. Per The Hollywood Reporter, the controversial remake has just been scrapped by Paramount Network (a.k.a. the recently redubbed Spike), where it…
In February, the Paramount Network delayed the debut of its TV reboot of Heathers after the deadly school shooting in Parkland, Florida, explaining that one of the “challenging subjects” the show tackled—along with personal identity, race, and socio-economic status—was gun violence. Now, Variety is reporting that …
Released in 1988, the original Heathers pre-dated the Columbine shootings by more than a decade, a lengthy span of insulating time that might explain why its ’80s take on satirical high school gun violence is still capable of provoking as many laughs as horrified grimaces. Its upcoming TV successor series, originally…
Teenage life has changed significantly since 1988, the year that the pitch-black teen comedy Heathers debuted in theaters. The nerds that once lived in fear of getting wedgies now have Hollywood studios eagerly catering to their every consumer whim, and the jocks who used to terrorize them no longer have the power to…
It was announced earlier this year that the 1988 black comedy Heathers would be revived in the form of a television show. While a teaser trailer has been released, fans will have to wait until 2018 to see the first episode. In the mean time, we’ll settle for the next best thing: an interview with the new Heathers. In…
Music videos remain as culturally relevant as ever. Kendrick Lamar is putting out visually rich pastiches, Taylor Swift is breaking records, and Beyoncé is making the long-form music video great again. And while the format is not a core part of its programming anymore, every year, MTV brings hundreds of celebrities to…
Selma Blair is set to star in Heathers, but not as an actual Heather. Instead, Blair will simply be Heather-adjacent, co-starring in the upcoming TV adaptation of the Winona Ryder dark comedy classic, which has just been moved from its starting spot at TV Land over to the Paramount Network. That’s per Deadline, which…
When Buffy The Vampire Slayer debuted on The WB in 1997, it signaled a new direction for the fledgling netlet, a pivot toward audiences who could see themselves reflected in Buffy Summers and her Sunnydale High classmates. Of course, it’s the distinctions between Buffy and all previous TV teens that made all the…
It looks like one of the original Heathers from the movie Heathers will be returning for the Heathers TV show, as Shannen Doherty recently posted a photo on her Instagram from the set of the TV Land reboot. That comes via The Hollywood Reporter, which adds that TV Land has confirmed that she will make an appearance,…
Earlier this year, TV Land announced that it was doing a TV remake of the classic dark teen comedy Heathers, with news coming a few weeks ago that Under The Dome’s Grace Victoria Cox would play the lead role of Veronica Sawyer (played by Winona Ryder in the original film.) Now, Deadline reports that the show has found…
It’s only been six months since TV Land shared its intentions to adapt Heathers in an effort to woo younger viewers with a dark comedy from the late ’80s. But the project’s gaining traction at the former home of The Jim Gaffigan Show, which has nudged its idea for a reverse-Heathers along at a brisker pace than the…
According to a new study, what a movie character does when they step in front of a mirror may be related to whether they are male or female. If that person looks forlornly into the reflected image for a few beats before breaking down in tears, the study surmises, that person is probably a woman. If the person becomes…
In news that will undoubtedly have fans wishing for the sweet touch of a chainsaw, TV Land has announced plans to adapt the dark comedy of Heathers for a new generation of high-school students with a serious case of implicit egotism. The network is developing a “comedic” anthology series based on the 1989 film that…
In which The A.V. Club finds someone notable to schedule 24 Hours Of media for you to enjoy.
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, thanks to a string of off-kilter films like Beetlejuice, Heathers, and Edward Scissorhands, Winona Ryder became America’s unlikely sweetheart: dark, waifish, quirky, intellectual, and somehow eternally innocent yet wise beyond her years. At 44, Ryder is still active in television and…
It was probably ridiculous for anyone to expect a musical adaptation of Daniel Waters’ 1988 cult movie Heathers to be really good, per se, but somehow we held out hope. That is until a six-minute clip from the show’s media preview hit the net, once again reminding the world that not every beloved movie needs to be a…
