Tuesday November 6th 2018

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On October 7th of 1989 an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation aired called The Survivors.

It was episode three of season three.

In the episode The Enterprise responded to a distress call from Rana IV, a Federation colony that is under attack from an unknown alien ship.

When they arrived, they found the entire surface of the planet destroyed, except for a single house and two occupants.

The two occupants being Rishon and Kevin Uxbridge, played by Anne Haney and John Anderson.

The Malibu California home featured in that episode is up for sale for the price of $5.7 million.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/entertainthis/2018/11/05/star-trek-house-sale-malibu-5-7-million-trekkies/1889624002/


Actor Andrew Lincoln gets a three spin off movies from The Walking Dead.

Lincoln's character Rick Grimes just had his goodbye episode of the show.

There is no date on when the movies will be released.

AMC does admit that it is part of an effort to keep the franchise alive for at least several more years.

Although the show has fallen in viewership recently, it's not in the danger zone yet.

https://www.wired.com/story/walking-dead-rick-grimes-movies/


It has been confirmed that the title to the PG-13 version of Deadpool 2 is "Once Upon a Deadpool."

It will have an extremely short theater run of December 12th through 24th.

One dollar per ticket will go to the 'Fudge Cancer' (re-titled because this is PG-13) charity.

Ryan Reynolds and Fred Savage filmed the new footage in one day.

The entire movie was re-edited to be a nod to The Princess Bride.

https://io9.gizmodo.com/the-pg-13-deadpool-2-has-a-title-release-schedule-and-1830233611