Sunday News: A Memory of Prince, a New Doctor's Companion, and more.

There are whole parades remembering Prince, BBC has selected a new Companion for Doctor Who, but 20th Century Fox chooses to stay archaic with NOT A SINGLE FEMALE DIRECTOR FOR THE NEXT TWO YEARS!

Hollywood, Minnesota, New York. Everyone EVERYWHERE, quite literally, is remembering the music icon Prince. ​The man was shorter than me, but you'd never guess it. With health problems as a child, and a person of color from a too oft forgotten part of the country, he's one of those more subtle reminders that anyone can come from anything and actually build foundation upon culture and society. His life was more than his work: his life was the passion and the absorption of the work. He found ways to redefine his craft again and again, and simply didn't have time to care what anyone thought. He was too busy writing gargantuan amounts of music, for himself AND other artists. He truly was legend, and has sincerely earned every ounce of praise and celebration he is getting.

Doctor Who has a new companion, and she's just breaking all the rules! Askin' why Daleks have suckers and shit. YOU DON'T ASK THAT, PEARL MACKIE!

Seriously, though, she looks she'll be solid.

J.J. Abrams and Daisy Ridley are at it again with a fantasy thriller, Kolma. It'll be directed by Marielle Heller of Diary of a Teenage Girl, based on a 2003 Israeli film, All I've Got, and focuses on a widow who must choose between joining her husband in the afterlife or returning to the day he died. Auspicious.

20th Century Fox has released its production list for the next two years... with no female directors. This merits no response, so I'll leave it to Indiewire.

In better news, Game of Thrones, Veep, and Silicon Valley have all been renewed. And the buzz continues that David Benioff and Dan Weiss will split the final season into TWO seasons, with fewer episodes each. Intrigue aplenty!

We've got first stills from Antoine Fuqua's Magnificent Seven, which just looks amazing! And I don't care much for Westerns!

THIS WEEK IN TRAILERS!: Woody Allen's Cafe Society, You Know His Name (That's not the title, obviously), and I'm gonna throw an oldie out there (as in, not from this week) for a web-series shot in my hometown of Chicago that's a more diverse answer to Girls, called You're So Talented.

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