We knew a reboot was coming for a while, but we didn’t have any concrete details until today. Original series creator J. Michael Straczynski just announced that it’s on developed by Warner Bros. Animation.

Straczynski is silent on plot details, but said the film is “classic”. AT 5with a “raucous, heartfelt” story, continuing to suggest that the cartoon is “the most AT 5-ish” since the original series was canceled in 1998. He also said that the film is completely finished and awaiting release. In other words, it will likely be months, not years, before megafans take notice.

To that end, the writer said the film’s official title, release date, and other details would be released next week. If the movie is “in the bank” as Straczynski says, we’re hoping we’ll also get a trailer, or at least some animation footage, with a release date announced. It is still unknown which actors from the original series will reprise their roles in the film.

Babylon 5 It originally aired for five seasons, followed by five made-for-television films (the last aired in 2002). The show has long been praised for its commitment to hard science fiction and its ever-changing cast of ragtag characters, winning two Hugo Awards and a Saturn Award during its run. It mostly takes place on the titular space station, reminiscent of a rival sci-fi epic. Star Trek: Deep Space 9. There is some discussion about which episode came out first, as DS9 aired a year before babylon 5, But AT 5 which is the first in production. In recent years, series creator Straczynski has been heavily involved in shows such as braid8 and lots of high-profile comics.

Two weeks before Tucker Carlson was fired, and I hung out with Abughazale and five of her media colleagues in their Navy Yard office overlooking the Anacostia River to watch them watch the Fox News evening line. The space is huge, with open seating and large meeting rooms, and very few staff. (Most of the team has been working from home since the start of the pandemic.)

Blonde-haired, blue-eyed, and petite, Abuzale could easily pass for one of Fox News’ talking heads. Indeed, Abugazale has a pretty good idea of ​​what it takes to be the darling of the right on one of the shows she watches daily. “Spell about canceling culture on Twitter, tweet ‘I support J.K. Rowling’, escalate it over and over again,” she said. “Complain, flush and repeat.

“It’s so easy and there’s so much money in it, which is why so many people are into it,” she continued. “All you have to do is whine and be a little racist. To be clear, I’d rather gouge my eyeballs out.”

Abugazale joked that she was born to be a “conservative sleeper agent”. She grew up in a “prosperous” area of ​​Dallas and attended private schools until her second year of high school. Her father is an immigrant from Palestine, and on her mother’s side she is a seventh generation Texan. Their conservative family tuned into Fox News regularly.

As a child, Abugazale also watched over her maternal grandmother – longtime member from the Texas Federation of Republican Women—worked on several GOP campaigns and listened to her enthusiastic descriptions of the party’s ideology. (After her grandmother’s death, Abugazale inherited the mink coat she wore to President Nixon’s inauguration.)

Abugazale was a Republican until her teenage years. She attributes her gradual political awakening to her move to Tucson, Arizona during those years. “At least my high school was low-income or illegal,” she says. “The bootstrap myth has dissipated before my eyes.”

She attended George Washington University in Washington, DC during the Donald Trump years, majoring in international security in addition to studying journalism. After graduating in 2020, she said: “I wanted to work in an organization that was on a good mission, a mission that I believed in, and I didn’t want to work where it was just a job – I wanted to take care of what I do.” The position at Media Matters suited her perfectly.

Media matters describes himself as a “progressive research and information center” dedicated to “comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative disinformation in the U.S. media.” The group’s website holds footage from both TV shows and online broadcasts, which it uses to track down false narratives or draw attention to how certain issues are covered.

Part of Abuzaleh’s job is to extract television snippets of Fox News moments from her assigned shows and send transcripts to her colleagues so they can follow what’s being said on a wide range of topics on the cable news channel.

Unlike some of his colleagues who use multiple desktop monitors, Abuzaleh does all his work on a laptop. She flips from one tab to another at lightning speed, sends out emails, posts clips on Twitter, and gives snappy replies to people she mentions.

That evening as I watched her work, one of the first fragments she grabbed was the Carlson.wildly racist tiradeabout Tennessee politician Justin Pearson. “You’re here to have a fun evening,” she said, exporting an excerpt from Carlson’s opening monologue. “Strong thing – today he is normal.”

Media Matters employees are sometimes criticized for creating problematic content by posting clips from Fox News. Abugazale sees it differently. “Fox is the most watched cable news channel in the country,” Abughazale said. “They already had a platform. And the fact that they go unpunished does more harm than good.”

The Motorola Razr 40 Ultra is just around the corner, expected to launch in June, and the latest specs leak suggests that Motorola plans to use the Snapdragon 8 Plus Gen 1 in its upcoming foldable device.

The rumor comes through XDA Developers (will open in a new tab) and is presumably based on leaked information, although their source is not specified. Motorola is expected to release two foldable Razr models at its next launch, but the leak only concerns the larger Ultra model.