With Season 2 of Ted currently airing, fans are seeing a bolder, funnier version of the Bennett family. For Scott Grimes, who plays the gruff but lovable Matty Bennett, the experience of returning to this world was about more than just the jokes.

If Season 1 established the foundation, Season 2 is where Seth MacFarlane truly let loose. According to Grimes, while the core of the show remains grounded in the comfort of 70s and 80s sitcom tropes - complete with the same furniture, clothes, and character dynamics - the humor has evolved. “The comedy has been upped," Grimes noted. "We did what Seth wanted us to do in Season 1, but we kept it the same...Seth wrote more of what he wanted to write in Season 2."

This "more is more" approach seems to be paying off; Grimes shared that the series is performing even better than the first season since its release in early March.

At 54 years old, Grimes is a veteran of the industry, but filming on the Universal Studios lot in Los Angeles still moves him to tears. Having started his career in LA at the age of 11, walking onto a historic studio lot remains a sacred experience for him.

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The Hunting Party follows a team of investigators led by former FBI profiler Rebecca “Bex” Henderson (Melissa Roxburgh) as they hunt down and capture the worst of the worst serial killers who have escaped from the top-secret government prison known as “The Pit.”

Tonight, on an all-new episode, Josh Dallas reunites with his Manifest costar, playing the role of Elliot Carr, a high-end shoemaker and serial killer known as the Connecticut Cobbler, who made shoes from his victims’ skins. Bex and the team race against the clock to find and catch Carr before more people find themselves flayed.

Recently, Roxburgh and Dallas spoke with SciFi Vision about reuniting for the episode, playing the dynamic between their characters that is very different than that of Manifest, what it was like for Dallas to play the darker parts of the character, and more.

The following interview contains spoilers for 407

Dark Winds follows Navajo Tribal Police officers Lt. Joe Leaphorn (Zain McClarnon), Jim Chee (Kiowa Gordon), and Bernadette Manuelito (Jessica Matten) as they investigate violent crimes on the reservation. In season four, however, the team is pulled to Los Angeles and must work outside their usual jurisdiction to try to stop a killer connected to organized crime.

In the penultimate episode of the season, the race to save Billie (Isabel DeRoy-Olson) from Irene Vaggan (Franka Potente) continues, however, things go from bad to worse when Leaphorn (Zahn McClarnon) ends up her prisoner alongside the girl.

McClarnon recently spoke to SciFi Vision and the press about season four, including his cat-and-mouse relationship with Vaggan.

PARAMOUNT+ RENEWS SCHOOL SPIRITS FOR A FOURTH SEASON | Created by Nate Trinrud & Megan Trinrud and Produced by Paramount Television Studios

Created by Nate Trinrud & Megan Trinrud and Produced by Paramount Television Studios
 
Paramount+ has renewed School Spirits for a fourth season. The hit original drama, produced by Paramount Television Studios, closed its critically acclaimed third season on March 4 with a perfect 100% Tomatometer rating on Rotten Tomatoes. All three seasons are now streaming on Paramount+ in the US, Canada, UK, Australia, Latin America, and Brazil.

School Spirits season three stars Peyton List as Maddie Nears, Kristian Ventura as Simon Elroy, Spencer MacPherson as Xavier Baxter, Kiara Pichardo as Nicole Herrera, Sarah Yarkin as Rhonda, Nick Pugliese as Charley, Rainbow Wedell as Claire Zomer, Josh Zuckerman as Mr. Martin, Maria Dizzia as Sandra Nears, Ci Hang Ma as Quinn, Miles Elliot as Yuri, and Milo Manheim as Wally Clark.

School Spirits was created by Nate Trinrud & Megan Trinrud, who are co-showrunners and executive producers on the series. Oliver Goldstick (Pretty Little Liars, Bridgerton) will return to season four as a consultant. List also serves as an executive producer on the series. 

Sci-fi fans should recognize Alex Zahara from his versatility across more than 150 television and film projects over the years, ranging from Jeremiah to Stargate SG-1 to Supernatural to Fringe and everything in between. More recently, he appeared in the film Final Destination: Bloodlines and plays the role of Principal Hartman in the supernatural series School Spirits.

Recently Zahara was kind enough to appear on SciFi Vision’s livestream spotlight series to speak not only about his role on School Spirits and the end of the season, but also about his prolific acting career and what’s next for him.

While crafting Hartman, the actor pulled from both the script as well as real-life school principals he had, as opposed to other principals on the screen. “I'm basing him on the script, what I believe his needs and wants and goals are, plus a little amalgamation of real people that I know,” the actor told SciFi Vision, likening it to a cocktail. “As actors, we're sponges. We absorb everything from everywhere.”

Zahara connected early on to the material and thought the concept was appealing because of his own beliefs in the supernatural. “I believe in ghosts; I believe in spirits, and that's why it's been a pleasure working on this, because I do think there's stuff out there,” explained the actor. In fact, he even offered up a real experience he had as a child, a visitation he believed was from his great aunt, and he knows he’s not the only one. “I'm not alone. There are a lot of people who have had ghostly, or I would say energetic encounters, and that's for real…There's no denying that there's something beyond our mortal coil, for sure.”

Set in the American South, the film Vampires of the Velvet Lounge follows Countess Elizabeth Báthory (Mena Suvari) and her coven of vampires, including Joan (India Eisley) who operate of a hidden absinthe bar where they lure in unsuspecting lonely victims they meet through dating apps and drain them to maintain their youth. When they target the wrong matches and cross paths with an undercover vampire hunter and a group of unsuspecting male targets who disrupt the plan, the coven’s routine begins to unravel, leading to a chaotic night of escalating violence, fangs, and green-winged fairies inside the bar.

Suvari and Eisley spoke with SciFi Vision about what drew them to Vampires of the Velvet Lounge and why the script felt different from typical horror material, working with blood effects, and more. Vampires of the Velvet Lounge is now in theaters.

In DRAGN, Tom Wilson (James Paxton) takes his family to Serbia to fill in for his boss at what he expects to be a routine team-building retreat in the remote forest, but after meeting with the head of the company, Petros (Alex Lane), things quickly go from bad to much worse when he and a group of colleagues from different branches of the company end up being hunted by a rogue AI-driven drone.

Recently, stars Paxton and Lane, who also produced the film and wrote the script, spoke with SciFi Vision to break down the movie, including their characters, stunts, practical effects, AI themes, and more.

DRAGN is now in theaters and available on demand.

Based on David Morrell’s 2005 novel Creepers, the supernatural horror-thriller Do Not Enter follows a group of thrill-seeking urban explorers who love taking things to the extreme and recording it for social media for the world to see. After a disagreement between members that ends one of them leaving the group, the four friends who stayed, including Rick (Jake Manley), his girlfriend Diane (Adeline Rudolph), Cora (Francesca Reale), and Vernon (Shane Paul McGhie), decide they need to do something big. With its past of supposed ghosts and a rumored $300 millions stashed in the abandoned building, New Jersey’s Paragon Hotel is the perfect place for their next livestreaming stunt in order to increase their fanbase. Ignoring the warnings, the Creepers, with the addition of reporter Frank Balenger (Laurence O’Fuarain), who they think can help grow their online fame, break into the hotel and have to contend with not only deadly rivals, but supernatural creatures that stalk them from the shadows.

Stars Manley, Rudolph, and Francesca recently spoke with SciFi Vision about working on the film, including filming locations, rehearsing together, stunt work, and more.

The film opens today in theaters and is also now available on digital and on demand.

Deep in the American South, an absinth bar doubles as a deadly hunting ground for Countess Elizabeth Báthory (Mena Suvari) and her glamorous coven of vampires, who use dating apps to lure in and feed on unsuspecting singles to keep their youth intact. Everything runs smoothly until Elizabeth swipes right on the worst possible matches: a calculating undercover vampire hunter, Cora (Dichen Lachman), and a group of emotionally stunted men. From there, it all unravels into a fever dream of blood, seduction, and chaos, with fangs, glitter, and green fairy energy colliding in a savage grindhouse nightmare.

Lachman recently spoke with SciFi Vision about her experience filming the movie, including her excitement to be back in vampire world again, working with blood effects, building the character through voice, and more, as well as about the challenge of playing multiple versions of the same character across projects like Severance and Dollhouse, and how she relies on physical cues like body tension and movement to separate each version in her performance.

Vampires of the Velvet Lounge opens exclusively in theaters on Friday, March 20th.

Nathan Fillion Makes Surprise Announcement of New Animated “Firefly” Series in Advanced Development at Awesome Con

March 15, 2026 - Nathan Fillion surprised fans today with the announcement that he and 20th Television Animation are in advanced stages of development on a new animated series based on the beloved cult sci-fi franchise “Firefly.” The reveal came during a panel and live taping of his podcast “Once We Were Spacemen” at Awesome Con in Washington, D.C., where the news was met by a packed, standing-room-only crowd with thunderous applause and enthusiastic cheers.

Fillion made the announcement alongside his former “Firefly” co-star and podcast co-host Alan Tudyk, joined by fellow original cast members Gina Torres, Jewel Staite, Morena Baccarin, Sean Maher, and Summer Glau that amplified speculation already building online.

The reveal followed a viral social media campaign featuring a series of cryptic videos starring Fillion and several of his “Firefly” co-stars. In the first clip, Fillion knocks on what appears to be a production trailer door as Torres asks, “Does this mean it’s time?” Fillion responds simply, “It’s time.” Subsequent videos featured Baccarin, Maher, Staite, Glau, Baldwin and Tudyk, which ignited intense fan speculation and generated tens of millions of views across platforms.