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Wales Online
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Wales Online
Netflix cancels two of the biggest shows of 2025 and fans are disgusted
Our community members are treated to special offers, promotions and adverts from us and our partners. You can check out at any time. More info Netflix has cancelled two of the biggest shows of 2025 and fans are disgusted. According to reports featured in Deadline and Hollywood Reporter, the streaming giant has decided to cancel Pulse and The Residence. Both of these series debuted earlier this year. Only recently, website What's On Netflix named both of these titles as two of the best five performing new shows so far this year. This hasn't helped save them, despite other series such as Bad Thoughts and Bet gaining fewer views yet they have already been handed second season renewals. The Residence was a murder mystery whodunnit compared to film series Knives Out set inside the White House. Uzo Aduba starred as Cordelia Cupp, considered to be the greatest detective in the world with a strong affinity for bird watching. It managed around 15 million views in its first two weeks of being released. (Image: Netflix) It came from the creative minds behind Scandal including Shonda Rhimes and showrunner Paul William Davies. While its first series was a self contained story, it had been reported that the idea was it could become an anthology series with Cupp returning to take on new cases in follow up seasons. Pulse was Netflix's first English language medical procedural. As soon as its trailer was released to fans, it was hailed as the streamer's answer to Grey's Anatomy. It also managed around 15 million views in its first two weeks of being released. According to its synopsis, the series follows the personal and professional lives of emergency and surgical residents at Maguire Hospital, a level-one trauma center in Miami during the race for Emergency Medicine Chief Resident. It shows the aftermath of a sexual harassment complaint while the city is hit with a hurricane and an influx of patients. Despite the first season finale ending with multiple cliffhangers, fans will no longer find out what happens next. This article contains affiliate links, we will receive a commission on any sales we generate from it. Learn more Free Netflix subscription Get Netflix free with Sky Sky is giving away a free Netflix subscription with its new TV bundles, including the £15 Essential TV plan. Members can watch live and on-demand TV content without a satellite dish, including hit shows like The Last of Us, Black Mirror and all WWE programming. from £15 Sky Get the deal here In addition to these cancellations, it is also claimed that No Good Deed, which released back in December 2024 faces an uncertain future. It has apparently been placed on indefinite hiatus and it is currently unknown whether or not it would return for a second season. While Ray Romano and Lisa Kudrow led the series, like The Residence it was expected to be turned into an anthology and could have featured new characters. Fans have not taken this latest news well. Many have shared their displeasure at another round of cancellations of shows which they believed had performed well. Responding to the news, one fan posted on social media saying: "The Residence was a great show. I'm seriously not happy about this cancellation." Another added: "The Residence was Netflix's best show and one of their few worth watching, but alright I guess." (Image: Netflix) Someone else commented: "The reason Netflix disgusts me to be honest. Get into a show and all of a sudden it's cancelled. They know The Residence major reason for having low views was because of the huge success and overshadowing from Adolescence yet they cancelled it. It makes no sense." One person asked: "Pulse AND The Residence both cancelled?? What the actual F is wrong with Netflix? Two of the best shows this year. The streaming model is so f*****d up. And the execs wonder why no one wants to get attached to new shows anymore." Pulse and The Residence are streaming on Netflix.
Yahoo
24-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Tom Segura To Star In & Produce R-Rated Comedy ‘El Tigre'
EXCLUSIVE: Top comic Tom Segura has for weeks been teasing a new film project on his podcasts — and now, we know what it is. He's found his first feature starring vehicle in El Tigre, an R-rated comedy from emerging director Tyler Cornack (Mermaid) that goes into production in New Mexico this summer. The news comes as Segura kicks his work in film and television into high gear. Just a week ago, Netflix ordered a second season of Bad Thoughts, his new series for the streamer, where he places a lens on his some of his most dark and twisted cinematic fantasies. More from Deadline Tom Segura's 'Bad Thoughts' Renewed For Season 2 By Netflix Utopia Acquires Comedic Thriller 'Mermaid' Starring 'Fallout's Johnny Pemberton Following SXSW Launch 'Bad Thoughts' Teaser: Tom Segura's Unhinged Netflix Comedy Offers Dark & Twisted Glimpse Inside His Mind El Tigre follows Jeff (Segura) and his friends as they head down to Mexico, only to discover the hard way that Jeff is a dead ringer for the infamous cartel leader El Tigre who's gone missing. After being captured by rivals and then rescued by El Tigre's forces, Jeff has to pretend to be their ruthless leader until he can find his friends and a way home. 'From the moment I read this script I knew I had to play this part,' Segura said. 'As a fellow business owner, I've always found it inspiring how productive and efficient cartel leaders can be. This whole team is so excited to make a great comedy and I'm so thrilled to be a part of it.' Greenlighted for production by Double Down Pictures, the production company led by Will Meldman in partnership with his real estate mogul father, Mike Meldman, El Tigre was scripted by Aaron Buchsbaum and Teddy Riley. Mosaic, founded by Jimmy Miller, is producing alongside Segura and his YMH Studios partner Ryan P. Hall, Will Meldman and Eddie Glaeser for Double Down Pictures, as well as M. Riley and Molly Mandel for Mosaic. Segura came to partner with Cornack here after being wowed by his work on Mermaid, a critically acclaimed comedic thriller, starring his friend and fellow comic Johnny Pemberton, which Utopia acquired on the heels of its SXSW world premiere. We were first to report on the project in April 2024. In his own statement to Deadline, producer WIll Meldman said, 'We're excited to support Tom's first feature film because audiences are hungry for the R-rated comedies of the 90s-2000s that aren't getting made by the studios anymore. This nod to Kevin Kline's DAVE and Pacino's SCARFACE feels like the perfect twisted marriage, and with Tyler's fresh directorial vision combined with Tom's proven comedic appeal, we knew this was exactly the kind of project we wanted to back.' On Bad Thoughts, which premiered in May, Segura transforms into a whole assortment of characters, both real and fictional — among them, actor and martial artist Steven Seagal, secretive operative Agent Six, and country music superstar turned kidnapper Rex Henley. He created the series, setting it up at Netflix after self-financing a pilot, and also serves as its writer, director and exec producer. As an actor, Segura has also been seen in series like Workholics and The Cabin with Bert Kreischer, along with films like Instant Family, where he starred opposite Mark Wahlberg. To date, he's released five comedy specials — all at Netflix — having most recently unveiled Tom Segura: Sledgehammer in July 2023. He is represented by Mosaic and WME. Cornack was both the writer and director of Mermaid, in which a drug addicted Florida man finds a wounded mermaid at his lowest point, stopping at nothing to protect her when word spreads about his secret. His other directing credits include Tiny Cinema, Butt Boy, and The Pocketeers. He is repped by Underground and Cohen & Gardner. Best known as two of the creators and executive producers of Amazon's adult animated comedy Fairfax, Buchsbaum & Riley are with WME. Best of Deadline 2025-26 Awards Season Calendar: Dates For Tonys, Emmys, Oscars & More Men of Steel: Every Actor Who Has Played Superman - Photo Gallery 'Michael' Cast: Who's Who In The Michael Jackson Biopic
Yahoo
21-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Season 2 of Tom Segura's ‘Bad Thoughts' Promises to Be More Disturbing Than Ever
Netflix is doubling down on bad behavior. The streamer has officially renewed Bad Thoughts, Tom Segura's irreverent sketch-style comedy, for a second season. Fans of Segura's no-holds-barred humor can expect more outrageous vignettes steeped in the comedian's signature blend of dark wit and uncomfortable truths. Bad Thoughts isn't your standard comedy. The series plays like a fever dream stitched together by the inner monologue of someone who's just a little too honest. Each episode unravels a series of short, chaotic narratives—from bizarre family encounters to social commentary that lands like a sucker punch—blurring the line between funny and disturbing. Deadline reported that Segura, known for pushing boundaries in his standup, made it clear he's not easing up anytime soon. "It was such a thrill to get the opportunity to entertain and horrify audiences with our very Bad Thoughts on Netflix," he said. "We're all so excited to push things further with season 2. I promise your family will not approve of what we do." The comedian wears multiple hats on the show, serving as creator, director, executive producer, and star. He's joined behind the scenes by executive producers Ryan P. Hall, Molly Mandel, Jeremy Konner, Craig Gerard, and Matthew Zinman. The series is produced by Segura's YMH Studios, the same brand behind his successful podcast empire. The season 1 finale left fans buzzing and squirming. With its mix of taboo topics and surreal sketch comedy, Bad Thoughts developed a cult following among those who like their laughs with a side of discomfort. It's clear Segura plans to lean even harder into the chaos in round two. Netflix has not yet announced a premiere date for the second season, but if it's anything like the first, it'll arrive quietly… then punch you in the 2 of Tom Segura's 'Bad Thoughts' Promises to Be More Disturbing Than Ever first appeared on Men's Journal on Jun 19, 2025
Telegraph
23-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Telegraph
Racial slurs, alien sex: The shocking return of politically incorrect comedy
Bad Thoughts is a new Netflix comedy offering, of the particular kind described as 'adult' but which is actually very childish, or at least adolescent-ish. It has a simple premise over its six bite-size episodes, each of which is an easily gulped down 15 minutes. In every instalment of Bad Thoughts, star Tom Segura takes a universal theme – love, family, communication – and serves up sketches to illustrate just about the crudest and most unpleasant aspects of that subject that he, or indeed you, could imagine; a cancer patient's last wish is to be vigorously 'banged' by a man her husband despises; a virtual reality video game where children play aliens raping humans; a gym where every man but our hero possesses an enormous penis. Segura is an American stand-up comedian, podcast host and Joe Rogan regular with a large and dedicated following. He has made his name saying naughty things and using naughty words in the process. It's all in the best tradition of what our own, somewhat more genteel, humorists Flanders and Swann described many years ago as the 'pee po willy bum drawers' school of humour. Segura is one of those men whose sense of the witty is forever trapped somewhere between his 13th and 14th birthday, when the darkness of the world is still fresh and new and exciting, and funny. Bad Thoughts is crawling with bestiality, abuse, racism, castration, involuntary bowel movements, age, terminal illness and death. Segura is also one of those curious straight men who never stops talking about the ins and outs of gay sex. (Seriously – there is more man-love in Bad Thoughts than in the entire runs of Heartstopper or Queer as Folk.) And there's nothing inherently wrong with any of that overgrown bike shed smut; it's a rich vein that has its place in the scheme of comedic things. As they enter their teens, children pick up on adults' discomfort around certain things, and it's that discomfort which is funny, not the things themselves. Exactly how funny you find it varies to taste. Segura's maleness and largeness are very unusual on modern TV, and they make you realise how much a person's physicality characterises how you react to them. Bad taste is often made tasteful, or at least acceptable, by camp and physical slightness – eg Little Britain, The League of Gentlemen and John Waters. Segura is a very manly man, so there's no raised ironic eyebrow here. My own revulsion reflex kicked in a couple of times across the course of Bad Thoughts. Episode four contains two of the most disgusting things I have ever seen on a screen (all shot gorgeously in pin-sharp black-and-white), but as they involve joke-destroying spoilers I shan't detail them here. Let's just say I certainly felt my head turning involuntarily away from the TV when they occurred. You get three or four sketches in each episode, always starring Segura, either as a fictionalised version of himself or as a character. Segura appears as himself on a plain white set between them, talking to camera to guide you along. The sketches themselves often have the form of shaggy dog stories; they feel like story-telling jokes of the old school, and good ones, but acted out. This means that their pay-off punchlines are often the funniest lines, which is rare in TV sketch comedy. Paying off a sketch is something that has defeated many grand masters of the TV sketch form, who were forced to disrupt the accepted framework to get around it. Monty Python's Flying Circus avoided punchlines entirely; The Fast Show dispensed with everything except the punch line. In a strange way, despite its maximum gross-out quality and unsettling vibe, Bad Thoughts thus feels quite traditional. The straightforwardness and directness of its format put me in mind of the longer items in ancient, unpretentious sketch shows like Naked Video or, though Bad Thoughts has no directly topical element, Not The Nine O'Clock News. There is nothing strikingly new or innovative in the material, but that's OK, there doesn't have to be. Is it funny though? Yes, and often very. There are several moments where I thought 'well this one isn't going anywhere' and then found I'd been diverted in completely the wrong direction. So when the big laugh came, it came with the delicious frisson of the well-turned twist. But this isn't consistent. Bad Thoughts is patchy, and you sometimes find yourself wishing it was a bit cleverer. A protracted scenario about a failing country singer who kidnaps hundreds of his fans and imprisons them in a camp that's a cross between Squid Game and Pasolini's Salò is just too slight, and – perversely – too emotionally real to carry its epic length. A Steven Seagal spoof just isn't good enough, and seems like it dropped in from 2005, and indeed from another kind of show entirely. Segura is an assured performer and actor, but the actual actors who appear with him are often better. Robert Iler – the hapless AJ of The Sopranos, now all grown up – features in three interconnected sketches, and his vulnerability makes him a far more likeable and relatable 'hero' than Segura, who looks like he could kill an ox with one punch. You really feel for Robert Iler's character, which makes it funnier. It's interesting that Netflix is now the only broadcaster who will still go this near the knuckle. The BBC, not so very long ago, produced Julia Davis's Nighty Night – with its extremely uncomfortable jokes about disability and cancer, and a character who shoved cat food where it was never meant to go. Davies now does her deliciously icky thing on the Dear Joan And Jericha podcast, and the BBC's new comedy line-up, featuring Michael Palin and Rob Brydon, looks positively trad. (Which in itself is a relief, given their recent propensity for throwing wads of cash at talentless drag acts.) There's a sketch in Bad Thoughts – one of the funniest – about a school play which goes horribly wrong, with primary age kids re-enacting the horrors of American troops in the Vietnam war, complete with casual racism, to the excruciating embarrassment of their parents. It's no more unpalatable than the average sketch in Little Britain, but it's unthinkable that the BBC of today would even contemplate okaying it. Netflix is also the home of lots of cancelled or semi-cancelled comedians that nobody else will touch; Tony Hinchcliffe, Dave Chappelle, Shane Gillis, Matt Rife, Ricky Gervais and Louis CK. The standard across these names is wildly variable, but it seems regrettable that they have been corralled into one corner. There is good taste bad taste, and bad taste bad taste. Bad Thoughts is very much the latter. I tend to the Victoria Wood theory that dark humour is easy, and that it is much, much harder to create fun and uplifting comedy, or at least fun and uplifting comedy that is any good. As George Orwell said of Salvador Dalí, '… suppose that you have nothing in you except your egoism and a dexterity that goes no higher than the elbow … There is always one escape: into wickedness. Always do the thing that will shock and wound people… Along those lines you can always feel yourself original.' But. Bad Thoughts arrives at a very particular cultural moment, as what we have known – and either loved or hated – as ' woke ' seems to be dying out, or at least retreating a little. So different considerations apply. Segura is a hate figure for the so-called woke American left, who accuse him of all the usual tedious thought and speech crimes. "The best thing to do as an artist is to acknowledge the dark thoughts." @tomsegura & I discussed the art and science of humor and why the "dark topic comics" are such good people offstage and the onstage "ultra wholesome" comedians often are just the opposite offstage. — Andrew D. Huberman, Ph.D. (@hubermanlab) May 20, 2025 The speed of woke's dissolution has been quite startling. Between the production and release of Bad Thoughts, things have shifted so much that there are several sketches that already seem dated. The two or three scenarios that focus on disputes over unsayable words and identity groups are by far the show's weakest moments – but just a year or so ago they would've been among its highlights. It feels like it's time to move on. We have all wasted so much time with the rubbish of the last decade and the posing ninnies who pushed it. Woke is (possibly was) nihilistic nastiness disguised, very badly, as 'kindness' and 'inclusivity'. We all know that now, and it's no longer quite so hard to point it out. This war may be over, at least in that form. Rather like post-war Hollywood, we need some affable fun again now. Yes, there is a certain release and relief about this possible return to cultural sanity, but that palls quickly. We deserve to forget. We can start, hopefully, to depict the world honestly again, not trying either to correct it, or correct the correction. What this means for purveyors of bad taste like Tom Segura is that they need to find new unsayables and fresh unpalatables. And there will, inevitably, always be new ones.
Daily Mail
19-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
New Netflix show compared to Black Mirror has viewers hooked as they gush 'it's 'nuts in the best possible way'
Tom Segura is known for his dry humour and on-the-nose comedy, but his brand-new Netflix series has taken things to new heights, according to fans. After much anticipation, Bad Thoughts finally landed on Netflix on May 13th, hitting the UK top 10 TV programmes in its debut week. The provocative anthology show takes the viewer on a flagrant and sardonic romp through Tom Segura's mind, in a series of slapstick sketches that offer a witty yet bleak perception of humanity. Segura himself stars in 5/6 episodes of the show, appearing respectively as a calamity-causing assassin, an apocalypse survivor and a country music star amongst other zany characters. The series is comprised of a bold collection of different, stand-alone stories, that are, on occasion, linked by underrunning jokes and 'to be continued' frames that lead into the next episode. Acting alongside Segura, the star-studded cast boasts The Sopranos' Robert Iler, Jurassic Park's Daniella Pineda, Boardwalk Empire's Shea Whigham and Downton Abbey 's Dan Stevens. The provocative anthology show takes the viewer on a flagrant and sardonic romp through Tom Segura's mind, in a series of slapstick sketches that offer a witty yet bleak perception of humanity Each character in Bad Thoughts acts upon their deepest impulses, with shocking, unfiltered repercussions. The show is characterised by salacious humour, toilet jokes and cartoonish bloody gore; it has been criticised by viewers for its 'gross and raunchy' content, but some praise it, saying 'Bad Thoughts is like a funny and better version of Black Mirror.' Bad Thoughts explores dystopian versions of the future, much like the hugely successful Black Mirror; exploring themes such as futuristic technology and the apocalypse. Though its nature as a comedy series allows it to feel a little less heavy on the viewer, it is unafraid of crossing boundaries and pushing viewers' limits. While on tour, Segura promoted Bad Thoughts, hailing it his own personal take on Black Mirror. Segura is known for his regular appearances on the US' most-streamed podcast: The Joe Rogan Experience. The Joe Rogan Experience is raw and unscripted, making it a favourite of fans of long form interviews and in-depth conversation. Joe Rogan is also known for his endorsement of Donald Trump. Segura's controversial new show has sparked debate online and viewers took to X after watching the show, saying: Bad Thoughts explores dystopian versions of the future, much like the hugely successful Black Mirror; exploring themes such as futuristic technology and the apocalypse '@tomsegura on @netflix with Bad Thoughts is HILARIOUS and gross and raunchy and insane' 'Bad Thoughts on Netflix is nuts lol in the best possible way' 'Tom Segura's Bad Thoughts on Netflix may be the craziest thing I've ever seen.' 'This is the weirdest limited series I've ever seen, called Bad Thoughts on Netflix' 'That was some of the most depraved unfunny non-comedy that I have EVER seen. You ought to be ashamed Tom.' 'Turned it off after the first episode. How on earth can someone even be able to imagine situations like that? I am shooketh'
