Having achieved great success with original animated sitcoms like BoJack Horseman and Big Mouth, it appears that Netflix is onto another winner with Disenchantment, the new series from The Simpsons and Futurama creator, Matt Groening, which now has its first trailer.

Announced last month, the show is set in the medieval kingdom of Dreamland and follows the misadventures of “hard-drinking young princess Bean, her feisty elf companion Elfo, and her personal demon Luci.” 

The trio will be voiced by Abbi Jacobson (Broad City), Nat Faxon (Club Dread) and Eric Andre (Robot Chicken), and you can also expect voice work from Groening regulars such as John DiMaggio and Billy West from Futurama, along with Matt Berry, Rich Fulcher and Noel Fielding of The Mighty Boosh fame. 

The trailer, which is short and sweet, focuses on Groening’s past accomplishments before whisking us off to Dreamland to show an especially awkward moment between Bean and the king. 

Thankfully, we won’t have to wait much longer to see more, with the first ten episodes of Disenchantment landing on Netflix on August 17, 2018. In the meantime, you can check out the trailer below. 

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While it’s undoubtedly one of Microsoft’s biggest video game properties, Halo has had a rough time branching out into the live action film and television scene, despite having a ready-made fan base and a wealth of mythology and lore to draw from. 

That’s all about to change. US-based, premium cable channel Showtime has announced that a 10-part live action series is officially in the works, in a collaboration that also involves Halo developer 343 Industries and Amblin Television.

Kyle Killen (Awake) is onboard as executive producer, writer and showrunner of the series (working title Halo), while Rupert Wyatt (Rise of the Planet of the Apes) is attached to direct multiple episodes and also executive produce the hour-long series. 

If you like it, then you shoulda put a ring(world) on it

Though previous Halo shows Forward Unto Dawn and NightFall stumbled due to web series production values and questionable writing, Showtime president and CEO David Nevins promises that the new show will be in another league entirely. 

“Halo is our most ambitious series ever, and we expect audiences who have been anticipating it for years to be thoroughly rewarded,” said Nevins.

He continued, “Kyle Killen’s scripts are thrilling, expansive and provocative, Rupert Wyatt is a wonderful, world-building director, and their vision of Halo will enthral fans of the game while also drawing the uninitiated into a world of complex characters that populate this unique universe.”

The new Halo series will enter production in early 2019, so expect the Master Chief to invade your living room later that year. As for which services will be showing the series outside of the US, we do know that the Australian streaming service Stan has already announced that it will be fast-tracking the series as part of its partnership with Showtime. 

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Formed by two big players behind Google’s self-driving car endeavor, Nuro is preparing to launch a fleet of self-driving delivery vehicles.

And, it’s partnering with Kroger to use that fleet to deliver groceries, The Verge reports.

To start, Nuro will be using simple self-driving vehicles, like its modded Toyota Prius and Nissan Leaf cars. 

These are expected to begin making deliveries this fall, but will have human safety drivers on-board, since Nuro doesn’t have as much testing under its belt after only 2 years as a company. Eventually it will switch to a custom fleet of vehicles that look like mini Volkswagen buses.

Just where the service will first operate is still undecided, but customers will be able to manage and track deliveries using a Nuro app or Kroger’s delivery platform.

With thousands of Kroger stores spread over 35 states, the opportunity for Nuro is huge. If the pilot program goes well and Nuro’s fleet of fully autonomous vehicles work as intended, consumers could start seeing self-driving delivery all over the place.

Some things stand in the way though. Nuro still needs to prove its technology. And, before the fully autonomous fleet can hit the roads, the company will need legal authorization which may not always be easy to get (or keep, as Uber’s fatal accident in Arizona has shown.

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