FXX has your ticket to Danger Island. The network has released the new trailer for Archer season 9, and it teases the adventures that lie ahead as Sterling Archer (voiced by H. Jon Benjamin) enjoys life in the pre-WWII South Pacific.
The adult animated comedy continues with Archer: Danger Island, a season that presents the titular character as an alcoholic seaplane pilot working on the island of Mitimotu. He’ll be “semi-functioning,” according to the network’s description, and we see as much in the trailer. In one scene, he appears to cause a plane crash, while another shows him drinking in the cockpit. He is said to be “only concerned with who’s buying his next drink,” even though the region is on the brink of war.
Archer is joined by a revamped version of the usual gang. There is Pam (Amber Nash), who serves as his co-pilot in Danger Island; Archer’s mother, Malory (Jessica Walter), a hotel owner; Princess Lanaluakalani (Aisha Taylor), a royal-slash-revolutionary; Seigbert Fuchs (Chris Parnell), a not-so-competent German spy; and Crackers (Lucky Yates), a scarlet macaw with a sense of humor. We’ll also see familiar-but-different characters voiced by recurring stars, including Charlotte Vandertunt (Judy Greer), an heiress, and Reynaud (Adam Reed), a particular French captain.
FXX has been teasing a “mysterious and deadly world” in Archer: Danger Island, and the trailer highlights the new threats We see that the gang will deal with some unusual situations, from highly intelligent and scary monkeys to skirmishes with cannibals. As the preview’s announcer tells us, “The natives are restless, the urges are primal, and the women are wild.”
Archer‘s ninth season comes as part of a three-season renewal that was announced in June 2016. At the time, the president of original programming for FX Networks and FX Productions, Nick Grad, commended creators Adam Reed and Floyd County Productions, as well as executive producer Matt Thompson, for keeping the show “so insanely funny and vital” throughout its many seasons. Danger Island looks to continue to do just that. There may be a new setting, but we’re also getting many of the same beloved elements.
Archer: Danger Island premieres at 10 p.m. ET/PT on April 25 on FXX.
China just gave Hollywood a cautionary tale about AI filmmaking. Sanxingdui: Future Past, billed as the country's first fully AI-generated movie, hit theaters on October 23 and bombed at the box office.
According to Futurism, the film's reported $1.5 million production budget landed on more than 10,000 screens. Yet it pulled in only about $181,000, averaging roughly $20 per screen, making the budget difficult to recover.
Some of the best shots in Grok Imagine’s AI-made Odyssey don’t contain actors. Ancient landscapes stretch into the distance. Close-ups of grimy hands suggest people who have touched something rougher than a keyboard. For a few seconds, the illusion holds.
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YouTube videos could soon look better without eating quite so much data, right? Thankfully, the platform plans to introduce a new video format called AV2 on its web player in early 2027, promising more efficient streaming and potentially fewer playback hiccups on slower internet connections. The big headline is a roughly 30% improvement in compression efficiency over AV1, YouTube's existing video format. That doesn't guarantee every video will use 30% less data, but it could make streaming a little easier on both internet connections and data allowances.
What is AV2, and why should viewers care?