More football is headed to Netflix. The streaming service announced Monday that it has renewed its hard-hitting docuseries Last Chance U for a second season. The show will continue to follow East Mississippi Community College’s unique football program as its players fight to gain the attention they need to further their careers.
The series was inspired by a GQ article on the EMCC Lions that highlighted how the program has given talented and sometimes troubled players a chance at redemption. Current coach Buddy Stephens has seen nine of his players go on to play in the NFL, not to mention many more graduate with scholarships to play at four-year universities. Last Chance U season 2 will look at the next crop of players and their path to potential glory, both as part of the team and on an individual level.
Director Greg Whiteley, who worked on the six-episode first season, will be back for season 2. Netflix’s Lisa Nishimura, vice president of original documentary programming, highlighted his key role in the docuseries in a statement. According to Deadline, she praised how he “genuinely captured both the struggles and triumphs” of the players. She also gave the school itself a nod.
“Coach Buddy Stephens, Academic Adviser Brittany Wagner, and the entire team at EMCC have bravely opened their doors for the filmmakers to capture their real world as it unfolds.” said Nishimur. “We eagerly anticipate having a front row seat as they continue to fight for their dreams in the coming season.”
Netflix tweeted the news, promising that season 2 is coming soon.
Believe the hype. #LastChanceU #Season2 coming soon.https://t.co/jvN681oOP9
— Netflix US (@netflix) August 15, 2016
At this point, Netflix has not announced a specific season 2 premiere date, so fans will have to settle for assurances that more episodes are on the way.
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.
https://twitter.com/imagine/status/2113712964419063911
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?