Today, Apple TV Plus premieres its new series, Hello Tomorrow! The series, which is set in a retro-future, centers around ambitious traveling salesman Jack Billings (Billy Crudup), who, along with his team, is selling timeshares from the moon. His faith in the future inspires his fellow BrightSide coworkers and excites their customers. However, Jack will learn that hope can be a very powerful thing, but it can also be very dangerous. 

According to Lucas Jansen, who along with Amit Bhalla created the series, the idea for it first came when producer Ryan Kalil showed them vintage training videos for salesmen from the 1950s. “They were full of these hokey reenactments,” he told SciFi Vision during a recent interview. “…They were so innocent and sort of inspiring in that way. They're just like a pure lucid encapsulation of this American Dream, that we work hard, and we sell each other things, and we all get happier. But at the same time, [it’s] also really eerie and grim, because these people are completely deluding themselves that they're not caught in the gears of this sort of hulking capitalist thing that’s going to maybe…[wring] all of the joy and humanity out of you. So, that paradox to us was inspiring. Like, what does the salesman tell themselves to make themselves a great salesman?”

Today, Hello Tomorrow! Premieres on Apple TV Plus. The series takes place in a retro-future world and centers around a group of traveling salesmen, led by Jack Billings (Billy Crudup), selling lunar timeshares. An ambitious salesman, Jack’s faith in the future inspires his coworkers and excites his customers, but hope can be a very dangerous thing. 

Star Crudup was drawn to the unique world of the series. “There's something so authentic and rich about Amit [Bhalla] and Lucas [Jansen]'s writing and about their creation of a very original but very familiar world,” the actor told SciFi Vision. “…I couldn't help but be intoxicated by it. I wanted to see and understand and live in the world that they had created on the page, and I couldn't imagine that I would ever get an opportunity like this in my career. So, it was an easy one to jump into for me.”

In the film Condor’s Nest, a decade after Nazi Germany has fallen, American pilot Will Spalding (Jacob Keohane) travels to South America to track down the Nazi Colonel who executed his crew during the war. During his travels he encounters bar owner Hipolito, played by Jorge Garcia. The actor recently spoke with SciFi Vision about working on the film, using an accent, how he lost his luggage right before filming, what he looks for in a script, his thoughts on returning for a Lost reunion, if he still is in contact with the cast, what it was like to have action figures, and much more. Watch the full interview and read the transcript below. Be sure to check out the film Condor's Nest, currently available on Demand.

In the film Condor’s Nest, a decade after the fall of Nazi Germany, American pilot Will Spalding (Jacob Keohane) searches South America for the Nazi Colonel (Arnold Vosloo) who executed his crew during WWII. The film also stars Jackson Rathbone as Nazi Fritz Ziegler. Rathbone recently talked to SciFi Vision in an exclusive interview about working on the film, connecting with the dark side of the character, affecting a German accent, hanging out with castmate Michael Ironside, and much more, as well as about working on a huge franchise like the Twilight films and if he still sees his costars. Watch the full interview or read the transcript below and be sure to check out the film.

Michael Jacobs has been an icon on TV and in movies for years. He has directed many television shows and movies, including Boy Meets World and The Torkelsons, bringing many generations fond childhood memories.

Now he is back and better than ever with a brand-new movie called Maybe I Do, starring William H. Macy, Susan Sarandon, and Diane Keaton. It is a twist on the typical romantic comedy and has been something that has been years in the making. He began working on it as a play and eventually decided to make it into a movie.

“It’s been gestating a long time, because it ran as a play,” Jacobs told SciFi Vision. “I had started writing this idea when I was about nineteen years old. I think I was in a relationship, and I had said, ‘I love you,’ and they said, ‘How do you just say that?’ It seems so simple for ‘I love you’ to come out of your mouth when you're a kid, and you don't know what you're talking about. I sat down, and I started to write this. It was a relationship comedy that was based on this young woman who thought that the relationship was farther down the road and was surprised to find out that her partner was reticent and then finds out that the reticence comes from the fact that we are offshoots of our upbringing. I wrote the idea, and it ran on Broadway.”

“Endure and Survive” - 1.05 - Recap & Review

Last night, the fifth episode of The Last of Us premiered on HBO. The episode, through flashbacks of the Kansas City QZ, shows how Fedra fell, taken over by Kathleen (Melanie Lynskey) and her group, and how they killed any collaborators. Ten days later, the timeline meets backup with the cliffhanger from last week with Joel (Pedro Pascal) and Ellie (Bella Ramsey) being held at gunpoint by eight-year-old Sam (Keivonn Woodard), who it’s revealed is deaf, and his older brother Henry (Lamar Johnson). It’s eventually revealed that Kathleen is after the two because Henry turned the leader of the resistance, Kathleen’s brother, into Fedra in order to get life-saving medicine for Sam.

Henry knows a way out but needs Joel’s help in getting them out of the city. Eventually Ellie convinces Joel to help and they join forces. Henry has reason to believe that Fedra secretly cleared the tunnels beneath the city of the infected, unbeknownst to Kathleen, making it unlikely the militia would go down there after them.

The four emerge from the tunnel only to be shot at by a sniper. Joel leaves them to hide while he takes care of the sniper. Revealing that the sniper was a lookout, Kathleen and her people arrive and she tries to flush them out. However, before Kathleen can get her revenge, we find out where the infected had relocated, as a truck is pulled into a big hole, and all the infected come crawling out, attacking everyone. 

The new stop motion series Shape Island premiered recently on Apple TV+. The animated series is based on the internationally best-selling trilogy of Shapes picture books by Mac Barnett and Jon Klassen. Shape island follows the adventures of Square, Circle, and Triangle on their adventures learning to navigate each others’ differences and shows kids that friendship can take different shapes. The series features the voices of Harvey Guillén as Square, Gideon Adlon as Circle, Scott Adsit as Triangle, and Yvette Nicole Brown as Narrator. 

Recently, Guillén spoke with SciFi Vision about lending his voice to the children series, that for him was a “no brainer.” Read the full transcript below, and be sure to check out the series, now streaming on Apple TV+.

Tonight’s all-new episode of Anne Rice’s Mayfair Witches, entitled “The Thrall,” followed the results of Aunt Carlotta (Beth Grant) attempting to kill Rowan (Alexandra Daddario) in the fire and destroy Lasher (Jack Huston). An angry Lasher locks Rowan and Ciprien (Tongayi Chirisa) in the Mayfair house, trying to get her to accept him and the power it grants her.

Huston didn’t know anything about the books when he first took on the role of Lasher in the series, but he really liked the way the show was going to be adapted. “I thought it was something that I hadn't seen before,” the actor told SciFi Vision during a recent interview. “I thought, as much as it was in the realm of science fiction and the idea of witchcraft and magic and everything, it felt very rooted in rather human sort of problems, and all the rest of it as well, the relationships. So, I was excited to get into this character of Lasher.” 

The all-new series The Ark, which premieres tonight on Syfy, takes place one hundred years in the future when work towards planetary colonization has begun in order to save the human race. The first ship has been sent through space, Ark One, but over a year before arrival on the planet, something happens to the ship causing many lives to be lost. All of those in charge have been killed, leaving an unprepared international crew, with quickly dwindling food and supplies, to survive and reach the planet.

The series was created by Dean Devlin, and both he and Jonathan Glassner serve as showrunners.

The new thrilling series The Watchful Eye premieres tonight on Freeform. The series follows Elena Santos (Mariel Molino) as she skillfully puts herself in position to be hired as a live-in nanny for a rich widower (Warren Christie) living at The Greybourne, a landmark apartment complex in Manhattan. Elena has ulterior motives for wanting the position, but it turns out, she’s not the only one with secrets, and those hidden within the walls of the mysterious building could be deadly. 

The building is an important part of the series, a character in itself. “The first thing I was drawn to was the building.” showrunner Emily Fox told SciFi Vision during a recent press day, “The idea of writing about a world that's set inside of what appears to be a castle but that turns out to be a bit of a prison in a way, or a maze of lies, and this gorgeous sort of like confection of archways and marble and everything, but underneath it is this scary basement, just felt like a great allegory for the American dream, where it's like, ‘Oh, it looks really beautiful, but underneath is all this toil and pain and secrets and mysteries and and things like that.’ I love world building, and I love building a puzzle and a mystery and leaving trails of pebbles…and I've never really done anything like this before. So, I was excited by the challenge of that.”