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In this week’s newsletter: resolutely for grownups but proudly immature, the late-night channel has influenced an entire genre of comedy. But it still retains its cult status

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Twenty five years ago this coming week, a strange block of programming suddenly began airing in the wee small hours on the US cable channel Cartoon Network. Anyone half-watching with the sound off might have mistaken the shows as a continuation of the toons airing in the daytime: bright, big-eyed affairs full of energy and slapstick comedy. Those paying attention, though, would have noticed something was off: old-fashioned Hanna-Barbera superheroes had been recast as attorneys or talkshow hosts; a crew of talking fast-food items, supposedly a hero squad called the Aqua Teen Hunger Force, just seemed to be bickering with each other and watching TV rather than fighting crime; and the whole mood of the programmes, with their halting, babbled dialogue, juvenile humour and janky animation, seemed not quite right. The name of the block was odd too: Adult Swim.

Piggybacking on the adult animation boom of the 90s – The Simpsons, South Park et al. – Adult Swim steered things off in to bizarre and unsettling new territory. If anything, it’s only gotten weirder in the quarter of a century since it started. Close to 100 shows have aired in this insomnia-friendly night-time block (though today it arguably operates as its own independent channel within a channel), almost all of them strange enough to make you feel like you might be asleep after all and having a particularly psychedelic dream. It has platformed demon-fighting death metal bands, redneck squids, preposterously dark claymation parodies of Rankin/Bass, and a crime-fighting, gun-toting backside – as well as real-life figures with faces as boggle-eyed and elasticated as their cartoon counterparts. It has remained a defiant corner of freakery in a homogenised TV landscape.

The Gotham striker said she was stepping away from the sport, but then signed for Al Qadsiah. The move sparked questions over professionalism and raised concerns of LGBTQ+ fans who have disavowed the Saudi league

A recent World Cup winner joins a historically downtrodden club, immediately leads them to their first championship, praises the level of play in the league, speaks fondly of living in the club’s market, extends her contract with the club, leads the club to another championship, is named a league MVP finalist, and breaks the club’s all-time scoring record. That’s the fairytale of Esther González and Gotham FC – a story that ended abruptly, just nine days after that scoring record was set. On 27 July, Gotham announced that they had mutually parted ways with the striker as she “temporarily steps away from soccer to attend to personal matters in Spain”. The announcement of her departure was full of gushing words going both directions, and was met with understanding and support from the women’s soccer world.

But less than a month after González left Gotham, Al Qadsiah, a club in the Saudi Women’s Premier League, announced her as their newest signing, on a one-season contract with an option to extend for a second. NWSL journalist Jenna Tonelli soon reported, “League sources tell me that Gotham did not expect Esther to sign with another club this soon.” Questions swirled: did she actually intend to take a break from soccer when she left Gotham? And why would a player who just had a child with her female partner choose to play in Saudi Arabia, a country where same-sex relations are criminalized?

Before The Witcher 4 arrives in 2028, CD Projekt Red is returning us to the world of The Witcher 3 for one last foray. Looks like wind’s still howlin’

The game that graced us with Bathtub Geralt, The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, arrived more than a decade ago. So it was a touch surprising this summer when developers CD Projekt Red announced a new expansion to the venerable adventure, titled Songs of the Past, for next year. It will release alongside a full remaster of the original game, which will be free for anyone who bought it back in 2015. (The studio is also working on a sequel, The Witcher 4, but that’s not due until 2028.)

As it turns out, this is all possible thanks to a partnership with Fool’s Theory, a studio founded by CD Projekt Red veterans, which took on the brunt of the development work. “We’ve had this story in a drawer for many years,” explains Marcin Blacha, VP story director at CD Projekt Red. “Of course, we moved on to Cyberpunk 2077 and now The Witcher 4, as well as our other projects. But because we knew The Witcher 4 would take time, we saw a gap in our release calendar where Songs of the Past could go. Thankfully, we were able to find the right partner to help execute it.”

Christian Drogan’s Invading Britain shows former builder turned journalist trying to travel from France to England in small boat

Rupert Murdoch’s online channel TalkTV is facing criticism after it did not disclose that a journalist who travelled to Britain in a small boat for a documentary was a Reform party member and activist.

The channel revealed the “world exclusive” this week, stating that the treacherous journey had made the former builder turned journalist Christian Drogan the first British man “to invade his own country”.

Nipkowschijfwinnaar Qian van Binsbergen neemt in een nieuwe serie de witte man onder de loep en bracht een panel van Jannen bijeen. „Je zag de kwartjes bij ze vallen.”

12 uur geen stroom. En eindelijk is de kabel weer gelast (ofzo) blij dat de koelkast weer aangaat, maar niet minder teleurgesteld in het elektriciteitsnet in ons postcodegebied. Zo haal ik nooit die 99,999% uptime