Origins With Cush Jumbo Widely available, episodes weekly Cush Jumbo is always good fun when doing press interviews for her work (The Good Wife, Criminal Record, Hamlet) – and she's just as great now the tables are turned in her first podcast. She speaks to stars about their origin stories, including Kate Nash, Harlan Coben, David Schwimmer and, in episode one, Anna Wintour, who says she hates people who waffle and recalls getting fired from Harper's Bazaar because she couldn't pin a dress. Rebel Spirit Widely available, episodes weekly Comedian Akilah Hughes gives her serious mission a light touch as she returns to her Kentucky home town to try to change her high school's racist mascot from a Confederate general to a biscuit. Can she drag the school into the modern age – and what will the change mean to her and other pupils? Sara & Cariad's Weirdos Book Club Widely available, episodes weekly Sara Pascoe and Cariad Lloyd go beyond the usual selections with season two of their book club for people who don't want to discuss reading over cheese and wine.

The following contains spoilers for episode three of'Star Wars: Visions' and episode seven of'What If...?' Back in the days when DVD was king, I remember there was a trend of making animated tie-ins for live-action franchises. There were direct-to-video features for Chronicles of Riddick, Van Helsing and, the most famous project of them all, The Animatrix. Nearly 20 years later, streaming reigns supreme and services like Disney seem to be returning to the idea, but bigger and grander with shows like Marvel's What If…? and Star Wars: Visions. Visions, premiering this week, is probably the more ambitious of the two, enlisting talent from various Japanese anime studios to create short films about different aspects of the Star Wars universe. The list includes juggernauts like Trigger (Kill la Kill, Promare) Production I.G (Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, Haikyu!!) and Science SARU (Devilman Crybaby, Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!). Unlike The Animatrix, Lucasfilm was content to mostly hand over the reins to these studios, creating shorts that differ in tone, style and, most notably, continuity.

The Avengers weren't a collection of the most powerful superheroes the world has ever known, and instead were a group of data scientists? That sounds like fun, right? I were to take some of my time and write something along those lines? For those of us familiar with comic books from our childhood (or... not so long ago), The Avengers are Marvel Comics' premier superhero ensemble, bringing together otherwise independent and capable individuals of the superhuman variety to battle Earth's most dangerous villains, earning our gratitude and idolization forever. For the uninitiated, The Avengers are not actually a set crew of superheroes, with their membership being rather fluid and having changed dramatically over the years.

For their Secret Empire event, Marvel Comics announces interactive social media chatbots that lets fans "talk" back-and-forth with their favorite heroes. Marvel Comics' Chatbot Allows Fans to Converse with some of their Favorite Marvel Super Heroes and Become Part of the Story Marvel's chatbot offers quizzes, puzzles, first-looks, exclusive content, and helps you find your local comic shop through Facebook Messenger and Twitter DM New York, NY--April 20, 2017-- Today, Marvel is excited to announce, an all-new way to interact directly with the Marvel Universe, with Marvel's first chatbot. Timed with the release of Marvel Comics' SECRET EMPIRE fans will have the ability to directly chat with some of their favorite Marvel Super Heroes and be a part of the Marvel Universe through Facebook Messenger and Twitter DM. Powered by Conversable, this new chatbot experience presents a bold and exciting new way for fans to interact with some of Marvel's most popular heroes who are directly in the throes of Marvel Comics' SECRET EMPIRE! At launch, in support of Marvel Comics' SECRET EMPIRE event, the Marvel chatbot will allow fans the ability to converse with everyone's favorite neighborhood wall-crawler, Spider-Man!