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Cathal Gunning

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  • Editor-in-Chief, Cold Coffee Stand and Writer, Screen Rant
Ireland
As seen in: Screen Rant, MSN, MSN New Zealand, Flipboard, ComicBook, WhatCulture, Adbusters, joemonster.org, WhatCulture Wrestling
Covers:  Network sitcoms, The Simpsons, Stephen King, Stranger Things, South Park, horror, comedies, and horror comedies.
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Cathal Gunning has been writing about movies, television, culture, and politics online and in print since 2017. He worked as a Senior Editor in Adbusters Media Foundation from 2018-2019 and wrote for WhatCulture in early 2020. He has been a Senior Features Writer for ScreenRant since 2020 and for ComicBook since 2026.

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Netflix's 7-Season Sci-Fi Series Beat Star Trek At Its Own Game

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By Cathal Gunning Verified
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Although Netflix’s longest-running sci-fi series set out to make fun of the Star Trek franchise’s worst adherents, the anthology show ended up ironically making a pretty perfect dupe for the legendary sci-fi series itself in the process. The Star Trek franchise has been through countless reinventions over the years, from the transition between The Original Series and The Next Generation to the most recent set of Star Trek shows from the last decade.
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NBC Quietly Killed Bones' Replacement Before It Even Premiered

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By Cathal Gunning Verified
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Even though Bones was phenomenally popular throughout its run, the police procedural’s ideal replacement didn’t even secure a season order after its pilot was produced. Although medical dramas like The Pitt are also fairly popular, police procedurals make up the majority of scripted dramas on network and cable television in 2026. From The Rookie to the massive NCIS franchise, to FBI and its spinoffs, to quirkier crime dramedies like High Potential, there is a whole range of cop shows on the air.
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The Expanse Meets War Of The Worlds In Netflix's 8-Part Sci-Fi Series

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By Cathal Gunning Verified
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Blending The Expanse’s appropriately expansive storytelling style with a plot about extraterrestrial contact that could compete with War Of The Worlds, one Netflix sci-fi series is among the streaming service’s most ambitious entries into the genre. Set in a future where the solar system is colonized by humans, The Expanse centered its story on political machinations between the Martian Congressional Republic on Mars and the United Nations of Earth and Luna.
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