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Netflix’s American Vandal will center on the “Turd Burglar” in Season 2, which premieres next month on September 14.

The new season will feature a new case, new conspiracy theories, and a mostly, new cast. For a look at the exciting Season 2 trailer, click here.

The story follows the returning Peter Maldonado and Sam Ecklund, two documentarians who will now help a Catholic school try to capture an unknown individual known as the “Turd Burglar,” who’s been pulling ambitious poop-related pranks. You can check out some images from Season 2 in the slideshow below.

Season 2 stars Tyler Alvarez (Peter), Griffin Gluck (Sam), Taylor Dearden (Chloe), DeRon Horton (Lou), Travis Tope (Kevin), and Melvin Gregg (DeMarcus).

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The long-awaited Galaxy Quest TV series that is currently being written by Paul Scheer, has been put on hold.

Speaking to The Wrap, Scheer confirmed the TV adaptation for Amazon is being delayed due to the recent firing of Paramount TV president Amy Powell. However, Scheer is still confident the series will get made and promises it will honor both Star Trek and Star Wars.

The series will be a continuation of the 1999 sci-fi comedy which starred Tim Allen, Sigourney Weaver, and the late Alan Rickman.

“We want to create this kind of thing that feels like this epic sequel, but a continuation,” Scheer said. “I compared it to what The Force Awakens is to Star Wars. It is continuing a story but bringing in new characters.

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There have been rumors that HBO was considering picking up a new version of the Watchmen series, adapted for TV, for some time. Now, the company has announced it has officially green lit the show, which is being written and produced by Damon Lindelof, the co-creator of Lost and films like Star Trek Into Darkness and Prometheus. There aren’t many details on the series yet, but we know it will debut in 2019.

“Set in an alternate history where ‘superheroes’ are treated as outlaws, Watchmen embraces the nostalgia of the original groundbreaking graphic novel while attempting to break new ground of its own,” HBO wrote in a blog post, confirming the story will start at the beginning of the comic series, while introducing some new elements at the same time. Earlier this year, Lindelof took to Instagram explaining why the series wouldn’t be a sequel or a reboot.

“Those issues are sacred ground and will not be retread nor recreated nor reproduced nor rebooted,” he said. “They will however be remixed. We are not making a ‘sequel’ either. This story will be set in the world its creators painstakingly built… but in the tradition of the work that inspired it, this new story must be original. It has to vibrate with the seismic unpredictability of its own tectonic plates,” he continued.

“It must ask new questions and explore the world through a fresh lens. Most importantly, it must be contemporary. The Old Testament was specific to the Eighties of Reagan and Thatcher and Gorbachev. Ours needs to resonate with the frequency of Trump and May and Putin and the horse that he rides around on, shirtless. And speaking of Horsemen, The End of the World is off the table… which means the heroes and villains–as if the two are distinguishable–are playing for different stakes entirely.”

Watchmen first made it to the screen in 2009, when Zach Snyder adapted the graphic novel for film. HBO tried unsuccessfully to get a TV series based on the story off the ground in 2014. Lindelof has a history with HBO; his acclaimed drama The Leftovers was also shown on the network, recently ending with its third and final season.

First published by DC in 1986, Watchmen is a much-loved and celebrated 12-part graphic novel written by Alan Moore and illustrated by Dave Gibbons. It’s credited with introducing a darker and more mature tone to the traditional superhero comic. In 2005, it was even featured on Time’s list of the 100 greatest novels of the 20th century.

God of War is easily one of the most popular and critically-acclaimed games of the past year, and while it has hit huge success post-release, it was not always so certain that the PS4 game would do the franchise justice. Speaking at Devcom 2018, the developer-focused event at Gamescom, creative director Cory Barlog got candid with the audience and told them about some of the challenges he and his team faced during development, including the time Shuhei Yoshida, the head of SIE Worldwide Studios, came in to play the game. It didn’t go well.

During playtesting of the game, much of God of War was still looking rough, reports Gameindustry.biz. “Part of it was that we were building the engine and tools, as we were building the mechanics, as we were designing the mechanics, as we were then designing the levels,” Barlog said. “All of those groups had to build everything at the same time.” He added that many playtesters had intense reactions to the game at this point, accusing his team of “ruining” Kratos after seeing certain cinematics and gameplay.

As the God of War team was about to release a demo of the game, with only six months to go until release, Shuhei Yoshida came to the studio for a playthrough. “I mean, the framerate was terrible, everything just felt bad. He’s playing, he’s got scrunched up shoulders, head shaking a little bit,” said Barlog.

“He kinda just shook his head and walked out the door…He never told me how he felt. In fact, he only told one of my friends, who he saw at a party. [Yoshida] said, ‘Oh, you’re working on God of War? I just gotta say, I played the game the other day. I was horrified.'” He added that this was a turning point in rallying his team to get the frame rate back up and work out some of God of War’s core issues.

In the end, Yoshida returned to play the game a second time. “He played it again, and you can see the two different poses of Shu. Horrified is much more rigid. The second time, he was not horrified. It was super good. Very exciting,” said Barlog. God of War released in April and received rave reviews, including GameSpot’s review, which gave the game a 9/10. Despite its rocky development, it turned into a “spectacular action game with epic set pieces, big-budget production values, and hard-hitting combat,” according to reviewer Peter Brown.

“What may surprise you is how mature its storytelling has become. Like Kratos, God of War recalls the past while acknowledging the need to improve. Everything new it does is for the better, and everything it holds onto benefits as a result,” he added. “Kratos is no longer a predictable brute. God of War is no longer an old-fashioned action series. With this reboot, it confidently walks a new path that will hopefully lead to more exciting adventures to come.”

In other God of War news, the game has just released an update and introduced the New Game Plus mode. It allows you to play through the game again, but with access to your unlocks, abilities, and weapons, meaning you’ll have them all right from the start.