TV Special, Graphic Novel Among Latest Adventures for Last Kids on Earth By Karen Raugust | Apr 20, 2021
The Last Kids on Earth, the middle-grade series written by Max Brallier, illustrated by Douglas Holgate, and published by Viking, has been making inroads into television, gaming, and licensed products. The latest ventures for the franchise include a new interactive television episode, which premiered on Netflix on April 6, and a graphic novel from Viking released the same day.
The expansion of the book series, which has seven million copies in print, began in 2017 when Thunderbird Entertainment and its kids’ and family division, Atomic Cartoons, approached Brallier to option the rights for a TV series. The show was acquired by Netflix in 2018 and premiered in 2019 with an Emmy-winning special, followed by two seasons of 10 episodes each in April and October 2020. In the new standalone interactive episode,
Dubbed The Entertainers , the Canterbury side which went all the way in 1980 to deliver the club its third premiership featured the three Mortimer brothers and the three Hughes boys.
Steve, Peter and Chris Mortimer joined forces with Graeme, Mark and Garry Hughes to create a special piece of rugby league history as a brash young Canterbury side charged from eighth at the halfway point of the season to win 13 of their last 15 games and take the title.
Canterbury arrived at a sun-drenched SCG on September 27, 1980 brimming with confidence after beating Easts 13-7 in the major semi-final a fortnight earlier to earn a week off and they made the perfect start when sharp shooter Steve Gearin landed an early penalty goal after Roosters forward Des O Reilly was pinged for a swinging arm.
Naked Wines, which first appeared on the
WBM 50 when U.S. case sales surpassed 500,000 cases in 2017, has been growing quickly amid the ecommerce surge of the past thirteen months.
The online retailer, founded in the U.K. in 2008, employs a club with a unique spin on crowdsourcing where customers, called Angels, fund independent winemakers in return for wines at wholesale prices. Naked Wines works with WineShipping, which has facilities in California, Missouri, Florida and New York, sending packages to 95 percent of customers within two-days.
Last year, Naked launched a $5 million “COVID support fund,” reaching 44 U.S. winemakers with immediate purchases from Jesse Katz (Aperture), Tom Rinaldi (Pellet Estate), Ted Henry (PRIME Cellars & Clos du Val), Ryan & Meghan Glaab (Ryme Cellars), and Ana Keller (Keller Estate). CEO Nick Devlin says the company is reaching critical mass such that winemakers can build brands with Naked Wines as a platform and that he’s keen to wo
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image captionKen Wright, co-owner of the Phoenix Arts Club, is worried about the future of his business
About two million of the UK s lowest-paid workers will get a pay rise from Thursday as the minimum wage goes up.
The headline National Living Wage will rise by 2.2% to £8.91, the equivalent of more than £345 a year for a full-time employee.
But Ken Wright, co-owner of the Phoenix Arts Club in Soho, is wringing his hands in despair over how he will afford the pay rise during a pandemic. What we ve been asked to do is more, with less, he told the BBC.
Letters to the editor: Jan. 29, 2021
Celebration of hate
While walking my dog in McMinnville one morning last week, I passed a house with a “Trump 2020” banner on the garage. Below the “Trump 2020” was the statement, “F your feelings” a hateful sentiment.
Then, in Friday’s News Register, I read the letter from Leonard Leis decrying Democratic hatred of Trump. Pointing a finger at Democrats as haters ignores the facts.
On Jan. 6, I watched Trump incite a homicidal insurrection by his followers on live TV. In the crowd, visible symbols of hate were prominent, including Confederate flags, banners like the one I encountered, and T-shirts proclaiming “Camp Auschwitz” and “6MWE” (“6 Million Wasn’t Enough,” a reference to the Holocaust).