Two of Austin's most unconventional creatives will be hitting your TV screens tonight, starring on two very different reality series - but both will be showing off their unique artistic eye.

Welcoming back to the bloodiest splash zone on TV: Netflix has just dropped the trailer for season two of Castlevania, the cartoon adaptation by local studio Powerhouse Animation of the legendary video game franchise.

True crime is big business these days (even the Duplass brothers are in on it), and Netflix is no small player in the game. Ever since dropping Making a Murderer in 2015, the streaming service has been busy buying up content or producing its own (or even a mix of both).

History repeats itself, and storytelling trends go in cycles. Three-quarters of a century ago, as demagogues fueled hatred of immigrants, Americans sought distraction from pulp magazines. Today, racist agitators are having a field day, and streaming services are providing so much crime fiction, viewers have trouble keeping track of it all.

First impressions count for a lot. Maybe that's why Roku has brought back that longstanding mainstay of digital entertainment – the screen saver.

Superfan Lennon Parham (Playing House) introduced Sunday’s Felicity cast reunion at the ATX Television Festival with a sentiment that was surely echoed by the affectionate crowd: “My dreams are coming true.”

Everyone wants to talk about sex, but few want to talk about abortion. The taboo topic closed out the seventh season of ATX Television Festival on Sunday, with a panel discussion on the way TV portrays abortion in contrast to real life. The (unsurprising) takeaway: Television gets it really wrong, most of the time.

Tales of obsession are in steady rotation on the Lifetime network; yet upcoming miniseries You, which screened its pilot this weekend at the ATX Television Festival, is much more nuanced than the typical fare.

Saturday evening at the Google Fiber Space, Pete Holmes described tragedy as the “sandpaper” that refines us. His HBO show Crashing is based on a rough period in his life when he was going through a divorce and literally crashing on other comedians’ couches.