It’s T-minus 20 days to the launch of this year’s ATX TV Festival, and one thing organizers don’t have hanging over their head this time around is the threat of a writers’ strike.

Like many British people of a certain age, Drew Pearce remembers watching the 1980s TV show The Fall Guy as a kid. It broadcast in the late Saturday afternoon slot, between televised wrestling and inane game shows, in the slot reserved for imported American action shows.

The Paramount Theatre has been a home to classic cinema for so long that many films now called classic weren't even made when they launched their Summer Classic Film Series in 1974. Five decades on, the annual fixture on the movie lovers calendar is back with another packed lineup.

Lost Soulz, Austin filmmaker Katherine Propper's rap road trip across Texas and through the convoluted lives of Gen Z artists, is heading for the big screen, and we have an exclusive clip to share.

South by Southwest, the hybrid music/tech/film/tv/culture festival, will be forever synonymous with Austin. But, having added an Australian spinoff last year, now the fest is headed across the pond to London for a UK-based leg.

Another blow to Austin's gaming industry: Bethesda Studios is closing Arkane Studios Austin, the studio behind the Dishonored series, Prey, and Redfall.

For some people, Michael Showalter is a key member of the State and Stella comedy troupes. For others, he’s the director of the Oscar-nominated The Big Sick. And then there are the devoted fans of The Baxter “We few, we merry few,” he delivers with a droll deadpan.

My fellow Star Wars prequels defender here at the Chronicle, Richard Whittaker, has curated this event list: From pup parties to documentary screenings, karaoke to vendor markets, there'll be something for every Star Wars fan in Austin. – Calendar Editor James Scott

Time Passages, the new film from Kyle Henry, looks like a portrait of a filmmaker contending with the death of his father and the creeping mental decline of his mother. However, Henry suggests that it’s more than that, that it represents “a moment for our national family to have a crisis intervention.”