All September long, IGN is spotlighting the best TV coming your way in the 2018-2019 season. Today we're taking a look at Jim Carrey's highly-anticipated return to the small screen with Showtime's new series, Kidding, premiering September 9. The series mixes inspiration from Sesame Street, Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood and The Truman Show into a half-hour format that is equal parts heartfelt, dramatic, and downright surreal.

With Kidding, Showtime steps into the tried and true world of children's entertainment -- kind of. The series sets out to explore the challenges of preserving kindness against the backdrop of an unkind world. With its premiere just days away -- Kidding premieres Sunday, September 9 on Showtime -- IGN can exclusively reveal a first-look image, which gives a peek at Mr. Pickles and one of his "Puppet Time" friends and co-stars in the first episode, titled "Green Means Go."

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Anime Crimes Division, the comedy miniseries created by Rocket Jump and Crunchyroll, is back in action with the first of six episodes airing today, September 7, at 1 PM PST on Crunchyroll.

The show stars SungWon Cho (ProZD) and Riley Rose Critchlow (Video Game High School) as they hunt down wrongdoers for anime-related crimes in Neo Otaku City. The first season was jampacked with anime references and in-jokes, like with how the first episode tackles the war on subs versus dubs. Check out IGN's exclusive video below for more on what you can expect from the second season from Anime Crimes Division's director and co-creator Freddie Wong.

The first episode of Anime Crimes Division's second season debuted at Crunchyroll Expo last weekend. New episodes of Anime Crimes Divison will be released on Crunchyroll every Friday.

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The Overwatch League has signed six more teams for the 2019 season.

Six new franchises have been added to the Overwatch League, including Chengdu, Hangzhou, Paris, Toronto, Vancouver, and Washington, D.C. The additions brings the roster up to 20 teams, with nine of them from outside of the US.

Last month saw Atlanta and Guangzhou, China, added to the roster, following the news that the OWL was looking to bolster its ranks with six new franchises for Season 2.

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2K Games has announced that Sid Meier's Civilization 6 will be heading to Nintendo Switch this November.

Sid Meier's Civilization 6 is dropping for the Switch on November 16. 2K announced the news on the game's official site, saying that the console title will include all of the latest updates and improvements, as well as four extra content packs including Vikings, Poland, Austrailia, and Persian and Macedon Civilization and Scenario packs.

The game launched on iPad at the end of last year, and the Rise and Fall expansion was released back in February.

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Starlink: Battle for Atlas raised more than a few eyebrows when it was announced at E3 2017, at a time when the toys-to-life genre was winding down and the conceptually similar No Man’s Sky still hadn’t completely course corrected after its underwhelming launch the year before. Yet after spending some recent hands on time with the game and its fantastic suite of plastic accessories, and chatting to key members of the Ubisoft Toronto team, I feel optimistic that Starlink: Battle for Atlas could be a spectacular space saga. Here are six reasons why it could be a success.

Starlink is much smaller in scale than No Man’s Sky. Whereas Hello Games’ interstellar survival game features more planets than any one player could possibly explore in a lifetime, Starlink features just seven planets for players to touch down on. Yet while Starlink might not have nearly as many places to visit, it seems to do a better job of giving each world a sense of place and unique characteristics, making exploration of them a more interesting and dynamic affair.

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Final Fantasy XV Pocket Edition HD is coming to consoles, with the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One versions available to download now.

Square Enix has announced that Final Fantasy XV Pocket Edition HD is live on PS4 and Xbox One, with a Nintendo Switch version "scheduled for release soon." Players can pick up the title for 40% off for the next week.

The game launched on iOS and Android earlier this year, with Final Fantasy XV director Hajime Tabata saying that there was "certainly a chance" it could come to Nintendo Switch.

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A demo for Mega Man 11 has just dropped for the Nintendo Switch, and is coming to the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One tomorrow, September 7.

Announced through the official Mega Man Twitter account, a new trailer was released to coincide with the demo, introducing a new robot master for the game: Bounce Man. His stage is filled with balloon-like surfaces that the Blue Bomber can bounce off of and is generally filled with odd, colorful contraptions.

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Ryan Reynolds has started a war with what some might consider too great a foe. He went after Paddington Bear, and the bear himself, those involved in the making of the Paddington films, and his fans, didn't back down.

This all began when Ryan Reynolds, star of Deadpool 2, which has been nominated Best Movie and Best Action Movie at the 2018 E! People's Choice Awards, said how he was "honored by all the @peoplschioce noms." It then took a dark turn when he asked his fans to vote Deadpool 2 in for best family film, and then proceeded to go after the lovable bear.

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