Multiple stories have been going the rounds over the years about the reasons for John Hurt joining the Doctor Who 50th anniversary special, and showrunner Steven Moffat has finally gone on record with his account of the turbulent preparation of The Day of the Doctor. Talking to Radio Times, Moffat explains how the show morphed from the three 21st Century Doctors […]
Danger Will Robinson! Netflix is working on a new update of the classic 1960s Irwin Allen TV series Lost in Space. The latest reboot is described as “an epic but grounded science fiction saga focusing on a young explorer family from earth lost in an alien universe and the challenges they face in staying together against seemingly insurmountable odds.” It […]
Eve and Humans, the two genre shows about humanoid robots, are in contention for Broadcast Awards 2016. The CBBC series Eve, co-created by Emma Reeves and David Chikwe, has been shortlisted for Best Children’s Programme, while the E4 show Humans, starring former Merlin Colin Morgan, is up for Best Drama Series or Serial. Charlie Brooker’s Black Mirror special White Christmas has […]
Fargo’s Noah Hawley is working on an adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut’s Cat’s Cradle for FX, according to a report at Deadline. The novel was originally published in 1963 and tackles […]
It sounds like a contradiction in terms, but ABC Family have commissioned their first horror series, Dead of Summer. The network is rebranding itself as “Freeform” from January 2016, expanding […]
Syfy has given the go-ahead for two six-episode miniseries of Channel Zero to be aired around Halloween in 2016 and 2017. The first season will be based on Kris Straub’s […]
Phillippa Boyens, co-writer of the scripts for Peter Jackson’s six-part foray into Tolkien’s Middle-earth as well as King Kong and The Lovely Bones, has turned her attention to Merlin, adapting […]
The short list for the 2016 Audio Drama Awards has been published and Good Omens, The Omega Factor, Dark Shadows and Sherlock Holmes all feature. Dirk Maggs’ production of Neil […]
Agent Peggy Carter will be touching down in Los Angeles on January 5th on ABC. As expected, the show will take the 9pm timeslot currently occupied by Agents of SHIELD, which […]
The Doctor Who Festival kicked off in style at the Excel Centre in London on November 13th, and Sci-Fi Bulletin was there in force. Click here to read Nick Joy’s review of the first day seen from the point of view of one of the paying public, and come back to this page over the coming days for links to […]
The new Christmas Special, featuring Peter Capaldi and the return of Alex Kingston as River Song to the TV series, will be showing in North American cinemas on 28 and […]
Netflix’s second Marvel series Jessica Jones kicks off on November 20th, and a new trailer gives the best indication yet of the tone and feel of the show. All 13 episode of the series will premiere on November 20, 2015 at 12:01am PT (i.e. 8.01 a.m. UK time) in all territories where Netflix is available. Krysten Ritter, Mike Colter and […]
Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk’s American Horror Story anthology series will be back for a sixth run next year. “With the sixth installment coming next year, American Horror Story has unquestionably joined the ranks of television’s landmark series,” John Landgraf, CEO of FX Networks and FX Productions said. “From Murder House to Hotel, AHS has pioneered a new television form […]
Blackbirds, the series based on Chuck Wendig’s Miriam Black stories, is no longer proceeding at Starz. The author broke the news on his blog, TerribleMinds.com, on November 9th, noting that “I don’t really know why. Things were going quite well over at Starz! We had infrastructure. We had something just shy of a confirmed pickup. Scripts! Producers! Things! Stuff! And […]
The World Fantasy Award winners for 2015 have been revealed. The awards were given at this year’s World Fantasy Convention, held in Saratoga Springs, NY. The judges included Gemma Files, […]
Olivia Poulet will be the recipient of the “Mrs Peel We’re Needed” messages in Big Finish’s adaptations of the comic strips from Diana magazine featuring Steed and Mrs Peel. ‘We […]
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