John Constantine’s travails on NBC are over. Despite rumours circulating regarding the future of the series, which wasn’t given a back nine for its first season, NBC has finally confirmed that the show, based on the DC comic book, won’t be coming back. However, executive producer Daniel Cerone tweeted that all was not yet lost: “NBC a “no” for Season […]
Fox has added a further three genre shows to their 2015/16 schedule, with pick-ups for the Minority Report TV series, the Lucifer comic book adaptation and The Frankenstein Code update […]
The seventh and eighth episodes of the new season of Doctor Who won’t just feature the return of Jemma Redgrave as Kate Stewart. The Zygons – who faced multiple Doctors […]
The Messengers are not going to save the world – the CW has pulled the plug on the religious Rapture series. Executive producer Trey Callaway posted a slightly desperate tweet in the aftermath of the news, “Please stay tuned! We’re incredibly proud of the story we’ve told this season– and you’ve got to see how it ends!” The network has […]
Neither Forever nor Resurrection will be returning to ABC next season. It seemed as if Forever might make a last-minute rally, after strong ratings for its closing episode, but ABC elected not to continue. Star Ioan Gruffudd posted a message to Instagram (which can be read here) thanking fans for their support and creator Matt Miller tweeted “Was a joy […]
ABC has renewed both of their current Marvel shows: Agents of SHIELD and Agent Carter. SHIELD, which is currently tying in to the Avengers movie Age of Ultron as well as setting up the Inhumans in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, will be back for a third year – although Deadline suggests that the mooted spin-off featuring Adrienne Paliacki and Nick […]
The CW has made its choices for the new season, with orders given to DC’s Flash/Arrow spin off, known as Legends of Tomorrow and Cordon, a series about an epidemic in Atlanta. However the pilot for Tales from the Darkside has failed to make the cut. Legends of Tomorrow‘s official description: “When heroes alone are not enough… the world needs […]
Emily St John Mandel’s Station Eleven was declared the winner of the 29th Arthur C. Clarke Award for Science Fiction at the ceremony held in London on May 6th. Chair of the judges, Andrew M Butler, explained: “While many post-apocalypse novels focus on the survival of humanity, Station Eleven focuses instead on the survival of our culture, with the novel becoming […]
Katherine McNamara has been cast as Clary Fray in ABC Family’s adaptation of Cassandra Clare’s Mortal Instruments series. Clary is the central character of the series, a promising art student who learns […]
The CW’s comedy drama iZombie will be sucking viewers’ brains for a second year. “#iZOMBIE officially renewed for a second season!” executive producer Rob Thomas announced on Twitter on May 6th. The series is based on characters created by Chris Roberson and Michael Allred and stars Rose McIver as Olivia “Liv” Moore, a medical resident who is turned into a […]
In perhaps the least surprising news so far of this renewals/pick-up season, CBS has given a series order to Greg Berlanti’s version of the DC Comics character Supergirl. Melissa Benoit […]
Steven Spielberg’s Amblin is creating a TV version of Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World for Syfy, according to a story at The Hollywood Reporter. “Brave New World is one of […]
According to reports at Variety, Will Poulter has been cast as Pennywise the Clown in the new two-movie adaptation of Stephen King’s blockbuster, IT, about an evil that affects a […]
Syfy has confirmed that it has given a full 12-episode order to the adaptation of Lev Grossman’s The Magicians. The series stars Jason Ralph as Quentin Coldwater, a brilliant grad student who enrols in Brakebills College for Magical Pedagogy, a secret upstate New York university specializing in magic. He and his 20-something friends soon discover that the magical fantasy world […]
Grace Lee Whitney, who played Captain Kirk’s yeoman Janice Rand on the first season of the classic show, has died aged 85. Whitney was one of the most featured actors […]
Big Finish announced on May 3rd that they are creating six new stories featuring the Torchwood team, as seen in the Doctor Who spin-off. The announcement was expected to be made […]
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