At their presentation at the TCAs on January 17th, Dana Walden and Gary Newman, Chairmen and CEOs, Fox Television Group confirmed that the Batman prequel series Gotham is definitely coming back for a second year – and also hinted at a return for another old favourite. According to Walden, there have been conversations about a possible return for The X-Files, […]
Brandon Sanderson’s Reckoners series has been bought by 20th Century Fox, according to a report at Deadline. The superhero series – which began with Steelheart, and continues in the just-published Firefight – deals with the confrontations between the Epics, people who gained extraordinary powers, and the Reckoners, ordinary people who learn about their weaknesses and then get rid of them. […]
Chuck and Thor: The Dark World star Zachary Levi is stepping up to the plate once more as one of the stars of NBC’s rebooted Heroes: Reborn. Levi will be […]
In the Flesh, Dominic Mitchell’s tale of life following a zombie apocalypse, will not be returning to BBC Three, it has now been confirmed. An official statement from the channel stated that “BBC Three is very proud of the two award-winning series of In the Flesh. However, given there is only budget for one original drama series a year on […]
When ITV Studios released the first full image of the new Tracy brothers for Thunderbirds are Go!, their revamp of the classic Gerry and Sylvia Anderson series, they can’t have expected […]
No, this isn’t an April Fool’s gag very early – you read that right. William Shatner, Captain Kirk himself, is to be the voice of the Clangers for the new Smallfilms series coming this year. You might have thought that American audiences would have been able to cope with Monty Python’s Michael Palin, who is still the British narrator, but clearly […]
We don’t often push our own material here on Sci-Fi Bulletin, but this is a bit of an exception: Who Beyond 50, a series of essays by Brian J. Robb […]
With filming now underway on the ninth series of Doctor Who, the BBC has confirmed that Paul Kaye will be leading the guest cast for a two part story by […]
Robert Kinoshita, the designer responsible for both Forbidden Planet‘s Robby the Robot and the Robot in Lost in Space, died on 9 December, 2014, aged 100. Los Angeles born Kinoshita started […]
Stephen King’s detective novel Mr Mercedes is heading to TV as a miniseries, courtesy of David E. Kelley. The Ally McBeal creator is writing the script for Sonar Entertainment’s proposed miniseries based on the novel, published last summer about a retired cop on the trail of a psychopathic killer. “This is an amazing opportunity to adapt a script from material […]
Greenland is going to become an American prison in the new series from Syfy, 51st State. The series, created by Oscar nominee Craig Borten, takes John Carpenter’s Escape from New […]
Although you’d hope that this would have been a prerequisite of Twin Peaks’ pick-up by Showtime, it has now been officially confirmed that Kyle MacLachlan will be back for the sequel series. “I’m very excited to return to the strange and wonderful world of Twin Peaks,” MacLachlan said at the TCA tour where the announcement was made. “May the forest be […]
Prolific British writer and producer Brian Clemens has died aged 83. Best known for his work on The Avengers, its sequel The New Avengers, and thriller series The Professionals, Clemens wrote for many […]
On the heels of the CW’s Mark Pedowitz confirming early renewals for Arrow and The Flash, the shows’ creators have indicated that another DC hero could be heading for the small screen. Speaking at the Television Critics Association press tour on January 11, Pedowitz noted that “We are in preliminary discussions to expand the Flash-Arrow universe,” and Greg Berlanti, Andrew Kreisberg, and Marc […]
News of renewals don’t normally come this early, and they certainly don’t usually come in large batches but the CW has broken both rules, announcing today that all eight of its drama series will be returning next season. The Flash and Jane the Virgin will be back for a second season as well as The Originals (Season 3), Reign (Season 3), The […]
HBO has announced the start date for the 5th season of their flagship series, Game of Thrones, with a tweet confirming that “the countdown begins”. The new episodes will begin […]
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