RIP Time Machine star Rod Taylor
Rod Taylor, the Australian film actor who starred in George Pal’s 1960 version of The Time Machine, has died, aged 84. Taylor made a name for himself in his native […]
Outlander wins People’s Choice Award
Outlander, the time travel series about a nurse sent back to the time of the Jacobite rebellion, has won Favourite Cable Sci-Fi/Fantasy TV Show at the People’s Choice Awards held on January 7th, one of many genre winners at the ceremony. The new series – which is yet to find a UK broadcaster – beat competition from Doctor Who, Game […]
Dick’s Man in the High Castle streaming next week
Frank Spotnitz’s adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s The Man in the High Castle will form part of Amazon Studios’ first pilot season for 2015 which becomes available from January 15th. […]
Genre plays make BBC Audio Drama Awards shortlist
Four genre productions are in the running for this year’s BBC Audio Drama Awards. The shortlist for the Awards was announced today, with two Big Finish productions – Frankenstein and Survivors – nominated alongside the adaptations of The Exorcist and The Illustrated Man. Alex Jordan is in the running for Best Debut Performance for his role in Frankenstein, adapted by […]
Amazon drop Chris Carter’s The After
We won’t be seeing new stories from X-Files creator Chris Carter any time soon, with the news that Amazon are not proceeding with a series based on his pilot The […]
Powys Media wrap up their Space: 1999 line
With the Blu-ray release of the second season of Space: 1999 due later this year, and a reboot still possible, the Gerry and Sylvia Anderson show would seem to be […]
New John Carter of Mars films in the pipeline
John Carter is hopefully going back to Mars. After the commercial failure of Disney’s version of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ John Carter, it seemed as if the epic hero’s big screen adventures were […]
Game of Thrones set to conquer IMAX
Fans of HBO’s Game of Thrones will get the chance to see their heroes and villains on the big IMAX screen later this month. Two episodes of series 4 (Deadline […]
Big Finish go to the Village for new Prisoner audio series
The Prisoner is back in the Village in a new series of audio adventures from Big Finish. The new audio series of The Prisoner is to be written and directed […]
RIP director Fiona Cumming
Fiona Cumming, who helmed four of Peter Davison’s stories during his tenure as the Doctor, has died aged 77, according to a report posted by the Doctor Who Appreciation Society. […]
RIP Bernard Kay
Prolific British character actor Bernard Kay has died, aged 86. Initially a reporter, Kay turned to acting after the Second World War, and appeared in many genre productions. He was […]
TV Daredevil to be a Local Hero
Talking to Entertainment Weekly, Marvel’s team behind the new Daredevil TV show, set to premiere on Netflix in 2015, have confirmed some key details. “The Avengers are here to save the universe and Daredevil is here to save the neighbourhood,” TV head Jeph Loeb explained, confirming that the show will stick to the Hell’s Kitchen area of New York where […]
Matt Smith’s Lost River going straight to video in US
Lost River, the movie previously known as How to Catch a Monster, is not going to get a cinema release in the US, according to a report at Variety. The […]
RIP Space Patrol’s Roberta Leigh
Space Patrol creator Roberta Leigh has died, aged 87. The children’s novelist and puppet show creator worked with Gerry and Sylvia Anderson on some of her early productions, including The […]
Roberto Orci neither writing nor directing Star Trek XIII
It has been confirmed that Roberto Orci, one of the prime movers behind the reboot of the Star Trek universe in the 2009 film, will no longer be either writing or directing the thirteenth movie in the series, out in July 2016. Fast and Furious franchise director Justin Lin has been brought in to direct the movie, the third to […]
Jenna Coleman confirmed for Doctor Who Series 9
Following the events of the Doctor Who Christmas Special, broadcast worldwide on Christmas Day, Jenna Coleman will be back in the TARDIS for a further complete series of adventures alongside Peter […]
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