With nineteen nominations in total, HBO’s Game of Thrones leads the board for the 2014 Emmy Awards announced on July 10, with American Horror Story: Coven not far behind. It is the only genre nominee in the Best Drama category but has no-one up for either Best Actor or Actress. Peter Dinklage has a Best Supporting Actor nomination, with Lena […]
Syfy has given the green light to a pilot based on Lev Grossman’s fantasy trilogy The Magicians, according to a report at Deadline. The pilot for the proposed one-hour series, […]
Orphan Black will be back for a third series of 10 episodes next year, according to an announcement made by BBC America executives at the Television Critics Association tour in […]
DC’s hit TV adaptation Arrow is adding another former superhero to its roster – although this time Brandon Routh won’t be playing the Man of Steel. The star of the […]
Don Matheson, who starred as Mark Wilson in Irwin Allen’s SF series Land of the Giants, has died aged 84. Matheson’s Wilson was a bad-tempered businessman in the 1968 series set […]
Scripts for the first episodes of the new series of Doctor Who have leaked online. The scripts were sent to the BBC’s office in Miami for translation, in preparation for the global premiere of the series on August 23rd, but were leaked. The BBC issued a statement via Radio Times: “BBC Worldwide is currently investigating a security issue around Doctor Who […]
Following the accident in which star Harrison Ford injured his leg, filming on Star Wars Episode VII will take a two-week production break in August, it has been revealed. However […]
The Doctor Who Appreciation Society is holding a special event on Wednesday July 23rd to celebrate the unveiling of a plaque dedicated to Doctor Who‘s first producer, Verity Lambert. The blue heritage plaque will be on display at Riverside Studios, where many early episodes of Doctor Who were recorded, until the venue closes for development in the autumn, when it will be […]
After a couple of days of rumours, it has now been confirmed that award winning children’s author Frank Cottrell Boyce – whose work also includes 24 Hour Party People – will be writing an episode of Doctor Who’s eighth series. Cottrell Boyce’s episode will feature a cast of child actors including Harley Bird, the voice of household favourite Peppa Pig, […]
Tatau is heading for BBC Three, the first new genre commission by the channel since In the Flesh. The series by Strike Back and New Tricks writer Richard Zajdlic follows two friends from London who travel to the Cook Islands in the South Pacific. One of the friends, Kyle, who got a Maori-style tattoo before the trip, has a premonition of […]
Fremantle’s adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s American Gods has landed at Starz, with Hannibal’s Bryan Fuller and Heroes’ Michael Green penning the pilot and showrunning the series. “Neil Gaiman has created the holiest of holy toy boxes with American Gods and filled it with all manner of magical thing, born of new gods and old,” Fuller explained in a statement. “Michael […]
Da Vinci’s Demons’ David S. Goyer and Universal Television are working on a TV adaptation of Christopher Golden’s horror novel, Snowblind, according to a report at Deadline. The novel, described by Sci-Fi Bulletin as “a chiller in every sense of the word“, tells of a group of people who disappear in a snowstorm in a New England town, and the horrors […]
Green Wing and Bad Education’s Michelle Gomez is joining the eighth series of Doctor Who playing a character called the Gatekeeper of the Nethersphere. Little is known about the character […]
Although initial reports regarding the NBC version of John Constantine have been pretty positive, news is emerging that some of the “compromises” that are being made to bring it to network television may alter the character quite considerably. In an interview with Collider at the Saturn Awards, director Neil Marshall confirmed that Constantine will not be seen smoking in the […]
The 40th annual Saturn Awards, presented by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films, were handed out at a ceremony on June 26. Iron Man 3 won Best Comic-to-Film Motion Picture with its stars Robert Downey Jr. and Ben Kingsley winning Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor respectively. Gravity was the Best Science Fiction Film, while Spike Jonze’s Her […]
BBC Three’s In the Flesh added to its tally of awards at the Broadcast Digital Awards, held at The Brewery in London on June 25. The zombie series, created by Dominic Mitchell, won Best Scripted Programme; on Twitter, Mitchell dedicated the award to the BBC’s Ben Stephenson and Kate Harwood, “such relentless champions” of the series. Star Emmett J. Scanlan […]
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