Samuel Anderson joins Who series 8
The History Boys, Gavin and Stacey and Emmerdale’s Samuel Anderson has been cast as Danny Pink, a teacher at Coal Hill School, for the new series of Doctor Who, currently […]
Former Mr Fantastic to live Forever
Ioan Gruffudd, who played Reed Richards, aka Mr Fantastic, in the last two Fantastic Four movies, is to play immortal New York medical examiner Dr Henry Morgan in the new ABC […]
Heroes Reborn for a 2015 miniseries
Tim Kring’s Heroes are returning to NBC, five years after their last appearance, in a 13 episode event miniseries entitled Heroes: Reborn. The standalone arc will air in 2015, and […]
Matt Ryan is NBC’s Constantine
Welsh actor Matt Ryan has been cast as John Constantine in NBC’s new version of the DC anti-hero. Best known for his role as Mick Rawson on Criminal Minds: Suspect […]
Buzolic and Laviscount lead Supernatural: Tribes
The Vampire Diaries’ Nathaniel Buzolic (right) and British actor Lucien Laviscount will play the lead roles on Supernatural: Tribes, the proposed Supernatural spinoff, which will air as an episode of the […]
Fox’s Fantastic Four cast revealed
Michael B. Jordan, Miles Teller, Kate Mara and Jamie Bell are being heavily linked to the latest reboot of Marvel’s The Fantastic Four, due from Fox next summer. Teller is […]
Jada Pinkett Smith to play super-villain in Gotham
The Matrix’s Jada Pinkett Smith has been cast as Fish Mooney in the new Batman prequel series, Gotham. Mooney is an imposing, hot-headed and notoriously sadistic gangster boss and nightclub […]
JMS options Harlan Ellison’s “Repent, Harlequin!”
Babylon 5 creator J. Michael Straczynski has been granted an option by his B5 collaborator Harlan Ellison on the latter’s classic tale ‘”Repent, Harlequin!” said the Ticktock Man’, according to […]
Early renewals for CW’s fantasy shows
It’s only mid-February but the future of some of the CW’s key fantasy shows is already assured. Renewal announcements have been made today for Supernatural, which has been gaining some of its best episode ratings since 2010 with the most recent season; The Vampire Diaries – the highest rated show in key demos; its spin-off The Originals, which has overcome […]
Lifetime orders The Lottery
Lifetime has given a 10-episode order to The Lottery, a tale of a dystopian world where the human race is threatened by extinction when women cease giving birth. Directed by […]
Sean Pertwee is Alfred in new Gotham series
Sean Pertwee has been cast as a younger version of Alfred Pennyworth, the Wayne family butler, in the new Fox TV series Gotham, which tells the story of Batman’s home […]
RIP Christopher Barry (updated)
Christopher Barry, who directed Doctor Who stories for the first four incarnations of the Time Lord, has died aged 88, following a fall at home last week. Barry’s first story […]
Southlands’ Ben McKenzie is new James Gordon in Gotham
Southlands and The OC star Ben McKenzie has been signed up to play a young James Gordon in Fox’s pre-Batman drama Gotham. In this version of the Dark Knight’s mythos, […]
Scalzi’s Redshirts beam onto FX
John Scalzi’s Redshirts are, rather appropriately, heading for the small screen in a limited series version for FX. Scalzi will be one of the executive producers on the project, alongside Jon Shestack, Ken Kwapis and Alexandra Beattie. Kwapis will direct the opening episode, although writers have yet to be confirmed. The book, described as a novel with three codas, won […]
Marc Forster leading Red Rising for Universal
Deadline has confirmed that Pierce Brown’s new novel Red Rising is heading for cinema screens, courtesy of World War Z’s Marc Forster and Universal Pictures. The novel, which was only released at the end of last month, is the start of a trilogy of adventures set on Mars, about Darrow, a member of a lower class who manages to masquerade […]
Preacher comes to AMC
It’s going to be a year of darker comic book adaptations for the small screen with confirmation that AMC Pictures and Sony are working on a version of Garth Ennis […]
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