BBC One’s Saturday night hit show Atlantis has been picked up for a second season as filming draws to a close on the first. Announcing the news, with nine episodes of the debut year yet to air, Charlotte Moore, Controller BBC One said: “Atlantis delivers original British drama with the kind of scale and ambition that we’ve come to expect […]
News is just breaking that J.J.Abrams won’t only be directing Star Wars Episode VII – he’ll be co-writing it too. According to the reports, Abrams will be working with The Empire Strikes Back co-writer Lawrence Kasdan on the script, replacing Michael Arndt. “I am very excited about the story we have in place and thrilled to have Larry and J.J. […]
Twentieth Century Fox and Chernin Entertainment have made a deal to produce The Bone Season, based on the best-selling novel by British author Samantha Shannon. Deadline notes that “The deal was made with Andy Serkis and Jonathan Cavendish’s The Imaginarium, which controlled the rights and will produce with Peter Chernin and Jenno Topping.” In addition to working with them on […]
‘Horror’ is a genre that encompasses all the arts – film, music, literature, sculpture, painting, fashion – and this year a special calendar is celebrating the contribution of twelve women […]
The live tour of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy has been brought to a premature end. According to a statement issued just now on Facebook, “The Radio Theatre Company deeply regret to announce the immediate cancellation of The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy Radio Show 2013 Tour. Tonight’s performance at The Hawth, Crawley and tomorrow’s at the Watford Colosseum […]
Lou Scheimer, described as one of the “fathers of Saturday morning television” has died, shortly before his 84th birthday. Scheimer was one of the founders of Filmation Associates, which was […]
Michael Marshall’s 2007 novel The Intruders is being adapted for an eight part series for BBC America. According to the report at Deadline, The X-Files’ Glen Morgan is scripting and […]
Cult failed pilot Babylon Fields is, rather appropriately, getting a new lease of life, courtesy of NBC, a report at Deadline suggests. The drama created by Michael Cuesta, Gerald Cuesta […]
With less than six weeks to go before its global simultaneous broadcast, the BBC has finally begun to release official images from the 50th anniversary Doctor Who story, The Day […]
Filming has begun on the second season of BBC Three’s zombie series In the Flesh, with Wunmi Mosaku and Emmett J Scanlan joining the cast as the local MP and “a […]
Another veteran science fiction series is being revived by the BBC, with the announcement that new adventures for The Clangers, created by Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin, are on their way […]
Prominent British director Ben Wheatley has confirmed to Screen Daily that he will be directing two episodes for series eight of Doctor Who, featuring Peter Capaldi as the new incarnation of […]
Although it seems as if it’s yet another project jumping on the current Oz bandwagon, Lifetime’s new proposed series Red Brick Road has been around for some time. Deadline’s report […]
According to a report at Deadline, a contemporary reworking of the tales of King Arthur is on the way from ABC, after the network gave a put pilot commitment to […]
The BBC has finally (after months of rumours) confirmed the return of nine episodes of Doctor Who long believed lost after the BBC itself deleted much of the show’s 1960s […]
According to reliable reports on Twitter, despite the information given below, the press conference was in fact held at lunchtime on October 10th, with the information embargoed until midnight. Sci-Fi […]
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