The CW’s Arrow wins full season order
After screening just two episodes, The CW have ordered a full 22-episode run of new superhero show Arrow. Attracting just over four million viewers, the debut episode of the season […]
Dean Koontz’s Frankenstein returns to TV
Dean Koontz’s retelling of Frankenstein looks as if it may be heading back to its original medium with the announcement from TNT that it is preparing a drama series based […]
AudioGo and Big Finish team up for 50th anniversary Who stories
According to a report in the new issue of Doctor Who Magazine, audio producers Big Finish and AudioGo are working together on a series of eleven special Doctor Who stories […]
Munsters reboot to air as Halloween special
The pilot for Mockingbird Lane, Bryan Fuller’s reboot of the classic TV series The Munsters, is to be aired as a Halloween special in the States, after NBC decided not […]
Rutger Hauer joins True Blood!
Blade Runner star Rutger Hauer has joined the sixth season of HBO’s southern vampire series True Blood. According to TV Line, Hauer will be playing a character called Macklyn, described […]
Chuck creators bringing Midnighters to TV
Chuck creators Chris Fedak and Josh Schwartz are adapting Scott Westerfield’s Midnighters into a TV series, potentially for The CW. The series is ‘centred on a small group of people […]
The X-Files’ Chris Carter returns to SF TV!
Chris Carter—best known for The X-Files and Millennium—is pitching a new sci-fi television show called The After to US TV networks. Carter is working with production company Georgeville TV to […]
Babylon 5 creator joins Cloud Atlas directors for new SF TV show, Sense8!
Babylon 5‘s J. Michael Straczynski is teaming up with Andy and Lana (formerly Larry) Wachowski (directors of the upcoming Cloud Atlas movie, and now trading under the name Wachowski Starship!) […]
Cloverfield’s Matt Reeves directing Apes sequel?
After original director Rupert Wyatt backed out of helming the sequel to Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Fox has been desperately looking for a replacement so that they can make the May 23, 2014 release date to which they are committed. Cloverfield and Let Me In director Matt Reeves looks set to take up the directorial reins on […]
Terry Pratchett launches production company Narritivia
Sir Terry Pratchett has launched a new production company which will control the worldwide rights to all of his material across film, television, merchandising and digital media. The executive team […]
RIP Babylon 5’s Michael O’Hare
Michael O’Hare, who played Commander Sinclair in the first year of Babylon 5, passed away on September 28, aged 60. The news was broken by B5 creator J. Michael Straczynski […]
Jackson Doctor Who ep one stage closer?
According to a report in New Zealand paper The Waikato Times, the likelihood of an episode of Doctor Who helmed by Peter Jackson, as discussed here, may be higher than first thought – […]
Emmy wins for Jessica Lange and Buffy’s Danny Strong
Genre shows weren’t well rewarded at the Emmys, held on September 23, but Jessica Lange received Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Mini-Series for her role as Constance Langdon in American Horror Story. Former Buffy star Danny Strong – who played Jonathan for six of the show’s seven seasons – won an Emmy for Outstanding Writing For A Miniseries, Movie Or […]
Del Toro’s The Strain comes to TV
Lost showrunner Carlton Cuse will be running the TV version of Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan’s vampire trilogy The Strain for FX. The books were originally intended as a […]
Starbuck to play Amy Pond’s mother in Oculus
Katee Sackhoff, still best known to genre fans for her role as Starbuck on the revamped Battlestar Galactica, has signed up for Oculus, the horror film which will see Karen […]
Peter Jackson wants to direct Doctor Who!
Following a comment by current Doctor Who star Matt Smith (seen right in The Angels Take Manhattan), Peter Jackson—director of the two Tolkien trilogies based on The Lord of the […]
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