It could get confusing next season, with two rival versions of Beauty and the Beast both now ordered to pilot. CBS recently gave the green light to an updated version of the much loved 1980s TV series, which starred Linda Hamilton and Ron Perlman. ABC has now followed suit, and has commisioned a pilot of their fairytale-based version of the story, […]
Former Eureka executive producer Matt Hastings has joined the team working on the second season of Syfy’s Alphas. Hastings will bw executive producer alongside new showrunner Bruce Miller, who stepped in to replace Star Trek: Deep Space Nine‘s Ira Steven Behr who oversaw the first year of the show. Hastings and Miller previously worked together on Eureka, whose final season […]
Speaking to The L.A. Times’ Hero Complex blog, Judge Dredd creator John Wagner has given a provisional thumbs up to the new movie Dredd featuring Star Trek‘s Karl Urban as the lawgiver. Describing the character at his creation as “a heartless hero for Thatcher’s heartless, new Britain”, Wagner explains that the new film works for him for three reasons: “The plot […]
According to a report at Bleeding Cool, Russell T Davies’ new children’s show, Aliens vs Wizards will be put together by the team that had been working on the fifth series of The Sarah Jane Adventures before it was brought to a premature end by the sad death of Elisabeth Sladen last April. The site says that the show is […]
Hammer Studios has announced that it is overseeing a global restoration of its film library, with Dracula Prince of Darkness the first title to benefit. According to their press release, Hammer is teaming up with STUDIOCANAL, Anolis Entertainment (Germany), Pinewood, illuminate Hollywood fka HTV and others to update the films into HD and 3-D. Some production materials are being furnished […]
The CW has added a further three pilots to their slate for 2012, in addition to Farscape creator Rockne S. O’Bannon’s Cult. As expected, the new version of DC’s Green Arrow, simply entitled Arrow, has been picked up, as has the new version of the 1980s series Beauty and the Beast. Described as “loosely based” on the CBS show starring […]
Following his successful turn as the ancient Volturi vampire Marcus in the Twilight series of movies, Sanctuary star Christopher Heyerdahl has signed up to play another ancient bloodsucker in season five of True Blood. Heyerdahl will play the recurring role of Dieter Braun, “an ancient, powerful vampire who plays a large part in the intelligence of the Authority and especially […]
During promotional work for the Lucasfilm production Red Tails, 67-year-old Star Wars creator George Lucas has announced his retirement from filmmaking and withdrawal from Lucasfilm, the company he created. “I’m […]
True Blood, Lost and Ugly Betty star Grant Bowler has been cast as the lead in the new Syfy series Defiance, written and executive produced by Farscape creator Rockne S. O’Bannon. Set in the near future, Defiance introduces a world where humans and aliens must learn to live together on an exotic new Earth that has been transformed by alien […]
Genre films and television shows didn’t do particularly well at this year’s Golden Globes, hosted by Ricky Gervais on January 15, but actors in current cult hits American Horror Story and Game of Thrones walked away with honours. Veteran actress Jessica Lange beat off stiff competition to win the TV Best Supporting Actress award for her role in American Horror Story, […]
According to a report at Deadline, Syfy is close to finalizing a deal to expand the fourth season of Warehouse 13 to 20 episodes. The last two seasons of the show have each contained 12 episodes plus a standalone Christmas special, but the report suggests that Syfy’s highest performing series could now run either in two blocks of 10, as Sanctuary […]
In their search for a superhero show to replace the recently finished Smallville, the CW are close to giving a pilot order to Arrow, an adaptation of the DC comics character Green Arrow. Written and executive produced by Greg Berlanti, Marc Guggenheim and Andrew Kreisberg, Arrow places the familiar character of Oliver Queen in a new environment, not connected to […]
The final film in the Harry Potter saga, and CW’s long-running Supernatural were the biggest genre winners at the People’s Choice Awards held on January 11 in Los Angeles. Harry Potter and the Deadly Hallows Part 2 was Favourite Movie, Favourite Action Movie, and had the Favourite Ensemble Movie Cast as well as the Favourite Book Adaptation. Supernatural was the […]
As part of this year’s grand celebrations of the 50th anniversary of the first James Bond movie, Dr No, MGM has announced that all the 22 official movies to date will […]
Hot on the heels of the release of a prequel featuring new character Hal comes confirmation that Sinead Keenan is not reprising her role as werewolf Nina for the fourth season of Being Human. “It is with a very heavy heart & a little relief that I can now tell you that I will not b appearing in S4 of Being […]
Fox Entertainment President Kevin Reilly told the Television Critics Association tour on January 8 that “we won’t be able to drag our feet for much longer” over a renewal for their highly-hyped dino drama Terra Nova. The series has been the second-highest rated new drama of the 2011/12 season but Reilly admitted that “creatively, the show was hunting [for its identity], and […]
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