No Heroics' Drew Pearce to adapt The Mighty
Drew Pearce, the creator of the short-lived ITV2 superhero satire No Heroics, is writing a screenplay based on the DC Comic The Mighty for Paramount Pictures. The Mighty was created […]
Moffat denies American move planned for Doctor Who
Speaking at the Television Critics Association press tour yesterday (July 28), Doctor Who producer Steven Moffat has said that it is unlikely that the series will follow in spin-off Torchwood‘s footsteps and become an American production. “It’s entirely about story,” Moffat pointed out. “I don’t think in order to make Doctor Who successful in America you have to make stories set […]
Watch David Tennant in action in Fright Night trailer
Dreamworks have released a trailer for their updated remake of the 1996 horror comedy Fright Night, starring former Doctor Who David Tennant alongside Colin Farrell and Star Trek/Terminator Salvation‘s Anton Yelchin. […]
Fresh Tales from a reopened Crypt
The 1950s EC comics anthology Tales from the Crypt is set to inspire a new TV series, 15 years after an earlier version completed a seven year run on HBO. […]
Lucas loses Star Wars Stormtrooper copyright battle
The U.K.’s Supreme Court today ruled in favour of the propmaker who has been selling costumes based on the Stormtrooper outfits from the Star Wars movies. Andrew Ainsworth designed the […]
SyFy developing The Sixth Gun
Occult western comic book The Sixth Gun is heading to Syfy as a six episode mini-series. The adaptation of the Oni Press series was announced at Comic-Con, and according to […]
Darabont steps down from The Walking Dead (updated)
According to a report on Deadline.com, Frank Darabont has stepped down as showrunner on the second season of The Walking Dead – which will come as a great surprise to fans of the series who attended Comic-Con last weekend, where the Shawshank Redemption director was enthusing about the new season. The Deadline report suggests that Darabont “never quite adjusted to […]
Eureka gets animated!
Syfy is preparing a very special holiday episode of Eureka, in which the characters will be transformed into animated versions of themselves. According to Syfy, “In the episode “Do You […]
Comic-Con: Supernatural scares for season seven
The Supernatural panel at Comic-Con confirmed that season seven of the CW show will aim to put the scares back into the series. Star Jared Padalecki noted that, “Sam is […]
Doctor Who returns in August!
It’s been confirmed this evening at the Comic-Con panel in San Diego that Doctor Who will be returning to our screens this August. Episode 8, Let’s Kill Hitler, will air on August 27 State-side, which would mean that it’s likely to be broadcast the same day in the UK, the Saturday of the Bank Holiday weekend. This would fit with […]
Fringe, Chuck, Being Human, Sanctuary and Warehouse 13 updates from ComicCon
As always, San Diego ComicCon has been a hotbed of spoiler information for the upcoming TV season. Below are our picks from the various genre panels: The question of Walternate’s grandson was raised at the Fringe panel – how can he exist, if Peter Bishop has been wiped from ever existing. But according to Anna Torv, “The question is: Is […]
True Blood hints at ComicCon for seasons 4 and 5
The True Blood panel at this year’s ComicCon gave away certain hints about the direction of both season 4 and 5 of the hit HBO vampire show. As suggested in […]
Scanners – the TV series?
Following the success of The Walking Dead, Dimension Films are considering a TV series based on the David Cronenberg film Scanners, to which they hold the rights. Dimension have been […]
Pierce Brosnan to star in Stephen King's Bag of Bones
Former 007 star Pierce Brosnan will headline A & E’s miniseries adaptation of Stephen King’s novel Bag of Bones, which Mick Garris will be directing from next month for broadcast […]
A Clockwork Orange comes to life on stage – twice!
Two new stage productions of Anthony Burgess’s classic novel A Clockwork Orange will be appearing in the coming year. To mark the book’s 50th anniversary next year, graduates of the Royal […]
Scott promises "fresh notion" on artificial life in Promethus
Speaking to ComicCon via a video link from Prometheus‘s set in Iceland, director Ridley Scott dropped multiple hints about the content of his new movie and its link to the Alien saga. Asked whether there would be androids in the film, like Ash and Bishop in the earlier movies, Scott said there “may be two”, but added, “Robots and androids […]
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