Stephen King’s Revival to reach a big screen audience?
Josh Boone, who is lined up to direct the new version of Stephen King’s epic novel The Stand, is looking to bring King’s recent novel Revival to the screen first. […]
The Relic’s Special Agent Pendergast comes to Spike
Special Agent Aloysius Pendergast, the FBI agent introduced in Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child’s first thriller Relic, is getting his own series on Spike. Gale Ann Hurd is executive producing the […]
Space Spectacular celebrates SF scores at the Royal Albert Hall
From John Williams to Barry Gray, Richard Strauss to Alexander Courage, the Royal Philhamonic Orchestra will be celebrating music for SF movies and TV series at the Space Spectacular to […]
Dan Dare’s chroniclers revealed
The writers for B7 Media’s dramatic new audio version of Dan Dare have been announced. “Space is back! After years languishing in the backwaters, suddenly the romance of space has […]
RIP Frank Finlay
Respected British stage and screen actor Frank Finlay has died, aged 89. Although renowned for his mainstream work, Finlay’s career was bookended with genre appearances, with one of his earliest […]
CW orders multiple genre pilots
The CW has given pilot orders to six further genre-based series, adding to their roster of superhero-based shows. Kevin Williamson has a third pilot in consideration for next season with […]
Shadow Moon found for Starz’s American Gods
Starz’s adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s classic novel American Gods has found its protagonist, Shadow Moon. The 100’s Ricky Whittle will play the key role in the series which is set […]
The Enterprise Blues Band comes to the UK!
The renowned Enterprise Blues Band, who have delighted Star Trek fans around the world, will be appearing at the SF Ball being held in Southampton from 5-7 February. The band, […]
Dominic Fortune cast for Marvel’s Most Wanted
Adventurer Dominic Fortune will be part of the line-up for ABC’s new Marvel pilot, Most Wanted. The Chicago Code and Believe’s Delroy Lindo has been cast as the soldier of […]
CBS announce Star Trek 50th anniversary celebrations
In addition to the annual Trek pilgrimage to Las Vegas, CBS Consumer Products are organising many other special events to mark Star Trek’s 50th anniversary this September. From September 2-4, […]
More victories for Game of Thrones
HBO’s Game of Thrones emerged victorious from the 27th Annual Producers Guild Awards. The show’s fifth season won the Norman Felton Award for Outstanding Producer of Episodic Television Drama at the ceremony held on January 23rd in Los Angeles. Accepting the award, producer D.B Weiss noted that HBO told them up front that knights and dragons were “not the business they were […]
Fox order Exorcist TV pilot
Some three years after it started to be shopped around, the TV pilot version of The Exorcist has found a home at Fox. Described as “a propulsive, serialized psychological thriller following two very different men tackling one family’s case of horrifying demonic possession and confronting the face of true evil”, the script is by Jeremy Slater who will also executive […]
Chris Chibnall new Doctor Who showrunner
Broadchurch creator and Torchwood showrunner Chris Chibnall is taking over as head writer of Doctor Who from Steven Moffat. Moffat will oversee the 2016 Christmas Special and Series 10 which is being broadcast in Spring 2017. Chibnall’s first season will appear in 2018. This means that new broadcast Who seems likely to consist solely of the BBC3 spinoff Class and […]
Supergirl casts its young Superman
Although one of the core elements of CBS’ Supergirl series is the age difference between Kara and her cousin, Superman, as a result of the period she spent in the […]
Jimmy Nail and David Essex fight Jeff Wayne’s War of the Worlds
Casting has now been announced for the World Stage Premiere of The War of The Worlds at the Dominion Theatre, London. Alongside the onscreen appearance of Liam Neeson and the […]
Star Wars to remain Christmas fixture
The release of a new Star Wars movie seems set to become as much part of the Christmas routine as Slade’s song or the Charlie Brown special. Disney has moved the release of Rian Johnson’s Episode VIII from May 2017 to a December slot. Rogue One will be out this December, and it’s anticipated that the young Han Solo movie […]
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