Syfy greenlights Channel Zero limited series
Syfy has given the go-ahead for two six-episode miniseries of Channel Zero to be aired around Halloween in 2016 and 2017. The first season will be based on Kris Straub’s […]
Lord of the Rings scribe tackling Young Merlin
Phillippa Boyens, co-writer of the scripts for Peter Jackson’s six-part foray into Tolkien’s Middle-earth as well as King Kong and The Lovely Bones, has turned her attention to Merlin, adapting […]
Good Omens & Big Finish up for 2016 Audio Awards
The short list for the 2016 Audio Drama Awards has been published and Good Omens, The Omega Factor, Dark Shadows and Sherlock Holmes all feature. Dirk Maggs’ production of Neil […]
Peggy Carter returns January 5th
Agent Peggy Carter will be touching down in Los Angeles on January 5th on ABC. As expected, the show will take the 9pm timeslot currently occupied by Agents of SHIELD, which […]
Sci-Fi Bulletin at the Doctor Who Festival
The Doctor Who Festival kicked off in style at the Excel Centre in London on November 13th, and Sci-Fi Bulletin was there in force. Click here to read Nick Joy’s review of the first day seen from the point of view of one of the paying public, and come back to this page over the coming days for links to […]
American fans get cinema screening for Who Christmas Special
The new Christmas Special, featuring Peter Capaldi and the return of Alex Kingston as River Song to the TV series, will be showing in North American cinemas on 28 and […]
New major Jessica Jones trailer released (video)
Netflix’s second Marvel series Jessica Jones kicks off on November 20th, and a new trailer gives the best indication yet of the tone and feel of the show. All 13 episode of the series will premiere on November 20, 2015 at 12:01am PT (i.e. 8.01 a.m. UK time) in all territories where Netflix is available. Krysten Ritter, Mike Colter and […]
American Horror Story back for a sixth year
Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk’s American Horror Story anthology series will be back for a sixth run next year. “With the sixth installment coming next year, American Horror Story has unquestionably joined the ranks of television’s landmark series,” John Landgraf, CEO of FX Networks and FX Productions said. “From Murder House to Hotel, AHS has pioneered a new television form […]
Wendig’s Blackbirds no longer flying at Starz
Blackbirds, the series based on Chuck Wendig’s Miriam Black stories, is no longer proceeding at Starz. The author broke the news on his blog, TerribleMinds.com, on November 9th, noting that “I don’t really know why. Things were going quite well over at Starz! We had infrastructure. We had something just shy of a confirmed pickup. Scripts! Producers! Things! Stuff! And […]
World Fantasy Award winners announced
The World Fantasy Award winners for 2015 have been revealed. The awards were given at this year’s World Fantasy Convention, held in Saratoga Springs, NY. The judges included Gemma Files, […]
Olivia Poulet is Big Finish’s Mrs Peel
Olivia Poulet will be the recipient of the “Mrs Peel We’re Needed” messages in Big Finish’s adaptations of the comic strips from Diana magazine featuring Steed and Mrs Peel. ‘We […]
War of the Worlds comes to the West End stage
Jeff Wayne’s The War of the Worlds is heading for London’s West End. After 8½ years of touring arenas throughout the UK and internationally, and a year of development, The […]
RIP Batmobile designer George Barris
George Barris, the “King of the Kustomizers” whose work included the classic Batmobile for the 1960s TV series, has died. “Sorry to have to post that my father, legendary kustom car king […]
The Force Awakens key character posters released
With six weeks or so until The Force Awakens in cinemas worldwide, Disney and Lucasfilm have released a set of character posters mixing old and new Star Wars characters. Harrison […]
RIP E.T. and BFG screewriter Melissa Mathison
Melissa Mathison, who penned the script for Spielberg’s 1982 success E.T. and his upcoming adaptation of Roald Dahl’s The BFG, has died aged 65. Mathison had already written the screenplay for The Black Stallion when she wrote E.T., a script Spielberg claimed he would have been “willing to shoot the next day” when he read it. In a statement following […]
Eoin Colfer penning Iron Man novel
Artemis Fowl creator Eoin Colfer is stepping into the Marvel universe. The Irish writer will be penning a young adult novel featuring Iron Man, to be published in autumn 2016, which Marvel describes as “an electrifying new take on the Marvel universe’s most famous billionaire super hero”. It’s not Colfer’s first foray into other people’s universes: he penned the sixth […]
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