A special 14 acre Star Wars Land will be opening at Disneyland in Orlando and Anaheim, Disney has confirmed. Speaking at the D23 event, Bob Iger said that this will be the largest single-themed land expansion ever, with everything including the cantinas coming from the movie mythology. It will be “the first time our guests can immerse themselves in the […]
Syfy’s two big book adaptations, Childhood’s End and The Expanse, will both premiere in the US on December 14th. Adapted from Arthur C. Clarke’s novel by Life on Mars’ Matthew Graham and directed by Nick Hurran, Childhood’s End follows the peaceful invasion of Earth by the alien Overlords, who promise to eliminate poverty, war and sickness – ushering in a golden age […]
Cameras will be rolling in Twin Peaks next month, according to Showtime president David Nevins. The series, which was written as one long script by Mark Frost and David Lynch, will be filmed as a movie and then divided into episodes during the editing process. Casting is yet to be announced, bar Kyle MacLachlan, but Nevins noted “you should be […]
A fresh take on the Friday The 13th mythology is being prepared by the CW, courtesy of The Pretender’s Steve Mitchell and Craig Van Sickle. According to Deadline, the series will be “a sophisticated horror/crime thriller”, and will follow “a detective’s search for his missing brother that is somehow tied to Jason Vorhees, a long thought dead serial killer who […]
Matt Ryan’s Constantine lives – at least for now. The character will make an appearance on the fifth episode of Arrow’s fourth season, entitled Haunted. “We are thrilled to have […]
There will be a second season of Sense8, the genre-spanning drama created by J. Michael Straczynski and the Wachowskis. The news was confirmed by the cast on the NetflixUS twitter feed on August 8: “Birthdays are just the beginning. #sense8 is reborn.” They also posted a video which can be seen here JMS noted, “Well, here we go again. Now […]
Susan Sheridan, the original voice of Trillian in The Hitchhikers’ Guide to the Galaxy, has died aged 68. According to a post by Dirk Maggs, Sheridan passed away peacefully at […]
The Strain will be returning for a third year, FX has confirmed. The series, based on the book trilogy co-written by Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan, follows a vampiric outbreak in New York. The second season began last month in the US and comes to Watch in the UK on August 26. Del Toro and Carlton Cuse will continue […]
Victorian investigators from different eras of Doctor Who will be working together in the latest of Big Finish’s crossovers between the classic and new series. Strax, the Sontaran butler to […]
Merlin and Humans star Colin Morgan will take the lead in Ashley Pharaoh’s new historical supernatural thriller The Living and The Dead. Morgan will play Nathan Appleby, with Charlotte Spencer […]
Fox has assigned Dracula adaptor Cole Haddon to work on a version of Daniel H. Wilson’s novella Small Things, one of the stories in the recent collection Robot Uprisings. According to the report at Deadline, the story will centre on “a disgraced scientist who is sent to an island that has been overrun by advanced forms of nanotechnology that swirl […]
British satirical magazine Private Eye has once again tried to cast doubt on the BBC’s future plans for Doctor Who, with a small feature in the current issue. “Fans should make as much as they can of this 12-part run,” the magazine says, “as BBC staff have recently been informed that showrunner Steven Moffat’s commitments to his other hit show […]
Reece Shearsmith is coming to Doctor Who series 9 in a story written by his League of Gentlemen co-star Mark Gatiss. Shearsmith previously played Patrick Troughton in An Adventure in […]
Ryan Reynolds’ Deadpool is hitting cinemas in six months’ time – and he’s determined to tell you about it. The first proper trailer for the Marvel character is probably not suitable for work! The movie tells the origin story of former Special Forces operative turned mercenary Wade Wilson, who after being subjected to a rogue experiment that leaves him with […]
Genre veteran Max von Sydow is coming to Game of Thrones, according to a report at Entertainment Weekly. The magazine explains that the actor, soon to be seen in Star […]
The Doctor and Clara are running through Series 9 of Doctor Who – that’s the impression that the new “iconic” image gives. There are six weeks until the series arrives […]
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