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Star Wars Land to open at Disneyland

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 […]

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Syfy launch Childhood’s End & The Expanse in December

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 […]

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Showtime’s Twin Peaks starts shooting September

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 […]

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New Friday The 13th TV series coming from CW

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 […]

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Netflix renews Sense8

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 […]

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RIP Susan Sheridan

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 […]

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FX renews The Strain for third year

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 […]

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Nanotechnology horror Small Things coming from Fox

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 […]

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Private Eye stirs the pot on Doctor Who’s future again

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 […]

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Deadpool trails in his inimitable style (video)

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 […]