Stanley Tucci to face off against Matt Smith in Patient Zero
Captain America and The Hunger Games star Stanley Tucci will be one of the antagonists Matt Smith faces in his next Hollywood movie, Patient Zero, according to a report at […]
Younger X-Men cast for X-Men Apocalypse
New incarnations of Storm, Jean Grey and Cyclops will be seen in X-Men Apocalypse, due out in 2016. House of Anubis’ Alexandra Shipp will step into Halle Berry’s shoes as […]
Full cast announced for The Frankenstein Chronicles
ITV’s reimagining of the Frankenstein story, set in Georgian London in 1827, will have a strong cast when it starts filming in Northern Ireland on January 26. Anna Maxwell Martin (The Bletchley Circle), Charlie Creed-Miles (Ripper Street), Ed Stoppard (Cilla), Elliot Cowan (Da Vinci’s Demons), Hugh O’Conor (Chocolat), (Joe Tucker (Bronson), Kate Dickie (Game of Thrones), Lalor Roddy (Hunger), Patrick Fitzsymons […]
Glee’s Melissa Benoist cast as CBS’s Supergirl
Glee actress Melissa Benoist has gained the coveted part of Kara Zor-El in CBS’ pilot of Supergirl, written by Greg Berlanti and Ali Adler. In this version of the mythos the character […]
Endemol to bring Beukes’ Broken Monsters to TV
Lauren Beukes’ Broken Monsters, her supernatural tale about a detective hunting an unusual serial killer, has been bought by Endemol’s Assisted Dialogue division to develop as a drama series. “Beukes’ novel captures our culture’s fascination with horror,” Assisted Dialogue’s Scott Aversano explained. “Her clever choice to explore this within the constructs of a supernatural novel – especially one which presents […]
Simon West to helm new Blob remake
Tomb Raider director Simon West is stepping behind the camera for a new remake of the seminal creature feature The Blob. According to the report at Deadline, Goldcrest Films are […]
Simon Pegg to co-write Star Trek 3
It seems as if it’s a complete change round on the Enterprise for the third movie in the rebooted universe, with the news that Simon Pegg will be co-writing the […]
Sky commissions end of the world comedy Apocalypse Slough
Rob Lowe will be leading the cast in Sky and NBC’s end of the world comedy drama series Apocalypse Slough. Jenna Fischer (The Office), Megan Mullally (Will and Grace), Mathew […]
Powers to premiere on PlayStation on March 10
The Sony PlayStation adaptation of comic book Powers will debut with three episodes on March 10. The series, based on the book by Brian Michael Bendis about a detective who […]
Wizards vs Aliens goes on “hiatus”
The fourth season of CBBC’s Wizards vs. Aliens could be some time coming, according to a report in Broadcast. The show is currently technically “on hiatus” – it has not been cancelled, but a fourth series has yet to be commissioned because “there is not enough money” to produce it, according to co-creator Russell T Davies. Third season producer Derek […]
No Stewart or McKellen for X-Men Apocalypse – says Stewart
Sir Patrick Stewart has strongly indicated that neither he nor Sir Ian McKellen will be appearing in the next contribution to the cinematic X-Men mythos, X-Men Apocalypse. Speaking on the Larry […]
Fox guarantees more Gotham – and maybe more X-Files
At their presentation at the TCAs on January 17th, Dana Walden and Gary Newman, Chairmen and CEOs, Fox Television Group confirmed that the Batman prequel series Gotham is definitely coming back for a second year – and also hinted at a return for another old favourite. According to Walden, there have been conversations about a possible return for The X-Files, […]
Brandon Sanderson’s Reckoners head to Fox
Brandon Sanderson’s Reckoners series has been bought by 20th Century Fox, according to a report at Deadline. The superhero series – which began with Steelheart, and continues in the just-published Firefight – deals with the confrontations between the Epics, people who gained extraordinary powers, and the Reckoners, ordinary people who learn about their weaknesses and then get rid of them. […]
Chuck’s Zachary Levi to star in Heroes: Reborn
Chuck and Thor: The Dark World star Zachary Levi is stepping up to the plate once more as one of the stars of NBC’s rebooted Heroes: Reborn. Levi will be […]
BBC Three cancel In the Flesh
In the Flesh, Dominic Mitchell’s tale of life following a zombie apocalypse, will not be returning to BBC Three, it has now been confirmed. An official statement from the channel stated that “BBC Three is very proud of the two award-winning series of In the Flesh. However, given there is only budget for one original drama series a year on […]
New Thunderbirds characters cause consternation
When ITV Studios released the first full image of the new Tracy brothers for Thunderbirds are Go!, their revamp of the classic Gerry and Sylvia Anderson series, they can’t have expected […]
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