RIP Richard Kiel, James Bond's Jaws
Richard Kiel, who played Jaws to memorable effect opposite Roger Moore in The Spy Who Loved Me and Moonraker, has died, three days before his 75th birthday. The 7ft 2in […]
CBS preparing Stephen King post-9/11 drama
CBS has nabbed Seth Grahame-Smith and Greg Berlanti’s adaptation of Stephen King’s post-9/11 short story, The Things They Left Behind, giving it a put pilot commitment. The story, first published in Transgressions: Volume Two, can be found in King’s 2008 collection Just After Sunset, and concerns a character who begins to acquire items left behind by those who died in […]
RIP Jane Baker
Jane Baker, who contributed four stories to the classic era of Doctor Who as well as many other shows from the 1960s to 1980s, has died. Working with her husband […]
RIP Graham Joyce
Multiple award winning British author Graham Joyce has died aged 59. Much loved by members of the writing community, Joyce had been suffering from cancer in recent times – a […]
Fox make pre-emptive bid for Minority Report TV series
Fox has given a put pilot commitment to the TV version of the 2002 movie Minority Report, from Amblin television and Godzilla writer Max Borenstein. Details are emerging of the premise for the show: it is set 10 years after the end of Precrime in DC. One of the three Precogs is struggling to lead a “normal” human life, but remains […]
Coleman won't be drawn on Doctor Who future
In a major interview in the new Radio Times, Doctor Who star Jenna Coleman repeatedly refuses to be drawn on the future of her character, Clara Oswald. Rumours have circulated […]
Lupone, Hodge, Greene & Beauchamp for Penny Dreadful's second year
A wealth of guest stars have been lined up for the second season of Showtime and Sky Atlantic’s Victorian melodrama, Penny Dreadful. Two-time Tony Award winner and Emmy nominee Patti LuPone will play a mysterious character of great importance in Vanessa’s (Eva Green) past. Tony Award winner Douglas Hodge signs on as Bartholomew Rusk, an intense Scotland Yard investigator on the […]
Walking Dead spin-off lurches into pilot order
AMC has finally confirmed that a pilot for the spin-off series from The Walking Dead will be shot later this year. Robert Kirkman, Gale Anne Hurd and David Alpert from The Walking Dead are also executive producers of the new show. Dave Erickson co-created and co-wrote the pilot with Kirkman and will be an executive producer and showrunner. “Almost from the […]
Python's Michael Palin to voice the new Clangers
Monty Python star and traveller extraordinaire Michael Palin will be voicing the Clangers in their new series arriving in 2015. The new series is being co-produced by CBeebies, Coolabi Group, […]
British Fantasy Awards winners announced
The winners of the British Fantasy Awards 2014 were announced on Sunday, 7 September 2014, at the awards banquet at FantasyCon 2014 in York: Best fantasy novel (the Robert Holdstock Award): A Stranger in Olondria, Sofia Samatar (Small Beer Press) Best horror novel (the August Derleth Award): The Shining Girls, Lauren Beukes (HarperCollins) Best novella: Beauty, Sarah Pinborough (Gollancz) Best […]
Merlin's Colin Morgan headlining Gaiman/Pratchett's Good Omens
Merlin star Colin Morgan will be playing Newton Pulsifer in Dirk Maggs’ new radio adaptation of Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett’s “Just William meets the Antichrist Damien” drama, Good Omens. Morgan will […]
Berlanti adding Supergirl to his DC TV roster?
Although it’s by no means as done a deal as some reports might indicate, things are looking hopeful that Supergirl will be heading to the small screen, courtesy of Arrow […]
BBC edit beheading scene from Doctor Who (updated)
A beheading scene which featured in this Saturday’s episode of Doctor Who has been edited out. Following the beheading of two journalists by IS in recent weeks, the BBC has decided to remove the scene from the climactic battle. Robot of Sherwood,written by Mark Gatiss, was filmed in February, long before the IS hit the headlines. A spokesman for the […]
Gaiman's Hansel & Gretel leave a trail to the big screen
Neil Gaiman and Lorenzo Mattotti’s new version of Hansel & Gretel has already been optioned for the big screen, courtesy of The Hundred Foot Journey’s Juliet Blake. This will probably be […]
Margot Robbie to headline Ghost in the Shell?
The Wolf of Wall Street star Margot Robbie is in talks to star in Dreamworks’ live-action version of the Japanese manga, Ghost in the Shell. According to a report at […]
Dwayne Johnson confirms he's Black Adam for new DC movie
It’s been known for some time that Dwayne Johnson was going to be turning up in one of DC’s new movies, but he has now confirmed that he will be […]
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