The CW has ordered a pilot for its latest foray into the fantasy genre, The Messengers, about a group of unconnected strangers who discover that they are responsible for preventing the upcoming Apocalypse. The script by Teen Wolf’s Eoghan O’Donnell will be produced by Clash of the Titans’ Basil Iwanyk and CBS Studios. The story begins with a mysterious object […]
Kill List director Ben Wheatley has confirmed that his long awaited adaptation of J.G. Ballard’s classic story High-Rise is now in front of the cameras. Thor’sTom Hiddleston will star in the movie, about the degeneration of life in a modern luxury building. Wheatley was signed up for the film in August last year, and has recently been working on the first […]
With filming due to start soon, more casting has been revealed for Glen Morgan’s eight-part adaptation of Michael Marshall Smith’s novel The Intruders for BBC America. Mimic and Falling Skies’ Mira Sorvino will play Amy, the wife of John Simm’s ex-cop Jack Whalen; James Frain will play Richards Shepherd, a murderer on a 20-year secret mission who claims to be […]
Fremantle Media, whose North America’s scripted television division is responsible for the US version of The Returned, and the CW’s reboot of The Tomorrow People, has finalised a deal for […]
Acclaimed actor and new cast-member of The Hunger Games series of movies Philip Seymour Hoffman has been found dead in his New York apartment today (February 2), of a reported […]
Back to the Future’s 30th anniversary is going to be celebrated in musical style, with official confirmation that a stage show based on the time travel movie will hit London next year. Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale are currently working with Universal Stage Productions (Wicked and Billy Elliot), London-based producer Colin Ingram (Ghost – The Musical) and Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Entertainment […]
We’ve had vampire detectives, but now the CW is bringing a zombie investigator to the screen, in their adaptation of DC’s iZombie, which has been given a pilot order. The […]
Haven‘s future is secure for the next couple of seasons, with the announcement today from Syfy that they have ordered 26 new episodes of the series based on Stephen King’s novella The Colorado Kid. The first 13 episodes of Season 5 are set to premiere this autumn with the remaining 13 episodes scheduled to air in 2015. Series stars Emily […]
Gemini Force One, the series of novels based on concepts created by the late Gerry Anderson, will be published by Gollancz and Orion Books. A special, and strictly limited edition will first be published by Gollancz in August 2014 and will be available to original Kickstarter supporters, and will also be sold in collaboration with key specialist bookseller Goldsboro Books. […]
The BBC this evening (27 January 2014) unveiled the new look for Peter Capaldi’s twelfth Doctor. The outfit, put together by BBC costume designer Howard Burden with input from Capaldi combines […]
At the BBC Audio Awards, held at Broadcasting House on January 26th, independent audio producer Big Finish were triumphant in the Best Online or Non-Broadcast drama category with Doctor Who […]
Snow White and the Huntsman director Rupert Sanders has been hired to direct the live action version of the manga tale Ghost in the Shell for Dreamworks, according to a […]
In addition to their new Ray Bradbury-based drama, ABC has also given a pilot order to Forever, from former Chuck executive producer Matthew Miller. The show focuses on Dr Henry Morgan, the star medical examiner in New York City, whose investigations into the dead are for a rather different purpose than normal – he himself is immortal. In partnership with […]
Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Entertainment is working on a follow-up to their successful Falling Skies TV SF drama with ABC picking up a pilot for The Visitors, based on the story […]
One of the long-running plotlines in Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD will come to fruition later this season, with confirmation from Jeph Loeb at the TCAs that the cyborg Deathlok will […]
Four years after its last triumph, Doctor Who has once again been voted Best Drama at the National Television Awards, voted for by the public, and handed out at the 02 Arena in London on January 22nd. The series beat off competition from Broadchurch, Downton Abbey, and Call the Midwife. The award was collected by current companion, Jenna Coleman, who […]
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