Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk’s American Horror Story anthology series will be back for a sixth run next year. “With the sixth installment coming next year, American Horror Story has unquestionably joined the ranks of television’s landmark series,” John Landgraf, CEO of FX Networks and FX Productions said. “From Murder House to Hotel, AHS has pioneered a new television form […]
Blackbirds, the series based on Chuck Wendig’s Miriam Black stories, is no longer proceeding at Starz. The author broke the news on his blog, TerribleMinds.com, on November 9th, noting that “I don’t really know why. Things were going quite well over at Starz! We had infrastructure. We had something just shy of a confirmed pickup. Scripts! Producers! Things! Stuff! And […]
The World Fantasy Award winners for 2015 have been revealed. The awards were given at this year’s World Fantasy Convention, held in Saratoga Springs, NY. The judges included Gemma Files, […]
Olivia Poulet will be the recipient of the “Mrs Peel We’re Needed” messages in Big Finish’s adaptations of the comic strips from Diana magazine featuring Steed and Mrs Peel. ‘We […]
Jeff Wayne’s The War of the Worlds is heading for London’s West End. After 8½ years of touring arenas throughout the UK and internationally, and a year of development, The […]
George Barris, the “King of the Kustomizers” whose work included the classic Batmobile for the 1960s TV series, has died. “Sorry to have to post that my father, legendary kustom car king […]
With six weeks or so until The Force Awakens in cinemas worldwide, Disney and Lucasfilm have released a set of character posters mixing old and new Star Wars characters. Harrison […]
Melissa Mathison, who penned the script for Spielberg’s 1982 success E.T. and his upcoming adaptation of Roald Dahl’s The BFG, has died aged 65. Mathison had already written the screenplay for The Black Stallion when she wrote E.T., a script Spielberg claimed he would have been “willing to shoot the next day” when he read it. In a statement following […]
Artemis Fowl creator Eoin Colfer is stepping into the Marvel universe. The Irish writer will be penning a young adult novel featuring Iron Man, to be published in autumn 2016, which Marvel describes as “an electrifying new take on the Marvel universe’s most famous billionaire super hero”. It’s not Colfer’s first foray into other people’s universes: he penned the sixth […]
According to a report at Deadline, John Connolly’s trilogy of middle-school novels has been acquired by Dreamworks. The three books – The Gates, Hell’s Bells (aka The Infernals) and The […]
Syfy has picked up a new version of the Dracula story for airing in 2016. Van Helsing focuses on Vanessa Helsing, the daughter of famous vampire hunter and Dracula’s nemesis Abraham Van Helsing. Resurrected five years in the future, she discovers that vampires have taken over the world and that she possesses unique power over them. She is humanity’s last hope to […]
Following in the footsteps of the BBC Radio dramatisation and the 2006 movie, New Line and Julie Gardner and Jane Tranter’s new company Bad Wolf are producing a TV adaptation […]
Twelve years after the last episode of Star Trek: Enterprise, CBS is going back to the final frontier. The new Star Trek “will introduce new characters seeking imaginative new worlds […]
AMC put their new series Preacher out in front of its core genre audience on November 1st, showing the first trailer for the show during The Walking Dead. “A supernatural Preacher, a gun-toting ex, and an Irish vampire are coming to AMC mid-2016”, the channel explained. Based on Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon’s comic book, the series was developed by […]
Neil Gaiman’s Likely Stories are coming to Sky Arts. A four-part adaptation of Gaiman’s short stories begins filming in November by Sid Gentle Films, who have yet to reveal which tales will feature but promise “an ensemble cast across all four of these tales”. The series will be directed by Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard who promise their films will be […]
Sookie Stackhouse creator Charlaine Harris’ new book series Midnight, Texas is heading to NBC, according to a new report at Entertainment Weekly. The series, which began with Midnight Crossroad last […]
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