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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 […]

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ABC order Monsters pilot from Saw team

Saw’s Patrick Melton and Marcus Dunstan have a put pilot commitment from ABC for their new project Monstropolis. Based around the idea that monsters are real and living among people in New Manhattan (known as Monstropolis), the series follows a disgraced detective who is trying to work out who is killing the monsters – or risk becoming the next victim. […]

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BBC America to produce a new Dirk Gently TV series

Another BBC version of Douglas Adams’ holistic detective Dirk Gently is on the way, courtesy of BBC America. The new version will be “an anthology series set in the unexpected world of the hyper, absurd, ridiculous Dirk Gently.  With an utterly fresh, comically self-aware tone, this series is equally sincere in its danger, humour, violence and drama.  Penned by Max […]

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Humans renewed for series 2

The Synths will be back for a second year, AMC and Channel 4 have confirmed. “As one of the year’s top new cable series, Humans has been embraced by fans and critics across the U.S. and UK,” Joel Stillerman, president of original programming and development for AMC and Sundance TV said Piers Wenger, Head of Drama at Channel 4, added: “Humans also marks […]

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