“Dear Twitter Friends, the rumors are not what they seem ….. It is !!! Happening again” That was how David Lynch confirmed that the Showtime Twin Peaks revival is back on course for a 2016 launch. “This damn fine cup of coffee from Mark (Frost) and David tastes more delicious than ever,” Showtime’s David Nevins announced shortly afterwards in a […]
She Who Brings Gifts – Mike Carey’s adaptation of his own novel The Girl With All the Gifts – is heading in front of the cameras next week with newcomer […]
ABC have released short synopses for both of their Marvel shows, Agents of SHIELD and Agent Carter. The third season of Agents of SHIELD picks up from the cliffhanger to season 2 and will see “Director Phil Coulson (Clark Gregg) embark on a deadly new secret mission to protect the world from new threats in the wake of SHIELD’s wars […]
Before the television networks’ upfront presentations of their new material for the upcoming season, ABC entertainment president Paul Lee explained why the mooted Agents of SHIELD spin-off featuring the adventures of Bobbi Morse and Lance Hunter didn’t take off this season. “We absolutely love those characters on SHIELD. We think SHIELD hit its creative stride this year,” he told reporters. […]
Fox have released teaser trailers for their various new dramas that will be hitting the airwaves during the new season. Minority Report, based on the Steven Spielberg movie, sets the […]
Although The X-Files’ return is being pushed as part of the new season of shows coming from Fox, new episodes won’t actually make their debut until early in 2016. The network has confirmed that the six part event series will start airing on January 24th, 2016, after the NFC Championship Game, and then continue for the next five Mondays at 8pm […]
To mark the official announcement that Heroes Reborn will be airing on Thursday evenings this autumn, NBC has released new photos of the cast, showing the returning Jack Coleman as […]
John Constantine’s travails on NBC are over. Despite rumours circulating regarding the future of the series, which wasn’t given a back nine for its first season, NBC has finally confirmed that the show, based on the DC comic book, won’t be coming back. However, executive producer Daniel Cerone tweeted that all was not yet lost: “NBC a “no” for Season […]
Fox has added a further three genre shows to their 2015/16 schedule, with pick-ups for the Minority Report TV series, the Lucifer comic book adaptation and The Frankenstein Code update […]
The seventh and eighth episodes of the new season of Doctor Who won’t just feature the return of Jemma Redgrave as Kate Stewart. The Zygons – who faced multiple Doctors […]
The Messengers are not going to save the world – the CW has pulled the plug on the religious Rapture series. Executive producer Trey Callaway posted a slightly desperate tweet in the aftermath of the news, “Please stay tuned! We’re incredibly proud of the story we’ve told this season– and you’ve got to see how it ends!” The network has […]
Neither Forever nor Resurrection will be returning to ABC next season. It seemed as if Forever might make a last-minute rally, after strong ratings for its closing episode, but ABC elected not to continue. Star Ioan Gruffudd posted a message to Instagram (which can be read here) thanking fans for their support and creator Matt Miller tweeted “Was a joy […]
ABC has renewed both of their current Marvel shows: Agents of SHIELD and Agent Carter. SHIELD, which is currently tying in to the Avengers movie Age of Ultron as well as setting up the Inhumans in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, will be back for a third year – although Deadline suggests that the mooted spin-off featuring Adrienne Paliacki and Nick […]
The CW has made its choices for the new season, with orders given to DC’s Flash/Arrow spin off, known as Legends of Tomorrow and Cordon, a series about an epidemic in Atlanta. However the pilot for Tales from the Darkside has failed to make the cut. Legends of Tomorrow‘s official description: “When heroes alone are not enough… the world needs […]
Emily St John Mandel’s Station Eleven was declared the winner of the 29th Arthur C. Clarke Award for Science Fiction at the ceremony held in London on May 6th. Chair of the judges, Andrew M Butler, explained: “While many post-apocalypse novels focus on the survival of humanity, Station Eleven focuses instead on the survival of our culture, with the novel becoming […]
Katherine McNamara has been cast as Clary Fray in ABC Family’s adaptation of Cassandra Clare’s Mortal Instruments series. Clary is the central character of the series, a promising art student who learns […]
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