NBC’s reimagining of the OZ saga is back on track, with the announcement that a ten-episode series has been ordered straight to production. New writer/executive producer, David Schulner has tweaked the concept slightly: “In the blink of a tornado’s eye, 20-year-old Dorothy Gale and her K9 police dog are transported to another world, one far removed from our own — […]
Battlestar Galactica and Longmire star Katee Sackhoff is going to be starring and creating a new SF show, Rain, working with Continuum producers Reunion Pictures. Rain is the name of her […]
With just over a month to go before a major new Star Wars experience opens at Madame Tussauds London, the attraction today revealed two of the stunning wax figures that will star […]
Stephen King’s The Dark Tower is finally going to hit the screen – both cinema and TV. According to Deadline, Sony Pictures has teamed with MRC to co-finance the project, with the first movie, based on The Gunslinger (the first of the seven book series), moving ahead along with a complementary TV series. The script is a new version by […]
Fortitude, the horror-laden Arctic saga from Sky Atlantic, will be returning next year. The creative team behind Sky Atlantic’s most successful original series will return with Simon Donald writing a […]
Jimmy Jean-Louis will be reprising his role as the Haitian when Heroes returns to screens later this year. According to Deadline, Jean-Louis will be the third original cast member (after Jack Coleman and Masi Oka) to appear in Heroes Reborn. His character is often given the job of erasing people’s memories, and he’s also able to block the powers of others […]
Bletchley Circle star Anna Maxwell-Martin will play Merrily Watkins in “master of horror writing” Stephen Volk’s adaptation of Phil Rickman’s Midwinter of the Spirit, about to start shooting in the […]
E4 has commissioned a six-part original comedy drama Aliens, from Clerkenwell Studios, the makers of Misfits. Written by Fintan Ryan (Never Better, In The Flesh), the series will begin filming […]
Vampire Diaries star Nina Dobrev has confirmed that she is sticking to her original plan, and will depart the CW series at the end of the sixth season. “I’ve just […]
The future of the Showtime resurrection of Twin Peaks was in question as co-creator David Lynch confirmed rumours that he would not be directing the anniversary show set for transmission next year. In a series of tweets, Lynch stated: “Dear Twitter friends, Showtime did not pull the plug on Twin Peaks. After 1 year and 4 months of negotiations, I left […]
Following the lukewarm reception given in some quarters to the Star Trek/Planet of the Apes crossover which is currently drawing to a close, IDW are probably hoping for better reviews […]
David Bowie is writing new songs for a musical version of his 1976 movie The Man Who Fell to Earth. Bowie is co-writing with Irish playwright Enda Walsh, who recently won a Tony Award for the musical Once. The show, Lazarus, is inspired by the original 1963 novel, The Man Who Fell to Earth, by Walter Tevis, and will focus on […]
Following in the paw prints of Paddington, another famous bear is coming to the screen in a new live-action movie. Disney has announced that A.A. Milne’s Winnie the Pooh will […]
The BBC are allowing legal downloads of Doctor Who via BitTorrent. Titled “A Decade of the Doctor”, the package costs $12 and includes a set of representative episodes from the […]
With Hemlock Grove heading into its third and final season, Netflix has ordered a new supernatural drama, Montauk, from Hidden directors Matt Duffer and Ross Duffer, executive produced by Shawn […]
The concluding episodes of the BBC version of Atlantis will finally hit screens after Easter. The show will be returning to BBC One on Saturday April 11 at 7.45 p.m., allaying fears that the corporation were planning on burning off the remaining episodes in a late-night slot. Seven episodes of the darker second season remain to be aired, but the […]
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