Simon West to helm new Blob remake
Tomb Raider director Simon West is stepping behind the camera for a new remake of the seminal creature feature The Blob. According to the report at Deadline, Goldcrest Films are […]
Simon Pegg to co-write Star Trek 3
It seems as if it’s a complete change round on the Enterprise for the third movie in the rebooted universe, with the news that Simon Pegg will be co-writing the […]
Sky commissions end of the world comedy Apocalypse Slough
Rob Lowe will be leading the cast in Sky and NBC’s end of the world comedy drama series Apocalypse Slough. Jenna Fischer (The Office), Megan Mullally (Will and Grace), Mathew […]
Powers to premiere on PlayStation on March 10
The Sony PlayStation adaptation of comic book Powers will debut with three episodes on March 10. The series, based on the book by Brian Michael Bendis about a detective who […]
Wizards vs Aliens goes on “hiatus”
The fourth season of CBBC’s Wizards vs. Aliens could be some time coming, according to a report in Broadcast. The show is currently technically “on hiatus” – it has not been cancelled, but a fourth series has yet to be commissioned because “there is not enough money” to produce it, according to co-creator Russell T Davies. Third season producer Derek […]
No Stewart or McKellen for X-Men Apocalypse – says Stewart
Sir Patrick Stewart has strongly indicated that neither he nor Sir Ian McKellen will be appearing in the next contribution to the cinematic X-Men mythos, X-Men Apocalypse. Speaking on the Larry […]
Fox guarantees more Gotham – and maybe more X-Files
At their presentation at the TCAs on January 17th, Dana Walden and Gary Newman, Chairmen and CEOs, Fox Television Group confirmed that the Batman prequel series Gotham is definitely coming back for a second year – and also hinted at a return for another old favourite. According to Walden, there have been conversations about a possible return for The X-Files, […]
Brandon Sanderson’s Reckoners head to Fox
Brandon Sanderson’s Reckoners series has been bought by 20th Century Fox, according to a report at Deadline. The superhero series – which began with Steelheart, and continues in the just-published Firefight – deals with the confrontations between the Epics, people who gained extraordinary powers, and the Reckoners, ordinary people who learn about their weaknesses and then get rid of them. […]
Chuck’s Zachary Levi to star in Heroes: Reborn
Chuck and Thor: The Dark World star Zachary Levi is stepping up to the plate once more as one of the stars of NBC’s rebooted Heroes: Reborn. Levi will be […]
BBC Three cancel In the Flesh
In the Flesh, Dominic Mitchell’s tale of life following a zombie apocalypse, will not be returning to BBC Three, it has now been confirmed. An official statement from the channel stated that “BBC Three is very proud of the two award-winning series of In the Flesh. However, given there is only budget for one original drama series a year on […]
New Thunderbirds characters cause consternation
When ITV Studios released the first full image of the new Tracy brothers for Thunderbirds are Go!, their revamp of the classic Gerry and Sylvia Anderson series, they can’t have expected […]
William Shatner to narrate The Clangers!
No, this isn’t an April Fool’s gag very early – you read that right. William Shatner, Captain Kirk himself, is to be the voice of the Clangers for the new Smallfilms series coming this year. You might have thought that American audiences would have been able to cope with Monty Python’s Michael Palin, who is still the British narrator, but clearly […]
Who Beyond 50: a new book from Sci-Fi Bulletin’s editors
We don’t often push our own material here on Sci-Fi Bulletin, but this is a bit of an exception: Who Beyond 50, a series of essays by Brian J. Robb […]
Guest stars confirmed for Whithouse’s two-part Who story
With filming now underway on the ninth series of Doctor Who, the BBC has confirmed that Paul Kaye will be leading the guest cast for a two part story by […]
RIP movie robot designer Robert Kinoshita
Robert Kinoshita, the designer responsible for both Forbidden Planet‘s Robby the Robot and the Robot in Lost in Space, died on 9 December, 2014, aged 100. Los Angeles born Kinoshita started […]
King’s Mr Mercedes drives onto TV
Stephen King’s detective novel Mr Mercedes is heading to TV as a miniseries, courtesy of David E. Kelley. The Ally McBeal creator is writing the script for Sonar Entertainment’s proposed miniseries based on the novel, published last summer about a retired cop on the trail of a psychopathic killer. “This is an amazing opportunity to adapt a script from material […]
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