Canadian fantasy series Lost Girl will come to an end with its fifth season, cable channel Showcase announced today. The first eight episodes of the season will begin on December 7th in Canada. “The massive popularity of Lost Girl is a testament to the inventive and hard-working team at Prodigy Pictures, the magnetic and talented cast and the most devoted and […]
Lifetime are providing an alternate take on Damien Thorn’s future as the Anti-Christ in Damien, a new series from The Walking Dead’s Glen Mazzara. Although the third film in the […]
Multiple award-winning actor and director Richard Attenborough has died, five days short of his 91st birthday. Attenborough, who was made a Life Peer in 1993, was born in 1923, and […]
According to a report at Deadline, NBC are no longer moving ahead with their plans for their Wizard of Oz update, Emerald City. Although ten episodes of the series had […]
Life on Mars and Ashes to Ashes creators Matthew Graham and Ashley Pharaoh have received the green light for their new supernatural drama, The Living and the Dead. Co-produced by BBC Wales and BBC America in association with Monastic Productions for BBC One, the six-episode drama series takes place in Somerset, England in 1888 and explores a land and a community on […]
Over a dozen years after the feature film starring Tom Cruise, Minority Report is to become a TV series, courtesy of Amblin Television. Dick’s short story, The Minority Report, was published […]
FX’s vampire series The Strain will be returning next year for another batch of 13 episodes, it has been confirmed. “We’ve never had any doubts about The Strain,” said FX […]
Jamie’s awa’ in his time machine again: Frazer Hines, who played Jamie McCrimmon on Doctor Who in the 1960s (pictured with Patrick Troughton as the Doctor), is set to guest star on Outlander, the Starz series inspired in part by the character he played. There were rumours last week that Hines had been spotted being fitted for a costume, but […]
The 1997 movie The Devil’s Advocate – which saw Al Pacino playing the head of a law firm who turns out to be the Devil himself – is heading for […]
The official list of titles, authors and directors for Doctor Who series 8 has been released by the BBC, with a few surprises in the credits. Presumably because of the need to provide continuity on the new Doctor’s characterisation, head writer Steven Moffat is credited or co-credited with all bar one of the first half dozen episodes. It is worth […]
The 2014 Hugo Awards were presented at the 72nd World Science Fiction Convention held in London on August 17th (winners in bold) Best Novel Ancillary Justice, Ann Leckie (Orbit US/Orbit […]
In an upset at the 2014 Hugo Awards, Doctor Who was beaten by Game of Thrones for the Best Dramatic Presentation (Short Form). There were six nominations on the ballot […]
The Creative Emmy Awards were handed out in the early evening of August 16th at the Nokia Theatre, with Cosmos: A Space Time Odyssey, Game of Thrones and Sherlock all gaining four awards each. The event was kept under strict time control (speeches could last only 30 seconds) to ensure it finished by 7.30 pm. Sherlock won Best Single Camera […]
Starz’ time travel romantic drama Outlander has been renewed for a second season. The first episode of the series was officially broadcast last weekend (see our review here) but had been available on various platforms previously. It achieved over five million views across the different media. Following the pattern established by HBO’s Game of Thrones’ version of George R.R. Martin’s […]
Steven Weber and Matt Long will be caught up in events in the second season of Syfy’s Helix. According to Syfy, the second season of Helix finds the doctors of […]
American Horror Story’s fourth season, Freakshow, will feature Jyoti Amge, the Indian-born official World’s Shortest Woman. Amge is 20 and just over two feet tall, and has been acknowledged by both the Guinness and Limca Book of World Records. She will be appearing in the new series, set in Jupiter, Florida at one of the last freak shows still operating in America […]
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