Next year’s run of True Blood, HBO’s vampire series based on Charlaine Harris’ novels, will be the last, the cable channel has announced. The final ten episodes will feature all the key castmembers – including Anna Paquin, Stephen Moyer and Alexander Skarsgard – and will be produced by season 6 showrunner Brian Buckner. True Blood has been nothing short of […]
Frederick Pohl has died, aged 93. The highly respected author and editor (as well as ‘about everything that it is possible to be in the field of science fiction’ to quote […]
Veteran broadcaster David Jacobs, who was well known to genre fans for his multiple roles in the ground-breaking radio series Journey into Space, has died aged 87. Jacobs recently retired from his regular radio spot having broadcast regularly for over sixty years. He most recently reprised one of his roles, Jet Morgan, for the Journey into Space specials Frozen in Time […]
John Scalzi, Brandon Sanderson, Pat Cadigan, Ken Liu and Mur Lafferty were among the honorees at this year’s Hugo Awards, announced in a ceremony compered by Paul Cornell on September 1st. Scalzi’s Redshirts won Best Novel, with Sanderson’s The Emperor’s Soul awarded Best Novella. Pat Cadigan’s ‘The Girl-Thing Who Went Out for Sushi’ won Best Novelette, while Liu’s ‘Mono no Aware’ […]
J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot is working with Person of Interest‘s Jonathan Nolan, producer Jerry Weintraub and Warner Bros. Television to reboot Michael Crichton’s classic tale of robotics, Westworld for HBO. […]
SyFy have announced they’ve commissioned a pilot episode for a potential SF TV series based on Terry Gilliam’s time-twisting 1995 Brad Pitt-starring movie 12 Monkeys. At the same time, The […]
Speaking at the Edinburgh International Book Festival last night (25 August 2013), screenwriter and author Paul Cornell finally honestly answered a long-asked question—why is he not writing any more for Doctor Who on TV? “It’s upsetting,” he admitted. “I get asked this regularly,” he said. “Sometimes several times a day on Twitter. You know what? I’m gonna do something I don’t normally […]
According to a report at Deadline, yet another version of The Wizard of Oz is heading to TV screens shortly. After the announcement of Dorothy, the medical-based update from the Elementary team, comes news that NBC has bought Emerald City from Siberia writer and producer Matthew Arnold. Described as “a dark reimagining of the classic tale of Oz in the […]
Gil Taylor, the cinematographer for the original Star Wars, Doctor Strangelove, The Omen and many other key movies, has died, aged 99. Taylor’s long career saw him work with notable […]
Daredevil and Hollywoodland star Ben Affleck will pull on the Caped Crusader’s cowl for the second Man of Steel film, Warner Brothers have confirmed. Man of Steel director Zack Snyder […]
The new revamp of The Tomorrow People is coming to E4 in the UK, but you’re going to have to wait till early 2014 to see it. “They are the next evolutionary shift of mankind – a generation of humans born with paranormal abilities. They are the Tomorrow People. Based on the original UK TV series from the 1970s, the […]
In an interview in the new Doctor Who Magazine, Doctor Who head writer Steven Moffat confirms that the writers for series eight were already working on an ‘older, trickier’ incarnation […]
Michael Cohl, who worked with the Rolling Stones and put Spider-Man on Broadway, has teamed up with Marvel and Hero Ventures to produce The Marvel Experience, a live-action superhero spectacular […]
Ted Post, the director of Beneath the Planet of the Apes, has died aged 95. Post was a prolific director of films and TV, with other genre credits including the Prescott/Scheimer […]
Writer Neil Cross, who is based in Wellington, New Zealand, has confirmed to Fairfax News that he is set to write an episode for new Doctor Peter Capaldi in the next series of Doctor Who. Cross, best known for Luther starring Idris Elba, wrote two episodes for Matt Smith’s final full series, The Rings of Akhaten and Hide. “I am […]
A. L. Kennedy (The Blue Book) announced she was vey pleased with the casting of Peter Capaldi as the new Doctor on Doctor Who during her session at the Edinburgh […]
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