Those listeners who have caught Radio4Extra’s recent broadcast of the Doctor Who Klein trilogy, featuring Sylvester McCoy’s Seventh Doctor re-encountering Tracy Childs’ Elizabeth Klein, may be wondering if they’re missing […]
Syfy has confirmed that they will not be picking up a fifth season of the sci-fi fantasy series Sanctuary. The show, which starred former Stargate lead Amanda Tapping, aired its […]
Writer Neil Gaiman and director Richard Clark have won a Nebula Award for their series six Doctor Who story The Doctor’s Wife. Their nomination in the Ray Bradbury Award for Outstanding […]
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine star Chase Masterson is accompanying Seventh Doctor Sylvester McCoy in the new audio The Shadow Heart, coming out this November. Speaking exclusively to Sci-Fi Bulletin, […]
Doctor Who and Sherlock showrunner Steven Moffat is to receive a special award at this year’s BAFTAs. “Steven has had an outstanding year with Doctor Who and Sherlock, not to mention the feature film The Adventures of Tintin, and we are delighted to honour his contribution to television and the arts,” BAFTA chairman Tim Corrie explained. “He is one of […]
Hampton Fancher, the co-writer of the original 1982 Blade Runner movie, is in discussions to return 30 years later to work on Ridley Scott’s sequel to the iconic movie. The new Blade Runner will apparently follow on from the first film, but not focus on Harrison Ford’s character Rick Deckard. The original movie was based on Philip K. Dick’s story […]
Now that they’ve given a series order for Arrow, the CW has released the backstory for the latest version of Oliver Queen’s history: “After a violent shipwreck, billionaire playboy Oliver Queen was missing and presumed dead for five years before being discovered alive on a remote island in the Pacific. When he returns home to Starling City, his devoted mother […]
The CW is putting its faith in genre-related offerings this season, with Rockne S. O’Bannon’s Cult, the DC-based Arrow and the revamp of Beauty and the Beast all receiving series orders. Cult has had a long journey to the screen, originally pitched for the 2005-6 season, before being revamped for 2009-10, and then reworked for the current schedule. The show […]
Both fairy-tale based ongoing series will be chasing the ratings next season, following ABC’s decision to renew Once Upon a Time – Grimm was picked up some time ago. Creator Adam Horowitz broke the news on his Twitter account: “It’s official — #OnceUponATime has been picked up for season 2. Thank you all so much for watching, we’re beyond thrilled […]
J.J. Abrams’ latest TV series has become another one-season wonder, with Alcatraz failing to get a pick-up for a second year. The time-travelling series (broadcast on Fox in the US and Watch in the UK) failed to spark with audiences despite a strong cast and echoes of Lost‘s multiple-reality scenarios. Deadline points out that its fate was pretty much decided when […]
The season opener for Doctor Who‘s seventh year will receive its premiere at the Edinburgh International TV Festival, being held in the Scottish capital between August 23rd and 25th. Doctor Who showrunner Steven Moffat will be present during the Festival, and is running a masterclass on Sherlock alongside its co-creator Mark Gatiss and producer Sue Vertue. The as yet unnamed […]
Dubbed the “Author of Splendid Nightmares” by the New York Times, American writer and illustrator Maurice Sendak has died, aged 83. Best known for the book Where The Wild Things Are […]
Marvel’s movie strategy has paid off, with the film of The Avengers raking in huge box office receipts around the world. According to official estimates, The Avengers will smash the previous single weekend box office take of $169m held by the Harry Potter finale, on course for over $200m. International gross is over $450m – before the film has even […]
Star Trek and Battlestar Galactica FX maestro Doug Drexler has teamed up with award-winning writer Marc Scott Zicree and director Neil Johnson to work on Space Command, a new series […]
The CW has given an early pick-up to two of its success stories: Supernatural, which will go into an eighth season of monster-hunting adventures for the Winchester brothers, and The Vampire Diaries, entering its fourth year. The official press release simply calls Supernatural a “fan favourite,” and hails The Vampire Diaries as “bloody good drama” which is the network’s top-rated […]
In a conference call following the show’s renewal for a fifth and final season, Fringe executive producers Jeff Pinkner and Joel Wyman dropped various hints about the show’s direction for its concluding year. Asked whether Leonard Nimoy would return to play William Bell, Pinkner said, “We basically erected a sign outside of Leonard’s house that says, ‘Please come back to […]
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