RIP Roberto Orci
Star Trek and Transformers writer Roberto “Bob” Orci has died, aged 51. Orci, with his writing partner Alex Kurtzman, worked on multiple genre shows and films over the years, starting […]
RIP Lance Reddick
American actor Lance Reddick, best known to genre fans for his role in Fringe, has died aged 60. Reddick was a familiar face on screen, appearing in the John Wick […]
RIP Writer & Producer Jeff Vlaming
Writer and producer Jeff Vlaming, who contributed to multiple genre shows during his career, has died aged 63. Vlaming is perhaps best known for his time on Fringe and The […]
RIP Ravil Isyanov
Russian actor Ravil Isyanov, who moved to LA in 1998, has died aged 59. Best known for his role as Kirkin in NCIS: Los Angeles, Isyanov appeared in various genre […]
Fringe star John Noble joins Sleepy Hollow
According to a report at Deadline, Fringe star John Noble is set to join the cast of Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman’s update of Sleepy Hollow, which began airing this week in the States, and starts on October 9 in the UK. He is set to play “Henry Parrish, a kind and reclusive man who possesses supernatural powers that have […]
Fringe creators’ shows both picked up by Fox
Almost Human, the cop show from J.H. Wyman and J.J. Abrams, and Sleepy Hollow, the reworking of the classic story by Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci, have both been picked […]
Fringe’s Abrams & Wyman sell new SF cop show to Fox
J.J. Abrams and J.H. Wyman have been looking beyond the final season of Fringe, which begins soon on Fox, and have sold a new SF project to the network. Wyman is scripting the as-yet untitled pilot, an action-packed buddy cop show, set in the near future, when all LAPD officers are partnered with highly evolved human-like androids. Abrams, Bryan Burk […]
Fringe, Apes and Super 8 triumph at Saturns
Rise of the Planet of the Apes and J.J. Abrams’ Super 8 both scored three trophies at the annual Saturn Awards, given by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & […]
Orci & Kurtzman sell Sleepy Hollow update to Fox
Len Wiseman has been tapped as director on Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman’s new version of the classic tale The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. According to Deadline, the pilot follows […]
Comic-Con round-up 1: Doctor Who / Fringe
The past weekend at Comic-Con saw panels on many genre TV series and films: we’ve picked our highlights: Doctor Who: As well as refusing to answer questions about a multiple Doctor story for the 50th anniversary (even when posed by a Dalek), head writer Steven Moffat noted of the seventh series: “We’ve got the Weeping Angels, tragedy, comedy, westerns, absolutely […]
Jeff Pinkner leaves Fringe
Joint Fringe showrunner Jeff Pinkner won’t be seeing the show through its final 13 episodes, it was announced on June 19th. According to a statement from co-creator J.J. Abrams, “We’re so excited to begin work on a fifth season of Fringe and to be able to deliver the 13 final episodes to our passionate and devoted fans. For four years, J.H. Wyman […]
Fringe producers push for Nimoy for Season 5
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 […]
Two endings shot for Fringe’s fourth season
With no decision yet announced regarding the fate of Fringe, despite Joel Wyman’s prediction earlier this week, John Noble has confirmed that plans are in place for either contingency. “We’ve shot two [endings],” John Noble told TVLine on April 12 pointing out, “I hear warm and fuzzy things — but I’ve been hearing them all the time. We just picked up […]
Fox chief not optimistic over Fringe’s future (updated)
Speaking at the Television Critics Association tour on January 8, Fox entertainment president Kevin Reilly was not optimistic about the prospects for a renewal for J.J. Abrams’s multiverse spanning drama Fringe. “We lose a lot of money on the show,” he explained, after first thanking the fans who had followed the show to its new Friday night slot. “At that […]
Fringe’s Kreisberg seeks Syfy glory for Booster Gold
Fringe writer/producer Andrew Kreisberg is penning an adaptation of the DC character Booster Gold for Syfy as a potential one hour show. The character was created by Dan Jurgens in […]
Abrams’ Alcatraz pauses for reshoots
Production plans on Alcatraz, J.J. Abrams’ second new series for this season, have been altered, after it was decided to reshoot various scenes for the seven episodes already filmed. According […]
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