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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 […]

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Doctor Who and Game of Thrones triumph at Hugo Awards

Neil Gaiman’s debut Doctor Who episode The Doctor’s Wife, and the first season of HBO’s Game of Thrones were honoured at the Hugo Awards, which were held on September 2 at Chicon 7 in Chicago, with Gaiman hinting that he may be working on another episode. “…Only a fool or a mad man would try to do it again… so […]

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John Williams to receive Lifetime Achievement Award at Classical Brits

Prolific film composer John Williams is to be honoured at the Classic Brit Awards in October. The eighty year old writer has composed scores for movies since 1958, and has received 47 Academy Award nominations (the second highest ever, after Walt Disney). His best-known genre work includes Lost in Space, The Time Tunnel, Star Wars, Superman, Close Encounters of the […]

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RIP Tony Scott

British film director Tony Scott, whose credits include The Hunger, Enemy of the State and Deja Vu, has died aged 68. The younger brother of Ridley Scott, Tony Scott began […]

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RIP William Windom

William Windom, who played Commodore Matt Decker in the classic Star Trek episode The Doomsday Machine, died on August 17, aged 88. In a long career, Windom was also renowned […]

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John Barrowman joins CW’s Arrow

According to an exclusive report at Entertainment Weekly, Doctor Who and Torchwood star John Barrowman is heading over to the CW’s updated version of DC’s Green Arrow. Not much is being revealed about the recurring character he will play on Arrow, except that he is a “well-dressed man” who is “as mysterious as he is wealthy … he is an acquaintance of […]

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RIP Harry Harrison

Harry Harrison, the creator of the Stainless Steel Rat, Bill the Galactic Hero, and the Deathworld trilogy, died today, August 15, aged 87. An illustrator and editor as well as writer, one […]