After she leaves the TARDIS in a few weeks’ time, Doctor Who star Karen Gillan is staying within the fantasy genre for one of her next projects, the horror movie Oculus. The Intrepid Pictures film starts shooting in Alabama this autumn. According to their press release, the plot begins 10 years after a horrifying family incident left two young children […]
Legendary comics creator Howard Chaykin is writing a new series of adventures for the original Man Out of Time, Buck Rogers. Created by Philip Francis Nowlan for an August 1928 […]
Farscape and Stargate SG-1 star Claudia Black is heading over to the mysterious Maine town of Haven for the third season of the Syfy hit series, based on the novella […]
HBO has finally confirmed that True Blood will be returning for a sixth season. The news doesn’t really come as a surprise, given that there was considerable speculation about who would be running the series when (rather than if) it received the renewal. Current co-executive producer Mark Hudis will become executive producer/showrunner as part of a deal he signed with […]
Former Avenger and Bond girl Dame Diana Rigg and her daughter Rachel Stirling are joining the Doctor for his seventh series of travels. According to the press release, it’s the first time mother and daughter Dame Diana Rigg and Rachael Stirling have ever worked together on screen. Character details remain under wraps, but the episode penned by Mark Gatiss will see […]
Veteran genre actor David Warner and Outcasts/Game of Thrones star Liam Cunningham will be appearing in Mark Gatiss’ story for Doctor Who‘s seventh season, currently filming. According to the new […]
Although there were multiple reports around the internet last month that a TV series based on William Friedkin’s 1973 film The Exorcist was in development, the director himself has told […]
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 […]
According to reports in today’s British newspapers, Ron Grainer’s Doctor Who theme will be one of four television themes played as part of the Olympic opening ceremony. Although The Mail […]
HBO has issued an apology after a prosthetic head of former US president George W. Bush turned up in Game of Thrones’ first season. The scenes in episode 10 were commented on by the executive producers on the DVD: “The last head on the left is George Bush,” the pair say. “George Bush’s head appears in a couple of beheading scenes. […]
Attack the Block’s Joe Cornish is to write and direct an adaptation of Neal Stephenson’s 1992 novel Snow Crash for Paramount Pictures. According to Deadline, Kathleen Kennedy and Kennedy/Marshall will […]
Star Trek: The Next Generation star Brent Spiner has signed up for a stint as the leader of a secret sect in the fourth season of Syfy’s hit series Warehouse […]
Fourteen years after it was pulled from DVD shelves, the full version of Little Shop of Horrors is finally returning to stores. Little Shop of Horrors: The Director’s Cut is […]
Legendary writer Ray Bradbury has died, aged 91. He passed away in Los Angeles on June 5 after a lengthy illness, according to the statement from HarperCollins. “In a career […]
Star Stephen Mangan has announced that Douglas Adams’ holistic detective Dirk Gently has solved his last case on BBC Four. “It gives me no pleasure whatsoever to report that the BBC have decided not to make any more Dirk Gently,” he tweeted earlier today. The BBC have made four episodes of the show – a pilot that aired in December […]
This year didn’t see the strongest showing by genre shows at the BAFTAs, but in addition to the special award given to Steven Moffat by the stars of his two shows, Matt Smith and Benedict Cumberbatch, BBC Three’s underestimated series The Fades won Best Drama. Unfortunately cancelled by the BBC after only one series, the apocalyptic series at least can take […]
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