Harry Potter actor Matthew Lewis, who played Neville Longbottom in all eight instalments in the saga, believes the books would have translated really well as a TV series. Speaking at a FanX Salt Lake Comic Convention (via ComicBook.com), Lewis stated that, after the success of Game of Thrones, adapting the books as a TV series would […]
BBC and Playground developing The Last of the Mohicans series
According to Variety, the BBC is teaming with Playground, the company behind Wolf Hall, The Spanish Princess and Howards End, for an ongoing series adaptation of James Fenimore Cooper’s Leatherstocking Tales, which includes the 1826 novel The Last of the Mohicans. The five Leatherstocking Tales novels take place between 1740 and 1804 and chronicle the […]
Preacher Season 4 Episode 8 Review – ‘Fear of the Lord’
Martin Carr reviews the eighth episode of Preacher season 4… Retribution, recriminations and unmitigated amounts of wrath are rained down in an episode which administers pain like no other. People burn, others lose body parts while the humiliation which accompanies it all is palpable. Flashbacks, dream sequences and unorthodox methods of storytelling are in full […]
The CW releases trailer for Legacies season 2
The first trailer has been released for the second season of The Vampire Diaries and The Originals spinoff series Legacies ahead of its premiere next month; watch the trailer here… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2n1SzCUaSU The show centers around Hope Mikaelson, the vampire-witch-werewolf hybrid daughter of Hayley Marshall-Kenner and Klaus Mikaelson, and her time at a school for the […]
Sci-fi drama Impulse gets a season 2 trailer from YouTube
A new trailer and poster have been released for the second season of YouTube’s acclaimed sci-fi drama series Impulse ahead of its premiere next month; check them out here… SEE ALSO: YouTube Originals’ Impulse Panel at San Diego Comic-Con International 2019 In the upcoming second season of Impulse, “Henry” Coles life suddenly changes when a […]
The Umbrella Academy enrols three new cast members for season 2
Netflix’s superhero drama series The Umbrella Academy has added three new cast members for its second season, with Deadline reporting that Ritu Arya (Humans), Yusuf Gatewood (Good Omens) and Marin Ireland (Y: The Last Man) have signed on to star in the small screen adaptation of the Gerard Way and Gabriel Ba comic book. Arya […]
Robert Rodriguez and Diego Boneta team for comic book adaptation El Gato Negro
Alita: Battle Angel director Robert Rodriguez is teaming with Terminator: Dark Fate actor Diego Boneta for El Gato Negro, a TV adaptation of the Mexican comic book series by creator Richard Dominguez. The project, which is set up at the Apple TV+ streaming service, tells the intergenerational exploits of two crime fighters in South Texas […]
Netflix Review – Mindhunter Season 2
Hasitha Fernando reviews the second season of Mindhunter… Ever since I concluded watching season one of Mindhunter, I was fraught with impatience to return to its twisted sepulchral world, populated with depraved serial killers and the heinous deeds they commit. So, after twenty-two painstaking months of waiting and speculating, here we are. And now the […]
Netflix casts its Young Wallander
Back in November of last year it was reported that Netflix is teaming with Yellow Bird UK, the company behind the BBC’s Wallander, for a new original prequel series based upon Henning Mankell’s bestselling book series entitled Young Wallander. Well, we now have the first official casting news on the six-part series, with Swedish actor […]
The Last of the Mohicans TV series in development under Bond 25 director
Variety is reporting that True Detective and Bond 25 director Cary Joji Fukunaga is teaming with Nicole Kassell (Watchmen) for a potential TV adaptation of James Fenimore Cooper’s 1826 novel The Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757. The trade reveals that the series will be a retelling of the novel, which “re-centers the […]
