Red Stewart reviews the tenth episode of Black Lightning… Since kicking off into overdrive with a committed storyline, Black Lightning has really started to develop its own identity. It first began as a gritty urban crime series with superheroes, much like Arrow and Daredevil, but mid-season it changed into a more mystical program with crazy costumes and people coming back […]
Playground Entertainment to adapt The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock
Playground Entertainment, the company behind the likes of Wolf Hall, The White Queen and Howards End, has won the film and TV rights to Imogen Hermes Gowar’s historical fantasy novel The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock, Deadline has revealed. The book revolves around Jonah Hancock, “a prosperous merchant and widower, whose Captain returns having sold Hancock’s […]
Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Season 5 Episode 15 Review – ‘Rise and Shine’
Danny Hale reviews the fifteenth episode of Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. season 5… ‘Rise and Shine’ took us 28 years into General Hale’s past, shedding light on her training and education among HYDRA’s finest while also giving us an early look at some of the big HYDRA names in the MCU. This was a […]
Exclusive Interview with Mr. X, the VFX Company behind The Shape of Water
Mr. X is the visual effects company responsible for the visual storytelling of many films and television series including Vikings, Godless, mother!, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tells No Tale, Crimson Peak, and Molly’s Game. Guillermo del Toro’s The Shape of Water won big at this year’s Academy Awards, including Best Picture. MR. X […]
Eaglemoss celebrates Batman: The Animated Series with new figurine collection
More than 25 years after its premiere, Batman: The Animated Series remains one of the finest animated shows to grace the small screen, and for their latest Hero Collector range, the folks at Eaglemoss have turned their attention to the classic show, delivering a series of 1/16 scale figures featuring the iconic heroes and villains […]
Lost in Space producers explain why Dr. Smith was gender-swapped in the Netflix reboot
When Lost in Space makes its grand return to Netflix later this month, there will be one distinct change from the original sci-fi show, with the producers opting to gender-swap the character of Dr. Smith as Parker Posey takes on the role made famous by Jonathan Harris in the 1960s series. Speaking to Cinema Blend, […]
Zach Braff teases a potential Scrubs revival as a TV movie
It’s been eight years since Scrubs finished its run (or nine, if you’re discounting that rebooted ninth season), but as he prepares to make his return to ABC for the new comedy Alex, Inc., star Zach Braff has teased a potential reunion for the staff of Sacred Heart during an interview with Variety. “We might […]
Rejected animation test from Donald Glover’s Deadpool leaks online
Earlier in the week it was announced that FX Networks has decided to cancel the planned Deadpool animated series from Marvel Television due to creative differences with Donald Glover and Stephen Glover, who were set to serve as writers, executive producers and showrunners. While it seems we’ll never get to see what the Glovers had […]
Amazon is reportedly planning $1 billion Chinese sci-fi series
Earlier this month it was reported that Amazon is looking to spend around $500 million on two seasons of its Lord of the Rings TV adaptation, and now we have a report from the Financial Times which states that the streaming giant is looking to double that price tag for an adaptation of Liu Cixin’s […]
Amazon developing A League of Their Own TV series
1992’s baseball comedy-drama A League of Their Own looks set to become the latest movie to receive a small screen adaptation, with THR reporting that Will Graham (Mozart in the Jungle) and Abbi Jacobson (Broad City) are writing and executive producing a TV series for Amazon. Intended as a half-hour comedy series, the project is […]
