The upcoming 28th season of The Simpsons will not only see the long-running animated sitcom reaching its landmark 600th episode, but it will also deliver the first hour-long episode in the series’ history, Entertainment Weekly has revealed. Entitled ‘The Great Phatsby’, the episode will deliver a riff on F Scott Fitzgerald’s classic novel The Great […]
“Significant talks” underway for new season of The X-Files
Fox enjoyed huge ratings success when it reopened The X-Files for a tenth season earlier this year, and so it’s no surprise that the network is keen to reunite creator Chris Carter and stars David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson for more paranormal investigations. And it seems another season may well be on the cards… Speaking […]
Sarah Grey cast as Stargirl in DC’s Legends of Tomorrow
IGN is reporting that Sarah Grey (Cinemanovel, Power Rangers) has signed on to appear in the second season of DC’s Legends of Tomorrow, where she’ll portray Courtney Whitmore, a.k.a. Stargirl. Stargirl is set to feature as a member of the Justice Society of America, alongside teammates Commander Steel (Matthew MacCaull) Hourman (Patrick J. Adams), Vixen (Maisie […]
The Vampire Diaries’ Susan Walters joins The Flash as Caitlin Snow’s mother
Entertainment Weekly is reporting that The Vampire Diaries alum Susan Walters has joined the cast of The Flash for its third season, with the actress set to play Dr. Carla Tannhauser, the mother of Danielle Panabaker’s Caitlin Snow. The site describes the character as “a world class biomedical engineer and CEO of a major research […]
Stephen Amell teases four-way crossover between Arrow, The Flash, Legends of Tomorrow and Supergirl
The CW’s DC crossover this year is going to be rather epic, bringing together Arrow, The Flash, DC’s Legends of Tomorrow and the network’s new acquisition Supergirl, and Stephen Amell has taken to Twitter to tease the four-way team-up with a set photo featuring Green Arrow, The Flash, The Atom, White Canary and Supergirl. Well, […]
Natalie Portman to star in Marta Kauffman’s We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves for HBO
Deadline is reporting that Natalie portman has signed on to produce and star in the HBO miniseries We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves, which is being developed by Marta Kauffman (Grace and Frankie) and her Okay Goodnight production banner. Adapted from Karen Joy Fowler’s novel, the miniseries is described as “a twisty tale centered on […]
George R.R. Martin’s Wild Cards heading to the small screen
Game of Thrones author George R.R. Martin has announced that his superhero anthology series Wild Cards is being developed for television by Universal Cable Productions. “The shared world of the Wild Cards diverged from our own on September 15, 1946 when an alien virus was released in the skies over Manhattan, and spread across an […]
Lionsgate discusses Divergent TV plans
Last month it was announced that Lionsgate has pulled The Divergent Series: Ascendant from its theatrical release schedule and is instead planning on producing a TV movie to wrap up the YA franchise. Speaking to Variety, Lionsgate’s Jon Feltheimer and Kevin Beggs have revealed that the plan is to use the TV movie to launch […]
The Week in Star Wars – More production problems for Rogue One, Star Wars TV series, Han Solo trilogy and more
The Week in Star Wars is back – and it’s another bumper edition. We’ve got the latest on production issues for Rogue One, a possible TV series, a rumoured Han Solo movie and more… We’ll kick things off this week with more news on production issues for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story [which got […]
Scream: The TV Series Season 2 Episode 10 Review – ‘The Vanishing’
Martin Carr reviews the tenth episode of Scream: The TV Series season 2… This week we are treated to references outside the horror genre, which for someone like me who has instant recall is a whole barrel of fun. Aside from the tagline we get direct and indirect hat tipping for Dirty Harry, Buried and […]