Academy Award winner Forest Whitaker will soon be starring on the small screen, having been cast in the fourth season of FOX’s Empire in a multi-episode arc. Whitaker will portray Uncle Eddie, a “charismatic music icon and bonafide hitmaker, who gave an unknown Lucious (Terrence Howard) his first radio airplay. Decades later, Eddie steps up for Lucious […]
Sons of Anarchy spin-off Mayans MC pilot to be recast and reshot
The pilot for Mayans MC, FX’s spin-off of Sons of Anarchy, will be undergoing some extensive reworking. Variety has reported that the pilot will be entirely reshot and key roles will even be recast as FX continues development on the spin-off. Additionally, Mayans MC will get a shift in its production lead. Sons of Anarchy creator Kurt Sutter was originally set […]
Netflix cancels The Get Down
Netflix has announced it will not be renewing Baz Luhrmann’s The Get Down for a second season, Deadline has revealed. The Get Down recently aired the second part of its first season on the streaming service last month, with the first being made available last August. The reasons for its cancellation are apparently because of its budget – […]
Bloodline’s final season leaves no dangling threads
The final ever season of Bloodline will leave viewers with no dangling threads according to executive producer Todd A. Kessler. The third and final season of Bloodline is set to drop its last set of episodes on Netflix this Friday and will look to wrap up the traumatic events surrounding the much troubled Rayburn family. There […]
Person of Interest’s Greg Plageman joins Taken as new showrunner for season 2
NBC’s prequel adaptation of the Liam Neeson-led film series Taken has just hired a new showrunner for its second season. Person of Interest executive producer and co-showrunner Greg Plageman will take over the reins from former showrunner Alex Carey. The second season of Taken is said to be much more of a procedural series, in the vein of NBC’s hit […]
Peter Capaldi to exit Doctor Who after series 10
Peter Capaldi has announced that he’s following in the footsteps of showrunner Steven Moffat by stepping down as the Doctor following the upcoming tenth series of Doctor Who. “I feel it’s time to move on,” Capaldi told the BBC. “I feel sad, I love Doctor Who, it is a fantastic programme to work on. It can’t […]
Full list of winners for the 2017 SAG Awards
With awards season in full swing ahead of next month’s Academy Awards, the Screen Actors Guild presented the 2017 SAG Awards at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles last night, with big wins for Fences, Hidden Figures, La La Land, Moonlight, The Crown, Stranger Things, Orange Is the New Black, Game of Thrones and more. […]
Episode titles and directors revealed for Marvel’s Iron Fist
With less than two months to go until Netflix unleashes its fourth Marvel series, the British Board of Film Classification has begun rating the episodes for Iron Fist, and in the process we’ve got a look at most of the episodes titles, as well as a list of directors which includes John Dahl, Tom Shankland, […]
Bryan Singer directing X-Men TV pilot
Fox have signed up Bryan Singer to direct the pilot for their untitled X-Men TV series. From 20th Century TV and Marvel Television, the show will centre on two ordinary parents who discover their children are mutants and are then forced to go on the run to protect them. Matt Nix (Burn Notice) is writing […]
Marvel taps Roel Reiné to direct first two episodes of The Inhumans
Later this year, The Inhumans will be coming to televisions across the world, but before it does that, Marvel and ABC will be releasing the first two episodes in IMAX theaters. Yesterday, the companies took a major step forward in bringing the show to fruition by hiring Roel Reiné, an out-of-the-box choice, to helm the […]
