After stunning audiences with her performance of Moana‘s ‘How Far I’ll Go’ during the Academy Awards presentation, Deadline is reporting Auli’i Cravalho will make her TV debut in NBC’s pilot of Drama High, produced by Friday Night Light‘s Jason Katims and Hamilton producer Jeffery Seller. The series will be based on Michael Sokolove’s book of the same name, detailing the life […]
DC’s Legends of Tomorrow Season 2 Episode 13 Review – ‘Land of the Lost’
Jessie Robertson reviews the thirteenth episode of DC’s Legends of Tomorrow season 2… Legends of Tomorrow Producer: “yeah, I can’t think of a good title, either.” The Captain is back! This episode was basically a “detour episode” where the main plot of the season doesn’t move along but we venture into an isolated situation. Here, […]
Bill Potts is Doctor Who’s first openly gay companion
With Doctor Who set to return to our TV screens later this month, the BBC has announced that the show is getting its very first openly gay companion in Bill Potts, played by Pearl Mackie. “It shouldn’t be a big deal in the 21st Century. It’s about time isn’t it?,” said Mackie in an interview […]
JD Pardo nabs the lead in Sons of Anarchy spinoff pilot Mayans MC
Kurt Sutter has found his lead for the upcoming Sons of Anarchy spinoff pilot in JD Pardo (East Los High, Revolution), who has signed to to play Ezekiel ‘EZ’ Reyes, a prospect in the Mayans MC character on the California/Mexico border. EZ’s character is described as “the gifted son of a proud Latino family, whose […]
Ian McShane says Game of Thrones fans need to “get a f*cking life”
Last year Ian McShane drew the ire of Game of Thrones fans, firstly by revealing a pretty big spoiler surrounding the return of fan favourite character The Hound, before responding to online complaints by describing the epic fantasy series as “only tits and wizards”. Well, he’s probably not going to endear himself to fans too much […]
Is April 2017 Promising To Be One of TV’s Greatest Ever Months?
Yes. That’s the short answer to the question posed above, but if you would like some form of explanation then please, do keep reading. TV has frustrated me endlessly in recent years. 2016 saw a downward trend as it pertained to the medium’s quality. The golden age had ended, led by the utter mediocrity of […]
Andrew Kreisberg on why we haven’t seen Arrow and The Flash characters in Supergirl
Since The Flash spun out of events in Arrow, The CW’s universe of superheroes, dubbed by fans as the ‘Arrowverse’, has grown very much since then. We’ve had the addition of another spinoff, DC’s Legends of Tomorrow, and since Supergirl’s switch from CBS to The CW, that makes four connected shows, though Supergirl takes place in an alternate universe from the other three. […]
The CW planning “true four-way crossover” between Supergirl, Arrow, The Flash and DC’s Legends of Tomorrow
Although the heroes of Arrow, The Flash, DC’s Legends of Tomorrow and Supergirl joined forces last year to battle the Dominators in the ‘Invasion’ story arc, the main story didn’t really kick in until the final scenes of Supergirl, something that the producers hope to rectify next time around with “a true four-way crossover” between the […]
Michael Shannon joins AMC’s The Little Drummer Girl adaptation
AMC has made another casting addition to its upcoming miniseries adaptation of John le Carré’s The Little Drummer Girl with the news that Michael Shannon (The Shape of Water) has joined Alexander Skarsgard (Big Little Lies) and Florence Pugh (Lady Macbeth) in the series. Shannon will portray Kurtz, an Isreali spymaster who recruits Pugh’s character into a complex […]
Cress Williams to play Black Lightning in new DC pilot at The CW
Having secured a pilot order from The CW earlier this month, Greg Berlanti’s latest DC pilot Black Lightning has found its lead, with THR reporting that Cress Williams (Hart of Dixie) has signed on for the lead role of Jefferson Pierce. The pilot, which has been written by Salim Akil and Mara Brock Akil (The […]
