Over at StarTrek.com the expected release date for Bryan Fuller’s upcoming new Star Trek series Star Trek: Discovery has been announced. This new show is expected to arrive in May 2017, when we’ll see the first Star Trek series in ten years warp onto our screens. Star Trek: Discovery to premiere on the paid service CBS All […]
Bryan Fuller no longer serving as showrunner on Star Trek: Discovery
After previously being delayed from January to May 2017, it seems Star Trek: Discovery has yet another slight setback as Variety reports Bryan Fuller is now stepping down as showrunner on the new Star Trek series. Apparently the decision was made late last week and is just being announced now as filming is set to begin in […]
Shailene Woodley not interested in Divergent TV show
Off the back of an underwhelming box office run for The Divergent Series: Allegiant, Lionsgate announced back in July that it had scrapped its plans for a theatrical release for the fourth and final chapter, Ascendant, instead opting to go down the television route to finish the YA adaptation with a TV movie (and a […]
Vince Gilligan developing Jim Jones limited series for HBO
Vince Gilligan, creator of Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, is set to explore The Peoples Temple of the Disciples of Christ cult and its leader Jim Jones with Raven, a limited series which he will write for HBO. Breaking Bad director Michelle MacLaren will helm the series, as well as executive producing alongside Gilligan […]
UPDATE: Angela Lansbury reportedly set for Game of Thrones season 7
Last week it was announced that Jim Broadbent has joined the cast of Game of Thrones, and now comes word that another British acting legend may have signed on to appear in the seventh season of HBO’s epic fantasy series. According to a report from German news website Bild (via GamesRadar), Murder She Wrote star […]
Ray Donovan Season 4 Episode 9 Review – ‘Goodbye Beautiful’
Mark Clark reviews the ninth episode of Ray Donovan season 4… If this was a movie Ray would be deep in the mire of Act 2 – where everything has gone to hell. As it happens that’s pretty much where he’s going, and he’s not going alone. And apologies to Ray et al, but I’m […]
Greg Berlanti developing new DC show Black Lightning
Not content with Arrow, The Flash, DC’s Legends of Tomorrow and Supergirl, it seems that Greg Berlanti is looking to expand his DC output, with Deadline reporting that Berlanti is teaming up with Being Mary Jane creator Mara Brock Akil and her husband Salim Akil for a new DC drama Black Lightning. The site reports […]
Stranger Things was originally envisioned as R-rated
Netflix hit the jackpot with Stranger Things. It’s a show with mass appeal that has garnered heavy comparisons to the early films of Steven Spielberg. However, things were originally intended to be much darker. In an interview with Vulture, show creators The Duffer Brothers touched on this, with Ross saying: “The Eleven character, the kind […]
M. Night Shyamalan wants to direct an episode of Stranger Things
M. Night Shyamalan currently has his latest thriller Split opening up in theaters this weekend [you can read my review here], but his future is something of a blank slate at present. However, in an interview with Digital Spy, the director did lay out one desire: “My boys who do Stranger Things, they did Wayward […]
Stranger Things adds two new cast members for season 2
Netflix’s hit supernatural series Stranger Things has added two new cast members for its second season, with EW reporting that Dacre Montgomery (Power Rangers) and Sadie Sink (American Odyssey) have signed on for major roles. Sink is set to play Max, “a tough and confident girl whose appearance, behavior and pursuits seem more typical of boys […]
