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Jordan Peele rebooting The Twilight Zone on CBS All Access

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For decades, The Twilight Zone has been a staple of the science fiction genre with its anthology of sci-fi and horror tales. Now, CBS is ready to reboot it once again on their All Access streaming service with Get Out director Jordan Peele producing the series with Simon Kinberg through their respective companies, Monkeypaw Productions and Genre Films. Joining […]

Benedict Cumberbatch joins Showtime’s Melrose

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Benedict Cumberbatch has a lot going on right now as he prepares to join the Avengers in Avengers: Infinity War, but the actor has now added another project to his busy schedule. Deadline reports that he has joined Showtime’s Melrose, a limited series which he will also executive produce for the network. The series will run for a total of […]

Charlie Cox wants Scarlett Johansson to appear in Daredevil

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Outside of subtle references and Easter Eggs, there isn’t a connection between the film and television divisions of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Naturally, this decision has its pros and cons; it allows for the differing tones to stay consistent and each area to fully focus on its characters, but the bigger picture is missing out […]

Morten Tyldum to direct first episode of Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan

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Amazon has found a director for the opening episode of its straight-to-drama series Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan in Morten Tyldum, the Oscar-nominated helmer of The Imitation Game. The 10-episode series will see John Krasinski taking on the role of Ryan, who will be portrayed as an up-and-coming CIA analyst thrust into a dangerous field assignment for […]

The Weinstein Company to explore the life of Elvis Presley with TV biopic

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The Weinstein Company is set to explore the life of the King of Rock n Roll with an Elvis Presley biopic which is being produced in full partnership with the Presley Estate, and Priscilla Presley on board as an executive producer alongside Harvey Weinstein and Jerry Schilling. The eight-to-ten part series is based upon author […]

UPDATE: Kingpin rumoured to appear in Spider-Man: Homecoming

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Have your pinch of salt at the ready, as this one is almost certainly a fabrication, but Screen Geek is claiming that Marvel Studios is considering having an appearance from Vincent D’Onofrio’s Wilson Fisk – a.k.a. Kingpin – in Marvel and Sony’s upcoming Spider-Man: Homecoming. Now, Kingpin appearing in a Spider-Man movie certainly isn’t beyond the […]

Supporting cast for Neil Gaiman’s Good Omens announced

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Back in August it was announced that David Tennant and Michael Sheen are to star as Crowley and Aziraphale in an adaptation of Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett’s Good Omens, and now the supporting cast for the BBC and Amazon series has been revealed. Variety is reporting that Jack Whitehall (Fresh Meat) will play wages […]

David Tennant and Michael Sheen to star in Neil Gaiman’s Good Omens

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Variety has announced that David Tennant and Michael Sheen are to join the cast of Amazon’s Good Omens, an adaptation of the Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett novel of the same name, which has Gaiman attached as writer and showrunner. Tennant will play the “fast-living demon” Crowley, with Sheen as the “somewhat fussy angel” Aziraphale. The […]

TV Review – Love Season One

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Love – Season One Starring Paul Rust, Gillian Jacobs, Claudia O’Doherty, Tracie Thomas, Andy Dick and Jordan Rock. SYNOPSIS: A program that follows a couple who must navigate the exhilarations and humiliations of intimacy, commitment and other things they were hoping to avoid. I got turned off from Love before I even bothered to watch the trailer. […]