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Monarch: Legacy of Monsters Episode 9 Review – ‘Axis Mundi’

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Chris Connor reviews the penultimate episode of Monarch: Legacy of Monsters season 1… Monarch’s penultimate episode opens with a 10 minute plus sequence set with the younger Lee Shaw and Bill Randa, having lost Bill’s wife Keiko into the Hollow Earth. The sequence is meant to be reminiscent of the Apollo missions goes awry with […]

Morris Chestnut to lead Sherlock-inspired Watson series from Elementary writer

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Sherlock Holmes’ faithful friend and partner John Watson is about to star in his own series. CBS has greenlit Watson with Morris Chestnut (Rosewood) starring as the famous doctor with Elementary‘s Craig Sweeny showrunning and writing the series. Watson is described as “a medical show with a strong investigative spine, featuring a modern version of one of history’s […]

Doctor Who: The Church on Ruby Road comes to audiobook

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Penguin Random House has announced they will be releasing a brand new Doctor Who audiobook on 25th January.  Doctor Who: The Church on Ruby Road is the novelisation of the Fifteenth Doctor’s first full adventure and is read by Angela Wynter, who plays Cherry Sunday in the BBC television series. The novelisation of Russell T […]

Mandy Patinkin is tasked with solving a cruise ship murder in Death and Other Details trailer

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Hulu has released the trailer for the latest murder-mystery series Death and Other Details, which stars Mandy Patinkin (Homeland) as the world’s greatest detective Rufus Cotesworth, who must work alongside Violett Beane (The Flash) in order to solve a murder upon a luxury Mediterranean ocean liner. Death and Other Details‘ pilot episode is directed by […]

Ryan Murphy’s Feud: Capote Vs. The Swans gets a new trailer from FX

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Ahead of its premiere later this month on FX, a new trailer has arrived online for Feud: Capote Vs. The Swans, the second instalment in Ryan Murphy’s anthology series following 2017’s Bette and Joan. Based on Laurence Leamer’s book Capote’s Women: A True Story of Love, Betrayal, and a Swan Song, the series stars Tom […]

Apple TV+ renews Slow Horses for fifth season

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Following the conclusion of its third season, Apple TV+ has announced that its BAFTA-nominated espionage drama Slow Horses for a fifth season, which will adapt author Mick Herron’s fifth Slough House book London Rules. In season five of Slow Horses, “everyone is suspicious when resident tech nerd Roddy Ho has a glamorous new girlfriend, but […]

Echo featurette introduces Marvel’s new queen

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With less than two weeks to go until Echo premieres on Disney+, Marvel Studios has released a new featurette for the MCU series which sees star Alaqua Cox and Vincent D’Onofrio, and director Sydney Freeland discussing the show’s title character Maya Lopez; watch it below… The origin story of Echo revisits Maya Lopez, whose ruthless […]

Monarch: Legacy of Monsters Episode 8 Review – ‘Birthright’

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Chris Connor reviews the eighth episode of Monarch: Legacy of Monsters… As we head towards the endpoint of Monarch’s first season we get some answers to questions that have been permeating throughout. We get more of a focus on younger Lee Shaw, Keiko and Bill Randa in the 1950s. We find out that Bill is […]

Marvel’s What If…? Sakaarian Iron Man sixth scale figure unveiled by Hot Toys

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Sideshow and Hot Toys have unveiled the sixth scale Sakaarian Iron Man figure inspired by the appearance of Tony Stark’s armor design from the season two episode of Marvel’s What If…?, “What If… Iron Man Crashed into the Grandmaster?”. It is available to pre-order now, priced at $495; check out the promotional images here…  In […]