The BBC has announced that is has commissioned an animated remake of the “lost” Doctor Who serial ‘The Power of the Daleks’, which featured the regeneration of William Hartnell’s First Doctor into Patrick Troughton’s Second, with the Time Lord then battling his arch-enemies across a six episode serial. The entire serial had been lost, with the […]
NYCC: Jemaine Clement joins FX’s Marvel show Legion
While the Marvel-Netflix shows had their chance to wow audiences at New York Comic-Con yesterday, today it was FX’s turn, as they showed off their upcoming Marvel series Legion to the crowd. The Legion panel, which featured such guests as creator Noah Hawley, Marvel TV boss Jeph Loeb (who also was at the Marvel Netflix panel), […]
Marvel replacing Ultimate Spider-Man with new animated Spidey series
Marvel Animation has announced that it is set to replace Ultimate Spider-Man with a new animated Spidey series which promised to take the wall-crawler back to his roots, exploring his early years as a teen crime-fighter. “Spider-Man is the biggest action hero in the world. He is an iconic character whose duality makes him both relatable […]
TV adaptation of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind in development
It looks like Michel Gondry and Charlie Kaufman’s Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is the latest movie in line for a TV adaptation, with THR reporting that Anonymous Content and Universal Cable Productions are developing a remake of the romantic drama. According to the site, Zev Borow (Chuck) is close to signing a deal […]
October Horrors Day 6 – Black Mirror
Black Mirror Created by Charlie Brooker SYNOPSIS: A dark anthology series about the twisted hold that technology has over the over us all. Technology has become something of a crutch for the modern human being. We use our phones and our computers to do pretty much everything, keep in touch with people, take photos of […]
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. showrunners confirm the identity of the new Director of S.H.I.E.L.D.
Last week Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. introduced Jason O’Mara’s new Director of S.H.I.E.L.D., a character “whose Marvel roots go back to the 1940s.” In the episode itself, it was revealed that O’Mara’s character was called Jeffrey, which immediately sparked speculation that he could be Jeffrey Mace, a.k.a. Patriot – and that has now officially been confirmed by the show’s executive producers. “We […]
M. Night Shyamalan developing animated comedy Eleven Little Indians for Fox
Variety is reporting that filmmaker M. Night Shyamalan is teaming up with Family Guy writer Alex Carter for an animated comedy series entitled Eleven Little Indians, which has been picked up by Fox. The show “examines three branches of a large Indian family — one has achieved the American dream; another has just arrived in […]
Kristine Froseth to play female lead in Let the Right One In TV Series
Back in August it was reported that TNT had placed a pilot order for a TV adaptation of the vampire drama Let the Right One In, and now comes word from Deadline that up and coming actress Kristine Froseth (Rebel in the Rye) has secured the female lead. Froseth is set to play the charismatic […]
Luke Cage: Things That Worked and Things That Didn’t
Samuel Brace on what worked and what didn’t in Marvel’s Luke Cage… To see something through to the end with the energy and vigour with which one started is something quite rare indeed. Television is often blighted with this very problem, a lot of shows start off replete with quality but like buckets of water […]
Luke Cage: Early Reaction to the Show’s Beginning
Samuel Brace on Marvel’s Luke Cage… The imperative is on us to grade these things on their own merit, against a defined metric of excellence, an understood truth of quality. We know what is good and what is not. But with these Netflix Marvel shows, it’s impossible to not compare one to the others. Sure, […]
