HBO’s Big Little Lies aired its season finale this past Sunday, and while fans of the show are wondering whether we’ll get a second season, it seems that director Jean-Marc Vallee is firmly against the idea. “This is the perfect ending,” said Vallee in an interview with Vulture. “There is no way; there’s no reason to make […]
Penthouse founder’s life set for TV series
According to Variety, Jerrick Media and Maven Pictures are teaming up to bring the life of Penthouse founder Bob Guccione to the small screen and are currently interviewing writers for a TV drama. The site reports that the potential series will be told through the eyes of the various women in Guccione’s life and explore […]
David Tennant’s Greatest Quirky Roles
If there’s one thing David Tennant has established himself as, it’s on-screen oddballs. With an impressive range, his charm means he can work his magic on any role, from out and out nasty, to irreverent and wacky, via repressed and brooding. As the release of his new film Mad To Be Normal approaches on April […]
Disney Channel orders That’s So Raven spinoff Raven’s Home
The Disney Channel has placed a series order for its That’s So Raven spinoff Raven’s Home, which will see the return of Raven-Symone and Anneliese Van Der Pol as Raven Baxter and Chelsea Daniels. Deadline reports that the new series “will pick up with Raven and Chelsea, who are now divorced single mothers raising […]
Universal bringing The Machine, Kill Shakespeare and El Pantera to the small screen
Earlier this week Universal Cable Productions announced that it had reached a deal with Dark Horse to adapt the comic book series The Umbrella Academy, Harrow County, Concrete and Back-Up for the small screen, and now it has been announced that UCP has acquired three more properties in the British sci-fi The Machine, IDW Publishing’s […]
Moonlight director Barry Jenkins developing Underground Railroad series for Amazon
Oscar-nominated Moonlight director Barry Jenkins is teaming up with Amazon Studios to write and direct an hourlong drama series based around the Underground Railroad, which will be based upon Colson Whitehead’s bestselling book The Underground Railroad. “Going back to The Intuitionist, Colson’s writing has always defied convention, and The Underground Railroad is no different,” Jenkins […]
Geek Girl Rising TV drama in development at ABC
Live! with Kelly’s Kelly Ripa and her husband Mark Consuelos have been tapped by ABC Studios to develop a scripted drama series based upon journalists Heather Cabot and Samantha Walravens’ upcoming book Geek Girl Rising: Inside the Sisterhood Shaking Up Tech. The book, which is being released by St. Martin’s Press this May, “introduces readers […]
How Breaking Bad Dropped the Ball
Anthony Stokes on how Breaking Bad dropped the ball… Breaking Bad will probably go down in history as the greatest show on television. Thanks to Netflix, around its fourth season it blew up and became one of the highest rated TV shows in history. However, while I like everyone else love Breaking Bad, in my […]
TBS renews American Dad! for two more seasons
TBS has announced that it has renewed Seth MacFarlane’s animated comedy series American Dad! for a further two seasons of 22 episodes each. Having been dropped by Fox, American Dad! made the jump to TBS in 2014 and enjoyed huge success, becoming basic cable’s number one scripted series among adults 18-34 in its Monday at […]
The Knick has been cancelled by Cinemax
The Clive Owen led period medical drama The Knick, set during the 1900s and revolving around a New York hospital, received plenty of top reviews during its two season run, but Cinemax have now decided enough is enough. With every episode directed by Steven Soderbergh, quite the task over two whole seasons, the series had […]
