It’s a good day to be a fan of DC Comics television adaptations. Just after news broke that CBS had granted Supergirl a series order, the CW has announced a season two renewal for the DC/Vertigo Comics adaptation of iZombie. What’s not yet known is when the second season is expected to debut; iZombie premiered midseason just two months ago, […]
The Last Man On Earth nabs The Sarah Silverman Program’s Dan Sterling as season 2 showrunner
The Last Man on Earth recently wrapped its first season, and will return next season for its sophomore run of episodes. Fans of the show don’t just have that to get excited about, however, as THR reports that the show has picked up a new showrunner, in the form of The Daily Show, The Sarah Silverman Program, and South […]
Supergirl lands full series order at CBS
It’s a bird… It’s a plane… It’s… super good news! Ahead of the upfronts next week, CBS has officially granted a full series order to Supergirl. The series – developed by Arrow and The Flash producers Greg Berlanti and Andrew Kreisberg along with Chuck alum Ali Adler – was given a series commitment last fall, and has picked up quite a […]
Fixing Gotham: Make Jim Gordon Batman
Anghus Houvouras with a suggestion for fixing Gotham… Gotham has been the craziest kind of failed experiment. A show that was off the rails almost from the beginning. The show has been raked across the coals in its first season for being ‘Batman without Batman’, citing the show’s penchant for cramming in every Batman villain […]
The Flash Season 1 Episode 21 Review – ‘Grodd Lives’
Jessie Robertson reviews the twenty-first episode of The Flash… The great thing about The Flash series (besides his rich and deep history as a character) is his vast Rogues Gallery. One of the most colorful, and frightening and iconic of those villains is Gorilla Grodd (now just Grodd on the show) Comics-wise, he’s a powerful […]
Sony renews Powers for a second season
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Sony’s Powers adaptation – which aired exclusively on the PlayStation Network – has been renewed for a second season. Sony’s VP of Platforms Marketing, John Koller, had this to say about the renewal: “The reception of Powers has been incredible, and we are thrilled to have successfully launched a platform for original content with […]
Tim Kring’s Imperative Entertainment adapting Black Mask Studios’ Mayday
Imperative Entertainment – which is run by Tim Kring, creator of Heroes – has teamed up with Black Mask Studios to adapt the comic book series Mayday as a scripted television series. MAYDAY lives in the underbelly of the Hollywood scene, where a washed-up, drug-addicted screenwriter and a transgender bartender stumble onto a Satanic cult’s […]
The Simpsons renewed for two more years by FOX
A few years ago, it seemed that the legendary animation The Simpsons was finally coming to a natural end. Fast forward those few years, and it continues to outstrip many other long-running shows, and has today been renewed by FOX for another two seasons. The show will now run into its 27th and 28th seasons, […]
Gotham Season 1 Episode 21 Review – ‘The Anvil or the Hammer’
Martin Carr reviews the twenty-first episode of Gotham… I find myself between a rock and a hard place. With metaphorical marching bands and the news of another royal mouth to feed, we find ourselves at an end. Not in the biblical sense but more in a literal manner. Gotham has finished. If you could stop […]
Gotham Season 1 Episode 20 Review – ‘Under the Knife’
Martin Carr reviews the twentieth episode of Gotham… Unbalanced personalities, damaged psychosis and narrative conventions all jostle for position, in this penultimate portion of Gotham on Fox. Erin Richards, all but forgotten in the ebb and flow of events, comes to the fore opposite Ogre extraordinaire Milo Ventimigilia. Elsewhere Lord Taylor continues his plotting while […]