The Kingkiller Chronicle has found its showrunner. John Rogers, creator of TNT’s The Librarians, has been hired to showrun the series as well be an executive producer and write the pilot. The series is an adaptation of Patrick Rothfuss’ book trilogy, which has currently only published The Name of the Wind and The Wise Man’s Fear. The fantasy series is […]
R.I.P. Alan Thicke (1947 – 2016)
Canadian actor, songwriter and host Alan Thicke passed away late yesterday in Los Angeles due to a heart attack after a game of hockey with his youngest son. He was 69 years old and had an extensive career in television and film. Thicke began his career as host of several gameshows in the 1970s before […]
Ignacio Serricchio cast in Netflix’s Lost in Space
The upcoming Lost in Space reboot for Netflix has added another cast member. Deadline reports that the series has cast Bones star Ignacio Serricchio as Don West, played in the original series by Mark Goddard. West is a “roughneck smuggling luxury goods on the side who finds in the Robinsons the family he never thought he would find”. Lost in […]
Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency Season 1 Episode 1 Review – “Horizons”
Villordsutch reviews Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency Season 1 Episode 1 – “Horizons”… There’s always a worry that when something is as quintessentially British, as say a Douglas Adams “Dirk Gently” novel, falls into the palms of a country called “America” and then they announce that they’re going to make a TV series out of it, […]
Star Trek: Discovery adds three Klingons to its cast
Star Trek: Discovery has added three new cast members to the show: Chris Obi (American Gods), Shazad Latif (Penny Dreadful) and Mary Chieffo (Miss Dial) will all star as Klingons, who, at this point in the Star Trek timeline, are still considered enemies of the Federation. Obi will play T’Kuvma, a Klingon leader seeking to unite the various […]
Netflix cancels Marco Polo after 2 seasons
Netflix has cancelled Marco Polo, its hit show which began in 2014. The series examined the early life of the titular explorer and his days with Kublai Kahn, ruler of the Mongol Empire in the 13th Century, and starred Lorenzo Richelmy and Benedict Wong as the two leads. No specific reason is given for its cancellation, but […]
The Five Best Moments from The Walking Dead Season 7 Episode 8 – ‘Hearts Still Beating’
Ben Robins with the five best moments from the eighth episode of The Walking Dead season 7… It was finally mid-season finale week on our favourite post-apocalyptic zombie nightmare, and as those ultra-miserable season 7 dominoes finally started to tumble towards the yet another cliffhanger (albeit, rather slowly), we actually got a half-decent tease for […]
Full list of nominations for the 2017 Golden Globe Awards announced
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association has today announced the nominations for the 74th annual Golden Globe Awards. Fresh from its success at the Critics’ Choice Awards, Damien Chazelle’s La La Land leads the movie categories with seven nominations, followed by Moonlight with six and Manchester by the Sea with five. La La Land while contest […]
La La Land, Deadpool and Game of Thrones among the big winners at the 2016 Critics’ Choice Awards
The 2016 Critics’ Choice Awards took place last night, and it was a huge evening for Damien Chazelle’s La La Land, with the film winning a total of eight awards including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenwriter and Best Original Song, while Oscar rivals Moonlight and Manchester By the Sea also won multiple awards. On […]
The Week in Star Wars – Rogue One tracking massive global opening, major cameos rumoured, Star Wars: Episode VIII title possibly revealed and more
Gary Collinson rounds up all the latest Star Wars news ahead of Rogue One’s release this coming week… Well, here we are. The next time you read a Week in Star Wars, we’ll have a brand new Star Wars movie! Yes, following its premiere on Saturday night, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story rolls out around […]
