With Doctor Who spinoff Class returning for a BBC One airing, Alex Moreland continues his reviews of this YA hit… When your entire people are being killed before your very eyes, then you can talk to me about monsters! In many ways, this is a chessboard episode; it feels almost like a perfunctory piece, dedicated more […]
Travis Fimmel to play Wyatt Earp in new History anthology series
THR is reporting that Vikings star Travis Fimmel is reuniting with History for an as-yet-untitled anthology project, which explore “iconic sinners and anti-heroes throughout history”. The first instalment will tell the story of Wyatt Earp, with Fimmel taking on the role of the Old West gunslinger as we delve into Earp’s days in Dodge City […]
Witchblade TV series in development at NBC
THR is reporting that NBC is teaming up with Carol Mendelsohn (CSI) and Caroline Dries (The Vampire Diaries) for a TV adaptation of the Top Cow comic book Witchblade from creator Marc Silvestri. According to the site, the show “centers on homicide detective Sara Pezzini, who’s on the hunt for an elusive serial killer and […]
AMC and BBC adapting John le Carre’s The Spy Who Came in From the Cold
Following their success with The Night Manager, AMC and the BBC are reuniting for another John le Carre adaptation, teaming once again with Ink Factory for a limited series based upon his 1963 novel The Spy Who Came in From the Cold, with Simon Beaufoy (Slumdog Millionaire) set to pen the script. The Spy Who […]
Stephen Rea, Richard Schiff and Sarah Bolger cast in Counterpart
Starz has cast three actors in their upcoming original series Counterpart: V for Vendetta‘s Stephen Rea, The West Wing‘s Richard Schiff and The Tudors‘ Sarah Bolger. They will appear in recurring roles in the series led by J.K. Simmons (Whiplash). Counterpart is the story of Howard Silk (Simmons), a lowly cog in a bureaucratic agency, who discovers that the agency […]
NBC renews This Is Us for two more seasons
NBC has really doubled down on the success of This Is Us by ordering not one but two new seasons, with a minimum order of 18 episodes per season. This Is Us premiered to very strong ratings last September and has stayed fairly consistent since. At least 72 million total viewers have watched the first 10 episodes, […]
AMC orders documentary series James Cameron’s Story of Science Fiction
AMC is teaming up with filmmaker James Cameron to explore the evolution of sci-fi in a six-part documentary series, tentatively titled James Cameron’s Story of Science Fiction, which THR reports will “delve into sci-fi’s origins as a small genre with a cult and developing to the blockbuster pop-culture phenomenon it is today.” “When I was […]
American Horror Story renewed for eighth and ninth seasons, first casting on season 7 announced
FX has announced that it has renewed American Horror Story for an eighth and ninth season, with the hit anthology show set to run through to 2019, making it the network’s longest-running dramatic series. “We know explicitly what next season is about, which is seven, but we don’t know what the eighth and ninth seasons are […]
IDW Entertainment developing The Devil event series for TV
IDW Entertainment has announced that it is developing a TV adaptation of Graham Johnson’s novel The Devil: Britain’s Most Feared Underworld Taxman, which is being eyed as a limited series with Dave Dilley (Warrior) writing and executive producing. Grey’s Anatomy star Ellen Pompeo also executive produces alongside Laura Holstein. The Devil is set in Liverpool […]
Sabrina the Teenage Witch may feature in live-action Archie show Riverdale
Later this month, The CW is set to launch Riverdale, a modern, live-action take on the Archie comic book universe which is set to bring the likes of Archie Andrews, Jughead Jones, Betty Cooper, Veronica Lodge and Josie McCoy to the small screen. Well, it seems another iconic Archie character may also show up in the […]