Deadline is reporting that Amazon has snapped up the U.S. rights to Tin Star, a revenge thriller series written and created by Rowan Joffe (Brighton Rock, Before I Go To Sleep), which stars Tim Roth (The Hateful Eight) and Christina Hendricks (Mad Men). The series from Sky Atlantic is described as “a tale of the […]
A Centaur’s Life Episode 1 Review
Jordan Wharton reviews the first episode of A Centaur’s Life… Centaur no Nayami (also known as A Centaur’s Life and Centaur’s Worries) is a brand new anime featuring the character Himeno, a Centaur. This slice of life anime focuses on Himeno, and her two best friends Nozomi and Kyouko, as they live their every day […]
Game of Thrones’ Nikolaj Coster-Waldau will guest star on The Simpsons
Game of Thrones star Nikolaj Coster-Waldau is set to make his way over to The Simpsons for a guest appearance. Many a famous face has visited the town of Springfield over the years, from actors like Mark Hamill to comedian Ricky Gervais. Now one of the stars of TV’s biggest series is to get his […]
Mitch Pileggi will return for The X-Files season 11
One veteran of The X-Files is set to make his return for the series’ upcoming eleventh season. Mitch Pileggi, who starred as FBI Assistant Director Walter Skinner, will reprise his role for the 10-episode event series, joining lead stars David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson in Mulder and Scully’s search for the truth. Pileggi is one of only […]
Game of Thrones’ David Benioff and D.B. Weiss to develop Confederate for HBO
David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, the showrunners behind Game of Thrones, have another series in development at HBO. Titled Confederate, the new show will explore an alternate history of America that depicts the Confederacy successfully seceded from the Union in the American Civil War. Written by Benioff and Weiss, who also will showrun, Confederate chronicles events leading to the […]
David Cronenberg’s Consumed heading to the small screen
Deadline is reporting that AMC is developing a small screen adaptation of David Cronenberg’s psychological thriller novel Consumed with Dave Erickson (Fear the Walking Dead) and Sheri Elwood (Lucifer). Published in 2014, Consumed follows two journalists who set out to solve the cannibalistic murder of a controversial Parisian philosopher. Both Erickson and Elwood are set to […]
Doctor Who Christmas Special titled Twice Upon a Time, Bill Potts and The Captain returning
There is still twenty-two weeks left to Christmas yet the fever surrounding 2017’s Doctor Who Christmas Special is already running at high, with it being Peter Capaldi’s final episode, David Bradley taking the reigns of the First Doctor, Jodie Whittaker taking the key to the TARDIS (as the first female Doctor) and now just revealed […]
Julia Roberts to produce and star in TV adaptation of Today Will Be Different
Annapurna Pictures has tapped Julia Roberts to produce and star in a limited series TV adaptation of Maria Semple’s bestselling novel Today Will Be Different, with Semple also on board to pen the script. The New York Times bestseller follows “Eleanor Flood, admittedly a bit of a mess, as she decides that today is the […]
Mina Sundwall cast as Penny Robinson in Netflix’s Lost in Space
Deadline is reporting that Mina Sundwall (Maggie’s Plan, Freeheld) has signed on to portray Penny Robinson in Netflix’s upcoming remake of the cult sci-fi series Lost in Space. The role was originally portrayed by Angela Cartwright in the original show. Sundwall joins a cast that includes Toby Stephens (Black Sails) as John Robinson, Molly Parker […]
Nashville Season 5 Episode 1 Review – ‘The Wayfaring Stranger’
Rachel Bellwoar reviews the first episode of Nashville season 5… Thursday night CMT treated viewers to an early look at the first half of Nashville’s two hour fifth season premiere. ‘The Wayfaring Stranger’ marks the first episode of Nashville on its new network, CMT, and the first under new showrunners, Ed Zwick and Marshall Herskovitz (Thirtysomething). Resurrected after ABC cancelled […]
