Amazon has announced that it is set to explore the rivalry between American toy giants Hasbro and Barbie with Toy Wars, which will see Josh Gad (The Angry Birds Movie) starring and co-writing with Josh Schwartz (The O.C.) and Ryan Dixon (Opening Night). Schwartz is set to serve as showrunner, with Seth Gordon (Horrible Bosses) […]
FX’s Atlanta and Better Things renewed for season 2
Despite only being a few episodes into their first seasons, FX has already decided to give second-season renewals to Donald Glover’s Atlanta and Pamela Adlon’s Better Things. Keeping in line with the trend established by nearly all of FX and FXX’s comedies, the upcoming seasons will consist of ten episodes each. Ever since its debut, Atlanta […]
DVD Review – The Out-Laws
Henry Bevan reviews the hit Belgian TV series The Out-Laws… SYNOPSIS: “All ten episodes from the Belgian comedy drama which follows five sisters brought together by the death of their parents. After vowing to stick together, the bond between the Goethals sisters is tested following the marriage of Goedele (Inge Paulussen) to troublemaker Jean-Claude (Dirk […]
Syfy orders TV pilot for Grant Morrison’s Happy!, along with Haunted and The Machine
Syfy is looking to bring Grant Morrison and Darick Robertson’s Image Comics series Happy! to the small screen, with the network ordering a pilot from Universal Cable Productions. Crank helmer Brian Taylor is set to direct the pilot, and will also write the script and executive produce alongside Morrison. Happy! follows “Nick Sax – an […]
Cartoon Network’s Regular Show to end with season 8
Cartoon Network has announced that the Emmy Award-winning animated series Regular Show is set to end after its upcoming eighth season, which is due to get underway this month. “Making Regular Show has been so much fun, said creator JG Quintel. “We got to tell all of the stories we wanted to tell, and making the […]
David Meunier joins Arrow season 5 as Ishmael Gregor
Following on from yesterday’s first look images [see here], we now have a new piece of casting news for the fifth season of Arrow, with Deadline reporting that David Meunier (Justified, Damien) has joined the show in a recurring role. Meunier is set to play “Ishmael Gregor, the slick and intimidating Pakhan (“Godfather”) of the […]
Ray Donovan Season 4 Episode 8 Review – ‘The Texan’
Mark Clark reviews the eighth episode of Ray Donovan season 4… For a show based on the generally painful fallout of secrets and lies, season 4’s eighth episode gives us a glimpse of truth and confession. It’s not always pretty and thankfully there’s still room for some show standards of violence and humour, but it’s […]
Luke Pasqualino and Lucien Laviscount cast in the Snatch TV series
Fresh from the casting of Rupert Grint, Dougray Scott and Ed Westwick, Deadline is reporting that Luke Pasqualino (The Musketeers) has secured the lead role in Crackle’s upcoming Snatch TV series, while Lucien Laviscount (Scream Queens) has also joined the small screen adaptation of Guy Ritchie’s 2000 film. Pasqualino is set to play Albert Hill, […]
Fox places pilot order for Greg Berlanti’s new DC TV project Black Lightning
It seems Fox is looking to add another DC show to its slate, with The Hollywood Reporter revealing that the network has given a production commitment to the Black Lightning pilot from Greg Berlanti and Mara Brock Akil and her husband Salim Akil (The Game), which was revealed as in development last week. The series […]
Heathers TV pilot gets the greenlight from TV Land
TV Land has ordered a pilot for a TV adaptation of the cult 1988 dark comedy Heathers, which will be directed by Leslye Headland (Sleeping With Other People) from a script by Jason Micallef (Butter). Deadline reports that the project will reimagine the movie as an anthology, and “will be set in the present day, […]
