The 2016 PGA Awards took place last night, with Adam McKay’s satirical comedy-drama The Big Short receiving the top honour, the The Darryl F. Zanuck Award for Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures, in what is being seen as a major surprise – and a major boost for the film’s Oscar hopes. Other winners on the night includes […]
Fox picks up Dwayne Johnson cop series Boost Unit
Fox has picked up the hourlong scripted cop drama Boost Unit from Dwayne Johnson and Dany Garcia’s Seven Bucks Productions and Imperative Entertainment. The series is described as “a high-octane action-packed drama that follows the newest recruit of the LAPD’s Auto Theft Task Force, a notorious getaway driver with a hidden past.” “I’ve had a […]
Tales from the Crypt reboot in the works from M. Night Shyamalan and TNT
M. Night Shyamalan is set to reboot the classic anthology series Tales from the Crypt as the centrepiece offering in a new weekly two-hour horror and suspense block for TNT, which Shyamalan is programming. Deadline reports that the new series will be based on a combination of William Gaines’ original EC Comics, along with new […]
NBC cancels Heroes Reborn
For the second time, NBC has swung the axe on Heroes, with NBC Entertainment chairman Bob Greenblatt revealing at the Television Critics Association winter press tour that Heroes Reborn will not return for a second season. “That was always the plan, unless [creator Tim Kring] woke up one day and said, ‘Oh, I have another […]
Nominations for the 2016 PGA Awards announced
The Producer’s Guild of America has announced that The Big Short, Bridge Of Spies, Brooklyn, Ex Machina, Mad Max: Fury Road, The Martian, The Revenant, Sicario, Spotlight and Straight Outta Compton will contest the 2015 Darryl F. Zanuck Award for Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures at the 2016 PGA Awards. Traditionally, the majority of PGA […]
Fargo’s Rachel Keller cast as female lead in X-Men series Legion
Fargo star Rachel Keller has signed on to appear in Legion, the upcoming X-Men series from FX and Marvel, Deadline is reporting. Keller will play the female lead, “a scrappy, optimistic woman in her 20s.” Legion – which is one of two X-Men series in development, the other being Hellfire – has been written by Noah […]
George R.R. Martin won’t complete The Winds of Winter before Game of Thrones season 6, TV show may spoil the book
If you were hoping to get your hands on The Winds of Winter before the return of Game of Thrones for its sixth season this Spring, then you were being optimistic, as author George R.R. Martin has revealed that he’s still “months” away from completing his next chapter of A Song of Ice and Fire, […]
Sherlock: The Abominable Bride Review
Tom Beasley reviews the bizarre, inventive return of Sherlock to television screens, with The Abominable Bride. There are, of course, SPOILERS AHEAD… Well, Sherlock is definitely back. Whatever your thoughts on ‘The Abominable Bride’, it would certainly be wrong to accuse co-creators Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss of phoning it in. The episode, which passed […]
And the winners of the 73rd Golden Globes are…
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association never ceases to surprise and go against the grain. Only a select few categories in film lined up with the predictions of professional analysts, while all of television was completely out of left field. That’s not to say anything here isn’t well deserved. Except for The Martian anyway, which was […]
The Big Bang Theory producers on whether season 10 will be the last
The Big Bang Theory is midway through its ninth season, with the cast all locked down to reprise their roles for another season in 2016. During an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, showrunner Steve Molaro has been discussing the tenth season, and whether it’s being planned as the end of the line for Leonard (Johnny Galecki), Sheldon […]
