In this special pre-SDCC edition of The Week in Spandex, we look at Suicide Squad, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Batman, Supergirl, Constantine, Gotham, Powerless, The LEGO Batman Movie, Thor: Ragnarok, Captain America: Civil War, Luke Cage and more… With the San Diego Comic-Con International kicking off across the Pond today, we’re expecting the […]
Cartoon Network renews The Powerpuff Girls for second season
The Powerpuff Girls returns to Cartoon Network earlier this year, with the premiere episode of the revived series pulling in a whopping 81 million viewers worldwide across all platforms, and so it’s little surprise that the network has announced that the revival has bagged itself a second season. “The Powerpuff Girls is on a momentous […]
R.I.P. Garry Marshall (1934 – 2016)
Garry Marshall, the creator of the classic U.S. sitcom Happy Days and director of Pretty Woman, has passed away aged 81, his publicist has announced. The legendary writer, producer and director died of pneumonia at a hospital in Burbank, California, after suffering a stroke. Marshall began his career as a TV writer in the late 1950s, and […]
Preacher Season 1 Episode 7 Review – ‘He Gone’
Martin Carr reviews the seventh episode of Preacher… Something is rotten in the state of Denmark. A more dysfunctional version of happy families you are never likely to see. Everyone one here is trying to pretend that everything is fine, nobody has crossed the line and this is just another average day in bible belt […]
Pokemon Go fever grips Springfield in The Simpsons short
Pokemon fever is gripping the globe thanks to the latest iteration, Pokemon Go, and it’s even reached as far as Springfield! Yes, Homer Simpson has fallen victim to the game, neglecting his parental duties during a family trip to the zoo as he tries to catch them all in a new Simpsons short released by […]
Netflix announces new episodes of Making a Murderer
Some great news for fans of Netflix’s acclaimed documentary series Making a Murderer, as the streaming service has announced that directors and executive producers Laura Ricciardi and Moira Demos are in production on new episodes of the Emmy Award-nominated show. The new instalments will take fans back inside the story of convicted murderer Steven Avery, […]
Wayward Pines Season 2 Episode 8 Review – ‘Pass Judgement’
Martin Carr reviews the eighth episode of Wayward Pines season 2… This is a continuation of last week’s powder keg episode where Abbies had congregated outside the fence by the thousand. Inside remained a hot bed of in-fighting, finger pointing and slanderous exchanges. What episode eight gives us is more of the same except this […]
Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future getting the reboot treatment with Phoenix Rising
Deadline is reporting that the 80s sci-fi series Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future is getting a reboot entitled Phoenix Rising, which is being developed by original co-creator Gary Goddard and former Syfy executives Thomas Vitale and Craig Engler. The original series blended live-action and early CGI and took place on Earth in […]
Scream Season 2 Episode 7 Review – ‘Let The Right One In’
Martin Carr reviews the seventh episode of Scream: The TV Series season 2… Unlike other shows Scream is a good old fashioned pastiche to its very marrow. There are no genre boundaries being traversed, no wild revelations or people trying too hard in the drama department. This is just predictable slaughter on a weekly basis […]
Arnold Schwarzenegger producing Pump, a TV drama about his Venice Beach bodybuilding days
Deadline is reporting that Arnold Schwarzenegger is set to produce a new eight-episode drama series entitled Pump, which will explore the action icon’s early days bodybuilding at Venice Beach during the 1970s. Created by Michael Konyves (Barney’s Version), the series “is set in 1973, as a small group of bodybuilders birthed the physical fitness industry and […]
