As part of its expansion into original TV programming, YouTube is teaming up with Lionsgate to bring the Step Up franchise to the small screen with Step Up: High Water, and Variety is reporting that singer-songwriter and actor Ne-Yo is set to lead the cast alongside Naya Rivera (Glee) and Faizon Love (Couples Retreat). The […]
Supergirl actor David Harewood criticises the show’s portrayal of Cyborg Superman
It seems that Supergirl star David Harewood wasn’t a fan of the show’s portrayal of Cyborg Superman in its second season, with the Martian Manhunter actor revealing at Supernova Comic Convention in Australia that he wasn’t thrilled about his second role in the DC Comics series. “I don’t like playing Cyborg Superman,” said Harewood (via CBM). “It’s […]
Warner Bros. developing a live-action Jetsons TV series
According to TV Line, Warner Bros. is in development on a live-action version of the classic Hanna-Barbera cartoon series The Jetsons. The site reports that Family Guy executive producer Gary Janetti has been brought in to shepherd the project, described as a multi-camera comedy, and will also serve as an executive producer alongside Robert Zemeckis […]
Lizzy Caplan, Rick Okon, August Wittgenstein and more join Das Boot TV series
Variety is reporting that Lizzy Caplan (Masters of Sex), Rick Okon (Tatort) and August Wittgenstein (The Crown) are set to lead the cast of Sky’s €25 million drama series Das Boot, based upon the classic war film from director Wolfgang Petersen. The series “will pick up the World War II story in the fall of 1942 and […]
Ryan Kwanten and Cory Hardrict join Sean Bean in The Oath
Last month it was announced that Sean Bean is set to headline The Oath, a new drama series from Crackle and creator Joe Halpin (Hawaii Five-O), and now Deadline is reporting that Bean will be joined in the cast by Ryan Kwanten (True Blood) and Cory Hardrict (American Sniper). The ten-episode series is being produced […]
Ralph Macchio returning for Psych: The Movie
Entertainment Weekly has revealed that Ralph Macchio will be reprising the role of police academy officer Nick Conforth in the upcoming TV special Psych: The Movie. “He’s actually a big catalyst to get our investigation going. He holds one of the key pieces of information,” creator Steve Franks told the outlet. “He actually functioned perfectly within the framework […]
James Van Der Beek and Lauren Graham join Disney Junior’s Vampirina
Disney Junior has announced that James Van Der Beek (Dawson’s Creek), Lauren Graham (Gilmore Girls) and Isabella Crovetti (Colony) will lend their voices to a vampire family in the upcoming animated series Vampirina. Van Der Beek and Graham will voice the roles of Vampirina’s parents Boris and Oxana Hauntley, while Crovetti is Vampirina (a.k.a. Vee), a […]
William Gibson’s sci-fi Hinterlands heading to the screen
Hand drawn animation company Last Studio Standing has announced that it has picked up the rights to William Gibson’s sci-fi masterpiece Hinterlands and is developing a theatrical film and subsequent 100 episode TV series based upon the property. In Hinterlands, a Russian space mission vanishes in mid-flight to Mars and reappears two years later. When a rescue […]
Freida Pinto has joined The Path for season 3
Freida Pinto has joined the cast of The Path for the show’s third season. The Hulu drama revolves around a mysterious cult headed by Hugh Dancy’s Cal Roberts, and how Eddie, the father of a family wrapped up in its movement, begins to struggle with his faith in what the cult calls Meyerism. Pinto will […]
Netflix orders 90s coming-of-age dramedy Everything Sucks!
Deadline is reporting that Netflix has placed a ten-episode series order for Everything Sucks!, a half-hour coming-of-age dramedy set in the 1990s. The show hails from writers Ben York Jones (Like Crazy) and Michael Mohan (Save the Date) and is described as a quirky, funny coming-of-age story that follows two groups of high school misfits, an […]
