Earlier this week Universal Cable Productions announced that it had reached a deal with Dark Horse to adapt the comic book series The Umbrella Academy, Harrow County, Concrete and Back-Up for the small screen, and now it has been announced that UCP has acquired three more properties in the British sci-fi The Machine, IDW Publishing’s […]
Twin Peaks limited series delayed to 2017
It looks like Twin Peaks fans will have to wait a little while longer to see the show’s return to the small screen. Although the upcoming Twin Peaks limited series was originally slated to premiere next year, it has instead been pushed back to 2017. Twin Peaks co-creator Mark Frost revealed the news in a June interview […]
The Week in Spandex – The Pre-Comic Con 2015 Edition
In this pre-Comic Con edition of The Week in Spandex, we look at Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, The Death of Superman Lives: What Happened?, Ant-Man, Avengers: Age of Ultron, Doctor Strange, Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Agent Carter, Guardians of the Galaxy, Spider-Man, Avengers vs. X-Men, Fantastic Four, Fantastic Four 2, Deadpool, […]
South Park renewed for three more seasons
Comedy Central’s animated comedy South Park has been renewed for three more seasons, which means the show will run until at least 2019. Since the show already had an existing agreement through season 20, this new deal will bring it to a total of 23 seasons and 304 episodes. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Matt Stone and […]
Dark Horse Comics teams with Universal for TV adaptations
Dark Horse Comics has struck a deal with Universal Cable Productions to bring a selection of its comic book titles to the small screen, with adaptations of The Umbrella Academy, Harrow County, Concrete and Back-Up are in the works. “Dark Horse Entertainment has an incredible roster of fantastical, witty and mind-bending stories,” states Dawn Olmstead, […]
DVD Review – 30 Degrees in February Season One
30 Degrees in February (30 grader i februari), 2012 Based on stories by Anders Weidemann. Starring Maria Lundquist, Hanna Ardehn, Kjell Bergqvist, Thomas Chaanhing, Rebecca Hemse and Torkel Petersson. SYNOPSIS: A disparate group of Swedes move to Thailand in search of a new life. Problems swept under the carpet have a tendency of biting back. When […]
Halt and Catch Fire Season 2 Episode 6 Review – ’10Broad36′
Amy Richau reviews the sixth episode of Halt and Catch Fire season 2… There you are Joe. I knew it was just a matter of time. Episode 6 of Halt and Catch Fire ’10Broad36′ is a crush of emotions and high stakes life choices. But what makes this episode so great is the small surprises […]
Harry Shearer to return to The Simpsons
Two months after announcing that he was leaving The Simpsons, Entertainment Weekly reports that actor Harry Shearer will officially be rejoining the cast of the long-running FOX comedy. Shearer, the voice of many of the show’s most popular characters, including Mr. Burns, Ned Flanders, Seymour Skinner, Smithers and Kent Brockman, originally left because he felt […]
Hayley Atwell on female superheroes: “I think the audiences want them”
With SDCC just around the corner Hayley Atwell – AKA Agent Peggy Carter – has been doing the rounds to help promote her upcoming Comic-Con appearance and also to hype the UK airing of Agent Carter Season 1 on FOX this Sunday. During an exclusive interview with Den Of Geek, Atwell spoke about the importance […]
Netflix and Amazon pass on Hannibal
Last month it was announced that NBC had pulled the plug on Hannibal after three seasons, with executive producer Bryan Fuller suggesting that another network could come in to save the critically acclaimed show. Well, it seems we can scratch the streaming services Netflix and Amazon off the list of possible saviours, with Fuller revealing […]