Deadline is reporting that Bradley Cooper and Todd Phillips are set to bring Joby Warrick’s Pulitzer Prize-winning nonfiction book Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS to the small screen, with The Hangover duo executive producing a limited series for HBO alongside writer Gregg Hurwitz (Orphan X) and director Tim Van Patten (Game of Thrones). Black […]
UPDATE: Katie McGrath to play Lena Luthor in Supergirl
Lex Luthor’s little sister is coming to National City, with TV Line reporting that Katie McGrath (Merlin, Jurassic World) has secured the role of Lena Luthor in Supergirl season two. The character description for the recurring characters reads: “Beautiful, powerful, and enigmatic, Lena arrives in National City on the heels of brother Lex’s incarceration hoping […]
ABC in talks with Lucasfilm about a Star Wars TV series
Despite all the rumours, speculation and “scoops” surrounding a potential Netflix show, it looks like Disney-owned ABC may be first to get their hands on Star Wars on the small screen, with ABC executive Channing Dungey revealing at the Television Critics Association’s semi-annual press tour that the network is in talks with Lucasfilm about a Star Wars TV […]
Preacher Adaptation: Not “better” or “worse” but “different”
Rachel Bellwoar on AMC’s Preacher adaptation… Similar to Martin Carr, who writes the show’s episode reviews, I started Preacher only slightly familiar with Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon’s graphic novels. The question of when to tackle the source material, however, had been tossing around in my head for a while. Usually, with shows like Game of Thrones, I’m a […]
Cat Grant’s Not Going Anywhere: Calista Flockhart confirmed for Supergirl season 2
It’s fair to say that Supergirl is in for a few changes, when it returns for season two on October 10th, with a new network (the former ABC series joins Greg Berlanti’s other DC shows on The CW), new setting (with the network change, the show has moved production from LA to Vancouver) and Superman […]
Jason O’Mara is S.H.I.E.L.D.’s new director in Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. season 4
The agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. have a new director for the fourth season of the Marvel series, with Marvel announcing that Jason O’Mara (Complications, The Good Wife) has signed on to portray “a character whose Marvel roots go back to the 1940s.” “Bringing Jason into the mix as the new director of S.H.I.E.L.D. forces everyone, particularly […]
Starz announces strip club drama Pussy Valley
During the Television Critics Association press tour, Starz CEO Chris Albrecht announced that the premium cable network is heading behind-the-scenes of the world of pole dancing for a strip club drama entitled Pussy Valley from playwright Katori Hall (The Mountaintop). “Pussy Valley is an intimate window to the unexplored southern strip club world, where the […]
TV Review – BoJack Horseman Season 3
Jake Peffer reviews the third season of BoJack Horseman… Season 3 finds BoJack on the awards circuit after his film, where he plays Secretariat, earns him Oscar buzz. Princess Carolyn gets comfortable at her new agency but finds it to be harder than she was expecting. Todd starts his own business involving for women drivers […]
Brandon Routh on the Justice Society of America’s introduction in DC’s Legends of Tomorrow
During the San Diego Comic-Con last weekend, it was announced that DC’s original superhero team – and forerunner to the Justice League – the Justice Society of America is set to feature in the second season of The CW’s DC’s Legends of Tomorrow, and star Brandon Routh has been speaking to Screen Rant about the […]
Scream: The TV Series Season 2 Episode 8 Review – ‘Village of the Damned’
Martin Carr reviews the eighth episode of Scream: The TV Series season 2… Some smoking remains and the decapitated right hand of a known philanderer form the basis of our latest trip to Lakewood. As further suspicions are raised, fingers pointed and bodies pile up, Scream fulfils another in a large number of tick lists […]
