Coinciding with the news that Freeform has placed a straight-to-series order for Marvel’s New Warriors, we now have word from Disney Media Distribution general manager Mark Endemano that the network’s other Marvel project Cloak & Dagger also has a ten-episode order.“Cloak & Dagger is about character and emotion above all. It tells of a romance between […]
Marvel’s New Warriors gets straight-to-series order from Freeform
Back in August it was reported that Marvel and ABC Studios were developing a New Warriors half-hour comedy series with Squirrel Girl taking centre stage. Well, now it has been announced that Freeform has given the show a ten-episode straight-to-series order, becoming the network’s second Marvel property after the currently in production Cloak & Dagger. “Freeform’s […]
Prison Break Season 5 Episode 1 Review – ‘Ogygia’
Shaun Munro reviews the first episode of Prison Break season 5…Some eight years after the show’s original run wrapped up, Prison Break has been resurrected by Fox amid their current obsession with nostalgic retreads, reuniting most of the principal cast members with series creator and writer Paul Scheuring. For better and indeed for worse, the new limited event […]
Drake to appear in third series of UK crime drama Top Boy
Having picked up the rights to the series after it was dropped by Channel 4, it looks like Canadian rapper Drake is set to appear in the third series of the UK crime drama Top Boy, which is set to hit Netflix in 2018. “We met up to start talking about the show and we […]
DC’s Legends of Tomorrow Season 2 Finale Review – ‘Aruba’
Jessie Robertson reviews the season 2 finale of DC’s Legends of Tomorrow… Okay, the Legends all die (except Sara)……. …..the future selves, at least. The ones we’ve gotten to know over the past two seasons, all dead. Luckily, the Legends decided to break the time rules and go back to a time they’ve already been […]
Damon Lindelof on what to expect from The Leftovers’ final season
Damon Lindelof, the showrunner behind HBO drama The Leftovers, has spoken about what fans can expect from the final ever season of the show.When you hear that the man behind Lost is going to be bringing a new drama to HBO about large swaths of the Earth’s population suddenly disappearing, you’re expecting it to go […]
The Purge is becoming a TV series
Deadline is reporting that Blumhouse Productions, the company behind The Purge, is making a move into the television market with ITV Studios and one of their first projects is adapting the franchise into a TV series. Blumhouse will team with franchise creator and director James DeMonaco and Universal Cable Productions to bring The Purge to USA and SyFy. […]
13 Reasons Why: Are There Any Reasons to Watch?
Samuel Brace on whether there are any reasons to watch Netflix’s 13 Reasons Why… Yes. Yes, there are. There’s a few in fact. In the latest of Netflix’s original series, 13 Reasons Why tells the story, based on a novel, of a young girl who takes her life, but not before making tapes of the […]
Moonlight director Barry Jenkins developing Underground Railroad series for Amazon
Oscar-nominated Moonlight director Barry Jenkins is teaming up with Amazon Studios to write and direct an hourlong drama series based around the Underground Railroad, which will be based upon Colson Whitehead’s bestselling book The Underground Railroad. “Going back to The Intuitionist, Colson’s writing has always defied convention, and The Underground Railroad is no different,” Jenkins […]
Geek Girl Rising TV drama in development at ABC
Live! with Kelly’s Kelly Ripa and her husband Mark Consuelos have been tapped by ABC Studios to develop a scripted drama series based upon journalists Heather Cabot and Samantha Walravens’ upcoming book Geek Girl Rising: Inside the Sisterhood Shaking Up Tech.The book, which is being released by St. Martin’s Press this May, “introduces readers to […]
