After the recent UK release of The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies and the upcoming U.S. release scheduled for next Friday, SNL have put together a sketch which sees cult classic The Office meeting the much loved fantasy world of Middle-earth. The sketch aired as Martin Freeman (The Hobbit, Fargo, The Office and Sherlock) hosted […]
House of Cards Season 3 lands February premiere date
Mark your calendars, folks, because it’s time to start requesting time off work to binge-watch the hotly-anticipated third season of House of Cards! Netflix took to Twitter this morning to announce the exciting news themselves, giving the Kevin Spacey political drama a February 27, 2015 premiere date and an intriguing new motion poster: A special message […]
HBO pulls the plug on rock & roll drama series Vinyl
HBO has announced it is pulling the plug on its epic music drama Vinyl. The Martin Scorsese and Mick Jagger-executive-produced series, which recently saw the exit of showrunner Terence Winter back in April, had previously been renewed for Season 2 but, according to THR, those plans have now been scrapped. Vinyl followed New York record […]
Online Theorising: a blessing, not a curse
Tony Black on why online theorising is a blessing rather than a curse… So have you watched Westworld yet? Don’t worry, I’m not going to spoil the season finale for you if you haven’t. Though to be honest it’s possible you may have already guessed one or two of the major reveals and twists within, […]
Game of Thrones – Season 6 Episode 8 Review – No One
No One Written by David Benioff & D.B. Weiss Directed by Mark Mylod Arya With a title like ‘No One’, you’d be forgiven this week’s Game of Thrones might throw quite the focus on Arya Stark (Maisie Williams), a girl who just can’t live up to the episode title, try as she might. I almost […]
Jaden Smith playing Static Shock, according to Tyler James Williams
Back in October, we reported that After Earth star Jaden Smith was rumored for the title role of DC’s upcoming Static Shock live-action digital series. Now, that report seems to have been confirmed, thanks to The Walking Dead and Dear White People‘s Tyler James Williams. Williams was recently interviewed at MCM Comic Con (via Flicks and the City), and was asked about […]
T.R. Knight joins Stephen King adaptation 11/22/63
According to Deadline, T.R. Knight (Grey’s Anatomy, The Good Wife) has signed on to appear alongside James Franco and Sarah Gadon in Hulu’s upcoming adaptation of the Stephen King novel 11/22/63. The series will tell the story of Jake Epping (Franco), “an unassuming divorced English teacher who stumbles upon a time portal that leads to […]
James Franco to star in Stephen King adaptation 11/22/63
James Franco has signed on to star in the lead role of Jake Epping in Hulu and Warner Bros. Television’s upcoming original series 11/22/63, which is based upon the Stephen King novel of the same name. Described as “part thriller, part love story”, 11/22/63 sees high-school English teacher Epping travelling back in time to prevent […]
Manu Bennett says Arrow producers took Deathstroke “in the wrong direction”
It seems that Manu Bennett isn’t too happy with the way that the producers of Arrow handled his character Slade Wilson / Deathstroke, with the actor offering up some criticism during an interviw with The Music – particularly with regards to his appearance in the third season. “I think Deathstroke had a lot of possibilities […]
Stephen Fry and more join the voice cast of Danger Mouse
Back in September it was revealed that Alexander Armstrong (Pointless) and Kevin Eldon (It’s Kevin) will lend their voices to Danger Mouse and his sidekick Penfold in the upcoming reboot of the beloved British cartoon, and now several more names have been announced as joining the voice cast. Set to voice the role of Colonel […]
