Martin Carr reviews the seventeenth episode of Gotham season 4… Plot threads are two a penny in Gotham right now, as long running character interests jockey for position alongside fledgling sub-plots. Audience attentions are split, narrative focus seems scattershot while news of series cancellation is rife. Story development is veering into the realms of doppelgangers, […]
Gender-swapped High Fidelity TV series in development for Disney’s streaming service
According to Deadline, Disney is developing a TV series adaptation of Nick Hornby’s 1995 novel High Fidelity, which was previously brought to the big screen in 2000 with John Cusack starring. The site reports that the new take comes from writers Veronica West and Sarah Kucserka (Bull, Ugly Betty) and is described as “a departure […]
Stephen Amell believes Black Lightning will cross over with the Arrowverse
Earlier this week The CW announced that it had renewed all five of its DC superhero series in Arrow, The Flash, DC’s Legends of Tomorrow, Supergirl and Black Lightning. Although Supergirl takes place on a different Earth to Arrow, The Flash and Legends, we have seen numerous crossovers between the show and the rest of […]
DC’s Legends of Tomorrow to lose another team member in the season 3 finale
Having bid farewell to Victor Garber and Franz Drameh’s Firestorm this season, it seems we’ll be losing another member of the team in the upcoming season finale of DC’s Legends of Tomorrow. Speaking to TV Line ahead of Monday’s premiere, executive producer Phil Klemmer has revealed that: “There’s heartbreak in the finale. A Legend leaves.” […]
Hidden Figures TV series in development
Nat Geo is in development on a TV series inspired by 2016’s Hidden Figures, which told the story of the African-American women at NASA who were instrumental in the early days of the U.S. space program. The series is in the earliest stages of development, and has Peter Chernin and Jenno Topping of Chernin Entertainment […]
Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Season 5 Episode 16 Review – ‘Inside Voices’
Danny Hale reviews the sixteenth episode of Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. season 5… ‘Inside Voices’ tied into some of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D’s earliest roots with the return of Dr. Francis Hall, Ian Quinn and best of all, the girl in the flower dress, Raina. The likelihood of a S.H.I.E.L.D. / HYDRA team up now seems […]
Modern TV retelling of Les Miserables is being pitched at Cannes
Variety is reporting that Paris-based Elephant is pitching a modernized TV series retelling of Victor Hugo’s classic novel Les Miserables at the Cannes Film Festival, where it is hoping to secure co-producers and potential broadcasters. The series, which has a bible completed with an episode-by-episode story arc, has been created and written by Marc Herpoux, […]
Luke Cage showrunner says a Heroes for Hire spinoff “is really not off the table”
After bringing the two characters together for The Defenders, there’s been some speculation about whether we might see Mike Colter’s Luke Cage and Finn Jones’ Iron Fist teaming up for a Heroes for Hire series as part of Netflix’s Marvel universe. So far, Marvel and the streaming service avoiding doing so, preferring instead to produce […]
Benedict Cumberbatch’s SunnyMarch to produce The Way of All Flesh
According to Deadline, Benedict Cumberbatch’s SunnyMarch production company has secured the TV rights to The Way of All Flesh, an upcoming historical novel taking place in the medical world of Edinburgh, Scotland during the nineteenth century. Written by Ambrose Parry, a pseudonym for author Chris Brookmyre and consultant anaesthetist Marisa Haetzman, The Way of All […]
Amazon cancels Mozart in the Jungle after four seasons
Amazon has announced that it has cancelled its Golden Globe and Emmy Award-winning comedy drama series Mozart in the Jungle after four seasons. “We are so proud of the four seasons we made of this show and are grateful to the cast, crew, fans and Amazon for writing this symphony with us,” said executive producers […]
