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It prequel series Welcome to Derry finds its showrunners

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We’re one step closer to returning to Derry as Variety reports HBO Max has hired Jason Fuchs and Brad Caleb Kane as the showrunners for Welcome to Derry, a prequel TV series to Andy Muschietti’s It duology. Little is known of the series with the exception that is is a prequel to Muschietti’s two-part adaptation of Stephen King’s […]

True Detective: Night Country with Jodie Foster begins production

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The fourth season of HBO’s anthology series True Detective has begun production. Starring Jodie Foster (The Mauritanian) and Kali Reis (Catch The Fair One), True Detective: Night Country has begun filming in Iceland. The fourth season will follow Foster and Reis as a pair of detectives investigating the disappearance of six men in an Alaskan workstation. The official synopsis […]

Dune: The Sisterhood adds Vikings star Travis Fimmel

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HBO Max has made a new addition to its Dune TV spin-off The Sisterhood. Travis Fimmel (Vikings) is set to star alongside Emily Watson (Chernobyl), Shirley Henderson (See How They Run) and Indira Varma (Star Wars: Obi-Wan Kenobi) in the series. Based on Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson’s Sisterhood of Dune, the series takes place 10,000 years prior to […]

His Dark Materials final season character posters released

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HBO has shared a batch of character posters for the third and final season of the acclaimed fantasy drama series His Dark Materials, featuring Lyra (Dafne Keen), Will (Amir Wilson), Mary (Simone Kirby), Lord Asriel (James McAvoy), Mrs Coulter (Ruth Wilson), Serafina Pekkala (Ruta Gedmintas), and Commander Ogunwe (Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje); take a look here… SEE […]

Torchwood: The Empire Man to deliver a Victorian ghost story this Christmas

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Big Finish Productions has announced that a new full-cast audio adventure in the Torchwood Monthly Range is now available to pre-order from their website.  This new Torchwood audio adventure is due for release this December and is a spooky seasonal story featuring Queen Victoria. This Christmas season enjoy a ghostly Victorian story with Torchwood: The […]

Star Wars: Andor Episode 10 Review – ‘One Way Out’

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Chris Connor reviews the tenth episode of Star Wars: Andor… Andor has built a huge degree of tension and stakes through its episodic storytelling, allowing the various threads to intertwine and feel a key part of the series. Here in the tenth episode ‘One Way Out’, the thread of the past two episodes of the […]

Peter Jackson’s The Beatles: Get Back – Dispelling myths, musical genius at play, and reaffirming his own continuing indulgence

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Tom Jolliffe looks at Peter Jackson’s lengthy but fascinating documentary, The Beatles: Get Back… You might call it B roll or off cuts of Michael Lindsay-Hogg’s iconic documentary film Let it Be, which chronicled The fab fours work on a free form concept album and accompanying performance. Said album was so off the cuff, that […]

New Doctor Who: The Seventh Doctor Adventures audio drama released by Big Finish

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Big Finish Productions has released a brand new audio drama for the Seventh Doctor and sees Sylvester McCoy’s lovable Doctor team up with his fourth incarnation’s companions.  Doctor Who – The Seventh Doctor Adventures: Sullivan and Cross – AWOL has the Doctor and his companions face off against murderous elves and even more deadly Daleks.  […]

FX’s sci-fi drama Kindred gets a first trailer

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FX has released the first trailer for the upcoming small screen adaptation of Octavia E. Butler’s acclaimed 1979 novel Kindred. The sci-fi drama series follows Dana (Mallori Johnson), a young black aspiring writer who finds herself confronting the secrets of her family’s past when she is mysteriously pulled back and forth through time from present […]