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R.I.P. Carl Reiner (1922 – 2020)

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Legendary comedian, writer, actor and director Carl Reiner has passed away aged 98, his assistant has revealed. After serving in World War II, Reiner began his career in television in the early 1950s, writing and acting for Sid Caesar’s Your Show of Shows and Caesar’s Hour. During this time, Reiner formed a long-running partnership with […]

Netflix and Ava DuVernay to tell Colin Kaepernick’s story as a new miniseries

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The story of Colin Kaepernick’s life will be the next subject for a Netflix series. For this project, the streamer has tapped When They See Us creator Ava DuVernay to adapt the story. The athlete-turned-activist will team with DuVernay for Colin in Black & White, a scripted series that has been picked up straight to […]

Snowpiercer Season 1 Episode 7 Review – ‘The Universe Is Indifferent’

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Martin Carr reviews the seventh episode of Snowpiercer… Some allegiances are ill-advised, some decisions hard to come back from and a few actions no one forgives. As we close in on the latter stages of season one Snowpiercer seems to be applying more pressure rather than less, as if something up ahead demands obliteration. For […]

Luke Evans joins Nicole Kidman and Melissa McCarthy in Nine Perfect Strangers

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Luke Evans (The Alienist, Beauty and the Beast) has signed on to star alongside Nicole Kidman (Big Little Lies), Melissa McCarthy (The Kitchen) and Manny Jacinto (The Good Place) in Hulu’s upcoming limited series Nine Perfect Strangers. Based on the bestselling novel by Liane Moriarty (Big Little Lies), Nine Perfect Strangers is set in “a […]

Promo images for Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Season 7 Episode 6 – ‘Adapt or Die’

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Following a promo for next week’s sixth episode of Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. season 7, ABC has released five images from ‘Adapt or Die’ which you can check out here… “Adapt or Die” – The stakes are higher than ever when, after blowing their cover and damaging the Zephyr in the process, the team must scramble […]

Cyberpunk 2077 anime series in development for Netflix

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Netflix is looking to expand its anime output with a new series based upon the hotly-anticipated video game Cyberpunk 2077 from developer CD PROJEKT RED (The Witcher), entitled Cyberpunk: Edgerunners. Produced by Netflix and CD PROJEKT RED with acclaimed Japanese anime company Studio Trigger handling animation, the 10-episode series will tell a standalone story set […]

The Phantom of the Opera TV series in development at Gaumont

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French production company Gaumont, the company behind Netflix’s Narcos, is in development on a six-part TV series adaptation of The Phantom of the Opera, which is currently been written by Anthony Horowitz (Alex Rider, Foyle’s War). The series will reimagine the classic 1910 novel from Gaston Leroux as opposed to the iconic Andrew Lloyd Webber […]