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Ian McArdell

Harry Potter Television series

That HBO Harry Potter television series is really happening

Max officially announces their Harry Potter redux.  While news only leaked last week, Max (the rebranded HBO/Discovery+ streaming service) have announced their Harry Potter television series. It plans to retell the whole Hogwarts saga with the press release referencing a “decade-long” adaptation of J.K. Rowling’s seven book series. We’re told the “… series will feature … >

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Stranger Things

Netflix announce an animated Stranger Things spinoff

Get ready for an Upside Down cartoon show.  The streaming service Netflix has announced an animated spinoff for its monster hit Stranger Things. While the show itself is set to end after its fifth season, this animation has received a straight-to-series order. The as yet untitled series is coming from the Sydney based animation house … >

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Space Precinct

Gerry Anderson’s Space Precinct comes to BritBox in HD

The show has been through an AI-upscaling process.  Gerry Anderson’s Space Precinct is being granted a new lease of life on streaming, thanks to BritBox and ITVX. The show, which first aired in 1994, has previously only ever been shown in standard definition. However, all 24 episodes have enjoyed an AI-upscale from the original master … >

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Star Wars: Visions 2 – trailer and cast announced

The animated anthology series returns with a difference – Star Wars Visions 2 has an international flavour.  A number of exciting pieces of Star Wars news dropped at last weekend’s Star Wars Celebration Europe 2023 in London. However, the show arriving imminently is the second run of Star Wars: Visions. The animated anthology series, which … >

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Rosario Dawson as Ahsoka Tano in The Mandalorian

Star Wars: Ahsoka – teaser trailer and Thrawn actor confirmed

The Star Wars Celebration Europe 2023 convention reveals a first look at the forthcoming live action show following Ahsoka Tano.  Over the weekend, it was announced that the highly anticipated Star Wars: Ahsoka series is landing on Disney+ this August. It follows the adventures of Anakin Skywalker’s former padawan learner Ahsoka Tano (Rosario Dawson). First … >

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Barbie – new teaser and character posters

Get to know a whole host of plastic pals, including Barbie Emma Mackey and Ken Ncuti Gatwa.   With the Barbie movie landing internationally on July 19th, the Greta Gerwig directed comedy has dropped a new teaser. While the film is headlined by Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling, it boasts a host of familiar faces in … >

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Harry Potter – Warner Bros. Discovery eyeing a television series

Is there an audience for a television series reboot of the whole Harry Potter saga on HBO?  Although it might not seem it, the first Harry Potter movie landed on the big screen back in 2001. All seven books were adapted across eight movies, making instant stars of their young cast alongside the cream of … >

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The Fourth Doctor Adventures – Tom Baker meets Ronald Pickup

Thanks to the vagaries of time travel (and early recording), the late actor appears in the Fourth Doctor’s next box set of audio adventures. Big Finish have dropped details of 2023’s second box set of The Fourth Doctor Adventures: Angels and Demons. In it, Tom Baker’s Doctor, with Leela (Louise Jameson) and new companion Margaret … >

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