It’s a good day to be a Sharon Horgan fan, as Channel 4 has announced two new comedy series from the Irish writer/comedian/actress/producer. The boffins behind this terrestrial channel have given £10 million of new budget to the comedy genre, and it seems like they’re spending it wisely. One of Horgan’s new shows is going … >
Quick update here: BBC Worldwide has confirmed that there’s been a small delay in the release of the Doctor Who season 12 Blu-ray collection. It’s been put back – for undisclosed reasons – to June 18th 2018. Other than that, as you were… Previously… Earlier this year, we reported that in the US, Tom Baker’s first … >
Siren season 2 is officially happening, with American cable network Freeform announcing the show’s renewal. The series has made a huge splash with regards to ratings, becoming the Freeform network’s most-watched series and having particular success with female viewers in the 18-34 and 12-34 demographics. Diving into the darker side of the mermaid legend, Siren sees Eline … >
Rami Malek, he of Mr. Robot fame, plays Queen frontman Freddie Mercury in the upcoming biopic entitled Bohemian Rhapsody. The first trailer for the film, which was at one point going to star Sacha Baron Cohen instead, has now arrived on the web. It’s an appropriately flamboyant trailer, which cuts quickly between iconic blasts of music, funny little … >
Netflix continues to be one of the biggest spenders – if not the biggest spender – when it comes to new TV shows at the moment. And the latest from its chief content officer, Ted Sarandos, suggests that there’s a lot more money to come. It reckons it’ll be spending some $8bn on material this … >
Russell T Davies has been doing promotional work for his new drama, A Very English Scandal, that debuts on the BBC over the weekend. Hugh Grant and Ben Whishaw headline the new production. Davies, then, appeared on The One Show last night as part of the press tour, and the subject of the next series … >
Following Fox’s cancellation of Luther after three seasons, the show’s bosses have revealed what would have happened in season 4. If it had been given a chance to exist, Lucifer season 4 sounds like it would have been a treat for fans of the show. The final episode of season 3 concluded in a rather open-ended way, … >
Rumours of her imminent demise may not have been exaggerated at all, as Lauren Cohan’s new series (yay!) could mean its curtains for Maggie (boo!) on The Walking Dead.
In an unsurprising piece of news, ABC has opted to cancel Marvel’s Inhumans rather than commissioning a second season of the expensive, underwhelming and not-very-popular series. Inhumans was an optimistic project in the first place. It was shot on IMAX cameras, launched with special cinematic screenings, and its story tackled a group of colourful superhuman individuals living in … >
Marvel’s Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. has been renewed for its sixth season, although ABC is shortening the run down to 13 episodes only. Every previous season of the show has had 22 episodes, which causes us to wonder whether Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D. season 6 is intended as some sort of send-off for the series. Formally, ABC hasn’t said that Agents Of … >