Mr. Robot‘s Sam Esmail is adapting the seminal Fritz Lang science fiction movie. After a lengthy gestation period, Deadline are reporting that the 1927 Fritz Lang silent movie Metropolis is to become an Apple TV+ television series. The deep-pocketed streamer has commissioned the project as part of Sam Esmail’s overall deal at Universal Content … >
According to Doctor Who Magazine subscribers who received their issues a day early in the post – and as we previously announced, the next Doctor Who special, Legend of the Sea Devils, is co-written by showrunner Chris Chibnall and playwright Ella Road. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Ella Road … >
The show stars Oscar Kennedy, Thaddea Graham and Jack Rowan on a killer cruise. The BBC have dropped details and some first images from Wrecked, their upcoming comedy/horror series set aboard a cruise liner. The show is a tense thriller which mixes comedy with “a slice of slasher” and comes from writer Ryan J. Brown. … >
The original cast member has closed a deal to voice Futurama’s popular cigar-chomping robot. Last month, the US streamer confirmed their plans to once again revive Matt Groening’s enduring sci-fi comedy animation Futurama. The show follows a slacker named Fry who is accidentally cryogenically frozen and wakes in the 31st Century. However, there was one … >
The Triffids are coming in a new stage production (and audio drama) as Platform 4’s show tours the UK. Humanity beware, there’s a new outbreak of monstrous vegetation throughout the country! A new production which adapts John Wyndham’s classic novel The Day of the Triffids into an immersive stage show has arrived. Triffids! features a … >
The new Captain America will play a motor-mouthed outsider on the small screen. US streamer Peacock have given the go ahead to Twisted Metal, a 30-minute action-comedy series based on the classic PlayStation game of the same name. The show stars Anthony Mackie (The Falcon and the Winter Soldier) and comes from Cobra Kai’s Michael … >
With his writing partner Mervyn Haisman, Henry Lincoln introduced the Brigadier and the Yeti to Doctor Who. Over the weekend, the sad news reached us that Henry Lincoln has died, aged 91. In the 1960s, he helped create one of Doctor Who‘s enduring allies: Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart. However, the following decade took his career in a … >
It was a clear winner in last week’s Nielsens — this week Ozark season 4 breaks the four billion minutes barrier Last week, Ozark was the to of the Nielsens with just under three billion minutes viewed. In our analysis, we suggested: Ozark still riding high, Archive 81 falling back and the wonderfully named The Woman in the … >
Billed as a thrilling fable, Outer Range blends wry humour and a supernatural mystery. Promising a Western with a twist, Amazon Studios have released details of their upcoming series Outer Range. Starring John Brolin, it’s the tale of a rancher which spins off into the supernatural. Here’s the synopsis for Outer Range: Outer Range centers … >
Peter Flannery has retooled his acclaimed television series as an audio drama. Taking four friends through three decades, across nine episodes, Our Friends In The North was a major television moment in 1996. The ambitious BBC Two series tackled several topics as it moved through the years. In the sixties, it looked at corporate, political … >