War Of The Worlds: modern TV retelling casts Gabriel Byrne and more
Gabriel Byrne, who was recently seen in the horror hit Hereditary, will star in Fox Networks’ modern telly version of H.G. Wells’ seminal sci-fi story The War Of The Worlds.
Gabriel Byrne, who was recently seen in the horror hit Hereditary, will star in Fox Networks’ modern telly version of H.G. Wells’ seminal sci-fi story The War Of The Worlds.
Channel 4 has released the first trailer for Traitors, a spy thriller starring Emma Appleton, Keeley Hawes, Michael Stuhlbarg, Luke Treadaway, Brandon P Bell, Stephen Campbell Moore and Matt Lauria. You can check it out here.
Sasha Lane, star of American Honey, has nabbed a major role in the American remake of Utopia. The British version aired on Channel 4 in 2013 and 2014, and the new version is being made by Amazon.
BBC Three sketch show Famalam is all set to return for its second series, as the Beeb confirms that more episodes are being made. We’ve got all the info you need right here.
It’s nice to know, before His Dark Materials season 1 reaches our screens, that the show’s future is already secured. It’s been confirmed that the second series of the show will film in Wales in the summer of 2019.
ITV has released a trailer for the upcoming sixth season of Endeavour, with Shaun Evans set once again to portray the young incarnation of Inspector Morse. You can watch the promo vid here.
Natalia Dyer, who plays Nancy Dyer in Stranger Things, has been teasing what’s in store for the Netflix series’ upcoming third season. It is, seemingly, going to be a frightening one.
We’ve got some fresh details about the Jean-Luc Picard TV show, which is in development with Star Trek: Discovery boss Alex Kurtzman at CBS. Patrick Stewart is all set to return to his role, and it sounds like some major changes have happened to Picard.
With Luke Cage, Iron Fist and Daredevil cancelled, The Punisher and Jessica Jones are the only Marvel shows left on Netflix’s slate. Fans are assuming that these series will be cancelled, as well, but now The Punisher‘s creative team have commented on their future.
Those viewers who have spent much of Discovery’s run frustrated by the lack of traditional Star Trek stories can be safely reassured by this week’s instalment, which pits science against religion on a planet with a helpfully contrived background. Naturally, it’s a fantastic episode.