The Franchise

The Franchise – HBO calls time on its superhero satire

The show chronicled the chaotic off-screen world behind a superhero franchise movie.  First out of the gates with New Year cancellation news, Deadline report that The Franchise won’t have a second season. The comedy was a collaboration between creator/executive producer Jon Brown (Succession), and executive producers Sam Mendes and Sam Mende. It told the story … >

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Doctor Who showrunner: unresolved mysteries create fillable gaps

In an interview with SFX Magazine, Russell T Davies explained his rationale for leaving some Doctor Who plot mysteries unresolved and unexplained. According to Davies, the reason why characters break the fourth wall to talk to or wink at the audience is contained in a scene which never made it to the screen in an … >

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Nautilus – AMC pick up the Jules Verne adaptation

The series stars Shazad Latif in a retelling of Jules Verne’s Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.  One of the recent casualties of the streaming service bubble deflating was Nautilus. The show is an adaptation of the classic 1869 novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne. The series, starring Star Trek: Discovery‘s … >

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Suspect — James Nesbitt leads a host of stars in new drama

James Nesbitt, Joely Richardson, Richard E Grant, Anne-Marie Duff, Antonia Thomas, Niamh Algar, Sacha Dhawan, Sam Heughan and Ben Miller cast in Channel 4’s thrilling new drama, Suspect (w/t) Channel 4 has commissioned an eight-part crime thriller Suspect (w/t) from Eagle Eye Drama (Before We Die, Professor T). It is an adaptation of the original … >

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Loki TV series — Disney releases official trailer ahead of June release

The Loki TV series is coming in June and Disney has released an official trailer Yet another show in the MCU 4 era (ie post Endgame, like WandaVision and The Falcon and the Winter Soldier), the Loki TV series brings back Tom Hiddleston as the titular God of Mischief. He’s run away with the Tesseract, and is a fish-out-of-water when he … >

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Jekyll and Hyde

Jekyll and Hyde among new Britbox titles this December

Charlie Higson’s Jekyll and Hyde (2015) comes to Britbox this December, among a whole host of other shows It ran for one season and was mired in controversy over depictions of violence, but there’s another chance to catch the series on Britbox from December 10. Jekyll and Hyde starred Tom Bateman as Dr Robert Jekyll and … >

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