Fans of HBO‘s Game of Thrones are counting the days when season 2 commences. We’ve already been offered a look at the second season in production, and recently the first teaser trailer was released. David Bennioff and his team and working hard to match the excitement of last season shooting at amazing locations to capture the scale of George R.R. Martin’s popular […]
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AMERICAN HORROR STORY Becomes Anthology Series
FX’s drama series American Horror Story has been a runaway hit with it’s brilliant narrative style and genre bending stories. Though if you caught the first-season finale, like other fans you would’ve been shocked that most of the main characters weren’t around by the end credits. The reason for this as co creator Ryan Murphy explains, is that the finale closed out the Harmon family’s […]
SPARTACUS VENGEANCE Extended First Look
Spartacus: Vengeance premieres next January and though we’re yet to see how fans respond to the debut of Australian actor Liam McIntyre in the title role, the show has already been renewed for a third season. If you’re keen to now how the transition is made, Starz has released the first bloody minutes of the new season […]
GAME OF THRONES Season 2 Teaser
HBO has released a teaser trailer for the second season of Game of Thrones. The medieval fantasy drama based on the books by George R. R. Martin has been wildly successful attracting a growing legion of fans. Created by David Benioff and D.B. Weiss the show is at times both confronting and challenging, but it’s style of storytelling and well crafted characters make it impossible not to be drawn to this dark […]
24 Movie Version Heats Up
The clock has stopped a few times on the feature version of the Imagine Entertainment/Fox series 24 – now it seems to be ticking once again. The project will bring back Kiefer Sutherland as the relentless no holds barred government operative, Jack Bauer. Earlier this year a script by Billy Ray was rejected by the Studios and hopes of a high octane movie […]
GRIMM Gets Full-Season
NBC‘S newest drama series Grimm has received a full-season pickup with an additional 9 episode order to round the show out to a 22 episode season. The new series fuses myth and fairy tale with the police procedural in an impressive and entertaining style. Created by Stephen Carpenter, David Greenwalt and Jim Koufwith, Grimm ranks as one of NBC’s highest-rated scripted […]
GAME OF THRONES Season 2 In Production Trailer
HBO has released an in-production trailer for the eagerly awaited second season of Game of Thrones. Fans are offered a behind-the-scenes look with the writers and directors as well as some familiar faces and some new ones who will feature this coming season. Co-creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss talk about about the continuing saga and […]
Hannibal Lecter To Feast on TV
The Doctor Is In Hannibal Lecter is making the move to TV with NBC picking up a deal to make a new 13 episode series. The deal is with recently formed Gaumont International Television who’s CEO Katie O’Connell used to be NBC’s head of drama. Martha De Laurentiis who produced the Hannibal Lecter sequels will executive produce along […]
THE MUNSTERS Returning To TV
A True Modern Family Even though The Munsters aired for only 2 seasons between 1964-1966, the series became immensly popular in syndication and spawned several revival movies and follow ups decades later. Now NBC is planning to bring the show back to TV with ‘Pushing Daisies’ creator Bryan Fuller updating the classic show. The pilot script was recently submitted to the network […]
TRANSPORTER TV Show Put On Hold
Producers Consider Shutting Down After Star Injury and Behind the Scenes Shake-Up Chris Vance is best known to TV audiences for his stint on season three of Prison Break – now he’s taking over the role made infamous by Jason Statham in Cinemax’s TV adaptation of The Transporter trilogy. Vance stars as Frank Martin, an ex-elite commando turned transporter, who delivers mysterious […]
Fast and the Furious 6 and 7 To Shoot Simultaneously
Fast Five was a mega-hit both internationally and in the U.S and this has prompted Universal Pictures to consider shooting the next two installments back-to-back. In terms of cost cutting and reducing the time between releases, combining the planned sequels into one big production could prove financially viable and in the long term very lucrative. The recent ‘Harry Potter’ films and the ‘Twilight’ […]
Goodbye Charlie
It seems another reboot of a classic franchise is no more with ABC cancelling Charlie’s Angels after airing only four episodes. Production on the revival show has been shut down effective immediately, after the show generarted meagre since the series premiere, which failed to connect with the key 18-49 demographic. The show joins other failed franchise reboots such as ‘Knight […]
THE SIMPSONS Back for Seasons 24 and 25
The long running TV series The Simpsons was recently facing the prospect of cancellation with the Fox network reportedly asking the talented voice actors to take a significant pay cut so that the show could continue – citing it was not performing as well in the ratings and the once lucrative show was now costing too much too produce. Well that struggle has been resolved with the […]
ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT Making a Return
The show that revived Jason Bateman‘s career and made Michael Cera an overnight sensation is planning a return to TV and hitting the big screen, according to series creator Mitch Hurwitz. At the recent New Yorker’s festival, the cast of Arrested Development had a long overdue reunion and reminisced over how scenes and their characters evolved. During the get together, Hurwitz revealed plans […]