2025/11/22

Years of unprecedented secrecy, a hard to explain premise and a title many have to look up in the dictionary did not hamper Pluribus‘ launch as Apple TV‘s most viewed drama of all time. According to the streamer, the series from Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan broke the record previously held by Severance Season 2 for the biggest global drama series launch cross Apple TV’s more than 100 territories, led by the U.S., UK, Canada, Brazil, Australia, Germany, Mexico, India and France.

In the U.S., the viewership high mark has been corroborated by the Nielsen Streaming Content Ratings, measuring minutes for Episodes 1 and 2 of drama originals over premiere weekend. Pluribus, starring Rhea Seehorn, debuted with two episodes Friday, Nov. 7.

While official Nielsen data will not be available for a couple of weeks, Luminate reported earlier this week that Pluribus logged 6.4M hours with its first two episodes over the first seven days of release in the U.S., a strong showing that landed the series at #4 for the week behind shows that all had significantly more episodes available.

There also has been anecdotal evidence, with reports of the Apple TV app crashing from high demand after the first two episodes of Pluribus were put up on the platform.

2025/11/22

Never seen it myself, but it is always good to see a show ending with at least some kind of resolution.

The Hallmark Channel is wrapping up its time-travel family drama The Way Home with a fourth and final season. The fantasy series created by Heather Conkie, Alexandra Clarke, and Marly Reed will premiere Season 4 in the spring, with production expected to wrap later this month after Hallmark previously renewed this series in March.

“Fans of The Way Home have enthusiastically watched and rewatched every episode since the first pond jump of season 1 as they’ve tried to piece together the brilliant puzzle Heather Conkie, Alexandra Clarke and Marly Reed expertly crafted,” Samantha DiPippo, SVP of programming at Hallmark Media, told People. “We’re grateful to our talented cast led by Andie [MacDowell], Chyler [Leigh], Evan [Williams] and Sadie [Laflamme-Snow], as well as our amazing writers and crew who have worked so hard on this show.” DiPippo added, “Season 4 will feature the thrilling twists and turns fans expect and, as the Landry family’s journey comes to a satisfying close, viewers will get the answers they’ve waited for.

The Way Home stars MacDowell, Leigh and Laflamme-Snow as Del, Kat and Ali, three generation of Landry women, who rebuild their fractured relationship while journeying through time to uncover past family secrets.

2025/11/18

Twisted Metal will be back for a third season. Good for the fans it will be back, I have to admit that I was severly disappointed with the second season. Not in the same league as the first season. Hopefully season 3 will bring back the quality of the first season.

"Twisted Metal" isn't running out of gas anytime soon: Peacock has renewed the post-apocalyptic action comedy for Season 3, Deadline reports.  There will be a new person behind the wheel, though: David Reed, a veteran of "The Boys" and "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds," will take over as showrunner in Season 3, replacing Michael Jonathan Smith, who ran the series for its first two seasons.

Based on the classic PlayStation video game series, "Twisted Metal" stars Anthony Mackie as John Doe, a driver in a post-apocalyptic wasteland who has to deliver a mysterious package and avoid deadly obstacles along the way, including a deranged clown named Sweet Tooth. Stephanie Beatriz ("Brooklyn Nine-Nine") co-stars as fellow survivor Quiet, along with a supporting cast that includes Anthony Carrigan ("Barry") and Patty Guggenheim ("She-Hulk").

Source: TVLine

2025/11/12

Not unexpectedly and yet it is! Alien Earth has been renewed for season two. Read my first watch season one blog and you will understand what I mean.

FX has renewed "Alien: Earth" for a second season, TVLine has learned. The renewal is part of a new overall deal that series creator Noah Hawley has signed with FX.

"It has been our great privilege to work with Noah for more than a decade on some of FX's best and biggest shows, and we are thrilled to extend our partnership well into the future," FX chairman John Landgraf said in a statement. "Noah never stops surprising us with truly original stories — and his unique ability to bring them to vibrant life as a director and producer as well as writer makes him extraordinary. We can't wait to get to work on the next season of 'Alien: Earth,' as well as some equally exciting future projects in advanced development." An extension of the "Alien" film franchise, "Alien: Earth" stars Sydney Chandler as Wendy, a human-robot hybrid who helps humanity fight back when a spaceship crashes on Earth, releasing not only the deadly xenomorphs but a host of other lethal alien species. Season 1 wrapped up in September with a finale that saw Wendy and her hybrid friends win their freedom from Boy Kavalier, the tech trillionaire who created them. (Read our finale post mortem with Hawley here.) Season 2 will begin filming in London next year. (Continue to read on the left side, under the picture.)

 The island can't contain them anymore. What's next? There are too many wild cards, too many moving pieces, Yutani is landing... so it's an expansion in scope, which I think is important."                                                              Source: TVLine

2025/11/11

There’s a Superman spinoff series, DC Crime, in the works at DC Studios and HBO Max, Deadline has confirmed.

The series is billed as being akin to a true-crime docuseries with Jimmy Olsen from Superman hosting (played by Skyler Gisondo in the summer blockbuster directed by James Gunn). Season one reportedly will be centered around DC bad guy Gorilla Grodd, who often wrestles The Flash. Grodd had psychic powers and other skills after his encounter with an alien spaceship. The character was created in 1959 and has even starred in the former DC’s Arrow-verse.

DC Crime comes from Tony Yacenda and Dan Perrault who are the creators of Netflix’s American Vandal series, which was a true crime satire series that ran from 2017-2018. They’ll write, executive produce and showrun the series. DC Studios bosses James Gunn and Peter Safran are EPs with Galen Vaisman overseeing production. Warner Bros. Television is also producing. 

Source: Deadline

2025/11/10

The fifth of November may have been last week, but "V for Vendetta" fans are getting a belated gift: a TV show based on the titular comic series is in development at HBO, Variety reports.

Written by Alan Moore and illustrated by David Lloyd, "V for Vendetta" was first published as a graphic novel in 1982 before DC took over publishing rights in 1998. The series takes place in a British dystopia under the control of the fascist Norsefire party. The government is targeted by V, a mysterious anarchist in a Guy Fawkes mask, who seeks the help of a woman named Evey Hammond.

From Warner Bros. Television, the series adaptation is reportedly being written by Pete Jackson, with James Gunn and Peter Safran executive-producing for DC Studios. Additional EPs include Ben Stephenson of Poison Pen and Leanne Klein of Wall to Wall Media.

"V for Vendetta" was famously adapted into a feature-length film in 2006, directed by James McTeige from a script written by the Wachowskis. Hugo Weaving played the masked anarchist V, with Natalie Portman portraying Evey.

2025/10/28

That's a wrap on "Doctor Who" and its Disney vacation. The long-running sci-fi series is parting ways with Disney+, TVLine has confirmed.

The streamer became the show's exclusive United States home for new episodes starting in November 2023, around the time of the series' 60th anniversary. The Disney+ run also coincided with Ncuti Gatwa's run as the titular Time Lord.

The Season 2 finale, "The Reality War," marked the end of Gatwa's time on "Doctor Who." "This journey has been one that I will never forget," he said in a statement at the time, "and a role that will be part of me forever."

Seemingly taking Gatwa's place as the TARDIS took flight at episode's end was a face very familiar to Whovians. When a regeneration that the Doctor had fought off in previous scenes could be denied no more, he was given a new form — that of franchise vet Billie Piper.

"It's no secret how much I love this show," Piper said, having played companion Rose Tyler in the mid-aughts (alongside Christopher Eccleston and then David Tennant), "and I have always said I would love to return to the Whoniverse as I have some of my best memories there, so to be given the opportunity to step back on that TARDIS one more time was just something I couldn't refuse."

2025/10/02

For about two months or so I have been hearing rumors about this possible new Star Trek TV show. At first the news was brought as Star Trek: Archer, but the new and most likely definite title is going to be Star Trek: United. Writer/ Producer Mike Sussman and Scott Bacula had developed a pitch for a follow-up series.

But instead of bringing back the entire Enterprise crew, this show will focus on Jonathan Archer’s later life as President of the Federation. It is very possible that former Enterprise crew members can drop in, or perhaps even more, like recurring character or a main character, but it mainly will be about Archer and his family.

I must say, this sounds really good, since Star Trek: Enterprise I am a big fan of Scott Bacula so I hope that this one and Legacy get a green light. But be aware, as I just said, nothing is set in stone yet, it has not yet been picked up officially as a series and perhaps it is best that it will be brought to life after Kurtzman is gone. That is just something I sincerely hope.

Please see full article on Trekmovie.com

2025/09/26

Former Star Trek showrunner had something interesting to say when he was at the Las Vegas convention.

Brandon Braga, showrunner of Star Trek: Voyager and Enterprise, outlined a big probelm with the way current streaming shows only offer 5-10 episodes per year, likening it to "Tinder dating.”

Brandon Braga posited about the current state of television at Star Trek Las Vegas, “I look at this audience, and I think you’re here because you had a long-term relationship with Voyager. Voyager was 26 episodes a year. Some of you probably keep it on because it’s cozy, and that’s the kind of relationship you had. A lot of shows now are Tinder relationships—eight episodes every two years, I don’t think so. That’s not going to be something you necessarily pass on to your kids. And I think that’s a loss… It’s a new paradigm. And some shows are still doing it… NCIS does like 22. But I really don’t know what’s in store for the future of Star Trek, the TV franchise anyway, but I hope, I hope that eventually they get back to a longer, more sustained season.”

He does make an interesting point there, with Star Trek from before, we had so many episodes a year, only a 3-4 month hiatus, as I often say, they have become family and this I think basically what Brannon Brage also means to say with this. Plus that only with so many hours of Star Trek, you can pass this on to your kids. Having said this, Doctor Who for instance, has done (only) 13 episode seasons for many years.

2025/09/20

Not sure what to think of this, still curious enough to check it out if this actually becomes a TV series. A different feel than the movie apparently.

It’s a family affair for Pamela Anderson, who has launched the production company And-Her-Sons Productions alongside sons Brandon Thomas Lee and Dylan Jagger Lee. A TV series from UCP and Dark Horse Entertainment based on Dark Horse Comics’ 1990s comic book character Barb Wire is currently in development and will serve as the company’s first project, sources tell Deadline (source).

Anderson famously starred in a 1996 movie adaptation from Universal Pictures, playing the titular character created by Chris Warner. The action flick is less than a year shy of its 30th anniversary. Barb Wire, the drama series adaptation, follows nail-hard, tough Barbara Kopetski, aka Barb Wire, the baddest bounty hunter on the mean streets of Steel Harbor. Armed with her arsenal, motorcycle and an attitude that just won’t quit, Barb is willing to right any wrong in Steel Harbor – if the price is right.

Anderson will not be reprising the role on the small screen, and it’s too early to say if she would appear in any capacity if the project goes to series, sources say. We understand the TV series would have “a different feel” than that film.

2025/09/18

Before season two starts, which is slated to be released in March 2026, it has already been renewed for a third season! Talk about confidence in your product! Nice!

o much for all that “two and out” chatter: Daredevil: Born Again has been renewed for Season 3 at Disney+, TVLine has confirmed. Brad Winderbaum, Marvel Studios’ head of streaming, television and animation, first revealed the pickup to IGN, saying, “In terms of Daredevil, yeah, we are greenlit for Season 3 and we start shooting next year.”

In Daredevil: Born Again, “Matt Murdock (Charlie Cox), a blind lawyer with heightened abilities, is fighting for justice through his bustling law firm, while former mob boss Wilson Fisk (Vincent D’Onofrio) pursues his own political endeavors in New York,” according to the official logline. “When their past identities begin to emerge, both men find themselves on an inevitable collision course.”

Season 1 kicked off with a two-episode premiere on March 4, and wrapped its nine-episode run on April 15. Season 2 is already slated for March 2026 — though an exact date has not been confirmed as of press time. Cox had previously suggested that Season 2 would be the final one — but D’Onofrio was quick to refute his co-star, telling worried fans on social media, “Good chance there will be a third.”

2025/09/12

Really great news! Foundation renewed for yet another season! It probably will take more than a year before we will see it but I am happy it is granted another season. A day before its season three finale, Apple TV+ is officially bringing back Foundation for a fourth season.

The renewal had been in the works for some time after the streamer tapped Ian Goldberg (Fear the Walking Dead) as new co-showrunner and executive producer earlier this year with a writers room for the fourth season set up.

Goldberg’s hiring came after a rocky third season that saw the exit of co-developer, showrunner and director David S. Goyer amid production restarts and budget adjustments on the adaptation of Isaac Asimov’s stories that stars Jared Harris and Lee Pace.

The series originally came from Skydance Television, which is now part of the revived Paramount Television Studios.

To read the complete article, please check out: Deadline

2025/09/06

Another video game franchise is getting the TV treatment: Prime Video has ordered a new series adaptation based on the popular Life Is Strange adventure games, TVLine has learned.

The story — which also serves as an emotional coming-of-age tale — follows Max, a photography student, who discovers she can rewind time while saving the life of her childhood best friend, Chloe. “As she struggles to understand this new skill, the pair investigates the mysterious disappearance of a fellow student, uncovering a dark side to their town that will ultimately force them to make an impossible life or death choice that will impact them forever,” reads its official description.

Charlie Covell (End of the F***ing World, KAOS) will serve as creator, executive producer and showrunner.

“It’s a huge honor to be adapting Life Is Strange for Amazon MGM Studios,” Covell said in a statement. “I am a massive fan of the game, and I’m thrilled to be working with the incredible teams at Square Enix, Story Kitchen and LuckyChap. I can’t wait to share Max and Chloe’s story with fellow players and new audiences alike.”

For full article, please check out TVLine.com

2025/08/15

Jensen Ackles is ready to play hero again. The actor is set to reprise his role as The Boys‘ Soldier Boy in Prime Video‘s forthcoming prequel series Vought Rising — and now we have our first look.

The streamer on Thursday released official portraits of Ackles as Soldier Boy, Mason Dye as Bombsight, Elizabeth Posey as Private Angel and Will Hochman as Torpedo, adding that “once upon a time, these four were as American as apple pie.”

As first revealed during The Boys‘ panel at San Diego Comic-Con earlier this summer, Vought Rising is a “twisted murder mystery about the origins of Vought in the 1950s, the early exploits of Soldier Boy, and the diabolical maneuvers of a Supe known to fans as Stormfront, who was then going by the name Clara Vought.” More simply, it’s a “salacious, grisly saga drenched in blood and Compound V.”

Entering production this month, Vought Rising also stars Aya Cash as Stormfront. Additional series regulars include Jorden Myrie, Nicolò Pasetti, Ricky Staffieri and Brian J. Smith, but details about their characters are currently under wraps.

2025/07/25

In Oktober 2023 I already posted about this new upcoming series on this webpage and I have to admit, I did not think this would materialize into a TV show but it is going to happen, first episodes will stream on November 7th of this year.

We’ve been waiting not so patiently for news about Rhea Seehorn‘s new Apple TV+ series with Vince Gilligan — and now we finally have a name to call it, at least.

The upcoming sci-fi series, which reunites Seehorn with Better Call Saul co-creator Gilligan, is titled Pluribus, and it premieres Friday, Nov. 7 on the streamer with the first two episodes, TVLine has learned. Gilligan, who also created Saul’s forerunner Breaking Bad, will serve as writer and showrunner.

Pluribus is described as “a genre-bending original in which the most miserable person on Earth must save the world from happiness.” Along with Seehorn, the cast includes Karolina Wydra (Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.) and Carlos Manuel Vesga (The Hijacking of Flight 601), and guest stars Miriam Shor (Younger) and Samba Schutte (Our Flag Means Death).

To read the full article, please check out TVLine.com

2025/07/25

This is some Bullsh*t! This really sucks hard! The only decent program Syfy channel currently has and they decide to cancel it, what a morons! Last season when season 3 was shortened, I already assumed this season 3 would be its last. I was wrong, but one season later, it is still toast. Why do Syfy channel / USA Network still even exist?

Resident Alien has been cancelled by Syfy/USA Network, and will end with Season 4 (airing Friday nights at 10/9c). The news was announced Thursday evening by series creator Chris Sheridan, ahead of this season’s finale airing Friday, Aug. 8.

“I knew going into it that this was likely going to be our final season,” Sheridan tells TV Insider. “Creatively, that was exciting because I knew we could spend the time wrapping up some storylines and driving toward an ending.

“I’m so proud of how good Season 4 is and especially proud that we were able to finish as strongly as we did, with a finale that is probably my favorite episode of the series,” the EP added.

Source: TVLine

2025/07/10

Apple TV+ isn’t powering down Murderbot anytime soon: The streaming service has renewed the Alexander Skarsgård comedy for Season 2. The news comes less than 24 hours ahead of its Season 1 finale, which begins streaming July 11.“We’re so grateful for the response that Murderbot has received, and delighted that we’re getting to go back to Martha Wells’ world to work with Alexander, Apple, CBS Studios and the rest of the team,” series creators/executive producers Chris and Paul Weitz said in a statement Thursday.

Added Apple TV+ head of programming Matt Cherniss: “Chris, Paul, Alexander and the entire Murderbot team have delivered a brilliantly original, addictive, witty and vibrant adaptation that has captured the imagination of audiences everywhere. We can’t wait to unveil what’s next for Murderbot and, of course, ‘Sanctuary Moon’ in Season 2.”

Based on the first novella in Wells’ Hugo- and Nebula Award-winning book series, Season 1 of Murderbot is described as “a sci-fi thriller/comedy about a self-hacking security construct who is horrified by human emotion yet drawn to its vulnerable clients. Played by Skarsgård, Murderbot must hide its free will and complete a dangerous assignment when all it really wants is to be left alone to watch futuristic soap operas and figure out its place in the universe.”

2025/06/13

Great news about Andor being number ONE in the Nielsen's latest streaming chart! The last batch of episodes made the show jump to the first place, and rightly show! Andor season two was just brilliant, granted, after a slow start.

With the release of its fourth and final three-episode batch, Disney+’s Andor rose to the top of Nielsen’s latest U.S. ranking of streaming originals. For the week of May 12, Andor amassed 931 million minutes viewed — another weekly high for the series — across 24 total episodes. (In turn, Andor‘s “sequel movie,” Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, returned to Nielsen’s Top 10 Movies ranking, landing at No. 9 with 179 million minutes viewed.)

Netflix’s YOU placed second on the streaming originals ranking with 779 million minutes viewed/50 episodes, followed by Hulu’s Secret Lives of Mormon Wives (680 million minutes/18 episodes), ABC’s Prime Video’s Netflix’s Forever (671 million minutes/eight episodes) and Netflix’s American Manhunt: Osama bin Laden (552 million minutes/three episodes). Rounding out the Top 10 streaming originals for the week of May 12 were Netflix’s The Four Seasons, Peacock’s Poker Face, Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale, Paramount+’s MobLand and Netflix’s Secrets We Keep.

Source: TVLine & Top 10 Nielsen

2025/06/12

Fittingly, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds will end up having a five-year mission.

Paramount+ has renewed the Trek prequel for a fifth and final season, TVLine has learned. But we’ll still spend plenty more time with Captain Pike and the Enterprise crew: Season 3 debuts Thursday, July 17 on the streamer — watch a trailer here — and production on Season 4 is already underway. The six-episode Season 5 will begin shooting later this year.

“From the very beginning, Strange New Worlds set out to honor what Star Trek has always stood for — boundless curiosity, hope and the belief that a better future is possible,” executive producers Akiva Goldsman, Henry Alonso Myers and Alex Kurtzman said in a statement.

“We’re deeply grateful to Paramount+ for the chance to complete our five-season mission, just as we envisioned it, alongside our extraordinary cast and crew. And to the passionate fans who’ve boldly joined us on this journey — THANK YOU. With three more spectacular seasons ahead for you to see and enjoy, this adventure is far from over.”

Source: TVLine.com

2025/06/12

Harris Yulin, the Emmy-nominated character actor whose myriad TV credits included Frasier, Ozark and 24, has passed away. His manager, Sue Leibman, tells TVLine that her client died of cardiac arrest in New York City Tuesday, June 10th. He was 87 years old.

He has many roles to his name, please check out IMdB for this. But to me he made a lasting impression as a Cardassian named Aamin Marritza who felt so guilty about the occupation, he surgically altered his appearance as the butcher from Gallitep, aka Gul Darhe'el, to be punished. Without a doubt the best episode of the season because of Harris Yulin and Nana Visitor. May he rest in peace!

2025/05/13

Prime Video has renewed the hit video game series for a Season 3 ahead of the Season 2 premiere this December. Season 2 “will pick up in the aftermath of Season One’s epic finale and take audiences along for a journey through the wasteland of the Mojave to the post-apocalyptic city of New Vegas.” To date, more than 100 million viewers have watched Season 1, putting it in the top three Prime Video titles ever.

“We are absolutely thrilled that our global Prime Video customers will be able to delve deeper into the
wonderfully surreal and captivating world of ‘Fallout,’” said Vernon Sanders, global head of television,
Amazon MGM Studios. “Jonah, Lisa, Geneva, and Graham have done an exceptional job bringing this
beloved video game franchise to vivid life on Prime Video. Together with our amazing partners at
Bethesda Games and Bethesda Softworks, we are delighted to announce a third season of ‘Fallout,’ well ahead of the much-anticipated debut of Season Two.”

“Fallout” received Emmy nominations for outstanding drama, lead actor in a drama for Goggins and writing by Geneva Robertson-Dworet and Graham Wagner. The show is produced by Kilter Films, with executive producers Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy. Robertson-Dworet and Wagner also serve as executive producers, creators and showrunners.

2025/04/09

The Last of Us will last at least one more season.

HBO has renewed the dystopian drama for Season 3, TVLine has learned. The renewal comes ahead of the show’s highly anticipated Season 2 premiere this Sunday at 9/8c. Since the end of Season 1, Mazin and Druckmann have publicly stated that they’d need more than one season to cover the events of The Last of Us Part 2 video game.

“We approached Season 2 with the goal of creating something we could be proud of,” series co-creator, executive producer, writer and director Craig Mazin said via statement. “The end results have exceeded even our most ambitious goals, thanks to our continued collaboration with HBO and the impeccable work of our unparalleled cast and crew. We look forward to continuing the story of The Last of Us with Season 3!”

Mazin’s fellow co-creator, EP, writer and director Neil Druckmann added via statement: “To see The Last of Us brought to life so beautifully and faithfully has been a career highlight for me, and I am grateful for the fans’ enthusiastic and overwhelming support. Much of that success is thanks to my partner in crime, Craig Mazin, our partnership with HBO and our team at PlayStation Productions. On behalf of everyone at Naughty Dog [which produced the games on which the series is based], our cast and crew, thank you so much for allowing us this opportuntiy. We’re thrilled to bring you more of The Last of Us.”

2025/04/02

Hulu on Tuesday announced a straight-to-series order for The Testaments, a sequel series that will see Ann Dowd reprise her role as Aunt Lydia. Elisabeth Moss will serve as an executive producer.

As previously reported, Dowd will be joined by Chase Infiniti (Presumed Innocent), who will play Agnes; newcomer Lucy Halliday, who has been cast as Daisy; Rowan Blanchard (Girl Meets World), who will play Shunammite; and Mattea Conforti, who will play Becka.

Production on Season 1 begins Monday, April 7, one day out from the premiere of The Handmaid’s Tale’s sixth and final season on Hulu.

2025/03/21

Great news! Severance has been renewed, right after the season two finale! Hopefully it won't take another 2-3 years before we see season 3!

Severance just received a positive performance review: Apple TV+ renewed the sci-fi thriller for Season 3 on Friday, the same day its Season 2 finale debuted on the streamer. 

“Making Severance has been one of the most creatively exciting experiences I’ve ever been a part of,” executive producer and director Ben Stiller said in a statement. “While I have no memory of this, I’m told making Season 3 will be equally enjoyable, though any recollection of these future events will be forever and irrevocably wiped from my memory as well.”

“The idea of getting to make more Severance with the greatest cast and crew on Earth is more thrilling to me than all the world’s finger traps combined,” series creator, writer and executive producer Dan Erickson added. “I can’t wait to continue spreading woe, frolic, dread and malice with these truly incredible people.”

TVLine.com

2025/03/05

TVLine has learned exclusively that the sci-fi adventure series The Ark has been renewed for Season 3. The new batch of episodes is currently on track for a 2026 premiere date.

Created by Dean Devlin, The Ark is set place 100 years in the future, when planetary colonization missions have begun as a necessity to help secure the survival of the human race.

In Season 2 of the series, which aired its finale in October, after the brave crew of Ark One reached their destination and found it uninhabitable, they struggled to survive long enough to locate a new home for themselves and all the ships that would follow.

The series stars Christie Burke (Maid) as Lt. Sharon Garnet, Richard Fleeshman (The Sandman) as Lt. James Brice, Reece Ritchie (The Outpost) as Lt. Spencer Lane (and his clone Ian), Stacey Read as life support chief Alicia Nevins and Ryan Adams as horticulture whiz Angus Medford.

“We’re thrilled to launch another season of The Ark!” says series creator, co-showrunner and executive producer Dean Devlin. “Back in space again, and the best is yet to come!”

TVLine.com

2025/02/20

Ahead of Daredevil: Born Again‘s Tuesday, March 4 premiere on Disney+, there is fresh buzz that Matt Murdock’s fellow street-level heroes might also be en route back to the small screen.

Marvel’s Daredevil, led by Charlie Cox, premiered in April 2015 on Netflix and ran for three seasons. Marvel’s Jessica Jones, starring Krysten Ritter, came next, debuting in November 2015 and lasting three seasons itself. Marvel’s Luke Cage, fronted by Mike Colter, bowed in September 2016 and flexed its muscle for two seasons, while Marvel’s Iron Fist, with Finn Jones in the title role of Danny Rand, launched in March 2017 and (somehow) also lasted two seasons.

2025/02/01

The fantasy drama based on Neil Gaiman‘s comic series has been cancelled at the streamer, TVLine has confirmed. The series will end with the forthcoming Season 2; there’ll be no Season 3. Our sister site, Variety, first reported the cancellation.

Gaiman, who is an executive producer on the show, was the subject of a recent magazine story and podcast that alleged he sexually assaulted multiple women.

In Tortoise Media’s Master: The Allegations Against Neil Gaiman podcast, released in early July, Gaiman was accused by a 23-year-old woman of sexually assaulting her within hours of their first meeting at his New Zealand residence, where she worked as nanny to his child. (Gaiman has said that only consensual digital penetration occurred during their three-week relationship.) A second accuser says she was 18 when she met Gaiman at a book signing, then began a relationship with him at age 20, during which she submitted to “rough and painful” sex that “she neither wanted nor enjoyed.” (Gaiman denied any unlawful behavior.)

2025/01/31

Great news for Silo! I would have imagined it would be standard for Silo to have a spot in the Top 10, but of course it is not really mainstream. But anyway it does say something! 

Rounding out the Top 10 streaming originals for the week of Dec. 30 were Paramount+’s Lioness (441 million minutes viewed across 16 episodes), Netflix’s Black Doves (422 million minutes/six episodes), Netflix’s No Good Deed (417 million minutes/eight episodes), the Nielsen chart debut of Apple TV+’s Silo (417 million minutes/18 available episodes) and Prime Video’s Beast Games (398 million minutes/four episodes).

2025/01/18

A real shame, cancelled after one season and even worse...of course, on a cliff-hanger! I really liked it as the first season progressed. Well another cancellation, you ask yourself: why start watching a new TV show!

The Chenoweths’ extraterrestrial war has come to an early end: Peacock has cancelled its horror series Teacup after just one season, TVLine has confirmed.

In Season 1, Yvonne Strahovski (The Handmaid’s Tale) and Scott Speedman (Grey’s Anatomy) starred as Maggie and James Chenoweth, two members of “a disparate group of people in rural Georgia who must come together in the face of a mysterious threat in order to survive,” according to the official description.

James Wan (M3GAN, Annabelle) executive-produces the series, which is inspired by Robert McCammon’s 1988 novel Stinger, with Ian McCulloch (Yellowstone) serving as showrunner. The cast also includes Chaske Spencer (Echo), Kathy Baker (Picket Fences), Boris McGiver (Evil), Caleb Dolden (Single Parents), Emilie Bierre (Transplant) and Luciano Leroux (Yellowjackets).

The Season 1 finale (which dropped Thursday, Oct. 31, 2024) earned a TVLine reader grade of “B” — read our recap here.

2024/12/26

Star Trek Discovery is no longer considered to be canon! The show was cancelled …or ended after season five . The last season aired earlier this year. Also Star Trek: Lower Decks has its final season this year. Lower Decks is considered canon, you can look it up yourself, easy to find. Well in the series finale of Lower Decks, it erased Star Trek: Discovery from canon!

Paramount has used the final episode of Star Trek: Lower Decks to make things right, which sees it confirmed that Star Trek: Discovery takes place in an alternate universe, separate from the main Star Trek prime timeline and universe.
Check out webpage Giant Freakin’ Robot. The site goes over the details from the last episode of Star Trek: Lower Decks, as that series, too, has been canceled. It is undeniably true that Discovery no longer belongs to the official Trek canon and I think that is a good thing. It now set in an alternate reality, where it can exist on its own.

However, you might be wondering if this means Star Trek: Strange New Worlds also exists in that same universe since the series was a spinoff of Discovery. Luckily, the answer is absolutely not.

The only Klingons we ever see in Strange New Worlds look exactly like the Klingons we’re used to seeing since Worf stepped onto the bridge of The Next Generation. There’s never been any solid explanation for why they look so different from the Discovery Klingons, but now we have one.
The Enterprise we saw on Star Trek: Discovery is not the same one we follow on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. That previous Enterprise (which, by the way, looks slightly different from the one on Strange New Worlds) is off having continued adventures in the same alternate reality Star Trek: Discovery took place in.

2024/12/20

Dune: Prophecy has been renewed for Season 2 at HBO. The news comes just days ahead of the prequel series’ Season 1 finale, airing this Sunday at 9/8c.

Set 10,000 years before the ascension of Timothée Chalamet’s Paul Atreides, Dune: Prophecy follows two Harkonnen sisters — Mother Superior Valya (played by Emily Watson) and Reverend Mother Tula (Olivia Williams) — as they combat forces that threaten the future of humankind, and establish the fabled sect that will become known as the Bene Gesserit.

The cast also includes Jodhi May (The Witcher) as Empress Natalya, Travis Fimmel (Vikings) as Desmond Hart, Mark Strong (Temple) as Emperor Javicco Corrin, Jessica Barden (The End of the F***ing World) and Emma Canning (Masters of the Air) as Young Valya and Young Tula, plus Sarah-Sofie Boussnina (Knightfall), Shalom Brune-Franklin (The Tourist), Aoife Hinds (Normal People), Chloe Lea (Foundation), Josh Heuston (Heartbreak High), Edward Davis (Sanditon), Jade Anouka (His Dark Materials), Yerin Ha (Halo) and Faoileann Cunningham (The Northman).

Alison Schapker (Altered Carbon, Westworld) serves as showrunner.

Source: TVLine

2024/12/16

Great news, Silo renewed for 2 more seasons and a conclusion! What more do we want!?

Apple TV+ has committed to going down deep with its adaptation of Hugh Howey’s Silo novels.

The streamer announced on Monday morning that Silo, which is midway through streaming Season 2, has been renewed for another two seasons xand that Season 4 will bring the adaptation to a “final, thrilling chapter.”

Adapted from Howey’s bestselling Wool, Shift and Dust trilogy, Silo in Season 1 centered on the (presumably) last 10,000 people on Earth. The twist? They live in a mile-deep silo that is protecting them from a toxic world outside. Executive producer and Mission: Impossible/Dune franchise vet Rebecca Ferguson stars as Juliette Nichols, an engineer-turned-sheriff who aimed to unravel the mystery behind the underground civilization.

TVLine

2024/11/21

Great news! FROM has been renewed for a 4th season, even before the 3rd season is finished airing! Thank you MGM+! Shame though we have to wait more than a year. 

MGM+ isn’t leaving FROM anytime soon: The sci-fi horror series has been renewed for Season 4, the network announced on Thursday. The 10-episode fourth season will debut in 2026.

“FROM has been a sensation for MGM+, capturing the attention of millions of viewers and helping us to shine a bright light on our MGM+ brand,” MGM+ head Michael Wright said in a statement. “Our talented show creators and cast have brilliantly and carefully crafted this wonderful show, and we look forward to providing the answers the FROM audience so enthusiastically craves in Season 4!”

FROM stars Harold Perrineau as the sheriff of a mysterious town that traps everyone who enters it and prevents them from leaving. Catalina Sandino Moreno, Eion Bailey, David Alpay, Elizabeth Saunders and Ricky He lead the supporting cast. John Griffin created the series, with Jeff Pinkner (Lost) serving as showrunner and Jack Bender (Game of Thrones) on board as director and executive producer.

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2024/11/10

Finally! I really am looking forward to season two for 2 years now! Think this is the best Star Wars series out there, really enjoyed it. Now I know when to rewatch the first season!

When will Andor, Disney+’s Rogue One: A Star Wars Story prequel series, release the second half of its two-season run?

That question was answered at D23 Brazil on Saturday: Andor, which wrapped filming in February, will return on Tuesday, April 22, 2025. Andor Season 1 streamed Sept. 21 through Nov. 3, 2022, but the SAG-AFTRA strike slowed down production on the acclaimed sci-fi drama’s second/final season.

A prequel to Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Andor in its first season followed the titular Cassian (Rogue One‘s Luna) as his murder of two “corpo” guards led him to meet Luthen Rael (Stellan Skarsgård), a key member in the budding Resistance movement. Cassian helped with the heist of an Imperial payroll, but even after escaping, wound up imprisoned.

Following a jailbreak, Cass made his way home to Ferrix in time for his mother’s funeral, and managed to elude capture by the many factions hunting him. As the season came to a close, he joined Luthen aboard his Fondor craft, ready to assist the Resistance further.

Season 1 opened up five years prior to the events of Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, and spanned one year. Season 2 will span the remaining four years leading up to Rogue One.

2024/11/09

Very sad to read Tony Todd has died at age 69! Way too young! No cause of death has been officially released yet. I mainly know Tony Todd from my favorite SCI-FI shows, Star Trek, Babylon 5 and Stargate. Such a great actor with a great voice! Everytime I watch DS9's "The Visitor", I cannot keep it dry! 

I for one will always remember him for his roles on these TV shows, one of my favorite recurring actors, we will miss him, but with watching these shows, he will always be alive in our hearts!

2024/10/20

Star Trek: Starfleet Academy has scored an early Season 2 renewal — and a plum cast addition. Paramount+ announced the pickup on Saturday at New York Comic-Con, where the network also revealed that Tatiana Maslany (Orphan Black) will recur in Season 1 of the Star Trek offshoot. Character details have yet to be shared.

Starfleet Academy, which was ordered to series in March 2023 and is currently in production on Season 1, follows “the adventures of a new class of Starfleet cadets as they come of age in one of the most legendary places in the galaxy,” per the official description. Source: TVLine

Academy Award winner Michelle Yeoh will return to the Star Trek Universe when the Discovery spinoff movie, Star Trek: Section 31, premieres Friday, Jan. 24, 2025, on Paramount+

The release date was announced at the Star Trek Universe panel at New York Comic Con, which featured cast members Omari Hardwick, Kacey Rohl and Robert Kazinsky (who play Alok, Rachel Garrett and Zeph), along with executive producer and director Olatunde Osunsanmi, and a video appearance by Yeoh. Source: TVLine

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Season 3 remains on track for a “2025” premiere on Paramount+, and as announced back in April, it is already renewed for Season 4. Source: TVLine

2024/09/19

Bad news, Clone Club: Orphan Black: Echoes will not be printing out another season. The AMC/BBC America offshoot has officially been cancelled after just one season, TVLine has confirmed. (Our sister site Deadline first reported the news.)

The Orphan Black spinoff was set in the near future and took place in the same universe as the original. Echoes “takes a deep dive into the exploration of the scientific manipulation of human existence,” according to its official description, as it “follows a group of women as they weave their way into each other’s lives and embark on a thrilling journey, unravelling the mystery of their identity and uncovering a wrenching story of love and betrayal. Krysten Ritter (Jessica Jones) plays Lucy, a woman with an unimaginable origin story, trying to find her place in the world.”

Series creator Anna Fishko served as showrunner, executive-producing alongside Ritter, David Fortier, Ivan Schneeberg, Nick Nantell, Kerry Appleyard, Katie O’Connell Marsh and original Orphan Black creator John Fawcett.

Sourcee: TVLine.com

2024/09/17

Time has run out on Apple TV+’s Time Bandits: The epic fantasy is ending after just one season at the streamer, TVLine has learned.

An adaptation of the 1981 Terry Gilliam film, Time Bandits followed an 11-year-old history buff named Kevin (Kal-El Tuck) as he joined up with a ragtag group of thieves and traveled through time and space with them on a series of fantastical adventures. Lisa Kudrow co-starred as Penelope, with Charlyne Yi as Judy and Kiera Thompson as Kevin’s sister Saffron.

Taika Waititi served as a co-creator of Time Bandits along with his What We Do in the Shadows producing partner Jemaine Clement and The Inbetweeners alum Iain Morris. Waititi also appeared on the show as the Supreme Being, with Clement playing the villain known as Pure Evil. (What We Do in the Shadows is also set to end its FX run with its sixth and final season, debuting this October.)

Time Bandits debuted on Apple TV+ in July, with two episodes airing each week until the Aug. 21 season finale. The cancellation caps Time Bandits’ run at a total of 10 episodes.

Source: TVLine.com

2024/09/06

Just learned that Beacon 23 has been cancelled after seaon two! Funny thing is, I was kinda waiting for season two, didn't realize it already streamed! Passed me by. Anyway, first season difficult to get through, still hadn't finished it and seeing the grades on IMdB of season two, not sure if I still do wanna check it out. In the TVLine news item it is said that the TV show possibly is going to turn up somewhere else, but you know just as well as I that this only rarely happens, don't get your hopes up!

TVLine.com:

Loosely based on Hugh Howey’s short story of the same name, Beacon 23 stars Lena Headey (Game of Thrones) and Stephan James (Homecoming) as Aster and Halan, individuals who end up in confinement together at the furthest reaches of the universe. The sci-fi series streamed for two seasons from 2023 to 2024, totaling 16 episodes.

TVLine hears that either or both series could ostensibly be shopped to other outlets. (Beacon 23, you may recall, was originally ordered by Spectrum Originals, which shut down two years ago.

2024/09/03

James Darren, I remember him mainly from Star Trek: DS9, loved his character and loved his voice! I have the CD with all his DS9 songs which I still regularly listen! Rest in peace James Darren, you will be missed!

TVLine.com:

Actor and singer James Darren, whose long showbiz career included memorable roles on T.J. Hooker and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, has died at the age of 88, our sister site Variety reports.

He passed away on Monday at Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles, with his son Jim Moret saying of Darren: “He was a good man. He was very talented. He was forever young.”

In 1996, Darren debuted as holographic lounge singer Vic Fontaine on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, providing Rat Pack-style entertainment in the holosuites of Quark’s bar. The character of Vic Fontaine became a fan favorite, with Darren appearing in a total of eight episodes, including the 1999 series finale.

2024/08/20

The Pacific Rim robots are coming to the small screen.

As part of a first-look television deal with Legendary Entertainment, writer/producer Eric Heisserer (Shadow and Bone, Arrival) is developing an origin story series for the movie franchise, our sister site Variety reports.

The Pacific Rim films are set in a future where Earth is at war with colossal sea monsters that enter through an interdimensional portal at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. Giant fighting robots, controlled by co-pilots, are used by humans to fight the monsters. The first movie, released in 2013, was directed by Guillermo del Toro and starred Charlie Hunnam, Idris Elba, Rinko Kikuchi, Charlie Day, Robert Kazinsky, Max Martini and Ron Perlman.

The sequel Pacific Rim Uprising came out in 2018, with Steven S. DeKnight taking over as director and Del Toro serving as producer. It starred John Boyega and Scott Eastwood, with Kikuchi, Day and Burn Gorman reprising their roles.

It has been a long time since I've watched these movies, will give the TV series a try.

Source: TVLine.com

2024/08/20

Perhaps no suprise to many of you, The Acolyte has been cancelled after its first season. I really didnt like they killed off Master Indara (Carrie-Anne Moss) in the very first episode. I just only got to episode two, not sure if I will continue now. 

Disney+’s Star Wars series The Acolyte has been cancelled and will not return for Season 2, our sister site Deadline reports.

Set during the final days of the High Republic era, the mystery thriller centered on a former Padawan (played by Amandla Stenberg) who reunites with her Jedi Master to investigate a series of crimes and then discovers the forces they confront are more sinister than they ever anticipated.

Season 1 ended with Osha killing her former master Sol via Force choke and then bleeding her kyber crystal to change her lightsaber from blue to mostly red — a sliver of blue remaining at the top. Her twin sister Mae then agreed to have her mind wiped before being taken into Jedi custody, while Osha set out to train with The Stranger.

Source: TVLine.com

2024/08/13

A second season of Supacell is taking flight at Netflix. The renewal was made official on Tuesday, nearly two months after the British sci-fi drama’s six-episode first season hit the streamer on June 24.

Per its official description, Supacell follows “five ordinary people who unexpectedly develop superpowers. They have little in common except for one thing: they are all Black South Londoners. It is down to one man, Michael Lasaki, to bring them all together in order to save the woman he loves.”

Supacell stars Tosin Cole as Michael, a delivery driver with the ability to teleport and manipulate time; Adelayo Adedayo as Dionne, a social worker and Michael’s fiancée; Calvin Demba as Rodney, a drug dealer with super speed; Nadine Mills as Sabrina, a woman with he power of telekinesis; Eric Kofi-Abrefa as Andre, a cash-strapped father imbued with super strength; and Josh Tedeku as “Taser,” a gang leader with the power of invisibility.

The series is written and created by British rapper Rapman. He also directed the first season alongside Sebastian Thiel.

Source: TVLine.com

2024/07/28

I wanted to share with you a number of interesting updates about different SCI-FI TV shows. First, you can find a teaser trailer on our trailer page of "Star Trek: Section 31" and a first look of "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds" Season 3. To stay with Star Trek, it was announced that Robert Picardo (Voyager) and Tig Notaro (Discovery) both will reprise their characters on "Star Trek: Starfleet Academy". They aren't guest stars or something but will become series regulars! 

Finally, the release dates for "Silo" and "From" were announced! "Silo" will start on November 15, 2024 and "From" will start a little earlier, thankfully, on September 22, 2024. 

A Doctor Who spin-off has been announced, it is a 5 part story called "War Between Land and Sea". The premise for the new offshoot: “When a fearsome and ancient species emerges from the ocean, dramatically revealing themselves to humanity, an international crisis is triggered. With the entire population at risk, UNIT steps into action as the land and sea wage war.”

2024/07/19

My first news item since february and this is unfortunately bad news because Paramount has decided no longer order a new season. Although I have yet to see the 2nd season, I am very disapppointed about this news because I liked the first season and I was looking forward to season two. Hopefully "Halo" gets a new home soon! 

TVLine has learned that Paramount+, which launched Halo in March 2022 and premiered a second season this February, will not be ordering a third season of the Pablo Schreiber-led video game adaptation.

“We are extremely proud of this ambitious series,” Paramount+ said in a statement, “and would like to thank our partners at Xbox, 343 Industries and Amblin Television, along with showrunner and executive producer David Wiener, his fellow executive producers, the entire cast led by Pablo Schreiber as Master Chief and the amazing crew for all their outstanding work.

We wish everyone the best going forward.”

And go forward, they just might, seeing as TVLine hears that Amblin Television, Xbox and 343 Industries are shopping Halo Season 3 elsewhere, with Paramount+’s blessing. TVLine.com

2024/02/15

The Invasion will continue at Apple TV+, which has officially renewed the sprawling sci-fi drama for Season 3, TVLine has learned. Production on the new episodes is slated to begin later this month.

Co-created and executive-produced by Simon Kinberg (of the X-Men and Deadpool films, and The Martian) and David Weil (Hunters, Citadel), the series follows an alien invasion through different perspectives around the world.

The show’s large cast features Golshifteh Farahani, Shioli Kutsuna, Shamier Anderson, India Brown, Billy Barratt, Azhy Robertson, Paddy Holland and Tara Moayedi. The 10-episode second season — which dropped its finale on Oct. 25, 2023 — added Enver Gjokaj (Marvel’s Agent Carter), Nedra Marie Taylor (Orange Is the New Black) and Naian González Norvind (Mexico’s Amsterdam) to the series-regular ensemble.

2024/01/21

Millie Gibson, who just weeks ago made her Doctor Who debut in the show’s Christmas special, will be replaced by Andor‘s Varada Sethu after one season. The switch-up was first reported by the UK’s Daily Mail, and a source told our sister site Variety same. (TVLine has reached out to show reps for comment.)

Gibson played companion Ruby Sunday in Doctor Who: The Church on Ruby Road opposite fellow franchise newcomer Ncuti Gatwa. The Christmas special ended with Gibson’s Ruby Sunday meeting up with the Doctor in the TARDIS, and thus beginning her adventures with him through time and space.

“They are definitely troublemakers,” Gatwa told TVLine of the upcoming Doctor/Ruby dynamic. “They both like to see the mischief in each other and love that, and they also see in the pain in one another and want to heal that. They’re also both flirty and quite cheeky.”

TVLine.com

2024/01/21

Marvel’s Daredevil: Born Again — starring Charlie Cox and Vincent D’Onofrio — will suit back up and resume filming on Monday, our sister site THR.com reports, after pausing production for more than three months to undergo a creative overhaul.

As part of the retooling, Dario Scardapane (The Punisher) replaced Matt Corman and Chris Ord as showrunner for the Disney+ series, with Loki co-directors Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead helming the remaining episodes.(Speaking of, THR hears that Born Again no longer is on track for 18 episodes, but something closer to 13.)

Philip Silvera — stunt coordinator for Netflix’s Marvel’s Daredevil series — reportedly will return to fill the same role on Born Again. There is also a rumor (via The Insneider newsletter) that Deborah Ann Woll and Elden Henson, whose absence from the revival’s original cast list irked some fans, now will reprise their Marvel’s Daredevil roles of Karen Page and Foggy Nelson. (Disney+ had no comment.)

2024/01/09

The Mandalorian is getting his own theatrical film, Walt Disney Studios and Lucasfilm announced Tuesday. The Mandalorian & Grogu will go into production sometime in 2024. Jon Favreau, showrunner of Disney+’s The Mandalorian, will direct. He’ll also produce alongside Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy and Dave Filoni.

“I have loved telling stories set in the rich world that George Lucas created,” Favreau said via statement. “The prospect of bringing the Mandalorian and his apprentice Grogu to the big screen is extremely exciting.”

Kennedy added via statement: “Jon Favreau and Dave Filoni have ushered into Star Wars two new and beloved characters, and this new story is a perfect fit for the big screen.”

Pedro Pascal stars as the titular bounty hunter (aka Din Djarin) in Disney+’s The Mandalorian, which streamed its Season 3 finale in April 2023. The episode ended with Djarin informing the Armorer that that he would formally adopt Grogu — colloquially known as “Baby Yoda” — so that the Child could be his official Mandalorian apprentice. Pascal’s involvement in the movie, however, has not yet been confirmed. (TVLine.com)

2024/01/09

Disney+ confirmed Tuesday that a second season of the series starring Rosario Dawson is officially in development. The news was embedded within this morning’s larger announcement that The Mandalorian is headed to the big screen (full details here).

Back in November, Ahsoka boss (and Lucasfilm’s newly-minted Chief Creative Officer) Dave Filoni revealed to Vanity Fair that he is “exploring a possible second season of Ahsoka.”

The Mandalorian offshoot, which bowed in August, debuted at No. 2 on Nielsen’s U.S. ranking of streaming originals. The premiere racked up 829 million minutes viewed for the week of Monday, Aug. 21, besting Andor‘s triple-episode debut (which last September garnered 624 million minutes viewed in its first week) and The Mandalorian Season 3’s opening week (823 million minutes). However, it fell shy of Obi-Wan Kenobi‘s double-episode premiere (1.03 billion minutes).

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2024/01/07

Peacock’s forthcoming Battlestar Galactica has a new captain. Derek Simonds (The Sinner) has joined the series as writer, executive producer and showrunner, TVLine has confirmed. The reboot, which is still in development, was first announced in 2019 and originally named Michael Lesslie (The Little Drummer Girl) as its creator, writer and executive producer in 2021.

Co-executive producer Sam Esmail, who created Mr. Robot and most recently directed Netflix’s post-apocalyptic adaptation Leave the World Behind, confirmed to Deadline in October 2023 that development had resumed since the WGA strike ended. “I just read a great outline and it’s in great shape,” he revealed at the time.

The original Battlestar Galactica debuted in 1978 on ABC and followed a group of humans aboard the titular spaceship as they fled destruction from robots called the Cylons. The series, which starred Richard Hatch, Dirk Benedict and Lorne Greene, ran for one season, after which ABC ran a short-lived spinoff, Galactica 1980.

In 2003, the show was revived as a miniseries on the Sci-Fi Channel, which later turned into the widely successful 2004 TV series. The reboot starred Edward James Olmos, Mary McDonnell, Katee Sackoff and Grace Park, and ran for four seasons. It also led to the short-lived prequel, Caprica, in 2010.

2023/12/19

On the heels of Beacon 23‘s freshman finale, MGM+ has formally renewed the sci-fi series for Season 2, TVLine has confirmed.

Beacon 23 was originally developed for Spectrum Originals, and was reportedly renewed for Season 2 back when it was in production for that network. This is the first confirmation that MGM+, which later picked up the thriller, will air the second season, filming of which is already complete. The eight-episode sophomore run will premiere in April 2024.

“The creative team behind Beacon 23 has masterfully brought Hugh Howey’s best-selling book to life, and we’re excited for fans to continue this journey into Beacon 23’s universe of suspense, emotion and unforeseen twists,” said Michael Wright, head of MGM+, in a statement.

Based on Howey’s 2015 novel, Beacon 23 respectively stars Game of Thrones‘ Lena Headey and Homecoming‘s Stephan James as Aster and Halan, a government agent and stoic ex-military man whose fates become entangled when they are trapped together inside one of many Beacons that serve as a lighthouse for intergalactic travelers.

“Aster mysteriously finds her way to the lonely Beacon-keeper Halan, and a tense battle of wills unfolds,” the logline reads. “Halan begins to question whether Aster is friend or foe, as her ability to disguise her agenda and motives could make her a formidable opponent.”

2023/12/08

Peacock isn’t clowning around with the future of Twisted Metal, renewing the video game adaptation for a second season, TVLine has learned. The news was formally announced on Thursday by series star Anthony Mackie during The Game Awards, where the show was nominated for Best Adaptation.

“I have to give a Sweet Tooth-sized thank you to our incredible fans,” Twisted Metal showrunner Michael Jonathan Smith says in a statement. “I read every comment and was so blown away by everyone’s love, support, and rabid enthusiasm for a paper bag. We are beyond thankful we get to continue the story of John Doe, Quiet and Sweet Tooth as they face off against familiar faces and new grim foes in the long-awaited Twisted Metal tournament. The mixtape is made, and I’m thrilled to get back on the road with our stellar cast and crew.”

Based on the PlayStation video game series, which spans from 1995 to 2012, Peacock’s live-action adaptation follows a “motor-mouthed outsider offered a chance at a better life, but only if he can successfully deliver a mysterious package across a post-apocalyptic wasteland,” per Twisted Metal‘s official logline. “With the help of a badass axe-wielding car thief, he’ll face savage marauders driving vehicles of destruction and other dangers of the open road, including a deranged clown who drives an all too familiar ice cream truck.”

2023/12/05

Foundation will be back for another chapter. Apple TV+ has renewed the Lee Pace-led sci-fi series for Season 3, TVLine has learned.

“I’m thrilled Apple has given us the opportunity to continue chronicling [Isaac] Asimov’s pioneering galactic saga,” showrunner and executive producer David S. Goyer said in a statement Tuesday. “This time, the stakes for Foundation and Empire are even higher as the Mule takes center stage, along with fan-favorites Bayta, Toran, Ebling and Magnifico Giganticus.”

Added Apple TV+’s head of programming Matt Cherniss: “We have all been incredibly impressed with the ambitious, action-packed and imaginative adaptation that David and the rest of this gifted creative team and cast have brought to life with this premium sci-fi series from day one. To watch Foundation become such a global hit has been beyond exciting with audiences around the world continuing to be captivated week after week by this dramatic and compelling journey to save humanity. We can’t wait for everyone to experience what is in store for characters old and new in Season 3.”

For full article, check out TVLine.com

2023/11/21

The pick-up comes five months after the release of Season 6, which dropped on June 15. The series’ most recent cycle was comprised of five episodes: “Joan Is Awful” starring Annie Murphy (Schitt’s Creek) and Salma Hayek; “Loch Henry” starring Myha’la (Industry) and Samuel Blenkin (Peaky Blinders); “Beyond the Sea” starring Aaron Paul (Breaking Bad) and Josh Hartnett (Penny Dreadful); “Mazey Day” starring Zazie Beetz (Atlanta); and “Demon 79” starring Anjana Vasan (Killing Eve) and Paapa Essiedu (I May Destroy You) — a standout installment that earned the duo Performer of the Week accolades.

2023/11/04

The CW is grounding Superman & Lois after its upcoming fourth season, TVLine has learned. The series’ 10-episode swan song is expected to air sometime in 2024.

Season 3 concluded in June with Superman (Tyler Hoechlin) facing off against iconic DC villain Doomsday, who is now seemingly immortal after getting an assist from Lex Luthor (Michael Cudlitz). Both Hoechlin and Cudlitz are returning as series regulars in Season 4, along with Bitsie Tulloch as Lois, Alex Garfin as Jordan and Michael Bishop as Jonathan.

“Over the last three seasons, Superman & Lois redefined both the superhero genre and family drama as Tyler, Elizabeth and the entire cast effortlessly portrayed these classic characters with new layers of depth and complexity that had never before been explored in the Superman universe,” CW president Brad Schwartz says in a statement. “We are grateful for the years of hard work and graceful storytelling from the show’s writers, producers, actors and crew, as well as our terrific partners at Warner Bros. Television and Berlanti Productions. As Superman embarks on his final flight, the team is leaving us with an absolutely epic 10-episode must-watch-every-minute farewell to one of the most legendary CW families ever.”

2023/10/23

The dystopian video game adaptation of Fallout is at last hitting screens next year and we finally have its release date: The popular franchise’s TV series will premiere Friday April 12, 2024, Prime Video announced Monday. The role-playing game takes place in the 22nd century in the aftermath of a planet-wide nuclear war, where inhabitants of underground “vaults” must venture into a radioactive wasteland in order to procure items that will help save themselves and their neighbors. The TV series (which comes from Westworld creators Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy) will be an original story set in the Fallout universe that will also be considered part of the games’ canon.

The series’ cast includes Ella Purnell (Yellowjackets), Walton Goggins (The Righteous Gemstones), Aaron Moten (Next), Moisés Arias (The King of Staten Island), Kyle MacLachlan (Twin Peaks), Sarita Choudhury (And Just Like That…), Michael Emerson (Evil), Leslie Uggams (Empire), Frances Turner (New Amsterdam), Dave Register (F.B.I.), Zach Cherry (Severance), Johnny Pemberton (Superstore), Rodrigo Luzzi (Dead Ringers), Annabel O’Hagan (Law & Order: SVU) and Xelia Mendes-Jones (The Wheel of Time).

Geneva Robertson-Dworet (Captain Marvel) and Graham Wagner (Silicon Valley) serve as executive producers, writers and co-showrunners. Nolan and Joy (Westworld) executive produce.

2023/10/19

With Season 1 of Gen V set to conclude in two weeks, Amazon has jumped the gun and renewed The Boys spinoff for Season 2.

“Expanding the universe of The Boys with a series as bold as Gen V has been an incredible journey for us and our wonderful partners at Sony. From our first conversation with showrunners Michele Fazekas and Tara Butters, along with Eric Kripke, Evan Goldberg, and Seth Rogen, we knew Gen V would push the boundaries. Their unapologetic approach is exactly what audiences love, and it has helped Gen V become the No. 1 series on Prime Video in over 130 countries,” said Vernon Sanders, head of television, Amazon MGM Studios, in a statement. “Gen V is Prime Video’s most acquisitive new Original series of 2023, and we’re excited that our incredible cast and crew are going to continue telling brave and bold stories from Gen V to our customers.”

Added showrunner Michele Fazekas and executive producer Eric Kripke: “We couldn’t be happier to make a second season of Gen V. These are characters and stories we’ve grown to love, and we are thrilled to know people feel the same! The writers are already working on the new season—sophomore year is gonna be wild, with all the twists, heart, satire, and exploding genitalia you’ve come to expect from the show.”

Source: TVLine.com

2023/10/12

Daredevil: Born Again will all but begin again, as the Disney+/Marvel collaboration undergoes a massive creative overhaul. After Marvel Studios chief Kevin Feige and other Marvel execs reviewed footage from the first few episodes that were filmed ahead of the SAG-AFTRA strike, it was determined that the don’t-call-it-a-revival “reboot” wasn’t working, our sister site THR reports. (To cite but one critique, sources told THR, headliner Charlie Cox’s Matt Murdock didn’t don his Daredevil costume until Episode 4.)

As such, head writers Matt Corman and Chris Ord (of Covert Affairs fame), plus any directors that had been booked for the remainder of the season, were “quietly” released from the project in late September. A search is now underway for replacements to “rethink the original intention of the show,” though some already-filmed scenes/episodes may be retained.

Greenlit back in July 2022, Daredevil: Born Again has Cox (of Netflix’s Marvel’s Daredevil) again playing Matt Murdock/Daredevil, while Vincent D’Onofrio is reprising (a version of) his own Marvel’s Daredevil role, as supervillain Wilson Fisk/Kingpin.

2023/10/05

Like Kim Wexler poring over a new case file, we’ve been looking very closely for any details about Rhea Seehorn‘s upcoming Apple TV+ series written by Vince Gilligan — and now we’ve hit the motherlode.

Gilligan dropped a few juicy hints about the project that reunites him with his Better Call Saul star Seehorn, telling our sister site Variety: “I wouldn’t call this heavy science fiction, I would call it mild science fiction… There’s no crime, and no methamphetamine. It’s going to be fun and different.”

Like Breaking Bad and Saul, the still-untitled new series will be set and filmed in Albuquerque, but “Rhea will be playing a very different character than she played on Saul,” Gilligan notes. “It’s a whole different world. There’s no overlap that I can see. She’s playing a character who is not Kim Wexler, but hopefully people will roll with that.”

2023/09/27

This morning I watched the latest video of SciTrek and learned of some great news regarding Stargate! SciTrek has been approached by a high-level employee from MGM, and this person agreed to a number of questions and answers, not that every question has been answered but it is clear now that there definitely will be a Stargate movie and also that a TV series afterwards, has been greenlighted!

Even if the movie isn’t a big success, the TV series still is heading forward. This is of course fantastic news. It is not yet clear if it will be a cinematic movie or if it will directly go to streaming. MGM confirmed that Stargate is to be a tenth pole franchise, meaning that it won’t be just one movie and a TV series, it most likely will become much more, think of a miniseries, movies, and additional TV series.

This is very exciting news, it finally is going to happen, and now that the writers strike is close to be solved, hopefully the announcement will only be a matter of weeks!

To watch the you Tube SciTrek video, click on this link.

2023/09/20

After a number of delays, Game of Thrones veteran Lena Headey is finally blasting off into outer space… but now she’ll be launching from a different location.

Headey’s sci-fi drama Beacon 23 has been picked up by MGM+, TVLine has learned, with a premiere date set for Sunday, Nov. 12 at 9/8c. The eight-episode thriller was originally ordered by Spectrum Originals in November 2020, with a second airing planned for AMC, but Spectrum Originals shut down last year, leaving upcoming projects like Beacon 23 in limbo.

Headey stars as Aster, a government agent who finds herself trapped alongside ex-military man Halan (played by Homecoming‘s Stephan James) inside a “Beacon” that serves as a lighthouse for intergalactic travelers. “Aster mysteriously finds her way to the lonely Beacon-keeper Halan, and a tense battle of wills unfolds,” per the official description. “Halan begins to question whether Aster is friend or foe, as her ability to disguise her agenda and motives could make her a formidable opponent.”

Based on the bestselling novel by Hugh Howey, Beacon 23 is created by Zak Penn (Free Guy, Ready Player One), with Glen Mazzara (The Walking Dead) joining Penn as an executive producer.

“Beacon 23 is a series in the best tradition of thought-provoking genre storytelling,” MGM+ head Michael Wright said in a statement. “With the incredible vision of Zak Penn and Glen Mazzara, riveting performances by Lena Headey and Stephan James, and an exciting world-building design, Beacon 23 is essential viewing for fans of premium science-fiction drama.”