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.”

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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.”

2023/09/15

Donald Glover’s long-gestating Lando Calrissian TV series is undergoing its most dramatic change yet — it’s now a movie.

Stephen Glover, who was recently tapped to co-write the Star Wars offshoot with brother Donald (replacing Justin Simien), confirmed on the Pablo Torre Finds Out podcast (per our sister pub Variety) that Lando is “not even a show,” adding, “The idea right now is to do a movie.”

Lando was first announced at Disney’s Investor Day in December 2020, as a prequel “event series” centered on the iconic con artist (played by Billy Dee Williams in two-third of the original Star Wars trilogy and then by Donald Glover in 2018’s Solo: A Star Wars Story).

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2023/08/18

Well this is perhaps the first victim of the current strike! 

The Peripheral won’t be seeing a second season after all. Prime Video has cancelled the sci-fi series, TVLine has confirmed, despite previously announcing its renewal back in February.

According to Deadline, the decision was made because of extended production delays due to the concurrent WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. Deadline also reports that The Peripheral may be one of several freshmen Prime Video series whose renewals will be rescinded.

Based on the bestselling novel by sci-fi pioneer Gibson, The Peripheral followed Flynn (Kick-Ass‘ Chloë Grace Moretz), a smart young woman stuck in a dead-end town until she gets a taste of a new path courtesy of a virtual reality-esque headset. But that supposedly fictional reality turns out to be more real than ever, as she’s pulled into a strange world of knife-wielding robot chauffeurs, disappearing cars and ear-shattering explosions.

The series also starred Jack Reynor (Midsommar), Gary Carr (The Deuce), T’Nia Miller (The Haunting of Bly Manor), Charlotte Riley (Peaky Blinders) and Alexandra Billings (The Conners).

TVLine.com

2023/07/18

That doesn't bode well for this potential Star Wars series. I already wasn't that optimistic about its future but reading this you say it seems pretty much dead!

We now have a status update on Disney+’s Lando Calrissian series… but it’s not exactly an encouraging one.

Two-and-a-half years after Lando officially went into early development at the streamer, writer Justin Simien shared that he has “no idea what’s going on” with the potential series at present.

“I certainly poured my heart and spent a lot of time working with them to put together a really great show,” Simien told The Direct. “It feels like everybody loves it. And, you know, I was told we had to put a pause on it because of scheduling, and the next update I got [was in 2020], some years ago. So I don’t know, I have no idea what’s going on with it.

2023/06/30

It was only March of this year that there was talk of this reboot but Showtime already scrapped the plans! Shame, was kinda looking forward to this! TVLine.com:

The other casualties at Showtime include a planned series adaptation of the 1997 sci-fi film Gattaca, which originally starred Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman and was set in a future world filled with biologically superior humans born free of genetic defects. Homeland veterans Alex Gansa and Howard Gordon were attached as executive producers, with Gansa set to serve as showrunner if it went to series.

2023/06/29

Good news! From has been renewed for a 3^rd season! Earlier this week the finale episode of season Two became available and within a week it has gotten its renewal! – TVLine.com:

FROM‘s townspeople aren’t getting free anytime soon: MGM+ has renewed the sci-fi horror series for a third season, TVLine has learned. Season 3 is slated to debut next year. “The first two seasons of FROM captivated critics and terrified and engaged fans, who have formed a thriving online community that is trying to put the pieces together week by week as the secrets of the nightmarish town — and possibly beyond — are slowly revealed,” MGM+ head Michael Wright said in a statement. “We can’t wait for fans to see the surprises ahead in Season 3, which promises more scares and mysteries, but also more answers.”

Executive producer and director Jack Bender added: “We’re so grateful for the support of our fans and FROMily this season. We have a lot more story to tell… and shocking, weird roads to take you on, with plenty of answers along the way.” 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 and Ricky He lead the supporting cast. “In the wake of Season 2’s epic cliffhanger, escape will become a tantalizing and very real possibility as the true nature of the town comes into focus, and the townspeople go on offense against the myriad horrors surrounding them,” per the official synopsis.

2023/06/23

Really interesting! Over 20 years since the definitive story of Cardassian spy-turned-tailor Garak hit the press in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine — A Stitch in Time, the much-lauded novel is coming to audiobook format this summer.

Narrated by Garak actor Andrew J. Robinson — who penned the 2000 Pocket Books novel — the book tells the story of Garak’s life as a child on Cardassia and his time serving the shadowy Obsidian Order, years before his eventual exile to space station Terok Nor (aka Deep Space 9.

Robinson told StarTrek.com, “Narrating the book for the audio version and revisiting Garak and his story was a true labor of love… I hope that people, including those who have read the book, enjoy listening to Garak’s remarkable journey as much as I enjoyed taking it again.” TrekCore.com

2023/06/14

Good news! Silo has been renewed for season two by Apple+!

Avoiding the one-and-done fate of so many sci-fi series of late, Silo has been renewed for a second season at Apple TV+. The pickup comes seven episodes into the dystopian drama’s inaugural 10-episode season.

Based on Hugh Howey’s bestselling novels, Silo centers on the last 10,000 people on earth. The twist? They all live in a mile-deep silo, which is allegedly protecting them from the toxic and deadly world outside. Rebecca Ferguson stars as Juliette, an engineer-turned-sheriff who begins to unravel the mystery behind the underground civilization.

We cannot wait for audiences around the world to immerse themselves in the epic world we have created to bring Hugh Howey’s novels to life,” said showrunner Graham Yost in a statement. “Apple has believed in our vision from day one and it’s an honor to have the opportunity to dig deeper into this story and peel back the layers to our characters in the Silo.”  

Added Matt Cherniss, head of programming for Apple TV+: “It has been enormously fulfilling to see the engrossing, atmospheric and beautifully crafted sci-fi epic Silo quickly become Apple’s No. 1 drama series. 

TVLine.com

2023/06/13

The CW is staying put in Smallville, renewing Superman & Lois for a 10-episode fourth season, TVLine has learned.

“We are thrilled to bring Superman & Lois back to The CW,” network president Brad Schwartz said in a statement, on the heels of also renewing All American: Homecoming. “These series are two of our strongest performers across our linear and digital platforms with some of the most passionate fanbases in all of television. We are grateful to our partners at Warner Bros. Television and Berlanti Productions for their continued collaboration, and we cannot wait to get started on the new seasons.” - TVLine

I haven't seen it myself yet but I do hear and read good things about it. I am just not sure if I want to get into another Superman story after the original movies, Lois & Clark, Smallville, Supergirl. It has been a bit too much if you ask me, I would rather see new versions or follow-up series of Babylon 5 or Stargate or something.

2023/05/22

Betty Gilpin’s Simone is heaven-sent in Mrs. Davis, but is the A.I.-fighting sister due for a second act? It appears not. Although a Peacock rep declined to comment, a source at the streamer confirms to TVLine that there are no plans for the acclaimed dramedy — which ended its inaugural eight-episode season on May 18 — to return for a second season.

The news was foreshadowed earlier this month with the reveal of Mrs. Davis’ abrupt Emmys strategy shift. As our sister site Variety reported, the show — which was originally set to enter the comedy series race — will now compete as a limited series. Mrs. Davis followed Gilpin’s hero nun on a nonsensical quest to find the Holy Grail in the hopes of putting an end to the titular, all-knowing algorithm, which controls half the population. Last Thursday’s finale wrapped up the show’s Season 1 arc, making it ideally suited for the limited series race.

In addition to Gilpin, the series starred Jake McDorman (Dopesick, The Right Stuff) as Wiley and Andy McQueen (Outer Banks) as Jay. David Arquette, Elizabeth Marvel, Katja Herbers, Ben Chaplin, Margo Martindale, Chris Diamantopoulos, Ashley Romans, Tom Wlaschiha and Mathilde Ollivier rounded out the ensemble.

Tara Hernandez (Big Bang Theory, Young Sheldon) and Damon Lindelof (Watchmen, The Leftovers) served as creators/EPs, with Hernandez handling showrunning duties.

Echo, meanwhile, tells the origin story of Maya Lopez aka “Echo” (played again by Hawkeye‘s Alaqua Cox), whose ruthless behavior in New York City catches up to the ex-Tracksuit Mafia leader in her hometown. In the standalone series, Maya must “face her past, reconnect with her Native American roots and embrace the meaning of family and community if she ever hopes to move forward.”

The confirmed cast also includes Vincent D’Onofrio (as Wilson Fisk/Kingpin), Chaske Spencer, Tantoo Cardinal, Devery Jacobs, Cody Lightning, Graham Greene and Zahn McClarnon.

source: TVLine

2023/05/04

For a while now JMS was teasing us with something Babylon 5! No I don't mean the reboot which future is very uncertain at the moment, no he teased us with something new, something in the Babylon 5 universe. Yesterday JMS announced on Twitter that it is concerning a Animated Babylon 5 movie: 

BABYLON 5 ANIMATED MOVIE coming from Warner Bros. Animation & WB Home Entertainment! Classic B5: raucous, heartfelt, nonstop, a ton of fun through time and space & a love letter to the fans. Movie title, release date and other details coming one week from today. #B5AnimatedMovie.

Bruce Boxleitner also worked on the animated movie and JMS made it clear that the movie already is finished and will soon be released!

2023/04/21

Few days ago we learned that Paramount+ is preparing a reboot of sorts of the movie Galaxy Quest. This has been rumored for many years now so can't say that I am very optimistic about that. Today I've read on space.com that Stargate and Robocop reboots are in the works at Amazon! Again, there have been many speculations over the years about a Stargate reboot in different forms, in 2018 there was sort of a try-out with Stargate Origins, a web series, which in my opinion, was crap. I am not particularly invested in RoboCop but there is also talk of a reboot. Like Stargate both options, a movie or a TV series, are on the table.

What I am curious about, regarding Stargate, will they continue the Stargate francize, with familiar creators or will they do something totally new. I fear it will be the latter because according to this report on space.com, Joseph Mallozzi who was a producer on every series of "Stargate" has said multiple times on Twitter when asked about the prospect of a reboot that there had been "no involvement from any of the original creatives so really no way of knowing what the show will be like, whether it will be a complete reboot or just something totally different from previous shows."

The only thing we can do is hope that they will listen to the fans instead of being stubborn and doing something totally different.

2023/04/18

Galaxy Quest has landed at Paramount+, which is developing a series adaptation of the 1999 film, our sister site Variety reports. The movie starred Tim Allen, Sigourney Weaver, Alan Rickman, Sam Rockwell, Justin Long, Tony Shalhoub and Enrico Colantoni, among others.

Paramount+ is the most recent streaming service to attempt to bring the cult film to TV. Amazon Studios tried to turn the movie into a series with the original cast in 2015, but Rickman’s death halted the project. It was then revived in August 2017 with writer and comedian Paul Scheer (The League) coming on board to pen the script, but it, ultimately, did not move forward.

Currently, producer Mark Johnson is the only member of the movie’s creative team who is attached to the latest iteration of the potential series, serving as an executive producer.

2023/04/18

Recently minted Academy Award winner Michelle Yeoh is ready to explore the murky corners of Star Trek’s Section 31 — though in a slightly different way then first anticipated.

Paramount+ announced on Tuesday that Yeoh is locked in to reprise her role as Emperor Philippa Georgiou in Star Trek: Section 31, which will now arrive in the form of a “special original movie event” for the streaming service.

Yeoh played USS Shenzhou captain Philippa Georgiou in Season 1 of Paramount+’s Star Trek: Discovery, but was killed off early on. She returned later that season as a ruthless mirror-universe counterpart, Emperor Georgiou, who wound up involved in Starfleet’s Section 31 — a covert element that was first introduced in the Deep Space Nine TV series, and played a role throughout Discovery Season 2.

2023/04/12

Well I have to admit that I didn't expect this! But it has been renewed for a second season so it seems Syfy does have some faith in the show. I did read it was getting better mid-way of the season.

Syfy plans to stay aboard The Ark, handing a Season 2 renewal to the outer space drama, TVLine has learned.

The pickup comes just hours ahead of The Ark‘s penultimate Season 1 episode, airing tonight at 10/9c. The freshman finale follows on Wednesday, April 19.

“We couldn’t be more excited to get back into space with the crew of the Ark,” co-showrunners Dean Devlin and Jonathan Glassner said in a statement. “Syfy continues to be an amazing partner and home for this series.”

Added Lisa Katz, NBCUniversal’s president of scripted programming: “The success of The Ark is just another example of delivering on a promise to provide a wide spectrum of quality shows across our linear, cable and streaming portfolios. Heading into space with Dean and Jonathan has truly been a trip worth taking and we’re tremendously excited about how this otherworldly adventure will continue in Season 2.”

2023/04/09

I was under impression this was a miniseries, a limited series, still it seems there at least was a possibility that there would be a second season, which I would welcome! Apparently it now seems that this won't become a reality in the near future.

Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy shared some disappointing news regarding the future of Obi-Wan Kenobi at Saturday’s Star Wars Celebration in London. Season 2 of the Disney+ series starring Ewan McGregor “is not an active development,” Kennedy told our sister site Variety, before adding, “But I never say never, because there’s always the possibility. That show was so well-received and [director] Deborah Chow did such a spectacular job. Ewan McGregor really wants to do another.

“Everybody’s all hands on deck with what we’re doing right now, as you can see by what we showed everybody [at the Celebration],” Kennedy continued. “We’ll turn our attention to that again maybe down the road.”

Set 10 years after the events of 2005’s Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith, Season 1 of Obi-Wan — which rolled out last summer — reunited McGregor with Hayden Christensen, who reprised his role as Vader.

2023/03/30

The streaming service announced Thursday that it has handed a series order to Star Trek: Starfleet Academy, its fifth live-action Star Trek series (and seventh Trek series overall). Franchise boss Alex Kurtzman and Noga Landau (The CW’s Nancy Drew) will serve as co-showrunners and executive producers.

“Admission is now open to Starfleet Academy!” Kurtzman and Landau said in a statement. “Explore the galaxy! Captain your destiny! For the first time in over a century, our campus will be re-opened to admit individuals a minimum of 16 Earth years (or species equivalent) who dream of exceeding their physical, mental and spiritual limits, who value friendship, camaraderie, honor and devotion to a cause greater than themselves.

“The coursework will be rigorous, the instructors among the brightest lights in their respective fields, and those accepted will live and study side-by-side with the most diverse population of students ever admitted,” the statement continues. “Today we encourage all who share our dreams, goals and values to join a new generation of visionary cadets as they take their first steps toward creating a bright future for us all. Apply today! Ex Astris, Scientia!”

2023/03/29

Netflix’s Black Knight is headed your way soon.

The streamer announced Tuesday that the dystopian action series starring Kim Woo-bin will premiere Friday, May 12. Netflix also released the official poster, which you can check out below.

Adapted from Lee Yoon-gyun’s popular webtoon series Delivery Knight, the show tells the story of the Black Knights, the delivery men “who endanger their lives to transport essentials to people in a polluted and dystopian world, where strict social hierarchy is enforced,” according to the official synopsis.

Woo-bin (Our Blues, White Christmas) leads the project as refugee Sa-wol, aka the legendary deliveryman 5-8, as he “takes on the all-powerful Cheonmyeong Group in a dystopian portrayal of Korea devastated by severe air pollution, making it uninhabitable without an oxygen mask.”

“I felt immense happiness while filming this series,” the South Korean actor and model said of the series, “and I sincerely hope that our collective efforts resonate with the viewers, and they too relish every moment of it, just as I did.”

Black Knight also stars Song Seung-heon (Dinner Mate, The Great Show), Kang You-seok (Payback, Melting Me Softly) and Esom (Taxi Driver, Save Me). Additionally, Master and Cold Eye’s Cho Ui-seok serves as both the director and writer. The series is produced by PROJECT318.

2023/03/28

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is coming back for more space adventures. Paramount+ announced Tuesday that the sci-fi series has been officially renewed for Season 3. Additionally, Season 2 will premiere on Thursday, June 15; new episodes will stream weekly.

The streamer also revealed that the animated comedy Star Trek: Lower Decks has been renewed for a 10-episode fifth season. Season 4 will premiere this summer; an exact date has not yet been revealed. Plus, the animated children’s series Star Trek: Prodigy will return for Season 2 this winter.

Set in the years before Kirk takes the helm of the U.S.S. Enterprise, Strange New Worlds follows Captain Christopher Pike (played by Anson Mount), Number One Una Chin-Riley (Rebecca Romijn) and Science Officer Spock (Ethan Peck) as they explore new worlds around the galaxy.

The crew also includes Nurse Christine Chapel (Jess Bush), La’an Noonien-Singh (Christina Chong), Cadet Nyota Uhura (Celia Rose Gooding), Dr. M’Benga (Babs Olusanmokun) and Lt. Erica Ortegas (Melissa Navia).

Vampire Diaries alum Paul Wesley, who appeared as James T. Kirk in the Season 1 finale, will recur as the future Enterprise captain in Season 2. “In the Season 1 finale, it’s a very plot-driven episode [and] we don’t really get to explore Kirk in the same way that we do in Season 2,” Wesley previously told TVLine. “It’s a younger Kirk. It’s a Kirk pre-Enterprise, and so we get to really have fun [next season].”

2023/03/28

Black Panther‘s Ryan Coogler is developing a “diverse” reboot of the classic sci-fi drama The X-Files, original series creator Chris Carter said in a recent Canadian podcast.

Carter mentioned the new project in the March 27 edition of On the Coast With Gloria Macarenko, during a segment that celebrated the 30th anniversary of the show (which shot its first five seasons in Vancouver before moving production to California).

“I just spoke to a young man, Ryan Coogler, who is going to remount The X-Files with a diverse cast,” Carter said. “So he’s got his work cut out for him, because we covered so much territory.”

A rep for 20th Television, which produced the original series and its recent two-season revival, declined comment. TVLine has reached out to Coogler and Carter, as well. TVLine, meanwhile, has learned that Coogler’s potential series would not be for Fox. (TVLine.com)

2023/03/17

The team behind Homeland is looking to bring Gattaca to Showtime.

A series based on the 1997 movie that starred Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman is in development at the cabler, with Homeland vets Alex Gansa and Howard Gordon attached as executive producers, our sister site Variety reports. The duo co-created the project with Craig Borten (Dallas Buyers Club), and Gansa will serve as showrunner if it moves forward.

The plot of the potential series is being kept under wraps. The film, which went on to reach cult status after its theater release, centered on Vincent Freeman (Hawke), an “in-valid” person who was born outside an eugenics program that screens for genetic defects. Vincent took on the identity of the genetically superior Jerome Eugene Morrow (Jude Law) to realize his dream of going into space. Thurman played Irene Cassini, Vincent’s “valid” coworker with whom he falls in love.

Source: TVLine.com

2023/03/15

A Doctor Who spinoff starring Jemma Redgrave will focus on UNIT, the fictional military research organization that has appeared in the mothership show, our sister site Deadline reports. Russell T. Davies will serve as showrunner again for the spinoff that will be released on Disney+. Redgrave will reprise her role as Kate Stewart, a character that has appeared in 10 episodes throughout the series, who is now running the UNIT.

Source: Deadline.com

2023/03/03

Well I haven't been watching Discovery for a few years now, but this only seems to be the fourth season but I have to say, this comes a bit as a surprise to me! I would have thought they would remain stubborn and keep going on! See story below:

The Paramount+ series starring Sonequa Martin-Green will end with Season 5, TVLine has learned. The final season will arrive in early 2024.

“As lifelong fans of Star Trek, it has been an immense honor and privilege to help bring Star Trek: Discovery to the world,” executive producers and co-showrunners Alex Kurtzman and Michelle Paradise said in a statement. “The ‘Trek’ universe means so much to so many — including us — and we couldn’t be prouder of everything Discovery has contributed to its legacy, particularly with representation. If just one person sees themselves, or the possibilities for their future, in a new way because of Discovery, then we think we’d have made Gene Roddenberry very proud.”

The duo continued, “To the fans around the world, thank you for joining us on this incredible journey. Your love for these characters and your excitement for every episode, every season, has meant the world to us. We can’t wait for you to see what we’ve been working on for this final season; we appreciate your patience in the meantime and trust us when we say it’ll be worth the wait. We love you all! LLAP”

After convincing Ten-C to stop using their galaxy-destroying DMA at the end of Season 4, the farewell run finds Captain Burnham (Martin-Green) and the crew of the U.S.S. Discovery uncovering a mystery that “sends them on an epic adventure across the galaxy to find an ancient power whose very existence has been deliberately hidden for centuries,” per the official description. “But there are others on the hunt as well, dangerous foes who are desperate to claim the prize for themselves and will stop at nothing to get it.”

2023/03/02

Haven't seen this myself, it however is a time-travel drama, so there I thought it belongs here. The Way Home has been renewed for a second season!

The time-traveling family drama, starring Andie MacDowell and Chyler Leigh, has been picked up for Season 2, TVLine has learned.

The show “tells the story of three generations of women — Kat Landry (Supergirl vet Leigh), her teen Alice (Sadie Laflamme-Snow) and Kat’s mother Del (Cedar Cove‘s MacDowell) — who are all strong, willful and independent,” per the official synopsis.

“More than 20 years prior, lifechanging events prompted Kat to move away from her small, Canadian farm town and she remains estranged from Del to this day,” the description continues. “At a crossroads in her life, Kat moves back with Alice to her family’s farm though the reunion isn’t what Kat envisioned. When Alice and Kat unwittingly discover the ability to travel between the past and present, mother and daughter are determined to unearth the truth around the earlier tragedies as they try to change the course of events. Kat’s childhood friend Elliot (Awkward‘s Evan Williams) is there for them in both eras as they navigate their journeys across time, helping the three women find their way back to each other.”

The cast also includes Alex Hook (I Am Frankie), Al Mukadam (Pretty Hard Cases), Jefferson Brown (When Hope Calls) and David Webster (In the Dark). (source TVLine.com)

2023/02/11

This is a real shame, but it was expected, at least by myself. Avenue 5 ran for two short seasons, 2.5 years apart from each other. It was fun, quirky, either you loved it, or hated it. 

Avenue 5‘s journey through outer space has ended: HBO has cancelled the sci-fi comedy starring Hugh Laurie after two seasons, TVLine has learned.

“Going to space with Armando Iannucci has been an incredible journey,” an HBO spokesperson said in a statement. “While we will not be moving forward with a third season of Avenue 5, we look forward to many more adventures together.”

Avenue 5 starred Laurie as the captain of a interplanetary cruise ship that got knocked off course and had to find a way to survive with angry passengers and dwindling supplies. Josh Gad co-starred as the ship’s billionaire owner, with Zach Woods as the ship’s head of customer relations. Rebecca Front, Suzy Nakamura, Lenora Crichlow, Nikki Amuka-Bird and Ethan Phillips led the supporting cast. Veep creator Armando Iannucci created the series and served as an executive producer.

Debuting in January 2020 with a nine-episode freshman season, Avenue 5 was renewed for Season 2 a month later, but didn’t return until two and a half years after that due to COVID-related production delays. The eight-episode sophomore season wrapped up this past November.

2023/02/09

Flynne Fisher’s complicated future will continue to unravel: Prime Video has renewed The Peripheral for Season 2, the streamer announced Thursday.

“We are thrilled to continue the journey into Season 2 and delve deeper into the incredible world that [author William] Gibson created,” creators Lisa Joy and Jonathan Nolan said in a statement. “On behalf of Scott Smith, Vincenzo Natali and the entire team, we’re grateful to our partners at Amazon and, most of all, to the fans.”

Based on the bestselling novel by sci-fi pioneer Gibson, The Peripheral follows the aforementioned Flynn (Kickass‘ Chloë Grace Moretz), a smart young woman who’s stuck in a dead-end town until she gets a taste of a new path courtesy of a virtual reality-esque headset. But that supposedly fictional reality turns out to be more real than ever, as she’s pulled into a strange world of knife-wielding robot chauffeurs, disappearing cars and ear-shattering explosions.

TVLine.com

2023/01/31

Good news, La Brea, currently in the middle of its second season, gets an early renewal! I have to be honest I didn't expect this! 

NBC is staying put in the land(s) Down Under, having given an early Season 3 renewal to La Brea — just as the back half of Season 2 kicks off tonight at 9/8c, with back-to-back episodes.

TVLine hears that the initial Season 3 order is for just six episodes, though that could be increased down the road.

Through the first half of its 14-episode sophomore run, La Brea is averaging 5.4 million total weekly viewers and a 0.6 demo rating (with Live+7 playback), ranking seventh among all NBC dramas behind the mighty #OneChicago trio and the Law & Order franchise.

La Brea when it first bowed in September 2021 followed Eve Harris (played by Natalie Zea) and her son Josh (Jack Martin) as they and others who had toppled into a mysterious Los Angeles sinkhole navigated the strange world they had oh-so-gingerly landed in. Meanwhile, above ground, Eve’s estranged husband Gavin (Eoin Macken) and their daughter Izzy (Zyra Gorecki) tried to make sense of what happened, while also puzzling over how Gavin’s “visions” fit into it all.

When last we tuned into the Australia-based production, Eve, Gavin, Josh, Izzy, Gavin’s mom Caroline, Riley and Sam had outwitted a team of Lazarus agents to leap out of 1988 and return to 10,000 B.C. When Season 2 resumes this Tuesday night, they will aim to breach the Lazarus Tower and upload Caroline’s computer virus that will stop all sinkholes — despite knowing that this means they will never get home again. Sam and Riley, however, are resolved to squeezing in a trip back to present day L.A. before said portal gets shut down.

2023/01/31

Hulu has cancelled Kindred, the adaption of Octavia E. Butler’s celebrated novel, according to The Hollywood Reporter. TVLine has reached out to Hulu for confirmation.

The story follows Dana James (WeCrashed’s Mallori Johnson), a young Black woman and aspiring soap writer who has “uprooted her life of familial obligation and relocated to Los Angeles, ready to claim a future that, for once, feels all her own,” per the official synopsis. “But, before she can settle into her new home, she finds herself being violently pulled back and forth in time. She emerges at a nineteenth-century plantation, a place remarkably and intimately linked with Dana and her family.”

Season 1 ended with Dana returning to 2016 after being violently whipped by Thomas (True Blood’s Ryan Kwanten), where she concluded that keeping Rufus alive until her next ancestor was born might make the jumps stop. As Dana braced for a return to the past, Denise received a startling phone call from Alan: Olivia had been found… in the present. (Read our full finale recap here.)

Source: TVLine.com

2023/01/27

After only two episodes into the first season, HBO renewed The Last of Us for season two! 

HBO has renewed its buzzy video-game adaptation for Season 2, TVLine has learned. The sweeping, post-apocalyptic drama is set decades after a fungal outbreak has turned the better part of the global population into zombie-like creatures known as “infected.” Pedro Pascal (The Mandalorian) as stars as Joe, a grieving man tasked with transporting a teen girl named Ellie (played by Game of Thrones‘ Bella Ramsey) who appears to be immune to the fungus’ terrifying effects. Craig Mazin (Chernobyl) and Neil Druckmann, who created The Last of Us video games, serve as executive producers.

“I’m humbled, honored, and frankly overwhelmed that so many people have tuned in and connected with our retelling of Joel and Ellie’s journey. The collaboration with Craig Mazin, our incredible cast & crew, and HBO exceeded my already high expectations,” Druckmann said via statement. “Now we have the absolute pleasure of being able to do it again with season two! On behalf of everyone at Naughty Dog and PlayStation, thank you!”

Mazin added via statement: “I’m so grateful to Neil Druckmann and HBO for our partnership, and I’m even more grateful to the millions of people who have joined us on this journey… The audience has given us the chance to continue, and as a fan of the characters and world Neil and Naughty Dog created, I couldn’t be more ready to dive back in.”

Source: TVLine

2023/01/26

Both shows will come to an end when their respective fourth seasons wrap up later this year, our sister site Deadline reports.

“While these will be the final seasons of Titans and Doom Patrol, we are very proud of these series and excited for fans to see their climactic endings,” an HBO Max spokesperson said in a statement to the trade.

UPDATE: James Gunn, who in November became CEO of DC Studios with Peter Safran, noted on Twitter, “The decision to end the series precedes us. But I certainly wish the best for the talented group of creators, actors, and the rest of the crew that produced both shows.”

Titans offers up a gritty take on the Teen Titans franchise as a group of strangers — including Dick Grayson aka Nightwing (played by Brenton Thwaites), Rachel Roth (Teagon Croft), Kori aka Starfire (Anna Diop) and Beast Boy (Ryan Potter) — team up to fight evil and become a surrogate family in the process.

Season 4 found the gang investigating a dark prophecy in Metropolis, which is Superman’s home turf. The fall finale, which aired in December, ended with Sebastian (The Originals’ Joseph Morgan) completing his fulfillment of the Red Moon ritual.

Meanwhile, Doom Patrol centers on a group of offbeat superheroes who all survived horrific accidents and assembled to investigate the strange happenings of the world. The team includes Rita (April Bowlby), Cliff aka Robotman (Brendan Fraser), Crazy Jane (Diane Guerrero), Larry aka Negative Man (Matt Bomer) and Cyborg (Jovian Wade). The midseason finale teased the apocalypse to end all apocalypses as the gang gears up for a fight against the big baddie Immortus.

Source: TVLine

2023/01/14

Didn't see that coming, Snowpiercer cancelled! It already would have been its final season but that won't happen now either, which is a slap on the face for the cast & crew and also for the fans of this show. It will be shopped around, to other networks but we all know this usually is a slim chance of succeeding, but still, you never know.

The fourth and final season of Snowpiercer, TNT’s sole surviving original series, won’t air on the cabler after all. The news come barely a week after Warner Bros. Discovery CFO Gunnar Wiedenfels claimed “we’re done with that chapter” in which numerous shows under the company umbrella were cancelled, scrapped, un-renewed or unceremoniously removed from HBO Max.

“We can confirm that TNT will not air Season 4 of Snowpiercer,” reads a statement from a network spokesperson. “This was a difficult decision, but our admiration for the talented writers, actors and crew who brought Snowpiercer’s extraordinary post-apocalyptic world to life remains strong. We have been working collaboratively with the producers since last year to help the series find a new home where fans can continue to enjoy the compelling story and exceptional visual experience. We look forward to working with them on future projects.”

2023/01/13

Looking forward to this, to be honest, did not think it would become a series because it took so long but now finally there seems to be some progress!

The Alien franchise certainly isn't dormant, with Ridley Scott currently exec producing the next installment of the Xenomorph film mythology from director Fede Álvarez. But arguably the most interesting continuation of the franchise is writer/director Noah Hawley's still untitled FX series that's been in development since 2020. At today's Television Critics Association Winter press day for FX (attended by SYFY WIRE), John Landgraf, Chairman of FX Content and & FX Productions, gave an overall update on their upcoming slate of 23 series in 2023, including the status of Hawley's series.

Unfortunately, the Alien series will not be one of the 23 shows slated to premiere because Hawley's fifth season of Fargo is on deck first. As the showrunner and a director for Fargo Season 5 — which will star Juno Temple and Jon Hamm — Hawley intends to fill the same roles for the Alien series, which means he wasn't able to juggle both projects at the same time.

However, Landgraf confirms that Hawley has written all the scripts for the Alien series, which have been read and reviewed by the studio. And as the production on Fargo winds down, the Alien series is now in "active pre-production." Landgraf said, "He's meeting with the production designer now. And it starts production this year." With that timeline, a 2024 premiere could be in the cards.

2023/01/10

Good news! The second season of "From" has been announced! It will be returning in about 3 months and a bit, on April 23, 2023. This seems far away but we will be there before you know it. For me this show was one of the surprises of 2022!

The contemporary sci-fi horror series will kick off its second season on Sunday April 23, it was announced at the Television Critics Association winter press tour in Pasadena. Created by John Griffin, who executive-produces alongside Jack Bender (Lost, Game of Thrones) and Jeff Pinkner (Lost, Fringe), FROM unravels the mystery of a nightmarish town that traps all those who enter.

In Season 2, “hidden truths about the nature and terrifying origins of the town begin to emerge, even as life for its residents is plunged into chaos by the arrival of mysterious newcomers” aboard a bus that pulled into town at the very end of Season 1. On the casting front for Season 2, Scott McCord has been upped to series regular status, as Victor. Additionally, these new series regulars appear as passengers aboard the aforementioned bus: A.J. Simmons (Reacher), Angela Moore (Nancy Drew), Deborah Grover (Anne With an E), Kaelen Ohm (Hit & Run) and newcomer Nathan D. Simmons.

2012/12/16

Now that he’s hung up his Superman cape, Henry Cavill is diving into another adaptation: The former Witcher star is set to headline an Amazon series based on Warhammer 40,000, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

The series — which is still in early development, with no writers attached yet — springs from the popular board game, set 40,000 years in the future where humans are locked in a never-ending war with aliens and magical beings. (Cavill is reportedly a Warhammer fan and even paints the game’s miniature figures himself.) Amazon is in final talks to lock down the rights to the game after a lengthy bidding war.

Cavill is best known for playing Clark Kent/Superman in big-screen blockbusters like Man of Steel and Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. He’s no longer playing the role on the big screen, however, after new DC boss James Gunn announced the next Superman film will feature a younger actor playing the famed superhero.

He also starred as Geralt of Rivia in Netflix’s hit video game adaptation The Witcher, which debuted on the streamer in 2019. But in October, Netflix announced that Cavill would not be returning for the show’s fourth season, with Liam Hemsworth taking over the role of Geralt. (Despite the Superman news, Cavill will not be coming back to The Witcher to reclaim the lead role, TVLine has confirmed.) Cavill’s other credits include The Tudors, The Man From U.N.C.L.E. and Enola Holmes.

2022/12/13

It looks like Ben Song will be stuck traveling through space and time for another season: Quantum Leap has been renewed for Season 2 at NBC, TVLine has learned.

“We’re leaping into a second season thanks to the incredible work by our cast, producers, writers and everyone who has played a role in giving this iconic NBC series a new life,” NBCUniversal Television and Streaming’s president of scripted content Lisa Katz said in a statement. “As we continue to bring audiences to our must-watch dramas, it’s gratifying to know Quantum Leap will have a prominent place next season both on our NBC schedule and next day on Peacock.”

Set 30 years after Sam Beckett (played in the original series by Scott Bakula) vanished in the Quantum Leap accelerator, the new Leap follows a new team assembled to restart the project. Everything changed, though, when Ben (played by Raymond Lee) made an unauthorized leap into the past, leaving his team behind to solve the mystery of why he did it.

Herbert “Magic” Williams (Ernie Hudson), who Beckett leapt into during the Vietnam War, leads the crew working diligently to bring Ben home. Others include Ben’s fiancée Addison (Caitlin Bassett), a decorated Army vet who appears as a hologram only Ben can see and hear whilst leaping; Ian Wright (Cowboy Bebop’s Mason Alexander Park), who runs the Artificial Intelligence unit “Ziggy”; and Jenn Chou (Bosch’s Nanrisa Lee), who leads digital security for the project.

2022/12/13

Joss Whedon’s The Nevers is being pulled from HBO Max, TVLine has confirmed, essentially bringing the HBO sci-fi drama to an end after one season.

Only the first half of the show’s 12-episode order has aired, and Variety reports that the remaining six could eventually stream on another platform The Nevers was set in the last years of Queen Victoria’s reign, as London is beset by the “Touched”: people, mostly women, who suddenly manifest abnormal abilities — some charming, some disturbing.

Among the Touched were Amalia True (Outlander‘s Laura Donnelly) and Penance Adair (Red Rock‘s Ann Skelly). “They are the champions of this new underclass,” the show’s official synopsis reads, “making a home for the Touched, while fighting the forces of… well, pretty much all the forces — to make room for those whom history as we know it has no place.”

Whedon — who stepped away from the day-to-day of the project in Nov. 2020, saying he was “genuinely exhausted” — created the series and executive-produced it with Bernadette Caulfield, Ilene S. Landress, Doug Petrie, Jane Espenson and Philippa Goslett, who took over as showrunner following Whedon’s departure.

2022/12/08

Mike Flanagan is hitting the ground running at Amazon. Just days after announcing that he was fleeing his longtime perch at Netflix for Amazon Studios, the man behind the Haunting franchise and Midnight Mass has revealed that one of the first projects he and producing partner Trevor Macy are eyeing is a series adaptation of Stephen King’s The Dark Tower.

“We view it as a as a series that’s going at least five seasons” followed by two standalone films, Flanagan tells our sister site Deadline. “I have an enormous amount of it worked out in my brain… I have a pilot script I’m thrilled with and a very detailed outline for the first season and a broader outline for the subsequent seasons. I think eventually, if we’re able to get it going, there are some other writers I want to fold into that process whom I’ve worked with before; I think they would be really fabulous for a very small, intimate writers room where we can continue to break it.

“The pilot script is one of my favorite things I’ve ever gotten to work on,” the auteur adds. “It’s been surreal working on that. So we’ve been floored and grateful that Stephen King trusts us with such an undertaking, something so precious to him.”

Flanagan is careful to note that this potential new iteration of Dark Tower may or may not end up at Prime Video. “We actually have those rights carved out of our Amazon deal, which doesn’t mean that they can’t or won’t get behind it at some point — you don’t know,” he explains, adding, that it’s “something we’ve been developing ourselves and are really passionate about finally getting it up on its feet at some point.”

TVLine.com

2022/12/06

Matt Murdock is getting a new series and… a new girlfriend?As reported by our sister pub Deadline, Margarita Levieva (Revenge, The Deuce) is joining Daredevil: Born Again, Marvel’s upcoming revival series on Disney+, as a possible love interest for Charlie Cox’s titular hero. Additionally, Sandrine Holt (American Gigolo) is also boarding the ensemble, possibly as a new romantic squeeze for Vincent D’Onofrio’s returning mob boss Wilson Fisk (aka Kingpin).

Born Again‘s 18-episode first season, which is being written and executive-produced by writing duo Matt Corman and Chris Ord (Covert Affairs), is set to bow on Disney+ in Spring 2024 — as part of the newly detailed Phase 5 of the MCU. The cast also includes Michael Gandolfini, who starred as a young Tony Soprano in the Sopranos prequel film The Many Saints of Newark.

Cox starred as the titular superhero in Netflix’s Daredevil for three seasons until its cancellation in 2018. He made a surprise cameo as Murdoch in the 2021 film Spider-Man: No Way Home and most recently suited up as Daredevil for the live-action series She-Hulk: Attorney at Law.

D’Onofrio, meanwhile, appeared as Fisk in the Disney+ series Hawkeye, where he was last seen being confronted by Maya Lopez, aka Echo (Alaqua Cox), in an alleyway. TVLine.com

2022/12/04

Only a couple of days ago I told you here that Moonhaven was renewed for season two! It was a news item from July but I only found out 2 days ago. Today, yeah really, on TVLine.com it is announced the the renewal is reversed! In other words, Moonhaven is CANCELLED, no season 2! This sucks!

AMC+ will not be returning to the colony of Moonhaven, cancelling the sci-fi series after it had previously renewed the show for a second season in July 2022. Per our sister site Deadline, which first reported the news, the unrenewal/cancellation comes as part of programming write-downs by AMC Networks.

From writer-producer Peter Ocko (Lodge 49, Black Sails), Moonhaven centered on Bella Sway (played by newcomer Emma McDonald), a lunar cargo pilot and smuggler 100 years in the future who finds herself accused of a crime and marooned on Moonhaven, a utopian community set on a 500 square mile Garden of Eden built on the Moon to find solutions to the problems that will soon end civilization on Mother Earth. A skeptic in Paradise, Bella is sucked into a conspiracy to gain control of the artificial intelligence responsible for Moonhaven’s miracles and teams with a local detective to stop the forces that want to destroy Earth’s last hope before they are destroyed themselves.

The cast also includeded Dominic Monaghan, Joe Manganiello, Kadeem Hardison, Amara Karan and Ayelet Zurer.

2022/12/01

The adventures of the Mandalorian and Grogu, which were originally expected to resume in February 2023, now won’t get underway until Wednesday, March 1, Disney+ announced on Twitter. The news comes on the heels of the live-action Star Wars series Andor recently wrapping its freshman run — and landing on TVLine’s list of the 20 Best Shows of 2022.

The Mandalorian‘s freshman run spanned November/December of 2019, followed by a sophomore season that unspooled a year later. The series’ Season 2 finale famously featured the CGI-assisted return of Star Wars vet Mark Hamill, as a post-ROTJ Luke Skywalker, who came looking for Grogu to properly train the Force-sensitive rugrat.

Mando (played by Pedro Pascal), Grogu, Luke and Ahsoka Tano (spinoff-bound Rosario Dawson) also figured into episodes of this year’s The Book of Boba Fett, in which Grogu made the difficult decision to forego formal Jedi training, bid Luke adieu, and return to Mando’s side.

Given the events of The Book of Boba Fett Episode 5 — where Din Djarin was told by the Armorer that he “is a Mandalorian no more,” because he had removed his helmet/shown his face to others — and judging by The Mandalorian’s Season 3 trailer, Disney+’s flagship Star Wars series next will find Mando, with Grogu in tow, zipping around in his Naboo N-1 starfighter and aiming to reclaim his status by visiting the “living waters” in the mines under Mandalore. Something which Bo Katan might not be too keen about!

Confirmed returning cast members include Pedro Pascal, Katee Sackhoff, Carl Weathers, Emily Swallow, Amy Sedaris and Giancarlo Esposito.

2022/11/25

Two milestones

Last week this website had two milestones! First one, on November 17 this website is 2 years online. As you might know, for a period of 10 months not much happened due to personal circumstances. However since early August 2022 the website is being updated on a daily basis again and since then people also started coming back to it.

I am proud to see that last week this website had its 2500^th visitor! This may no mean much to some but to me it does! I mean without any advertising this website continues to be visited by SCI-FI fans. So I will keep going on with bringing you news about SCI-FI, write blogs about my (re) watches, anniversaries and such.

Thank you!

2022/11/17

I don't know if indeed this is a bad sign but it sure is a pity to cut down from 12 to 8 episodes. And here I was thinking that Resident Alien is the only succesful show currently but apparently this isn't the case it seems. Would be a shame if this shortened  third season would be it's last, but as SCI-FI fans we are used to it unfortunately.

Could this be a bad omen for Resident Alien? The order for the Syfy series’ upcoming third season has been reduced from 12 episodes to 8, our sister site Deadline reports.

The show, which stars Alan Tudyk, consisted of 10 episodes in its first season, while Season 2 was split up into two halves, totaling 16 installments. The series received a 12-episode renewal for Season 3 in July, ahead of its return for the back half of Season 2, which saw a ratings decline, per Deadline.

For scoop on what’s ahead in the abbreviated third season, check out TVLine’s post mortem Q&A with creator Chris Sheridan. - TVLine.com

2022/11/09

Netflix has cancelled The Imperfects after one season, TVLine has confirmed. This is the second series to be axed by Netflix on Tuesday, following the cancellation of Partner Track.

The Imperfects focused on three twenty-somethings — one of whom was played by Designated Survivor‘s Italia Ricci — who undergo an experiment gene therapy that turns them into monsters. In the aftermath, the trio must “band together to hunt down the scientist responsible and force him to make them human again,” per to the official logline.

The cast also included Rhianna Jagpal (To All The Boys 3) as Abbi Singh; Iñaki Godoy (Who Killed Sara?) as Juan Ruiz; Morgan Taylor Campbell (Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist) as Tilda Weber; Rhys Nicholson (the upcoming RuPaul’s Drag Race: Down Under) as Dr. Alex Sarkov; Kyra Zagorsky (The 100, Helix) as Isabel Finch; and Celina Martin (The Other Kingdom) as Hannah Moore. Source: TVLine.com

2022/11/05

Westworld cancelled after 4 seasons! To be honest I already thought the 4th season would be its final season somehow. But apparently this was not the case now that HBO it officially announced the cancellation! News item below from TVLine.com

The announcement was made on Friday afternoon — nearly 12 weeks following the airing of Season 4’s finale, which saw Hale (played by Tessa Thompson) best William (Ed Harris) and then crush his pearl into dust, while Christina (Evan Rachel Wood) used the Sublime to return to the titular Westworld for “one last loop around the bend,” where in a bit of narration she shared her hope that “maybe this time, we’ll set ourselves free.”

Maybe! But now, who is to say?

As recently as last month, Jonathan Nolan, who showran the series with producing partner Lisa Joy, said, “We had always conceived of a fifth and final season,” adding, “We’re still in conversations with the network.”

But HBO on Friday issued a statement that said, “Over the past four seasons, Lisa and Jonah have taken viewers on a mind-bending odyssey, raising the bar at every step. We are tremendously grateful to them, along with their immensely talented cast, producers and crew, and all of our partners at Kilter Films, Bad Robot and Warner Bros. Television. It’s been a thrill to join them on this journey.”

Nolan and Joy’s Kilter Films in turn issued a statement saying, “Making Westworld has been one of the highlights of our careers. We are deeply grateful to our extraordinary cast and crew for creating these indelible characters and brilliant worlds. We’ve been privileged to tell these stories about the future of consciousness — both human and beyond — in the brief window of time before our AI overlords forbid us from doing so.”

Based on the 1973 sci-fi film written by Michael Crichton and created for television by Nolan and Joy, Westworld since its October 2016 debut has evolved to deliver a dark odyssey about the dawn of artificial consciousness and the question of free will.

2022/11/04

There is no end to The Dreaming at Netflix: The Sandman has been renewed for what the streamer is referring to as “more episodes and stories to be adapted
from multiple graphic novels.”

Netflix is specifically not referring to this as a second season.

“Millions upon millions of people have welcomed and watched and loved The Sandman on Netflix, from established Sandman fans to people who were simply curious, and then became obsessed with the Lord of Dreams, his family and their goings-on,” creator Neil Gaiman says in a statement. “It gives me unbelievable pleasure to say that, working with Netflix and Warner Bros., Allan Heinberg, David Goyer and I will be bringing even more of The Sandman stories to life. There are some astonishing stories waiting for Morpheus and the rest of them (not to mention more members of the Endless Family to meet). Nobody is going to be happier about this than the Sandman cast and crew: they are the biggest Sandman fans there are. And now it’s time to get back to work. There’s a family meal ahead, after all. And Lucifer is waiting for Morpheus to return to Hell…”

The series follows Morpheus (played by Tom Sturridge), lord of a mystical realm known as The Dreaming, who is the keeper of all of humanity’s dreams (and nightmares). He and his siblings — Death, Desire, Despair, etc. — are collectively known as The Endless: embodiments of the concepts they represent. The cast includes Gwendoline Christie, Kirby Howell-Baptiste, Boyd Holbrook, Jenna Coleman, David Thewlis, Steven Fry and Vanesu Samunyai.

2022/10/31

The actor, who previously played Doctor Manhattan in HBO’s Watchmen series and currently appears as Black Manta in the Aquaman films, has been cast as Disney+’s titular Wonder Man, our sister site Deadline reports.

First introduced in 1964, Wonder Man (aka Simon Williams) has been depicted as a gifted engineer who gains superhuman abilities and becomes an enemy of The Avengers, though he has also fought alongside the Marvel team in multiple capacities.

Destin Daniel Cretton (Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings) and writer-producer Andrew Guest (Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Community) are developing the live-action series about the longtime Marvel character, with Guest serving as head writer. Filming reportedly could commence as early as 2023.

Though specific details about the show’s plot remain under wraps, Ben Kingsley is reportedly reprising his role as the villainous Trevor Slattery, a character he previously played on the big screen in Iron Man 3 and Shang-Chi.

TVLine.com

2022/10/31

Haven't seen anything of Stargirl to be honest. I thinking of checking it out but there is so much other stuff I prefer to watch at the moment that I still hadn't got around to it. And today the CW announces it is cancelled. Creator Geoff Johns Promises 'Complete Closure' at End of Season 3.

DC’s Stargirl will power down after its current, 13-episode season, it was announced on Monday morning.

The not-entirely-surprising cancellation news comes eight episodes into Season 3 of the superhero team-up series, which has been averaging 660,000 total viewers and a 0.1 demo rating (with Live+7 DVR playback) — down 25 and 50 percent from its sophomore run.

The news also comes less than a week after it was announced that Nancy Drew will be entering its final season in 2023, as will The Flash and Riverdale. Earlier this month, the Nexstar group took control of The CW, resulting in the exit of longtime CEO Mark Pedowitz and many other changes as the network steers toward targeting an older audience.

In a statement, executive producer Geoff Johns — who based the character of Courtney Whitmore off his late sister — said, “Stargirl has always held a special place in my heart for many reasons.

“With all the brewing changes at the network, we were aware this was possibly the last season,” he shared, “so we wrote with that in mind and have delivered what I believe to be the best season of Stargirl yet, with complete creative closure.”

Of note, as you read Johns’ words: Stargirl wrapped filming on Season 3 back in March. TVLine.com

2022/10/29

Vision is eyeing his own TV series: Marvel is developing a WandaVision spinoff for Disney+ with Paul Bettany set to reprise his role as Vision, according to our sister site Deadline.

The series — tentatively titled Vision Quest, with a writers’ room reportedly starting up next week — will be about Vision “trying to regain his memory and humanity” after the events of WandaVision. (Viewers will remember that Vision, after his death in Avengers: Infinity War, was resurrected as part of his wife Wanda’s sitcom dream world, while the original Vision was reconstructed and reactivated by S.W.O.R.D.) An appearance by Elizabeth Olsen as Wanda on the spinoff is still a possibility, per Deadline, but the series will focus on Bettany’s Vision.

WandaVision creator Jac Schaeffer is set to serve as showrunner on the Vision spinoff as well. Another WandaVision spinoff, Agatha: Coven of Chaos — with Kathryn Hahn reprising her role as the titular witch — is already slated to debut in the winter of 2023-24.

Bettany played android Vision in the Avengers films and then opposite Olsen’s Wanda in WandaVision, which debuted in January 2021 as the first of Disney+’s Marvel series. (Bettany earned an Emmy nomination for the role.) His other TV roles include A Very British Scandal and Manhunt: Unabomber.

TVLine.com

2022/10/11

Well now it has been finally announced, I was waiting for it for quite a while, The Man Who Fell to Earth hasn't been renewed for a second season. I believe, as I read the story, it sort of was intended to be a one-season project, limited series. There was some consideration to do more seasons but ultimately it was decided not to which is a pity, really loved it, great acting, great story but it will stay with only one season unfortuately. See below full article or on source: TV Line.com

Though Showtime “flirted with the idea” of expanding The Man Who Fell to Earth into additional seasons, the network has “ultimately decided to embrace it as a one season story well told.”

“Our thanks to the extraordinary Alex Kurtzman, Jenny Lumet, John Hlavin and Sarah Timberman who did a great job of turning the David Bowie film into such a resonant tale for our times,” a Showtime spokesperson tells The Hollywood Reporter. “And kudos to a wondrous cast led by Chiwetel Ejiofor, Naomie Harris and Bill Nighy for bringing it to life. Alex and Jenny originally intended The Man Who Fell To Earth to be a close-ended story. While we flirted with the idea of expanding it into a second season, we all ultimately decided to embrace it as a one season story well told.”

Inspired by both the 1963 Walter Tevis novel and the iconic 1976 Bowie film, The Man Who Fell to Earth starred Academy Award nominees Chiwetel Ejiofor (12 Years a Slave) and Naomie Harris (Moonlight) as the titular alien, named Faraday, and Justin Falls, a brilliant scientist and engineer.

The Man Who Fell to Earth was executive-produced by co-showrunners Kurtzman and Lumet (Star Trek: Discovery), Hlavin (TV’s Shooter), Timberman, Carl Beverly, Heather Kadin, Aaron Baiers, Ejiofor, Rola Bauer and Françoise Guyonnet. Its final episode aired July 3.

2022/09/17

2000+ visitors, 13,000+ page views, average 6,54 per visitor

Two months shy of two years since this website is online and knowing that for about 10 months there was little to no update on this website, I am still happy to see that the last two months, since the website is operational again, it reached its 2000^th visitor!

Together these 2000 visitors have watched more than 13,000 pages, average at this moment of 6.54 pages per visitor, which is also an increase from when this website had its 1000^th visitor, which had an average of 5.69 page per visitor (5,600+ pages). I am happy that without much advertising, people come and visit this website, I hope you continue to visit and please if you have any comments you can always leave it behind on any page at the bottom. I want also to thank www.jouwweb.nl for making this possible.

So I want to thank you all, who visited this website since November 2020, when it first came online, and who came back early August 2022, when I jump-started this website. I hope at least some of you keep coming back in the future. I will do my best to keep you informed about news about SCI-FI TV shows and again bore you with my rewatch, anniversary and other blogs! :-)

2022/09/15

Blade Runner 2099, ordered by amazon as a TV show, this is interesting, although perhaps not original I'm still mildly curious about this new show. See full article below or on TVLine.com.

Prime Video announced Thursday that it has formally ordered the new live-action limited series Blade Runner 2099, with Ridley Scott on board as an executive producer. Silka Luisa (Shining Girls) will serve as showrunner, while Michael Green (Blade Runner 2049) will serve as a non-writing EP.

“The original Blade Runner, directed by Ridley Scott, is considered one of the greatest and most influential science-fiction movies of all time, and we’re excited to introduce Blade Runner 2099 to our global Prime Video customers,” Amazon Studios’ head of global television Vernon Sanders said in a statement. “We are honored to be able to present this continuation of the Blade Runner franchise, and are confident that by teaming up with Ridley, Alcon Entertainment, Scott Free Productions, and the remarkably talented Silka Luisa, Blade Runner 2099 will uphold the intellect, themes, and spirit of its film predecessors.”

Added Alcon Entertainment co-CEOs Andrew Kosove and Broderick Johnson: “We are delighted to continue our working relationship with our friends at Amazon. And we are beyond excited to continue to extend the Blade Runner canon into a new realm with the provocative storyline that Silka has created. Audiences first discovered Ridley Scott’s brilliant vision for Blade Runner 40 years ago, and since then, it has become one of the most influential science-fiction films of all time. Denis Villeneuve’s follow-up sequel, Blade Runner 2049, then became one of the best reviewed sequels of all time. So, we recognize that we have a very high bar to meet with this next installment. Together with Silka and our partners at Amazon, and Scott Free Productions, we hope that we can live up to that standard and delight audiences with the next generation of Blade Runner.”

2022/09/12

I've have just been watching this podcast about the future of Stargate and there is some concern that Amazon perhaps is going for a new Stargate show without Brad Wright, which of course is impossible. But as you can see in this video you'll see that Brad Wright himself is frustrated at the moment and  I don't think he expects that his pilot script will see the light of day, which would be unacceptable if you ask me.

There are ways you as a Stargate fan can help, first you can sign a petition here, second you can let amazon know @amazonstudios, you want Stargate back #WEWANTSTARGATE, Brad Wright's Stargate of course! #BRADWRIGHTSTARGATE. You probably think: this won't help one bit. But Amazon apparently is monitoring social media to "feel" what is the general concensus, what do the fans want, so perhaps this will help, nothing is certain, but doing nothing certainly won't help!

2022/09/08

The Handmaid's Tale, which will starts its 5th season next week on September 14th, has been renewed for a 6th and final season. Showrunner Bruce Miller also confirmed that there will be a spin-off called The Testaments that is set years after the original.

TVLine:

The Lord giveth, and He taketh away: The Handmaid’s Tale has been renewed for Season 6, which also will be its last hurrah.
Hulu announced the dystopian drama’s fate Thursday at the Season 5 premiere event, which took place at the Toronto International Film Festival.

In addition, the streamer confirmed that Handmaid’s showrunner Bruce Miller is “actively developing” a sequel series, based on Margaret Atwood’s novel The Testaments, that picks up years after the events of the original show.
The Handmaid’s Tale Season 5 begins streaming on Wednesday, Sept. 14, with a two-episode premiere. Single episodes will follow weekly. 

Per the official Season 5 synopsis: “June faces consequences for killing Commander Waterford while struggling to redefine her identity and purpose. The widowed Serena attempts to raise her profile in Toronto as Gilead’s influence creeps into Canada. Commander Lawrence works with Nick and Aunt Lydia as he tries to reform Gilead and rise in power. June, Luke and Moira fight Gilead from a distance as they continue their mission to save and reunite with Hannah.”

2022/08/26

Mere weeks after Resident Evil came to Netflix with its first season, Netflix cancels the show! Really didn't expect a verdict so early but it did! I was going to check it out but now I am not so sure if it has any value! See Article below, source TVLine.com.

That’s a wrap for Resident Evil at Netflix.

The apocalyptic series has been cancelled after one season, TVline has confirmed. (Our sister site Deadline was the first to report the news.) Resident Evil centered on Dr. Albert Wesker’s (played by Lance Reddick) creation of the pharmaceutical drug Joy (containing the T-virus) and the apocalyptic aftermath it creates 14 years later.

The eight-episode series followed Albert’s daughter Jade Wesker (Charlie’s Angels’ Ella Balinska) in her fight for survival in a “world overrun by the blood-thirsty infected and mind-shattering creatures,” per the official synopsis. Amid this absolute carnage, Jade is “haunted by her past in New Raccoon City, by her father’s chilling connections to the sinister Umbrella Corporation, but mostly by what happened to her sister, Billie (Adeline Rudolph).”

Season 1 ended with Albert sacrificing himself in 2022 to help Jade and Billie escape from Evelyn after it was revealed that Billie had been infected with the T-virus. Before dying, Albert left his teenage daughters an address for Ada Wong, telling them to seek her out. Meanwhile, in 2036, Billie shot Jade in the stomach and kidnapped her daughter Bea after watching Jade’s giant, genetically modified crocodile refuse to harm the young girl.

2022/08/25

As I mentioned in my TV update BLOG earlier this week, a fourth and finale season of the Umbrella Academy was expected. Today the rumors are confirmed! One more season to go which means the producers can give the show a proper send off.

Netflix has renewed its adaptation of Gerard Way and Gabriel Bá’s comics for a fourth and final season, TVLine has learned.

“I’m so excited that the incredibly loyal fans of The Umbrella Academy will be able to experience the fitting end to the Hargreeves siblings’ journey we began five years ago,” series creator Steve Blackman said in a statement. “But before we get to that conclusion, we’ve got an amazing story ahead for Season 4, one that will have fans on the edge of their seats until the final minutes.”

Cast members Elliot Page, Tom Hopper, David Castañeda, Emmy Raver-Lampman, Robert Sheehan, Aidan Gallagher, Justin H. Min, Ritu Arya and Colm Feore are all set to return for the final season; Blackman will be back as showrunner and executive producer as well.

Blackman previously told TVLine that his original vision for the show indeed spanned only four seasons. “I have what I think is an end to the TV show,” Blackman said in June. “Netflix may want more than that, but I have a sweet thought of where I think the show should end and where we’re going.” (Fans of the source material can rest easy, though: Blackman reassured us that Way “wants to do stuff for another decade, and he’s going to do volumes and volumes.”)

2021/10/18

Well that didn't take long, Y: The Last already cancelled! Hadn't even had the time to check this out! See full article TVLine.com or below:

The story of Yorick Brown will remain unfinished (for now?): Y: The Last Man has been cancelled at FX on Hulu, executive producer Eliza Clark announced via Twitter on Sunday.

“We have learned that we will not be moving forward with FX on Hulu for Season 2 of Y: The Last Man,” Clark wrote. “I have never in my life been more committed to a story, and there is so much more left to tell… It is the most collaborative, creatively fulfilling and beautiful thing I have ever been a part of. We don’t want it to end.”

Although the series will not continue at the streamer, Clark expressed hope that the show will find a new outlet. “FX has been an amazing partner. We have loved working with them, and we’re sad [the show] is not moving forward at FX on Hulu,” Clark added. “But we know that someone else is going to be very lucky to have this team and this story… We are committed to find Y its next home.”

2021/10/07

Good news from AppleTV+, Foundation has been renewed for a second season. Only 4 episodes have been released till now so it's fairly sure Foundation has very good viewing numbers! See full article below or click on the link.

Brother Day (played by Lee Pace) and his lush, royal blue garments will live on for another day. Foundation has been renewed for Season 2 at Apple TV+, TVLine has learned.

“Since my childhood I’ve dreamed of how Hari Seldon and Eto Demerzel would look and sound — what Terminus and Trantor would feel like,” showrunner and executive producer David S. Goyer said in a statement. “Now, with Season 2, our audience will get to visit more of [author Isaac] Asimov’s indelible characters and worlds, including Hober Mallow, General Bel Riose, and all the Outer Suns.

“I’m thrilled that a whole new generation of fans are reading Asimov’s brilliant masterwork,” Goyer added. “We’re playing the long game with Foundation and I’m grateful to my partners at Apple and Skydance for entrusting me with this epic. Buckle up. We’re about to fold some serious space.”

Adapted from Asimov’s influential trilogy, the series centers on efforts to preserve civilization after Dr. Hari Seldon (played by Jared Harris) predicts the (very) eventual fall of the Galactic Empire. A band of loyal followers “venture to the far reaches of the galaxy to establish The Foundation in an attempt to rebuild and preserve the future of civilization,” per the official description. “Enraged by Hari’s claims, the ruling Cleons — a long line of emperor clones — fear their unrivaled reign may be weakening as they’re forced to reckon with the potential reality of losing their powerful legacy forever.” TVLINE.com

2021/09/27

Well I did not see that coming! A reboot of B5! On the CW. I am not sure what to think about this, of course I would have loved a continuation in some way in the Babylon 5 universe, I have been hoping for it for 25-30 years but a reboot is not something I would prefer. One positive thing is of course that JMS is in the lead here, so it definitely is in the best hands possible but still a reboot is not what I would have preferred. Of course I still will check it out because Babylon 5 is my all time favorite show (together with ST: DS9) - See full article below from TVLine:

J. Michael Straczynski is returning to outer space, with a “from-the-ground-up reboot” of Babylon 5 for The CW.

The original Babylon 5 debuted in 1993 and presented a future-history story covering the years 2257-2262, with each year corresponding to one season. In doing so, Babylon 5 is regarded as the first TV series to introduce viewers to the concept of a five-year arc, with a defined beginning, middle and end. Straczynski won over a dozen awards for his work on the series, including two Hugo Awards, the Saturn Award and the Ray Bradbury Award.

Following the original series’ five-season run, which netted five Emmy nominations and two wins (for makeup and special visual effects), Straczynski continued to tell stories in the Babylon 5 universe — with the TNT series Crusade, feature-length films, and a series of novels, novelizations, short stories and comics from DC.

TVLine has learned that the reboot Straczynski is developing for The CW follows John Sheridan, an Earthforce officer with a mysterious background, who is assigned to Babylon 5, a five-mile-long space station in neutral space. Babylon 5 serves as a port of call for travelers, smugglers, corporate explorers and alien diplomats at a time of uneasy peace and the constant threat of war. Sheridan arrival triggers “a destiny beyond anything he could have imagined,” when an exploratory Earth company accidentally triggers a conflict with a civilization a million years ahead of us, putting him and the rest of the B5 crew in the line of fire as the last, best hope for the survival of the human race.

2021/09/09

It was suggested for a while now, but it has been confirmed, Star Trek: Picard has been renewed for a third season, not sure it will be its last. I believe, before, it was inclined so, that there would only be 3 seasons. But no word about that in the TVLine Article. Star Trek: Picard's 2nd season is scheduled to return in February 2022 and there is also a new season 2 trailer here.

Looking forward to more Star Trek: Picard, thought the first season was quite enjoyable!

2021/08/28

It was coming for a while now but now it finally has been announced that there will a fourth and last season of Manifest! Netflix is doing one big season of 20 episodes! The episodes will be added in parts, not sure yet how this will be done but those are mere details! Fantastic news all around, one more season, 20 episodes, this sounds much better than a miniseries or a movie. See article: TVLine: 

Manifest Season 4 has been officially cleared for takeoff, in the form of a supersized farewell run on Netflix. News of the big “save” came on, yes, 8/28 (and at 8:28 am PT) — more than 10 weeks after NBC grounded the supernatural-tinged family drama following a cliffhanger-filled Season 3 finale. The series’ fourth and final season will span 20 episodes, to be split into parts to be determined.

“What started years ago as a flight of fancy deep in my imagination has evolved into the jet engine journey of a lifetime,” showrunner Jeff Rake said in a statement. “Never in my wildest dreams could I have envisioned the worldwide outpouring of love and support for this story, its characters, and the team who work so hard to bring it all to life. That we will be able to reward the fans with the ending they deserve moves me to no end. On behalf of the cast, the crew, the writers, directors, and producers, thank you to Netflix, to Warner Bros., and of course to the fans. You did this.”

“Since its premiere on Netflix in June, Manifest has proven very popular with our members,” Bela Bajaria, Netflix Head of Global TV, noted. “Jeff Rake and his team have crafted a beguiling mystery that has viewers around the world on the edge of their seats and believing again in second chances, and we’re thrilled that they will bring fans some closure with this final, super-sized season.”

2021/08/19

Well it really seems to become a reality! Manifest is most likely back for a fourth season! Recently saw the season 3 finale and currently the series finale and it indeed was a huge cliffhanger! I have to say I became quite fond about this TV show so I really hope the 4th season will be a reality soon!

See full article here TVLine and below:

Manifest is doing its best to ready Season 4 for takeoff, in the event that ongoing talks with Netflix about “saving” the cancelled NBC drama prove successful .

As reported by our sister site Deadline (though both Netflix and producer Warner Bros. TV declined to comment), Manifest producers are scrambling to make deals with cast members (whose contract options expired in June) and writers past and new, in the event that a deal is sealed for the streaming giant to give Season 4 a home.

Netflix of course and quite famously pulled off similar when, three years ago, it renewed Fox castoff Lucifer — also a WBTV production — for a fourth (and then fifth and sixth) season. (Saving Manifest, Deadline notes, presents similar complications as Lucifer did, seeing as its global rights, as well as worldwide rights to all existing seasons, were already promised elsewhere.)

This latest development comes two months after NBC grounded the supernatural-tinged family drama following a cliffhanger-filled Season 3 finale.

All the while, Manifest stayed airborne in the pop culture conversation, by rapidly ascending and topping the Nielsen streaming charts, and also by claiming the No. 1 spot on Netflix’s own popularity poll for a near-record 27 straight days. It was shortly after the latter feat that rumblings grew louder that a beyond-last-minute save by NBC and or Netflix was in the works; NBCU has since dropped out of the conversation, leaving Netflix as the lone possible savior.

At that time that Manifest was grounded, series creator Jeff Rake shared with fans, I’m devastated by NBC’s decision to cancel us,” adding: “That we’ve been shut down in the middle [of a planned six-season run] is a gut punch to say the least. Hoping to find a new home. You the fans deserve an ending to your story.”

In the weeks that followed, Rake would reassure Manifesters — a la “We’re trying to find a way to conclude the series. Could take a week, a month, a year. But we’re not giving up” — all as he angled to find someone to A) finance at the very least a two-hour wrap-up movie and B) offer a home to same.

Among the twists that fans were left to process at the close of Manifest‘s double-episode Season 3 finale (SPOILER ALERT!): Recently discovered 828er Angelina (fatally?) stabbed Grace in the course of kidnapping her “guardian angel” baby Eden; young Cal vanished into thin air upon touching the tail fin, then later reappeared at home a full five years older; Captain Daly materialized inside the 828 cockpit at Eureka, moments before the entire plane disappeared with a flash of light; and Michaela and Zeke looked to be on the verge of a break-up talk.

2021/08/17

More than 20 years on from its 1998 theatrical release, Dark City remains a sci-fi classic, a film that’s collected a devoted cult following for director Alex Proyas’ deft merging of horror, spaced-out science fiction, and high-concept existential questioning — all packaged in a good old-fashioned noir detective story.

Now Proyas reportedly has some big Dark City news that’ll definitely have longtime fans tuning out all other distractions: a brand-new series set within the Dark City universe. Bloody Disgusting caught his recent comments on the new series — which he reportedly described as being in the “very early stages” — during Proyas’ recent Q&A at the Popcorn Frights Film Festival, where the famed director of The Crow showed up to premiere a new 20-minute short titled Mask of the Evil Apparition.

“Dark City right now is really an intriguing one to me because we’re developing a series, a Dark City series,” Proyas told host (and fellow filmmaker) Joe Lynch, via BD’s report.

Source: Syfywire

2021/07/29

Like before season 2 aired, Snowpiercer was already renewed for season 3, but TNT also renewed the show for a fourth season! I have to admit I have not yet seen an episode but I have to say I am getting curious because of the faith TNT has in this show. See full article TVLine.Com

TNT continues to ride the gravy train that is Snowpiercer, renewing post-apocalyptic sci-fi drama for a fourth season.

The early pickup (the show’s third season only recently wrapped production) was announced by leading man Daveed Diggs via an on-set video, which you can watch above.

Season 2 of the dystopian drama ended with the exploding of the XXXL Snowpiercer/Big Alice train into two — and then having the streamlined, 10-car “pirate train” double back to find stranded engineer Melanie Cavill. Alas, Layton (Daveed Diggs) and Alex (Rowan Blanchard) would discover Melanie didn’t survive her elongated isolation at the research station. (Or did she? As TVLine’s post mortem confirmed, Jennifer Connelly will be back for Season 3.)

Elsewhere on the Season 3 casting front, Archie Panjabi (The Good Wife) will play Asha, though no character details have been made available, while Mike O’Malley (as Roche) and Chelsea Harris (as Mr. Wilford’s right-hand advisor Sykes) have been promoted to series regular.

“Snowpiercer has been an incredibly successful series for us that continues to capture the imagination of viewers, grow audience and maintain strong ratings,” said Sam Linsky and Adrienne O’Riain, co-heads of scripted original programming for TBS, TNT and truTV, in a statement. 

2021/07/29

Well I did not see this coming! Waterworld for the small screen! I believe movie wasn't even a big success but still apparently there is money to be made with this TV spin-off. See full Article below from TVLine.com

The wettest movie ever filmed is, appropriately, headed for streaming: A TV series follow-up to the 1995 Kevin Costner film Waterworld is in the works from original producer John Davis. The new series would catch up with the movie’s characters 20 years later, Davis tells Collider, adding that it’s currently in development at Universal Television and has found a streaming outlet, though he declined to reveal which outlet. Dan Trachtenberg (10 Cloverfield Lane) is attached to direct.

The original Waterworld film was set in a post-apocalyptic future where the planet is almost entirely covered in water due to global warming. Costner starred as a mysterious drifter known as The Mariner, with a cast that included Jeanne Tripplehorn, Tina Majorino and Dennis Hopper. Plagued by bad press during filming — it was the most expensive movie ever made at the time — Waterworld opened to lukewarm reviews and tepid box office.

2021/07/29

It was expected and now it is official, Jodie Whittaker is leaving Doctor who and not only she but also Doctor Who's showrunner. See below for full article TVLine.COM

BBC on Thursday confirmed longstanding rumors that Jodie Whittaker will be leaving Doctor Who; a trio of feature-length specials (airing next year, following Season 13) will serve as her sendoff. And Whittaker won’t be hitting the exit alone: The aforementioned specials — the first of which will air in January 2022, with the final one airing in Fall 2022 — will also mark the end of the road for showrunner Chris Chibnall.

“My heart is so full of love for this show, for the team who make it, for the fans who watch it and for what it has brought to my life,” Whittaker said in a statement. “I cannot thank Chris enough for entrusting me with his incredible stories. We knew that we wanted to ride this wave side by side, and pass on the baton together. So here we are, weeks away from wrapping on the best job I have ever had.”

Added Chibnall: “Jodie and I made a ‘three series and out’ pact with each other at the start of this once-in-a-lifetime blast. So now our shift is done, and we’re handing back the Tardis keys. Jodie’s magnificent, iconic Doctor has exceeded all our high expectations.”

Whittaker’s run as the Time Lord will have lasted three seasons, the same duration as six of her seven most recent predecessors. To date, Doctor Who’s first female lead has appeared in 22 episodes, with another eight to come (in this fall’s Season 13).

There’s no word on who will succeed Whittaker as the Fourteenth Doctor.

2021/07/22

Few weeks ago Manifest got cancelled after 3 seasons! To make matters worse, the season finale of course ended on a cliff-hanger! Now it looks like Manifest is getting a second lease on life! NBC and Netflix are in talks of renewing Manifest for a 4th season! Most likely due to its success on Neflix! If this really gets through, it would be great news obviously. See Article below from TVLine.com:

Just weeks after NBC cancelled the sci-fi drama after three seasons, TVLine can confirm that the network has restarted talks with Warner Bros. Television about a possible Season 4.

As an added twist, Deadline reports that Netflix is also taking part in the renewal talks, signaling a possible mutually beneficial arrangement between NBC and the streamer.

Reps for NBC, Netflix and Warner Bros. Television declined to comment. Speculation about Manifest‘s potential un-cancellation was first floated by Showbiz411. The news — which is no doubt giving Timeless fans a serious case of dé·jà vu — comes as Manifest has been burning up Netflix’s consumer-facing “Top 10” widget in the wake of its mid-June cancellation at NBC.

Shortly after the release of its first two (of three) seasons to the streaming service last month, the supernatural-tinged family drama debuted on Netflix’s daily “Top 10” module at No. 2, then soon enough rose to the top spot. There, Manifest remained for 27 straight days, tying Netflix’s Tiger King for the second-longest run at No. 1; only Netflix’s own Ginny & Georgia has proven (a bit) more consistently popular, having spent a record 29 straight days at No. 1. Manifest also topped Nielsen’s weekly streaming chart for the week of June 14. Regardless of the outcome of the new NBC/Netflix talks, Manifest showrunner Jeff Rake has resolved to find financing for, at the very least, a two-hour movie to bring some sort of closure to the rest of his six-season plan. “Your support is awe-inspiring,” Rake tweeted to Manifesters in late June. “We’re trying to find a way to conclude the series. Could take a week, a month, a year. But we’re not giving up. You deserve an end to the story.”

2021/06/27

Well I reported about Halo long time ago on my other website, probably also 2013 or something. It always kept lingering but it's apparently is coming for real! Although showrunners are walking away one by one. Still, this could be real interesting so I still am holding out hope.

Source: Syfywire: After almost a decade of promises for a live-action Halo TV show, Paramount+’s iteration of the video game adaptation is moving forward. However, the two showrunners — Steven Kane and Kyle Killen — will apparently not be.

According to Variety, Killen had already left Halo before production even started last year. The rigorous shooting schedule in Budapest was the reported reason for his departure. Kane has stayed on and become lead showrunner, and production is currently ongoing. While Kane will stay through post-production, he will not return to the show if it gets picked up for a second season, as he wants to return to the U.S. for personal reasons.

The series is based on the extremely popular Xbox video game that takes place during a major 26th-century conflict, where humans are fighting aliens known as the Covenant. The path for a live-action TV version of Halo has been a rocky one. The first news about a potential adaptation came in 2013, when Microsoft announced it was teaming up with Stephen Spielberg to develop a show.

The project eventually moved to Showtime in late 2019, with Kane and Killen attached. When COVID happened, production was delayed. Then parent company CBSViacom moved the series from Showtime to Paramount+ in February of this year.

Given the series is still in production, the good news is that the odds are in our favor that we’ll finally (finally!) see a live-action Halo on screen. The series stars Pablo Schreiber as Master Chief Petty Officer John-117, Natascha McElhone as Dr. Catherine Halsey, and Jen Taylor as Cortana.

2021/06/15

This sucks! Manifest cancelled after 3 seasons! I thought it was already too amazing this show got 3 seasons because...well..it is SCI-FI, but I was really hoping for another season. This really sucks! 

Article: TVLine

TVLine has confirmed that the supernatural/sci-fi/family drama has been cancelled at NBC, and will end with Season 3 (which aired its cliffhanger-filled finale on June 10). Showrunner Jeff Rake, in turn, has expressed his hope to land the Warner Bros. TV production on another outlet; get details.

Manifest Season 3 averaged a little more than 3 million total weekly viewers and not quite a 0.5 demo rating (in Live+Same Day numbers) — down 21 and 31 percent from its sophomore run. Out of the 14 dramas that NBC aired this TV season, it ranked No. 7 in the demo (besting, among others, the renewed New Amsterdam and The Blacklist) and 10th in total audience.

After two seasons of teases and dangled loose threads, Manifest aimed to give viewers much more to chew on with Season 3. “I think that the audience is going to feel satisfied in that this is a very eventful season,” showrunner Jeff Rake told TVLine ahead of the premiere. “I know that at times in Season 1 or Season 2 was the show was accused, with love, of not moving the ball forward enough, that the burn was too slow. Well, my strong suspicion is that Season 3 will not be accused of that. There is a lot of forward momentum, a lot of card turns, and a lot of big surprises. It will be a very satisfying experience for people who are anxious for stuff to happen.”

2021/06/03

Well that's fast! Jupiter's Legacy already cancelled, less than a month after it's premiere! Must be some kind of record for Netflix!? But apparently a spin-off is already in the works, see full article TVLine:

Jupiter’s Legacy will be short-lived: Netflix has cancelled the eight-episode adaptation of Mark Millar and Frank Quitely’s graphic novels less than a month after the premiere of Season one.

According to Deadline, however, the streamer is keeping the franchise alive via Supercrooks, a new super villain-themed series set in the Jupiter’s Legacy universe.

Jupiter’s Legacy starred Josh Duhamel (Las Vegas) as Sheldon Sampson, the leader of the superhero team; Leslie Bibb (Popular) as Grace Sampson, Sheldon’s powerful wife; Ben Daniels (The Exorcist) as Walter Sampson, Sheldon’s older brother; Elena Kampouris (American Odyssey) as Chloe Sampson, Sheldon and Grace’s daughter; Andrew Horton (Doctors) as Brandon Sampson, Sheldon and Grace’s son; Mike Wade (SEAL Team) as Fitz Small, another member of The Utopian; and Matt Lanter (Timeless) as George Hutchene, Sheldon’s best friend-turned-nemesis.

2021/05/30

Interesting! It sounds like this could be very entertaining, hadn't heard about this till now but I will keep an eye out and will keep you informed here. SYFI WIRE!

J.J. Abrams has made some significant progress on that upcoming sci-fi fantasy series he’s producing for HBO. In fact, he’s revealed that the first season of Demimonde has been written. 

Speaking with Collider, Abrams explained that one unexpected benefit of being under lockdown due to the coronavirus was that the writers were able to take their time with the story.  

“One of the remarkable and unexpected benefits of this otherwise trying and in many cases painful time has been that the projects that we've been working on have been allowed to gestate and simmer,” he said.

“The writing has been able to happen without that more typical urgency of pre-production and production.” Having this extra time, according to Abrams, allowed the show’s writers “to not just outline the season, but write the season.” Abrams added that, even as film and television productions begin to resume a more normal schedule and process, he hopes allowing creative projects to take their time and not be constantly rushed becomes the standard, rather than the deviation.

“I feel like we're in a place that feels like it should be more the norm than it ever is to really kind of know where you're going to go,” he said, adding: “I just feel like that's one of the things that this time has allowed us to do in a way that I don't think we've ever had the luxury before.”

2021/05/28

As expected, it happens again, Debris is cancelled after only one season. The ratings weren't steller from the beginnning, whatever that means these days but they seemed steady. Oh well, it's not like it is a surprise, it is a SCI-FI show.

For full Article: TVLine

NBC won’t be picking up any more Debris: The hard sci-fi drama has been cancelled after one season, our sister site Variety reports.

Created by Fringe showrunner Joel Wyman, Debris in its 13-episode freshman run averaged shy of 2.8 million total viewers and not quite a 0.4 demo rating. Out of the 14 dramas NBC has aired this TV season, it ranks No. 10 in the demo (besting The Blacklist, Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist, Good Girls and the acquired Nurses) and 11th in total audience.

The season/now series finale introduced an ominous INFLUX leader, named Otto and played by Fringe favorite John Noble, and left viewers puzzling over Brill and Dahkeya’s plans for some “other” iteration of MI6 agent Finola Jones.

“I’m so happy that [John is] on board because it’s a great character and where he goes and how he expands is really complex,” Wyman told TVLine. “[Otto] is very, very, very, very, very knowledgeable in things that nobody else is, and there are reasons for that that we’re going to get into.”

In a midseason TVLine Q&A, series co-lead Jonathan Tucker spoke directly to sci-fi fans’ concerns about Debris‘ fate, saying, “Some people are like, ‘Will NBC cancel it, before it has time to get [where it’s going]?’ I can’t speak to that with the degree of confidence that I can having read all of the scripts and having spoken to Joel [Wyman], who knows the last line of the first season and knows the last scene of the last season, but I can say the partnership with NBC, up until this point and particularly after the premiere, has been remarkable.

2021/05/20

This could be interesting, a dystopian drama with Rebecca Ferguson (Mission Impossible 5 & 6) in the lead. I haven't read the books but of course the premise is not original, but sure will check this out!

See for full article TVLine.com

Wool, Hugh Howey’s best-selling trilogy of dystopian novels, is headed for the small screen.

The adaptation has snagged a series order at AppleTV+ and will star Rebecca Ferguson (Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation and Fallout) as its lead. The story is set in a “ruined and toxic future where a community exists in a giant silo underground, hundreds of stories deep,” reads the official description. “There, men and women live in a society full of regulations they believe are meant to protect them.”

Ferguson is set to play Juliette, an independent and hardworking engineer living inside the community.

In addition to her role as Ilsa Faust in the Mission: Impossible franchise, Ferguson has also appeared in Men in Black: International, Doctor Sleep, Florence Foster Jenkins, and will star in Denis Villeneuve’s upcoming Dune adaptation. On the TV side of things, she played Elizabeth Woodville in the British historical drama The White Queen.

Wool will be written by Graham Yost (Band of Brothers, Justified), who is also currently writing for the streamer’s upcoming war drama Masters of the Air. Morten Tyldum (Defending Jacob) is set to direct and executive produce, with Ferguson, Yost and Howey serving as additional EPs.

2021/05/06

Hello Tomorrow -

The retro future-themed project, which has snagged a 10-episode series order, centers on an ambitious traveling salesmen (played by Crudup) hawking lunar timeshares. Crudup’s Jack possesses an unshakeable faith in a brighter tomorrow, which inspires his coworkers and revitalizes his desperate customers. It also, however, threatens to leave him dangerously lost in the very dream that sustains him.

Hello Tomorrow! is created by Amit Bhalla and Lucas Jansen (Netflix’s Bloodline). The duo will co-write the series and serve as EP alongside Crudup. The End of the F***ing World‘s Jonathan Entwistle is attached to direct and EP. - TVLine

Paper Girls -

For the uninitiated, Paper Girls follows four young women — Mac (Fast Layne‘s Sofia Rosinsky), Tiffany (Cherish the Day‘s Camryn Jones), Erin (Altered Carbon‘s Riley Lai Nelet) and KJ (A Christmas Melody‘s Fina Strazza) — who, “while out delivering papers on the morning after Halloween in 1988, become unwittingly caught in a conflict between warring factions of time-travelers, sending them on an adventure through time that will save the world,” according to the official logline. “As they travel between our present, the past and the future, they encounter future versions of themselves and now must choose to embrace or reject their fate.”

Wong is set to play the adult version of Erin. In the series, “when the two Erins finally come face-to-face, they are forced to confront the gap between their childhood hopes, dreams and ambitions, and the reality of their grown-up life.” - TVLine

2021/03/17

Great news, Resident Alien with Alan Tudyk has been renewed for a second season! See article below, TVLINE:

In a major victory for morally conflicted extraterrestrials posing as human doctors everywhere, Syfy has renewed Resident Alien for a second season. The pickup comes just days after TVLine bestowed upon the series’ titular star, Alan Tudyk, its coveted Performer of the Week title. Coincidence? You be the judge!

The renewal may also be connected to the fact that freshman dramedy is killing it in the ratings. Per Syfy, Resident Alien ranks as the most-watched new cable drama in the last year in total viewers. To date, the Jan. 27 premiere has accrued 9.3 million viewers across all platforms and NBCU networks.

The 10-episode first season concludes on Wednesday, March 31 at 10/9c.

“With Resident Alien, everything just came together in perfect harmony,” enthused Lisa Katz, NBCUniversal’s President of Scripted Content, “a script by Chris Sheridan that leapt off the page, a lead performance by Alan Tudyk, whose nuance between comedy and menace was pitch perfect, and a team of producers, cast and crew who were all striving to do something great.

“The appeal of this show transcended the sci-fi genre in a way that enabled us to bring in a broader audience,” Katz continued,” and as the series continues we hope to encourage more and more fans to discover Harry’s very particular perspective on humans.”

2021-02-24

TVLine.com:

Another highly anticipated clash of superheroes is coming to the small screen, this time via Netflix. The eight-episode adaptation of Mark Millar and Frank Quitely’s Jupiter’s Legacy graphic novels will premiere on Friday, May 7, TVLine has learned.

Here’s what we can expect, per Netflix’s official synopsis: “After nearly a century of keeping mankind safe, the world’s first generation of superheroes must look to their children to continue the legacy. But tensions rise as the young superheroes, hungry to prove their worth, struggle to live up to their parents’ legendary public reputations — and exacting personal standards.

Jupiter’s Legacy stars Josh Duhamel (Las Vegas) as Sheldon Sampson, the leader of a superhero team known as The Utopian; Leslie Bibb (Popular) as Grace Sampson, Sheldon’s powerful wife; Ben Daniels (The Exorcist) as Walter Sampson, Sheldon’s older brother; Elena Kampouris (American Odyssey) as Chloe Sampson, Sheldon and Grace’s daughter; Andrew Horton (Doctors) as Brandon Sampson, Sheldon and Grace’s son; Mike Wade (SEAL Team) as Fitz Small, another member of The Utopian; and Matt Lanter (Timeless) as George Hutchene, Sheldon’s best friend-turned-nemesis.

Executive producers include Millar, Quitely, Lorenzo Di Bonaventura, Dan McDermott, Steven S. DeKnight, James Middleton and Sang Kyu Kim.

2021-02-09

Didn't see this one coming to be honest! A reboot of The 4400! Currently I am rewatching the original show on Blu-Ray. Kinda interested in this reboot. See article below (TVLine)

The former home of The 100 will now make room for The 4400. The CW announced on Tuesday that it has given a straight-to-series order to The 4400, a sci-fi drama based on the original TV series that ran on USA Network for four seasons in the mid-2000s and starred the likes of Joel Gretsch, Megalyn Echikunwoke and, yes, future Academy Award winner Mahershala Ali.

In development for more than two years (originally with a different creative team) and now penned by executive producer Ariana Jackson (Riverdale, UnREAL), the reboot follows 4,400 overlooked, undervalued, or otherwise marginalized people who vanished without a trace over the last hundred years and are all returned in an instant, having not aged a day and with no memory of what happened to them.

“As the government races to analyze the potential threat and contain the story, the 4400 themselves must grapple with the fact that they’ve been returned with a few… upgrades,” reads the official synopsis, “and the increasing likelihood that they were all brought back now for a specific reason. Besides Jackson, the CBS Studios production also counts Anna Fricke and Laura Terry among its EPs.

2021-02-05

This sounds interesting, all the more because of Chiwetel Ejiofor who is playing the lead role in this upcoming SCI-FI show:

Crank up the Bowie: Oscar nominee Chiwetel Ejiofor (12 Years a Slave) has signed on to star in Paramount+’s series adaptation of The Man Who Fell to Earth.

The sci-fi series, first ordered by Paramount+ (currently known as CBS All Access) back in August 2019, centers on an alien (Ejiofor) “who arrives on Earth at a turning point in human evolution and must confront his own past to determine our future,” per the official description. It’s based on the Walter Tevis novel of the same name, which inspired a 1976 film starring glam rocker David Bowie in the title role.

“Chiwetel Ejiofor’s stage and film career are staggering in their bravery, commitment and quality,” co-showrunners and executive producers Alex Kurtzman and Jenny Lumet (Star Trek: Discovery, Clarice) said in a statement. “He’s everything we could imagine and a million things we can’t. We couldn’t be more thrilled.”

2021-01-29

For a lot of years now reboot rumors of Buck Rogers have been going around. Now George Clooney wants to give new life to this SCI-FI icon. Originated from a comic but the movie and TV show in 1979 remain popular and has recently been released on Blu-ray in North America. Which was not the first Blu-ray release, UK, Germany and Australia preceded them. Anyway, at this moment a limited series is considered but who knows, if that would prove succesful, perhaps a full series could follow.

Source: TVLine

2021-01-19

Before the first episode of season 2 aired, TNT has renewed the show for a third season! This does not happen often so it's clear TNT has a lot of faith in it. Perhaps the fact that Netflix is also streaming it the next day, perhaps made it easier to renew. It generally has favorable reviews on Rotten Tomatoes but I haven't seen it yet.

See TVLine article:

Snowpiercer won’t be running out of track anytime soon, now that TNT has renewed the dystopian drama for a third season — ahead of Season 2’s Monday, Jan. 25 premiere.

Starring Daveed Diggs and Jennifer Connelly, Snowpiercer debuted as the most watched new cable entertainment program of May 2020, and marked TNT’s largest premiere since The Alienist in 2018. Season 1 is now available to stream on HBO Max.

At the end of Season 1, the survivors of the revolution found themselves trying to maintain a fragile peace amongst the newly merged classes, with Layton (played by Diggs) emerging as the train’s leader. But upon discovering that Mr. Wilford (Sean Bean) is in fact alive and headed their way on a rival train, Melanie (Connelly) risked venturing outside to prevent her boss from invading Snowpiercer. While Melanie was outside, it was revealed that Alexandra (Rowan Blanchard) — the daughter she thought had died — is alive and has become Wilford’s protegee.

“It doesn’t seem like it’s going to be an easy ride for Melanie with her daughter, where she ‘steps into a hug,’” showrunner Graeme Manson told TVLine. “For one, we’re still unclear as to the charisma and the capacity of Wilford. We have our ideas about him through Melanie and through his myth, but what kind of life has Alexandra been living [on Big Alice]? What she believes about her mother, I think, is one of the biggest questions to kick off the top of the season.”

2020-12-21

If you watched the season finale of The Mandalorian you saw a surprising end, in de middle of the end credits. There were many speculations but today Jon Favreau revealed that there will a new series besides The Mandalorian called: The Book of Boba Fett. Like the Mandalorian season 3, The Book of Boba Fett's first season will premiere in December 2021. So another new Star Wars show added to the buch that were revealed some two weeks ago.

In this link you will find the complete article on TVLine.