• Be Patient: Doctor Who’s 2021 run now down to eight episodes…

    Though Doctor Who side-stepped the initial coronavirus impactby shooting the next special, Revolution of the Daleks, as part of the last series in late 2019 and banking it for broadcast  sometime over the coming seasonal Christmas/New Year break, it hasn’t managed to avoid the pandemic completely. The BBC has...
  • COVID: Amid massive numbers, last few 2020 movies shifting away…

    In the chaos of the US election week, the fact that COVID numbers continue to dangerously spike has largely been overlooked, but with those numbers (a record 125,000 cases in just one single day this week) staying so dangerously high, there seems less and less chance that the dreams...
  • RIP: There could be only one… the iconic Sean Connery.

    For many, the iconic  Sir Sean Connery, who passed away on Friday at the age of 90, will always be James Bond. He was the first man to portray Ian Fleming’s 007 on the big screen (in 1962’s Dr. No) and though the role went to a range of...
  • CBS announces episodic cuts for primetime dramas…

    CBS are the first American tv network – but surely not the last – to announce that the episodic count for many of their primetime series are being reduced. Because of COVID, many of the dramas started production far later than normal and have had to operate under far...
  • Netflix & Kill: Will new ‘Assassin’s Creed’ fare better on tv..?

    The Assassin’s Creed computer franchise began in 2007 with the release of the first game and has lasted over a decade with 11 variations to date and a new chapter, ‘Valhalla‘ out next month. However beyond the game, it’s fortunes have been making less than a killing. The last time Assassin’s...
  • All the Knight Moves – Oscar Isaac heads to Marvel/Disney+ series?

    There has been a flurry of casting news about Marvel / Disney+ projects in the last few weeks. Iman Vellani  is to play the lead in Ms. Marvel and there were multiple reports that  Orphan Black‘s Tatiana Maslany was going to play Jennifer Walters aka the She-Hulk (though the actor has now...
  • Quibi calls it quits – Bite-size platform to end in December…

    With so many new platforms entering the marketplace over the last year or so, it was inevitable there would start to be some high-profile casualties that wouldn’t make it. It would appear that one of the first to fall will be Quibi. The selling-point of the service was bite-size...
  • ‘Fast & Furious’ to hit the brakes after two final movies…

    The stories might have got increasingly bizarre and the suspension of disbelief ever more high and it may also have lost  major stars along the way, but there’s no denying the profitability and success of the Fast & Furious franchise. However it looks as if that film series might...
  • Dex Appeal: TV’s serial-killer killer to be revived…

    The original Dexter series, based on the books by Jeff Lindsay, ran from  2006-2013 and was a cult hit for Showtime. Dexter Morgan (MIchael C. Hall) was a top forensic blood spatter analyst for the police but also happened to be a serial-killer. Found in an horrendous crime-scene as a three-year-old...
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