• NETWORKING: ABC relies on mainstays for 2019/2020 run…

    ABC‘s mainstay shows will be back – such as Grey’s Anatomy (for a sixteenth season), Grey‘s spin-off Station 19 (for a third run), How to Get Away with Murder (for a sixth season), The Good Doctor (for a third outing), A Million Little Things (for a second series) and...
  • NETWORKING: FOX offers mix of old and new primetime projects…

    Several of FOX‘s current batch of dramas are being renewed for next season. Emergency service drama  9-1-1 will go into a third season, the medical drama The Resident goes into its second. Empire, though having numerous troubles off-screen due to the Jesse Smollett legal case, will be back for a sixth year,...
  • NETWORKING: CBS eyes new/existing hits for 2019-20 season…

    It’s the time of year where the major US television networks start illuminating their intentions for the next season schedules – cancelling some under-performers, giving the greenlight to some news shows and confirming returns for their existing hits. CBS appears to have confidence in a lot of existing shows....
  • What the Dickens? ‘Christmas Carol’ has all-star cast…

    There are a raft of familiar names now attached to a three-part adaptation of the Charles Dickens classic A Christmas Carol which is due for broadcast this coming winter season on FX in America and the BBC in the UK.  Following in the steps of George C. Scott, Alastair...
  • ‘IT: Chapter 2’ – Losers Club set to win again..?

    Stephen King’s original novel IT was a weighty tome coming in at over a 1000 pages and detailed the way that a demonic-entity – who has the persona of a clown named Pennywise – terrorises a group of young kids (‘The Losers Club’) and then years later when they all return...
  • Peak Performance for ‘Cliffhanger’ remake?

    Those of a certain age will remember the 1993 Sly Stallone action adventure movie Cliffhanger, directed by Renny Harlin and in which Stallone played Gabe Walker, a rescue mountaineer… one who finds that the people he’s about to ‘rescue’ need him for more nefarious purposes. The film also starred...
  • Tick-Tock, HBO’s ‘Watchmen’ trailer begins the countdown…

    It took decades for Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ Watchmen to move from its position as best-selling, seminal graphic novel to controversial (and perhaps too reverential) adaptation for the screen, courtesy of Zack Snyder. The HBO series of the same name seems to be moving a little quicker and...
  • ‘Spider-man’ trailer homes in on post-Thanos ‘616’ reality…

    Though Avengers: Endgame feels very much like the last entry in the current ‘phase’ of Marvel’s movies, there’s still one formal MCU entry to come this year… and this week has seen the release of the spoiler-filled trailer for Spider-man: Far from Home due out in July. Set in...
  • The Disney Decade: Avatars delayed, Star Wars extended…

    It’s been  mixed bag of news coming out of Disney as they realign some of their film release intentions in the wake of their massive merger with Fox. It means there are going to be some significant changes to their release schedules with the most notable changes being to...
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