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Burt Reynolds – the archetype action hero of the 1970s and the man around whom the Smokey and the Bandit and Cannonball Run franchises were built – has passed away at the age of 82 and with him a certain era of Hollywood machismo also vanishes… In a career...
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Add another name to the list of shows supposedly cancelled and sent off into reruns that have subsequently been saved and find themselves moving on to pastures new. The likes of network-jumping Brooklyn-Nine-Nine, The Expanse and Lucifer can now add Designated Survivor to their ranks. The political/action show actually...
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Well, it’s about time – and now it’s official. After being a staple of Saturday night television in the UK for much of its fifty-plus years of broadcast (let’s ignore the short-lived, ill-conceived weekday move back in the 1980s), Doctor Who is vacating its traditional Saturday night spot for...
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It appears that Matt Smith, who played the tenth incarnation of The Doctor is staying within the sf genre for an upcoming venture, possibly swapping a sonic screwdriver for a lightsaber? Smith has apparently been cast in the next Star Wars film (‘IX‘ in the franchise, but as yet...
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There seems to be some off-screen drama regarding the reboot of MacGyver which is currently shooting its third season in Atlanta and will return to CBS on 28th September. Stunt co-ordinator Justin Sundquist was left with a traumatic head injury and put in a medically-induced coma after a stunt...
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Top-rated comedy The Big Bang Theory will finally finish a twelve year and 279 episode run that began in 2007 and ends in spring 2019, establishing it as a record-breaking multi-camera comedy. The multi-award-winning series launched its collective cast – including Jim Parsons (as Sheldon Cooper), Johnny Galecki (as...
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Danny Boyle, the director behind such key films as Trainspotting, 28 Days Later, Sunshine and Slumdog Millionaire was due to direct the as-yet-untitled twenty-fifth Bond movie, but we’ll never know whether the result would have been a ‘Live and Let Die Less Ordinary‘ as EON have formally announced today...
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The first season of Netflix‘s Iron Fist received a mixed reaction, debuting at a time when it had a lot of pressure to live up to other Marvel collaborations (Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage) and also an awareness of under-representation for Asian faces and culture in key cinematic and...
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Orange Is The New Black actress Ruby Rose has been announced to play Kate Kane, aka Batwoman in a new television series that The CW is developing for the 2019/2020 season. The character will actually debut this December in the now-annual crossover between The CW‘s DC superhero shows (Arrow, The...
Burt Reynolds – the archetype action hero of the 1970s and the man around whom the Smokey and the Bandit and Cannonball Run franchises were built – has passed away at the age of 82 and with him a certain era of Hollywood machismo also vanishes… In a career...
Add another name to the list of shows supposedly cancelled and sent off into reruns that have subsequently been saved and find themselves moving on to pastures new. The likes of network-jumping Brooklyn-Nine-Nine, The Expanse and Lucifer can now add Designated Survivor to their ranks. The political/action show actually...
Well, it’s about time – and now it’s official. After being a staple of Saturday night television in the UK for much of its fifty-plus years of broadcast (let’s ignore the short-lived, ill-conceived weekday move back in the 1980s), Doctor Who is vacating its traditional Saturday night spot for...
It appears that Matt Smith, who played the tenth incarnation of The Doctor is staying within the sf genre for an upcoming venture, possibly swapping a sonic screwdriver for a lightsaber? Smith has apparently been cast in the next Star Wars film (‘IX‘ in the franchise, but as yet...
There seems to be some off-screen drama regarding the reboot of MacGyver which is currently shooting its third season in Atlanta and will return to CBS on 28th September. Stunt co-ordinator Justin Sundquist was left with a traumatic head injury and put in a medically-induced coma after a stunt...
Top-rated comedy The Big Bang Theory will finally finish a twelve year and 279 episode run that began in 2007 and ends in spring 2019, establishing it as a record-breaking multi-camera comedy. The multi-award-winning series launched its collective cast – including Jim Parsons (as Sheldon Cooper), Johnny Galecki (as...
Danny Boyle, the director behind such key films as Trainspotting, 28 Days Later, Sunshine and Slumdog Millionaire was due to direct the as-yet-untitled twenty-fifth Bond movie, but we’ll never know whether the result would have been a ‘Live and Let Die Less Ordinary‘ as EON have formally announced today...
The first season of Netflix‘s Iron Fist received a mixed reaction, debuting at a time when it had a lot of pressure to live up to other Marvel collaborations (Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage) and also an awareness of under-representation for Asian faces and culture in key cinematic and...
Orange Is The New Black actress Ruby Rose has been announced to play Kate Kane, aka Batwoman in a new television series that The CW is developing for the 2019/2020 season. The character will actually debut this December in the now-annual crossover between The CW‘s DC superhero shows (Arrow, The...
Surprising almost no-one, the BBC confirmed today that their collaboration with Disney+ on Doctor Who is formally coming to an end. It had long been speculated that the lack...
It’s said that the Doomsday Clock has stood at just a few minutes to midnight’ for a long time, philosophers and pundits alike noting that, if anything, the midnight...
Michael Connelly often has his finger on the pulse of interesting issues, but reading a preview copy of The Proving Ground in a week where the dangers of AI,...
I’ll be honest: I’m a sucker for a good cat-and-mouse story and in this era of fast-evolving tech and surveillance, characters staying one step ahead of their pursuers can...