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The Last of Us, released in 2016, was a complex and immersive PS4 game that dealt with a near-future urban wasteland full of dangerous gangs and infected half-humans. Joel, a resistance fighter who lost his daughter in the earliest days of the outbreak years before, is given the reluctant...
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Though there are notable exceptions over the decades the general rule of thumb in TV-land is that once a series is cancelled, it stays cancelled. Fan-power has been known to save a handful of shows, but networks and executives tend to look at whether a show is profitable or...
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Though the film will contain the requisite robotwar angle with plenty of action, there’s a certain sense from the first trailer for Transformers spin-off Bumblebee that things might be a little more subdued than the main movies to date. Then again, that’s not saying much as the main Michael...
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It was one of the series that was definitely ‘on the bubble’ but ABC has confirmed that Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. will be returning for the next season, its sixth run on the network and the only collaboration between ABC and Marvel after the failure of The Inhumans. The...
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Several days after it was formally acknowledged that Clayne Crawford’s contract would not be renewed after claims of behind-the-scenes misconduct on the set of Lethal Weapon, the future of the show is now coming into focus. Crawford admitted there had been problems and that he had been disciplined but...
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Though its hit franchise shows are safe (NCIS, NCIS: Los Angeles, NCIS: New Orleans and Hawaii Five-O along with MacGyver, SEAL Team, Elementary and SWAT will all be back) and another newcomer Instinct (with Alan Cumming) has been renewed, CBS has announced that Scorpion will not. The high-concept dramedy...
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Though FOX‘s bloodbath of series cancellations attracted a lot of the media coverage, ABC also had its fair-share of casualties. Designated Survivor, which featured Kiefer Sutherland as a low-level politician thrust into the Oval Office after a terrorist attack wipes out most of Congress, will not survive into a...
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This time of year is always a controversial one for the US television networks. Plans are being made on which shows to greenlight for the next year – usually beginning broadcast between September and December. But to make way for those, other series are cancelled and there are usually...
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Update: 11th May. Whiskey Cavalier has been picked up to series at ABC which means that though Cohan will still be returning to AMC‘s The Walking Dead it is likely to be in a ‘recurring’ role at best with both productions working out a shooting schedule to suit. Whiskey...
The Last of Us, released in 2016, was a complex and immersive PS4 game that dealt with a near-future urban wasteland full of dangerous gangs and infected half-humans. Joel, a resistance fighter who lost his daughter in the earliest days of the outbreak years before, is given the reluctant...
Though there are notable exceptions over the decades the general rule of thumb in TV-land is that once a series is cancelled, it stays cancelled. Fan-power has been known to save a handful of shows, but networks and executives tend to look at whether a show is profitable or...
Though the film will contain the requisite robotwar angle with plenty of action, there’s a certain sense from the first trailer for Transformers spin-off Bumblebee that things might be a little more subdued than the main movies to date. Then again, that’s not saying much as the main Michael...
It was one of the series that was definitely ‘on the bubble’ but ABC has confirmed that Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. will be returning for the next season, its sixth run on the network and the only collaboration between ABC and Marvel after the failure of The Inhumans. The...
Several days after it was formally acknowledged that Clayne Crawford’s contract would not be renewed after claims of behind-the-scenes misconduct on the set of Lethal Weapon, the future of the show is now coming into focus. Crawford admitted there had been problems and that he had been disciplined but...
Though its hit franchise shows are safe (NCIS, NCIS: Los Angeles, NCIS: New Orleans and Hawaii Five-O along with MacGyver, SEAL Team, Elementary and SWAT will all be back) and another newcomer Instinct (with Alan Cumming) has been renewed, CBS has announced that Scorpion will not. The high-concept dramedy...
Though FOX‘s bloodbath of series cancellations attracted a lot of the media coverage, ABC also had its fair-share of casualties. Designated Survivor, which featured Kiefer Sutherland as a low-level politician thrust into the Oval Office after a terrorist attack wipes out most of Congress, will not survive into a...
This time of year is always a controversial one for the US television networks. Plans are being made on which shows to greenlight for the next year – usually beginning broadcast between September and December. But to make way for those, other series are cancelled and there are usually...
Update: 11th May. Whiskey Cavalier has been picked up to series at ABC which means that though Cohan will still be returning to AMC‘s The Walking Dead it is likely to be in a ‘recurring’ role at best with both productions working out a shooting schedule to suit. Whiskey...
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...