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  • Evil’s Second Coming, still a darkly effective/sly take on science vs faith…

    As Kristen Bouchard (Katja Herbers), David Acosta (Mike Colter) and Ben Shakir (Aasif Mandvi) all deal with the signs, portents and ramifications of their recent decisions, they are contacted by Bishop Thomas Marx (Peter Scolari), who says that he has been approached by an upstanding citizen and regular donator to the...
  • Clarice: ‘Father Time’ provides a total eclipse of the art…

    Despite threats from powerful people, the ViCAP team finally have enough evidence to raid Alastor Pharmaceuticals. But Hagen and Hudlin seem ready for the raid and the team will have to dig a lot deeper if they want to understand the guilty party’s true motivations. As tracks are covered...
  • Time to mind the Ps & Qs: Paramount+ teases Picard’s second season…

    Inspired by a story from Star Trek: The Next Generation in which Patrick Stewart’s Jean-Luc Picard uncomfortably endured a ‘Picard Day’ aboard the Enterprise  (and where the children onboard celebrated his leadership),  the 16th June has been earmarked as the Twenty-First century equivalent. Making it so, it would seem that...
  • Dazed of our Lives: ‘Infinite’ simply squanders all its possibilities…

    Evan McCauley (Mark Wahlberg) is trying to get his life back together. Diagnosed as a schizophrenic as a teenager, he’s since self-medicated to keep his temperament steady. For years he has vivid dreams of other times and places and he’s developing skill-sets that he seems to master quickly. He...
  • UPFRONTS: Good news for ‘Evil’ as CBS confirms Paramount+ move…

    As we noted at the weekend, the changing face of modern television has allowed some of the networks to have other options than the basic renewal/cancellation of previous years. It was rumoured that CBS might take some of its more niche shows – the ones with loyal followings but...
  • UPFRONTS: ‘Clarice’ and ‘SEAL Team’ on the move?

    This week sees many of the major US television networks and platforms presenting their ‘upfront’ information: starting to roll-out details of their planned line up for next season… Industry site Deadline is reporting that two popular current CBS seriesmay well be permanently absent from the schedules when the 2021-2022...
  • COVID: Paramount continues to shift tent-pole release dates through 2023….

    Though numbers are currently looking better for for the fight against covid as more and more people get vaccinations, there’s still very few cinema-chains fully open and  yet more studio shuffling as key cinema releases move to different dates. Paramount just released their new line-up… GI Joe spin-off Snake Eyes,...
  • Trek’s ‘First Contact Day’: What is Discovery’s next anomaly?

    The second major announcement from Star Trek‘s ‘First Contact Day‘ was that the fourth season of Discovery is  – despite covid restrictions – on target for a late 2021 debut… quite an achievement given current ongoing safety protocols and the fact that Discovery‘s third season only finished broadcast in...
  • Trek’s ‘First Contact Day’: The ‘Q’ for ‘Picard S2’ starts here…

    It has been rumoured for a while, but now there’s confirmation that the second season of Star Trek: Picard will see the return of a character first scene in the very first episode of The Next Generation, Encounter at Farpoint.  Star Trek‘s news-loaded ‘First Contact Day‘  (selected because this...
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