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Amazon's mega-programming spending spree continues, following up their reported $250 million deal to bring a Lord of the Rings series to television with word they are looking to adapt Liu Cixin's popular Chinese sci-fi book series "Remembrance of Earth's Past" into a three-season television series commitment.

Credit: IDW It appears director Andy Muschietti's series pilot for his adaptation of writer Joe Hill and artist Gabriel Rodriguez's horror/fantasy comic book series Locke & Key is looking for a new home, with Hulu passing on the project Starring Frances O'Connor, Megan Charpentier, Jackson Robert Scott and Jack Mulhern, the Hill-written/Muschietti-directed pilot is now being pitched to other[...]

FremantleMedia North America is going from flawed gods to all-too-human heroes, with the American Gods producer having acquired the rights to develop writer Kurt Busiek and artists Brent Anderson and Alex Ross' superhero comic book series Astro City as a live-action television series.

Credit: Netflix Netflix went double-dipping on Thursday with two announcement videos: one for an all-star charity event; and the other, for a highly-anticipated YA thriller adaptation First up, the streaming service announced the lineup for Seth Rogen's Hilarity for Charity comedy special, taping Saturday at the Hollywood Palladium for an April airing; and we also have a[...]

The god-hunting world of Jesse Custer (Dominic Cooper), Tulip (Ruth Negga) and Cassidy (Joseph Gilgun) continues to grow, with Reign's Adam Croasdell and Mozart in the Jungle's Prema Cruz set to join AMC's Preacher when it returns for a third season.

Fans of AMC's Preacher who were concerned the upcoming third season was only going to be about Jesse Custer's (Dominic Cooper) family reunion back at Angelville will be excited to learn that Turn's Jonny Coyne has been tapped to portray Allfather D’Aronique.

Hong Chau (Downsizing), Shea Whigham (Boardwalk Empire), Jeremy Allen White (Shameless) and Sydney Tamiia Poitier (Chicago PD) are set to join Julia Roberts, Stephan James and Bobby Cannavale in Amazon's half-hour drama Homecoming.

Credit: AMC AMC is using the occasion of International Women's Day to announce their timely series adaptation of Sarai Walker's 2015 darkly comic novel Dietland will premiere with back-to-back episodes starting at 9 p.m ET on Monday, June 4th The 10-episode revenge fantasy series stars Joy Nash (Twin Peaks) and Julianna Margulies (The Good Wife) and comes from[...]

Credit: DFree / Shutterstock.com Amazon is wasting no time evening out the playing field between The Seven and Butcher's "boys", following up the casting of Laz Alonso (The Mysteries of Laura) as second-in-command Mother's Milk with news that Jack Quaid (The Hunger Games) will be joining the ranks of the streaming service's adaptation of Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson's comic book series The Boys. Created for[...]

Credit: NBC Now that The Seven's beefed up their membership roster, it's time for Amazon to turn its attention to Butcher's "boys." Laz Alonso (The Mysteries of Laura) will be joining the ranks of the streaming service's adaptation of Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson's comic book series The Boys. Created for series by Eric Kripke (Supernatural) and with[...]

Top Boy director Yann Demange is about to make his U.S. television debut in a big way: the British helmer will direct and executive produce the first episode of HBO's high-profile dramatic series adaption of Matt Ruff's Lovecraft Country from Academy Award winner Jordan Peele's (Get Out) Monkeypaw Productions.

In Her Name's Richard Smith is attached to write the adaptation; with Long, Ray Miller and David Server of Archetype, Lloyd Braun of Whalerock Industries, and MGM Television's Andrew Mittman set to executive produce. Hiding in Time takes place in a future where law enforcement utilizes time travel to offer witnesses an entirely different kind of Witness Protection Program[...]

Credit (left): Myrmi (Pratchett) [CC BY-SA 2.0], Wikimedia Commons / (right) ISIS Large Print BooksThe BBC is getting back into the Terry Pratchett business in a very big (and flat) way, with BBC Studios set to develop a six-part series adaptation of the author's epic comedy/fantasy book series Discworld Deadline Hollywood reports that the series[...]

In light of the recent school shooting in Parkland, Florida, and in the shadow of the current national gun violence debate, the Paramount Network has announced that it is delaying the premiere of Heathers, the network's series adaptation of the 1988 cult classic film originally starring Winona Ryder (Stranger Things), Christian Slater (Mr Robot), and[...]

Aaron Mahnke's mission to prove that real life can be just as strange (and horrific) as the things we can imagine is getting some second-season help from Amazon.

Viewers are starting to get a clearer understanding of HBO's vision of the totalitarian future established by Ray Bradbury in his classic novel Fahrenheit 451 with the release of the newest teaser for the cable giant's film adaptation Directed by Ramin Bahrani (99 Homes) from a script by Bahrani and Amir Naderi (Magic Lantern), the film[...]

Netflix has announced that Josh Stewart (Shooter), Floriana Lima (Supergirl) and Giorgia Whigham (Scream) will be joining the cast of Marvel's The Punisher season 2 as new series regulars.

Mercedes, the Audience Network's adaptation of the bestselling King novel Long actually served as programming chief at Audience Network for 18 years before leaving to partner up with Ayer to form Cedar Park. Kingdom, You Me Her, Religion Of Sports, Loudermilk and Hit the Road are just some of the series that Long as executive produced;[...]

You're a fan of Kristin Chenoweth and a fan of Starz's American Gods? Well, we've got some good news and we've got some not-so-good news for you. So where should we start? Let's start with the good news!

Amazon Prime has released the official trailer for their comedy series adaptation of Conn and Hal Iggulden's book The Dangerous Book for Boys; as well as setting the premiere date for Friday, March 30th. Mottola is directing the series, with Michael Glouberman serving as showrunner Mottola, Cranston and James Degus serve as executive producers, with Moonshot Entertainment and Sony Pictures[...]

Amazon Studios continues its push into epic, big scope series programming, securing global rights to bring Iain M. Banks' sci-fi adventure novel Consider Phlebas to series television.

Blige (Mudbound) is set to play a time-travelling assassin in Netflix's adaptation of  Gerard Way and Gabriel Bá's The Umbrella Academy With a one-year contract that will have her as a series regular, this marks Blige's biggest series commitment to date; though she has made guest appearances on shows such as Fox's Empire, ABC's Black-ish and [...]

Danny Goldman is about to learn quickly how something as simple as a handshake can turn every aspect of his life upside down in NBC pilot Suspicion; created/written by The Path creator Jessica Goldberg and based on the novel by Joseph Finder.

If you thought Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat were intrusive, just wait until you see what the not-too-distant future has in store for us in Amazon Prime's new original thriller series The Feed, written by The Walking Dead's Channing Powell and based on a novel by Nick Clark Windo.

Dick's Electric Dreams) and Joel Kinnaman (Altered Carbon) are set to join the series adaptation of the 2011 assassin film Hanna. With newcomer Esme Creed-Miles (Dark River) as lead, the series is directed by Sarah Adina Smith (Legion) from a script adaptation by David Farr (film's co-writer) NBCUniversal International Studios will serve as the main production studio, with[...]

Private detectives Kenzie and Gennaro might be getting a little more than two hours to crack the case this time, with Fox announcing a pilot order for an untitled drama series based on Dennis Lehane's best-selling 1998 novel Gone Baby Gone.

A day after it was reported exclusively by The Hollywood Reporter that Jesse Alexander would be assuming showrunner responsibilities alongside author and executive producer Neil Gaiman on Starz’s  American Gods, the novelist took to Twitter to challenge a number of the assertions made in the article.

Welcome to Bleeding Cool’s final weekly reminder recap for  Syfy‘s  Happy! (for this season, anyway) as we take a look back at the season finale, ‘I Am the Future’.

Thanks for joining us as we wrap-up our first season of Happy Trails!, Bleeding Cool’s live-blog of Syfy‘s Happy!, with tonight’s season finale, ‘I Am The Future”.

Welcome back to Bleeding Cool’s weekly rundown and pipin' hot “reminder recap” slice of  Syfy‘s  Happy! as we take a look back at the season's penultimate seventh episode, ‘Destroyer of Worlds’.