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Syfy is giving an official "thumbs up" for a second season of Happy!, their series adaptation of writer Grant Morrison and artist Darick Robertson's graphic novel limited series. "Happy! struck a chord with our SYFY audience and disrupted the TV landscape with its unique storytelling and outrageous performances led by Christopher Meloni If people thought this season[...]

TV with news that the Lost creator will be extending his overall deal with the studio. Credit: s_bukley / Shutterstock.com Working with the studio since 2012, the deal extension doesn't come as a huge surprise: Lindelof is currently working on HBO's series adaptation of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons's iconic limited comic series Watchmen[...]

One of those projects that's of particular interest to comic book fans – and FX – is the anticipated adaptation of writer Brian K Vaughn's Y: The Last Man series, with Green set to serve as showrunner. During the most recent Television Critics Association (TCA) winter press event, FX CEO John Landgraf gave TV Guide a status[...]

The Umbrella Academy fans have a new reason to get excited, as co-creator/illustrator Gabriel Bá took to social media on Monday to announce that filming has commenced on Netflix's series adaptation of his and Gerard Way's comic book series In the tweet, Bá also included a photo of himself and Way, who writes the series[...]

Executive producer Bong Joon Ho's series adaptation of his 2013 film Snowpiercer is set to fire up the engines on its perpetual journey, as TNT has officially ordered the pilot to series Starring Hamilton's award-winning Daveed Diggs and Jennifer Connelly (A Beautiful Mind, Requiem for a Dream), the series is set seven years after the world has[...]

Sometimes, being wrong isn't always a bad thing. Case in point: The Tick, who spent the first half of The Tick's Season 1 on Amazon trying to convince everyone that super-villain The Terror was actually still alive.

Thanks for joining us for our third edition of Happy Trails!, Bleeding Cool’s live-blog of Syfy‘s Happy! and tonight’s second episode, ‘When Christmas was Christmas.”

Welcome back to Bleeding Cool's weekly recap of Syfy's Happy!, as we get ready to "reminder recap" last week's second episode 'What Smiles Are For.'

Our "heroes" Nick Sax (Christopher Meloni) and Happy (Patton Oswalt) are off to save Hailey, as we get a look at Sax's past in Happy! Episode 3 on Syfy.

Netflix is set to bring ITV's cult hit The Frankenstein Chronicles both stateside and to a number of international markets.

Gaiman Author Neil Gaiman continues pulling double duty on the set of Amazon's adaptation of of Good Omens When he's not serving as the series showrunner, he's apparently appointed himself a one-man social media relations representative Since production began, Gaiman has used his Instagram and Twitter accounts to break news and release first looks at the[...]

Broadchurch producer Kudos is developing upcoming female firefighter memoir Through the Fire from Dr. Sabrina Cohen-Hatton for a television series.

But their little game had consequences, and the girls were all expelled in their final year of school under mysterious circumstances surrounding the death of the school's eccentric art teacher, Ambrose (who also happens to be Kate's father)." https://youtu.be/oWLzT1NfxHcVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: THE LYING GAME (https://youtu.be/oWLzT1NfxHc) The Lying Game is only the latest[...]

Credit (right): Gage Skidmore (CC BY-SA 2.0) Television's love affair with author John le Carré rolls along with word that Big Little Lies' Alexander Skarsgård has been cast in the upcoming BBC One–AMC series adaptation of The Little Drummer Girl Set to begin production in 2018, Old Boy writer-director Park Chan-wook has been tapped to direct the series[...]

Hollywood's current love affair with podcast adaptations is starting to look like they've dived into the group mind-think that if something works well once, then it'll work even better if you do it a thousand times With that said, the tidal wave continued on Wednesday with FX's announcement that it would be developing popular podcast[...]

Less than a week after Syfy has announced the full cast for their adaptation of Rick Remender and Wes Craig's graphic novel Deadly Class, executive producers Joe and Anthony Russo took to their Instagram account on Monday to give fans their first look at the "student roster:" Deadly Class boasts a script from Remender and Miles Feldsott; with Lee Toland Krieger set to direct and Adam Targum (Banshee)[...]

Less than two months after ordering the series adaptation to pilot, Syfy has announced the full cast for Deadly Class Based on Rick Remender and Wes Craig's graphic novel of the same name, the pilot was written by Remender and Miles Feldsott; with Lee Toland Krieger set to direct and Adam Targum (Banshee) serving as showrunner[...]

Amazon continues to put its money where its mouth is when it comes to genre programming, officially greenlighting an eight-episode adaptation of Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson's superhero drama comic, The Boys. Created by Eric Kripke (Supernatural, Timeless) and directed by Evan Goldberg and Seth Rogen (Preacher), Deadline: Hollywood also reports the series order comes less than three[...]

Could she have killed him? If not, who did? Cuoco would star in an executive produce the limited series adaptation, who became a fan of the novel after an early reading: "I read The Flight Attendant and was hooked immediately! Warner Bros Television is my extended family and I'm so excited to work together and bring this[...]

Less than four months after the network picked-up the adaptation for pilot, Syfy is looking to bring George R.R Martin's supernatural thriller Nightflyers straight to series. Dan Cerone (The Blacklist, The Mentalist) has been tapped as the series' showrunner, with Mike Cahill (Another Earth, The Magicians) set to direct the premiere episode In an interesting example[...]

Supernatural comedy Anya's Ghost has found its director in Dan Mazer (Dirty Grandpa, I Give It A Year), who is now officially set to helm the adaptation of the coming-of-age-with-a-twist graphic novel by Vera Brosgol  The film boasts a script from best-selling author Patrick Ness (A Monster Calls, Chaos Walking), and is scheduled to begin[...]

We have our first in-depth look at Lore, the new six-part horror anthology series based on Aaron Mahnke‘s award-winning and critically acclaimed podcast.

Lavie Tidhar and Matt Wallace both have books out through him and now Terry's looking to add Dead Girls to his roster. Written by Richard Calder, Dead Girls is an adaptation of his 1992 Cyberpunk novel Calder's a fiercely prolific author whose other work includes Dead Boys, Dead Things Cythera, Frenzetta, The Twist, Malignos, Impakto,[...]

Rowling's first novel for adults, The Casual Vacancy, was published at the end of September and barely two months later has been commissioned for an exclusive TV adaptation by BBC One and BBC Drama. The novel is a tragicomedy set in an English suburban West Country town called Pagford After the death of the local Parish[...]