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Netflix's "Prodigy" is a laser-focused psychological thriller that excels on pretty much all fronts -- script, directing, and acting.

Legendary Digital Networks' interactive streaming platform Geek & Sundry and Alpha are bringing Ashley Clements' science fiction series SONA to their service later this month. https://youtu.be/AmGi9RFjwDEVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: SONA Premieres August 22nd! (Trailer) (https://youtu.be/AmGi9RFjwDE) Clements (The Lizzie Bennet Diaries, Edgar Allan Poe's Murder Mystery Dinner Party) stars as Lieutenant Belyn Sona, a United Earth[...]

Bungie Taking their turn in the spotlight during this year's Television Critics Association (TCA) summer press event, Showtime used the occasion to confirm that Master Chief will in fact be the main character in the cable giant's 10-episode scripted drama series based on Microsoft's Halo video game franchise. Showtime President of Programming Gary Levine confirmed the news to IGN[...]

Netflix has released an official trailer for Maniac, the streamer’s new comedy series from director Cary Fukunaga (Beasts of No Nation, True Detective).

FX CEO John Landgraf announced that the cable network has ordered award-winning writer/director Alex Garland's (Annihilation, Ex Machina) Devs to series.

HBO has made a straight-to-series order for Steven Moffat's (Doctor Who, Sherlock) adaptation of Audrey Niffenegger's novel The Time Traveler’s Wife. 

Credit: Paul Schrimaldi/Hulu With Beau Willimon's (House of Cards) new science fiction-drama The First readying for it's Friday, September 14, launch on Hulu, the streaming service is offering viewers the first official teaser for the eight-episode series. Written by Willimon, the space exploration series stars Sean Penn (Dead Man Walking, The Game) and Natascha McElhone (Ronin, Californication); produced by Westward Productions,[...]

Credit: Amazon Studios Amazon Studios is ready to bring Simon Stålenhag's acclaimed science fiction artwork to life, moving forward with hour-long fantasy series Tales from The Loop. Nathaniel Halpern (Legion) will serve as both showrunner and executive producer with acclaimed Never Let Me Go's Mark Romanek directing the pilot and serving as an executive producer. Matt Reeves (The[...]

Credit: Paul Schrimaldi/Hulu Beau Willimon's (House of Cards) new science fiction-drama The First has finally received a launch date from Hulu, with the streaming service set to premiere the Sean Penn (Dead Man Walking, The Game) / Natascha McElhone (Ronin, Californication) series on Friday, September 14 To coincide with the announcement, Hulu is also giving us some[...]

Credit: Kathy Hutchins / Shutterstock.com After what's been reported as a "competitive situation" between the cable giant and services like Netflix, HBO has secured the rights to and given a series order for Joss Whedon's (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The Avengers) epic science fiction drama The Nevers. Whedon will be taking a very active role, serving as writer,[...]

Vaughan and Pia Guerra's post-apocalyptic science fiction comic book series from DC Comics' Vertigo imprint, FX's Y (the pilot's official title) also stars Barry Keoghan (Dunkirk), Imogen Poots (Green Room) Lashana Lynch (Captain Marvel), Juliana Canfield (Succession) and Marin Ireland (Sneaky Pete) Michael Green (American Gods) and Luke Cage's Aida Mashaka Croal serve as co-showrunners and executive[...]

She's an animal lover, fiercely protective of her friends, generous, and always a delightful interview. Her most recent film 2036 Origin Unknown is a science fiction tale with a decidedly realistic bent centering on the first manned mission to Mars. Sackhoff plays Mackenzie "Mack" Wilson, a human mission controller who is investigating the deadly failure of the previous mission[...]

Since the beginning of the year CEO and Founder of the Hollywood Science Fiction Museum, Floyd "Huston" Huddleston, has been almost entirely silent on social media, mystifying the Science Fiction and Horror fandom community Well, now the fans have their answer. It turns out that Huddleston has been incarcerated at the Pitchess Detention Center in Castaic, CA[...]

There is no arguing the impact James Cameron has had on the film industry.  From a piece of tape over a camera to create a signature effect in Escape From New York to resetting expectations of what CGI effects can be, Cameron has truly made himself a force in the art form. His newest project is a season of[...]

Michael Straczynski expressed at length that the award winning science fiction series' current television rights holder Warner Bros has no intention of either doing anything with the license themselves, or of letting anyone else do anything with it. Won't work They literally told my agent "We have no plans, and no intentions, of letting anything else[...]

The world of Stranger Things is set to get a lot more "upside-down-ier" (definitely not a thing) with Netflix adding The Princess Bride's Cary Elwes and Starship Trooper's Jake Busey to the upcoming third season of the popular sci-fi series.

In what is being described as a "competitive situation," Apple has secured the rights to bring the writer's original seminal science fiction novel trilogy Foundation to television as a series. David S Goyer (The Dark Knight) and Josh Friedman (Avatar 2) developed the project, which has been put into development for straight-to-series consideration In their exclusive reporting,[...]

The streaming service has shifted it programming efforts towards large, internationally-viable "tent pole" series similar to HBO's Game of Thrones, AMC's The Walking Dead and Hulu's The Handmaid's Tale. First published in book form in 2008 (it was serialized in Science Fiction World in 2006), here's a brief overview of Cixin's The Three-Body Problem: Set against the[...]

2018 will see the 44th annual Saturn Awards ceremony, presented by The Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films. The Academy was founded in 1972 by noted film historian Dr Donald A Reed to honor and recognize films often overlooked by mainstream awards Over the years, the Academy has expanded its reach to include recognizing[...]

In what we're choosing to refer to as a "Peaches & Herb announcement", The Vampire Diaries star Michael Trevino is reuniting with director Julie Plec on the CW‘s immigration-theme-with-a-twist sci-fi reboot pilot Roswell.

As we can see from the first official trailer for Netflix's upcoming Lost in Space reboot, the danger to Will Robinson (Maxwell Jenkins) is about to get very, very real when the series premieres on April 13.

While it's most likely going to be a little while longer before Stranger Things 3, the streaming service is giving fans some casting news: Maya Thurman-Hawke (Little Women) will be joining the cast; and Priah Ferguson's Erica is being moved to an important recurring role.

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.

A slick and dirty science fiction noir tale, Duncan Jones's Netflix film 'Mute' tells a tale sometimes disturbing but largely engaging.

However if readers can set aside their conception of the novelizations, and for moviegoers who haven't read the original, this is [mostly] a genuinely masterful spin of the "let's investigate something strange going on" trope of science fiction films As for my mostly, we'll get to that in a bit. Natalie Portman plays Lena, a biologist[...]

For Stargate Origins, the future of the franchise continues to lie in the past as the webs series offers us a preview of what's still to come this season; as well an overview of Episodes 4 and 5, which premiered tonight at 7 p.m. ET/4p.m. PT on the on the Stargate Command streaming service.

We are honored that we have been chosen, along with Dennis Kelly and Plan B Entertainment, to make Consider Phlebas into a television series we think will be loved by fans for years to come." – Sharon Tal Yguado, Head of Scripted Series, Amazon Studios Consider Phlebas is another example of Amazon's "go big" initiative when it comes[...]

Grey's Anatomy's Jeanine Mason is set to trade EKG's for UFO's, tapped to lead the CW's immigration-theme-with-a-twist sci-fi reboot pilot Roswell. Mason will taking on the role of Liz Ortecho, a biomedical researcher and daughter of undocumented immigrants who must deal with secrets new and old.

Dick Science Fiction Film Festival is right around the corner, and the event's list of featured films, series and guests is incredibly impressive Set to begin on February 23rd and run 'til the 25th, there will be screenings in the boroughs of Manhattan and Queens, NY. The Philip K Dick Science Fiction Film Festival was created[...]

Though the network had formally expressed interest in the project in October 2017, the CW has officially given a pilot order for a reboot of popular sci-fi series Roswell.