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With this series, we are going back to the origins of sci-fi, following the DNA of these ideas back to the source Without Jules Verne and H.G Wells there wouldn't have been Ray Bradbury or Robert A Heinlein, and without them, there wouldn't be Lucas, Spielberg, Ridley Scott or me As a filmmaker who specializes[...]

Is there a point to enforcing the law in the face of certain destruction? With the end of the world looming, how far would you go to make things right? Those are just some of the themes to be tackled by Neil Cross' (Luther) Hard Sun, a six-part "pre-apocalyptic" crime drama from BBC One and Hulu. Written[...]

Credit: Gene Page/AMC So you would think that after spending months teasing fans about an upcoming season dubbed "All Out War" and promising a "moment that everyone will be talking about when the episode ends," fans of AMC's The Walking Dead would've been better prepared for the fallout from Season 8 mid-season finale. Clearly, at least 60,000 of[...]

Credit: Netflix The producers behind Netflix's original Brazilian series 3% are set to tell the story of history's most successful Nazi hunters with new scripted series The Chase. Brazil's Boutique Filmes, producer of the hit streaming service series, is partnering with Connect3 Productions for a series based on Israel's Mossad Nazi hunters and their efforts beginning in the[...]

Vikings creator and showrunner Michael Hirst (The Tudors) is hanging out the shingle on his new independent production company, and first up on its production plate is a series adaptation of the 1998 spy thriller Ronin Formed in conjunction with longtime producing partners Morgan O'Sullivan and James Flynn, Green Pavilion Entertainment was formed to "develop and produce high-end[...]

Not to be outdone, Amazon reminded viewers that there are more than just two streaming service giants and showed that they're ready to hit the ground running in 2018 with a strong lineup of films, series, documentaries, and more. From Cord Hosenbeck (Will Ferrell) and Tish Cattigan (Molly Shannon) finally achieving their dream of covering the Rose[...]

USA Network is treating attendees at next month's Sundance Film Festival to a special preview of their new true-crime anthology series Unsolved: The Murders of Tupac and the Notorious B.I.G. Though not set to premiere until February 27, 2018, Deadline: Hollywood is reporting exclusively that the network will present clips and a panel during the Park City,[...]

Credit:  JoJo Whilden/Hulu With what might be one of 2018's more controversial series, Hulu's new dramatic series The Looming Tower focuses on the rivalry and distrust between the CIA and FBI throughout the '90s that may have laid the groundwork for the 9/11 terrorist attack Based on Lawrence Wright's Pulitzer Prize-winning account, the series will examine[...]

If you're not familiar with the comic book series, then you should definitely keep that in mind as you keep reading or watching If you know what's coming, then spoilers probably aren't going to be a big deal for you; but there may be some discussion (translation: rants) of either subtle changes or drastic differences that you[...]

Credit: HBO HBO has finally set a premiere date for Alan Ball's (True Blood, Six Feet Under) upcoming new series Here and Now Set to premiere February 11, 2018, and airing on Sundays at 9:00 pm ET, the family-drama-with-a-twist stars Holly Hunter (The Piano) and Tim Robbins (The Shawshank Redemption) as parents of a multi-racial family made up of three adopted children and one[...]

Credit: NBCUniversal How to be Single's Vanessa Rubio is joining the cast of YouTube Red's Cobra Kai, a 10-episode half-hour series that re-teams Ralph Macchio and William Zabka in their roles from the feature franchise The Karate Kid Rubio will also be joining recently cast Courtney Henggeler (Mom, Fixed), who's set to play Daniel's wife, Amanda. Here's how YouTube Red[...]

Based on Barbara Rose Booker's popular 2009 novel, Kahnweiler will write the series adaptation; and serve as executive producer with Erwin More and Brian Medavoy (American High, Just Shoot Me). Alan Nevins and Suzy Unger will also serve as producers. The CW's adaptation of The Viagra Diaries centers on Kit, a gorgeous intern new in town who gets[...]

Created and produced by Chris Brancato, Carlo Bernard, and Doug Miro; with Eric Newman serving as showrunner, Narcos is bringing Peña and Luna on as series regulars, though specific character details are still being kept under wraps. While the first three seasons of the series were filmed in Colombia and focused on Medellin boss Pablo Escobar (Wagner[...]

Television is heading for a different type of "nuclear age," with Pulse Films optioning Vanity Fair journalist William Langewiesche's book for new scripted series The Atomic Bazaar Set in the shadowy world of nuclear trafficking — from the compounds of wealthy drug lords to secret CIA and MI6 bases — the series is set to be[...]

NBC is hoping the third time really is the charm when it comes to remaking cult hit series The IT Crowd – but this time, they're not taking any chances Show creator Graham Linehan (Father Ted, Black Books) has confirmed that The Peacock Network is developing a remake of the Channel 4 comedy and that he[...]

Amazon continues "auditioning acts" for their upcoming Carnival Row, adding Andrew Gower (Outlander's Prince Charles Edward Stewart) and Rise of the Planet of the Apes's Jamie Harris as series regulars to the eight-episode fantasy series from Rene Echevarria, Travis Beacham, Paul McGuigan and Legendary Television Gower and Harris are set to join previously announced leads Orlando Bloom[...]

Credit: Ron Batzdorff/NBC Class looks to be in session a little earlier than expected next year, as NBC will be giving viewers a preview of their new comedy series A.P Bio Saturday Night Live writer Mike O'Brien, SNL creator Lorne Michaels and NBC late-night host Seth Meyers are shepherding the series, which will air on February[...]

Editorial credit: carrie-nelson / Shutterstock.com Showtime's new half-hour comedy series Kidding is already a show of "firsts": the project marks actor/comedian Jim Carrey's first regular series role in twenty years Now comes word that Catherine Keener (Get Out, Death to Smoochy) has been cast opposite Carrey in her first series regular role. Created by showrunner Dave Holstein[...]

Also set in the turbulent world of high school life, Awkward followed a student who had an accident that was mistaken for a suicide attempt; resulting in a sudden and unexpected boost to her popularity that dramatically changed her life. Credit: Netflix At the end of her run on Awkward in 2013, Iungerich sat down with Cultural Learnings's Myles[...]

Credit: Syfy After months of promotion and a slight scheduling setback that pushed the series from a September to a December premiere, Syfy dropped the first episode of their series adaptation of Grant Morrison and Darick Robertson's  Happy!… and Bleeding Cool's here with your live blog recap of 'Saint Nick.' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4gFlDn6c0c&t=5sVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: HAPPY! | Season 1:[...]

Credit: Netflix/DreamWorks Animation Animation fans received a few holiday presents early this year with the news that Netflix and DreamWorks Animation Television are set to release six new original series in 2018; including a continuation of the Trolls movie and an all-new version of She-Ra, Princess of Power Here's a rundown on the full animation slate,[...]

Musician, producer and actor Pras Michel is taking us back to NYC at the turn of the millennium for a scripted television series inspired by the New York Police Department's (NYPD) Rap Intelligence Unit. Credit: MiamiFilmFestival [CC BY-SA 2.0], Wikimedia CommonsCreated in conjunction with Jean Claude LaMarre, the currently-untitled project centers on a cop "who goes undercover[...]

Credit: Gage Skidmore [CC BY-SA 2.0] Wikimedia CommonsChris Hardwick, the man once known for MTV's Singled Out, Rob Zombie's House of 1000 Corpses, and G4's Web Soup before creating his Nerdist empire, continues expanding his media empire with new scripted comedy series Natural History at NBC Both Hardwick and Futurama's David X Cohen will pen[...]

Executive produced by Frank Doelger (Game of Thrones), both six-episode seasons of the Sean Bean-starring series will be run as a Netflix Original in the U.S. Outside of The States, Variety reports exclusively that things get a bit more complicated Show distributor Endemol Shine International had already established separate licensing deals with a number of territories[...]

Credit: AMC Welcome to Bleeding Cool's weekly recap of AMC's The Walking Dead Season 8 with the series' righteously intense mid-season finale, 'How It's Gotta Be'. Wow Rick (Andrew Lincoln) and his coalition were beaten but not broken, driven underground by a newly emboldened Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) and the Saviors Instead of an ending, this year's mid-season finale serves[...]

Welcome to Bleeding Cool’s weekly recap of AMC‘s The Walking Dead Season 8 as we recap last week's Episode 7, 'Time for After."

I'm so grateful to have this opportunity to keep exploring these female characters and make this series with my friends." Credit: HBO One of the moves that took place over the past several weeks that served as an unofficial confirmation of a Season 2 was Witherspoon's decision to step back from astronaut drama Pale Blue Dot from[...]

Around the holiday season, there are three things you can depend on: more travelling to family and friends this year than you swore you would do last year; at least one present that will end up in your "regift" filing cabinet; and HBO reminding its subscribers just how much they've spent on programming the past[...]

While ABC's now-defunct series Agent Carter finds a new home at streaming service Hulu, Hayley Atwell (Conviction, Christopher Robin) isn't making a full-time return to 2017 quite yet Starz has released a new trailer and the premiere month for the cable network's limited series adaptation of E.M Forster's classic novel Howard's End. Adapted by Kenneth Lonergan,[...]

Credit: HBO HBO is prepping their subscribers for a new slate of programming in 2018, releasing the first teaser for Alan Ball's (True Blood, Six Feet Under) upcoming series Here and Now Set to premiere February 2018, the family-drama-with-a-twist stars Holly Hunter (The Piano) and Tim Robbins (The Shawshank Redemption) as parents of a multi-racial family[...]