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Upfronts, Finales, Hannibal? – The Week In TV Ratings
There are a few reasons for this; the critical acclaim for the series is second-to-none on network, with many passionate high-profile fans, but more importantly, the show is an internationally financed show and its possible its being shopped to another network, maybe even for a deal similar to what NBC did with Friday Night Lights[...]
Doctor Who: The Name Of The Doctor, And Agents Of SHIELD – Sunday Trending Topics
 Here's a quick catch-up: Most-Read TV/Film Stories Sunday: The Doctor Who Finale Has Escaped Into The Wild – The Name Of The Doctor Is Out  No spoilers No real spoilers anyway From Tumblr This Week In Doctor Who Spoilers A few new Doctor Who rumours have come along this week, some others have been repeated and others still have been[...]
New DC Live Action TV Shows? Geoff Johns Teases San Diego Announcements
Could this hint at a Green Arrow film? A Superman TV show? Or a definitive answer to that Justice League movie? JOHNS: One of the things that I thought really worked was that you have Smallville on television and Superman Returns come out in the theater, and it was fine Nobody freaked out, nobody thought they[...]
Cullen Bunn And Brian Hurtt On The Lack Of A Sixth Gun TV Series
So, NBC haven't picked up The Sixth Gun as a TV show. But it is still available as a really decent comic book And you never know, one day the pilot script may leak onto the internet Here's what the comic's creators, and those around them had to say… The crummy news: NBC did not pick up[...]
The Women Of DC Comics, The IT Crowd – Tuesday Trending Topics
Somebody ought to do a website about that. Most-Read TV/Film Stories Tuesday: The IT Crowd To Return For One More Episode, Filming In The Next Few Weeks The IT Crowd is set to return later this year for one last time You read it here first. Matt Groening's Mother Has Passed Away – Her Obituary Is Filled With Names[...]
The IT Crowd Finale – Monday Trending Topics
DC do much better in the graphic novels where, along with Image, they dominate Marvel. Most-Read TV/Film Stories Monday: The IT Crowd To Return For One More Episode, Filming In The Next Few Weeks The IT Crowd is set to return later this year for one last time You read it here first. New Amazing Spider-Man 2 Images Appear[...]
Swipe File: Arrow And Ek Thi Daayan
This is an advertising poster for TV series Arrow. And this is an advertising poster for new Bollywood release Ek Thi Daayaan. Do I have to superimpose them on top of each other? In Swipe File we present two or more images that resemble each other to some degree They may be homages, parodies, ironic appropriations, coincidences or[...]
Kickstart The Capcom-Endorsed, Live Action Street Fighter Series
We'd already seen this with Mortal Kombat and Dragon Ball Z. So, around 3 years ago, a short fan film was released called Street Fighter Legacy, and it looked a little something like this. [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwjZTdkATyo[/youtube] While I certainly didn't see any streets, per se, there were definitely fighters in that clip. Now, the same people are trying to Kickstart a web-cum-TV[...]
Emilia Clarke as Daenerys Targaryen in Game of Thrones. Image Courtesy of HBO/WarnerMedia
Sure, it's still mostly men that make up the armies and get their heads (and surprisingly frequently hands) cut off, but the women in Game Of Thrones get to do a lot more than just endure. The TV adaptation is by its nature a leaner, more compressed narrative than George RR Martin's seven-volume series of doorstop-sized[...]