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And yea, the much-anticipated sequel did fall and was buried, but did arise once more as a delightfully rotting half-hour TV sitcom on Fox. If this goes ahead then we'll run the above sentence as the headline [But With Every Word Capitalised, For Some Reason – Brendon] Original writers of the surprisingly successful undead comedy Zombieland[...]

Al Jean sent me notes on the outline, which I then turned into a 42-page draft. Most interesting of all is the fact that, after being asked how much he was paid to write the episode, he had this to say: I earned WGA minimum for a half-hour TV episode For some reason, I feel less[...]

Here are some excluisve designs and concepts for a Simon Cowell TV series that never made it… A few years back, SYCO, his production company, got in touch with Brendan McCarthy (Reboot, Rogan Gosh, Strange Days, Judge Dredd) to help them conceptualise a new TV format, after the international success of the new Doctor[...]

Steven Spielberg continues his association with TV sci-fi as executive producer He's joined by Brannon Braga, who was a key player in the Star Trek franchise and was also responsible to the intriguing if ultimately flawed Flash Forward. There are some familiar faces among the cast too Irish actor Jason O'Mara gets another chance to try[...]

Yes, that's what you get for hiring women writers: huge gratuitous photos of Norman Reedus at the top of any post about The Walking Dead. Drink him in...

It's also one of those thriller series on TV to have its heroes directly created and motivated by 9/11 in a bid to put it firmly in the zeitgeist, not to mention its deliberate use of the motif of ubiquitous surveillance cameras to create a general air of disquiet and paranoia, which is more[...]

ABC currently have two modern-day retellings of Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde ready for development, but writer Steven

Michael Moran reports on the all-pervading power of ITV's Sunday night TV colossus You're a hip and edgy comic-book reading type We know because you're here. "So why", some of you hip and edgy comic-book reading types will be asking, "would a hip and edgy comic-book reading type like me be interested in Downton Abbey?". Well[...]

Deadline reports: With Smallville ending its 10-season run this past May, the CW has made launching a new superhero franchise based on a DC property a

Bleeding Cool has managed to gain access to a number of scripts from the MTV US remake of The Inbetweeners An E4 show in the UK, it successfully mapped out the male adolescent experience with greater success than, well, basically any show before it A world mad up of fantasy and lies, low self esteem[...]

Accessible, embeddable, here comes Cerebus TV to YouTube, from Dave Sim and friends. We start with the Steve Canyon board game, we move onto the comic Straw Man and the current market climate, Cerebus Archive, Cerebus in CGI, Page 45 in Nottingham, photographing the Beatles, John Severin in Witchfinder, Well, what else were you planning to do[...]

Tonight on Channel 4 in Britain, a documentary The Superheroes Of Suburbia made by Christian Watt looked at British real life superheroes and found, as

From what I have seen it looks very exciting and Meryl is, as you'd imagine, amazing! BC: You're already very well known for comedy, with TV series like Peep Show, but now it seems you're doing a lot more serious drama Was that a move you chose to make or did it just work out that[...]

Powers, the comic by Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Avon Oeming, has been filming its pilot episode. And artist Van Oeming, has been sketching the

Hot off the first season of Game Of Thrones on HBO, George R.R. Martin is one of the big draws at San Diego this year -- we've been fortunate to have him

And then he turned up, waistcoat and all. One of the reasons is that he's also here to take meetings with a number of television networks to pitch a TV series called Silver. Which he's been describing to close confidants as "Remington Steele meets Chuck with a bit of Bourne Identity thrown in." Comics writer Tony Lee[...]

That aside, today comes word that 90s culture continues to exact a terrible revenge on the future as MTV announces the return of Beavis and Butt-Head As always, the 20-year nostalgia rule applies, more or less. I'll let this one go, Mike Judge, if you promise to remember that this means you must revive[...]

Leaked footage week on the internet continues with nearly 6 minutes of David E. Kelley's Wonder Woman pilot starring Adrianne Palicki.

I love San Diego Comic Con. It's the kind of place where you can sit down for a Grant Morrison panel and before the man comes on, the guy sitting next to

Cesar Lemus is a storyboard artist for the like of House and Heroes. And he also worked on the non-picked up Wonder Woman TV pilot for NBC Here's a peek at some of his images; Cesar Lemus is a storyboard artist for the like of House and Heroes. And he also worked on the non-picked up Wonder[...]

Sounds like we're at least a year and a half away from knowing for sure, but it's impossible not to be intrigued by the early reports about Neil Gaiman's American Gods tv series with HBO  Six seasons, a significant budget, "more effects in there than it's been done on a television series", and HBO's rep[...]

And this is where the other shoe drops. DC Comics have quite radically restarted all their comic books from issue one, cancelled a stack of them, and

And it's not even an official Green Lantern partner. Brilliant, pure dead brilliant. Dodgy politics obviously, but hey. This is advertising. This, by the

In retrospect it should have been no surprise that Adrianne Palicki in booty shorts was going to be the top trend for the day, but I actually kicked this story out of the internal automated comic-news-gathering Computo feed twice because it seemed to be more of a footnote to the sad story of the TV[...]

Okay, this looks like a good one. The Fades is a new series debuting on BBC3 later in the year. But next weekend you can see a preview at the MCM London

 In other news today, I thought the return of The Flintstones to tv was gonna be a good thing when I saw the headline too, but then I read Brendon's post  I guess we'll have to wait and see on that, but I do still wonder if the Great Gazoo is going to be in[...]

You didn't hear it from me. You can hear all this, as well as Alan talking about the spinoffs from Dodgem Logic, including the previously mentioned ten minute film Jimmy's End that Alan has written for Mitch Jenkins filming in August, that may also be spinning off into a feature film/TV project "It's got completely out[...]

The BBC are currently working on a final deal to bring back the Jennifer Saunders-written-and-starring sitcom Absolutely Fabulous, which also starred

All the buzz around the season opener of Doctor Who this weekend reminds me that I gotta get caught up with my tv watching, somehow  Accidentally caught a glimpse of the ep on BBC America last night and noticed they were flashing #doctorwho at the bottom of the screen, which is an interesting sign of[...]

It helps that Arcudi and Mahnke are also a long time Dark Horse comics collaborators, including a sizeable stint on The Mask comic – which is probably how they got the Major Bummer gig in the first place. Most-Read TV/Film Stories Today: Is This The Officially Registered Plot Premise For The Man Of Steel? Yep, it's an expanded[...]