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Star Trek – The Essential Picard: The Inner Light

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Ricky Church revisits the essential Jean-Luc Picard episodes as we count down to the premiere of Star Trek: Picard… Taking a break from the gloom and doom of Picard’s life in the recent episodes that have been discussed, ‘The Inner Light’ doesn’t offer any deep changes to the Star Trek franchise or to Picard’s life, yet it […]

Better Call Saul season 5 will see Dean Norris, Steven Michael Quezada and Robert Forster reprising Breaking Bad roles

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Having just been renewed for a sixth and final season, Better Call Saul creators Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould revealed during their TCA presentation some other news regarding the series upcoming fifth season with the return of some fan-favourite Breaking Bad characters, including Dean Norris reprising his role as DEA agent Hank Schrader. Norris portrayed Hank throughout the […]

Star Trek – The Essential Picard: Family

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Ricky Church revisits the essential Jean-Luc Picard episodes as we count down to the premiere of Star Trek: Picard… A common element to most Star Trek series is the episodic structure of the show where audiences can jump into nearly any episode with little to no backstory and still understand what is going on. Even when there […]

Better Call Saul renewed for sixth and final season

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Just weeks away from the fifth season premiere of Better Call Saul, series creators Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould announced at their TCA presentation AMC has renewed the Breaking Bad prequel for a sixth and final season consisting of 13 episodes. “From day one of Better Call Saul, my dream was to tell the complete story of our […]

Star Trek – The Essential Picard: The Best of Both Worlds

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Ricky Church revisits the essential Jean-Luc Picard episodes as we count down to the premiere of Star Trek: Picard… There are two phases in Star Trek: The Next Generation: Pre-Borg and Post-Borg, where everything changed. If ‘The Measure of a Man‘ helped Star Trek fans take The Next Generation more seriously, the third season finale/fourth season premiere ‘The Best […]

The Dark Tower TV series not moving forward at Amazon

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Last year Amazon Studios began developing The Dark Tower TV series, the latest adaptation of Stephen King’s epic series that was to be a complete reboot from the 2017 feature film. However, the series is no longer moving forward at Amazon as Deadline has revealed that the streaming service has passed on the pilot. Due to […]

Amazon announces The Lord of the Rings TV series cast

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After many months of names being reported for The Lord of the Rings series but not confirmed by Amazon Studios, the streaming studio has officially announced via the show’s Twitter the full cast for the Middle-earth prequel. Starring in Lord of the Rings will be Robert Aramayo (The King’s Man), Owain Arthur (A Confession), Nazanin Boniadi (Homeland), Tom […]

Amazon greenlights Jack Reacher series, will adapt Killing Floor

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Amazon Studios announced at their TCA presentation that they have given a series order to the Jack Reacher television series with Paramount Television Studios and Skydance Television. As revealed last summer, the series will be headed by Nick Santora (Prison Break), who will showrun, write and executive produce the series. Jack Reacher will be based upon […]

Superman & Lois series given full season order at The CW for 2020 premiere

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It has been rumoured for a long while now, but The CW announced today that it has decided to skip the traditional pilot phase and order a full season of Superman & Lois, the next series in The CW’s Arrowverse of DC superheroes. Tyler Hoechlin and Elizabeth Tulloch will reprise their roles as Superman and Lois Lane respectively. […]

Awkwafina is Nora from Queens renewed for second season

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Just one week before its series premiere on Comedy Central, the network has already renewed Awkwafina’s upcoming semi-autobiographical sitcom Awkwafina is Nora from Queens for a second season. The news was revealed at Comedy Central’s TCA presentation. “We are in awe of Awkwafina’s creative genius on every level and we could not be more excited to […]