"...the new Serenity comics series that is due out in March. This three-issue series, Serenity: Better Days, is a step back in time to the early years of the Firefly crew, and the fledgling gang's turbulent attempts to cope with success after they pull off their first successful heist. It features the same creative team as Those Left Behind, with ( Read more... )

...assuming they don't fuck it up totally.

BBC are going to bring back Survivors.
(From the Forbidden Planet blog.)

For my American chums - Survivors is the show Jeremiah wanted to be when it grew up.

In other news... Forbidden Planet has a blog?

A few fun links from my hiatus:

"A multi-national team of biologists has concluded that developmental evolution is deterministic and orderly, rather than random, based on a study of different species of roundwormsThey accomplished this by studying minute vatiations in roundworm vulvas. Imagine the date potential in that profession- "What do you do ( Read more... )

They're doing a US remake of Father Ted.

Arse. Feck.

Ecumenical matter.

Feck.

John Rogers is worth time for many things.

He wrote and produced Global Frequency, which is enough to make hin a demi-god.

He's really funny on a good day, of which he has many.

And today, he's explained the labyrinthine shenanagans involved in selling scripts for TV and movies in a way that is lucid, gives more than enough explanation of the ( Read more... )

The new show is called "Dollhouse". It's been confirmed for seven episides minimum. (It's on Fox but whattayagonnado ( Read more... )

I consider this a sign of the coming Apocalypse.

' Rupert Murdoch's FOX network is planning an American remake of the 1970's British BBC sitcom "Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em"Unlike the article writer, I have no nostalgia about the original. It made me cringe when my parents watched it when I was a kid. The barrage of dreadful impersonators made me ( Read more... )

The guys responsible for Alias, Lost and the upcoming Star Trek movie prequel/reboot have another iron in the fire. They're pitching it as "X-Files meets Altered States" - and as someone who found the former rarely interesting and adored the latter (and liked Alias but, ahem, lost interest in Lost around when Locke started acting like he'd lost all ( Read more... )

On the one hand...
There's a good chance the BBC will finally make Ripper"There's a "solid chance" that Buffy the Vampire Slayer creator Joss Whedon will produce a 90-minute TV special featuring the character of Rupert "Ripper" Giles (Anthony Stewart Head) for the BBC ( Read more... )

The latest piece of our TV past to be exhumed and reanimated as a movie is The Sweeney.

The one glimmer of possible sunshine is Jack Regan will be played by Ray Winstone.

(Hey, maybe they'll revive Jason King next. Then have them do a crossover show called Division X...)