If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! Whether you love or hate the new Doctor Who, prepare to polarise your thoughts even further one way or the other, if this latest rumour ever comes to fruition. Apparently, one of the scriptwriters – Gareth Roberts – has [...]
The cable network AMC has ordered a six part drama based on the graphic novel series, The Walking Dead. So far, it seems that Jonny Lee Miller (Eli Stone) could be taking on the lead role of Rick Grimes, while Jon Bernthal (Ghost Writer) has been confirmed for the important role of Shane. The story [...]
The Members of the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror will have their work cut out when deciding the winners of the 2010 Saturn Awards. The competition is a lot harder than expected, as Avatar sweeps box office takings away, when it comes to awards, it has a bit of competition to contend with, [...]
It has been some time since the demise of Firefly and the attempt by the producers to give the fans some sort of ending to think about with the release of the feature length Serenity. For fans of the TV show this is not good news, as the story lives on in a series of [...]
Anyone that remembers the science fiction Push will understand the producers feel that the story would go down well on TV. Push is a story centred on the paranormal skills of a group of people that find they are able to work as an organised group and make things happen for the better. In the [...]
With the second series of Heroes coming the UK this weekend, it may be that some fans have already seen the show if we are to go on the figures released by TorrentFreak. According to the sites report it seems that Heroes is now the most pirated TV show around, in fact on BitTorrent the [...]
Visitors to the MCM Expo in London this coming weekend will be in for a treat when NBC Universal will be showing an enticing ten minutes worth of their reboot of the 1980’s science fiction show V. The show opens in the US the week after so this is a rare treat for British science [...]
There is good news for fans of the new science fiction series Flashforward the studio has been given the go ahead to complete the full series. Unlike some of this year’s other science fiction shows. This may sound strange, but in the current climate studios and broadcasters are being very ruthless when it comes to [...]
For many science fiction fans the ghost story is on the sort of fringe of the genre in the same manner that horror is, these fringe sections appear to blur into one around the edges and one such programme that is good at that is the Ghost Whisperer. This is series that has quietly notched [...]
The 1980’s are being revived through film and TV, but this is not some time travel experiment but a reboot of virtually all television series and films from that time. It has to be a combination of the new technology to make the visual effect more realistic and the fact these classic programmes take us [...]
Nobody can deny the popularity of science fiction TV shows such as Heroes and Lost, but this popularity has a down side and that is the illegal downloading of these programmes. It has been estimated that science fiction is the genre of choice for the computer user that like to obtain material from other sources, [...]
Without previews, the Comic Con would not be the exciting event that it is, but most previews tend to be short and occasionally only show content that we have seen before. However, The Prisoner preview is something else, apart from the fact that this series is one of the most anticipated of the year; a [...]
The rebirth of Star Trek will boldly go where many men and women have gone before, and that is to produce a run of films. Star Trek 2 has been in the pipeline for some time, but according to screenwriter Roberto Orci, Star Trek 3 is also being planned, in fact there is a rumour [...]
Yet another Stephen King novel is to be turned into a mini series, initially this as usual will be for the US market, but hopefully it should make its way across the Atlantic and onto the screens of the UK viewer. Cell, refers to mobile phone signals that somehow fry the brain and turn humans [...]
There has been talk of a “Smallville” spin off TV movie in the pipeline, it has even been given a title “Metropolis” and by all accounts, the producers at Warner Bros are going to make the announcement at the up and coming Comic Con in San Diego on the 23rd July. However, the problem with [...]
He is the UK’s equivalent to “Flash Gordon” but “Dan Dare” has been away for while, although there have been several attempts to revive him, in film and TV. Now it seems that Chorion the children’s entertainment company have got their hands on the publishing rights to the comic series that was such a hit [...]
It has been in the pipeline for quite a while now, but finally it looks as if the much awaited Star Wars live action TV show is about to go into production. However, this is not going to some big Hollywood production, no George Lucas has moved the production to Australia and not only that [...]
Man of Steel teaser trailer released
If you’re sick of comic-book adaptations and film remakes, the last thing you might expect to get excited about is a new Superman film. That’s right: there’s a new Superman film scheduled for release in 2013. However, before you run off groaning at the idea of yet another mediocre cash-in, this one comes with caveats. [...]
Penguin owner buys ASI self-publishing company
According to the BBC, Pearson, which owns Penguin books among other things, has bought Author Solutions Inc in a £74 million deal. The deal means that Pearson now has control of a self-publishing interest. The news has raised concerns among some writers that intellectual property (IP) rights for new writers may be at risk, especially [...]
The Winner of our April 300 Word Writing Challenge is writer John J Brady, (known on these forums as alchemist). He wins a £10 voucher to spend at Amazon or The Book Depository, our quarterly prize. As usual, the challenge our members faced was to write a story of no more than 300 words, inspired [...]
Forum member Teresa Edgerton is the winner of our January 300 Word Writing Challenge. She wins a £10 voucher to spend at The Book Depository, our quarterly prize. As usual, the challenge our members faced was to write a story of no more than 300 words, inspired by an image selected by our moderators. For [...]
All Zombies Must Die hits the Xbox
At the weekend, All Zombies Must Die was unleashed on Xbox Live. As you can probably guess from the title, this is a rather tongue in cheek game developed by Doublesix with a focus on multiplayer zombie slaying. Set in the town of Deadhill, All Zombies Must Die offers a huge variety of weapons (such [...]
About | Privacy | Disclaimer | Staff | Press | Contact us
