by Brendon Connelly, Soucre: Bleeding Cool.com Speaking on BBC Breakfast right now, Matt Smith has just spelled out his outstanding commitment to Doctor Who: they start filming in February for 14 new episodes, comprising “a full series”, a Christmas special, and a 50th anniversary special. That’s 50th anniversary special singular,
By Adam Swiderski, Source: Blastr.com It’s a good day for giant monster movie news; first, we heard about Guillermo del Toro’s Pacific Rim, and now word has come down the wire that the ’80s arcade juggernaut Rampage! will be getting the feature film treatment. Hey, they made a multiseason TV
by Brendon Connelly, source: Bleeding Cool.com After eighteen months of development, Stephen Soderbergh has decided not to direct Warner Bros. do-over of The Man From UNCLE. The director and studio have apparently come to a parting of the ways over casting and the budget. Apparently Soderbergh was keen on either
by Philiana Ng, Source: The Hollywood Reporter The cable network has ordered five more specials of The Nerdist, based on Hardwick’s popular podcast of the same name. The announcement comes weeks after the pilot for the show, hosted by Hardwick and featuring Doctor Who’s Matt Smith and Craig Ferguson, aired
by Michael O’Connell, Source: The Hollywood Reporter The public radio quiz show makes its television debut with a “2011 Year in Review” special in December. BBC America and National Public Radio announced Wednesday that seasoned quiz show Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me! will get its first television special later in the
By Marc Bernardin, Source: Blastr.com ABC is getting into the Marvel business in a big way, and one of the series they’re developing—alongside Guillermo del Toro’s Hulk—is A.K.A. Jessica Jones, based on Brian Michael Bendis’ stunning Alias. And it’ll take place firmly within the universe established by Iron Man, Captain
by Brendon Connelly, Source: Bleeding Cool.com I think it will be a very long time until we ever get a movie called The Six Million Dollar Man, emphasis on the Million, because that number just doesn’t seem high or low enough to merit any sort of reaction, not like it
by Mark Seifert, Source: Bleeding Cool “Sport of Tycoons”, indeed. The classic 1974 Carl Barks painting of that name closed yesterday at Heritage Auctions for $262,900.00, a new record for a Barks painting. The sale eclipsed the previous record for a Barks painting set in 2007 for the sale of
by James Hibberd, Source: EW.com TV’s original American horror story is taking another step toward returning to primetime: NBC has ordered a pilot of Bryan Fuller’s remake of the classic TV show The Munsters. The new version of the half-hour sitcom is bring re-imagined by the Pushing Daises creator as
By Marc Bernardin, Source: Blastr.com Not content to swallow up genre viewers with zombies, AMC is moving into alien territory, buying the UFO-centric Thunderstruck, with one of Battlestar Galactica’s masterminds on board.
by James Hibberd, Source: EW.com Just when fans started to worry that Trey Parker and Matt Stone might be ready throw in the towelie, Comedy Central has struck a deal with the duo to bring back South Park for three more seasons. The renewal will keep the animated hit on
By Matthew Jackson, Source: Blastr.com David E. Kelley wanted to make a Wonder Woman TV show, and failed. Smallville fans wanted Erica Durance to play Wonder Woman, but couldn’t make it happen. Now, both parties are getting their wish … kind of. Durance will return to American TV (she’s got
