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Summer Glau Joins ‘The Cape’

Summer Glau, star of Firefly, The Sarah Connor Chronicles and Dollhouse has been signed up to play a lead role in NBC’s new superhero show The Cape.
The Cape is being billed as a superhero show, but it’s actually costumed heroes. In exact opposites with NBC’s other sci-fi hit, Heroes, The Cape will feature costumed [...]

Fringe Renewed For Third Season

Fox have today announced that the amazing J.J. Abrams sci-fi show Fringe will be getting a third season.
Things were looking a little bad for the show after it received lacklustre ratings during it’s second season run. The Fox network have little sympathy for science fiction shows which don’t bring in the viewers, despite a [...]

Legend of the Seeker Producer Denies Cancellation

Legend of the Seeker’s executive producer Mike Sussman has once again tweeted about the show’s status, and it sounds like good news for fans.
Following the Mark Twain quote Sussman posted on Friday he then made a statement asking for fans to calm down and to spread the word that a third season will be produced.
“Everyone, [...]

Legend of the Seeker Cancelled?

Tribune Broadcasting, who commission Legend of the Seeker from ABC Studios have supposedly made an announcement that they will not be ordering a third season of the sword and sorcery show.
Following a message posted on Twitter yesterday by a supposed Tribune insider, fans have been emailing the company to show their support for the show. [...]

Jewel Staite Lands Job At Warehouse 13

Firefly and Serenity star Jewel Staite has been offered a role on SyFy’s Warehouse 13.
Yesterday SyFy announced that the second season of Warehouse 13 had gone into production and will be premiered in the States in July. The show stars Eddie McClintock and Joanne Kelley as two Secret Service agents who locate and confiscate dangerous [...]

Max Headroom Turns Supernatural

Max Headroom star Matt Frewer has been cast as one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse in The CW’s Supernatural.
Frewer, best known for playing the iconic 80s character Max Headroom, and also appearing in hit sci fi shows such as Star Trek: TNG and Eureka, has been cast as Pestilence, the third horseman.
Supernatural [...]

Lena Headey Stars In New Fantasy TV Epic

Lena Headey, the star of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles will play a lead role in a brand new fantasy TV show commissioned by HBO.
Game of Thrones is pitched as “The Sopranos in Middle Earth”, and is based on the A Song of Fire and Ice series of novels written by George R R [...]

Shit My Shatner Says

TV legend Bill Shatner is being lined up to play the title role in a pilot show based on the Twitter ramblings of a 74 year old.
Shit My Dad Says is a phenomenally popular Twitter account run by Justin, who tweets words of wisdom uttered by his aging father. With comments such as “Don’t mess [...]

Gervais Plans Dwarf Sitcom

Rotund comedian Ricky Gervais is planning a brand new BBC sitcom starring the dwarf actor Warwick Davis. The show will also be based on the life of the actor.
Gervais and writing partner Stephen Merchant have begun developing the show under the working title of Life’s Too Short, named after and based on Davis’ autobiography, Life’s [...]

Doctor Who Start Date

The BBC this weekend released a new teaser trailer for the next series of Doctor Who and announced the broadcast date.
The fifth series of Doctor Who since it’s relaunch back in 2005 will begin in Easter, and assuming the show falls back into it’s Saturday night slot on BBC 1 it will be broadcast on [...]

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