Tag: Gotham

Where To Watch Comic Book TV in Australia for 2015/2016

DC Comics TV Australia

Watching genre TV in Australia has been a painful process over the last few years. If you want to stay above the line of the law, it’s involved a patchwork quilt of cable subscription, VPN streaming, US iTunes and recently launched streaming services like Netflix, Stan and Presto. The 2015/2016 season brings with it some …

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Behind The Panels Issue 126 – Awkwood

Behind the Panels Issue 126 – Awkwood

Welcome to Behind The Panels Issue 126, the comic book show that comes from a land down under, where women glow and men ponder…why the women are glowing. In this issue, Marvel announces they are ending all their universes. It seems like a pretty extreme way to get rid of Spider Island, but who are …

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Behind the Panels Issue 124 – Civil War

Behind the Panels Issue 124 – Civil War

Welcome back to Behind The Panels Issue 124, the comic book show that refuses to register and reveal our secret identities. In this issue, Channing Tatum is getting his own solo movie as Gambit. We can’t wait to see Jonah Hill as Wolverine. ALSO Scarlett Johannson is officially a Ghost in the Shell. We know she’s not …

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Behind the Panels Issue 97 – Amazing Spider-man: Family Business

Welcome to Behind the Panels Issue 97, the comic book show that took a bite out of a radioactive spider and then had to take two weeks off. In this issue, it’s the first trailer for Batman prequel series Gotham. In this one, a young Jim Gordon partners with Jar Jar Binks. THEN every comic …

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Extended trailer for Fox’s ‘Gotham’ TV series

Gotham - Jim Gordon

Perhaps quieting some of the confused outrage over a Batman prequel series landing on Fox, rather than Warner’s own CW network, Fox Broadcasting has dropped the first trailer for what could be this fall season’s hottest new show: Gotham. An extended trailer for Gotham introduces us to Jim Gordon, Harvey Bullock, a young Bruce Wayne and …

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Comics: Warner and DC Entertainment celebrate Batman’s 75th Anniversary

Batman 75th Anniversary Logo

Last year marked the 75th anniversary of Superman, and 2014 means that it’s been three-quarters of a century since we first learned of Bruce Wayne’s unfortunate childhood, and questionable choice of nocturnal activities during his adulthood. To celebrate, Warner Bros. Entertainment and DC Entertainment have announced 75 Years of Batman, complete with a new logo. …

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Behind the Panels Issue 82 – The Adventures of Barry Ween, Boy Genius

In this issue, it’s graphic novels galore, mid-season finales and enough Spider-man films to make you moist. PLUS our Kick Ass Pick of the Week, The Adventures of Barry Ween: Boy Genius by Judd Winick. Next Week: Father Christmas by Raymond Briggs. Your Hosts: Richard Gray, David McVay and Dave Longo   If you are an iTunes user, subscribe for free …

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Behind the Panels Issue 74 – Winter City

In this issue, we tell you what we think about Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. Spoilers: most of it will be drooling. THEN Constantine gets the go ahead for a network TV series: Alan Moore must be rolling in his grave. All this, PLUS our Kick-ass Pick of the Week, Winter City by our special guests in the studio, …

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Jim Gordon takes the lead in ‘Gotham’ series for Fox

Jim Gordon (DC Comics)

In what Deadline are calling “one of the biggest drama deals this season”, Fox has won the bid for Gotham, a series set in the titular city that will explore the early days of Batman’s Jim Gordon. It will be helmed by Warner Bros. TV and The Mentalist creator Bruno Heller, with a series commitment already in place. Presumably hitting …

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