Sep 28 2013
There’s been lots of television news this week, with Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. opening to 12.12 million viewers, the highest network debut in four years. We also heard word that Constantine and Batman-inspired Gotham will be making their way to network TV over the next few years. A flurry of announcements and clips have now followed, …
Sep 27 2013
Following the announcement earlier this week that Gotham, a series based on the Batman universe, would be coming to Fox, The Hollywood Reporter has announced that NBC has a pilot for Constantine in the works. David S. Goyer and The Mentalist executive producer Daniel Cerone will write the script for the first episode that will appear on the network. …
Sep 25 2013
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 …
Sep 25 2013
The debut of Joss Whedon’s new TV series Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. comes on the back of the multi-billion dollar box office hits The Avengers and Iron Man 3, and debuted in the US today to great anticipation, passing 1 million Facebook fans before the show had even screened. However, Australian fans will have to …
Sep 17 2013
AMC announced today that they are planning a spin-off series for The Walking Dead. The show, which enters its fourth season in just under a month, is based on the long-running comic book series by Robert Kirkman for Image Comics. The companion series is set to air from 2015, and plans to branch out in …
Sep 17 2013
TV Guide has released a first look at Michael Jai White as the villain Bronze Tiger in the upcoming Arrow Season 2. His character is said to be working with Cynthia Addai-Robinson as Amanda Waller and Kevin Alejandro as Sebastian Blood as an eventual Suicide Squad storyline. He’s part of an expanded cast that will also include Caity Lotz …
Sep 14 2013
Following the announcement that Barry Allen/The Flash would appear in the second season of Arrow, serving as a backdoor pilot to his own series, we now have the official announcement that Grant Gustin has been cast as the speedster hero. The Arrow episodes are expected to begin filming at the end of the month. As …
Sep 13 2013
Gestalt Comics has announced that Technicolor has partnered with ABC Television Australia and Australian Producer Avrill Stark‘s A Stark Production to develop their graphic novel series The Deep as a CG animated series. Creators Tom Taylor and James Brouwer are reportedly “heavily involved” with the production of the TV series. When we spoke with Taylor at Supanova this year, he elaborated on this. “I’ve written the …
Sep 05 2013
Spartacus actress Cynthia Addai-Robinson has been cast as Amanda Waller in the second season of Arrow. According to TV Guide, her potentially recurring role is slated to begin in Episode 6 of Season 2, where she works for A.R.G.U.S. and heads up the Suicide Squad. In the comics, Waller leads A.R.G.U.S. as a kind of anti-Nick Fury, often …
Aug 30 2013
SpoilerTV (via SuperHeroHype) has reported that the character of Amanda Waller is set to appear in the second season of Arrow, the Green Arrow adaptation that has been a big success for the CW. She would join a rapidly growing cast of DC Comics characters set to appear in the show. According to the source, …
Aug 28 2013
It’s not long now until Arrow debuts its second season in the US, and now the CW has revealed posters for the second season. They feature Oliver Queen (Stephen Amell) , John Diggle (David Ramsey) and Felicity Smoak (Emily Bett Rickards) in the foreground, and the rest of the cast of regulars in the back. …
