There was much wailing a fortnight ago when Waterloo Road swiped the Best Drama award from both Doctor Who and Sherlock at the NTAs. The Guardian’s Vicky Frost was particularly outraged. “Sometimes I do wonder whether the people who vote for the NTAs are completely bonkers. Waterloo Road is fine. A decent middle-of-the-road programme. But [...]

EXCLUSIVE We have details about Warner Bros. Pictures upcoming Akira motion picture, which we can exclusively report is financed and due to shoot this July in New York.  This American project, based on Katsuhiro Otomo’s 1982 manga series, has been in development hell for a long time.  After bouncing around multiple directors, a year ago [...]

‘Kaboom’, the latest film from landmark director Gregg Araki will open across the US on February 4th after premiering at Sundance and being made available to watch on-demand via Sundance Selects. Starring Thomas Dekker (Terminator : TSCC, Heroes) as a ‘pansexual film student’, the drama has been hailed as Araki’s ‘most sincere’ film to date, [...]

Chad Lindberg, who played lovable rogue Ash on the CW’s Supernatural will appear in The Cape on the episode ‘Goggles and Hicks’ to be aired on Monday February 7th. The following day his latest film, a remake of I Spit On Your Grave is released on DVD and Blu-Ray. Lindberg will play the ‘Hicks’ of the episode [...]

*Possible Spoilers* Before we can dive into the resolution for last episode’s cliff-hanger ending, it’s time for a pensive voice-over led flashback montage. A few significant things gleaned from these scenes are:  Sally attended her own wake, Josh had a hell of a time trying to control his urges back when the curse first came [...]

When I was studying TV production at university one of the pilots I produced was a magazine show about non-league football called Accrington Stanley – Who Are They? It was a live studio production with two pre-recorded segments and a studio discussion as well as a furious game of table football between the two guests [...]

              * SPOILERS AHEAD. SERIOUSLY.* Near the beginning of the season, those of us who could be called ardent spoiler fiends started to hear there was some massive news about Southland‘s third season. Someone was going to die. No, I don’t mean some random recurring cast member or a [...]

Financial drama Margin Call has been bought for US rights by Lionsgate and its subsidiary Roadside after a tense all night negotiation at Sundance. The deal, thought to be just under $2 million dollars, is a strong one for the $3.5 million budget drama which stars Kevin Spacey, Jeremy Irons, Paul Bettany, Demi Moore and Zachary [...]

Channel 4 has been gagging for a populist news show for a while and in the wake of what was possibly the most TV influenced general election in history, the twitter generation who hashtag along to BBC’s Question Time and Dimbledance every Thursday night were ripe for the picking. Guardian columnist Charlie Brooker was joined [...]

Final Fantasy: Heroes of Light is a role playing game made by Square Enix for the DS. The game centres around four heroes who go from saving a princess to trying to save the world. You begin playing as Brandt, a youth who lives in a scenic and idyllic town called the Kingdom of Horne. [...]

*Spoilers Ahead*   In the world of Southland, who you ride with is more than just the person you work a case with or walk a beat with–this person can be your lifeline or they can drag you down with them. This week’s episode again focused on the individual partnerships of the series and the push [...]

*Potential Spoilers* So let’s just get this out of the way in the interest of full disclosure: yes I’m American, and no I haven’t yet seen more than a random episode of the original Being Human. So unfortunately, I won’t be able to do the kind of in-depth dissection of every single line or every [...]

*Spoiler Alert* Issues such as race and class difference have always been a catalyst of major crimes on Southland but to see both start to affect the detectives and officers themselves made this episode a real stand-out. When an inter-gang ‘Romeo and Juliet’ love story causes a bloody Quincenera shooting resulting in the death of [...]

Within the first ten minutes of the new boxing drama Lights Out there has already been graphic violence in addition to a sex scene with partial nudity. Toss in some cable- ready foul language and we’ve hit the FX trifecta. Patrick Leary is first shown beaten to a bloodied pulp in a tight shot that [...]

ABC have announced early season pickups for six of its shows. Castle, Cougar Town, The Middle, Modern Family, Grey’s Anatomy and Private Practice will definitely be with us next year. In the 18-49 demo ABC are doing well, with four of the top ten scripted shows belonging to their network. The most popular shows with young [...]