Category: TV
Picard (new trailer: Star Trek TV series).
Here’s the new trailer for Picard, the new Star Trek TV series featuring the STNG reboot with a retired Picard coming back for some freelance mayhem and saving someone who might be his daughter by the Borg (don’t ask). This arrives January 23rd 2020 on CBS All Access, followed by a January 24th wide release […]
Banshee: The Complete Series (2013-2016) (cri-fi TV series review).
Please don’t confuse this Banshee with the film of the same name. This Banshee is a town in Pennsylvania, mixing in Amish, Native Americans, Neo-Nazis and Satanists that makes the crooks look like the good guys. Nobody is what they seem, crime is rife and the even the local military are corrupt. Psychopaths are rife […]
Snow Crash TV series coming from HBO (TV news).
There is now a Snow Crash TV series adaptation based on the classic cyberpunk science fiction work by Neal Stephenson in the HBO streaming pipeline coming From Michael Bacall & Joe Cornish. https://deadline.com/2019/12/snow-crash-sci-fi-drama-series-hbo-max-michael-bacall-joe-cornish-paramount-tv-1202809103/ The Offworld Report – the best content offworld SFcrowsnest
Avenue 5 (HBO scifi comedy TV series: trailer).
The super-rich get to eat each other in space in Avenue 5, the new HBO science fiction comedy series from British writer Armando Iannucci. Arriving in the USA on January 19th 2019.
RIP René Auberjonois: Odo in Star Trek Deep Space Nine (news).
Actor René Auberjonois, better known as policeman shapeshifter Odo in Star Trek Deep Space Nine, has passed away aged 79 from lung cancer. He also played Father Mulcahy in the original film version of MASH, as well as Colonel West in the 1991 Star Trek film Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country. He was a […]
The Boys (Amazon Prime superhero TV: second season trailer).
The ultra-violent grimdark take on superheroes operating in a corporate sponsored celebrity selfie world, aka The Boys (based on the comic-book strip of the same name) is coming back to Amazon Prime for a second season, which is no surprise given the popularity of the first one.
Wheel of Time rolls on for Amazon Studios (TV news).
Amazon Studios’ TV production of the Wheel of Time fantasy books has cast four new actors for the roles of Thom Merrilin, Loial, Padan Fain, and Logain. Johann! He was actually the very first shot of the show, riding his cart into the Two Rivers. And the way he stepped off that cart and took […]
Lost in Space second season (Netflix scifi TV trailer).
Here’s the trailer for the second season of the Netflix scifi series, Lost in Space. This time around, the robot is lost as well as the humans! After crash-landing on an alien planet, the Robinson family fight against all odds to survive and escape, but they’re surrounded by hidden dangers.
War Of The Worlds: an appraisal of the third episode of the BBC’s 2019 new series (TV review).
These Martians are carnivorous, even if they do turn you into a soup to eat you. Even so, travelling from Mars to Earth for a snack, living off the remnants of mankind seems an odd way to go. You would think they would need more people alive than simply cutting them down. If they were […]
Mystery Science Theater 3000 cancelled (TV news).
It looks like the resurrected comedy science fiction thang that is Mystery Science Theater 3000 has been cancelled by Netflix. This just in via Twitter from the series’ host, Jonah Ray … So, Netflix decided to not do another season of MST3K. We are off to Get Down in Lilyhammer while the OA helps us […]
