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Another DC supervillain is set to make his mark on the CW’s new smash hit superhero show Arrow , but he won’t be quite the same as he is in the comics. Oh sure, the show has been pretty loose with it interpretation of DC characters so far already, but …

(opens in new tab) Item 47 star Lizzy Caplan has told Coming Soon that her character, Claire, will not be starring in the upcoming Joss Whedon show-run SHIELD television series. “I can’t really,” explained the actress who appears in the Marvel One-Shot short movie that comes with the Blu-ray version …

(opens in new tab) Hellboy director Guillermo del Toro is set to co-write and direct the pilot for a TV series based on the vampire trilogy of novels, The Strain , reports Deadline . The Strain was published in 2009 followed by The Fall in 2010 and The Night Eternal …

(opens in new tab) The final consolidated viewing figure for Doctor Who “Asylum Of The Daleks” – now that time-shifted viewing over the first week has been taken into account – is 8.33 million viewers. That’s an increase of nearly two million viewers over the overnight figure of 6.38 million.This …

The peerless Misfits returns to E4 later this year, but with a few new faces populating the most dangerous Community Centre this side of the North Korean border. Producer Matt Strevens spoke to SFX recently and told us what to expect from new boy Finn. “We’ve upped the humour a …

(opens in new tab) If there’s a TV equivalent of a supergroup, the brains behind NBC’s new show Revolution would be it. Created by Supernatural brain Eric Kripke, produced by JJ Abrams and with a pilot directed by Iron Man ‘s Jon Favreau, this tale of a world where every …

We first mentioned this project way, way back in August 2010, and assumed it had quietly been forgotten, especially with Fuller now working on Mockingbird Lane and the Hannibal TV series. But now it looks like he could have three shows at the same time. The original story involves two …

(opens in new tab) The Doctor Who panel kicked off with a clip of the final scene in series six (“Doctor… who?”) Producer Caroline Skinner, Arthur Darvill, Karen Gillan, Matt Smith and the Grand Moff arrive on stage. Series 7 clip promised. Matt Smith received a huge cheer for suggest …

(opens in new tab) Fox may have saved Fringe for a final run of 13 episodes, but the network has cancelled another JJ Abrams show, Alcatraz, after just one season of middling-and-dwindling ratings. The Kiefer Sutherland-starring Touch has fared better, though, with Fox giving the one-season-old show the green light …

And with JJ’s much-loved but barely-watched show still pulling in only small numbers of viewers in its current fourth season, what everybody wants to know is, will there be a fifth? The rate the show is tying up loose ends at the moment, you can tell even the producers aren’t …