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HBO cancels Game Of Thrones’ prequel, while Another Life renewed by Netflix.
So, HBO is dumping one Game Of Thrones’ prequel TV series, while original science fiction actioner Another Life is being renewed by Netflix…
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October 2019
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Lucifer TV series drawing to an end (news).
Lucifer‘s last episodes will hit in two batches of eight eps on Netflix, devilish actor Tom Ellis admits. https://deadline.com/2019/10/lucifer-final-episodes-to-be-released-in-two-batches-of-eight-via-netflix-says-tom-ellis-1202771220/ The Offworld Report –…
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Brent Spiner shocked to be back in Star Trek (news).
Actor Brent Spiner, aka Data, is apparently shocked to be back in Star Trek. Well, he might be – but we’re happy our…
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Hello World from quantum computing? Maybe. Maybe not (science news).
How ironic that quantum computing may simultaneously both exist and not exist at the same time. But it’s getting better and better all…
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Netflix version of Cowboy Bebop put on ice for nine months as star John Cho hurt on set (news).
The Netflix version of Cowboy Bebop has sadly been put on ice for nine months as star actor John Cho is hurt on…
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Neil Patrick Harris – aka Doogie Howser, M.D. – joins Matrix 4 (film news).
Actor Neil Patrick Harris – aka Doogie Howser, M.D. – is joining the cast of the new Matrix 4 film. Of course, he…
September 2019
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Susanna Clarke’s follow-up to Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell on the way (book news).
Susanna Clarke’s next two fantasy novels are coming out from the publisher Bloomsbury, only 15 years after her work Jonathan Strange & Mr…
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Spider-Man back in the MCU (news).
Sony Pictures and Marvel have signed a little peace treaty and now found a way to make the next Spider-Man film, keeping it…
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Venus habitable for 2-3 billions years (science news).
Here’s a good plot twister from the European Planetary Science Congress of the Europlanet Society and the Division for Planetary Sciences of the…
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Russian bio-weapons plague-lab burns down (science news).
Here’s a rather less than scintillating science news story which sounds like the prologue to that bit in World War Z where Brad…
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Ghostbusters 2020 movie gets Dan Aykroyd to star (news).
Dan Aykroyd doesn’t just own some very nice vineyards in Canada (his Ice Wine a particular favourite of ours at Casa Crowsnest), he…
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Saudi Arabia pulps school textbook accidentally showing their King and Yoda as friends (news).
Saudi Arabia has now pulped a schoolbook accidentally printed with a fake joke photo showing Yoda from Star Wars sitting next to the…