The film adaptation of Stephen King‘s The Dark Tower hit cinemas in 2017 with fevered anticipation. But it flopped at the box office, and received mostly negative reviews. That halted the plans for any potential franchise, and it has also made Amazon decide against a potential TV adaptation. Amazon opted to go with the pilot-first route for The[…]
The popular Great British Bake Off host Santi Toksvig has announced that she will be leaving the show after three years. The presenter has co-hosted the show with Noel Fielding since 2017, but now she says it’s time for her to focus on other things, namely her “other work“. Toksvig joked in a tweet: “As my waistline will[…]
Amazon’s Jack Ryan is searching for a new showrunner after the departure of Prison Break creator Paul Scheuring. The series has had a problem keeping the gig occupied, as Scheuring had taken over from series co-creator Carlton Cuse, who handled the duties during Seasons 1 and 2. Cuse’s replacement David Scarpa briefly took over, before Scheuring was hired.[…]
Adam McKay already has a solid partnership with HBO, having worked on Succession and currently developing a series about the Showtime-era Los Angeles Lakers. So it’s little surprise to hear that the filmmaker has another project in the works, this time for HBO’s new streaming service, HBO Max. McKay will write, direct and produce a new anthology series[…]
Oscar-winning filmmaker Steve McQueen has signed an overall deal with Amazon Studios, and he is producing a sci-fi series titled Last Days for the streaming service. The show is described as a gripping sci-fi thriller in which the world’s governments have secretly created a controversial plan to selectively colonise Mars in the wake of a dying Earth and[…]