Year: 2017

CBS All Access’s trailer for Star Trek: Discovery

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CBS All Access is a slight oddity, being a network in its own right making its own exclusive programming yet still being an adjunct of an existing broadcast network, CBS. So it doesn’t get a separate upfronts presentation from CBS proper, yet does have its own programmes – but is too small to do much better than TNT and other smaller networks. 

Which is basically my way of saying I’ll do CBS programmes in a bit but you can have this shiny trailer for CBS All Access’s one new, but highly anticipated programme. International viewers (including the UK) will be able to watch it on Netflix.

Star Trek: Discovery
A prequel to the voyages of Star Trek‘s USS Enterprise, in which Commander Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green) gets her own command of the Discovery. Also features Doug Jones, Jason Isaac and Michelle Yeoh as Burnham’s mentor.

The series will premiere on CBS, with all subsequent episodes available on CBS All Access. It is produced by CBS Television Studios in association with Alex Kurtzman’s Secret Hideout, Bryan Fuller’s Living Dead Guy Productions and Roddenberry Entertainment. EPs are Alex Kurtzman, Bryan Fuller, Heather Kadin, Gretchen J Berg & Aaron Harberts, Akiva Goldsman, Rod Roddenberry and Trevor Roth.

TNT’s trailer for The Alienist

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As is traditional with the minor networks, TNT’s Upfronts presentation this week was a pretty sparse affair, largely about announcements for future shows, rather than shows already in production. In fact, I covered virtually all the bones of it in this morning’s news.

However, TNT did have one new scripted programme to show off.

The Alienist
Psychological thriller based on the Anthony Award-winning bestseller by Caleb Carr. Set in 1896 amidst the vast wealth, extreme poverty and technological innovation of New York during the Gilded Age, the series follows the hunt for a serial killer responsible for the gruesome murders of boy prostitutes. Daniel Brühl, Luke Evans, Dakota Fanning and Brian Geraghty star. 

Currently shooting in Budapest, the series is helmed by BAFTA-nominated director Jakob Verbruggen (Black Mirror). Douglas Smith, Matthew Shear, Matt Lintz, Robert Wisdom and Q’orianka Kilcher also star.

The series is is a co-production of Paramount Television and Turner’s Studio T, with Verbruggen, Cary Fukunaga, Eric Roth, Hossein Amini, E. Max Frye and Anonymous Content’s Steve Golin and Rosal ie Swedlin serving as executive producers, and Marshall Persinger and Jamie Payne as co-executive producers.

News: Arrested Development, Rosehaven renewed; Training Day, Pure Genius cancelled; + more

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Internet TV

International TV

Australian TV

UK TV

  • Martin Compston to guest on ITV’s Victoria
  • Sky green lights: Florida trailer park comedy Living The Dream with Philip Glenister, Lesley Sharp and Paula Wilcox

US TV

New US TV shows

New US TV shows casting

Wonder Woman (2017)
Weekly Wonder Woman

Weekly Wonder Woman: Batman ’66 Meets Wonder Woman ’77 #12, Wonder Woman #22

17 May 2017 Rob Buckley Post a comment

With just a couple of weeks until the movie is released, it’s full steam ahead for the Wonder Woman tie-ins and advertising. There’s a new banner poster (above) that also ties in with the Justice League movie coming later this year. Times Square in New York has also been pretty comprehensively taken over by Wonder Woman billboards:

Times Square Wonder Woman billboards

In terms of merchandise, there’s a new HeroClix set, a new flavour of ice cream from Cold Stone Creamery, a Dr Pepper tie-in, and a special Her Universe fashion line.

To coincide with Mother’s Day last Sunday in the US, some new images and featurettes were released. As June 3 is also ‘Wonder Woman day’, a whole bunch of celebrations have been announced as well, including a whole week of activities leading up to that.

Since China’s obviously a big market for movies these days, don’t be surprised that there’s some Chinese-specific advertising, including a new anime-style poster and a trailer that contains a big hint about… something.

Wonder Woman Chinese Poster

Meanwhile, back in the world of comics, it’s business as usual. In our now-traditional DC rewrite of continuity, Dan Jurgens has made it clear that all those bits in the nu52 where Superman and Wonder Woman were a couple – you know, like Superman/Wonder Woman – have been erased from the Rebirth universe and never happened. Even the bits that everyone in the Rebirth universe still remembered happening just a few issues ago. Like Superman/Wonder Woman.

As for actual comics you could read, two titles from last week to look at that featured our Diana: the concluding (?) issue of Batman ’66 Meets Wonder Woman ’77 and Wonder Woman #22, in which Diana goes on a date with Veronica Cale. For money. More on that after the jump.

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