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Ridley Scott has been on a “**** the world” press tour as of late. His PR tour built around The Last Duel has been hilarious and filled with a Ridley Scott who doesn’t care what anyone thinks. To be fair, his film The Last Duel has been one of the best films of the year and nobody went to see it. However, everyone and their nana went to see the latest Marvel film. It appears that Scott is going to work on his own series based on some of his most famous pictures.

In a recent BBC Radio Interview, Scott briefly discussed the Alien series already in development over at FX and went on to discuss a future Blade Runner series. There is nothing that is known about either, project plot wise. However, we are excited about whatever direction either project goes. It would be awesome to spend 10-hours in an Alien’s series especially one that is worked on by Scott and team.

Alien FX series runner, Noah Hawley has discussed that the series will not be a Ripley origin story. He did hint that the series will take place on Earth and that it will be set in an open area. He wants to get away from the confines of a spaceship or mining facility and open it up a bit more.
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Disney+ is Working on ‘The Goonies’ TV Series

Hey you guys!!!! The Goonies is making a comeback. The ragtag group of kids are apparently heading out for another treasure hunt although this treature hunt is going to be a little bit of a meta take. Disney+ has announced its plans to bring The Goonies back for an all-new TV series.

This isn’t exactly a “reboot’ per say at least not in the usual sort of way. The series follows a teacher and her students making a shot-for-shot remake of Richard Donner’s classic, The Goonies. If that sounds familiar it’s because the project was previously in development under the title of “Untitled Film Re-Enactment Project”. The series was originally going to be made over at Fox. It has since been abandoned by the folks at Fox. Disney+ has stepped in and saved it for development over at the house of the Mouse.

“…we immediately swung into high gear and hit the town with it. We did not yet have anything in development at Disney Plus. It’s been another example of being able to carve a pathway where there wasn’t one by virtue of a great story, a great pilot, a great series. The deal has taken a while to make, but we’re really excited to be moving forward.” Warner Bros. Television’s, Clancy Collins White said.

This meta take on The Goonies is being written and executive produced by Sarah Watson. Gail Berman and Hend Baghdady also executive produce.
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We not getting any Ghost story for Christmas this year?
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There is on bbc 2 on Christmas eve, The Mezzotint at 2230

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Really looking forward to The Mezzotint. It's my favourite James story so i'm delighted it's getting an adaptation.

What we need now is a disc release.

The Tractate Middoth, The Dead Room, Martin's Close and The Mezzotint. The BFI should be issuing another set with any luck.

That's two hours of stories and i'm sure Mark Gatiss would be up for interviews and comm tracks. He's keeping the Ghost Stories for Christmas alive single handedly.
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Spot on.
On BD preferably!

Myoriginal set is in danger of being frazzled it's been played that often.

I have the previous years episodes 'taped' on my Sky box.
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TV lookahead: 22 highlights to look out for in 2022 / BBC News

Programmes discussed include:

1. Anne (ITV) - The award-winning Maxine Peake plays real life campaigner Anne Williams, whose son was among those who died in the Hillsborough disaster

2. Call My Agent (Amazon Prime) - A UK remake of the popular French comedy drama that follows a group of talent agents doing their best to survive in a competitive industry, while at the same time trying to steer and control their sometimes impulsively difficult clients

3. Chloe (BBC One) - A new mystery thriller about the impact of social media on a group of young people

4. Compulsion (Channel 5) - After being called to a fatal train crash, paramedic Jenny develops a serious gambling habit as she tries to cope with her PTSD

5. Conversations With Friends (BBC Three) - Many were hoping for the BBC's follow up to its adaptation of Sally Rooney's Normal People to appear in 2021. It was not to be, but the TV version of Rooney's debut novel, Conversations With Friends, about two college students and their connection with a married couple, looks on schedule to finally arrive in 2022

6. Doctor Who (BBC One) - Jodie Whittaker made history in 2017 as the first woman to play the Time Lord. Now her time in the Tardis is coming to an end. Her final special is due to be broadcast in the autumn of 2022 to coincide with the BBC's centenary, when she'll regenerate into the 14th Doctor. The unveiling of a new Doctor has developed into a television event in its own right. And while at one end of the scale David Tennant was announced by press release, Matt Smith, Peter Capaldi and Jodie Whittaker were all announced to millions on BBC One. So what will happen this time? Well, depending on when filming has to start on their first episode, might we even see the 14th Doctor being revealed to the world onscreen when Whittaker finally regenerates?

7. Everything I Know About Love (BBC One) - Award-winning writer Dolly Alderton has adapted her memoir about navigating her 20s, Everything I Know About Love, for this seven-part series.

8. Harry Potter Reunion Special (Sky) - After the success of the Friends reunion special, bringing together the cast of the widely beloved multi-billion pound Harry Potter franchise seems like an obvious ratings winner. As well as the three central stars - Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint - many more members of the cast will be involved, including Robbie Coltrane (Hagrid), Tom Felton (Draco Malfoy) and Ralph Fiennes (Voldemort)

9. House of Dragons (Sky Atlantic) - This prequel is set 200 years before the eight-series Game of Thrones TV show and tells the story of the House Targaryen, the ancestors of Danerys Targaryen (aka Khalessi, aka the Mother of Dragons)

10. Inventing Anna (Netflix) - Inventing Anna is based on a New York magazine investigation into a woman going by the name of Anna Delvey (Julia Garner) who convinced people that she was a wealthy European heiress. In fact she turned out to be a fake who conned friends, hotels and banks out of eye-watering amounts of money. She was eventually convicted on multiple fraud charges in 2019

11. The Lord of the Rings (Amazon Prime) - It's been touted as the most expensive TV series ever, with a budget equivalent to several tonnes of Dwarf mined mithril. And after the high production values of the Peter Jackson film adaptations, viewers are expecting to be just as dazzled and thrilled by this new take on Middle Earth which has also been filmed with New Zealand as its spectacular backdrop. The series is set thousands of years before the events of the novels The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit

12. Nolly (ITV) - Crossroads was a phenomenon. Its production values may have been far from perfect, but viewers loved the motel set Midlands-based soap opera. And at its heart was Noele Gordon's Meg Mortimer (formerly Richardson). Russell T Davies has written this three-part drama about Gordon's time on the show which ended with her shock sacking

13. Obi-Wan Kenobi (Disney+) - Following on from the success of The Mandalorian in expanding the Star Wars universe on the small screen, Obi-Wan Kenobi will feature the return of Ewan McGregor as one of the franchise's most-loved characters. It's set between the events of Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith and the original movie Episode IV: A New Hope

14. Pam and Tommy (Disney+) - In the 1990s, Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee were two of the biggest celebrities on the planet. She was the star of the plot light, slow motion heavy, lifeguard drama Baywatch; he was the drummer in the metal band Mötley Crüe. This series tells the story of how a sex tape made by the couple ended up being made public, becoming the world's first viral video

15. Peacemaker (UK broadcaster tbc) - This is the first TV spin-off from the DC Extended Universe of Batman and Superman. The show centres around the character Peacemaker from the film The Suicide Squad, a man who'll kill anyone and anything in the name of peace

16. Pistol (Disney+) - The Sex Pistols were a highly influential punk band in the 1970s in the UK. Pistol is based on the memoir by guitarist Steve Jones, and it charts the rise of the seminal punk band in the 1970s as they grew in both popularity and notoriety

17. The Reckoning (BBC) - The subject matter of this mini-series is likely to make it one of the year's most talked about dramas, whatever its quality. The Reckoning will follow the rise of TV presenter Jimmy Savile, and, after his death, the subsequent uncovering of his decades of abuse

18. Screw (Channel 4) - Set in the fictional Long Marsh Prison, Screw promises to be a darkly comic drama following the lives of the under pressure prison staff and the male inmates they're in charge of

19. Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (UK broadcaster tbc) - Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is the latest off-shoot, and is a prequel to the Kirk years of Star Trek: The Original Series, with Anson Mount's Captain Pike in charge of the Enterprise alongside Ethan Peck's young Spock

20. This Sceptred Isle (Sky Atlantic/Now TV) - Sir Kenneth Branagh plays Prime Minister Boris Johnson in a five-part drama charting the UK's response to the global Covid pandemic

21. The Time Traveler's Wife (Sky) - The best-selling novel by Audrey Niffenegger has already been adapted into a 2009 film. This time the story of Clare (Rose Leslie), who first met her time travelling future husband Henry (Theo James) when she was a child, has been made into a TV series, giving much more space to a love story as intricate as the mechanism of a carriage clock. It's been adapted by Steven Moffat, who is no stranger to time travel tales after his time as a writer and showrunner on Doctor Who.

22. Trigger Point (ITV) - This six-part thriller stars Vicky McClure as Metropolitan Police bomb disposal expert and army veteran Lana Washington, who is part of a team having to deal with a terrorist campaign threatening London.
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January on The Horror Channel - Zombie Invasions

8th - Universal Soldier: A VHS classic with Jean-Claude Van Damme and Dolph Lundgren as embattled Vietnam soldiers who killed each other in combat and are revived 25 years later as semi-android "UniSols" in a high-tech army of the near future. Universal Soldier is the very popular science fiction thriller, directed by master of disaster Roland Emerich, which hits home with energetic action sequences and explosive tough guy performances from its two powerhouse leads

9th - Office Uprising [UK TV Premier]: Desmond, an underachiever working at a major weapons manufacturing firm finds that his co-workers have been "weaponized" by Zolt, a new energy drink designed for the military. He must then set off to rescue his one true love from an office building full of psychotic zombie co-workers armed with tomorrow's deadliest tech

15th - Stake Land [channel premier]: America has fallen! A vampiric scourge sweeps the nation, turning brother on brother and parent on child as the blood-hungry beasts take deeper and deeper hold upon the land. It's hard for the survivors to know whether to be more afraid of the creatures themselves or the violent religious groups that have sprung up in response, but there is clearly only one choice: fight or die. This is where we find Martin (Connor Paolo), a young man traveling with only his taciturn mentor - a hardened fighter known simply as Mister - as protection against this blasted earth in search of the rumoured safe haven of New Eden

22nd - The Stakelander [UK TV premier]: Sequel to Stake Land. When his home in New Eden is destroyed by a revitalized Brotherhood and its new Vampire leader, Martin finds himself alone in the badlands of America. Roaming the wilderness of a steadily decaying country, Martin searches for the one man who can help him exact revenge - his mentor, the legendary vampire hunter Mister. Once reunited, they prepare to confront the ravenous Brotherhood and its monstrous overlord. But it'll take more than the two of them to battle this terrifying new threat, and with the future of humanity hanging in the balance, the stakes are higher than ever before

23rd - The Wretched: Contemporary horror at its finest. A defiant teenage boy, struggling with his parent's imminent divorce, faces off with a thousand year-old witch, who is living beneath the skin of and posing as the woman next door. Directed by The Pierce Brothers (Deadheads), the film enjoyed a run of five consecutive weeks at the top of the US box office

29th - Evil Dead II: In this sequel of the original cult classic, Bruce Campbell again stars as brawny wise guy Ash, as he and a group of people are trapped in a cabin while ancient evil lurks outside and threatens a fate worse than death. Can Ash save the day, or will his dead girlfriend come back to cause more trouble? Director Sam Raimi once more gleefully stomps on the entrails of good taste with his unique blend of black humour and horror
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Programmes discussed include:

1. Anne (ITV) - The award-winning Maxine Peake plays real life campaigner Anne Williams, whose son was among those who died in the Hillsborough disaster

2. Call My Agent (Amazon Prime) - A UK remake of the popular French comedy drama that follows a group of talent agents doing their best to survive in a competitive industry, while at the same time trying to steer and control their sometimes impulsively difficult clients

3. Chloe (BBC One) - A new mystery thriller about the impact of social media on a group of young people

4. Compulsion (Channel 5) - After being called to a fatal train crash, paramedic Jenny develops a serious gambling habit as she tries to cope with her PTSD

5. Conversations With Friends (BBC Three) - Many were hoping for the BBC's follow up to its adaptation of Sally Rooney's Normal People to appear in 2021. It was not to be, but the TV version of Rooney's debut novel, Conversations With Friends, about two college students and their connection with a married couple, looks on schedule to finally arrive in 2022

6. Doctor Who (BBC One) - Jodie Whittaker made history in 2017 as the first woman to play the Time Lord. Now her time in the Tardis is coming to an end. Her final special is due to be broadcast in the autumn of 2022 to coincide with the BBC's centenary, when she'll regenerate into the 14th Doctor. The unveiling of a new Doctor has developed into a television event in its own right. And while at one end of the scale David Tennant was announced by press release, Matt Smith, Peter Capaldi and Jodie Whittaker were all announced to millions on BBC One. So what will happen this time? Well, depending on when filming has to start on their first episode, might we even see the 14th Doctor being revealed to the world onscreen when Whittaker finally regenerates?

7. Everything I Know About Love (BBC One) - Award-winning writer Dolly Alderton has adapted her memoir about navigating her 20s, Everything I Know About Love, for this seven-part series.

8. Harry Potter Reunion Special (Sky) - After the success of the Friends reunion special, bringing together the cast of the widely beloved multi-billion pound Harry Potter franchise seems like an obvious ratings winner. As well as the three central stars - Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint - many more members of the cast will be involved, including Robbie Coltrane (Hagrid), Tom Felton (Draco Malfoy) and Ralph Fiennes (Voldemort)

9. House of Dragons (Sky Atlantic) - This prequel is set 200 years before the eight-series Game of Thrones TV show and tells the story of the House Targaryen, the ancestors of Danerys Targaryen (aka Khalessi, aka the Mother of Dragons)

10. Inventing Anna (Netflix) - Inventing Anna is based on a New York magazine investigation into a woman going by the name of Anna Delvey (Julia Garner) who convinced people that she was a wealthy European heiress. In fact she turned out to be a fake who conned friends, hotels and banks out of eye-watering amounts of money. She was eventually convicted on multiple fraud charges in 2019

11. The Lord of the Rings (Amazon Prime) - It's been touted as the most expensive TV series ever, with a budget equivalent to several tonnes of Dwarf mined mithril. And after the high production values of the Peter Jackson film adaptations, viewers are expecting to be just as dazzled and thrilled by this new take on Middle Earth which has also been filmed with New Zealand as its spectacular backdrop. The series is set thousands of years before the events of the novels The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit

12. Nolly (ITV) - Crossroads was a phenomenon. Its production values may have been far from perfect, but viewers loved the motel set Midlands-based soap opera. And at its heart was Noele Gordon's Meg Mortimer (formerly Richardson). Russell T Davies has written this three-part drama about Gordon's time on the show which ended with her shock sacking

13. Obi-Wan Kenobi (Disney+) - Following on from the success of The Mandalorian in expanding the Star Wars universe on the small screen, Obi-Wan Kenobi will feature the return of Ewan McGregor as one of the franchise's most-loved characters. It's set between the events of Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith and the original movie Episode IV: A New Hope

14. Pam and Tommy (Disney+) - In the 1990s, Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee were two of the biggest celebrities on the planet. She was the star of the plot light, slow motion heavy, lifeguard drama Baywatch; he was the drummer in the metal band Mötley Crüe. This series tells the story of how a sex tape made by the couple ended up being made public, becoming the world's first viral video

15. Peacemaker (UK broadcaster tbc) - This is the first TV spin-off from the DC Extended Universe of Batman and Superman. The show centres around the character Peacemaker from the film The Suicide Squad, a man who'll kill anyone and anything in the name of peace

16. Pistol (Disney+) - The Sex Pistols were a highly influential punk band in the 1970s in the UK. Pistol is based on the memoir by guitarist Steve Jones, and it charts the rise of the seminal punk band in the 1970s as they grew in both popularity and notoriety

17. The Reckoning (BBC) - The subject matter of this mini-series is likely to make it one of the year's most talked about dramas, whatever its quality. The Reckoning will follow the rise of TV presenter Jimmy Savile, and, after his death, the subsequent uncovering of his decades of abuse

18. Screw (Channel 4) - Set in the fictional Long Marsh Prison, Screw promises to be a darkly comic drama following the lives of the under pressure prison staff and the male inmates they're in charge of

19. Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (UK broadcaster tbc) - Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is the latest off-shoot, and is a prequel to the Kirk years of Star Trek: The Original Series, with Anson Mount's Captain Pike in charge of the Enterprise alongside Ethan Peck's young Spock

20. This Sceptred Isle (Sky Atlantic/Now TV) - Sir Kenneth Branagh plays Prime Minister Boris Johnson in a five-part drama charting the UK's response to the global Covid pandemic

21. The Time Traveler's Wife (Sky) - The best-selling novel by Audrey Niffenegger has already been adapted into a 2009 film. This time the story of Clare (Rose Leslie), who first met her time travelling future husband Henry (Theo James) when she was a child, has been made into a TV series, giving much more space to a love story as intricate as the mechanism of a carriage clock. It's been adapted by Steven Moffat, who is no stranger to time travel tales after his time as a writer and showrunner on Doctor Who.

22. Trigger Point (ITV) - This six-part thriller stars Vicky McClure as Metropolitan Police bomb disposal expert and army veteran Lana Washington, who is part of a team having to deal with a terrorist campaign threatening London.

So looking forward to watching doctor who said no one ever with the state it is at the moment .
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