Fancy a light snack before your evening meal? Thought so – here’s round-up of the recent serialized television news and tidbits. Including; The Event, Merlin, The Walking Dead, Game of Thrones, Doctor Who, Smallville and True Blood – in a lovely bite-sized portion.
Major spoilers are introduced in red.
- The Event‘s Anthony Dale reveals that his character, Simon Lee, will be a big part of the show’s mythology:
“What I can tell you is that Simon is a government operative with mysterious ties to detainee leader Sophia [ER’s Laura Innes] … what’s really cool is that there are all these rich, diverse, grounded characters inhabiting these very separate worlds. They are all dealing with some critical personal dilemma which keeps it grounded, but Simon more or less becomes the bridge that connects all of the stories together.”
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- Our friends over at The Event-TV have scored an exclusive Q&A with the show’s creator, Nick Wauters, who will be answering fan questions ahead of the premiere on September 20th. Click here to get your questions in.
- Merlin‘s Colin Morgan teases the show’s ‘confrontational’ third season:
“Bad things are happening [..] The third series is set a year in the future. We get straight into the action and we don’t really hold back on a lot of the confrontations, and the changes in the characters are evident right from the very beginning.”
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- Walking Dead executive producer, Gale Anne Hurd, tells us why she doesn’t think the series will outpace the graphic novel:
“Well, Robert’s got 75 issues. Let’s say in a year or a year and a half the maximum we’d have was 19 [episodes], I don’t think we’re gonna get to that point. He told me he’s already got 250 in his mind, so if we do catch up, we haven’t outstripped what he’s already thought about”
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- HBO‘s A Game Of Thrones was featured in the LA Times a couple of weeks back. HBO programming president, Michael Lombardo pointed out why the network responded to the concept and the pressures that lie ahead:
“It wasn’t the genre we responded to, it was the storytelling, [..] There’s enormous pressure on the ‘Game of Thrones’ people, [..] It’s a very sophisticated audience; you have to get it right.”
[LA Times]
- The title of the new Doctor Who adventure game has been confirmed as TARDIS:
It will feature monsters, terrifying new dangers for the Doctor and Amy and offers an amazing insight into the world’s most famous blue box. It’s also been announced that the game will give players the opportunity to pilot the Doctor’s iconic time machine. (Available for download on Friday, Aug 27th at the link below).
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- A Smallville villain is set for a return in the show’s 10th and final season:
John Glover has signed on to reprise his role as Lex’s late pa, Lionel, for multiple episodes during Smallville‘s 10th and final season [..] Glover last graced the Smallville canvas at the end of season 7 when Lex pushed his father out a window to his death. (He appeared briefly in season 8 via archival footage.) The actor is booked for at least two episodes, both of which are expected to air in November.
- True Blood creator Alan Ball scares up a new character for season 4:
Series creator Alan Ball reveals that he’ll be introducing Hallow Stonebrook, the were-sorceress from Charlaine Harris’ fourth Sookie novel, Dead to the World. Preferring to refer to the character as a necromancer, the boss man says she’s “actually a medium. She communicates with the dead, and she’s interested in developing further powers.”
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