SF SATURDAY: SAM STRIKE IS ROLAND DESCHAIN IN AMAZON'S THE DARK TOWER STEPHEN KING SF SERIES! KRYPTON SF SERIES SEASON 2 TRAILER IS HERE!

SAM STRIKE TO LEAD

THE DARK TOWER SF SERIES

Sam Strike will be the young Deschain!

I'm a bit late with this one, but according to this week's news, Amazon has cast young Sam Strike as the lead star of their THE DARK TOWER fantasy series which is getting a pilot order even though the movie version was a rather big flop two years ago. He will play famous gunslinger Roland Deschain in the small screen adaptation of Stephen King's famous sf saga. As Deadline reports, it will be independent from the film and is meant to be a more faithful retelling of the book than the movie was. The story should take place many years before the events in the film focusing on Roland Deschain’s origin story – how he first became a gunslinger and got his guns, his first conflict with the man in black, his first love and his first mission as a gunslinger. As another addition to the cast, Jasper Pääkkönen has been cast as Marten, a man Roland is out to kill.

  'KRYPTON' SF SERIES

SEASON 2 TEASER IS HERE!

SyFy has released the trailer for the 2nd season of their KRYPTON epic series which follows the youth of Superman's grandfather back on their home planet. Season 2 brings us back to a changed Kandor, locked in a battle over its

Blake Ritson stars as evil Brainiac who almost destroyed Krypton

freedom and its future. General Dru-Zod (Colin Salmon) is now in control. He’s on a ruthless mission to rebuild Krypton according to his ideals and to secure its future by conquering the universe. Seg-El (Cameron Cuffe) has to unite a dispersed group of resisters in an effort to defeat Zod and restore hope

The new season will probably start this spring, possibly next month.

to their beloved planet. He will first have to escape the Phanton Zone prison, where he’s been trapped with Brainiac (Blake Ritson) There is also the arrival of ultimate villain Doomsday and intergalactic bounty hunter, Lobo (Emmet J. Scanlan).

ITV PREPARING 19TH CENTURY INDIA SET EPIC TV SERIES 'BEECHAM HOUSE' FROM 'VICEROY'S HOUSE' HELMER! GEORGE R.R. MARTIN'S SF SERIES 'NIGHTFLYERS' TEASER WITH EOIN MACKEN

   'BEECHAM HOUSE'

NEW 19TH CENTURY EPIC SERIES

The shooting starts this year for 2019 airing

Beside A Suitable Boy and Black Narcissus at BBC (whose Ordeal By Innocence has been just set for Easter Sunday), it seems we are getting a new India set series at ITV too after their Indian Summer saga.

Viceroy's House's Gurinder Chadha will helm the six part 19th century saga BEECHAM HOUSE about a handsome and soulful former soldier, John Beecham, who has acquired the Delhi house to start a new life for his family and a business as a trader. Wealthy and distinguished, John has witnessed profiteering and exploitation during his time with the controlling East India Company and appears haunted by his past. Determined to escape that life, he sets his sights on becoming an honourable member of the region’s trading community. But in the glorious setting of BEECHAM HOUSE, John’s life remains shrouded in mystery. His arrival provokes gossip amongst the servants and despite filling his residence with relatives and friends, Beecham’s house still has dark corners that crackle with conspiracy and sinister intent. The story also unfolds at a time when the 1,000 year old Mughal rule is over and the British vie with the Maharajas to claim India as their own.

   'NIGHTFLYERS' TEASER

FOR EOIN MACKEN SF SERIES

SyFy has released a very teasing teaser for George R.R. Martin's sf series NIGHTFLYERS which starts this Fall following a team of scientists on an expedition to the edge of our solar system in the hope of making contact with

Eoin Macken leads the cast of the new sf series

alien life. When terrifying events begin to take place they start to question each other, and surviving the journey proves harder than anyone thought. Eoin Macken, Sam Strike and Gretchen Moll lead the cast.