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Science Fiction this week: ‘City of Blood’ debuts on Hulu on September 16, 2026. ‘Golden Axe’ premieres on Paramount+ on September 16, 2026; and The BBC dropped an unannounced invitation to tender for Doctor Who on September 17th.

John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein, the writer-directors behind Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, are steering Star Trek’s return to theaters with an untitled film featuring an entirely new cast and a…

Science Fiction this week: Rhys Darby discusses his return as Trelane in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, a character originally from The; and Disney+ is developing a live-action series adaptation of Rick Riordan’s The Kane Chronicles, with…

Wonder Man star Yahya Abdul-Mateen II publicly criticized Marvel and Disney over the cancellation of his Disney Plus series, saying the optics of axing projects led by Black actors are obvious.

Science Fiction this week: Lucasfilm has confirmed that Star Wars: Maul – Shadow Lord season 2 will arrive in 2027, as part of the franchise’s; and David Robert Mitchell’s The End of Oak Street, produced by J.J.

Science Fiction this week: Silvia Park’s debut novel Luminous, which won the George R.R. Martin Sense of Wonder Scholarship and was pre-empted; and Nielsen’s H1 2026 streaming report shows Stranger Things setting an all-time record with 23.

Science Fiction this week: Prime Video’s Batman: Caped Crusader season two premieres July 31, trading the first season’s episodic restraint for; and After a 12-year saga marked by a landmark lawsuit, crowdfunding controversies, and the…

PBS’s ‘Once Upon a Time in Space’ miniseries, from filmmaker James Bluemel, devotes its second episode to the 1997 Mir collision crisis.

Science Fiction this week: Ridley Scott’s dystopian sci-fi series Raised by Wolves, canceled after two seasons in 2022, has received its most; and Disney and Lucasfilm will release the original 1977 theatrical cut of Star Wars in a wide…