After 14 years, the Friday the 13th franchise is finally getting set to return to the small screen with “Crystal Lake,” an upcoming prequel series from A24, Peacock and Bryan Fuller (“Hannibal”) that’s miraculously able to use any and all existing elements from the franchise.
Jemma Redgrave will reprise her role as Kate Stewart, Head of Scientific Research at UNITband Aneurin Barnard will join the cast of long-running and ever-popular BBC series Doctor Who.
Netflix has officially cancelled the adult animated series Inside Job on the streaming platform. Show creator and writer Shion Takeuchi confirmed the news on Twitter.
Now in it’s second year RUPAUL’S DRAGCON UK is the world’s biggest celebration of drag culture. Featuring extraordinary drag queens from all over the world who have battled and lip-synced for their lives on the global phenomenon and Emmy-award winning franchise RuPaul’s Drag Race, this second iteration of the UK convention is bigger and fiercer than ever before with over 150 world-famous drag queens in attendance and presided over by RuPaul Charles himself. The event this year moved from the previous venue to the larger Excel London from 6th to 9th January 2023. We attended the event as official press thanks to World Of Wonder on the Friday.
Review by Cavan Gilbey
The final Big Finish release of 2022 is upon us; the latest entry in the Paul Spragg memorial competition. This yearly event has gifted us with some genuinely fantastic talent, each and every story does feel genuinely fresh and new so it’s great to see that tradition is being upheld by The World Tree from Nick Slawicz. This story has a lot of DNA in common with stories like Landbound or The Last Day at Work where the primary story is all about how a single person has their life shifted by a meeting with the Doctor. The Doctor in question is Eleven, who I think Big Finish have done excellent work with this year as Geronimo was a real highlight. The World Tree further shows how Big Finish really want to push the limits of the stories you can tell with this Doctor, and Slawicz story is successful at demonstrating the depths of Eleven’s character. 
American film, television and voice actor Earl Boen has died aged 81.
Boen best known as criminal psychologist Dr. Peter Silberman in The Terminator (1984), Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991), Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003) and Terminator: Dark Fate (2019, archive footage only).
Netflix has officially renewed the Addams Family series Wednesday for a second season following earlier speculation that the series may be picked up elsewhere.
Noah Schnapp, who plays the closeted gay teenager Will Byers on Netflix’s Stranger Things, has come out as gay.
The Daily Mirror reported today (2nd January) that the BBC plans to release more ‘lost’ Doctor Who episodes in animated form. The BBC have not confirmed this at time of writing.
Jeremy Renner has been seriously injured in an accident while plowing snow on the weekend which left him in “critical but stable condition”, a spokesperson for the actor said on Sunday.
