We heard a little while ago that the Divergent movie franchise was to be recalibrated as a TV series, and now it appears that the show has found itself a home.

As per Vulture.com, the Starz network has picked up the series that will turn the fourth installment in the franchise – Ascendant – into a small screen adventure. Last year saw it revealed that a TV movie of the fourth installment would be the launching pad for a spinoff TV series, and that seems to still be the case.

Details are scare at this stage, and it’s not known who, if any, of the film franchise’s cast will reprise their roles for at least the TV movie. That said, star Shailene Woodley has already been vocal about having no interest in this small screen project.

As ever, expect more on all of this as we get it.

While earlier this week saw it confirmed that Kathy Bates won’t be returning for the upcoming seventh season of American Horror Story, we now have news on another familiar face who will be returning for FX’s fan favourite genre series.

Returning to the fold for American Horror Story: Cult will be Emma Roberts, the Scream 4 and Scream Queens actress who appeared in both the Coven and Freak Show seasons of AHS. News of Roberts’ participation was confirmed by show creator Ryan Murphy, who shared an on-set photo out on his social media channels.

Look who showed up on the set of Cult looking glamorous and ready for action.

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Roberts joins a season that also includes Sarah Paulson, Evan Peters, Billy Eichner, Billie Lourd, Cheyenne Jackson, Adina Porter, Alison Pill, Lena Dunham, Leslie Grossman, and Colton Haynes.

American Horror Story: Cult is set for a September 5th premiere in the US, with a UK airing booked in for September 8th.

We heard last month that the upcoming fourth season of The CW’s The Flash was set to add Ralph Dibny, aka Elongated Man, to its ranks, and now comes news on who’ll be playing this famed DC comic book character.

As per The CW and DC Entertainment, Saving the Human Race’s Hartley Sawyer has landed the Dibny gig. For the eagle-eyed of you out there, you’ll remember that Dibny was actually namedropped way back in The Flash’s first season, when he was listed as one of the fourteen people who died as a result of the particle accelerator explosion.

In terms of powers, Elongated Man is able to stretch his body to any shape or form. Additionally, Ralph Dibny is also a hugely skilled private investigator whose detective skills are almost at the level of a certain Dark Knight. In The Flash, he’ll use his abilities to help out Team Flash.

Sawyer joins the already-announced newcomers of Machete’s Danny Trejo as Earth-19 bounty hunter Breacher, Dominion’s Kim Engelbrecht as the badass Mechanic, and The 100’s Neil Sandilands as the ‘big bad’ of the season, Clifford Devoe, aka The Thinker.

The Flash’s premieres its fourth season on October 10th in the US, with a UK airing expected to follow shortly after that date.

In some disappointing news, it’s been confirmed that Kathy Bates will not be returning at all for the upcoming seventh season of FX’s American Horror Story.

Since appearing in the show’s third season – Coven – genre favourite Bates has gone on to become a mainstay of AHS. With that said, though, The Hollywood Reporter now has word that the hugely talented actress won’t be a part of American Horror Story: Cult due to scheduling conflicts with Netflix’s Disjointed.

So far, we do know that Cult will feature Sarah Paulson, Evan Peters, Frances Conroy, Billy Eichner, Cheyenne Jackson, Billie Lourd, Colton Haynes, Alison Pill, Lena Dunham, Adina Porter, Mare Winningham, and Leslie Grossman.

American Horror Story: Cult will debut in the US on September 5th, with a UK premiere set for September 8th.

With genre TV currently enjoying a huge boom, AMC is developing a new sci-fi series with Rainn Wilson and a dark anthology series with Chris Hardwick.

As announced by the network at the recent TCA tour, Wilson – best known to genre fans for the likes of House of 1000 Corpses, the US version of The Office, Juno, Monsters vs Aliens, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, Super, Cooties, and the upcoming Star Trek: Discovery and Meg – will be working with AMC for what’s currently dubbed Untitled Rainn Wilson Project. The new series is described as “a one-hour scripted series that follows an alien entity which takes over the body of a poly-addicted, middle-aged man living in the San Fernando Valley.”

For Chris Hardwick, he’s now the host of AMC’s The Talking Dead post-Walking Dead chat show, and he actually featured alongside Wilson in House of 1000 Corpses. Where Hardwick’s new series is concerned, that will be titled Underbelly and is set to delve into the darker elements of pop culture. The early word on the show has it pegged as: “This anthology explores storylines related to the fan experience, celebrity, greed, alienation, obsession, and vanity.”

On this news, AMC’s Charlie Collier said, “We are at our best when we bet on and support exceptional talent; and this diverse development slate, from exceptional creators with distinct points of view, includes multiple projects from longstanding and successful AMC partners. Our deep pipeline of projects embodies our eclectic by design, quality programming approach and our scripts-to-series development model that puts the emphasis on the most important part of our strategy – outstanding writing, a commitment to worlds you’ve never seen on TV before, and rich character development.”

Expect more on both of these projects as they continue to develop.

Remember those stories of a Stretch Armstrong moving happening? Well, while that film has spent years in development hell, Netflix and Hasbro have moved to announce that they’re teaming to produce an animated series based on the flexible fella.

This new show will be titled Stretch Armstrong and the Flex Fighters and will centre on high school student Jake Armstrong and his bested buds Nathan Park and Ricardo Perez. All three are accidentally exposed to a chemical that transforms their lives and turns them in to unlikely heroes.

On this news, Hasbro’s Stephen Davis enthused, “Stretch Armstrong and the Flex Fighters is the first Hasbro brand to receive a Netflix original series order. We have been waiting for just the right moment to reimagine Stretch Armstrong for a new audience and our friends at Netflix got it right away; they have been a tremendous partner. We have hit a superhero sweet spot, and with Netflix’s global reach, kids across the world will fall in love with its fun characters and action-packed storyline.”

Early voice talents confirmed for the series include Teen Titans Go!’s Scott Menville, The Walking Dead’s Steven Yuen, Ultimate Spider-Man’s Ogie Banks, Star Trek: The Next Generation’s Wil Wheaton, and Star Trek: Voyager’s Kate Mulgrew.