Tomorrow, the second season finale of From arrives on MGM Plus. At the end of the most recent episode, Julie (Hannah Cheramy), Randall (A.J. Simmons), and Marielle (Kaelen Ohm) were attacked by cicadas that no one else could see, perhaps being what the nursery rhyme that appeared in a few characters’ nightmares foretold: “here they come; they come for three.” In the season finale, the town struggles to figure out the nursery rhyme and how to stop the “melody” to potentially save them.

Scott McCord plays the character of Victor on the series, a peculiar resident who has been in the town since he was a boy. Recently quite a lot was revealed about his childhood, and it seems that his past may play an important role in what’s to come.

Earlier in the week, McCord spoke with SciFi Vision about Victor, including crafting the character’s regression, playing someone who experienced such trauma, where Victor’s drawings actually come from, some of the challenges of not knowing what’s coming, what might be coming in the season finale, and more.

Tomorrow, the season finale of FROM comes to MGM Plus. In the previous episode, three members of the town, Julie (Hannah Cheramy), Randall (A.J. Simmons), and Marielle (Kaelen Ohm) were attacked by cicadas that no one else could see, and their fates were left up in the air. In the season finale, the town must come together to figure out how to “stop the melody” and what that even means, if they hope to save everyone. 

Elizabeth Saunders stars as Donna, the no-nonsense leader of Colony House, who is always trying to protect people, whether they truly deserve it or not. 

Earlier in the week, Saunders talked with SciFi Vision about her work on the show, including why she feels the character is so selfless, the possibility of Donna being a mole and other theories, the potential for season three, and more.

The Tower recently returned to Britbox with the second installment, The Tower 2: Death Message. In the second season, which is based on the second novel in Kate London’s best-selling series, following the events in season one, rookie Police Constable Lizzie Adama (Tahirah Sharif) returns to work at the station and finds herself in the middle of a domestic dispute involving a mother and young daughter in danger of domestic abuse that she fights to protect. Meanwhile, Detective Sergeant Sarah Collins (Gemma Whelan) does get the transfer to Homicide Command she wanted, but she is unexpectedly given a cold case involving a missing schoolgirl. The investigation leads Sarah to cross paths with Lizzie again, and they must put aside the past to work together.

Recently, London, who also serves as executive producer, as well as executive producer Patrick Harbinson, spoke about season two with SciFi Vision about how the events of season one are still effecting the characters, how much of London’s real-life experience as a police officer is in the story and how much of herself she put into it, how much control she had over the television series, the hardest part of the books to bring to life on television, and much more.

Tonight, the new spinoff, The Walking Dead: Dead City, premieres on AMC. The series follows Maggie (Lauren Cohan) and Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) as they venture into a post-apocalyptic Manhattan that has been cut off from the mainland, hatching a plan to rescue Maggie’s son, Hershel (Logan Kim), who has been kidnapped by The Croat, (Željko Ivanek), an evil man who Negan has dealt with before. Meanwhile, the two must also stay ahead of the marshal, Armstrong (Gaius Charles), who is trying to bring Negan to justice for crimes he has committed.

Ivanek and Charles, along with Mahina Napoleon, who plays the character of Ginny, recently spoke with the media about the new series.

Both Ivanek and Charles’ characters serve as adversaries for the heroes of the story. Charles views Armstrong as an obstacle mostly for Negan. “I want to bring him to justice for something,” the actor told SciFi Vision. “I think anybody that's watched the show really resonates with season seven, [with] Glenn (Steven Yeun) [and] a lot of the other stuff he's done. He's got a long rap sheet. I think it's cool that we're using law and order to try to reestablish this world, and that becomes a huge obstacle for Negan and for a lot of people in this world where right and wrong isn't clear.”

“I think for my character, The Croat, [he’s] being pulled back into a world that he left,” said Ivanek. “…I think that's the last thing he wants to do, unfortunately.”

“I think that Ginny brings out a different point of view for fans and a different side of Negan and Maggie,” added Napoleon. “So, I think Ginny creates this whole different perspective, because normally fans think that Maggie is the hero and Negan is a villain, but I think that Ginny brings a totally opposite, different perspective.”

Outlander recently returned to STARZ with all-new episodes for season seven. Picking up where the last season ended, Jamie (Sam Heughan) and Ian (John Bell) rush to stop Claire (Caitríona Balfe) from being tried and wrongfully convicted of the murder of Malva Christie (Jessica Reynolds) and her unborn child. To make things even more difficult, the American Revolution has begun, and they will have to navigate the hazards of the war and leave their home in North Carolina behind. As they are drawn into the war, Jamie, Claire, Brianna (Sophie Skelton), and Roger (Richard Rankin) will be faced with decisions and hardships that could pull the family apart for good.

Bell, along with David Berry, who returns as Lord John Grey, and newcomers Charles Vandervaart, who plays Jamie’s son William, and Joey Phillips and Izzy Meikle-Small, who play Denzell and Rachel Hunter, respectively, as well as executive producer, Maril Davis, recently spoke with SciFi Vision about what’s to come in season seven.

ITV, TIGER ASPECT AND BRITBOX INTERNATIONAL RELEASE THE FIRST LOOK STILLS FROM SIR LENNY HENRY’S THREE LITTLE BIRDS

6x60’ SERIES IS WRITTEN AND EXECUTIVE PRODUCED BY SIR LENNY HENRY AND COMING TO SCREENS FROM THIS AUTUMN 

The first look stills from Sir Lenny Henry’s Three Little Birds lead by rising stars Rochelle Neil (The Nevers, Guilt), Yazmin Belo (What Just Happened) and Saffron Coomber (Tracey Beaker Returns, Eastenders), who made their red-carpet debut at this year’s TV BAFTAs, have been released ahead of the series coming to ITV and ITVX this Autumn and BritBox International in the US, Canada, Australia, South Africa and Nordic markets in 2024. The series is produced by Tiger Aspect in association with Douglas Road.

Spirited, moving, funny and utterly heartfelt Three Little Birds is a triumphant celebration of immigration, community and the strength of Black womanhood inspired by the life-affirming stories of Sir Lenny Henry’s mother and all those who have travelled to make Britain their home.

Set in 1957, post-Windrush, and amidst the booming decade set alight by promise, the rhythm of rock and roll, swing, Hollywood starlets and fabulous fashion Three Little Birds will introduce Dudley and the rest of the world to gregarious sisters Leah (Neil) and Chantrelle (Coomber) and their virtuous, bible-loving acquaintance, Hosanna (Belo), as they board a cruise ship from Jamaica bound for a new life in Blighty.

The second season of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds begins today with episode 201, “The Broken Circle.” With Ethan Peck back as Spock and Paul Wesley cast as Kirk, fans are looking forward to the big moment when the franchise’s foremost characters meet for the first time.  In the runup to the season, Peck and Wesley sat down with a panel of journalists to talk about playing two legendary characters as young men whose enduring friendship is still in the future. 

Peck’s Spock is much younger than the previous versions (played by Leonard Nimoy and Zachary Quinto) and he’s still trying to get to get a handle on his emotions.

“We will see Spock further explore his human side,” Peck told SciFi Vision, “and he does this in various situations and relationships as well.  I think it's very apparent in his interactions with Nurse Chapel (Jess Bush). There's a really wonderful situation where Spock can do nothing but face his human-ness that I'm very excited about.”

The pair also talked about their chemistry on and off-screen and gave plenty of insight into what motivates young Spock and Kirk. One writer even got Peck to talk about an early episode that highlights a “secret ability…that my friends don't even know [about].”

“[The Dead City] universe is going to tell the story of what happens when you lose someone [to murder]. Not just for the person who lost him, but the person who did it.”

--Eli Jorné, interview with SFX, June 2023

Just before the title sequence for The Walking Dead: Dead City plays for the first time, Maggie Rhee (Lauren Cohan) pulverizes the head of a walker using a telescope. She brings the makeshift weapon down repeatedly as she screams in rage, blood and brain matter splattering her face. The visual reference is obvious to anyone who has watched The Walking Dead’s flagship show. But just in case it isn’t, “Old Acquaintances” later provides a flashback to Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) crushing Glenn Rhee (Steven Yuen)’s head with a barbed-wire-wrapped baseball bat, while Glenn’s pregnant wife Maggie watches. 

From the outset, Dead City suggests that its main protagonists, Maggie and Negan, are two sides of the same coin. The show’s premiere is not shy about this intention, and neither is its creator, Eli Jorné. The widow and her husband’s killer are inextricably linked, the opening scene reminds us, separated only by a flip, a flick of the fingers, a choice. Not a choice made by the characters, but one made by the viewers.

Last week season two of Cruel Summer premiered on Freeform. This season, the story starts in the summer of 1999 when small-town computer genius Megan (Sadie Stanley) is upset when she and her mother are joined by foreign exchange student Isabella (Lexi Underwood), whose arrival affects her relationship with her best friend Luke (Griffin Gluck). The story is told from three different points in time concurrently through to the summer of 2000, and follows the love triangle between the three, and the mystery that changes their lives forever.

Stanley, Underwood, and Gluck recently spoke with the media in a roundtable in which SciFi Vision took part.

***The following interview contains spoilers for 2.08***

In season two of MGM+’s From, things got even more interesting when a tour bus from Grand Rapids appeared in the town, allowing the series to add new characters. One of these characters is Randall (A.J. Simmons), who has had a hard time finding his place in the town, picking fights, especially with Donna (Elizabeth Saunders) of Colony House, not dealing well with authority. As such, he was banished to living on the bus alone with only a talisman to protect him from the creatures that come out at night.

However, Randall seemed to somewhat connect with Jim (Eion Bailey), who he had helped previously try to rescue his wife. In this week’s episode, the two tried unsuccessfully to use Randall’s drone to boost the signal of the radio by attaching a receiver to it.

However, by the end of the episode, things took a dark turn when Randall kidnapped and tied up Donna, now believing some of Jim’s conspiracies, but suspicious of him as well.