AERIAL ASSAULT

SCI-FI TV ROUND UP

Harry Potter’s Jason Isaacs joins Star Trek: Discovery as Captain Lorca. The show’s launch has been pushed back (again) – late summer/early autumn is likely.

Game Of Thrones’ sevenepisode seventh season will kick off on 17 July in the UK. Jim Broadbent says he’s playing “an archmaester, I’m an old professor character”.

The casting directors on the untitled X-Men TV show have been busy: Gotham’s Jamie Chung will play Blink, while True Blood’s Stephen Moyer and Joss Whedon regular Amy Acker will play Reed and Kate Stewart, who discover their kids have mutant abilities.

The new Inhumans show has landed Ken Leung as Karnak, Serinda Swan as Medusa, Anson Mount as Black Bolt and Misfits/ Game Of Thrones vet Iwan Rheon as Maximus.

The Walking Dead’s US ratings dip to lowest levels since season three.