
Variety reports that veteran "X-Files" director Dan Sackheim has been hired to direct Frank Spotnitz's ABC drama pilot "The Night Stalker.""Spotnitz said he and Sackheimer are going for a 'very contemporary, sleek and scary look,' adding 'Night Stalker' w...
NIGHT STALKER premieres on September 29th at 9pm on ABC, and thus crime reporter Carl Kolchak will once again be back in action.The new series stars Stuart Townsend as Carl Kolchak. As the show kicks off a pregnant woman is kidnapped from her home and th...
KOLCHAK: THE NIGHT STALKER, the obscure 1970s ABC TV series that inspired Chris Carter to create Fox's hit THE X-FILES show, is being reinvented by celebrated X-FILES writer-producer Frank Spotnitz. The circle is officially complete. Somewhere, Fox Mulder...
Darrenmcgavin.net has reported that actor Darren McGavin at passed away last night. He was just three months shy of his 84th birthday. McGavin was best know for his role as Carl Kolchak, fighting authority and battling monsters, on the THE NIGHT STALKER. ...
The NIGHT STALKER took it in the neck as it ran third in the ratings in its time slot.ABC did point out though the series was the network's most-watched show among 18-to-49-year-old viewers in that time slot in more than five years.The original show was b...
... original NIGHT STALKER novel-cum-TV movie which pit the reporter against vampire Janos Skorzeny on the streets of Las Vegas. While at times this adaptation feels a bit like a ?greatest hits? or a recap of a lengthier story, depending on fans to fill i...
Filmmaker Guillermo Del Toro is a happy man. His winter movie THE DEVIL'S BACKBONE is garnering a great deal of critical acclaim, his vampire-vs.-vampire actioner BLADE 2 hits theaters in March, and he can say of his work what many others cannot: "[BACKBO...
According to a story appearing in today's Variety, ABC has ordered a pilot be made for a 21st century NIGHT STALKER TV show. As first reported last October, the proposed new STALKER series will be executive produced by ex-X-FILES producer/writer Frank Spo...
It's amazing how potent some series concepts can remain even decades after they first appeared, and even more amazing how we as genre fans can cling so fervently to an idea even if it barely ever had a chance to shine. In the case of a wonderful but all t...
... too. THE NIGHT STALKER and its sequel I thought were really good. DRACULA wasn`t bad—but it should have been an hour longer. A number of my TWILIGHT ZONE episodes I was very happy with.` When asked about THE NIGHT STALKER`s influence on the X- FI...

