This week saw the news that Neil Marshall’s Hellboy has had an outright disastrous box office run. With the movie raking in a paltry $40m worldwide on a $50m budget, it’s being yanked from cinemas and seems destined to end up forgotten and unloved. Given that the reboot was supposed to revitalize the franchise after the two Guillermo del Toro-directed movies slightly underperformed, you could be forgiven for thinking that the film will be the last we’ll see of Big Red for quite some time – perhaps ever. But dry those hankies, as we’re hearing from our sources that Netflix is planning a new Hellboy TV show.

There are no precise details as yet, but we’ve been told this is set to be another complete reboot (so goodbye David Harbour) and that Netflix wants the show to be bloody and mature. That last bit is...