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Astronomers Find Green Lantern Nebula. Just In Time For The Movie
The BBC report that the Spitzer heliocentric orbiting telescope has taken a photograph of a ring-shaped nebula, RCW 120. The colours used illustrate the differing radiation being emitted. One of which just happens to be green. In brightest day, in blackest night… The BBC report that the Spitzer heliocentric orbiting telescope has taken a photograph of a ring-shaped[...]
Doctor Who Season Seven: The Kerfuffle Part Two
Yesterday, Bleeding Cool ran a piece based on the Private Eye report about the troubled series seven and the subsequent hurried tweet response from the BBC and Steven Moffat that the show was being recommissioned for a seventh season I understand that a BBC press officer persuaded Private Eye editor Ian Hislop's secretary to read[...]
Ten Thoughts About Doctor Who: The Doctor's Wife
That idea was knocked back straight away by the BBC and I can see why But here we see the massive space of the TARDIS shown in through ways, firstly running through it, opening up all sorts of doors, using rooms as energy (like they did in Castrovalva as well) but also on the planet[...]
The Return Of Absolutely Fabulous
The BBC are currently working on a final deal to bring back the Jennifer Saunders-written-and-starring sitcom Absolutely Fabulous, which also starred Joanna Lumley, Jane Horrocks, Julia Sawalha and June Whitfield, set in the London fashion world. Thy are planning to film a three episode series is planned for the summer, though Jennifer has yet to write[...]
The US Doctor Who Trailer Dissected
Little Bleeder Ed pops up again with a follow up to his original to take us through the US Doctor Who trailer, frame by frame. I missed this in the first trailer, but you'll see that the Time Engine from The Lodger makes a third, handy appearance – a bit of its control panel appears to[...]
Doctor Who Trailer Dissected
Little Bleeder Ed has been analysing the latest Doctor Who trailer for anything hidden. He writes; We have the TARDIS descending from what appears to be
That Comic Relief Doctor Who Teaser And Three Deleted Scenes From Series Five
Sorry to those who couldn't see the Doctor Who Mini-Episode tease for Friday Night's Comic Relief Red Nose Day telethon on BBC One that Brendon posted yesterday, due to region restrictions Let's fix that now. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiT68Y9lUZg[/youtube] And since I'm here, why not sneak in a few other unseen Doctor Who bits, deleted scenes as seen on the[...]
Did Scotland Invent The Comic Book?
An upcoming BBC Scotland documentary, Scotland's Amazing Comic Book Heroes by AKA Comics shop owner John McShane, makes the claim regarding the publication of The Glasgow Looking Glass, published in that Scottish city in 1825, running fortnightly for a year And the reason? Not only did the The Looking Glass, founded by John Watson, pioneer the use of[...]
Look! It Moves by Adi Tantimedh #87: The Problem With Dull Science Fiction
I was watching the first two hours of OUTCASTS, the BBC's latest attept at primetime Science Fiction, and ended up wondering again why the mainstream is so embarrassed by Science Fiction. First, let's get this out of the way: OUTCASTS sucked It was like some BBC snobs looked at the rebooted BATTLESTAR GALACTICA and decided[...]
L'il Being Human
As SyFy starts their own American Being Human version, last night, the Red Button service on BBC3 delivered an interesting postscript to the new episode of the original British version A character introduced in the new series, the forty-six year vampire Adam, trapped in an unaging fourteen year old body, got his own spinoff series[...]
The Doctor's Daughter To Have The Doctor's Daughter
It was previously announced that they were engaged to be married. David Tennant is most famous for playing The Doctor in teh BBC sci-fi series Doctor Who Georgina played Jenny, the Doctor's daughter in the episode The Doctor's Daughter She is also the actual daughter of Peter Davison, who played The Doctor in the eighties and[...]
Look! It Moves! #82: Die, Ambridge! Die!
Americans and non-British people will probably have no idea what the fuck I'm talking about today. THE ARCHERS is a BBC Radio 4's daily soap opera that's been running since 1951, which might make it the longest-running soap opera in the world it's basically about a farming family and the people they know in a fictional[...]
Radio 4′s Book Programming To Shun Comics?
BBC Radio 4 have a number of book review programmes, which takes a relatively highbrow approach to modern literature. Last year Radio 4's Saturday Review ran a thorough roundtable piece on Bryan Talbot's Grandville, so publishers got in touch with another show, wondering if they might like to look at the sequel. And[...]
Amy's Back In The Uniform, Rory's Back In The Armour – New Who Trailer
From the trailer to Doctor Who: A Christmas Carol, airing on BBC1 and BBC America on Christmas Day, starring Michael Gambon. From the trailer to Doctor Who: A Christmas Carol, airing on BBC1 and BBC America on Christmas Day, starring Michael Gambon. From the trailer to Doctor Who: A Christmas Carol, airing on BBC1 and[...]
The Anglophile DVD Recommendation List For The Holidays
Also catch him on BBC America in Look Around You. Ideal – five series and no box set The insular drug dealing comedy that moved away from its roots to become something David Lynch would have been proud of A wonderful journey starring comedy legend Johnny Vegas Series one, two, three, four and five Peep Show[...]