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And it's having its network premiere on Channel 4 in the UK right now. Which is why the interactive motion comic Brandon Generator, created by Tommy Lee Edwards, Edgar Wright and Julian Barratt to advertise Internet Explorer 9 has completely taken over the ad breaks during the film They're highlighting the interactive elements of the motion[...]

Very Important People is a relatively new Channel 4 impressions sketch show from Morgana Robinson and Terry Mynott targeting modern day celebrity And in tonight's episode, as well as a rather entertaining Charlie Brooker/David Mitchell sideswipe, they also went for Jonathan Ross and his Superfriends, Russell Brand and David Walliams, depicting them as comic book[...]

Bleeding Cool pointed out the new iOS free App for Leah Moore, John Reppion, Windflower Studios and Emma Vieceli's The Thrill Electric digital comic. Not everyone has an iPad or iPhone or course, and the comic is still available as a webcomic. But if you ever needed a reason to buy such a device… well, take a[...]

  It was one of the most significant digital comic books last year. Finding a way to blend both comics and animation without losing the strengths of both.

"The ginger prince must have been up to something!" Actually not all that much, so why not insert a nice topical joke about that fancy dress swastika scandal… from seven years ago. Channel 4 have released a clip from their new phone hacking satire show Hacks, based on the recent controversy surrounding the News of the World[...]

We've seen episode 1 of Charlie Brooker's Black Mirror, and spoken to the man himself about it. It's pretty angry stuff, and funny with it. The first

Chosen for its paralles with the world of today, we see a new technology creating and enhancing both business and social communication, with all the petty foibles inherent in the human condition, in a world beset with drugs, sex, violence and, rather unusually, an equality of treatment between the genders, even the classes, at work,[...]

The Thrill Electric, a motion comic project from the people behind Kieron Gillen's Curfew, with a creative team of Leah Moore, John Reppion, Emma Vieceli and the team from Windflower Studios and Littleloud Studios, all for Channel 4, telling a very modern tale of the beginning of the electric telegraph in the Victorian era, in[...]

Bleeding Cool has managed to gain access to a number of scripts from the MTV US remake of The Inbetweeners. An E4 show in the UK, it successfully mapped

Here is the teaser trailer for the enhanced digital comic book The Thrill Electric by Leah Moore, John Reppion, Emma Vieceli and Windflower Studios Studio for Channel 4 It was shown at the MCM London Expo this weekend, and has been given exclusively to Bleeding Cool to share with the world. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFmBXgJ-Ps0[/youtube] Which is handy because today[...]

And at the last general election, Channel 4 took Brooker and teamed him with David Mitchell (Peep Show, Mitchell & Webb), Jimmy Carr (8 Out Of 10 Cats, Distraction) and Lauren Laverne (Kenickie, Kieron Gillen's wet dreams) for a live evening of mockery It went down so well, that they've got a series. An unbroadcast pilot[...]

ITV has Incredibnle Hulk at 5pm while Channel 4 shows Iron Man at 5.40pm. Weirdly of course Robert Downey Jr shows up as Tony Stark towards the end of Hulk Almost a kind of Jim Bowen "Look what you could have won" moment, if you'd watched the other side. The British daytime TV schedules are always[...]

Frankie Boyle, author of Rex Royd in CLiNT, and famed British stand up comedian is in trouble in the UK, for a joke he made about glamour model Jordan's obese, blind, disabled young son, Harvey. In his new "no limits" TV show Frankie Boyle's Tramadol Nights on Channel 4, as part of a standup set he[...]

I do this every now and then for American friends. Basically a list of cool British TV DVDs of stuff, the majority of which is not available in the US

That dates for Andy Serkis on The Hobbit are yet to be fixed, though dates aren't fixed; thanks to his sweary appearance on Chris Evans' TGI Friday, singer/songwriter Sean Ryder is the only person named in Channel 4's constitution as banned from the channel even on recorded video; and Jessica Hynes was asked if we[...]