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Look! It Moves! by Adi Tantimedh: The Romantic Agony Of Moffat's Doctor Who
Adi Tantimedh writes for Bleeding Cool; Thank God DOCTOR WHO is back! The British TV Imagination Drought is over! It's always fun to study and dissect Steven Moffat's scripts They're the structurally-complex, very clever, high concept constructs that every screenwriter would give their left nut and grandmothers to write, but only a small number ever manage[...]
Neil Gaiman Writing Another Doctor Who
As we expected, Neil Gaiman is providing another Doctor Who episode, presumably for the second half of this series. Moffat had teased a returning writer
Sunday Trending Topics: Doctor Who Season
But why? And how come issue 1 was allowed in after a brief UK Customs-based delay? Most-Read TV/Film Stories Today: Ten Thoughts About Doctor Who: Asylum Of The Daleks Hooray! New Doctor Who! And series seven starts with a belter Yes, there will be spoilers If you haven't seen Asylum Of The Daleks yet then maybe, just maybe,[...]
Joss Whedon Co-Writes Marvel's SHIELD TV Pilot At ABC
We've all been waiting for this shoe to drop since word came that part of Joss Whedon's long-term Marvel Studios / Avengers 2 deal also included involvement in a TV show, and here it is The Wrap has the scoop: The network has entered an agreement for a pilot revolving around the peace-keeping organization S.H.I.E.L.D, which[...]
Saturday Trending Topics: A Deluge Of Daleks
But he had more pressing concerns… Most-Read TV/Film Stories Today: Yep, It's Real – An All-Female Spin On The Expendables Is Coming Adi Shankar, producer of The Grey and Dredd, has set Dutch Southern to writing an Expendables-alike project for an all-female star cast. Avengers 2 In Your Dreams: Fan Sculpts An FX Model Of Clark Gregg As The[...]
Saturday Trending Topics: The Undeleted Dead
Funny how that works. Most-Read TV/Film Stories Today: Video: Frank Darabont's Very Different Plans For The Walking Dead Season Two  Bleeding Cool was none too impressed with the second season of The Walking Dead Admittedly, the second half stepped up a little from the first but, really, we weren't happy And by we I really mean Hannah Shaw-Williams,[...]
Thursday Trending Topics: Doctor Who And 1963
A good trick is to "bury the lead", announce it next to a much bigger story. The Week In Getting Stabbed In The Back (Includes Backstab Spoilers)  Today, we bring you three characters in DC comics yesterday who were stabbed in the back. Most-Read TV/Film Stories Today: So, Apparently Ben Affleck Won't Direct The Justice League Movie But He[...]
Saturday Trending Topics: Yancy Street Blues
As a dedicated cop show watcher as well as a comic fan, I think a tv cop drama set in the Marvel Movie Universe would be a very special kind of nerdvana:  ABC and Marvel are in early development on a TV show set in the Marvel Movie Universe, or as they put it, "the[...]
The First Gay Kiss On Saudi Arabian TV
In last night's Olympic Opening Ceremony, during the Frankie And June Say Thanks Tim section celebrating a century of music and technology, when Frankie and June finally meet up and kiss, we got a barrage of clips of kisses from film and TV, from Charlie Chaplin to Lady And The Tramp to Shrek to Planet[...]
An Attempt At A Glossary For Americans Watching The Olympic Opening Ceremony
The trip down the Thames was incredibly stylised from its mythical start through institutions of Henley, Richmond, the Oxford/Cambridge Boat Race and into London, with the a snatch of the theme tune of The South Bank Show as they pass the South Bank, Pink Floyd's pink infalatble pig over the Battesea Power Station, and then[...]
New NBC Dracula Series Promises Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Implies Steampunk and Sex
NBC Universal and Sky Living have announced they'll be co-producing a new TV series, Dracul' starring Jonathan Rhys Meyers Superficially, the only surprising move is exactly how long it's taken for everyone other than HBO and The CW to realize that vampires are sparkly TV gold right now, and the use of the word 'provocative'[...]
Red Dwarf X Gets A Teaser Trailer
It's back. The laugh track is back. The guitar riff is back. It's cold outside, there's no kind of atmosphere.... Red Dwarf X. Coming soon.
Catwoman DC Nation Short
Here's the blurb accompanying the clip on youtube: The first Bat Man of Shanghai short, set in 1930 China and featuring an alternate version of Catwoman
Walking Dead Season 3 To Premiere On The Same Day Internationally For Once
eOne handles Broadcast TV rights and Digital/DVD rights in all markets. Walking Dead Week continues with all kinds of news about Season 3 First we saw the new trailer, now this: FOX INTERNATIONAL CHANNELS ANNOUNCES "THE WALKING DEAD" SEASON 3 INTERNATIONAL DAY-AND-DATE RETURN Season Three of the Hit Series Premiering in FOX International Channels (FIC) 120+ Markets[...]
Talking To Thor About Comic Book Women
  Molly Jackson writes for Bleeding Cool; That's no typo kids, I got a chance to chat with Thor Parker, one of the stars of Comic Store Heroes!  That's
Arrow – Pilot Episode Review From Comic-Con
Abigail Raney has been watching TV pilots for Bleeding Cool at Comic-Con Here's her capsule review of Arrow, the CW's new Green Arrow show. A supposed 'hard-hitting' reimagining of DC's Green Arrow comics, Arrow follows the adventures of former playboy billionaire Oliver Queen afte he returns from five years of surviving on his own on a[...]
"When Spider-Men Flew Out Of My Butt"
Just when you are getting to the emotional high point of a TV show, a little cartoon fellow walks across to tell you what's coming next. I've never seen a show that this has actually made better. Well, maybe House. And now they're doing it with actual advertising messages as well Now, because the ads are rarely designed[...]
Look! It Moves! by Adi Tantimedh: The Journalism We Want to Deserve
It was one of those great Seventies Liberal Experiments on American TV, explicitly political and serious about social issues, won awards, had good ratings and ran for four seasons. Of course, many shows have had great pilots and then the rest of the series proceeded to fuck It up STUDIO 60 seriously jumped the shark when[...]