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Stan Lee Gets The Adele Treatment
Tom Huxley watches TV and writes for Bleeding Cool; Stan Lee made his appearance on The One Show just now, as part of his UK trip to the London Super Comic Convention – a convention the show's host Chris Evans couldn't remember the name of, finally settling on "an important convention" (Stan remarked that "I'd hope[...]
Stan Lee On BBC's The One Show Tonight
Stan Lee is in town. Old London Town that is. It's the Super London Comic Convention tomorrow at the ExCel Centre, and Stan is making his first convention
Sunday Trending Topics: Super Best Friends Forever
Gene Hoyle and I hosted our first panel ever last night, shining the spotlight on a few of this extremely humble and grateful group. Most-Read TV/Film Stories Today: Nice: Lauren Faust's Supergirl, As Seen In Her DC Nation Show For her next trick, she's launching a DC Nation short called Super Best Friends Forever. Video: Goldeneye 64 Remade In[...]
Friday Runaround – From Japan To India To The South China Sea
My dearest wish is to see Death's Head on the big screen – but not if Michael Bay is calling the shots. HairWatch: Gag manga Afuro Tanaka, featuring a Japanese kid with a massive afro, gets moviefied. ArrowWatch: A script review of the upcoming Green Arrow TV series, Arrow. Oliver Queen is a spoiled rich kid who got[...]
The DC Chess Collection TV Ad
This is currently the face of comics on British TV right now, this ad for the Eaglemoss DC Chess Set, collectable piece by piece through the local news stand, comic store, or subscription. Seriously, this is what we do in this country And for those of you who can't get their copies, Bleeding Cool will be[...]
Friday Trending Topics: Strange New Worlds
Though I guess it's only been a couple years since the last Stargate, it feels like there hasn't been enough star-spanning adventure on US TV since the likes of Battlestar Galactica, Stargate, and/or Trek series were running regularly for years on end. Most-Read Comic Series Today: The Top Half Of Spider-Man's New Costume Is it Spider-Man? Or has[...]
Tuesday Trending Topics: How Did Sherlock Do It? Please Don't Tell Me… Yet
So it could be any and every colour. Brokeback Avengers Vs X-Men Clearly Wolverine isn't happy about that. Most-Read TV/Film Stories Today: How Sherlock Did It There are spoilers here, for the final episode of Sherlock, which aired last night on BBC 1, The Reichenbach Fall. Stephen Colbert Runs For President… As Herman Cain It's a bit difficult to run for the[...]
How Sherlock Did It
There are spoilers here, for the final episode of Sherlock, which aired last night on BBC 1, The Reichenbach Fall. The series only gets shown in the US
Big Bang Theory Biting The Green Ring That Feeds It
It's been pointed out that The Big Bang Theory, produced by Warner Bros TV, is pretty much in bed with DC Comics From choice of cosplay, to the new 52 displayed prominently, it's what' called synergy. But not even that could protect a certain summer blockbuster from geek scorn this week From the show's pre-title sequence… SHELDON:[...]
Sunday Trending Topics: Lost Spidey, Found Doctor Who
Where JMS seemed to claim that his Spider-Man comics sold better than current Spider-Man comics, Steve Wacker went to bat for his team, using a bat made out of web fluid, that kind of tools that Spider-Man used to make. And Finally… Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle Nose Cowabunga, dude. Most-Read TV/Film Stories Today: Will Christopher Nolan Have To Fix[...]
How Sherlock Holmes Saved Christmas For Doctor Who
The new Christmas Radio Times, the BBC Worldwide TV and radio listings magazine, naturally has a feature on Christmas Day's Doctor Who, The Doctor, The Widow And The Wardrobe And how Steven Moffat found it hard to get back into the Christmas spirit when writing it in the middle of hot, sunny August He writes; "Help[...]
Monday Trending Topics: Kevin Smith's [Redacted]
And that was that – aside from a bedtime story from Chloe to her son. JG Jones To Draw The Comedian In Watchmen 2 We've heard JG Jones linked to Watchmen prequel rumours before.   Most-Read TV/Film Stories Today: Andrew Stanton Explains Why John Carter Of Mars Became Just John Carter When Andrew Stanton was in London last month, I went[...]
Private Eye On BBC, Doctor Who And Steven Moffat
A sticking point in Moffat's negotiations over his hiring as Who supremo back in 2008 had been his concern about a mooted movie overshadowing his work on the TV series So failing to give him any advance warning — not least because Yates spoke of the need for "quite a radical transformation" which would "start[...]
The Television Show That Hates You
When Big Bang Theory began, it presented geek culture to a mainstream audience in a relatively amusing fashion. It was mocking, but a kind of
Batman Vs Predator – Teenagers Cosplay To Catch Paedophiles
I blame Mark Millar, I really do. In British Columbia, teenage boys have been fighting crime and posting their results to YouTube. Based on the TV show To Catch A Predator, the only show I've seen where I end up feeling sorry for the paedophiles, they followed the show's technique of luring men online to meet underage[...]
Trailer For Charlie Brooker's Black Mirror – "Cult TV Event Of The Year"
It's pretty angry stuff, and funny with it. The first trailer gives a good hint of how Brooker himself fits into this "contemporary spin on The Twilight Zone," a horror with black comedy about our media-saturated information age. This will probably be the cult TV event of the year, but I'll be interested to see if its[...]
Five Thoughts About Misfits 3.2
The second episode of the third series of Misfits. And still they won't give episodes individual chapter names. Let's steal one from another show, The
Neverwhere Map From New DVD Collection, As Posed With By Neil Gaiman
For the 25th Anniversary of the Neverwhere TV Series written by Neil Gaiman, the BBC are producing a new DVD box set Which includes, amongst other things, a map And here is the map, showing locations as a logo for the series As posed with by Neil Gaiman Thank you, Neil. For the 25th Anniversary[...]
Misfits To Be Remade In The USA By Gossip Girl's Joss Schwartz
Bleeding Cool ran the very first details about a then-upcoming  TV series called Misfits . We ran the very first review of the show, labelling it X-Men Meets Trainspotting. And I labelled the programme the most successful portrayal of the super powered on the screen, big or small. The show is about to start its third series in[...]