B7 Media has just launched a crowdfunder for a new season of Dan Dare Audio Adventures, completing a trilogy to story arcs that reinvented the classic Eagle comic character for the 21st Century and coinciding with the space hero’s 70th anniversary this year.
The latest episode of the Lakes International Comic Art Festival Podcast features chats with the creator of Let Me In, Katriona Chapman and comic creator Gustavo Vargas, creator of the independent dystopian SF thriller comic, Manu.
It seems someone has been doing some pruning Wikipedia, resulting in the deletion of some Judge Dredd-related articles, including an extensive feature on Judge Death – although a snapshot of the page survives on the archive site Wayback Machine. While… Read More ›
Netflix has picked up the exclusive streaming rights to the full film library from the popular Japanese animation house, Studio Ghibli for everywhere in the world, outside of the US and Japan. The deal, detailed by the French distribution partner… Read More ›
A new episode of the Lakes International Comic Art Festival Podcast, co-hosted by Nikki Bates and Ian Loxam, has just gone live. Episode 68 finds Pete Taylor chatting to The Whore Chronicles creators Tony Esmond and Sarah Harris on this… Read More ›
Writers behind some of last year’s most critically acclaimed works have been honoured at the 2020 Writers’ Guild Awards ceremony, including Danny Brocklehurst, Shola Amoo, Season Butler, Gillian Juckes and Jimmy McGovern. Awards also went to the writers of the Danger Mouse animated series, the… Read More ›
Netflix have released a trailer for their upcoming series Locke & Key, based on the critically acclaimed comic from US publisher IDW Publishing, created by Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodríguez
One of our most popular stories earlier last year on downthetubes centred on the hope that NetflixUK would follow up screening Titans with a screening of Doom Patrol. The service never responded to queries about it, but almost one year later the show focusing on DC Comics oddest superteam has arrived in the UK, through subscription service Starzplay, via Amazon’s Prime Video platform and Virgin TV.
It wasn’t the greatest Spider-Man costume Marvel UK had for promotional purposes, but by gum, the company made the most of it, even in encounters with pop royalty like Queen’s Brian May
Episode #116 of Jeremy Bement’s Doctor Who comics-focused podcast Doctor Who: Panel to Panel is live, and has a linger to h of the Christmas spirit about it, past and present
If you have access to BBC iPlayer, then you may already know the broadcaster’s 1958 serial Quatermass and the Pit is available to watch right now for free – and a terrific piece of vintage SFTV it is too
Streaming service BritBox has announced its most streamed content over the Christmas period. Tracking subscriber habits from Christmas Eve through to Boxing Day, it quickly became apparent that the most streamed series was Doctor Who Classic
On the Christmas 2019 episode of the Lakes International Comic Art Festival Podcast, co-hosts Ian Loxam and Nicole Bates catch up on their trawl through of a stack of comics, as well as giving their favourite comics of the year…. Read More ›
I’m delighted to report that downthetubes is recipient of “Best Comics Media” in the inaugural ComicsScene Magazine Awards, announced today in the digital edition of ComicScene Magazine Issue 11, on sale digitally now, a week ahead of its print release. Thank… Read More ›
As the year draws to a close, Egmont Publishing, pocket.watch and Sunlight Entertainment are celebrating the incredible success of one of Egmont’s 2019 magazine launches, Ryan’s World, a title based on Ryan Kaji, the eight-year old star of the Ryan’s World… Read More ›
In the latest episode of the Lakes International Comic Art Festival Podcast, the Ian Loxam and Nikki Bates report back on their recent trek to Harrogate for this year’s Thought Bubble Festival, now in a new town
BBC Radio and BBC Sounds have announced their on-air and on-demand highlights for the Christmas period – which include broadcasts of some B7 Media-produced Dan Dare Audio Adventures – and a tie-in documentary
This week the Awesome Comics Podcast gang – Dan Butcher, Tony Esmond and Vince Hunt – talk about their Thought Bubble Festival 2019 experience and have a raft of interviews to showcase their adventure over the weekend
In the latest episode of the Lakes International Comic Art Festival Podcast, team members Nikki Bates, Ian Loxam, Pete Taylor, Mike Williams and Tom Stewart get together and discuss the recent Festival weekend in full. Pete discusses his time behind… Read More ›
Tim Robins enjoyed the first episode of “The Mandalorian”, but concludes that it is no “Space: 1999”…