• Empire Online, illustrating the news with a tasty image of Judge Dredd by Dylan Teague, report Danny Boyle’s DNA films has snatched up the rights to return the famous Judge to our screens in a story that remains so… Read More ›
Other Worlds
Non Comics items – TV, Film, Books, and other things that internet wandering alerted us to
Wallace & Gromit Game Peek
It seems to be a day for Wallace & Gromit news – no surprise, perhaps, given the ratings success for the pair over the festive season. Telltale Games have just released the first in-game screenshots from their upcoming new series,… Read More ›
Who’s Who?
It has been going on in earnest since October when David Tennant announced that he would be standing down as the Tenth Doctor after the four Doctor Who specials in 2009 and speculation went into overdrive as to who would… Read More ›
Gromit Reads The Beagle
Wallace and Gromit had a triumphal Christmas with the new story A Matter Of Loaf And Death topping the TV ratings while their film, Curse Of The Were-Rabbit, made it to number eight. Of course all the publicity surrounding the… Read More ›
Primeval Greetings!
Card and wrapping paper company Gemma International are to launch a range of greeting cards inspired by top ITV show Primeval in January. LicnesingBiz reports the collection will consist of age cards for six to nine year-olds, a no-age card,… Read More ›
Hinton Memorial Anthology Released
Shelf Life, the tribute anthology dedicated to Doctor Who author Craig Hinton, who sadly died two years ago, is now available. The memorial anthology, edited by Factor Fiction‘s Jay Eales, David McIntee and Adrian Middleton is an unofficial collection of… Read More ›
Tube Surfing: 18 December 2008
• Latest details on the subscription-only weekly comic The DFC are among the updates to our British Comics On Sale Now list on the main downthetubes site. The page has gotten quite lengthy thanks to all the information some publishers… Read More ›
Merry Fringemas
Gene the Cow from ABC’s Fringe, showing on Sky in the UK, is working overtime this month to provide milk for Santa Claus, but she still found some time to wish you all a Happy Fringemas.
No Heroics Gets ITV1 Airing
ITV2’s superhero sitcom No Heroics will be repeated on ITV1 from 6 January, screening at 11.35pm on the terrestrial channel, after a successful debut run on ITV2 over the autumn. The six-part series features a group of British off-duty superheroes… Read More ›
Starscape Comic Turns Magazine
For the past seven or so years, Chris Smillie’s Starscape has been a comic then a webcomic, inspired by the idea of the evolution of traditional British comics, such as 2000AD, Mighty World of Marvel, Eagle and the Victor, taking… Read More ›
Tube Surfing: Gerry Anderson News
British publisher Reynolds and Hearn are to release two books reprinting strips from TV Century 21 comic and other titles first published by City Editions in the 1960s such as Joe 90: Top Secret. Scheduled for release early next year and titled Century 21 – Classic Comic… Read More ›
Stormtrooper on a Spacehopper
… probably one the dreaded Copyright Police will be jumping on, but what the heck: more madcap pop culture designs can be found on RedBubble. They include a Star Wars Eco-Saber and a Starbucks parody. These guys obviously like to… Read More ›
Will Sci-Fi Star George Be King of the Jungle?
Sci-fi icon George Takei, Star Trek‘s Mr Sulu, is one of the finalists in this year’s series of ITV’s hit reality show I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out of Here! ITV viewers will discover tomorrow night whether George will beat… Read More ›
Tube Surfing: 2 December 2008
It is not often we would advertise cars here on downthetubes but take a look at this cutaway of a Honda Accord. The artist is Graham Bleathman, more familiar perhaps for creating cutaways of Thunderbirds or other Gerry Anderson creations…. Read More ›
Planet of the Apes Chronology Book Published
A new independently-published book about the Planet of the Apes films is now available. The 322-page Timeline of the Planet of the Apes, by Rich Handley, is described as ‘the definitive unauthorised chronology’ and is released to coincide with the… Read More ›
Hyde Pod Who!
My old friend Mat Hyde, who once wrote comics for Marvel UK but has moved into the audio podcast world thees days, has just released Hyde Pod Corner #30 – Doctor Who 45th Anniversary Special “I’m doing my bit for… Read More ›
Wicked Willie Returns!
Remember Wicked Willie, the creation of Gray Jolliffe? Well, he’s back, as right and upright as ever in The Complete Wicked Willie, out on DVD in January. Based on Jolliffe’s internationally best-selling series of cartoon books about the continuing adventures… Read More ›
On My Radio…
Alex Fitch has just sent us details for the shows he produces that are being broadcast / podcast over the next seven days… On air: Strip: The work of Art Spiegelman Guest presenter Grant Rogers talks to Pulitzer Prize winning… Read More ›
Tube Surfing: 24 November 2008
• Kieron Gillen talks about writing the new Warhammer Crown of Destruction comic series from Boom Studios over on comiccon.com, the series inspired by on Nottingham-based Games Workshop’s hugely popular gaming system and figures. “It’s a world that lives on… Read More ›
Tube Surfing: 18 November 2008
• Happy Birthday, Alan Moore. The comics legend and mage, writer of Top Ten, Lost Girls, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Swamp Thing, Doctor Who, Maxwell the Magic Cat, Watchmen and much, much more is 55 today. • (via Kasterborous): Would… Read More ›