The BBC have released full transmission details for Comics Britannia (or, How we grew up with comics and how comics grew up with us…), a series of four documentaries on comics which will screen on BBC4, to be broadcast as… Read More ›
Television
Dalek Empire: The Fearless
Big Finish has just released an awesome CGI trailer to promote Dalek Empire IV: The Fearless, a mini-series of four, full-cast audio dramas with each chapter released on single CD. Spanning four spin off series from Big Finish’s Doctor Who… Read More ›
CBBC LIne Up includes "Sarah Jane Adventures"
The BBC’s revamped CBBC launches its new programming season on 3 September 2007 with a slew of fantasy and drama shows including Adventure Rock, a new online game and play environment for children which allows children to inhabit a virtual… Read More ›
Painkiller pulled
The SCI FI Channel US has cancelled the action series Painkiller Jane, according to Hollywood Reporter, which stars starring Kristanna Loken. The show, based on the comic book heroine created by Jimmy Palmiotti and Joe Quesada for Event Comics in… Read More ›
Online superhero drama for SciFI UK in works
Sci Fi channel UK has ordered a superhero-themed mockumentary drama – the first commission for its new broadband player Sci Fi Play. Legion of Fire stars Ron Moody, playing 80-something Cecil Roper, aka Flash Harry, who runs a Croydon-based superhero… Read More ›
Doctor Who Magazine Original Comic Art for sale
I’m selling four outstanding illustrations on ebay by top artist Gary Erskine (Knights of Pendragon etc) used to illustrate the short story “Pathfinders” published in Doctor Who Magazine #173 by Michael E.P. Stevens. The illustrations are on two boards measuring… Read More ›
State Course And Speed
It was with sadness that I hear that Peter Tuddenham has died at the age of 88. He will always be remembered in the British telefantasy community for the voices that he gave to the various computers in Blake’s 7:… Read More ›
New USTV Shows
The US fall line up includes the following new series: • Bionic WomanAction drama, NBCFormer EastEnder Michelle Ryan takes the role of the bionic Jaime Sommers. (ITV2 is screening this show in the UK)Official Site: www.nbc.com/Bionic_Woman • Pushing DaisiesRomantic comedy,… Read More ›
Miracle Workers Are Born In Linlithgow
Was Scotty a Black Bitch? Linlithgow Heritage Trust are certainly convinced that he was, or rather will be in about 215 years time. I would hasten to add that because of the dog on the town’s coat of arms, people… Read More ›
San Diego: More UK Creator and UK News
The 38th annual Comic-Con took this place this weekend in San Diego, California and many British creators were on hand to talk about their new projects to some 120,000 visitors. Here’s a few more items from what sounds a frenetic… Read More ›
Yet more Doctor Who, and the return of Nightraven…
Two items from US comics site Newsarama with a UK flavour
Dark Shadows Returns
Variety (subscription required) reports Warner Bros. is teaming with Depp’s Infinitum-Nihil and Graham King’s GK Films to develop a film based on the 1960s daytime supernatural TV show Dark Shadows. Notching up a staggering 1,225 episodes, Dark Shadows is something… Read More ›
Paisley Who
The rather self-explanatory Adventures In Time And Space – An Exhibition Of Doctor Who Memorabilia is currently on in the Paisley Museum and Art Galleries in the Scottish town of Paisley near Glasgow. Free to enter and running until Sunday… Read More ›
Who Artist Interviewed
Doctor Who and Dan Dare illustrator Andrew Skilleter is the focus of a 15-page, full colour, highly illustrated, wide ranging interview covering highlights of his career, in the August edition of Book & Magazine Collector, a glossy pocket size monthly… Read More ›
Art Attack TV show cancelled
Art Attack, the long-running children’s ITV show, has been cancelled after an 18 year run – which could be bad news for Panini UK’s tie-in magazine which has been a staple of the company’s line for a long time. UK… Read More ›
New fantasy dramas on BBC3
BBC3 has just announced six new drama projects, two with comics and SF TV connections. Being Human, by Doctor Who and Torchwood writer Toby Whithouse, centres on three young flatmates – a vampire, a ghost, and a werewolf. Produced by… Read More ›
Captain Jack Is Indestructible…
…you are not. Do not attempt to imitate him. With all this talk of “homage” in New Who perhaps one has been missed – the juvenile Face Of Boe himself. To misquote the voice over from the original Captain Scarlet… Read More ›
Who’s bothered by homage?
There’s been plenty of debate about this elsewhere, much of it far more erudite than anything I could contribute. But now they’ve been drawn to my attention, I’d just like to say how much I’ve enjoyed spotting the television and… Read More ›
Battlestar: The Final Curtain
(Thanks to FG for this item): Several sites, including MediaBlvd Magazine have posted transcripts of the telephone press conference held on Friday, 1st June with Battlestar Galactica producers Ron Moore and David Eick. E! Online’s Kristen also reported on the… Read More ›
Doctor Who exterminated again?
Not the best of sources, but The Sun is reporting that Doctor Who will be exterminated next year after the end of the fourth series. The paper claims producer Russell T. Davies, exhausted by 16-hour days, has decided to axe… Read More ›