ITV continue to carefully drip feed imagery from the upcoming Thunderbirds Are Go series, a reboot of the original “Classic” Thunderbirds created by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson, which sees its 50th anniversary this year. To date, we’ve only seen the… Read More ›
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Thunderbirds Board Game At London Toy Fair
Modiphius Entertainment has released a promotional cover by Shigeru Komatsuzaki for its upcoming Thunderbirds Co-Operative Board Game by Matt Leacock. There will be a related Kickstarter launching in February relating to the game and the company says it will be announcing… Read More ›
Sky commissions new “Fungus the Bogeyman” adaptation
Sky 1 has commissioned a new four-part drama that will adapt Raymond Briggs‘ classic comic strip story, Fungus the Bogeyman, first published in 1977. The 4 x 60 series will be produced by Imaginarium Studios, in partnership with… Read More ›
British Comic Shop Releases (14th January 2015) – Calculus Cat AND Star Wars? Oh My!
Here’s this week’s list of comics – both US and UK releases – on sale in specialist UK comic shops tomorrow, Wednesday 14th January 2015. We’ve picked out the titles published by British publishers in bold below, or titles with a… Read More ›
Game of Thrones Season Five hits Sky 13th April, UK hosts behind the scenes exhibition in February
The new, fifth season of Sky Atlantic’s Game of Thrones will premiere on the channel – available exclusively to Sky TV customers and contract free on online TV streaming service NOW TV with the NOW TV Entertainment Month Pass –… Read More ›
The Beano again best-selling annual at Christmas
Christmas annuals may be being deep discounted across the UK in WH Smiths and supermarkets – some as little as £2 a copy. But sales in the run up to the festive period were strong again, with the Beano Annual… Read More ›
Titan Comics announced new Spy Thriller From Doctor Who Cover Artist Des Taylor
April 29th 2015 sees Titan Comics bring you a brand-new fiour-issue creator-owned series, Scarlett Couture – a new spy thriller by Doctor Who cover artist, Des Taylor, an artist who has gained much praise from fellow creators such as Mark Millar and… Read More ›
Marvel’s Agent Carter launches to critical acclaim
The debut of Marvel’s Agent Carter gave US network ABC – which also screens Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. – its best A18-49 regular programming rating (1.9/6) in the 8.00p-10.00pm Tuesday time slot since November 2013, according to preliminary Nielsens. At… Read More ›
2014 A Good Year for UK Creators, Government claims
Latest statistics show that 2014 was a good year for the UK’s creative industries – and there are good times ahead with work on the new James Bond film proceeding apace, the new Star Wars films, new games production and more…. Read More ›
British Comic Shop Releases (7th January 2015) – Doctor Who, Thunderbirds and Weeping Angels, too!
Here’s this week’s list of comics – both US and UK releases – on sale in specialist UK comic shops tomorrow, Wednesday 7th January 2015. We’ve picked out the titles published by British publishers in bold below, or titles with… Read More ›
Thunderbirds Are Go: First Trailer Released
As a festive treat. ITV have released a very short Thunderbirds are Go trailer as part of their ongoing teaser campaign for the re-imagining of the original show created by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson, which launches in April 2015…. Read More ›
Weeping Angels stalk the Western Front in upcoming Tenth Doctor comic
Wednesday 7th January 2015 sees the release of Doctor Who: The Tenth Doctor #6 by Robbie Morrison and Flash Gordon artist Daniel Indro, and features The Doctor and Gabby facing the terror of Weeping Angels in the trenches of the… Read More ›
Ninth Doctor Comic: Blair D. Shedd reveals #1 variant cover
Artist Blair D. Shedd has revealed his variant for the first issue of Titan Comics upcoming Doctor Who: The Ninth Doctor mini series, to launch in March, written by Cavan Scott. “Alice X. Zhang is doing the ‘A’ (primary) cover… Read More ›
Sneak Peek: Doctor Who – The Twelfth Doctor #3 by Robbie Morrison and Dave Taylor
This week sees the release of some fantastic new titles from Titan Comics including Doctor Who: The Twelfth Doctor #3 by Robbie Morrison (Spider-Man) and Dave Taylor (Batman: Death By Design); and a very special issue of Doctor Who: The Eleventh Doctor #6 in which, as we… Read More ›
British Comic Shop Releases (24th December 2014) – Christmas Eve Comic Stocking Fillers!
Here’s this week’s list of comics – both US and UK releases – on sale in specialist UK comic shops tomorrow, Wednesday 24th December 2014. We’ve picked out the titles published by British publishers in bold below, or titles with… Read More ›
Doctor Who tops BFI favourite SF character poll
The ultimate showdown between science fiction heroes The Doctor and Ellen Ripley – both also comic heroes – has seen British TV’s favourite Time Lord from Doctor Who emerge victorious in a British Film Institute poll we mentioned recently. The BFI launched… Read More ›
Titan reveals new Ninth Doctor comic
Titan Comics is to release a Ninth Doctor limited series comic in March 2015, which not only features the post Time War Doctor (played on screen by Christopher Eccleston) but Rose Tyler and Captain Jack, too. The new, five-part… Read More ›
Thunderbirds Are Go! gets second series even before first airs
UK broadcaster CITV has commissioned ITV Studios and New Zealand-based Pukeko Pictures to make a second series of Thunderbirds Are Go, even before the first has premiered. News of the second commission breaks just as the official web site for the show… Read More ›
Free Comic Book Day 2015: Full Line-Up of Comic Books Announced – 2000AD, Titan on board
Fifty comics will be available during Free Comic Book Day 2015, including a Gold Sponsor Doctor Who comic from Titan – and Diamond Comic Distributors has announced thirty-eight all new Silver comics. Free Comic Book Day is the comic… Read More ›
comic Who Doctor new in Reverse Into Goes Doctor Eleventh
Titan Comics Doctor Who: The Eleventh Doctor #6 is released next week (24th December) in all good comic shops and be warned that you’ll need to have your thinking caps on, because the events of the issue itself run… Read More ›