Archive | April, 2006

More Torchwood cast added

26. April 2006

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SFX online carries news from the Beeb that more cast members have been added to the new Who spin-off, Torchwoos, about to start filming in Wales shortly. Burn Gorman, last see in the new Bleak house adaptation, will play the team’s medic, Owen Harper while Naoko Mori (who appeared breifly in last season’s Aliens of [...]

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The Eagle Awards

26. April 2006

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An online voting form is now open for the Eagle Awards, which has a component supporting and celebrating British comics as well as international publications. You can pick from three choices in 28 categories, but voting ends on May 7th, so get your Flash suit on and zip over and vote. The awards are announced [...]

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Living in the 24th century

26. April 2006

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NPR has an interview and photographs of Tony Alleyne, a Star Trek fan who decided after a bad break-up to remake the interior of his home into a Star Trek set. Much as I like Trek I’m not sure I’d want to live in this! Still, could be worse, could be single man living in [...]

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Stardust

26. April 2006

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Film Magic has posted several photographs from the set of Stardust, currently filming on the Isle of Skye here on Bonnie Scotland, with Michelle Pfeiffer wrapped up against the Scottish spring weather.

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Ragnarok

26. April 2006

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The highly unusual mixture of electronica, synths and sitar from Ragnarok, who played to great acclaim at the recent Eastercon SF event in Glasgow, can be heard via the magic of MP3 on their own web site.

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Brian Aldiss

26. April 2006

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I had an email from the folks at Meet The Author recently. If you haven’t visited this excellent site, it uses sound and video clips of a wide variety of authors introducing their own work in order to give people who don’t get to see authors at a bookstore event in person a chance to [...]

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K9 to get own show

25. April 2006

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K9, the faithful robotic hound from the glory days of the Tom Baker era of Doctor Who is set for a return in the next episode of the new show this coming Saturday, alongside one of the favourite companions in DW history, Sarah Jane Smith (who accompanied both Jon Pertwee and Tom Baker). The Times [...]

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P-Con IV announces GoH

24. April 2006

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That’s Guest of Honour if you’re not familiar with convention-speak; ‘GoH’ is also the sound certain SF writers make at 3am in the convention bar when informed it is their round. Kim Newman, writer, journalist, broadcaster and master of sculpted facial hair will be the Guest of Honour for P-Con IV, which is gearing up [...]

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Carey Vision

24. April 2006

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In a superb piece of news my chum George at top SF publishers Orbit reports that Mike Carey has a deal to turn the Felix Castor novels into TV series with the same people behind the quality show Midsomer Murders. There does seem to be quite an appetite in TV-land right now for SF and [...]

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New Emerald City online

24. April 2006

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The latest issue of Emerald City, number 128, has just hit the virtual newstands and includes a cracking review of V For Vendetta by Moore-expert Pádraig Ó Méalóid, an essay on style by that sultan os linguistic sartorialness Hal Duncan, Victoria Hoyle reviewing the Clarke-shortlisted Never Let Me Go, Cheryl reviewing Mike Carey’s Devil You [...]

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BAFTA Cymru – What’s ‘Who’ in Welsh?

24. April 2006

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The first season of the revamped Doctor Who, produced by BBC Wales, was nominated for foutreen categories of the BAFTA Cymru awards (fourteen!!! count ‘em!) and walked away at the weekend with five, including Best Drama and Best Drama Director. Russell T Davies picked up the special Sian Phillips Award four outstanding contribution to network [...]

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Tarsus Manifesto

22. April 2006

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I spotted a very cool and very stylish free webcomic by Christopher Cocking this week, the Vortex Chronicles: the Tarsus Manifesto. It’s an SF tale which reminded me partly of Warren Ellis’ Transmetropolitan and the universe of Takeshi Kovacs in Richard Morgan’s novels. It is well worth checking out – I’ll certainly be going back [...]

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Paradise Lost

21. April 2006

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The BBC picks up a story via Variety that John Milton’s poem Paradise Lost is to get the feature film treatment, with Scott Derrickson down to direct and Legendary Pictures (who are behind the new Superman Returns film) producing. No details have emerged yet as to cast or shooting schedule. Coming soon Dante from Clerks [...]

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New Trek on the way?

21. April 2006

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Ain’t It Cool News draws attention to a story on Variety which states that J J Abrams, responsible for the forthcoming Mission Impossible III, Alias and Lost is to team up with fellow Lost crew-members Damon Lindelof (currently writing for Marvel Comics) and Bryan Burk to work on an eleventh Star Trek feature film. Details [...]

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Simpsons Office

21. April 2006

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Ricky Gervais of the Office fame will make his appearance for UK audiences this Sunday in the Simpsons on Sky One. I’m normally excited at the prospect of a new Simpsons, but being one of the handful of people in Britain who don’t find Gervais very funny I’m really not sure about this. Oh well, [...]

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