Darryl Cunningham, late of this virtual parish, and Asia Alfasi are guests on BBC Radio Scotland’s Radio Cafe today; the show goes out just after the one o’clock news finishes, so normally around 1.10, 1.15pm and runs through to 2pm (one of the show’s producers tells me they will probably be on towards the latter [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, February 24, 2010
I’m delighted to hear that Darryl Cunningham is going to be a guest on BBC Scotland’s fine Radio Café, a show I’ve been fortunate enough to appear on a few times myself. With the print edition of the fascinating Psychiatric Tales drawing close Darryl will be on the show on Wednesday 3rd of March; the [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, February 2, 2010
This Is Money site reports that Scottish publishing and comics giant DC Thomson has accused the BBC of competing unfairly with independent companies, specifically a BBC magazine about animals, aimed at younger readers, had, according to chief executive Andrew Thomson, taken a chunk out of sales for DCT’s own Animals And You publication. Some may [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, January 21, 2010
Last night the multi-award winning Doctor Who and outgoing Doc David Tennant scored yet again at the National TV Awards in London, with the series taking the best drama gong for the fifth year in a row, with Tennant picking up the oustanding drama performance award. And I know its not connected to SF&F (although [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Today we’ve got a little treat for you; as regular readers know I’m a big fan of the BBC’s Being Human series and I know a lot of you are too, so with the new second season just starting on BBC 3 (the first part went out just a couple of days ago) the show’s [...]
Continue reading...Monday, January 11, 2010
Researcher Claire Castle drops me a line to say that they are looking for gamers, science fiction and comics fans for an upcoming programme for BBC 3: “Does your avatar do more exercise than you? Are you happier running round World Of War craft than pounding the treadmill at the gym? If you love playing high-octane games [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, January 10, 2010
A quick reminder – the much anticipated second series of the Beeb’s excellent Being Human kicks off this very evening; born out of a series of broadcast pilots that was part of digital channel BBC 3’s welcome opening for fresh talent (which also saw the Hewlitt Phoo Action) the original one-off chimed with many viewers, [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, December 8, 2009
Ah, Doctor Who and Bernard Cribbins for Christmas Day… Soon… Soon it won’t be just teasing little clips, it’ll be the whole episode being unwrapped under the tree… (via Podshock’s Twitter)
Continue reading...Saturday, November 14, 2009
At last, the waiting is nearly over – tomorrow night at 7pm we’ve got the Doctor back on UK screens. 7pm, BBC1, take the phone off the hook. The Beeb is promising this will be a good scary episode, so make space behind the sofas of the nation, in the traditional manner. Gosh, hard to [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, November 10, 2009
MSN has episodes from the classic Patrick Troughton era Doctor Who and the Tomb of the Cybermen tale on their video player as well as some other classic Who, Day of the Triffids and the modern remake of the Quatermass Experiment starring David Tennant. (above Deborah Watling as Victoria and Pat Troughton as the second [...]
Continue reading...Friday, October 16, 2009
The Geek Syndicate Podcast boys have a new special up detailing a set visit to the BBC’s Merlin production, discussing their visit and talking to the shows stars and crew such as Colin Morgan (Merlin), Bradley James (Arthur), Katie McGrath (Morgana), Anthony Stewart Head (King Uther) and Charlotte Morris (Head of Costume Design). (a suitably armed [...]
Continue reading...Thursday, July 30, 2009
The mighty Dave Gibbons will be guesting on the George Lamb show on BBC 6Music this morning at some point during its run from 10am to 1pm; as usual with the Beeb radio programmes, if you miss it you can use the Listen Again feature to catch it for seven days after transmission. (Dave Gibbons, photo [...]
Continue reading...Monday, July 27, 2009
Via the TARDIS Newsroom come a link to the first of 4 parts of a video of the Doctor Who panel at the weekend’s San Diego Comic Con, which is rather handy for those of us who couldn’t be there, with Russell T Davies and David Tennant. Very nice to see Who at such a [...]
Continue reading...Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Celeb site Mr Paparazzi has a whole bunch of pictures from the filming of the new Doctor Who, with some pics of Matt Smith and Karen Gillan in front of a somewhat altered looking TARDIS, which looks, to me at least, more like the early 60s version of the famous police box. I wonder if [...]
Continue reading...Monday, July 20, 2009
(Karen Gillan as Amy Pond and Matt Smith as the new Doctor, (c) BBC) The BBC has given the world the first glimpse of Matt Smith in costume as the new Doctor, a fairly low key outfit of a tweed jacket and bow tie, black trouser and boots. It all looks very 1950s university professor, which [...]
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Wednesday, March 3, 2010
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