Tag Archive | "BBC"

Darry Cunningham and Asia Alfasi on the radio today

Wednesday, March 3, 2010

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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 [...]

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Radio Darryl

Wednesday, February 24, 2010

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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 [...]

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DC Thomson says the BBC is muscling on their act

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

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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 [...]

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Doctor Who wins at the National TV Awards

Thursday, January 21, 2010

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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 [...]

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Being Human – we talk to producer Matthew Bouch

Tuesday, January 12, 2010

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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 [...]

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New BBC programme looking for gamers, sci-fi and comics fans

Monday, January 11, 2010

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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 [...]

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Being Human back tonight!

Sunday, January 10, 2010

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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, [...]

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Doctor Who – the End of Time

Tuesday, December 8, 2009

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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)

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New Doctor Who this weekend!

Saturday, November 14, 2009

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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 [...]

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Tomb of the Cybermen

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

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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 [...]

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Geek Syndicate goes on set with Merlin

Friday, October 16, 2009

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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 [...]

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Dave Gibbons on the Beeb

Thursday, July 30, 2009

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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 [...]

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Doctor Who at ComicCon

Monday, July 27, 2009

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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 [...]

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Doctor Who filming

Wednesday, July 22, 2009

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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 [...]

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New Doctor Who costume revealed

Monday, July 20, 2009

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(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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