Tag Archive | "BBC"

Neil Gaiman on the Beeb

Monday, July 5, 2010

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Neil Gaiman chats in a five minute video on the BBC website, in a piece that starts, appropriately enough, with Camile Saint-Saens Danse Macabre (a favourite classical piece of mine, as it happens). It’s only five minutes or so but they do cover his comics, his books for children and adults and the multiple awards [...]

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Rude Britannia

Monday, June 14, 2010

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The first part of the BBC’s Rude Britannia aired this evening, in a format similar to others in the series (such as the fine Comics Britannia), with some good talking heads – including Martin Rowson and Steve Bell – dropped into the artwork, which was drawn (no pun intended) from the finest of that first [...]

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It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s a 1981 documentary….

Tuesday, May 4, 2010

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Batmitey has posted up five videos on YouTube, The Comic Strip Hero, which was made for the BBC’s Arena programme in 1981, on the enduring popularity of Superman and includes Siegel and Shuster, Chris Reeve, Margot Kidder, Will Eisner and science fiction legend Larry Niven (via Dan McDaid):

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Paul Cornell has his finger on the Pulse

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

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Some of you have probably spotted references online here and there about an upcoming programme penned by Paul Cornell, Pulse. It’s a pilot for a potential series, due to air at some point in June on BBC3, part of an initiative to showcase some new original drama, not unlike the initiative which first brought the [...]

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Doctor Who US trailer and more UK Who events

Tuesday, March 23, 2010

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The Geek Syndicate points us to another trailer for the upcoming new series of Doctor Who, this time a trailer made for BBC America’s audience. Fab. Fabitty fab fab. Getting more and more excited. Soon, oh so soon… Meanwhile in addition to the mini-tour of some UK sites by the Who cast and crew I [...]

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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 [...]

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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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