Tag Archive | "Television"

Neil in the Simpsons this month

Monday, November 14, 2011

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Comics Continuum has a couple of pics up and the US airdate for the Simpsons episode that sees one Neil Gaiman guest-starring – it should go out on November 20th Stateside, hopefully on Sky in the UK soon after. Neil teams up with Homer and others to group-write the next ‘tween lit’ hit. It’s nice [...]

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Visions from behind the sofa: a Doctor Who Symposium

Tuesday, November 8, 2011

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The University of Hertfordshire is hosting a syposium on Doctor Who later this month – appropriately enough on November 23rd, the show’s anniversary. Visions From Behind the Sofa will feature a mix of people who have been involved on both sides of the camera on the world’s longest running science fiction show, as well as [...]

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Aardman consider moving production overseas

Monday, November 7, 2011

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British cultural institution Aardman Animation is considering moving some production overseas, the BBC reports. Mile Bullough, Aardman’s head of TV animation spoke on BBC Radio 4′s World This Week, explaining that while some film work in the UK can receive government help such as substantial tax credits, this support is not available to TV work, [...]

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The Doctor Who Fan Orchestra

Wednesday, October 26, 2011

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Now this is just brilliantly impressive – the Doctor Who Fan Orchestra at work. Not only a group of dedicated fans who are also musicians coming together to play some of Murray Gold’s excellent music for Doctor Who, but a group who are organised to play together online from all over the place, brought together [...]

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Professor Balthazar in the 21st century

Monday, October 17, 2011

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When I was a kid, many of the cartoons on TV here were made in Eastern Europe.  Popular opinion amongst well-meaning educators would have it that US-made cartoons and children’s programmes amounted to nothing more than crass commercialism, whereas animation from Yugoslavia and other countries in the Eastern Bloc at least had an artistic, and [...]

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Alex’s audio round up

Sunday, October 9, 2011

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Now moved to their new Sunday evening slot, here’s the weekly round up from Alex Fitch of the comics, SF and movie related shows he’s involved with for the next week or so; as ever for more details check the Panel Borders site for more info and links to podcasts of previous shows. Panel Borders: [...]

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Is the Simpsons in trouble?

Thursday, October 6, 2011

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Den of Geek asks if venerable animated sitcom The Simpsons is in trouble and perhaps even potentially facing the final curtain. Fox is apparently keen that the show’s stars take a substantial pay cut from their not inconsiderable pay, which apparently run into the millions for each series (nice work if you can get it!). [...]

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New SJA

Monday, October 3, 2011

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Neil Roberts reminds us that tonight sees new Sarah Jane Adventures on CBBC (at 5.15pm), a bittersweet occasion for many fans, happy to see the show back but sad because we lost the wonderful Liz Sladen only a few months ago. But that sadness aside it’s nice to think we’re still going to see her [...]

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Star Trek verus Star Wars according to Shatner

Wednesday, September 21, 2011

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Star Wars or Star Trek, which is better and why? It’s an argument that’s surfaced in science fiction fandom many a time over the last few decades (personally I love both and consider them to be quite different types of SF&F so really don’t see much point in arguing over them like this other than [...]

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Some days you just can’t get rid of a bomb…

Thursday, September 1, 2011

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Somedays even the most resourceful caped crusader just can’t find a safe place to dispose of a bomb. Thank goodness for very long fuses and a determined Adam West (personally the second time I passed them I think I’d have stuffed it down the horn of the musician’s tuba, which is perhaps why I am [...]

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Where’s Wall-E?

Friday, August 19, 2011

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How utterly fabulously detailed is this robotic pastiche on the long-running Where’s Wally? (or Where’s Waldo as I belive it is titled in the US) picture books? Just look at the amazing details and the range of science fictional robots on display here, not just the obvious characters you’d think of like R2D2, but some [...]

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Eureka gals at SDCC

Wednesday, August 3, 2011

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Takes on Tech has short video interviews from the recent San Diego Comic Con with two of the female stars from SyFy’s Eureka, Felecia Day: Interview with Felicia Day of SyFy’s Eureka at Comic-Con 2011 from Takes on Tech on Vimeo. And Salli Richardson-Whitfield: Interview with Salli Richardson-Whitfield of SyFy’s Eureka at Comic-Con 2011 from [...]

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Doctor Who in comics

Wednesday, July 27, 2011

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Vworp! Vworp! Materialising this very day in London’s Cartoon Museum, Doctor Who in Comics: 1964 – 2011. The history of the world’s longest running science fiction series and comics goes right back through the decades to the William Hartnell era, with comics versions of the wandering Time Lord’s tales being almost as old as the [...]

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Mira Furlan interviewed

Thursday, July 21, 2011

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The wonderful Mira Furlan(best known to SF genre fans for Lost and Babylon 5) is interviewed by Jason Reed in this short video recorded at Wizard World’s Anaheim Comic Con 2011. I’ve admired Mira ever since her 5 year stint in Straczynski’s groundbreaking Babylon 5, where she managed to bring to life a character who [...]

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Scottish Comic Book Heroes on the Beeb tonight!

Monday, July 11, 2011

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Artworks Scotland tonight has a special, Scottish Comic Book Heroes, looking at some of the creators from Scotland who have become some of the biggest names in the global comics biz like Frank Quitely, Grant Morrison, Alan Grant and Mark Millar. From the looks of it the programme is only being broadcast in the BBC [...]

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