Tag Archive | "Television"

“A tear, Sarah Jane?”

Tuesday, April 19, 2011

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“A tear, Sarah Jane? No, don’t cry. While there’s life, there’s…” The last words the late, great Jon Pertwee’s third Doctor spoke to Elisabeth Sladen’s Sarah Jane Smith before regenerating. I think a lot of Doctor Who fans of a certain age will recall that scene and understand the sad relevance of it tonight: it’s [...]

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Big sneak peek at Game of Thrones

Tuesday, April 5, 2011

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There’s a sneak preview up of the upcoming and eagerly anticipated television adaptation of George R R Martin’s hugely bestselling Game of Thrones fantasy and for a change it’s no 1 minute wonder of a trailer, it’s pretty a pretty darned substantial look at what we can expect (link via SFX and Mia Cookson):

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Torchwood teaser

Monday, April 4, 2011

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There’s a trailer up from Starz, the BBC’s partner for the next Torchwood series, although sadly it is just a very brief teaser trailer that doesn’t show any actual footage from the show, although there is this piece outlining a little of the idea behind the first episode (via Geek Native): “One day, nobody dies. [...]

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Alternative world Opus

Wednesday, March 30, 2011

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This appeals to my inner comics and my inner SciFi geek so much – in the excellent SF series Fringe (currently one of my favourite shows) there is a second, parallel Earth, similar to our world but a little different. Slightly different versions of the characters we know, differences like the World Trade Centre towers [...]

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Happy 80th birthday, William Shatner!

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

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(detail from cover to Star Trek : Burden of Knowledge, art by  Joe Corroney, published IDW) Can it really be true? Can the mighty Shatner really be celebrating the anniversary of 80 of our Earth years this very day? Yes, folks, the man who is Captain James T Kirk (sorry, Chris Pine, loved you in [...]

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A brief history of title design

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

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Not specifically comics or sci-fi (although there are a lot of genre entries included here, from King Kong to Superman to Soylent Green to Scott Pilgrim), but I thought a lot of you would get a kick out of this fab short video montage by Ian Albinson and friends, Art of the Title (and besides, [...]

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Doctor Who credits reworked Buffy style

Tuesday, March 15, 2011

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The Doctor Who opening credits get a makeover, reworked into a similar style to the opening credits for Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Genius! Someone put a decent bit of effort into it, it does have the fast edit feel of the Buffy approach. I wonder, if they did it for the end credits too, would [...]

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Matt Smith speaks

Tuesday, March 1, 2011

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OK Magazine talked to Matt Smith at the launch of the new Doctor Who Experience (link via Doctor Who Experience’s twitter feed):

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The Brigadier no more: Nicholas Courtney passes away

Wednesday, February 23, 2011

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Very sad news for all Doctor Who fans today, especially those of us of a certain age who grew up with the original incarnation of the world’s longest running science fiction series – the great Nicholas Courtney, best known for his role as Brigadier Alastair Lethbridge-Stewart in the show, has passed away at the age [...]

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Live action Heavy Metal on the way?

Friday, February 11, 2011

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Variety is reporting that long-running French comics Metal Hurlant, better known to English language readers as Heavy Metal, is returning to our screens with the Metal Hurlant Chronicles. Unlike HM’s previous screen outing, this will not be animated but live-action and it will be for the small screen rather than cinema. United Humanoids/We Prod have [...]

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Annie Awards

Tuesday, February 8, 2011

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I missed this over the weekend, but the annual Annie Awards for animation took place in LA with awards spread over some 25 categories. Big winner of the night wasn’t Pixar, surprisingly, but DreamWorks with How To Train Your Dragon, which took the coveted Best Animated Feature gong (could that be an indicator of possible [...]

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When Doctor who met Doctor Seuss

Tuesday, January 11, 2011

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I love this – when Doctor Who met Doctor Seuss, by Bill Mudron. Is it just me or does Matt Smith have just the right sort of unusual face for being in a Doctor Seuss book? (link via Nick Smale) And since we’re on a Doctor Who mashup theme, Empire movie mag’s site has a [...]

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Best of the Year: Jeff Newelt

Wednesday, January 5, 2011

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Today’s guest Best of the Year post comes from a man/force of nature who’s very well known in comics, especially the more daring independent sector of the comics community, spreading the good word about some cracking comics work as comics editor for Heeb, Smith and Royal Flush magazines (all of which I’m sure you’ve seen [...]

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Best of the Year: Richmond Clements

Friday, December 24, 2010

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We tried to approach Mr S Claus for his best of the year picks for Christmas Eve, but his spokeself told us he was too busy. Lucky us, Mr Richmond Clements, writer, editor at Brit small press stable FutureQuake and co-founder and organiser of the very fine Hi-Ex Highlands comics convention, was kind enough to [...]

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Best of the Year: Dan Lockwood

Wednesday, December 22, 2010

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Today’s Best of the Year guest post comes from Dan Lockwood, linguistic scholar, SF&F fan and freelance editor; Dan has, amongst others, worked for SelfMadeHero on their graphic literary adaptations The Master and Margarita and The Trial. He’s currently getting to indulge his inner geek editing SMH’s upcoming H.P. Lovecraft anthology due next year. Let’s [...]

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