Francesco Francavilla catches up with his minimalist summary pieces at his blog:

Girl Who Waited:

God Complex:

But recently he did these lovely series of Buffy portraits:

Douglas Noble:

Simon Perrins:

Woodrow Phoenix:

Fab stuff, and more at the link.

The brilliantly titled “Let’s Kill Hitler” is airing on Saturday 27th August – 7:10-8:00pm. Here’s the episode PR:

“In the desperate search for Melody Pond, the TARDIS crash lands in Thirties Berlin, as the time-travelling drama returns for the second half of the series shown earlier in the year. The Doctor comes face to face with the greatest war criminal in the Universe. And Hitler.”

“Old friendships are tested to their limits as the Doctor suffers the ultimate betrayal and learns a harsh lesson in the cruellest warfare of all. As precious time ebbs away, the Doctor must teach his adversaries that time travel has responsibilities. And he must succeed before an almighty price is paid.”

No spoilers here. Don’t like them. But trailers are good…. and the Beeb have released two of them on their Let’s Kill Hitler page:

Oh, and in case you missed them earlier this week….

BBC America’s “what’s to come in the 2nd half of the series” (You Tube direct link)

Here’s the new prequel….. (BBC Link)

Not a surprise, seeing as BBC America had already put their date up, but the BBC press office announced today that the next half of the latest Doctor Who series, the brilliantly titled “Let’s Kill Hitler” is airing on Saturday 27th August – 7:10-8:00pm. Here’s the episode PR:

“In the desperate search for Melody Pond, the TARDIS crash lands in Thirties Berlin, as the time-travelling drama returns for the second half of the series shown earlier in the year. The Doctor comes face to face with the greatest war criminal in the Universe. And Hitler.”

“Old friendships are tested to their limits as the Doctor suffers the ultimate betrayal and learns a harsh lesson in the cruellest warfare of all. As precious time ebbs away, the Doctor must teach his adversaries that time travel has responsibilities. And he must succeed before an almighty price is paid.”

No spoilers here. Don’t like them. But trailers are good….

You’ve seen this one before, but here’s BBC America’s “what’s to come in the 2nd half of the series” (You Tube direct link)

And here’s the new prequel….. (BBC Link)

oooooohhh… not a trailer this time, but a genuine prequel, described by the Beeb as:

“This one bridges episodes 7 and 8 and reveals a little about how the Doctor and Amy are feeling following the events of A Good Man Goes to War. The Prequel is written by Steven Moffat and so as you’d expect, it has humour, drama and a heart-breaking moment… Matt Smith and Karen Gillan are on great form in the short video which you’ll be able to watch on Monday.”

The series starts again with “Lets Kill Hitler” soon, but BBC America list it as being August 27th.

Here’s a trail for the next half of the series…

And should you have forgotten… BBC America have kindly put together a “season so far” bit….

From The Hollywood Reporter:

“Tom Hanks’ Playtone Productions is set to produce a six-season, open-ended series, American Gods, for HBO, based on Neil Gaiman’s award-winning novel…. Playtone partner Gary Goetzman told The Hollywood Reporter.”

“The series-in-development, revolving around the question “are you a god if no one believes in you?” is executive produced by Goetzman and Hanks, with Bob Richardson, and Gaiman on board as executive producer and writer. Each of the six seasons will be of 10-12, hour-long episodes with a budget of around $35-40 million per season, targeted to debut on the cable powerhouse in 2013 at the earliest.”

“Rich in religious folklore that spanned millennia and featuring deities from Greek and Nordic mythology, and even the Judeo-Christian monotheistic God making an appearance, in the contemporary U.S., American Gods will be effects-heavy to do justice to the awe-inspiring power of the divine beings. “There are some crazy things in there. We’ll probably be doing more effects in there than it’s been done on a television series,” said Goetzman.”

Six seasons. Sounds about right. American Gods is just celebrating it’s 10th anniversary. And lets face it, if anyone was going to be able to pull this off, it’s HBO.

By Malloup, found via Doctor Who Tumblr.