This is the audio book of the TV series, ‘Dark Season’ by Russell T Davies, which was originally broadcast in 1991 on the BBC. An extraordinarily prescient drama, ‘Dark Season’ featured a young then a complete unknown Kate Winslet and Jacqueline Pearce, already on our screens as the scary Servalan from ‘Blake’s Seven’. Marcie is […]
Dan Erickson is the creator of the forthcoming dark science fiction thriller television series Severance. Mark Scout, a data analyst, leads a staff of pencil-pushers, each of whom has had their memories surgically separated into work and personal life by an implanted brain-chip. Mark comes to realise the company’s sinister covert goal when a coworker […]
The Critical Drinker finally settles down in front of the live action version of anime Cowboy Bebop on Netflix, a wee dram in hand. What did he think? Well, CD says it was such a flop that the show was sadly cancelled mere weeks after its premiere. And he believes he has figured out why. […]
In 1991, Gainax, the anime studio that would later go on to create ‘Neon Genesis Evangelion’ (1995), made an OVA entitled ‘Otaku No Video’. The story of a young man named Ken Kubo who falls in with some anime fans that go about changing his life. ‘Otaku No Video’ is notable for the moment early […]
Amazon Studio’s new fantasy TV series finally has a name, and it’s… The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. Streaming on Amazon Prime on the 2nd September 2022. It takes the stories of Middle-Earth’s Second Age to the TV screen for the first time. This drama is set thousands of years before the […]
Dan Erickson is the creator of the forthcoming dark science fiction thriller television series Severance. Mark Scout, a data analyst, leads a staff of pencil-pushers, each of whom has had their memories surgically separated into work and personal life by an implanted brain-chip. Mark comes to realise the company’s sinister covert goal when a coworker […]
Hello everyone Another year. Another covid variant. Sounds like a repeat of last year although probably no better than we have had before. Worse actually, with many governments still slow on the uptake when there is a need to lockdown, putting commerce before possible fatal consequences. How can I write an editorial on anything else […]
Nick Frost (Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz) joins Michael Rosenbaum this week to talk about coping with extreme trauma and melancholy, as well as how his family’s loss and tribulations have influenced his life. Nick opens up a lot about his family’s struggles with alcoholism in this episode, including what it was like to […]
Science has always been interested in telepathy and other psychic skills; but, might the future provide mankind with such abilities, and could science be the key to unlocking or producing them in the process?
The ultimate objective of human space travel, according to planetary scientists and Elon Musk, is to transform mankind into a multi-planetary species, so let’s see whether this is doable.
I’ve been waiting for a long time to see the ‘UFO’ cartoon strips from the 1971 ‘Countdown’ comic again. As is pointed out in the introduction, unlike Century 21’s other TV series, ‘UFO’ wasn’t shown simultaneously across the country. For me, Westward TV had it a year before HTV which was one of the last […]
There have always been school stories. Most of us have read them at some point. Post-war there was ‘Billy Bunter of Greyfriars’ and the ‘Chalet Girls’ books. More recently, the ‘Harry Potter’ books are the most wildly known of the fantasy schools, though there are many others such as the college in Rachel Caine’s ‘Morganville […]
All hail the return of the Baker Street team accompanying Doctor Number Eight, played by Paul McGann in ‘Stranded 3’. This time around, the team are spreading their wings a little as the TARDIS is able to move again. 3.1 Patience by Tim Foley ‘…I’ve been walking for a lifetime. I’ll need new feet soon […]
If you can’t add Tesla full self-driving to a Knight Rider KITT replica vehicle, why not add some KITT to a #Tesla Model 3 (or any Tesla)? A front scanner, KITT A.I. speech support, and a steering yoke have all been added today!
