Category: TV
Thunderbirds are Go! (again)
ITV Studios and New Zealand-based Pukeko Pictures, in collaboration with Weta Workshop (Avatar, The Lord of the Rings etc) are to co-produce Thunderbirds are Go! a new children’s series set to debut on ITV and UK’s CITV Channel in 2015. This re-invention of Gerry and Sylvia Anderson’s series will be produced using a mix of […]
Game of Thrones goes cold in Iceland.
HBO’s Game of Thrones TV series sets up shop in Iceland to film the locations for ‘beyond the wall’. I wonder if they met any white walkers? Or trolls? Or Nordic gods? Or Captain America frozen in the ice? The possibilities are endless! Here’s the behind the scenes shoot from the series – put your […]
My Favourite Character: Arnold Rimmer by Aidan Fortune (article).
Second Class Technician Arnold Judas Rimmer may seem like an unusual choice as a favourite character but there is logic in my madness. Having grown up watching ‘Red Dwarf’ on BBC and reading all of the related novels probably before I was old enough to do so, to me Rimmer was the first ‘real’ character […]
Doctor Who: Colony In Space by Malcolm Hulke (dvd review).
Jo Grant (actress Katy Manning) has a hard time believing that all the tinkering the Doctor (actor Jon Pertwee) is doing has any real meaning, until she is finally allowed to see inside the TARDIS. Unknown to the Doctor, the Time Lords have need of him as the Master (actor Roger Delgado) had stolen the […]
Black Mirror… on the wall, who’s the freakiest of them all?
Another helping of the near-future TV scifi series from Charlie Brooker, Black Mirror, is coming soon (UK, Channel 4)… In a dark cyberpunk future, Brooker aims to tap into our collective unease about the modern world… but is that a good thing? Not when the technology goes wrong, it blooming ain’t!
Doctor Who: The Dominators by Norman Ashby (DVD review).
I remember when the sixth season of ‘Doctor Who’ was about to be shown on TV back in 1968 that there was a lot of media promotion about the new villains, the Quarks. Which at the end of the day were some of the worst robots in creation although they packed as powerful a wallop […]
Being Human Series 5… trailer trash.
Being Human, it’s still got life left in the old undead corpse, as this trailer for their 5th season of the horror TV series proves. But how many more will they be able to squeeze out before quality suffers? Any views?
Jonathan Creek: The Clue Of The Savant’s Thumb.
In the first of the new Jonathan Creek TV detective series, The Clue Of The Savant’s Thumb, Creek and friend, investigator Joey Ross, are drawn into a complex case involving a secret society, seemingly supernatural events at a girls’ boarding school, and the miraculous disappearance of a body in front of three witnesses. Alan Davies […]
It’s a Dr Who Easter!
The Beeb has just told us that the new series of Doctor Who will be hitting the UK’s TV screens on BBC One during the Easter weekend (that’s Saturday 30th March, 2013, scifi fans). The Doctor will be back in a new adventure written by Steven Moffat. The episode – the first in a run […]
Walking Dead 3rd season… Merle versus Daryl smackdown.
Walking Dead is coming back onto the small screen and there’s a distinct Kane versus Abel vibe going on as the zombies feast on mankind’s last survivors on the sidelines. Yes, it’s the long awaited Merle versus Daryl smackdown.
