Rest in peace Oswin Oswald? The very latest Doctor Who Christmas Special finally names the new companion – Clara. Are the rumours true? The Doctor’s new companion may well be Clara Oswin. The trailer reveals little about the plot; we know snowmen and snow are important. We catch a fleeting glimpse of Richard E Grant […]
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Doctor Who: The Christmas Special prequel – The Great Detective
Children in Need is currently airing on BBC. This is a time of year that typically features a one off Doctor Who. It was a Children In Need special that had Joanna Lumley as a female Doctor. This clip, uploaded to YouTube by the Beeb, has Matt Smith and Jenna-Louise Coleman introduce a trailer for […]
The Big Bang Theory winning merchandise war
Warner Bros have more than 70 different licensing deals around The Big Bang Theory. This is very unusual for a sitcom. In fact, The Big Bang Theory is now so successful on the merchandise front that Variety reports it could net $50m in sales. It’s reported than more than Leonard Hofstadter 100,000 bobbleheads have been […]
Doctor Who: BBC confirms Neil Gaiman brings Cybermen back for 2013
The BBC have said that Doctor Who will return in 2013 for a run of eight episodes on the Spring. Only 8? The same post confirms that one of the eight episodes will feature Cybermen, will be directed by Stephen Woolfenden and was written by Neil Gaiman. Gaiman’s earlier Doctor Who episode, The Doctor’s Wife, […]
Battlestar Galactica: Blood and Chrome actually launches
You might remember back in 2010 (yes, that long ago) when SyFy first started flirting with Blood and Chrome as a Battlestar Galactica spinoff. It flipped between being a TV series, an online only series and then being dropped all together. Now the “original” two hour pilot is being chopped up into ten 7 to […]
Doctor Who: Time War trailer
These two videos are fan made trailers for the Time War. We’ve heard a lot about the Time War since the Doctor with Christopher Eccleston playing the Ninth Doctor but know very little about it. The Doctor and the Time Lords fought the Daleks and, in theory, only the Doctor was left. These Time War […]
Ex-BBC producer looks to make Fighting Fantasy documentary
[Back this project] Sean Riley is an ex-BBC director and producer (currently Head of Broadcast at MEDIAmaker) and he wants to do a Fighting Fantasy documentary. Not only has he formed a partnership with an award winning camera man he’s lined up Ian Livingstone and Steve Jackson. The film will look at more than just […]
Doctor Who: The 46th anniversary of the first regeneration
In the closing minutes of The Tenth Planet, espisode 4, the first generation of Doctor Who fans witnessed their first ever Time Lord regeneration. William Hartnell’s First Doctor became Patrick Troughton’s Second Doctor. The second Doctor started his adventures with a trip planet Vulcan (which was mentioned in Asylum of the Daleks this year) and […]
Can science explain zombies?
Imagine that the world really had zombies but not magic. Could we explain the phenomena just with science? These two videos are from TED education and attempt to do just that. TED is a fantastic brand that produces some thoroughly high quality and interesting videos. IN this case we’ve some lessons worth sahring that are […]
The insider view: Berserk – The Golden Age Arc trilogy
Studio 4C has released the first two of the Berserk anime movies; The Egg of the King and The Battle for Doldrey. Berserk Movie 3: Descent is due out in 2013. The series’ Chief Animation Director and Character Designer, Naoyuki Onda, as well as Producer, Fuko Noda, attended Scotland Loves Anime this year for the […]
