Jon Blake’s House of Fun series of children’s books has sold over 60,000 copies. In the Cardiff author’s adventures the aliens are called the Spoonheads. In the Doctor Who episode The Bells of St John it is expected that the BBC will introduce a new villain known as the Spoonheads. The teaser image of the Doctor […]
Sherlock series 3 starts filming
Sue Vertue of Hartswood Films, the company behind Jekyll, Men Behaving Badly but most importantly Sherlock, has confirmed filming for series 3 of the BBC show will start this month. Cameras roll on Monday, March 18th but it is expected that the series will film in two parts due to the busy schedules of Martin […]
Doctor Who 50th special: An Adventure in Space and Time
The BBC have announced An Adventure in Space and Time to mark the Doctor’s 50th anniversary. The show ill tell the story of the TV show, from its first broadcaston 23rd of November in 1963 and up until today. It’s written by Mark Gatiss and produced by Caroline Skinner and Steven Moffat himself. In a […]
Why the BBC want to ban David Tennant’s ad
David Tennant stars in a new add for Virgin Media. It’s an add that highlights the power of the new Virgin Media TiVo boxes and it actually features Richard Branson himself. The BBC has a problem with it. The centre of attention is David Tennant’s role as the tenth Doctor in Doctor Who. The BBC […]
Dalek Relaxation Tape
This “relaxation tape” featued on Peter Serafinowicz‘s final show on BBC 6 Music. It was the last of a set of 6 shows that ran from February this year. Serafinowicz is more than just radio host, though, he is the voice actor for Darth Maul in Star Wars, Pete from Shaun of the Dead and […]
Doctor Who season 7 trailer is out
Over the weekend there was a leak of the season 7 trailer for Doctor Who. It was taken by a cheeky member of the audience from the Doctor Who conference in Cardiff. The footage was good enough to watch but wasn’t great. Maybe now it’ll not be yanked off YouTube as BBC America have released […]
The World of Dinosaurs turned to music
The processor that can alter pitch in vocals, known as Auto-Tune, was originally designed to disguise off-key inaccuracies in recorded performances. I imagine they use something similar to produce this sort of musical mashup. Featured in the World of Dinosaurs, part of Symphony of Science, are the shows Dinosaurs Alive, the BBC’s “How to Build […]
Dr Joan Watson
When CBS announced, right after the success of the BBC’s Sherlock, that they would be doing a modern day Sherlock series I suspected they might prove to be very similar. In fact, I wondered whether CBS was copying the BBC. Was that wrong of me? Perhaps… but I surmise that I wasn’t the only one! As it […]
Wizards vs Aliens
Doctor Who writers Russell T. Davies and Phil Ford are teaming up to write “Wizards versus Aliens Aliens vs Wizards” for CBBC. That’s the Children’s channel on BBC. The show is being backed by FremantleMedia Enterprises with the goal of taking the 12-part series international. Aliens vs Wizards pits Tom Clarke, a young wizard, against an […]
Watch a clip from the missing Doctor Who episodes
The BBC does not have all the Doctor Who episodes ever recorded. The series is so old it dates back to a time when video tape was very expensive and the BBC actually deleted some of the old espidoes in order to re-use the tapes. Good news. Two more episodes, once believed to be missing, […]
