Weekend scattershooting – Sherlock 2 update

Sherlock 2, currently in production, adds new cast member With co-creator/writer, Mark Gatiss, cryptically tweeting the other day that he’s in Cardiff for a Sherlock press junket followed by more filming, production seems to be moving along smoothly for the mega-successful, critically-acclaimed. second season of Sherlock, destined for BBC broadcast in late 2011, early 2012 with a U.S. […]

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Weekend scattershooting – Torchwood, Downton Abbey 2, etc…

Torchwood: Miracle Day UK premiere set Russell T. Davies’ follow-up to his Torchwood: Children of Earth mini-series is quite aptly named. Mainly because it’s a world where nobody dies. All across the world, nobody dies. And then the next day, and the next, and the next, people keep aging – they get hurt and sick, but […]

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Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy set to premiere

If you are in the UK, mark down the date of Friday, 16 September as the day a potential Oscar winning film premieres. For those in the U.S., clear out Friday, November 18 on your calendar for the same reason. Starring Colin Firth, Gary Oldman, Benedict Cumberbatch (Sherlock, Atonement, Fortysomething), Tom Hardy, Mark Strong and […]

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All-time best Monty Python sketches. Vote early and often.

You may have heard, recently, that the Pythons will lend their voices to the upcoming film, A Liar’s Autobiography, an animated 3D movie based on the memoir of the late Python member, Graham Chapman, who died in 1989. Chapman’s own voice will be pulled from his original reading of his autobiography of the same name. Interestingly, […]

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Robbie Coltrane in Lead Balloon brilliance

Those lucky enough to reside within range of a BBC Two signal last night, hopefully, saw a brilliant episode from the new season of the genius British comedy series, Lead Balloon, starring Jack Dee. In an apples and oranges kind of scenario, this reminded me of last years “Rope” episode from Psychoville in that it […]

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Academic solves the Dalek 'most scary villain' mystery

I only say ‘mystery’ because, from the beginning, seems like all you had to do was walk up stairs to escape from them. After all, they were voted the scariest villains in the history of Doctor Who back in a 2007 poll of series fans. It has nothing at all to do with their chilling, […]

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Page Eight – another 'Masterpiece' on PBS this Fall

It’s not quite a ‘move over Spooks (MI5) scenario’ just yet, but there may be a new game in town in the world of contemporary spy drama by the name of Page Eight. Filming has just wrapped on the initial one-off set for BBC Two broadcast in the early Fall. The U.S. premiere will be […]

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Wrong Trousers Day 2011 from Wallace & Gromit

It’s 24 June 2011 so, naturally, it’s the perfect day to don your wackiest trousers and go to work. Why, is probably your immediate question. Easy enough. It’s officially Wrong Trousers Day 2011, deemed so by the Wallace and Gromit Foundation which raises funds for children in hospitals and hospices across the UK. Crackin’ good […]

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The Charles Schultzification of Doctor Who

Pretty much a no-brainer that Amy Pond would be the Little Red Haired Girl and Matt Smith would be Linus, but must Rory be Charlie Brown? Thanks to artist Larry Wentzel, for the mash-up that imagines Doctor Who characters as if they were inside the mind of the great Peanuts creator, Charles Schultz. Wentzel described […]

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