• ‘Doctor Who’ theme as performed by an all-Robot Orchestra

    ‘Doctor Who’ theme as performed by an all-Robot Orchestra

    Leave it to CNET to find the perfect way for British telly fans to end 2014 and dive head first into 2015 with the Doctor Who theme performed by an all-robot orchestra! Well, almost all-robots….there are a few humans allowed in the band this year. As part of this year’s Royal Institution Christmas Lectures on […]

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  • ‘Not the Messiah’ gives NYC a bit of a break from Christmas music

    ‘Not the Messiah’ gives NYC a bit of a break from Christmas music

    For the past two nights, Carnegie Hall was the place to be if you happen to find yourself as part of the growing number of individuals who are pretty much done with Christmas music at this point in the holiday season mainly because they have been playing it in stores since before Halloween. The perfect […]

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  • Happy 80th, Dame Judi Dench!

    Happy 80th, Dame Judi Dench!

    This pic is from our Summer 2010 interview with Dame Judi Dench for the PBS special, Behind the Britcom: From Script to Screen. She was absolutely the most delightful person on the planet, bar none. What struck us the most was her admitting that what terrified her the most was the time right before going onstage […]

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  • Hugh Laurie added to cast of HBO's Veep

    Hugh Laurie added to cast of HBO's Veep

    Approximately three years removed from his brilliant portrayal of Dr. Gregory House, the pain medication-dependent, unconventional, misanthropic medical genius, TVLine.com reports that Hugh Laurie is returning to the small screen to join the cast of Veep, the HBO political comedy series which stars Julia Louis-Dreyfus as the country’s vice-president-turned-Commander-in-Chief. While this will be Laurie’s first […]

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  • It's "Christmas at Downton Abbey" just in time for the holidays

    It's "Christmas at Downton Abbey" just in time for the holidays

    I know, I’m going against my better judgement and have succumbed to the unthinkable by discussing Christmas before Thanksgiving, but this is too good to pass up. As the UK has all but put a lid on the 5th series of Downton Abbey with only the Christmas episode to go, it’s now all about American […]

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  • Avengers' Loki takes to the stage to prepare for Hank Williams biopic

    Avengers' Loki takes to the stage to prepare for Hank Williams biopic

    As we reported earlier, Tom Hiddleston (Thor, Avengers) will be lending his monster acting and, now, singing talents to the upcoming film, I Saw The Light. While Hiddleston is no stranger to belting out tunes, his role as the ‘King of the Hillbillies’ may be a bit of a challenge as he will not only […]

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  • The Craig Ferguson/Peter Capaldi 80's punk band connection

    The Craig Ferguson/Peter Capaldi 80's punk band connection

    Who knew (or remembers) that the current host of The Late Late Show, Craig Ferguson, and the newest Traveling Time Lord (Peter Capaldi) go way back. As the story goes, Ferguson began as a drummer in a rock band called Exposure. He then joined a punk band called The Bastards from Hell, which was later […]

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  • Tom Hiddleston to star as Hank Williams in "I Saw the Light"

    Tom Hiddleston to star as Hank Williams in "I Saw the Light"

    Tom Hiddleston has been tagged for the title role in the Hank Williams biopic, I Saw the Light. The Westminster-born star of The Avengers, Thor, War Horse, Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris and the BBC’s Hollow Crown series, will portray the “King of the Hillbillies” in a film about the country music star’s life. Williams […]

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  • World Cup 2014: OK, England, it's time to 'Bring It Home'

    World Cup 2014: OK, England, it's time to 'Bring It Home'

    The 2014 World Cup in Brazil just around the corner, beginning next week on 12 June. Every participating country is still in the running and, just like Lloyd Christmas in Dumb and Dumber, they all still have a chance. For England, however, 2014 couldn’t have come soon enough in order to quickly erase the disaster […]

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