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Scenes From An Alternate Universe Where Saved By The Bell, Rather Than Law And Order, Became The Dominant Television Franchise For A Generation
One might say that with that title, enough has been said.
Be seeing you, number 6.
Be seeing you, number 6. Patrick McGoohan w passes away. Related (and shown above): The Prisoner of Second Ave by Evan Dorkin.
I guess eleven is not numberwang.
Matt Smith is the next Doctor.
Matt Smith has been named as the actor who will take over from David Tennant in Doctor Who – making him the youngest actor to take on the role. At 26, Smith is three years younger than Peter Davison when he signed up to play the fifth Doctor in 1981. [...]
Not a hoax! Not a dream sequence!
Not a hoax! Not a dream sequence! Just, in general, a really really bad idea. 1964 brought us many questionable things but the Go-go’s “Christmas with a Dalek” is probably the reigning champion of “fail in ‘64″.
Forest J Ackerman (1916-2008)
While I am not the world’s biggest sci-fi fan (a lot of the medium, just like with fantasy, is completely lost on me), Mr. Ackerman’s passing is something that’s important enough to report on. Why? Because there would be no “science fiction” or “sci-fi” if he hadn’t coined the term. Not only that, but he [...]
Et tu, David?
David Tennant is leaving Doctor Who. After the upcoming four specials, Mr. Tennant will leave the Tardis.
Yes, I’m heartbroken. As one of the fans who did not have much memory of the olden days, this one smarts more than the departure of Mr. Big-ear after Series 1. To paraphrase from the 2007 Children in Need [...]
Shiny! Spoooooon!…Supernatural?
Sometimes it takes you a while to figure what you like about something. With TV shows, it’s incredibly complicated. There’s writers, directors and actors, all leaving their mark on the final product; hell, you might even just be infatuated with the photography shot by the assistant director of the second unit! Still, sometimes you start [...]
Stephen Fry in America
How can you not adore Stephen Fry? Comedian, actor, gadget nerd. And now, hey gets to drive around the US as a British Borat. Fry’s American travelogue is directed by Michael Palin’s usual collaborator; Fry’s plan is to visit every state in the Union, driving his own London taxi and scattering bons mots along the [...]
Wot? Wot?
Wot? Wot? 8 minutes of Doctor Who clippage. What is it doing here?
Oh, those wacky cold war days…
A 1970s script by the BBC and the British government to be broadcast after a nuclear attack in the UK has been released by the National Archives. While it’s an interesting document on its own — you know you want a copy of the PDFyou know, for kids — the article also features a video [...]
Nice and ambiguous article title for a sci-fi nerdery blog, guys.
A quick analysis of what’s been changing in the US remake [shiver] of Life on Mars. As I loved the original, and the sequel, Ashes to Ashes, I’m weary, but they look like they’re trying to fix what ailed the pilot. Mr White himself, Harvey Keitel, takes over for Colm Meaney (Star Trek: DS9) who [...]
The Amazing Colbert
From the category “Things I never thought I’d read in one sentence, even on the Internet”: Stephen Colbert Spider-man variant cover.
The late 80s want DJ Tanner’s name back.
DJ Grayson, future Boy Wonder! I’ll take ‘bad ideas’ for $500, Bob.
Choice quotes
“I miss Russell’s writing… Shakespeare’s all right, but he’s lacking in spaceships.”
David Tennant
Just an excuse to say “Hadron Hate-on” one more time
The BBC Radio 4 Torchwood Radio play about the Hadron Supercollider — that io9 so graciously tried to tear a new one in my list post about this — is available as an MP3.
Deja vu!
I’ll be taking bets on how long it will take for someone to write an article that point by point points out all the simularities between The 4400 and the premiere of Heroes Season 3.
I, however, will not be that author. Bets, however, welcome.
The Heroes premiere definitely makes up for a lackluster season 2; I [...]
Meta-rebranding: The Dharma Initiative rebrands.
Today is in fact ‘drag up old topics day’. With Lost hitting the airwaves in February, the grandaddy of TV show …virality… struck again this past summer with a Comicon-based Dharma Initiative recruitment drive. Please note that it’s Dharma, not DHARMA, now. This is not your daddy’s DHARMA Iniatitive. By the way, condolances in case [...]
IO9 gets it’s Torchwood Hadron hate on
Aside from the temptation to reblog every other post on IO9, as they’re so close to my interests, I really don’t get their contempt for Doctor Who and Torchwood.