• Brit TV bits and bobs to begin the weekend

    Brit TV bits and bobs to begin the weekend

    Doctor Who 7 transmission date news — finally! News of the BBC broadcast premiere of Doctor Who finally came on Wednesday with the date of 1 September etched in everyone’s appointment television brain. This season has it all with more Daleks, more dinosaurs, more Weeping Angels and a River Song return. The newly released trailer […]

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  • Doctor Who 7.1.1: Asylum of the Daleks – A First Look

    Doctor Who 7.1.1: Asylum of the Daleks – A First Look

    Doctor Who 7, DW7 for short, is coming… I know, I know. Every day is one day closer to all kinds of brilliant telly. Downton Abbey 3, Sherlock 3, Call the Midwife, Endeavour…. But, one series premiere on both sides of the pond, Doctor Who 7, is so within reach. The five episodes planned for […]

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  • A post Olympics first look at BBC's Ripper Street

    A post Olympics first look at BBC's Ripper Street

    As the sun sets on the Olympics, darkness rises on Ripper Street, so says the BBC trailer that ran during the closing days of the London 2012 Games. The newest installment to an amazing upcoming line-up of BBC drama, stars Matthew Macfadyen (Spooks, Pride and Prejudice) and Jerome Flynn (Game of Thrones). With filming having […]

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  • BBC begins plans for Doctor Who 50th

    BBC begins plans for Doctor Who 50th

    Never mind the countdown calendar for Downton Abbey 3, Sherlock 3 or Doctor Who 7. The real countdown is now a mere 467 days away from the magic date of 23 November 2013 and the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who, the series that director Steven Spielberg once commented on by saying that “the world would […]

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  • Sherlock: The Reichenbach Fall: Lego style

    Sherlock: The Reichenbach Fall: Lego style

    Yet another tip of the hat to long-time tellyspotting reader (and now, I’m thinking, contributor), Patty Winter, for sending in this bit of video brilliance. There are times that you look at things and wonder why and how people have so much time on their hands to do something. Then you see something this creative […]

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  • Doctor Who: Science Fiction or Science Fact?

    Doctor Who: Science Fiction or Science Fact?

    For Doctor Who fans worldwide that are still in orbit over last week’s newest bit of trailer greatness, last Saturday’s broadcast of The Science of Doctor Who special on BBC America did nothing to curb any enthusiasm for the upcoming series this Fall. Attempting to answer the burning question, How much of the science fiction […]

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  • Richard E. Grant joins Doctor Who for Christmas

    Richard E. Grant joins Doctor Who for Christmas

    Richard E. Grant joins Doctor Who cast for Christmas special Aside from the fact that it is, yet again, another 100+ degree day across most of the U.S. this summer, I so can’t wait for December and this year’s Doctor Who Christmas special. In addition to the fact that Jenna-Louise Coleman will debut as the […]

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  • Doctor Who 7 new series trailer – let the real Olympic games begin

    Doctor Who 7 new series trailer – let the real Olympic games begin

    An event of Olympic proportion is currently happening with faithful P1’s marking their individual Downton Abbey Countdown Calendar’s on a daily basis. While signaling the Downton Abbey September UK transmission and January 2013 United States broadcast of series 3, it is with the utmost respect that I have to mention…there’s a new sheriff in town […]

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  • The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey….to San Diego for Comic-Con

    The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey….to San Diego for Comic-Con

    As if I needed any more reason to book my trip to now to San Diego for Comic-Con 2013. Peter Jackson’s next epic, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey will enter our lives on 14 December 2012. The second installment, The Hobbit: There And Back Again, is scheduled to be released a year later, on Dec. […]

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  • What if Sherlock's Mind Palace maxed out?

    What if Sherlock's Mind Palace maxed out?

    Sherlock’s Mind Palace http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmueuSRJrZc& Information floods in and out of Sherlock’s brain more than the law allows. After 2 series, could it ever be too much? Doubtful, but if this recently uncovered footage is to be believed, then it’s possible. Even the world’s greatest consulting detective just might become overwhelmed by those little ‘mind palace’ […]

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