As we approach the all-too-long awaited premiere of Doctor Who 7.1, news is starting to surface about Doctor Who 7.2, set to premiere in both the UK and the States in 2013. Doctor Who Magazine recently revealed that Call the Midwife star Jessica Raine (Jenny Lee) will play a character named Emma Grayling in an […]
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Sometimes you’ve just got to smile and let the law of natural selection run it’s course especially when you’re heading into a weekend. As we move closer to the network television Fall season we’ll be seeing a lot of teaser promos for the upcoming season, some good, some bad. Whether they like it or not, […]
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Sesame Street and The Adventures of Sherlock Hemlock Yet another one of those times you find things trolling around the Internets that you just have to share. Unfortunately, this won’t help much to curb your separation anxiety for the next series of Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss greatness. Vincent Twice (Vincent Twice) hosts this classic […]
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Why is it that the good ones always leave us too soon? Lonesome George who was believed to be approximately 100 years of age and listed in The Guinness Book of Records as ‘the loneliest animal on the planet’, has died. Lonesome George was ‘discovered’ in 1972 and had become a symbol of Ecuador’s Galapagos […]
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The recent announcement that ITV2 was developing what, they hope, would be a ‘channel-defining sitcom’ was not only another example of broadcasters (e.g. Sky, Channel 4, ITV) commitment to increase comedy output but reminded me of a classic 70’s BBC sitcom during the golden age of comedy when it was essentially the BeeB or nothing […]
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There are countless reasons as to why Doctor Who is what it is. The thought that those involved in the series would go to the expense and effort to create something like this and engage fans in a contest of this magnitude is right up there at the top of the list. It’s no wonder […]
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What’s this? Quality drama coming out of the UK that doesn’t begin with the words Downton, Doctor or Sherlock? If the cast is any indication, absolutely. Starring Christopher Eccleston (Doctor Who, Lennon Naked, The Shadow Line), Dervla Kirwan (Injustice, The Silence), Ewen Bremner (Page Eight, Perfect Sense) and Andrew Scott (Sherlock, The Hour, Lennon Naked), […]
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UK comedy output has taken a beating in recent years taking a back seat to quality drama output while viewers on both sides of the pond could do nothing but fondly remember the golden years of British comedy. With some pretty major commitments from the likes of Sky1 HD, ITV and the Beeb, things are […]
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As we have previously noted, probably more than the law allows, each passing day brings us one day closer to the new series of Downton Abbey and one day closer to the beginning of filming of Sherlock 3. Unfortunately, both still seem light years away with Sherlock 3 not even penciled in to begin filming […]
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Full disclosure, I have been a huge Wallace & Gromit fan from the beginning. A product of the British animation studio, Aardman Studios, and the brilliant mind of Nick Park, the characters are made from moulded plasticine modeling clay on metal armatures and filmed with stop motion clay animation. I hate to reduce it to […]
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