For those of us who found the new Doctor Who episode “Waters of Mars”, broadcast last weekend, a bit lack-lustre, the BBC are taking another shot at it this weekend, with a cartoon series entitled “Dreamland” broadcasting for six nights straight from this Saturday, 21 November. The story will be set around Area 51, with [...]
Defying Gravity
August 14, 2009 By
A month or so ago there was a pilot in the States of a new sci-fi series called ‘Virtuality’ – effectively it was a dramatised ‘big brother in space’. In addition to its really clumsy title you didn’t get the feeling that it was going to go anywhere, and sure enough it doesn’t look like [...]
Won’t Someone Think Of The Children?
July 10, 2009 By
So Torchwood series 3, “Children of Earth” is over. I probably share a lot of others fans’ views in saying that finally we got the Torchwood we’d been aching to see since it first aired back in the autumn of 2006. A dark, dark tale that has people facing impossible choice after impossible choice – [...]
Psychoville
June 19, 2009 By
On Thursday evening a new comedy series from two of the creators of the League of Gentlemen, Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton was launched, Psychoville. This isn’t a sketch show – it follows events centred around five individuals who have all received identical notes with a mysterious message. As you’d expect, the first episode is [...]
“You’d Better Not Mess With Major Tom”
April 21, 2009 By
‘Ashes to Ashes’ returned to BBC1 last night to the strains of Haircut 100, Spandau Ballet, Adam & The Ants, The Specials and others. While season one ended with an episode that was an inexplicable mess in my view, season two starts off with a more familar storyline for a police drama – a bizzare [...]
Be Amazing
March 25, 2009 By
I’ve discovered another fun video from Mental_floss. This great little computer-generated piece explains how to destroy the planet earth using common household materials (no, not really). Have a look and you too might ‘Be Amazing!’ [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0dYPnui3rM]
Musical Mash-Up
March 13, 2009 By
Although I’m off to Lodz in Poland later today, theres just enough time to tell you about a little discovery I’ve just made, this time courtesy of BoingBoing. Basically, this user Kutiman hunted around YouTube, cutting portions of video of people playing their instruments at home and splicing it all together to create a funk [...]
