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Starz Nabs ‘Torchwood”s 4th Season
Just the other day we talked about how everyone was awaiting word on a fourth season of the BBC series Torchwood. Here’s this morning’s formal press release with the details. Let the rejoicing and...
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Review: ‘Sherlock’
It has been a very good year for producer Steven Moffat. He took over Doctor Who, hired Matt Smith (after rejecting him for Watson) to replace the incredible David Tennant and kept the show high in the...
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In Memoriam: John Lennon 1940-1980
30 years ago today, John Lennon was shot and killed by a person who we aren’t going to name. His influence was huge in the world, and has been immortalized in comics in so many ways, from biographies...
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Monkeys & Mayhem In HANGOVER 2
This weekend, HANGOVER2 hits theaters – can the most successful R-rated movie ever top itself? Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms and Zach Galifianakis talk about days on the set with bad food, good monkeys and...
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JOHN OSTRANDER: Doctor Whose?
Doctor Who returned to TV last night and my household is thrilled. Big fans of the Doctor here; I once wrote and tried to produce a Doctor Who stage play with the idea that this was the only way I...
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PRIME SUSPECT: Maria Bello’s PRIME New Role
PRIME SUSPECT was one of the most revered BBC series of all time. Now NBC is bringing a new version to their fall season with Maria Bello in the lead role. We talk to her about the good and bad things...
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Jungle Jim’s African Adventure!
Treacherous mermaids in the Sargasso Sea, mysterious death in Accra, an alien race beneath Mombasa and Voudou sorcery in Haiti? All this and more inside….Jungle Jim is a bimonthly African pulp fiction...
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Review: “Neverwhere” 15th Anniversary Edition
Imagine the BBC fifteen years ago, before the current explosion of science fiction and fantasy fare. It was a dowdy set of channels, working on the cheap, and not being necessarily accommodating to the...
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Review: ‘The Office: Special Edition’
There are times we lose sight of Ricky Gervais’ comedic genius now that he has become a celebrity in his own right. The news that he will once again host the Golden Globe Awards brings with it nervous...
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Two lost “Doctor Who” episodes recovered
SFScope friend Fred Lerner alerts us to this BBC article alerting us to the fact that two of the missing Doctor Who episodes have been rediscovered. As with most early television, producers and...
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John Ostrander: Sherlock 2 – Revisiting The Original Revisionist
Spoiler Warning: In reviewing the second series on the BBC series Sherlock, I may discuss some plot points. If you haven’t seen it – and you should – and you want to remain unspoiled on plot twists,...
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Tom Baker To Don The Scarf Once More?
If this is true, the hearts of well over a million Doctor Who fans worldwide are about to beat just a little bit faster. According to Slice of Scifi, Tom Baker will once again put on his mile-long...
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Doctor Who Series premieres on 9/1 in US and UK; prologue web mini-series...
Doctor Who fans don’t have to hold it anymore. The Great Question has been answered. No, not the one about Life, The Universe and Everything, or even the one that will be asked on the Fields of...
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REVIEW: The French Connection
The escapades of New York Police detective Jimmy “Popeye” Doyle was well known even in the early 1960s and attempts to tell his story fell through until he was captured in print in the best-selling...
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Actor leaves Neil Gaiman “Doctor Who” script in cab, obvious happens
Bleeding Cool has a report of a very lucky person who found something lost in the back of a Cardiff cab – a copy of the readthrough script for Neil Gaiman’s upcoming Doctor Who episode. Providing only...
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“Doctor Who Christmas Special” features Sontarans, smowmen, snarling
The prequel and trailer for the Doctor Who Christmas Special has just been posted via the BBC, hot off its appearance on the Children In Need annual appeal. As reported earlier in the week, the BBC...
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Second “Doctor Who” anniversary e-book by Michael Scott
The BBC and Puffin books are continuing the monthly releases celebrating the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who. The second adventure, starring the second Doctor (played by Patrick Troughton) will be...
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Richard E. Grant returning to Doctor Who in second half of seventh season
In BBC America’s press release discussing the second half of the seventh season of Doctor Who (premiering March 30th), a number of guest stars were listed, including Dougray Scott, Warwick Davis, Dame...
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Matt Smith leaving “Doctor Who” at Christmas, Internet asks for tissue
The BBC announced officially this weekend that Matt Smith, current star of Doctor Who, will be leaving the series in the Christmas episode. Both Matt and showrunner Steven Moffat have already been...
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John Ostrander: Quo Vadis the TARDIS
The Beeb announced this week that Matt Smith, the current actor playing the Doctor on Doctor Who, its long running (50 years!) SF series, will be leaving the show with the Christmas Special this year....
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