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| Posted: 23 Oct 2008 12:32 PM CDT Unofficial overnight figures show that Part Two of Day of the Clown achieved an audience of 0.7 million. The programme got a 6.1 per cent share of the audience. Meanwhile final figures available for the premier of part One of the story, show it was the highest rated programme of the week on the CBBC channel, with 0.51 million viewers. | ||
| Darksmith Legacy Press Launch Contest Posted: 23 Oct 2008 10:51 AM CDT Tickets to the press launch of multi-platform Doctor Who book project The Darksmith Legacy are up for grabs in a contest. The event takes place at the Earls Court Doctor Who exhibition on November 6 from 6pm to 8pm, and the winners will be among the first to preview the books, test the interactive Darksmith online destination, and interview a panel of writers from the 10-part series, which launches to the public in January. They will also get free admission to the exhibition plus a Doctor Who | ||
| The Return of Meggan, Comics and Who Posted: 23 Oct 2008 09:31 AM CDT Those of you who are comic readers of a sufficiently ancient vintage may well recognise the young lady appearing with Brian Braddock in the picture below: Her name is Meggan, and for the longest time she and Brian were one of the most stable couples of the Marvel Universe. Then he lost her, but now she's... well, is she back or isn't she? The above is from the cover to issue nine of Captain | ||
| Posted: 23 Oct 2008 08:21 AM CDT  So the Vworp Vworp event at The Lass O'Gowrie in Manchester as part of Manchester Literary Festival has been and gone, and while I think of some words for a proper review of the day, a few things leap out at me. First off though, apologies to all concerned - particularly Professor Peach himself Gareth Kavanagh - for getting to this so late. I fell asleep on the train back Saturday evening, halfway through jotting notes and woke up 5 miles outside of York with a drooly, inky face. Minutes before I passed out, a very pretty girl had been looking over at me, and must have been so impressed with the snoring wreck I'm sure I became. If that was you, ma'am, I'm sorry. I'm also happily wed, so quit with the eyes! Intimacy and common purpose, that was the secret of Vworp Vworp!'s success. Chaps from DWM, Big Finish, some TV show in Wales, Torchwood comic strip and the fans that turned up were all there, clear as to what the day was about, and what they hoped to get out of it. The pub venue is far better than the hotel function room, there's no herding of guests and fans from one room to another, and I'm sure no one asked for an autograph for anything other than the charity auction. I was sat chatting on occasion coherently and on other occasions vaguely to people whose work I've admired for some time, while I looked over at Kasterborous' own Anthony Dry having a chat with other "fandom names". It's hard to get the balance you know, but on the whole, larger than life or not, these people are exactly that, people. Just like you and me but with a different profession, that doesn't make them gods or geniuses or whatever superlative you want to throw. It's just that they're adept enough at their roles to be very good and make a name for themselves. It was truly wonderful company at The Lass, from the foxy barstaff to the assembled guests, and if you didn't go, you should have done, and you definitely must make the effort next time. | ||
| Star Wars Clone Wars – Behind the Scenes Video Posted: 23 Oct 2008 05:08 AM CDT Star Wars: The Clone Wars - Exclusive behind the scenes access - kewego We report from the Skywalker Ranch about the new Star Wars: The Clone Wars TV series. Keywords: star wars the clone wars ... | ||
| Television viewing highlights for the weekend - Encore Posted: 23 Oct 2008 03:59 AM CDT
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| Grant Morrison Talks IDW ‘Doctor Who’ Reprints, Possible Film Ideas - MTV.com Posted: 23 Oct 2008 03:44 AM CDT
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| Posted: 23 Oct 2008 02:00 AM CDT There's something about The Clangers. Baguss may come higher in "Best Children's Shows of All Time" polls, but we, the SF literate, know that the Clangers was the superior show. No disrespect to Emily's menagerie of dozy, anthropomorphic knick knacks, but The... | ||
| Drink driver killed friend - Oxford Mail Posted: 23 Oct 2008 01:50 AM CDT
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| Posted: 23 Oct 2008 01:33 AM CDT Dominic Monaghan, who played DriveShaft lead singer Charlie in Lost, will guest star in a part-3D episode of Chuck next February… as a rock star! In an interview on the Entertainment Weekly website he says, "He is an English rock star, so obviously there are... | ||
| Series End For Ben 10: Alien Force? - io9 Posted: 23 Oct 2008 01:33 AM CDT
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| Tons Of Clips From Next Monday's Heroes - io9 Posted: 23 Oct 2008 12:35 AM CDT
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| John Barrowman and the Torchwood Gang Get Touchy-Feely - Gay Wired Posted: 23 Oct 2008 12:25 AM CDT
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| An online game designed to predict the future Posted: 22 Oct 2008 11:57 PM CDT Computer games are, let's face it, mostly about destruction. Whether it's killing endangered species with gleeful fully-automatic abandon or saving mining ships from the hideous and frequently very gloopy entities that have taken them over most games are about... | ||
| William Shakespeare, Science Fiction Author of the Forbidden ... - io9 Posted: 22 Oct 2008 10:44 PM CDT
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| Posted: 22 Oct 2008 10:09 PM CDT Dr Strange Heads Studio's Wish List Marvel Studios President of Production Kevin Feige has told MTV.com that he like to see the "Master of the Mystic Arts" Doctor Strange on the big screen soon. That'll please Neil Gaiman and Stan Lee who've both said they... | ||
| Lost Season Five Teaser Trailer Posted: 22 Oct 2008 09:48 PM CDT | ||
| David Tennant on losing his mum and being beat up - The Paisley Daily Express Posted: 22 Oct 2008 09:39 PM CDT
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| Devizes boosted by Campbell’s return - Wiltshire Times Posted: 22 Oct 2008 09:35 PM CDT
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| Darkness Over Britain - Celebration of Television Horror - British Fantasy Society News Posted: 22 Oct 2008 09:31 PM CDT
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| Posted: 22 Oct 2008 08:43 PM CDT About as far as we want to get to being a womens gossip rag, Kasterborous wishes many best wishes and health to Billie Piper and Laurence Fox, proud parents of a new born baby boy. The first addition to the couple's family was born weighing 6lb 11oz, in the early hours of Monday morning at London’s Portland Hospital. Billie's husband is actor Laurence Fox who revealed that his son was named Winston James Fox: "He is beautiful, he is sweet. Billie is happy, of course she is,... | ||
| Posted: 22 Oct 2008 07:00 PM CDT
Written by: Charlie Brooker Directed by: Yann Demange Rating: You know the old saying about teachers – "if you can, do; if you can't, teach"? The same goes for critics (and we should know). If you need proof, just check out any of the slew of dodgy DTV horror flicks penned by some-bloke-from-Fangoria. However, there are exceptions to the rule, and Charlie Brooker is a shining example. The outspoken TV critic's first stab at drama isn't just a "promising debut" or a "decent effort"; it's one of the best pieces of telly this year. It's blessed with a high-concept of such genius that you could kick yourself for not having thought of it first: a zombie outbreak set around the Big Brother house. High-concept horrors often feel like a cut-and-shut job, but not here. In the classic zombie horror template a group of disparate strangers become trapped together, and inevitably descend into bickering - exactly like Big Brother, so the two halves dovetail quite naturally. Brooker also has the advantage of being able to drawn on the audience's knowledge as he sketches familiar types from the reality show: the pretentious liberal, the cross-dressing exhibitionist, the shockingly ignorant airhead. You recognise these characters immediately. The presence of Jaime Winstone as resourceful young runner Kelly feels appropriate – there haven't been many TV shows this unremittingly bleak since her dad was swinging around a sockful of snooker balls in Scum; a pall of ominous grey as thick as a prison blanket hangs over it. It's also hard to recall seeing anything made for television that's so graphically violent. There's a disembowelling that outdoes Captain Rhodes being torn to pieces in Day of the Dead, and a sequence in which someone has their skull pulverised with a fire extinguisher would rival Gaspar Noe's Irreversible for unpleasantness if the victim didn't happen to be one of the undead. Yet there are laughs too - Brooker proves remarkably adept at sudden gear changes. One moment, you're watching someone repeatedly stabbing a former friend in the head. The next, odious TV producer Patrick, trapped in a green room as a zombie hammers on the door, is shitting in a wastepaper bin. These bizarre juxtapositions add to the sense of verisimilitude, too – even in a zombie apocalypse people need to take a dump, and someone needs to sweep up the fragments of brain and skull with a dustpan and brush. While the scabrous Patrick is the main mouthpiece for Brooker's trademark invective, from time to time other characters start talking like him as well – a slight lapse in authorial discipline. But that's a piddling quibble. With Dead Set, Charlie Brooker has produced a drama that not only matches the movies that inspired it, but surpasses many of them: it's certainly better than the last two George Romero films. Brooker recently told SFX that he'd love to write a Twilight Zone-style anthology series. Please God, someone commission it now. Ian Berriman Dead Set airs on E4 from Monday 27 October-Friday 31 October. | ||
| Competition begins for famous Warwick Rodeo - Toowoomba Chronicle Posted: 22 Oct 2008 06:57 PM CDT
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| Posted By BRIAN GORMAN - Sudbury Star Posted: 22 Oct 2008 05:46 PM CDT
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| Melanie Blatt is Specsavers' spectacle wearer of the year - Osoblog Posted: 22 Oct 2008 04:16 PM CDT
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| Saint John candidates move forward after federal vote - [here] Posted: 22 Oct 2008 04:03 PM CDT
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| That's What She Said: British channel offers audiences quality ... - The Post Online Posted: 22 Oct 2008 03:03 PM CDT
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| The curse of finding bad language funny - Cambridge Evening News Posted: 22 Oct 2008 02:48 PM CDT
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| Geoffrey Perkins tribute to feature in British Comedy Awards show - guardian.co.uk Posted: 22 Oct 2008 01:28 PM CDT
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| Posted: 22 Oct 2008 01:00 PM CDT We'd like your school's opinion on The Forever Trap. | ||
| Wed, October 22nd, 2008 at 9:58PM PST - Comic Book Resources Posted: 22 Oct 2008 12:00 PM CDT
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| Local art center looking for new exhibitions - Charleston Post Courier Posted: 22 Oct 2008 11:16 AM CDT
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| Is it worth switching to HDTV? - NEWS.com.au Posted: 22 Oct 2008 11:10 AM CDT
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| Models, toys tipped to draw crowd - Examiner Posted: 22 Oct 2008 08:44 AM CDT
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| The HDNet Concert Series Presents 'The Cure: 4Play In Charlotte ... - Broadcast Newsroom Posted: 22 Oct 2008 08:18 AM CDT
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| The HDNet Concert Series Presents 'The Cure: 4Play In Charlotte ... - RedOrbit Posted: 22 Oct 2008 07:13 AM CDT
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