Can you believe that the BBC would have the audacity to show a new trailer for Waters of Mars at the San Diego Comic Con – which is, I might point out, in the flippin’ United States – and then post the damned thing to their website and make it UK-only? That’s over-the-line – and … Read more
Ah hell, here’s one more… It is the Ashes*, afterall. *Test cricket – cricket at its most tedious. Sorry, stuffy old purists.
So the other day I was introduced to That Mitchell and Webb Look through the (science/atheistic) website Pharyngula, with this Mitchell and Webb skit about homeopathy, a subject of particular derision in the skeptic crowd. So I tracked down that show, and that particular episode and I found this sketch that would be right up … Read more
The Telegraph is reporting the merest hint of a possibility of the glimmer of a chance that the BBC iPlayer might be launched internationally via a partnership with Google. Now all they have to do is work out all those nasty international rights issues. Still, I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, I’d … Read more
For those who don’t know, I’m supposed to be in England this week, getting ready to watch the ICC World Twenty20 Final on Sunday, but I’m not and therefore I’m in a grumpy mood, so rather than take it out on England’s mostly rubbish performance (Seriously, they lost a cricket match to the Netherlands?) I’m … Read more
It’s just a question that’s been bugging me…
I think I’ve finally figured out why I never seem to get around to reviewing the Doctor Who Christmas episodes – it’s because, Christmas is over and by this point it all seems hokey to dredge up stuff about Christmas. It’s like watching A Charlie Brown Christmas in July.
Therefore, I will make this short:
Looks like the BBC is (again) remaking John Wyndham’s Day of the Triffids. No complaints here, I love that story, and the whole notion of the entire planet being blinded by a natural events rings so plausible. Well, Assuming such an event would occur, who wouldn’t look up at it? And then it’s too late … Read more
The BBC has posted some fascinating – if a bit difficult to navigate – documents concerning the creation of Doctor Who. BBC Archive – The Genesis of Doctor Who – The Creation of a Television Hero Particularly fascinating are the two reports by the BBC on the feasibility of Science Fiction on the BBC, written … Read more