Browsing all posts in January, 2010.
Pete Waterman to pen UK Eurovision entry
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Gigwise report that the man who gave the world Rick Astley, The Reynolds Girls, Steps and Sonia will be the man responsible for the UK’s 2010 Eurovision Song Contest entry.
The man in question is music mogul Pete Waterman who has written hit songs in the past for acts including Westlife and Kylie Minogue [...]
The Top 10 Sci-Fi Movies of All-time?
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SciFiNow has been running a poll in recent months to discover the greatest sci-fi film of all time. With industry writers having whittled the list down to a top 10, the magazine has opened the final stages to the public to choose the best.
The nominations, in no particular order, are:
Alien (1979 – [...]
Oops! Gillian Cooke and the bobsled split pants video
It’s everyone’s worst nightmare: you bend over for whatever reason and you rip your trousers/skirt/whatever.
If it has already happened to you, you’ll no doubt have been embarrassed when it happened. So, spare a thought for Gillian Cooke of the UK’s female Bobsleigh team when, preparing for her team’s run, she split her spandex leggings.
See [...]
Bart named UK’s favourite Simpson
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So, just who is the UKs favourite Simpson character? As Matt Groenig’s creation celebrates its 20th anniversary, a poll by the official Simpsons Comics was held to determine just which one of the Simpson clan is held dearest in the hearts of the UK public.
And now the results have been published.
It might come [...]
Radiohead guitarist blasts music industry over piracy
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Radiohead guitarist Ed O’Brien has taken a swipe at the music industry for not moving quickly enough in the digital era says Music-news.com.
The debate surrounding music piracy in the digital age has been raging back-and-forth since the early days of Napster, but O’Brien nailed his colours onto the ‘for’ side [...]
Momoa takes Conan role
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The ‘Conan The Barbarian’ remake will feature Jason Momoa – Ronon Dex in Stargate: Atlantis – in the lead role.
An article in Digital Spy claims the Hawaiian-born actor will step into the leather-skin boots which made a global star of Arnold Schwarzenegger after shooting test scenes with the film’s director, Marcus [...]
Jedward to release debut single in February
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Incessantly annoying X-Factor failures Jedward have issued the news that people dreaded to hear: the bee-hived twin duo are to release their debut single next month.
The twins, who have probably kept hair-gel sales for L’Oreal up for the next five years have teamed with failed rapper Vanilla Ice to record [...]
Nugent: Obama’s a Communist!
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Rocker Ted Nugent has never been one to shy away from causing a little controversy, but his latest outburst has been centred towards Barack Obama, the United States president.
Nugent’s latest tirade came as he spoke on the Fox Business Channel, as reported by Classic Rock Magazine. Nugent ranted about Obama and that [...]
Lucas Wants Star Wars 3D
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George Lucas’ ‘Star Wars’ trilogy – the original one, not the prequel trilogy – has been remastered and re-released almost as often as Slade’s ‘Merry Christmas Everybody’ and now Lucas wants to release it again – this time in 3D.
Totalfilm.com report that Lucas has apparently spent several years looking for the best 3D [...]
Fox developing U.S. version of ‘Torchwood’
Torchwood, the BBC’s Doctor Who spinoff is to get a US version says TV Scoop.
The show, starring John Barrowman, will once again come from the pen of creator Russell T. Davies who recently handed the Doctor Who reins to Steven Moffatt and will be shown on the US’ Fox Network.
The Torchwood project will be one [...]
