Browsing all posts in February, 2010.
March’s SFX Magazine gets 3D Doctor Who cover
The new issue of SFX will feature a specially commissioned 3D cover featuring Matt Smith as Doctor Who, and Karen Gillan as Amy Pond. The artwork below (via SFX.co.uk) also features a pair of Weeping Angels in the background.
Created with the association of the show’s production team, the cover was created in time for [...]
Shatner to play lead in Twitter Sitcom
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Popular Twitter feed,’Sh*t My Dad Says‘ is to become a TV sitcom, with William Shatner playing the titular dad.
The feed was launched in August 2009 by 29-year old Justin Halpern who used Twitter to post the bizarre musings of his elderly father. The stream now has more than one million followers [...]
New Doctor Who trailer released
The BBC have released a new Doctor Who trailer ahead of the upcoming airing of season 5.
Featuring Daleks, Weeping Angels and more the trailer borrows heavily from the new Doctor Who artwork – or maybe it’s the other way round! – but the trailer does offer a little more insight as to how Matthew Smith [...]
Ubisoft DRM requires always-on internet connection
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Games publisher Ubisoft have come in for some considerable flak over plans to implement a new DRM and copy-protection approach to their PC games.
Back in January, the publisher announced that to play or save any Ubisoft games on PC then the user would require to be permanently connected to the internet so that [...]
Finale foes for Doctor Who
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More Doctor Who news, this time from STV and a real spoiler, so if you don’t want to know more then go play Farmville or something on Facebook…
STV are reporting that new Doctor Who Matthew Smith will battle a host of old enemies in a dramatic end-of-series finale. In the [...]
New Doctor Who image revealed
SFX have revealed a new image for the upcoming series of Doctor Who which depicts new Doctor Matthew Smith and his assistant, Amy Pond together for the first time.
In the image the duo are seen to be caught in a swirling vortex – not unlike the vortex seen in the old John Pertwee/Tom Baker credits [...]
Closed music blogs getting back online
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The six music blogs unceremoniously dumped by Google are in the process of getting back online. All bar one have of the blogs has been restored, or moved to alternate webhosting after Google’s Blogger service pulled the plug on the six blogs amid claims of illegal hosting of copyrighted content.
The six blogs [...]
Marvel Miniseries for Amadeus Cho
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Amadeus Cho is to get his own miniseries says DigitalSpy.
If you don’t know who Amadeus Cho is, he is the sidekick of the Incredible Hercules and the ‘seventh smartest person in the world.’ In
In the miniseries, to be called ‘Heroic Age: Prince of Power’ and based on the Marvel Comics characters, Cho will [...]
Old enemies return to Doctor Who
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An old favourite enemy of Doctor Who will make their long-awaited return to the TV show in the new series.
Onthebox reports the lizard-like Silurians will feature in the series after the show’s new boss, Steven Moffat bowed to fans’ requests to bring back the reptilian foe.
The Silurians first featured in the 1970s episode [...]
24 The Movie gets a writer
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24: The Movie has moved a step closer to reality after 20th Century Fox drafted in Billy Ray (Flightplan, State of Play) to write the script.
With the latest day in Jack Bauer’s life currently being played out on TV screens around the world it isn’t yet known whether Day 8 will mark the [...]
