If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!The BBC science fiction drama Survivors came back for is second series in spectacular style beating the competition from the channels that included Piers Morgan On Marbella, CSI and Celebrity Big Brother. The series two opener ended up with 4.45 [...]
The BBC has revived a few science fiction based series over the years and recently we witnessed the remake of The Day Of The Triffids and now it is the turn of Survivors. During the 1970’s Survivors was a long running series in fact thirty eight episodes were made in total, it was scary glimpse [...]
There are plenty of science films and stories that could use bring updated to the present day and John Wyndham’s 1950’s classic “The Day of the Triffids” is probably not one of those that would be at the top of the list. It was tried before by the BBC in 1981 and yet last night [...]
It is only a wait of a few days before the long awaited BBC production of John Wyndhams classic 1950’s story, The Day of the Triffids is shown and already clips are turning up on YouTube. The screenplay is the work of Patrick Harbinson who also worked on ER and Law & Order, the story [...]
The BBC are keen to make the most of David Tennant leaving Dr Who and for the final outing for the actor in the role of the Doctor it seems that they are pulling out all of the stops to make this historic two parter a winner. There are now a couple a trailers around, [...]
There are a lot of changes occurring in the Dr Who at the end of this year. The Doctor regenerates and the man behind the successful regeneration of the sci-fi series, Russell T Davies will step down from the role of lead writer and executive producer. But could there be a film coming, Russell T [...]
It is quite amazing how the Sarah Jane Adventures has developed over the last three seasons, what started off as kids spin off from the hit science fiction show Dr Who, has really carved a niche market for itself as an independent show. With the third series just finished, the stats have been analysed and [...]
The latest science fiction offering from the BBC, Paradox got off to a reasonable start attracting around 4.1 million viewers, 16.3 per cent share of the viewing figure for between 9pm and 10om. The jury is still out as to whether the BBC were brave or crazy to put a sci-fi drama such as Paradox [...]
It was the penultimate episode of Dr Who for David Tennant and over nine million tuned in to watch The Waters of Mars, which is a fair figure when compared to the last Dr Who outing the Planet of the Dead, which managed to attract 8.4 million viewers. Although in viewing figure terms the show [...]
It is strange how what would seem to be good news, can be exciting and depressing all at the same time. This can be said of the news that the author of Elric and Multiverse books, Michael Moorcock will be working on a piece for Dr Who. That is the exciting news, to think of [...]
There is nothing like a wedding to get the attention of people, even if it is the wedding of a little known star of science fiction. Sarah Jane was best known for being one of the more popular assistants of Dr Who, but since the resurgence of the Dr Who brand, a new series aimed [...]
Being Human is one of those shows that has quietly achieved success without being a rewrite or having tons of money spent on it. The show follows a strange friendship that develops between a ghost, vampire and a werewolf when they find themselves living in Bristol. Being Human has been developed for a UK audience [...]
It seems that the suspense is getting the diehard Dr Who fans that were or are expecting to see the next instalment “Waters of Mars” in November. But hello! That’s next week and still the BBC have failed to deliver any idea as to when the feature will be aired. In the mean time, it’s [...]
Flashforward has only been on the air a few weeks and already another “Vision of the Future” series is on its way in the form of Paradox from the BBC. With a heavy hitting team in the shape of Tamzin Outhwaite and Emun Elliott, they could be the UK’s Mulder and Scully who task it [...]
The longest running science fiction show is to get a new logo; Dr Who is now in its fifth series of the current production, although it does go back to the sixties. However, in for the series to keep going, it will have to reinvent itself over and over again. This has been done with [...]
Could it true that the BBC are likely to drop one of the most successful science fiction shows around, according to rumours it seems that as the BBC looks to tighten its belt, paying out for foreign drama including science fiction is to be cut. There are estimates that the BBC’s budget for overseas programming [...]
Details of the third series of the Sarah Jane Adventures have been released and the story lines are looking pretty impressive too. Being the third series, we are used to the characters and the fact the series attracts some interesting guest stars for each episode. Look out for Nigel Havers, Floella Benjamin, Donald Sumpter, Suranne [...]
The BBC is working on a new series called “Paradox” it stars Tamzin Outwaite as Detective Inspector Rebecca Flint and Emun Elliott as Astrophysicist Dr Christian King. It starts off with a series of images picked by Dr King’s laboratory from space; these images turn out to appear to be an incident of some sort, [...]
Man of Steel teaser trailer released
If you’re sick of comic-book adaptations and film remakes, the last thing you might expect to get excited about is a new Superman film. That’s right: there’s a new Superman film scheduled for release in 2013. However, before you run off groaning at the idea of yet another mediocre cash-in, this one comes with caveats. [...]
Penguin owner buys ASI self-publishing company
According to the BBC, Pearson, which owns Penguin books among other things, has bought Author Solutions Inc in a £74 million deal. The deal means that Pearson now has control of a self-publishing interest. The news has raised concerns among some writers that intellectual property (IP) rights for new writers may be at risk, especially [...]
The Winner of our April 300 Word Writing Challenge is writer John J Brady, (known on these forums as alchemist). He wins a £10 voucher to spend at Amazon or The Book Depository, our quarterly prize. As usual, the challenge our members faced was to write a story of no more than 300 words, inspired [...]
Forum member Teresa Edgerton is the winner of our January 300 Word Writing Challenge. She wins a £10 voucher to spend at The Book Depository, our quarterly prize. As usual, the challenge our members faced was to write a story of no more than 300 words, inspired by an image selected by our moderators. For [...]
All Zombies Must Die hits the Xbox
At the weekend, All Zombies Must Die was unleashed on Xbox Live. As you can probably guess from the title, this is a rather tongue in cheek game developed by Doublesix with a focus on multiplayer zombie slaying. Set in the town of Deadhill, All Zombies Must Die offers a huge variety of weapons (such [...]
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