If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! If you’re a Doctor Who fan – and one of the true variety who has all the old black and white episodes on DVD, still watching them regularly – then some exciting news has emerged. Two episodes from the [...]
In perhaps the biggest news since Christopher Ecclestone appeared from the Tardis in 2005 and ended a Doctor Who drought which had lasted since 1989 – save for one TV film outing for Paul McGann in 1996 – another movie is now on the cards. Except this potential production is a proper Hollywood flick, although [...]
Matt Smith has put a dampener on speculation that he might be leaving his role as Doctor Who soon. Well, to a point, anyway. This comes after he made some comments to VH-1, in which he said he had another year of Who to film, and then he’d look towards the west and Hollywood for [...]
There’s more news from the timelines regarding your favourite Doctor and pals, but unfortunately, it’s not of the good variety. According to the latest issue of Doctor Who magazine, the next season of the Doc, number seven, won’t be airing come the spring of next year. In fact, it won’t start until the autumn of [...]
Want to know what a Dalek invasion really looks like? Never mind the Beeb’s special effects, just get yourself down to Rob Hull’s house in Doncaster. Because the Guinness World Records has recognised Rob as the record holder for the world’s largest collection of Daleks. Bizarrely, Rob isn’t actually much of a fan of the [...]
3D is trying to firmly ensconce itself in our lives, on way or another. First we had the return of three dimensions at the cinema (where it had previously failed, several times, the last of which was in the eighties). Then we had the revelation of 3D in the living room with new 3DTV sets, [...]
Matt Smith has taken on a new persona – albeit of a temporary fashion, and for a laugh. Yes, Matt Smith played Batman, although on the stage as part of a charity event over in Los Angeles. Other Hollywood stars took part, including Eva Mendes (Ghost Rider) and Jenna Elfman (Dharma & Greg), with the [...]
Contrary to what we had heard previously, there won’t be a full series of Doctor Who in 2012. This year has seen the run split into two, with the first half just having ended on a big cliffhanger, and the second coming in the autumn. However, it seems that budget cuts have perhaps sliced deeper [...]
The Doctor’s companions are continually changing, and it seems that the Doctor Who grapevine is saying that this series might be Amy Pond’s last. It certainly will be Rory’s, by all accounts. Actor Arthur Darvill has signed up to play Mephistopheles in Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus from next month through to October. Given that the next [...]
Doctor Who will be 50 years old come 2013. The TV show that is, not the Time Lord, who is about 1,000 years old, and at the same time, ageless. Anyway, for its half a century milestone, the plan is to do a Doctor Who special with, well, something very special about it. Rumours have [...]
We’re all looking forward to the Doctor Who Christmas special (or most of us, probably), which this year is based on A Christmas Carol, and has guest stars including Michael Gambon and opera singer Katherine Jenkins. But the good news for game playing Doc fans is that another in the adventure games series is set [...]
The Beeb has made some sketchy details available about its Christmas special (don’t worry, it’s not much in the way of spoiler material). The Xmas special episode is entitled A Christmas Carol, and stars the Doc (obviously) and both Amy and Rory, who are trapped on a crashing space liner. The only way the good [...]
The BBC’s famous Time Lord has been through many incarnations, but never through a sex change. Yet according to an article in the Telegraph, it seems that in the 1980s when the show was lurching through a bad patch with Colin Baker’s brightly clad Doctor at the helm, the Beeb considered the prospect of a [...]
The winners of the 2010 British Fantasy Awards, presented by the British Fantasy Society, were announced during Fantasycon 2010 in Nottingham UK. The August Derlith Fantasy Award, for Best Novel, went to One (Virgin), by Conrad Williams, while The Language of Dying (PS), by Sarah Pinborough was named Best Novella and the Best Short Story [...]
The 2010 Hugo Award winners were announced last weekend in Melbourne, Australia as part of Aussiecon 4, the 68th World Science Fiction Convention. Among the most prestigious awards in the science fiction genre the Hugos, named for science fiction pioneer Hugo Gernsback, have been presented every year since 1955. This year there was a tie [...]
The BBC has released the third in its series of adventure games based on the Doctor Who series, featuring the current incarnation of the Doc and his assistant, Amy Pond. The third game is simply called TARDIS, and like the others, it’s a free download for everyone residing in the UK. As the name suggests, [...]
The BBC has revealed details regarding its third Doctor Who adventure game, which is simply called TARDIS. As you can probably guess, it centres around the famous blue police box, which is far bigger on the inside than it is on the outside, and travels with its own funky tune and materialises to the noise [...]
Matt Smith has only just become the new Doctor Who, and apparently he’s already considering casting off his bow tie and bringing on another regeneration. Yes, according to The Sun newspaper – not the most reliable source in the world, but a widely read one nonetheless – rumour has it that Matt is considering calling [...]
You may be lamenting the end of the current run of Doctor Who on the TV, which we have to admit, really picked up towards the close of the series. Previously we hadn’t been Matt Smith’s biggest fan, but he has started to win even us around (despite the bow tie – the fez, now [...]
The first of the Beeb’s free Doctor Who adventure games, designed to run along the series, was only released the week before last. City of the Daleks has been very popular, too, racking up 524,000 downloads in its first 12 days of release. We’ve had a play through, and the adventure is quite short and [...]
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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