If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Fancy a bit of extra Dr Who in the form of some previously unreleased scenes which have been stuck up on YouTube? The scenes, which appear on the complete fifth season DVD, were spotted by Blastr. As the site points out, the three minute interludes bridge the gaps between two pairs of episodes in the [...]
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 [...]
Matt Smith’s new Doctor may be many things, but apparently he’s now a fashion icon. Yes, seriously. Impressionable Doc Who fans up and down the country have gone out and bought themselves a piece of attire that Smith’s eleventh incarnation has adopted as the centre-piece of his costume. The humble bow-tie, which the Doctor declared [...]
Even before the fifth series of Doctor Who and the first outing for the new Doctor played by Matt Smith has been shown, the BBC are keen to announce that the next series as well as the now standard Christmas special have already been commissioned. The corporation is only too keen to tell the fans [...]
It seems that the new Doctor Who, Matt Smith was in need of real medical attention when stunt in the Baltic Sea went wrong. The twenty seven year old had decided that a stunt double was not needed even though it meant actually getting into the freezing water to shoot a scene. But within minutes [...]
Fresh from his success at the SFX science fiction awards 2010, the award winning science fiction writer Neil Gaiman has announced that he has written an episode for the BBC sci-fi hit show Dr Who. However fan will not be seeing the result of this work as it will be part of the new Dr [...]
As one Doctor moves on to pastures green, there is always another waiting in the wings and despite only being able to regenerate a certain number times, in fact there can be only thirteen Doctors. So that takes us nicely onto the 11th Doctor played by Matt Smith who is a little known actor to [...]
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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