Doctor Who thing: 50th-anniv special to be a fixed point in time
Many sites are reporting that the 50th-anniversary episode will be simulcast across the planet on November 23rd, but I can’t find a source for this…
tv buzz
can you spot the bullshit in this description of Timur Bekmambetov’s Warriors of Oz?
The female protagonist has been scrubbed from this “classic story.” Why, Bekmambetov? You got a problem with women?
Doctor Who thing: Steven Moffat threatens fans, wants to keep a lid on 50th-anniv promos
Comic-Con audience got two trailers, but no one else can see them (yet). What could possibly be the benefit to withholding trailers like this?
Doctor Who thing: “I Am the Doctor” makes an appearance on The Daily Show, played by a marching band
I’d love to know who made the decision to use that piece of music. Was it an attempt to get the bit to go viral?
heads-up! “new Doctor Who to be revealed at Albert Hall tonight”
I wasn’t planning on listening to the Proms tonight, but I might have to now. (You can listen online even outside the U.K.)
it seems I really need to be watching The Newsroom
The guy who posted the opening scene of the series on YouTube called this “the most honest three and a half minutes of television, EVER…”
“are shows like Dexter to blame for inspiring violent crimes?”
No one who wasn’t already inclined to murder would be moved to commit such a heinous crime simply because they watched a TV show or movie about a serial killer. I mean, obviously. No?
Doctor Who thing: the animated series that almost happened (but didn’t)
Dan Norton, an artist for DC Comics, recently revealed that he had been hired to work on concept art for a new BBC animated Doctor Who series…
Jon Stewart’s summer vacation is better than yours
I haven’t seen John Oliver’s Daily Show yet, but I just watched Jon Stewart’s guest appearance on the Egyptian equivalent of The Daily Show on the Web.
A Field in England trailer: into the past, and into the future
I’ve been waiting for the U.K. film industry to catch up with what’s happening with VOD in the U.S. And now they done the U.S. one better.
