geek or scream, the choice is yours: Syfy rebooting Blake’s 7
I’d love to see Benedict Cumberbatch as evil sexy bastard Kerr Avon and, yup, Martin Freeman as Vila Restal.
Blake’s 7
question of the day: What’s geeky about musical theater?
Why does it seem to appeal to the same people who love science fiction and fantasy? What does musical theater have in common with the things we more traditionally think of as “geeky”?
question of the day: Which villains deserve stories of their own?
Pop culture is full of villains bursting with personality and charisma or merely so terrifyingly capable of evoking horror that we cannot look away from them. Yet these awesome bad guys inevitably take a backseat to the square-jawed white-bread hero. Time to rectify that.
Blake’s 7 reboot coming to US television? (and other adventures in social networking)
Links my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today…
quick list: five TV shows that should be on DVD
With the long-awaited DVD release of Max Headroom arriving next week, I’ve been thinking about what other shows deserve to get DVD releases that are lingering in the ether. After the jump, a few I’d love to see.
‘Doctor Who’ blogging: “The Time of Angels”
All spoilers. Don’t read until you’ve seen the episode.
question of the day: Cablevision’s remote DVR: harbinger of the everything-on-demand future?
It’s been my dream for ages: everything online. Old TV shows, every movie ever made, everything on demand all time. I don’t want to flip over to Turner Classic Movies and watch whatever old movie it’s deigning to air at that moment — I want to tune my Internet-ready HDTV to TCM’s Web site and … more…
dream cast: hypothetical new ‘Blake’s 7’ series
It’s still Thursday for another couple of hours where I am, so it’s time to remake an 80s classic TV show or movie with an all-new cast. This week: Blake’s 7, the 1978-1981 BBC science fiction show. A revival has been rumored for years, but as right now, there’s nothing definite in the pipeline. (Don’t … more…
