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- 1. Doctor Who's new season September 2012 with new companion
- (Science fiction TV)
- Doctor Who is back in September this year with head writer Steven Moffat guiding the show once more. Karen Gillan and Arthur Darvill (Amy and Rory Pond) will leave and be replaced in the Christmas Special ...
- Created on 10 May 2012
- 2. Fringe’s final fifth season confirmed
- (Science fiction TV)
- ... of the eccentric genius Doctor Walter Bishop (played by John Noble) who had been institutionalised after a lab accident. Years before, Doctor Bishop stole an exact copy of his dying son from a parallel ...
- Created on 29 April 2012
- 3. Steampunk Holmes New Sherlock Holmes Book App Project Hits Kickstarter
- (Press Releases)
- ... Sherlock Holmes and his bionic biographer, Doctor Watson, are called in by Sherlock's sister, Mycroft Holmes, to help find the stolen plans of a very advanced submarine, the Nautilus, recovered from the ...
- Created on 26 April 2012
- 4. BBC America co-production Being Human commissioned for fifth season
- (Fantasy TV)
- BBC AMERICA announced today (New York - Monday, March 26, 2012) that award-winning and critically-acclaimed Supernatural Saturday series, Being Human, written and created by Toby Whithouse (Doctor ...
- Created on 27 March 2012
- 5. Top SF and fantasy TV
- (Guide articles)
- ... Game of Thrones US (2011) 3 Battlestar Galactica US (2004 - 2009) 4 Doctor Who (1963 - 1989, 2005 -) 5 Fringe (2008 -) 6 Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy UK (1981) 7 The Day of the Triffids ...
- Created on 28 December 2011
- 6. Complete Doctor Who Season Six hits blu-ray
- (Science fiction TV)
- While we wait for the new Doctor Who movie to arrive, it's time to experience Matt Smith’s Doctor Who: The Complete Sixth Series in high definition blu-ray. Matt Smith has grown into the role of the ...
- Created on 04 December 2011
- 7. BBC Doctor Who movie soon
- (Science fiction films)
- The BBC and Harry Potter Director David Yates are working on a big screen Doctor Who movie. Yates directed the last four Harry Potter movies, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Harry Potter and ...
- Created on 29 November 2011
- 8. Winter Memorabilia Show – 19-20 November – NEC Birmingham
- (Press Releases)
- ... BAKER (Doctor Who); ARTHUR DARVILL (Doctor Who); BRUCE BOXLEITNER (Tron, Babylon 5); BRUCE DAVISON (X-Men, Star Trek Enterprise & Voyager); JOHN CHALLIS (Only Fools And Horses); BARRY HOWARD (Hi-De-Hi!) ...
- Created on 03 November 2011
- 9. From Sci-Fi to Sports, London Memorabilia is All Set to be the Top Collectors’ Event of the Year
- (Press Releases)
- ... of movie, TV, sci-fi and sports stars. The show’s guest line-up includes a special treat for DOCTOR WHO fans with Freema Agyeman (Martha Jones) making her world first signing appearance, alongside TORCHWOOD ...
- Created on 19 October 2011
- 10. I want everyone to be eaten by dinosaurs
- (Science fiction TV)
- ... Doctor) their (amazingly incredibly brilliant - and gifted) daughter Maddy (Naomi Scott) and potentially (amazingly, incredibly brilliant - and gifted) very young daughter Zoe (Alana Mansour). Last, and ...
- Created on 19 October 2011
- 11. America killed Torchwood
- (Science fiction TV)
- ... responsible is great). God knows how I've held on for so long though. Perhaps I remember how great Torchwood can be? Remember the Japanese computer specialist Toshiko Sato or the Doctor, Owen Harper from ...
- Created on 22 August 2011
- 12. ClaudiaCon To Redefine Rules of Sci-Fi Conventions, Starts Augusts 13 & 14
- (Press Releases)
- ... television and film, from both in front of and behind the cameras. Joining Claudia on her convention odyssey will be "Doctor Who’s" Nicola Bryant and the much-loved Jeremy Bulloch from "Star Wars." Additionally ...
- Created on 09 August 2011
- 13. Flashback, by Dan Simmons: "scarily possible" future or Right wing propaganda?
- (Science fiction books)
- ... values, beliefs and prejudices and it goes without saying that the author does not share all those values with his creations. When an under-resourced medical doctor complains to Nick Bottom that the ...
- Created on 02 August 2011
- 14. Doctor Who Season 6 Part 1 DVD/ Blu-ray released
- (Science fiction TV)
- Doctor Who: Series 6 Part 1, the first half of Doctor Who’s sixth season with the excellent Matt Smith, was released on Blu-ray and DVD 19 July. The two disc box set contains the first 7 episodes, including ...
- Created on 29 July 2011
- 15. Adventures of Tintin trailer: Spielberg and Jackson animate
- (Fantasy films)
- ... directed by Steven Spielberg, produced by Peter Jackson, and written by Steven Moffat, Edgar Wright and Joe Cornish. Moffat you may know is the head writer of the current series of Doctor Who and the recent ...
- Created on 13 July 2011
- 16. BBC Worldwide to offer television episodes to rent for the first time on Facebook
- (Press Releases)
- New York - In a new venture for BBC Worldwide, the BBC’s commercial arm will tomorrow offer a series of digitally remastered Doctor Who stories to rent via Facebook. By using Facebook credits, ...
- Created on 12 July 2011
- 17. The Fire Song
- (Press Releases)
- ... compelling from page one. She’s a musician and I think we all know what free spirits musicians can be. She also seems to accept the infidelity of her doctor husband, which is a fairly unique mindset. She ...
- Created on 10 July 2011
- 18. X-Men: First Class graduates with honours
- (Fantasy films)
- ... same time the telepathic Charles Xavier (James McAvoy) is earning his doctorate in genetic research at Oxford while living with his shape-shifting (blue scaled) friend Raven (Jennifer Lawrence) who will ...
- Created on 08 June 2011
- 19. DC Announces More #1 Titles
- (Press Releases)
- ... an archeologist who specializes in alien ruins – but will the doctor’s latest discovery spread an alien plague through New York City? No matter the personal cost, Carter Hall must don his cowl and wings ...
- Created on 02 June 2011
- 20. Dirk Gently returns in 2012 with four hour long episodes
- (Fantasy TV)
- ... an extreme blend of Sherlock Holmes, Doctor Who and Doctor Smith from Lost in Space, with less morals and more eccentric behaviour. The series was green-lit after the one-hour pilot attracted 1.1 million ...
- Created on 01 June 2011
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If you own an iPhone 4S you may have impressed your friends (or perhaps not) with the built in, voice-driven personal assistant called Siri. You can ask it to book appointments, call people, search nearby restaurants, make calculations, and a great deal more. Most of the time it gets it right too. Now Siri has an Android rival called Evi, and if first impressions are anything to go by, it's an impressive... Read more
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Dan Simmons’ latest novel, Flashback (July 2011), is “[a] provocative novel set in a future that seems scarily possible,” proving “why Dan Simmons is one of our most exciting and versatile writers." So says the publicist anyway. Dan Simmons is one of our most exciting and versatile writers, but sadly Flashback doesn’t prove that. And yes, Flashback is a provocative novel, but it doesn’t... Read more
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Almost any time we write anything about Neil Gaiman, you can be sure that someone will feel the need to post a comment “outing” the man as a Scientologist. While we have a fairly relaxed attitude to comments and will publish almost anything that contributes to an article, you won’t find many comments about Neil Gaiman’s alleged ties to the Church of Scientology published on this site. We simply... Read more
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After watching the pilot to Fox’s ambitious TV time travelling dinosaur fest called Terra Nova, I am praying that when I watch the next episode the entire cast gets eaten by dinosaurs (in fact, that hope is the only reason I’ll be able to sit through another one). The entire cast’s gruesome deaths at the hands of a frenzied T-Rex or a velociraptor having a bad day can’t come soon enough.... Read more
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Science fiction authors have long been outcasts from the literary world, in some cases critics using the worst examples of the genre as ammunition against it. Unfortunately though, at times even science fiction authors themselves can turn on their own kind: "Science fiction is rockets, chemicals and talking squids in outer space,” mocked Margaret Atwood (The Guardian, 28 January 2009), one of her... Read more
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