Aug11

United States of Tar...

Amercan television is in a wonderful state of flux at the moment. Schedulers are still in a mild state of panic after the writers strike and instead of commisioning the usual 22+ epsiode runs that they used to, the British model is starting to be followed. So now we have series that run for...

Fallout 3

I don’t know what it is about the end of the world that piques my interest so much at the moment. Now that Blackett and Morgan have swanned off to Edinburgh and left me all alone (Boo and indeed hiss, but check out their fun and japes at ed.thisisdavid.com) I have been able to take...

Jesus Christ the Doc...

Oh good lord, filming has just started on Doctor Who and as Outpostgallifrey has died a death I thought there would be no where to get my gossip, but the internet never fails to inform (you can’t stop the signal) and the shot below has emerged, really if you don’t like spoilers you...

Oh My Lordy, First I...

Now for those of you who have been given the gift of unemployement you will probably have seen this image below already today as the BBC looked unkindly on those who have to slog out the 9-5  and offered it up at 8:55 this morning on their most wonderful of breakfast shows. Now don’t...

Walking With Dinosau...

Not the BBC televisual treat but the multimillion pound stage show that chronicles the time line we know for when dinosaurs ruled the Earth. Now, I knew that there would be puppets and robots and other fancy dinosaur shaped majiggers but I had no idea of the scale to expect. Bloody huge...

His Dark Materials

A night out at the theatre is always nice and the fact that a local community theatre group were adapting Philip Pullman’s Dark Materials made a YourFace outing a must. We had the best of both worlds in terms of seating with Blackett and Morgan high above the action and being able to see...