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Are you MI-5 material?
Whether you’ve been watching the brilliant BBC series, MI-5 (Spooks) over the last decade, sat through the recent Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy movie or read all the Robert Ludlum books and secretly identified with Jason Bourne, now is the time to see if you have what it takes to be a real-life intelligence officer. UK [...]
Doctor Who 1963-2011 in under 10 minutes
As a potential lead-up to the upcoming 50th anniversary of Doctor Who, BabelColour has painstakingly compressed almost five decades of Traveling TIme Lord history into a brilliant 10-minute video that catalogs virtually every Doctor Who adventure from ‘An Unearthly Child’ in 1963 right up to the 2011 Christmas special, ‘The Doctor, The Widow and the [...]
Being Human IV vs. Super Bowl XLVI
The U.S. may have the Super Bowl on Sunday, 5 February, but the real television event happening in the UK on the same Sunday will be the 4th series premiere of Being Human on BBC Three. Not quite the match-up that makes or breaks the books in Vegas, but I know who the favorite is [...]
Creating Sherlock’s 221b Baker Street “home”
In previous weeks, we’ve noted the painstaking efforts that writers Steven Moffat, Mark Gatiss and Steve Thompson went through to bring us television brilliance. Also, to no one’s surprise, the endless hours of prep the actors put in outside of just “learning their lines” to get it just right are well-documented. Benedict Cumberbatch not only [...]
Is Sophia Myles the new companion for Doctor Who?
As we all know, one of the top trending hash tags on Twitter every so often seems to center around either who will be the Doctor’s new companion or the obvious most popular topic to trend being who the next Traveling Time Lord will be.
Remembering that current Doctor Who show runner, Steven Moffat, is the [...]
