Icons of Star Trek and Star Wars recently took to the internet arguing that their franchise reigned supreme. When things got personal, George Takei — the only actor who has worked in both — stepped in to broker the peace by identifying a mutual threat
Two classic episodes of Doctor Who — thought to be missing forever — have been returned to the BBC archive.
Episode 3 of the William Hartnell adventure Galaxy 4
and Episode 2 of Patrick Troughton’s The Underwater Menace
were purchased by film collector Terry Burnett at a village fete near Southampton in the early 80s. He had been unaware that the canisters contained material missing from the BBC.
Thanks to the kind loan by Mr Burnett, the classic footage has been shown today at the British Film Institute’s annual Missing Believed Wiped
event at the National Film Theatre in London. Host at the event was Doctor Who writer and actor Mark Gatiss who said: Christmas has come early for Doctor Who fans everywhere. It’s always wonderful when a missing episode turns up but it’s been years since the last one so to have two is just brilliant. Add to that a proper bit of action from the legendary Chumblies (and the horrifying Rills!) plus the utterly mesmeric Patrick Troughton on great form. Well, what more could we all ask for?
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Influenced by the film Highlander — via RedBubble
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Actor Harry Morgan, best known for playing Colonel Sherman Potter in US TV show Mash, has died aged 96.
The star died at his Los Angeles home after suffering from pneumonia, his family confirmed.
Mike Farrell, who played BJ Hunnicutt in the military series, said of Morgan: There was not an un-adorable bone in the man’s body
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An over-reliance on coy terms such as family jewels
, back door
and front parlour
has won acclaimed American novelist David Guterson the dubious accolade of the Literary Review’s bad sex in fiction award.
Guterson, who took the literary world by storm in 1994 with his bestselling debut Snow Falling on Cedars, snaffled the bad sex prize for his fifth novel, Ed King, a modern reimagining of the Oedipus myth. His win was announced in the apt setting of the In & Out Club in London by Carry On star Barbara Windsor; although the American writer was unable to accept his award of a plaster foot in person, he took his triumph in good spirits, saying in response that Oedipus practically invented bad sex, so I’m not in the least bit surprised
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so — according to a poll conducted by the kind folks over at
goshyesthemiddleman, there seems to be some demand for middleman crossover fanfic……and while i have publicly stated that i am more or less done writing stories for the middleman and wendy… well… what the hey, it’s christmas, and i suppose that technically, this isn’t so much a middleman story as it is a fanfic for another character…
A Paris auction of items related to Herge’s comic book reporter Tintin, whose adventures have been adapted for the big screen by Steven Spielberg, fetched more than 1.8 million euros ($2.4 million) on Saturday.
Auctioneers Arcturial said the sale, including costs, brought in far more than the one million euros they had expected.
The 856 lots up for grabs were equally divided between recent objects and older material, including some very rare items. In all, 85 per cent of the items sold in a packed hall — via redwolf.newsvine.com
In the crucial 7-year legal battle between a music rights group and an Internet service provider, the European Court of Justice has now delivered an important ruling. Music rights group SABAM wanted ISP Scarlet to spy on its customers and block their communications to stop file-sharing, but the Court decided that would breach privacy and violate the fundamental rights of both the ISP and its subscribers — via redwolf.newsvine.com
During the last year Netflix managed to outgrow BitTorrent in terms of the amount of US Internet traffic it generates. A promising finding for Hollywood as it shows that there’s an overwhelming interest for the legal movie streaming service. At TorrentFreak we wondered what might happen if all US BitTorrent users made the switch to Netflix, and the results of this exploration are quite intriguing.
The movie industry claims that piracy is costing them billions of dollars a year.
Luckily for Hollywood, many Americans choose to consume their online media through legal services such as Netflix. In fact, there are now so many that the total Internet traffic generated by Netflix has outgrown that of BitTorrent.
This made us wonder — what would happen if all movie-downloading BitTorrent users made the switch to Netflix? What if movie piracy via BitTorrent disappeared?
Before we crunch some numbers we have to say that the model we use relies on a lot of assumptions. However, we try to keep these in favour of the movie industry to maximize their potential profits
. We obviously chose Netflix as a BitTorrent replacement because it comes closest to what pirates
want — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Author Anne McCaffrey, who penned the Dragonriders of Pern series of fantasy novels, has died at her home in Ireland at the age of 85.
The US-born writer became one of the first women to break into the male-dominated world of science fiction, winning two major prizes in the 1960s.
Much of her work was set on the planet of Pern, where humans and dragons are united against a common threat — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Iron Maiden frontman and pilot Bruce Dickinson has vowed to resurrect a UK airline which has gone into administration.
In the past Dickinson flew for Astraeus Airlines and this week he captained its last flight, flying a Boeing passenger jet from Jeddah in Saudi Arabia to Manchester.
The singer is forming a plan to save the airline, which was owned by an Icelandic-based travel group but is based at Crawley in West Sussex. It is understood that the business would continue to work by leasing planes to major carriers to cover routes when needed, as it did previously — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Elizabeth of Oh, Fransson! wins the award for Aunt of The Year. She’s in the progress of making a spectacular Space Invaders quilt for her nephew, and I’m more than a little envious of the little dude. She’s created several of the invaders
blocks and is sharing her progress over on her blog — via CRAFT
The website for controversial anti-piracy organisation Movie Rights Group has inexplicably vanished from the Internet and its vice president of sales and marketing has quit, leading to speculation that the organisation has been shut down for good.
The website had previously featured a prominent notice informing visitors that one of its chief services was settling lawsuits with Internet users who had allegedly infringed its clients’ copyright. However, Reddit users noted in the past several days that the organisation’s website had disappeared from the Internet.
In addition, Walker, who had acted as the company’s only known spokesperson, has updated his LinkedIn profile to note that he no longer works for the company as at November and was now a small to medium business development business consultant based in Brisbane. Walker has not responded to an emailed request for comment on the issue — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Brett Parson — via PLANET-PULP
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