LeVar Burton is launching a new Reading Rainbow. It's apparently going to start as an iPad app, but it's expected to branch out pretty quickly so that it can be used on other computers, phones, etc.

Following the proud tradition of American TV networks blatantly ripping off British shows, CBS is planning a series about a modern-day Sherlock Holmes ( Read more... )

For those of you eagerly looking forward to Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, the trailer is up. Actually, why don't I just ( embed it here? )

I thought that I posted a link to this back at the beginning of May, when it was first posted, but apparently not. So here, have a link for gyzym's (awesome) 5,000 word rambling essay on bisexuality.


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If anyone hasn't heard yet, Borders has filed for bankruptcy. They're closing 200 stores (and possibly more than that in the near future), listed here (.pdf file).

They've released the title of the next Sherlock Holmes film.

Love vids? Disappointed that you can't make it to Cardiff in April? Oh, if only I could win the lottery. Then why don't you ( Read more... )

Wait, what? I'm sorry, friends list of mine, but you've all failed me.

How did I not know that the BBC was making a modern day version of Sherlock Holmes? One that was created by Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss? One that's premiering in a little over a week?

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This movie looks like it's going to be so bad that it's awesome. I mean, seriously, I was planning on watching it simply to see Ianto Jones Gareth David-Lloyd and Malcolm Reed Dominic Keating pitted against each other, but it looks like it might have the potential to reach Highlander: The Sauce Source badness ( Read more... )

games_afoot: Sherlock Holmes movieverse, with a focus on pairings other than Homes/Watson (though it's welcome as well ( Read more... )

So... demonicsymphony and I went to see Sherlock Holmes today.

I can sum it up in three simple words: So. Much. Love.

Dad: [yells while watching the World Series in another room] What's this about Sherlock Holmes and Robert Downey, Jr ( Read more... )

For those of you who aren't familiar with these, between 1989 and 1998 BBC Radio did a series of full cast audio versions of the entire Holmesian canon starring Clive Merrison as Sherlock Holmes and Michael Williams as Dr. John Watson. And they're absolutely amazing. Seriously ( Read more... )