Tom McRae "guests" on the new single by Wills and the Willing, Lipstick. This seems to mean that he wrote and performed all his bits of the song --which are excellent-- based on hearing the rap parts --which are terrible. You can hear the whole song on their myspace page. Tom is also performing on Jonathan Ross's Radio 2 show tomorrow, which ( Read more... )

Some sparkly things that have captured my ever-drifting attention:

Everbody's favourite transporter chief1, Colm Meaney, says he's filmed the pilot episode of David E Kelley's U.S. version of Life on Mars. He's in the Gene Hunt role. I'm extremely interested to see what it's like. The original BBC show, especially the first series, was ( Read more... )

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Several coolish movie things:

Hot on the heels of the probably-very-good casting of Zachary 'Sylar' Quinto as the young Spock comes this simple but pleasingly retro poster for the new Trek prequel film.

A slightly naff yet iconic poster for the new Indiana Jones film. But more interesting still is the news that Karen Allen will be reprising her ( Read more... )

Lots of snippets of news from the New York Comic Con. The B5 Direct-to-DVD release is proceeding apace and may be slated for a July release. Now it turns out that we may also be getting some Direct-to-DVD side-stories from Battlestar Galactica. Maybe they figured they had so many vital bits of plot left over from the actual episodes that they' ( Read more... )

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This is both nerdy and cool at the same time, but I decided that the cool outweighed the nerdy. I have that capacity for self-deception.

If, like me, you were once a fan of Star Trek but drifted away as the modern spin-offs became ever more derivative, you may share some of my nostalgia for the original 1960s show. The recent Hi-Def remastering ( Read more... )

A few bits of video linkage that caught my eye recently.


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Zombie TV Shows. Not, alas, TV shows about zombies, but rather TV shows that won't stay dead. Even when it might be better if they did


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Sci-Fi Wire reports that Christie's are autioning some original Star Trek props from all the Trek series and films. Although my Trek days are very much behind me, it's hard to shake off a certain frisson of nostalgia at the idea of owning: "a miniature model of the U.S.S. Enterprise-A, seen in Star Trek: The Undiscovered Country, which is expected ( Read more... )