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what ever happend to Phoo Action ?

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I believe it was cancelled due to the budget.

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Demons has (apparently) been cancelled by ITV.

The Simpsons has been picked up for two more 22 episode seasons.

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One reason for that is because Phillip Glenister wants out?

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Out of that awful, embarrassing American accent, perhaps.

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and back to pluging his Signature role in ashes to ashes season 2 which
is due to start some time in the next month with unless the numbers are way down a 3rd season in 2010

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Who saw the season finale of Being Human last night? Absolutely superb, I thought, and well set up for the next series. However, one thing I want to know is:



Spoiler tagged for those who may have recorded the show last night and haven't watched it yet.

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TARDIS interior will be redesigned for the 11th doctor

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/t...-makeover.html

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I think that's in anyways...

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I looked for evidence of that (I recorded it) but didn't spot it ... however

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Figures ... the Tardis set has been re-jigged periodically throughout the show's entire run. And they needed to modify it anyway, to make it ready for HD filming. I have to say I'm not a massive fan of the current organic look. I wonder what they'll come up with now?

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The new series of Reaper has now started for those with access to US TV episodes :)

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I'm so glad it's back, it feels like it had been off for ever! Same with Ashes to Ashes.

I liked the first episode.

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Tripods film still in development good :)

Beanpole a girl? HHHmmm we shall see.

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/cult/a15...ovie-news.html

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S/he would have to be, really ... The White Mountains is a bit of a boys' own adventure. The only significant female character only lasts a couple of chapters before coming to a sticky end. A modern family blockbuster would need there to be a strong leading young female alongside the boys. So it's either invent a fourth character to join them, or else change one of the three.

Anyway, look on the bright side, they might cast Clemence Poesy.

https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/local/2009/03/9.jpg

:D

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much too skinny ;)

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As skinny as a beanpole? ;)

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My dvd arrive today so - um speak to you all later lol :)

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This is quite strange - rabbits vs camels in Iraqistaniland; Watership Down with heavy calibre weaponry.....

Linky

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Wow, well that should be fun to watch!

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That looks amazing!!:sniper:

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not my type at all ;)

Incidentally the 'love interest' was going to be rescued and returned home in the third series on tv, yet another divergance.

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Well, yes, they would have to really, seeing as in the TV version Eloise's life is 'merely suspended', whereas in the book she and the other specimens are dead and on display like a case of butterflies. Far more chilling and sci fi but prolly not what the BBC wanted for Saturday teatime...

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Well, with luck, they won't mess up any film like they so oviously have the new Star Trek film. But I suspect that's a pretty faint hope.

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I'm not sure why they'd 'have to'. They didn't seem to have any problems with changing the books in other areas to. Adding Black Guards - expanding the whole chateux thing, shortening the time left before the ship arrived that kind of thing.

Still, I guess it was all designed to make it more 'interesting'.

At least they didn't make the prequel - now THAT would have been bad :)

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Heh ... The Day The Tripods Came, or When the Tripods Came, or something? Talk about cashing in. I read that while I was at school. You're right, it was a bit poor. It had more holes in it than a colander.

As to why the Beeb would 'have to' have Eloise being rescued at the end of any third series, I only meant they would have to in order to be internally consistent with their own version of the story, seeing as she was seen in The City of Gold and Will's Master explicitly stated that she wasn't dead.

I can see why the BBC changed things around. The City of Gold and Lead, as written, is pretty bleak and alien and would have cost a king's ransom to film. The series was expensive as it was - it would probably have become prohibitively so if they had had to construct alien backdrops for every single scene inside the city. As it was, they were able to get away with some location filming and easily-constructed sets that could have been alien, but then could have been anywhere else as well. It would also have been pretty difficult to keep up the pace and the tension if virtually the whole thing had been performed with the actors inside helmets, which would have been necessary if they had stuck closely to the book.

As for the Black Guards, well they conveniently keep up the pressure on the heroes without the need for too many costly FX shots of the Tripods.

Mind you, some of the changes were gratuitous nonsense. The Cognosc, for example, completely shatters the whole premise. Nice one, whoever dreamed that up. Not.

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Those who liked the series "Dead Like Me" may have missed the movie released in February (called Dead Like Me: Life After Death) - Like the Stargate movies, it seems it went straight to DVD.

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was a series that never really grabbed me (the 'heroine' having a forehead like a Klingon wasn't good ;) ) - but thanks for the info :tu:

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I watched the series at first, but they took far too long to offer us any interesting developments beyond the basic premise. I got bored with it ...

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Here's 2 trailers for Stargate Universe.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fd_CT_aFcY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZ4OZPp3Lrg

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You say that as if going straight to DVD was a bad thing?

The Stargate films were planned that way!

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I know they were. :)

However, its easy to miss them unless you know thats whats going to happen.

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Not sure if this has been mentioned anywhere, but Heroes will apparently be returning for season 4, with 18 - 20 episodes.

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but can thay get out of the mess that the show has been in since season 2 ? i do hole so if not that a fear season 4 will be the last

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According to Brian Fuller, it will be going back to normal people with abilities.

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/a1535...rn-finale.html

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good it seems to me that the show has become too buried in the many and nonsensical story's that where born in the need to beef up the shows cannon

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At least something good came out of PD being cancelled.

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PD = Pushing Daisies ?

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Yeah, sorry. NBC brought Fuller back to Heroes after Pushing Daisies was cancelled by ABC.

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New "V" TV series trailer

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I can't wait to see this show ! anyone have a air date ?

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that does look interesting

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Wikipedia only says "sometime in fall 2009".

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TVGuide quotes it as a mid-season debut, which most likely means Jan 2010.

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Trailer for new Bruce Willis SF film, Surrogates

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Is up for sale if you have a spare £9.1m!

Sad to see it in such a state... Link

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Not sure if it fits here, but a poster from Dexter season 4 was released. Don't click it if you haven't seen season 3 yet cos it may spoil it for you if you haven't read the books...



Can't wait for it!

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http://www.bscreview.com/2009/07/ali...e-from-sci-fi/

Another Alien Nation spin off, seems like it will happen too.

Not sure about renaming of the channel from Sci Fi to Sy Fy though.:erm:

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Wasnt over keen on Alien nation.

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I much preferred the film..What I'd really have liked was a good sequel to it...;)

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[A Town Called] Eureka has returned in the US again, and the new eps return to the UK on (Tuesday) July 21st - Sky1, 8pm.

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FlashForward has been picked up by Five.

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/broadcas...p-by-five.html

There's no dates of when it airs yet.

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Nice concept. But if it takes off, it'll be on Sky within a couple of years ...

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As well as the Alien Nation reboot, "Syfy" (:rolleyes:) are rumoured to be considering bringing back Quantum Leap in some way...

http://io9.com/5309533/just-how-dark...eap-reboots-go

http://www.tvsquad.com/2009/07/11/sy...-leap-as-well/


Of course, there were rumours a few years back too of Quantum Leap returning...so I won't get my hopes up.

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New series, Day One, starting soon in the States.

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Battlestar Galactica movie confirmed:

http://entertainment.slashdot.org/st...irmed?from=rss

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Sounds like a bad idea to me.

I think that the TV series is still too fresh in viewers memories (especially for those of us who have the DVDs) - "complete re-imagining the scifi lore"? Isn't that what the TV series did?

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There's a new film coming out that is a bit Alien Nation - ish. Called District 9. Looks like it could be quite good.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_9

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It's meant to be *very* good :)

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Avatar trailer is out.

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SyFy have renewed Warehouse 13 for a further 13 episodes instead of increasing the season order.

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/cult/a17...econd-run.html

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Not sure if anyone has saw this yet but a 2 minute preview of Stargate Universe has been released...
http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tv/a1736...-universe.html

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Yeah, I saw that the other day. Im pleased as I quite like W13 so far. :)

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Trailer for new film - Gamer

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Ditto :)

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Really enjoying Warehoue 13 glad to hear they have renewed it, Can't wait for the new Stargate eries.

Is anyone watch a new series Called Defying Gravity at all? Think it;s really good at the moment makes a nice difference for the normal Sci-Fi stuff.

JJ

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That looks awesome, almost like they picked someone who already plays an excellent pyschopath. Can't wait to see it.
I've read about it, can't remember what it was about though. Is it any good?

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2 bits of news here, the first about Dollhouse and the second is about Chuck. I'd provide a link but my laptop is going weird and won't let me. It's from E! Online though.

I think Joss listened to the fans on that one... It's like everyone knew about it before she did!

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I've found Defying Gravity good, not a lot of action but seems to be an interesting hidden underlying story.

JJ

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The graphics didn't particularly blow me away.

No doubt on a big screen in 3D they might be better.

What I mean is, you could tell it was CGI, which nowadays just isn't good enough.

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I saw the 3D preview at the cinema last Friday and it was amazing on the big screen! So much better than watching the trailer on a PC screen.

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Stargate Universe trailer

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nice one Forever been waiting for this can't wait till october 2 :):):):)

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:shocked: Lou Diamond Phillips :drool: Can't wait :)

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Same Trailer without the adverts

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijtel...eature=related

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anyone else watching warehouse 13?

Its ..........not as bad as it could be ;) great for having on the second monitor while doing other stuff

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Yes, and loving it.

http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/23...tv-series.html

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the first Trailer for the A Nightmare on Elm Street remake is out now


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yB8XY...layer_embedded

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Does anyone else think it looks cheap?

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That looks like it might be really good!

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Five minutes of total destruction from 2012 - the big one hits California.

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That actually looks pretty good.

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Wow, that looks good.

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That looks supremely silly.

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If the rest of the film is like that (2012) then i want to go see it.

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I quite liked it, it looked fun. I thought the the bit where the pilot was checking his T&Ps whilst waiting for clearance and the quake was coming. Sadly, I know quite a few pilots would actually do this.

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Was it worth the wait? :erm:

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Don't know. I still wish to reserve judgement. It does look a little bit grittier, and somewhat edgier, but how much I don't know. I don't think it should go too far down that route, but we will see.

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Did anyone watch defying gravity last night?

I did and I thought it was /ok/ I looked it up on wiki to find it doesn't appear to have a second season planned and ends on a cliff-hanger (so if you look it up watch for spoilers).

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The Radio Times reviewer had it pretty spot on I thought - too much time and attention lavished on making it look good at the expense of producing a tightly written, believable script.

The tone and direction was all over the place as well, veering from soap opera one minute to oooh theres something nasty in the attic! the next. It was, as you say, /ok/ but unless it dramatically improves in the next week or two I won't bother following it to its conclusion.

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Watchable but not compelling, I thought. I'm not keen on the jumping back and forth in flashbacks but I probably keep going for another couple of weeks.

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I'd read that it was likely to be canned, so didn't bother with it.

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It sounds like Dollhouse has been canned. Katee Sackhoff is going to appear on The Big Bang Theory, too.

http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/watc...ouse_neil.html

If Dollhouse has actually been canned, then I hope they finish the story and not end it on a cliff-hanger like T:TSCC.

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Well its just getting pulled off the schedule for a month or something.

Doesn't mean it will get canned but its looking likely.

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The SyFy channel is making a US version of Being Human. Its ordered 13 episodes for later in 2010.

More episodes of Chuck are now looking certain - it seems there will now be 18 (or 19) episodes, and they may start showing in January [2010] rather than March.

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Last i heard, they were going to show the planned 13 episodes, but were not happy with the ratings, so have pulled it for the November Sweeps, it should be back after them. Its not likely to get 22 eps ......

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ABC have effectivly cancelled Eastwick, they have opted not to order any more eps, which is basically a death sentance for it.

It looks like the film 2012 maybe followed up by a TV series, set [after the events] in 2013. Plans are apparently in development.

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Trailer for "Kick-Ass", from the same comic book writer as "Wanted".

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OooooH.Michael Moorcock to write a new Doctor Who novel.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8362658.stm

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I haven't seen much advertising for the new Day of the Triffids 2 part mini series on BBC.

Anyway it's on 28 / 29th of December on BBC 1 and BBC HD at 9pm both nights.

One of my most read stories ever, I am so looking forward to this.

Just as long as they dont wipe them out with sea water ;)

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Syfy have renewed Stargate Universe for season 2 and Sanctuary for season 3 (both for 20 episodes).

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Hot Tub Time Machine - new John Cusack film.

Link

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RedBand trailer for Kick Ass on Empire focusing on Hit Girl.

Looks todally awesome, dudes....

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Well I watched the old 50's one with Natalie last night, and realised how far off the book it was lol.

Still it was more than made up for by the original bbc TV production.

Which you can get cheap here.

Once you've seen the new production you may also want to read the sequel by Simon Clarke - Night of the Triffids