It was announced yesterday that Arthur C. Clarke’s 3001: The Final Odyssey is going to be adapted for television by the Syfy Channel with the backing of Ridley Scott’s production company Scott Free, along with Warner Horizon Television.  Stuart Beattie (Pirates of the Caribbean, Collateral) will write the adaptation and serve as executive producer along […]

Firestorm from the late Gerry Anderson MBE has come to a close on Kickstarter, reaching a massive 180% of its target. The project to create a pilot for the new Gerry Anderson TV programme needed £49,280 to proceed, and in the end actually raised £88,931. Jamie Anderson, Managing Director of Anderson Entertainment and son of Gerry […]

Villordsutch reviews Doctor Who series 8 episode 11 – ‘Dark Water’…. Danny: Wi-fi. You have iPads in the afterlife? Seb: iPads. WE have Steve Jobs. The penultimate episode of Season 8 has arrived far too quickly for me. It’s ringing my own internal Cloister Bell making me aware that this rather excellent Peter Capaldi introduction […]

Villordsutch reviews the 2000AD Winter Special… Greetings squaxx dek Thargo and welcome to this rather rotund 48-page winter special of 2000AD where following on from the popular Summer Special (Autumn be damned) some impressive names have returned to give us some one-shots or opening chapters samples for forthcoming stories.  So let’s dive in and see […]

Villordsutch reviews Doctor Who series 8 episode 10 – ‘In the Forest of the Night’…. Doctor:  It’s a human super power, forgetting.  If you remembered how things felt, you’d have stopped having wars … and stopped having babies. There is something utterly brilliant about Peter Capaldi’s portrayal of the Doctor as one moment you can […]

For those of you old enough to remember the greatness of the game Elite – one of the best-selling computer games of the 1980s – on your favourite computer (mine was the ZX Spectrum and I still have my boxed copy) you are no doubt extremely excited for  the forthcoming game Elite: Dangerous.  Even if […]

Villordsutch reviews 2000AD Prog #1904… Borag Thungg Flickering Myth and 2000AD readers and welcome to the 2000 AD Prog #1904 review in which we have no new stories starting this week and all of our tales are all fairly bedded in, so without any further ado we’ll march on with them… Judge Dredd – Block […]

Villordsutch reviews Doctor Who series 8 episode 9 – ‘Flatline’… The Doctor – “Could you just not let me enjoy this moment of not knowing something? I mean, it happens so rarely.” A role-reversal episode this week in Doctor Who in which Clara becomes the Doctor, though not in a Freaky Friday-esque fashion but more […]

Villordsutch reviews Judge Dredd Megazine #353… Welcome to you squaxx dek thargo to the review for Megazine issue #353 in which we have a new starter with Judge Dredd: Dead Zone – Invisible, an ending from with the Man from the Ministry and our tales in Lawless and Uprising are continuing on.  So let’s not hang […]