Doctor Who producer Steven Moffat has announced, and the BBC has confirmed, that actress Jenna-Louise Coleman has landed the role of the Time Lord’s new companion in Doctor Who, replacing Karen Gillan’s character Amy Pond when she leaves the show in the upcoming production season. Coleman, 25, has also appeared in Waterloo Road and Julian Fellowes’ four part mini-series Titanic.
In February at the 23rd annual Gallifrey One convention held in Los Angeles each year, there was a significant TARDIS sighting. In this case it was the TARDIS console from the only American-made TARDIS, used in the 1996 made-for-TV movie starring Paul McGann. We spoke with its owner and the men who restored it to be better than new at its exhibit hall at the convention.
The Beatles’ classic 1968 animated feature film, Yellow Submarine, has been digitally restored for DVD and Blu-ray release on May 28 (May 29 in North America). The film’s songtrack album will be reissued on CD on the same date.
Before the Masquerade at WonderCon 2012 in Anaheim California last Saturday night, we were treated to a few pretty amazing trailers for upcoming films, but the new one for Ridley Scott’s Prometheus was the real standout.
Superman vs. The Elite, the next entry in the popular, ongoing series of DC Universe Animated Original Movies, will receive its World Premiere as WonderCon’s featured evening event for Friday, March 16 in Anaheim.
The Universal Translator problem may be going away very soon. Frank Soong and Rick Rashidof Microsoft are hard at work prototyping the real thing. Technology Review reports that research scientist Frank Soong demonstrated the software at Microsoft’s Redmond, Washington campus on Tuesday.
In its place, organizers launch a virtual convention that will be free to the universe, with convention memberships rolling over to next year.
It’s a Zoom call between a young man with Down’s Syndrome, his social worker, and his grandmother teaching him to cook
The wildly popular game franchise makes the leap to television.
Nearly every major developer and publisher withdrew from the online tournament event when the allegations became public.