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Ian McArdell

The Mandalorian Season 3 poster

The Mandalorian Season 3 trailer has landed

It looks like it’s back to Mandalore as Grogu gets to meet the family.  The most anticipated trailers to come out of the recent D23 Expo must be for The Mandalorian Season 3. The hit Star Wars streaming show, which is now spawning spin-offs of its own, returns in 2023. While that’s still a good … >

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Strange New Worlds Season 2 – a new Chief Engineer

However, it’s not Scotty joining the Enterprise, but another new face.  Even before the Star Trek prequel series Strange New Worlds landed on Paramount this year we know it had scored a recommission. Spinning out of Discovery’s second season, the show follows the USS Enterprise under the command of Captain Christopher Pike (Anson Mount). With Rebecca … >

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Star Trek Picard Season 3 title card

Star Trek: Picard Season 3 – trailer and launch date

Picard Season 3, the show’s final hurrah, begins in February 2023.  Back in April, the announcement of the returning cast of Star Trek: The Next Generation for Picard’s third and final season caused ripples of excitement. Across the first two seasons, Patrick Stewart’s Admiral Jean-Luc Picard has already caught up with Riker (Jonathan Frakes), Troi … >

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Gallifrey: War Room 1 – Allegiance audio review

War Room is the latest iteration of Gallifrey, chronicling the events of Doctor Who‘s Time War.  As the last boxset of Gallifrey: Time War wrapped up, it left our heroes in desperate straits. With the resurrected Rassilon dominant, in the form of the belligerent Richard Armitage, attempts at resistance crumbled. Romana was captured and consigned … >

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The Davison era at Forty: Janet Fielding interview

Celebrating Forty years of the Fifth Doctor, Doctor Who star Janet Fielding answers our questions.  2022 marks forty years of the Fifth Doctor era and audio producers Big Finish are celebrating with two boxsets. Forty was released in January and Forty 2 comes out today. Across three stories, featuring classic villains, Peter Davison’s Doctor spends … >

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GoT Prequels: House of the Dragon

House of the Dragon breaks viewing records for Sky

The show’s UK broadcaster sees bumper figures… and makes episode 1 free to view via YouTube.  Based on George R.R. Martin’s boom Fire & Blood, House of the Dragon, the new Westeros-set show takes place some 200 years before the events of Game of Thrones. However, thanks to viewing figures being trumpeted by Sky, the prequel … >

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What If...? T'Challa Star Lord (Chadwick Boseman)

Chadwick Boseman honoured with a posthumous Emmy

The Black Panther star has won for his voice over role in Marvel’s What If…?  Although he sadly passed away in August 2020, actor Chadwick Boseman has been honoured with an Emmy win: the award for Outstanding Character Voice-Over performance. Boseman was nominated for his voice-over role as T’Challa in the Marvel What If…? series which … >

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