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Emojis Have Muscled Their Way Into The Game Show World

It seems like emojis have already worked their way into every industry out there. Surely, we’re running out of ways to incorporate emojis into our daily lives? Nope. We haven’t. 😀 😉 😭 💩 ➡️  🎲  📺  🎉 Yep, you read that right. Emojis are coming to our TV sets in a new game show called Emogenius. Hunter March, who … >

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10 interesting pieces of trivia regarding Gladiator the movie

Gladiator is one of the most epic action films of recent times, and you probably know lots of trivia surrounding the movie; things like: there were lots of arguments, walk-outs and actors “squaring-up” to each other during the shooting. You’re also probably aware that whereas Commodus and Lucilla are real characters from history, Maximus is … >

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Red Dwarf: revisiting the second series

Before its twelfth series lands on Dave in October, I’m rewatching all of Red Dwarf from the beginning. This week it’s time to tackle rebellious androids, virtual reality and false memories in Red Dwarf II. I mentioned in my look at the maiden run that the first series of Red Dwarf has a pervading sense … >

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Doctor Who Subterranea review

After last month’s ghostly goings on at Malkin Place, the fourth Doctor (Tom Baker) and Romana (Lalla Ward) are back in space on a new planet, and in Jonathan Morris’s Subterranea, they are actually inside the planet’s crust. Packed with imagination, Jonathan Morris paints a world where the human inhabitants live inside so-called Drill-towns, desperate … >

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Blake’s 7: Spoils of War review

After being unavoidably delayed, Blake’s 7 is back in a new set of full-cast stories set in the timeline of season 3 of the original TV show. It’s a new production team with John Ainsworth taking over production, script editing and directing duties and a recasting for the character of Dayna Mellanby, now played by … >

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7 Sleeping Myths Kept Alive By Popular Culture

If you are over 10 years old, chances are that someone has told you to drink a glass of warm milk at night or count sheep to be able to fall asleep faster.   How much of that is truth versus what we’ve been told over and over again by television, movies, and old wives’ … >

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