Much-loved film The Railway Children is getting a sequel, and Jenny Agutter is back as Bobby after fifty years! Studiocanal is making a sequel to The Railway Children and Jenny Agutter is back as Bobby (who was one of the original children of the title). The new film is expected in cinemas on April 1 2022 (dates may change) … >
The Royal Mail commemorates from classic British cult science fiction in a new set of stamps Coming on April 15 are a set of six new stamps from Royal Mail on the them of Classic British science fiction. It’s the usual suspects (and why not?!): Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein HG Wells The Time Machine Aldous Huxley Brave New World … >
A new book 42 — The Wildly Improbable Ideas of Douglas Adams will offer a unique insight into his life and work You can help fund a book drawn from the papers of Douglas Adams, lodged with his alma mater St Johns College, Cambridge, and celebrating his genius. After his death in 2001, Douglas Adams’s papers … >
New artwork, and further cast and story details are revealed today for the first volume of Big Finish’s Doctor Who – The Ninth Doctor Adventures, Ravagers starring Christopher Eccleston. Due for release in May 2021, Ravagers features three tales written by Nicholas Briggs, and sees the Doctor on a voyage of discovery once more with new friends and adventures. Alongside the … >
We recently discussed how the popularity of the Bridgerton novels has soared since the series hit Netflix, and now the streamer has done some analysis of just how well book sales benefit from television adaptation led by Bridgerton, half of the Top 10 titles on The New York Times Best Sellers list this month are books … >
ITV has released details (and a trailer) for Unforgotten series 4 We’ve been fans of Unforgotten ever since series 1, and welcomed news of its return for Unforgotten series 4. With the inevitable delays due to the pandemic, the show makes its welcome return on Monday February 22. If you cast your mind back to the end of … >
Julia Quinn’s Bridgerton novels are dominating our fiction reading during lockdown, at least on Amazon Unsurprisingly, major success in one medium (in this case TV) can result in major sales of associated products. The Queen’s Gambit sparked a rise in sales of chess sets worldwide (and popularity of chess as a whole) and the same effect … >
Titan Books has published today (December 8 2020) a new hardback book The Art of Star Trek Discovery We’ve been enjoying Star Trek: Discovery season 3 (see our review of the latest episode here) and one of the many things that appeal to us is the stunning visuals. It seems both CGI and set/costume design has reached new … >
BBC Learning and Tynker have collaborated to create the HiFive Inventor a Next-Generation Education Technology Mini-Computer, helping kids to learn to code with the voice and image of the thirteenth Doctor, Jodie Whittaker. The HiFive Inventor is a hand-shaped mini-computer designed to teach kids how to control robots or interface with IoT systems to investigate … >
Released this week, the latest of Doctor Who Magazine‘s “Bookazine” specials is rather special indeed. Rather than focussing on the televised Doctor Who, it features reprints of the Dalek comic strips from TV Century 21. First published between 1965 and 1967, The Daleks comic strips were devised by Terry Nation and largely written by David … >