Following his mind-spangling reworking of The Five Doctors, Farmergeddon71’s subsequent slice of inspired Doctor Who remix lunacy involves Leslie Nielsen, Sarah Jane Smith, Darth Vader, two incarnations of the Master and Kylie Minogue. Oh, and Peter Davison looking medically relaxed throughout. If that’s not enough, Flight of the Darned also includes an animated Alpha Centauri … >
When Gollum from the Lord of the Rings series won the award for Best Virtual Performance at the 2003 MTV Movie Awards, people might have been forgiven for not expecting Frodo’s animatedly insane running mate and nemesis to turn up to collect the gong himself. Even if anyone had foreseen such an occurrence, they definitely … >
TV presenter Keith Chegwin stars alongside Joe Tracini (Coming of Age), Tony Blackburn (BBC Radio 2), Joe Pasquale, Russell Grant (Strictly Come Dancing) in new comedy horror film Kill Keith, out on DVD next week.
Kill Keith sees much-loved television personalities being gruesomely despatched using a variety of breakfast condiments and as the body count grows, so does the hysteria. There appears to be no stopping the Breakfast Cereal Killer as he marches relentlessly towards his ultimate goal… to kill Keith!
We caught up with Keith to find out what he likes to watch to relax between filming…
Favourite TV show to watch before going to sleep:
“Sherlock Holmes. I love a good story and a good plot. I also enjoy competent acting. Sherlock has all those qualities.”
Favourite TV show to cheer you up:
“Graham Norton on Friday nights. I love him and the guests. It’s pure escapism and sets you up for a good weekend.”
TV show that reminds you of your childhood:
“Anything that has the words Robin Hood! I was a RH fan as a kid and would make my own bow and arrows to shoot in the garden. Having a TV series and a film on the go is brill for me.”
TV show that reminds you of being a teenager:
“Big Brother – I shared a house with lots of mates and hated it too!”
Favourite “guilty pleasure” TV show:
“Question Time or Newsnight. My family hate ’em – for some unknown reason I’m engrossed by them!”
TV show that you find most addictive:
“Britain’s Got Talent or I’m a Celebrity or Dancing on Ice or The X Factor. Love them all. I love the winter months – these are great to snuggle up to.”
Axed TV show that you most wish would return:
“Anything I’ve been in during the last 44 years on TV. The repeat fees are rather good and I looked better then!”
Spoilers are the last great currency of the world. If they could be converted to hard cash, the global economic crisis could be either solved or worsened, depending on who gleefully leaked details of the new Doctor Who girl or who nobly kept news of the latest Dexter season finale to themselves. Spoilers, as River … >
It is the Doctor’s darkest hour – there’s some scrummy cake to be eaten, but the man who guides his every move is lying in a hospital bed, his brain spangled beyond repair by too many tortuous plot twists. Then there’s the competition-winning fanboy (played by CultBox columnist Cameron K ‘Blogtor Who’ McEwan, nepotism fans) … >
Let’s just imagine, for a moment, that the plot of Toy Story had somehow become intermingled with that of Boyz n the Hood; that Woody, Buzz and company had exchanged places with Trey, Doughboy and the rest. Ah, sod imagining it; let’s see it happen…
CultBoxed remarked recently that one of the more bizarre by-products of the long-gone ‘let it all hang out’ era was the plethora of pop singles released by TV stars in the guise of the character they played onscreen. If you thought Jon Pertwee’s ‘I am the Doctor’ was a bizarre blend of po-faced mystical nonsense … >
One thing that Quentin Tarantino loves as much as swearing, splattered gore, obscure cultural references and the work of Gerardo de León is pointing his camera upwards – preferably from inside the trunk of a car – and having his actors stare down into the lens. Combining clips of QT shooting from below with the … >
Actress Mandip Gill stars as the fiercely independent, proud and cocksure Phoebe Jackson in Channel 4 soap Hollyoaks. This week, a terrified George is desperate to escape from Deena and Graham’s clutches. How far will the evil pair go to make George and Phoebe do what they want?
> Catch up with Hollyoaks on 4OD.
We caught up with Mandip to find out what she likes to watch to relax between filming…
Favourite TV show to cheer you up:
“The Lion Man. Although I have pretty much seen them all I don’t mind turning on a repeat to chill out to and cheer me up. It’s light entertainment that I find highly interesting.”
TV show that reminds you of your childhood:
“Arthur. I think he is so adorable and reminds me of been a child. I still watch it now when it’s on and I’m not embarrassed about admitting that!”
Favourite “guilty pleasure” TV show:
“This has to be Geordie Shore. It’s so wrong but so right. I feel bad for watching it but they do entertain me.”
TV show that you find most addictive:
“Keeping up with the Kardashians or any of their spin offs! I get totally engrossed in their lives.”
Axed TV show that you most wish would return:
“It has to be Friends. I want to see what has happened to them as adults. I’ve grown up watching them. It’s one of very few shows that makes me laugh.”
*Sound of jaw hitting floor*
YouTube is full of incredible clips, of course – if it was all people getting angry at the haters, showing off their booties and being hit on the head by pictures of themselves falling over, it’d be hellish – but it’s not every day that you happen upon a video that’s so amazing it makes your brain hurt trying to imagine how (or indeed why) anyone came up with it. This is something so genuinely awesome in every sense of this overused word that we’re happy beyond measure that it fits into CultBoxed’s remit. And even if it wasn’t, we’d have shared it anyway, simply because it’s so bloody marvellous.
You want to see miniature remote-control helicopters playing the James Bond theme? Prepare to have your synapses destroyed by wonder…
‘F*** me, the TARDIS!’
Following the success of a similar dodge used to turn a montage of clips from Doctor Who’s tenth anniversary story The Three Doctors into something filthily hilarious, another intrepid manipulator of bleeping noises has compiled a supposedly-sanitised version of twentieth birthday epic, The Five Doctors. Even the law of diminishing returns doesn’t prevent this video containing plenty of choice LOLs…
‘It’s no good… this isn’t going to work…’
Proving that there are no lengths to which fans won’t go in order to do what the real world will never do and combine their favourite franchises, this is a frequently-inspired, sometimes iffy collision of Star Wars and Doctor Who, glued together by clever video editing and – in some places – a suspension of disbelief so enormous you could hang it over the Firth of Forth and use it as a bridge…
‘We should go to the main control room.’
Anyone who has ever played a video game knows the frustrations of it. You can be as accurate in your shooting, as wary in your sneaking and as bloodthirsty in your over-indulgent pummelling of corpses as you like, but something still goes wrong – not because of you, but because of the limitations of the game itself.
If you’ve ever felt the first-person-shooter pain of inadvertently blowing the head off the character you’re supposed to be saving because THE STUPID TOSSER HAS WALKED IN FRONT OF YOUR GUN AGAIN or screeched profanities at the screen because a tiny glitch in the graphics has left the level impossible to complete, this brilliant recreation of GoldenEye is for you…
‘I’ve never met anyone as clumsy as you…’
Blue Peter in 2012 is as slickly-produced and smoothly-run piece of television as kids could ever hope to watch, but it wasn’t always so. As recently as 1989, it was still entirely possible for things to go hideously pear-shaped, mid-show – particularly if one of the presenters wasn’t entirely au fait with making things, leaning on things, sitting down or driving miniature steam-powered traction engines across the studio floor.
Mark Curry managed to mess all these things up and more during his time on the programme, but he made up for his tendency towards calamity with great charm and innate likeability. However, this didn’t stop his fellow presenters compiling a blooper reel of supreme hilarity to commemorate his departure and have a giggle at his expense. If you don’t laugh at the sequence with the man made from Lego, you have no soul.