Leonard Nimoy sings ‘The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins’

Compared with the attention paid to the more well-known attempts by his Star Trek co-star William Shatner to forge some kind of musical career (through the medium of proclaiming songs, rather than by singing them), Leonard Nimoy’s pop sensibilities have been all but overlooked. Hearing this trippy 1960s tribute to the diminutive hero of The … >

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‘House’ in seven minutes

If you’ve never seen House, this video is filled with more spoilers than the good doctor’s medicine cabinet used to be overloaded with painkillers, but it’s still worth watching – just to get a flavour of what you’ve been missing. For fans still lamenting the end of the greatest medical drama to grace the airwaves, … >

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Top 5 political TV characters

Politicians. When they’re not looking like grey and greasy clones of themselves on 24-hour news channels, or being phone-hacked while trying to claim oxygen as an expense, they’re generally busy just being cardboard excuses for people in suits. But in the constituency of TV, where policies don’t matter, political figures are far more attractive. Even … >

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‘The Dark Knight Rises’ vs. ‘My Little Pony’

Dodgy mash-up ahoy! What do you get if you combine the cutesy, harmless innocence of the merchandise-opportunistic equine chums from My Little Pony and the massively-overexposed main trailer from violent gloom-fest The Dark Knight Rises? You get Rainbow Dash as Batman, Scootaloo as Alfred, Discord as Bane and a headache at the wrongness of it … >

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