2Entertain Marginally Less Hateful

At long last, some comforting news regarding Doctor Who DVD releases comes via the Twitterings of 2Entertain. Nope, it's not continuing the trend of God awful stories, so those hoping for 'The Krotons' or 'Death to the Daleks' I'm sorry to have to break the news to you that we can expect a Boxset of 'Kinda' and 'Snakedance' in 2011. Apparently Martin Clunes' lipstick will be newly CGI'd.

Intercepting Angels

The really rather fabulous denofgeek.com have got pics from the second part of Moffat's Weeping Angel scare-a-thon up. I point you in their direction because they've been kind enough, unlike the BBC, to omit two that contain potential spoilers. Find the pics here: http://tiny.cc/creg7

Jason and the Argonauts

My inner 6 year old just wet himself. Talos will be grinding and creaking his way across your screens on July 6th, as Sony Home Pictures Entertainment unleash the Don Chaffey 1963 live action/Harryhausen stop-motion epic on Blu-ray. Extras don't look terribly exciting, listed as 'The Harryhausen Legacy' and 'Ray Harryhausen interviewd by John Landis'. I can't find word on whether the extras will be in HD. Doubt it though.

ITV Fail

Behold, Adam Crozier, new head of ITV has spoken. After leading the Royal Mail from shambolic occasional post and parcel delivery service to shambolic occasional post and parcel delivery service, he now has set out his stall (TM Terry Venables) outlining his hopes for the channel. Naturally he highlights the quality programming the channel currently produces, naming 'Britain's Got Talent' and the US remake of 'The Prisoner' as prime examples of that 'quality'.

Ummm, right. Over here in the US I wasn't even aware of ABC's 'The Prisoner' being on, I knew it was in the pipeline, then all of a sudden the 6 episodes had come and gone with zero publicity or fanfare. I know 2 people who watched it. Both said it was crap. I have no reason to doubt that being an accurate overview of the series. I have yet to see it, and would resent paying money for the DVD to discover it's as pants as everyone (well, 2 people) says. IMDB with its largely unintelligible comments section goes some way to cementing the shows reputation as being rubbish. The trailer makes it look like it would at least be 'interesting', but I'm sure somewhere somebody also uttered those words about the Ralph Fiennes 'Avengers' fiasco.

Oh wait...that was me...

Anyway, with shout outs like that, Adam Crozier certainly makes me think he can take ITV from a channel that shows mostly imported crap, homemade crap based on imported crap, gameshows, reality gameshows, and reality shows that might have gameshows in them, into a channel that ONLY shows mostly imported crap, homemade c...well, you can guess the rest...

Cybermuck

Blimey, if there was a nagging feeling that BBC Enterprises was taking the p*ss this year, then this weeks news of upcoming 'Doctor Who' releases has gone some way to confirming that suspicion. 2010 has so far foisted the yawn-worthy 'Monster of Peladon' on us, and no, getting 'Curse of...' lumped in with it doesn't make it less of a bitter pill to swallow. We've also had the triple whammy of the 'Myths and Legends' boxset, with 'Creature from the Pit' arriving next month and 'Time and the Rani' to follow on in September. Woot. Lest we forget 'The Kings Demons' will be along shortly, albeit accompanied by the actually quite bearable 'Planet of Fire'.

This week then, there was much rejoicing that added to that spectacularly crummy schedule are the two Cybermen stories that make 'Attack of...' seem like a work of utter genius, 'Revenge of the Cybermen' and 'Silver Nemesis'. While I was still trying to digest that news, proving that good things come in threes, was the announcement that 'The Dominators' was having supplementary material passed by the BBFC.

2011 had better be a vintage year for Who releases.

Dadmancult is Green for Go!

Actually, Dadmancult.com is green in all sorts of ways. Cosmetically it's that way inclined, and in terms of being new, well, then it's most definitely on the green side. There's not much in the way of written content just yet as the real world has intruded, dropping lots of lovely work in my lap, but there is plenty of my 'Doctor Who' artwork kicking around the place, and that counts as content, right?. Look out for updates in that section too, I've been busy.

Ideally I'd have liked the site to have been up and running to coincide with the new series of 'Doctor Who' and 'Ashes to Ashes', while here Stateside a lot of shows have returned after 4-8 week absences. It wasn't to be though, so I'll be playing catch up and pitching in with reviews when and where I can. If you'd like to contribute then you're more than welcome, just contact me and let me know what sort of stuff you'd like to cover as there are gaping great holes in my film and TV watching habits, likewise soundtracks, and I'm always eager to hear any news that could be shared on here, my only requests being that it's relatively on-topic. Tenuous is okay.