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Newest Doctor Who Opening

I haven't seen the latest story yet - I probably won't for many months - but this was on the official Doctor Who Youtube channel, and I thought people night find it interesting.  Yes, it's that "Dave Gibbons", they've adapted a story he worked on for

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The End of the Arrowverse: No more 'Superman & Lois'

Here's the news from TVLine: "Superman and Lois Ending With Season 4"

I can't I've liked everything about Superman & Lois (like the ampersand in the title, and can't somebody buy Tyler Hoechlin a razor?), I enjoyed the show when it was good and played

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Tales of the TARDIS

Tales of the TARDIS is a six-part series that reunites beloved Doctor Who duos.

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Monty Python & the Holy Grail

Back in cinemas for the first time... since the last time.

FALL 2023

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RIP Suzanne Somers

Story  Another icon of my younger years gone.

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RIP Mark Goddard

Bill Mumy has posted on Facebook that Mark Goddard has passed away. I know that he did a lot of other things, but I (as I suspect is true of many of us) remember him best as Major Don West on Lost in Space.

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R.I.P. Phyllis Coates

Here's the story:

Phyllis Coates, the First Lois Lane on Television, Dies at 96

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RIP David McCallum

Story  Another one from my youth.  People in the U.S. will perhaps remember him from The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (for us oldsters) and NCIS (for the younger crowd).  Our British friends will remember him from Colditz and Sapphire & Steel.  He was also in

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RIP Bob Barker

Story Another one of the great voices of my younger days silenced.  Younger people may remember him as the host of The Price is Right, but I first saw him as host of Truth or Consequences when I was little.  Never be another quite like him.

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RIP Harry Belafonte

Story A great voice - both as an artist and an activist - has passed away.

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RIP Ricou Browning

Story  Browning did a lot of stuff over the years, but he's probably best remembered for portraying the Gill-Man in the underwater scenes in the three Creature from the Black Lagoon films.

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Alan Arkin, R.I.P.

From CNN: "Alan Arkin, Oscar-winning Actor, Dead at 89"

He was always good in everything he did. I remember him best from Catch-22.

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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds

I am very much looking forward to this show, despite the fact that it spun off from my least favorite show of the franchise (DIS I mean, not TOS). When DIS premiered, I was prepared to accept enhanced special effects and redesigned sets, but I was no

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The Jason Johnson thread

Jason Johnson is  a tenured associate professor in the School of Global Journalism and Communication at Morgan State University in Baltimore, Maryland. He is a frequent guest and sometime guest host on MSNBC. 

Why do we care? Because he's a huuuuuuug

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'Aquaman: King of Atlantis' comes to digital/DVD as full-length animated movie

AQUAMAN: KING OF ATLANTIS

Monstrous creatures, devious foes and incredible underwater adventures populate Aquaman: King of Atlantis, an action-packed mini-series now coming to Digital and DVD (USA $14.99 SRP; Canada $19.99 SRP) as a feature-length an

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R.I.P. Earl Boen, 1941-2023, of The Legion of

Earl Bowen, the perpetually bald character actor with the hangdog mien, dies of Stage 4 lung cancer at 81.

From Variety: "Earl Boen, Actor in ‘The Terminator’ Movies, Dies at 81"

Boen appeared in three of the Terminator movies, but I know him from It's

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She-Hulk (TV)

Episode one is just delightful! 

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Warner Bros. Discovery touts DC movie/TV head with no comics background

I keep reading this Hollywood Reporter story looking for some indication that Warner Bros. Discovery's proposed "Kevin Feige" Dan Lin likes comics, or has read comics, or understands DC's comics characters. In any way.

Naturally, I'm looking in vain.

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RIP Richard Belzer

Here's the story

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Who has played Superman in live action?

Acting on Jeff's link to the "Get to know all 20 live-action SUPERMAN" [sic] video in the Batman thread, I wrote down all the actors cited there and compared them to other lists (like Wiki). And Jeff's right; a number of them are pretty iffy. I'll li

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