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Doctor Who triumphs yet again at Hugo Awards

Steven Moffat’s two-part finale for Matt Smith’s first season as the Doctor has won the Hugo for Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form, at the Awards ceremony held at the World Science Fiction Convention in Reno, Nevada, on August 20th. The Pandorica Opens/The Big Bang won the show’s fifth Hugo Award in the category, making Doctor Who, as writer Paul Cornell […]

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Toy Story duo team up with the Muppets!

Buzz Lightyear and Woody will be sharing a screen with the Muppets later this year, when the next Toy Story short film, Small Fry, is attached to The Muppets movie released in November. The latest installment for the Pixar franchise was directed by Angus MacLane. Disney announced the news on its Twitter feed on Friday August 19: “Extra! Extra! The next […]

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Hammer maestro Jimmy Sangster dies

British screenwriter and director Jimmy Sangster has died, aged 83. Best known for his work for Hammer Film Productions, Sangster wrote the scripts for X: The Unknown, The Curse of Frankenstein, Dracula and many other horror classics. He also directed The Horror of Frankenstein, Lust for a Vampire and Fear in the Night, although he admitted that directing was not […]

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Buffy's Spike and Cordelia to guest on Supernatural

Actors James Marsters and Charisma Carpenter, who played Spike and Cordelia on Buffy the Vampire Slayer and its spin-off Angel, are to appear as husband and wife in an upcoming episode of Supernatural. In the fifth episode of the seventh season, “Shut up, Dr. Phil,” Carpenter will portray a witch on the rampage after Marsters’ character “does her wrong”, according […]

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Teen Wolf to "amp up the scares" for season two

With the finale of the first season recently aired in the States, Teen Wolf executive producer Jeff Davis has hinted at some future directions for the show’s second season. Some mild spoilers for the first season follow: Speaking to Zap2It, Davis said, “As long as we can keep a good balance of humour and romance, I’d really like to amp […]

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Doctor Who returns August 27 – officially confirmed

The BBC Press Office has released a new press pack for the second half of Doctor Who‘s sixth season, confirming that the show returns to British screens on August 27, as a new prequel has appeared online. Executive producer Steven Moffat introduces the six episodes: “The wait is almost over. The second part of the thrilling new series of Doctor […]

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William Sadler returns to Fringe

Versatile American actor William Sadler has confirmed that he will be appearing in the fourth season of Fringe, which is currently filming in Vancouver. Sadler played Dr Bruce Sumner, the director of St Clare’s psychiatric hospital where Walter Bishop was confined before the series began. “Off to Vancouver and the Fringe shoot. It’ll be fun to see Walter again,” Sadler […]

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Van Damme joins UFO

Martial arts star Jean-Claude Van Damme, sometimes known as The Muscles from Brussels, has signed up for British sci-fi movie UFO. Unfortunately, it’s not the upcoming adaptation of the Gerry […]

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Syfy deny axing Alphas

Syfy senior executive Craig Engler has had to make an official announcement denying widespread rumours that the network has cancelled their new series Alphas after only five episodes. “There is no truth to the rumours some have asked me about that Alphas was cancelled. They are literally filming new eps as I type this,” he posted on the channel’s Twitter […]

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