Today’s Reviews: Contact Has Been Made
The 70th anniversary of The Quatermass Experiment couldn’t pass without some sort of celebration – and guest reviewer Peter Deller hails the triumph: This was not so much a performance […]
Quatermass 70th anniversary staging adds cast
Contact has been made again… To mark 70 years of the broadcast of the original The Quatermass Experiment, details have been released of the cast for the epic staging taking […]
RIP Margia Dean
Margia Dean, who played Judith Caroon, the wife of the British astronaut Victor Caroon, who tries to “rescue” her husband after his return to Earth in the 1955 film The […]
Celebrate 70 years of The Quatermass Experiment
Mark Gatiss will be starring as Professor Bernard Quatermass in a special staged reading of the first Quatermass serial, The Quatermass Experiment, to mark the 70th anniversary of the original […]
RIP Piers Haggard
Renowned British film and TV director Piers Haggard, who helmed The Blood on Satan’s Claw and the final Quatermass TV series, has died, aged 83. His daughter Daisy confirmed the […]
Today’s Reviews: Contact Has Been Made…
As part of the celebrations of Nigel Kneale’s centenary on April 28, Toby Hadoke presented a concise guide to his work Hadoke doesn’t disguise his feelings about the way that […]
Radio 4 Extra celebrates Nigel Kneale
Nigel Kneale’s centenary on April 28th (not the 18th) is being marked in multiple ways this month, with the release of the BFI edition of the BBC’s Nineteen Eighty Four […]
RIP Barbara Shelley
It’s been reported that Barbara Shelley, who appeared in multiple horror movies, has died aged 88. She starred in numerous Hammer movies, including Quatermass and the Pit, The Gorgon, Dracula, […]
Win a Blu-ray of Quatermass and the Pit
THIS COMPETITION HAS NOW CLOSED AND THE WINNERS HAVE BEEN NOTIFIED One of the most important British TV science fiction series has come to Blu-ray with the release today of […]
Quatermass and The War Game come to iPlayer
The third Quatermass serial, Quatermass and the Pit, and the horrifying The War Game are going to be generally available via iPlayer. Fans of classic BBC drama are in for […]
BBC America rebooting Quatermass
According to a report at Variety, Professor Bernard Quatermass is returning to the airwaves, thanks to BBC America. As part of a slate of new projects in development at BBC America, Variety notes there is “a remake of the Brit series about a professor and his daughter who investigate an alien invasion, written by Jeremy Dyson for Happy Valley producer Red. […]
Last minute Christmas gifts needed?
Still looking for a Christmas gift for the SFF screen fan in your life? Why not try some of these recommended items – links to our reviews will give you more details! Lord of the Rings fan missing their latest Peter Jackson fix? Try this box-set of the extended edition of The Hobbit movies, or SFB’s editors’ own contribution to the […]
RIP ITC producer Johnny Goodman
Sir Roger Moore has announced that his producer friend from The Saint and The Persuaders, Johnny Goodman, died on January 30th. In a tweet on the morning January 31st, he […]
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