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Classic Who back on UK Gold (and SciFi)

25 October 2006 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Bit of a Who theme to the blog this week, but for UK fans of the classic/old series, it’s a good “set your video” weekend coming up. SciFi is showing the movie Doctor Who and The Daleks at 8.25pm (VIDEO Plus+: 86853041), which featured Peter Cushing as an alternative version of William Hartnell’s first Doctor; on Sunday, the TV movie is on UK Gold at 10.10am (VIDEO Plus+: 26553349) – that’s eighth Doctor Paul McGann’s only outing in the role on TV.

Repeats of the series proper kick off on Wednesday 1st in no particular order with Genesis of the Daleks (VIDEO Plus+: 3097401) from Tom Baker, the fourth Doctor, at 7.25am, Colony in Space (VIDEO Plus+: 72345520) at 7.20am on Saturday and Spearhead from Space (VIDEO Plus+: 98352394) on Sunday at 7am. The latter two are third Doctor stories, Spearhead being Pertwee’s first in the role.

Enjoy, assuming you’re in the UK, have access to UK Gold and haven’t already seen them. And you get up early or can be bothered to set the vid.

Borat movie – first four minutes

24 October 2006 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Borat – Sacha Baron Cohen’s other character – is somewhat of an acquired taste. Either you’ll love him or hate him. He’s got a new movie coming out soon, Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, and here are the first four minutes to help you make up your mind (whether you love him or hate him).

The Persuaders! movie gets a writer

24 October 2006 Rob Buckley Post a comment

‘Classic’ ITC series The Persuaders! is being turned into a movie. So far, it looks like Ben Stiller and Steve Coogan are going to play Danny Wilder and Lord Brett Sinclair, played by Tony Curtis and Roger Moore in the original. Now they’ve found a writer, David Dorfman, to write the screenplay. He was responsible for Anger Management, so react to that news how you want.