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Review and Competition: Doctor Who – The Sensorites on DVD

5 March 2012 Rob Buckley 11 Comments

The Sensorites

BBC Shop Badge Starring: William Hartnell, Carole Ann Ford
Writer: Peter R Newman
Director: Frank Cox
Price: £20.42 (Amazon price: £12.99; BBC Shop price: £12.99)
Released: January 23rd 2012

I have to confess that I’m not the most diligent of DVD reviewers. Give me something that I can watch in an hour or two and I’m fine. Give me something that lasts two and a half hours and that also has commentaries and epic amounts of extras and basically, I’m not up for that. Call it being busy, call it being lazy – it ain’t happening.

But sometimes, I’ll give it a try. In this case, the BBC Shop, in their infinite wisdom, sent me the six-part William Hartnell Doctor Who story The Sensorites to peruse. Now, I hadn’t seen this in about 20 years and beyond a slight reference to it at some point when the Ood popped up in modern Who, it had almost completely escaped my mind. Feeling semi-dedicated, I decided to give The Sensorites a go. See how I fared after this trailer and the jump.

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FFS, TV companies – learn to spell!

5 March 2012 Rob Buckley 7 Comments

So I’m watching an episode of The Almighty Johnsons on SyFy last week, when what pops up at the end:

The Almighty Johnsons Epsiode

Do you want a sneak peek of next week’s ‘epsiode’ (sic)? No, me neither.

Anyway, I assume that’s a one-off. But I’m watching Kung Fu on CBS Action not half an hour later and what do I see?

Kung Fu Episdoe

Yes, there’s going to be a new ‘episdode’ (sic) tonight.

Episode: it’s not a hard word to spell. It’s the kind of word that you’d think TV networks would have to be able to spell correctly on frequent occasions, it being quite vital to their business. So why can’t they spell it correctly?

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Nathan Fillion and Michael Rosenbaum on The Daly Show

2 March 2012 Rob Buckley 4 Comments

Nathan Fillion is Green Lantern

As you might recall from earlier this week, Nathan Fillion (star of Castle, Firefly and, of course, PG Porn) is the voice of Green Lantern in the DC animated series and movies. Tim Daly is the voice of Superman in the animated series. So it was only natural for them to get together for Daly’s The Daly Show. But this time, he’s there to help Daly get over a problem – he can’t stop being Superman.

And then Michael Rosenbaum who voices The Flash turns up…

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