Video: Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Live in Moscow (1998)
Recorded live for a Russian TV special in 1998. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds performing “Do You Love Me?”, “Right Red Hand”, “From Her to Eternity”, “Henry Lee”, “The Mercy Seat”, “The Weeping Song”,...
View ArticleDoctor Who Launch Trailer Provides Peak Into the Rest of the Season
Doctor Who will finally be back from its extended break on Saturday, March 30. For the remainder of Season 7 it appears the Doctor will spend a great deal of time exploring the mystery of his new...
View ArticleFox and CNN’s Steubenville Coverage: Sympathy for the Devil?
(Trigger Warning) Below are two videos, one from Fox and the other from CNN about the conviction of two of the accused in the Steubenville rape trial. Fox went so far as to allow the name of the victim...
View ArticleComing Soon: New Previews from Doctor Who, Game of Thrones & More
Winter has been pretty weak for television for me this season. The diminished (and possibly doomed) Community and the Walking Dead are all that I’m really trying to keep up with right now. That will...
View ArticleVideo: Prequel to Next Week’s Doctor Who Premier
One week from tonight, Doctor Who returns with the Bells of Saint Johns in this prequel clip or ‘webisode’ the Doctor gets advice on finding his friend Clara Oswin Oswald from a little girl on a swingset.
View ArticleNew Doctor Who Minisode Explains the Arrival of Sontaran Nurse Strax in...
We already knew that Madame Vastra and Jenny were from Victorian, England but the presence of Strax in the Christmas Special was a bit of a mystery until now. Personally I’d love to see the Doctor pile...
View ArticleCaptain Kirk vs the Gorn :: A Rematch 45 Years in the Making
In this ad for the new Star Trek video game, William Shatner finally gets a rematch against the Gorn … well, sort of. [via the Escapist] The original, of course, looked like this:
View ArticleGame of Thrones Attack Ads
Game of Thrones, most pirated show in the world two years running, returns with Season 3 this weekend. The folks at Mother Jones have created some political ads to help you decide where your...
View ArticleDavid Tennant & Billy Piper to Return for Dr. Who 50th Anniversary
Finally some good news on the 50th Anniversary Dr. Who special: Up to now, we’ve heard a long list of who is not going to be on the special (pretty much everyone) and we’ve learned that it is going to...
View ArticleNew BBC Clone Drama Orphan Black Premieres Tonight
Following the return of Doctor Who tonight the BBC will premiere (on BBC America anyway) a new mystery/drama series involving clones in New York City. It stars, Regina, Saskatchewan’s own, Tatiana...
View ArticlePostmodernism explained using Community (the show)
On PBS Idea Channel‘s video this week they wanted to examine the question ‘Is Community a Postmodern Masterpiece?’. To do that though they had to explain what postmodernism is and they do a pretty...
View ArticleFirst Preview of New Stephen King TV Series ‘Under the Dome’ looks familiar.
Generally, I like Stephen King though I haven’t read ‘Under the Dome’. I probably should before this summer when the 13 episode CBS television series hits the air. It looks sorta like this: At least I...
View ArticleVikings Gets a Second Season
Vikings is not as good as Game of Thrones, but since Thrones is only once a week (at the best of times), the History Channel’s Nordic fantasy helps with the withdrawals. It has the same sort of...
View ArticleSherlock and Doctor Who Director Toby Haynes Bringing “Jonathan Strange & Mr...
Susanna Clarke’s 2004 novel Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell is being adapted for television by an international team that includes Endemol Worldwide Distribution, BBC America and Bell Media’s Space,...
View ArticleMashup: Battlestar Galactica vs. Friends
Battlestar Galactica gets the Friends intro treatment in this lovely mashup from MugAGum. Watch it now before someone pulls it over some whiny copyright complaint: [via Katee Sackhoff]The post Mashup:...
View ArticleThat Time When the Doobie Brothers Tried to Save Music From Bootleggers on...
In 1978 the Doobie Brothers appeared in a special two part episode of What’s Happening!!. It was a special episode to call attention to the evils of recording live concerts. It was ‘bootlegging’ and...
View ArticleWatch a 4 Year Old Critics Review of Doctor Who
It’s more of a recap of “The Bells of Saint John” than a review although she does mention a few times that she ‘liked it’ so, at least, there isn’t much question of how she felt. I am also glad that...
View ArticleNew Series Hemlock Grove Promises “fellatio, heavy cocaine use and lesbian...
Hemlock Grove, a new, very NSFW series launching next month on Netflix promises to take you where even cable TV cannot. The warning before the trailer says that it contains ”mild fornication, fellatio,...
View ArticleComing 2014: Black Sails (Like Game of Thrones but Pirates!)
Actually Black Sails looks a bit more like the History Channels surprisingly good Vikings but there is some squabbling and violence over who gets to be king .. so maybe in between. Starz and Michael...
View ArticleCoachella Fans Like Bands so Obscure That They Don’t Exist Yet
The next time someone says that a band is ‘pretty obscure’, there is a decent chance that the band doesn’t really exist. The internet has made it so that no one really good remains really obscure for...
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