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Be on TV - contestant calls for UK gameshows. Most sound like the usual rubbish but the ‘Time Commanders’ show has some promise.

Futurama Season 1 for £15 - for those of you who haven’t seen Futurama yet or want to buy the DVDs, Play.com has just discounted the first box set to only £15. This, my friends, is nothing short of an excellent bargain. Season 1 may not have as many episodes as later ones, but it [...]

I did an awful lot of walking today. Whenever I travel to a foreign city, I always end up walking practically everywhere, unless I’m going somewhere over an hour away. It’s not that I have anything against public transport, it’s just that it’s more immediately convenient for me to stroll around, and of course it [...]

An interesting thread on how broadcasters are dealing with the Simpsons episode ‘The Simpsons Versus New York’ which heavily features the World Trade Center.

Never mind the Beagle 2, the Sci-Fi channel is producing a miniseries based on Kim Stanley Robinson’s Red Mars novel for late 2004. They’d better not screw it up…

Futurama officially, officially cancelled - I can’t say it wasn’t unexpected, but it’s yet another reason why Fox are the spawn of the devil.

The Futurama Season 2 DVDs that I ordered from Amazon Germany arrived a few days ago and besides from all the packaging being in German, everything else is in English, so it’s all good.
Every episode on the DVDs has a commentary track with several people, usually including Matt Groening and David Cohen, the executive producers, [...]

David X Cohen interview - an interview with the executive producer of Futurama. Covers the new Futurama game, his feelings about the Fox network, plans for the future and anecdotes about the show.

I just watched the DVD for Honda’s Cog advert, which you can order for free, and it has clearly been made with the same loving craziness and ingenuity that the advert enjoyed. There’s a ‘making of’ feature, about five minutes long, in which they interview the makers and show some outtakes. There’s also an ‘Illustrated [...]

Touch TV moves closer - is any further information required to conclude that MIT Media Lab Dublin is a time and money wasting operation of the highest calibre?