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Time Commanders review
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No comments on Time Commanders reviewImagine playing an RTS game like Total War (in fact, just like Total War) with three of your friends, on a big screen and a couple of military history advisors. That’s what BBC2’s new show Time Commanders is, essentially. There are a few twists, of course. None of the four players actually got to touch…
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Contestant Calls
Be on TV – contestant calls for UK gameshows. Most sound like the usual rubbish but the ‘Time Commanders’ show has some promise.
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Cheap Futurama
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…
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Walking Away
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…
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Simpsons Edited
An interesting thread on how broadcasters are dealing with the Simpsons episode ‘The Simpsons Versus New York’ which heavily features the World Trade Center.
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Red Mars
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…
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End of an era
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.
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Quotations
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…
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David X Cohen
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.
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More on Cog
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…