Gatchaman!

I am soooo excited about this. Once upon a time there was a Japanese animation called Science Ninja Team Gatchaman about 5 super-powered teenagers. Some Americans saw this, and hacked it about a bit (cutting out most of the violence and the sexual imagery and sticking in badly animated bits concerning an R2-D2 rip-off and his flying dog...) and called it Battle of the Planets, the kids show from the late '70s we all know and love. (It was also retooled into G-Force, and Eagle Riders, but that's another kettle of fish.)

Anyway, Imagi, the company behind the recent CGI Turtles movie, have been working away at a new, CGI version of Gatchaman, and here's the trailer. Don't blink, or you'll miss it. (BTW, that's Joe (Jason in BOTP)'s car, and then we glide up to see the Phoenix. Yum.)

On Imagi's website, you can also see some production shots, including one of Jun (Princess)'s booted legs and her yo-yo. No. that's not a euphemism.



If you want to learn more about the whole history of Gatchaman then get over to Home of the White Shadow for all you ever wanted to know. And boy, there's a lot...!

Liz McLarnon - Celebrity Masterchef 2008

Get in, Team Liz! Congratulations to Liz, who was yesterday crowned Celebrity Masterchef 2008. It's not often I make the right call here, but I got it right this time!

Expect Atomic Kitchen, the TV show anytime now. (Can I get a credit for the programme title, please?)

Atomic Kitchen!

Wow, a Sun style pun headline...

Anyway, Liz McLarnon (that's her on the left, looking very slinky), former (or current, can't remember if they've officially broken up) Atomic Kitten is doing very well indeed in the current series of Celebrity Masterchef on BBC One, despite having never cooked anything in an oven before she started on the programme. She's made it through to the final, and was said by John Torode and Gregg Wallace to have improved the most out of all the other competitors! Go Liz, go!

PS. I'm free to come over for dinner whenever you like, Liz...

Dr. Horrible' Sing-Along Blog

Right, read this, and then get your ass over to Dr. Horrible to see Joss Whedon's latest meisterwerk before it's too late (Sunday July 20th, to be precise). To while away the hours while there was a writers' strike on, Joss threw together this internet only (for the time being) musical supervillan story for US! Yes, You! So get over there and watch it. Buy the T-shirt, and quit moaning!

Time's almost up!

Yep, there's less than an hour to go before the final episode of Doctor Who's fourth season (except I'll have to tape it and watch it later...), and I'm getting well excited.

I had a quick hunt round the net to see if I could find out anything, but the Beeb seem to have got this locked down tighter than a tight thing on the tightest day of the week! All I could find were rumours and suppositions - like the Doctor's going to split into two and one's going off to the parallel world to be with Rose; Donna's a Time Lady; Harriet Jones is in league with the Daleks; the TARDIS will die and all manner of other weirdness. What ever happens, I'm sure it's going to be great.

I'm personally hoping for the return of Ace with a Big F'ing Gun!