This one is a hoot! There is a wonderful Dalek Snowman posted to what appears to be the official Doctor Who Tumbler account. Somebody had a lot of fun putting this one together. And as long as we are talking Who, BBC America has posted this prequel to this year’s Xmas special…
Chris Hardwick is using the platform given him by BBC America to host a two way competition for the Nerd of the Year Award, where you submit a video with your vote embedded in it. What makes it a two way competition is the fact that three of the best videos (best as defined by a combined criteria of most convincing argument and overall geekery) will be featured on BBC America before the special airs. Which pretty much means this weekend, so build and upload your videos now; deadline for entry is 11:59PM EST on Sunday, the 18th. The actual winner of the award will be announced during the Nerdist Year In Review special on x-mas eve. The show also features Wil Wheaton, David Tennant, Simon Pegg, Nathan Fillion, and Neil Gaimon covering topics ranging from Doctor Who to Firefly.
Dave TV has announced that it has signed off on producing season 10 of Red Dwarf, which in fact the Red Dwarf web site has also posted. This is not the total shock and surprise that it could be since Craig Charles (Dave Lister) sort of leaked the information a few months ago at a con. Here is the video Dave is running as evidence that this really is happening.
Starting today, a brand new series of radio adventures begin for Tom Baker in Doctor Who: Hornets’ Nest. That is the story arc name, which is comprised of five stories, each an hour long. The first half of the first story, The Stuff of Nightmares, part 1 aired today at 6PM London time, and will air again at Midnight. It will be available at that link to listen to for the next 6 days, with a new episode each weekday evening at the same time for the next two weeks. At least that is the usual arrangement, but I am not taking any chances and will be listening to each episode the day it airs. They are also running two other Sci-Fi programs around it; just before the doctor you can here Married, a science fiction comedy about a bachelor who wakes up in a parallel universe to discover he is married there. And just after the Doctor this week is H. P. Lovecraft’s At The Mountains of Madness, also starting today. You can see the full schedule here, but as I write this there are only 7 hours left to hear episode 1 of married, since that program only runs once a week.
It shouldn’t be any great surprise that my vote for new movie this week goes to Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows. The first one blew me away last year, so I am more than ready for this one.
In season two of Steven Moffat’s Sherlock Holmes it looks like Lara Pulver get’s to play Irene Adler. There are no trailers yet, but word is the new season starts on New Years Day, and the folks at Blogtor Who have some good promo pics posted. Of course, the Robert Downey Jr. movie Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows hits the big screen next Wednesday as well. And I assume everyone has been listening to BBC Radio 4 Extra over the past month, as they have played every Sherlock Holmes story ever written as radio plays. This is a great time to be a Holmes fan.