The nominees have been announced for the UK’s National Television Awards, and I am happy to report they include Ashes to Ashes, Deamons, Doctor Who, Primeval, and Torchwood entries among them. All five shows are up against each other in the Best Drama category. John Barrowman, Philip Glenister, Eve Myles, Hannah Spearritt, and David Tennant are vying for the Best Drama Performance spot. There are many more categories, I need to go through the list in detail. But I had to relay this bit as well; the creater of Blackadder will be writting a Doctor Who episode in which a historic figure battles a monster. Keeping my fingers crossed that the figure is Blackadder himself!
According to SFX, the original Prisoner TV series is going to be showing on the big screen, in order, for an all-night marathon. Unfortunately for me that will be at the Prince Charles Cinema in the UK, but if your on that side of the pond don’t miss this one!
SciFi Wire has posted what it claims is every science fiction trailer for the new Broadcast TV season. It certainly looked fairly complete to me, including both new shows and returning favorites. While bouncing to the YouTube page of one of them to watch the Hi-Q version, I found this wonderfully silly video and had to post it here: The Guild with Do You Want To Date My Avatar.
WB is doing a Supernatural Sweepstakes giveaway as a tie-in with today’s release of the season 4 DVD and the rapidly approaching start of season 5. You can grab the official rules here, but the short version is you become a WB Insider Rewards Member, bounce around the site downloading freebies and earning reward points. That gets your first entry; you can submit another entry each day of the sweepstakes period (but only one per day) by logging back onto the site and submitting a sweepstakes form. You have from now to 2Oct09 to get your forms in; thanks to SF Universe for the heads up on this one. Did I mention the prises include props that have appeared in the show?
You have until Sunday or September 4th (or possibly both, if you own a working Tardis) to enter the SF Signal Shatner/Nemoy giveaway. They are handing out 2 digital copies of Mind Meld – Secrets Behind the Voyage of a Lifetime, the 2001 presentation in which Shatner and Nimoy talk about the series, and how it changed everything for them. The title obviously refers to the famous Vulcan mind meld, a phrase that is used for everything from interviews with Nimoy to selling programming language extensions. It has been used to good effect in SF Signals own Mind Meld series, where they put a question to some of the best speculative fiction writers, editors, and thinkers on the planet and compile the responses into a coherent article. Now that I have digressed sufficiently, go enter the contest before time (however much of it is left) runs out.
The second season of True Blood, and the show has gotten downright intense! There are only two episodes left, and I don’t know how they can crank it up any harder. If you have missed it, no problem; the entire season is available through Video On Demand or download-able from ITunes. If you are a fan of J-Rock, one of the best sources I have found is Japanator Radio. The podcast has over 100 episodes so far, and covers a range of artists including High and Mighty Color and Base Ball Bear; the site also runs concert reviews and covers all things Otaku (anime, gaming, cosplay, etc.). Another good J-Rock site (leaning a little heavier on the Rock is ZB’s A to Z of JMusic.