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I have to admit, I had never heard of Sapphire And Steel until Big Finish Productions started making their own.

Yes, for some bizarre reason, we got the Doctor Who movie first. Had NBC made its version with Spielberg, I would guess we would have gotten that first, too. Also, on the initial Doctor Who DVD releases, we got things R2 didn't. They've stopped that practice, but, we in R1 do benefit from the R2 releases because the R1's usually have the errors on the R2 releases fixed.

Hey, what is up with these rumors of a revival of The Prisoner? Possibly set to star Christopher Eccleston? "I am not a number! I am a free Doctor!"

Only Season 1, which is still premiering on Friday nights on the Sci-Fi Channel in the US. Tonight is The Empty Child. Also of interest, May 14th is the 10th anniversary of Fox's Doctor Who movie, aka The Enemy Within. Well, I should say, the 10th anniversary of the date it was first aired. The UK saw it 6 days later, I think.

You gave me mine!

Echo... echo...

I've heard the best cure for double posting is one colonoscopy...

I do have one! It's travelling back through time and trying to tell you people about the upcoming Venusians and their grand corn plot!

Actually, no. The doctor told me it would be one fixed price for an office visit to get a new prescription, but, after paying that fixed price, tried to send me another bill later on. Uh, uh. So, I still have a few left.

Maybe they're just a lousy band. Don't worry. I'm just a tease!

I assume you've applied for the $1,000,000 reward offered by The Skeptics Society? No? No, I haven't applied yet, however, since I am astral projection through the Fourth Dimension, I already have in the future and claimed the prize by reviving Houdini from the dead. Even he, who helped set up such a fund, had to admit, it was a fair cop and pretty damn good trick!

Jealous of my Holmesian powers of observation?

We here have to hope not, because, soon, you guys in the UK will be the only way we can get digital TV shows. I am curious for shows like Doctor Who. I mean, does Sci-Fi Channel show it in digital, as the various BBC's did/do?

Has anyone ever noticed how incredibly strong is? I mean, look closely: the little guy is actually able to lift, hold, and swing that folding metal chair with ONE hand! What a char-athlete! Also, has anyone ever noticed the slight difference between this Smilie: and the one used for the Post Icon?

Can they show that?! Volvo's missus's vulv... Better not complete that, otherwise, they might come in and- (!) - ALERT POP-UP #23666 The rest of this post has been pre-sanitized for your mental convenience by the Thought Police who have gratiously agreed to travel back in time from where they rule all thought into your temporal zone to make sure you don't see anything you shouldn't.

And, it's probably in your better interests not to follow in my footsteps, given the results I tend to generate.

Maybe it was Bart PE? Since no one answered... I may never know.

Also, technically, it's only buried deep inside Afterdawn because the article is over a year old. However, a little more alarming was this recent story: http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/7523.cfm "U.S. Senator Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) has snuck the dreaded and condemned "broadcast flag" into a bill on Net Neutrality. It is worth mentioning that the same guy previously rejected Broadcast Flags for radio. The broadcast flag clause would allow "the FCC to establish a broadcast flag to allow TV stations to protect digital content from Internet piracy." Previous attempts to bring about the Broadcast Flag have been highly criticised, and for good reason."

The funniest part of the whole thing, IMO, has been to look at the history of Sony. Sony helped to create the widely accepted mass market home video demand with Betamax. Hollywood tried to step in and curtail home video recording because they saw not a potential to release their vaults to the home market, but saw, instead, people taping the edited versions of their movies off of TV for a cheaper price. Sony cared about consumer rights then because it had a stake in them: if people lost the ability to record at home, then, Sony couldn't sell home video recorders. Now, notice how a simple thing like changing from an entirely hardware centric business to a combination hardware and content owner makes. When Sony started gobbling up movie studios left and right with acquisitions like Columbia, Tri-Star, etc. Sony suddenly lost the desire to make sure consumers could do things. Why? Because the market had been, instead, won by a competitor: VHS. Sony didn't want to lose the gravy train it had basically started, so, it covered both bases. Notice how Sony, after losing the VCR Format Wars, made sure, basically, there would be no format war with recordable DVD by making drives that were dual format? Also note how the Playstation was not just a proprietary video game system but also a CD player. And how the PS 2 was not only a proprietary video game system, but, also a CD player, player of the proprietary video game format from the previous generation, AND a DVD player. BUT, the real change comes when Sony is suddenly a combination provider for both hardware and content. This leads to the most incredible shift of all: after fighting so hard to get users to be able to record TV in their homes, because they had a stake in it through sales of the device to let you do it, Sony develops ARCOSS because it has the media side to it now. It's a variant on the sell the printers cheap, but, charge through the nose in perpetuity for the ink cartridges needed to run them. Hence why something dumb like claiming the DMCA meant people couldn't use cartridge refill systems because they added circuits to "check" things like ink levels, etc. when they were added in just to use the DMCA as a means to prevent anyone from selling an alternative to their money chain scheme. Sony suddenly didn't care about a user's right to make a backup of a DVD they bought from Sony because Sony would like to just sell you a 2nd one later. Sony sure didn't care about copying DVD's when they SOLD the hardware that enabled it. One of the reasons, I believe, why they got out of the manufacturing of the DRU line and just rebadged LiteOn drives to do it. Because Sony could still profit from the sales of the devices but have the "moral" high ground that they didn't make it. I had one other really fantastic point, but, I lost it.

I sense you doubt our powers... There! I have proven that divine powers of mind reading (Those of us who practice it call it Karnac.) exists! Without a doubt, argument won. Psychics, one; doubting, farting digits 0.

I wish I could take all the credit for that other case. But, I only had the feeling that it "sounded too good to be true." So, I figured it probably didn't happen and then thought of reasons why it probably wouldn't. I should have thought to check snopes.com because I've used it many times before to search up on things like giant camel spiders in Iraq. But, spinningwheel thought of it first.

IMO, she gets too much credit for this movie. Michael York and Joel Grey are the ones who make the film. Interestingly enough, Tomorrow Belongs To Me is only about 45 seconds in the original play book. It got extended into a longer song and sequence in the film version. (Strangely, when this film was translated into French, the song is sung in German, instead! )

Ah, I didn't know that "Spare Parts" was the source for a Cybermen story for this season. I liked "Spare Parts," too! Who knew the Doctor had such a direct hand in their creation? I think it's time for a new Big Finish Cybermen story directly involving the Doctor. I know they've recently finished a Cybermen only story, akin to Dalek War, but, as far as I can recall, there were only 3 Cybermen stories with the Doctor over at Big Finish.

Probably data mined. The service was sold to someone else and they received the registered users information as assets and then sold them to a spammer's list, maybe?

I still don't like the helments, but, otherwise, they're a great redesign! They have the feel of the Iron Giant and the Adi Granov covers to Iron Man comics. How was the K-9 episode? And "Tooth And Claw?" I admit to being somewhat of a fan of werewolf movies.