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Can Torchwood Travel?
Posted on Wednesday January 20, 2010, 08:52 by James White
| | | | America, eh? They just can't stop stealing our telly ideas. Those colonials! Why can't they come up with some programmes of their own? Except, of course for The West Wing. And Battlestar Galactica. And Star Trek. And Mad Men. And… All right, so they've got a few.
But for some reason, there's an endless fascination with buying up UK properties, slapping on a few new names and tweaks like a house-flipper after a profit and shoving them out to a largely unsuspecting American TV audience. The misses, thus far, have outweighed the hits.
My focus, however, is not on the scorecard for US translations of UK shows. It's on one particular series: Torchwood. Yes, the Doctor Who spin-off. Which launched with the promise of being an X-Files for Cardiff, a locally-based, but universally-plotted peek into the world of a crack team battling alien problems conveniently centered in Wales.
Of course, what we actually got in that first season was a seriously off-kilter mishmash of oc... | | | Continue reading... Comment Now (16 comments) | | | |
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New Jack City - A First Look At 24 Season 8
Posted on Friday January 15, 2010, 17:38 by Nick de Semlyen
| | | | May 20, 2015. That is the date on which the events of 24: Season 8 occur, the real-time thriller serial’s timeline having gradually skipped ahead of the real world’s. So with the action moving to New York* and CTU getting resurrected in a glitzy new HQ, are we in for thrills of a more sci-fi nature than usual? Well, yes and no… Empire was among a select few invited to attend yesterday’s premiere of the Season 8 premiere, at the Skirball Center in New York’s Greenwich Village. In a private screening room (security grading: blue), we were handed a bottle of special 24 water with Jack Bauer’s face on the label (not only refreshing, but handy for bludgeoning terrorists with in close-combat situations) and seated next to the show’s creators and stars. A slideshow of the actors’ faces rotated by on the screen before the episode began, which prompted some of them (including Annie Wersching and Freddie Prinze Jr) to pose for grinning camera-phone photos of th... | | | Continue reading... Comment Now (10 comments) | | | |
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It's Game Over, Man
Posted on Monday July 28, 2008, 06:40 by James Dyer
| | | | And that’s it. After four gruelling days of running around like a lunatic, being bossed around by officious organisers and brushing shoulders with some of the geekiest people in the world, the 2008 Comic Con is now over. Today has been a fairly easy day by Con standards, I've had no interviews or panels to attend (today’s selection were too nerdarific even for me) so it was time to slow down, walk the floor and take a moment to really look around.
Part of that, of course, is sampling the wares available from the three thousand odd stalls scattered around the place. Handily, it’s possible to get hold of official ‘schwag bags’, which are unnecessarily capacious goodie sacks that you can sling over your shoulder and fill to the brim with geekabilia. The Watchmen one was (unsurprisingly) the most coveted as the Warner stand only gave out a handful every half hour or so and ruthlessly chased off campers trying to hang around for the next giveaway. Sci-Fi had the secon... | | | Continue reading... Comment Now (4 comments) | | | |
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Who Watches The Watchmen? Er... Everyone
Posted on Saturday July 26, 2008, 04:48 by James Dyer
| | | | There’s one common purpose shared by all visitors to the Comic Con - a quest that overrides all other concerns. The activity I’m referring to is the pursuit of ‘schwag’. Schwag, if you’re unaware, is a catch-all term covering all the free crap it’s possible to accumulate while trawling the halls here. Yes, you can walk away from the Con laden with goodies, even if you don’t so much as dip a hand in your pocket and I’ve set out to definitively prove this today. So far, I’ve had a number of free novels pressed into my eager hands - most of which promised to be the next Twilight but proved to be barely disguised erotica involving the odd horny vampire. Walking form the hotel, I received a number of badges, a Japanese comic, a bright yellow t-shirt for something I’ve never heard of and a strange green liquid in a bottle that may or may not be designed for drinking.
To get your hands on the A-grade schwag ,though, you need to be a litt... | | | Continue reading... Comment Now (2 comments) | | | |
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