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Official Fish Fingers and Custard Day
APRIL 3rd: To celebrate the 3rd Anniversary of “The Eleventh Hour” and Matt Smith’s famous fish fingers and custard scene, the 3rd of April will now be known as “Official Fish Fingers and Custard Day”. – [FB Event]
Bread and Butter. Now your talking.
{throws plate out the door} … and stay out!
Description: The Doctor kicks off this new run of adventures by searching for his companion Clara – an Impossible Girl he’s already lost twice. Together they find themselves battling monsters on distant alien planets, trapped in a Russian submarine with a deadly passenger, chasing terrifying ghosts, delving into the heart of the TARDIS, facing the Crimson Horror in Victorian Yorkshire, and coming face to face with an army of upgraded Cybermen. The action grows and the Doctor’s oldest secret threatens to be revealed as the world’s longest running science fiction series builds toward its explosive 50th anniversary in November 2013.
The new series of DOCTOR WHO will air on ABC1 Sunday March 31, 7.30pm
As River Song would say – Spoilers!
Continue reading ‘Doctor Who – Season 7, Pt.2′
To celebrate The National Year of Reading, First Tuesday Book Club has compiled, with your help, an all-Australian reading list, the 10 Aussie books you must read before you die.
For all the challenges facing print it has been a great year for Australian book-lovers who’ve taken part in some 3700 separate Year of Reading events across the country, from small meetings in local libraries to the massive Reading Hour event which attracted thousands.
There is much to celebrate and much reading to be done.
– 10 Aussie books you must read before you die [ABC]
Description:Join the Doctor, the Ponds and numerous friends on their latest escapades through space and time where they puzzle an unexpected invasion of Earth, save a spaceship full of dinosaurs, don Stetsons in a Wild Wild West adventure, and are even kidnapped by the Doctor’s oldest foe. The explosive series concludes with Amy and Rory’s heart-breaking farewell – a race against time through the streets of Manhattan. Will the Doctor really lose the Ponds forever – there’s only one way to find out…
The upcoming seventh series of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who will be broadcast on BBC One in the United Kingdom, and on BBC America in North America, from 1 September 2012 into early 2013, following the 2011 Christmas Special “The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe”, which was broadcast on 25 December 2011. There will be six episodes broadcast in 2012, including the 2012 Christmas Special; the remaining eight episodes will air in 2013. [wikipedia]
The ABC is fast-tracking the seventh season of Doctor Who to Australia, outing plans to air the show a week behind UK counterparts. [Gizmodo]
ABC TV is thrilled to announce that in true time-lord style, the first episode of Season 7 of Doctor Who, “Asylum of the Daleks”, will now premiere on iview Sunday, 2 September from 5.10am EST immediately after its UK launch on 1 September. [ABC TV Blog]
As River Song would say – Spoilers!
Continue reading ‘Doctor Who – Season 7, Pt.1′
Official Fish Fingers and Custard Day
APRIL 3rd: To celebrate the 2nd Anniversary of “The Eleventh Hour” and Matt Smith’s famous fish fingers and custard scene, the 3rd of April will now be known as “Official Fish Fingers and Custard Day”. — Event [FB]
These are evil!
Bad, bad beans!
As we already have new trailer for the rest of season six, and a prequel for S6E8;
Description:
The truth about River Song is out and the time has come for the Doctor to face his greatest demons. Venturing across centuries and galaxies, the Doctor, Amy and Rory will encounter the greatest war criminal in all of history – and Hitler. Together, they’ll discover there’s no scarier place in the universe than a child’s bedroom and a visit to an alien quarantine facility will reveal to Rory a very different side to his wife. In a hotel where walls move, corridors twist and rooms vanish, death lies waiting. But the Doctor’s time has yet to come. He has one last stop to make on his final journey – an old friend needs his help and an old foe must be defeated. But time catches up with us all and the Doctor can delay no more. By the shores of Lake Silencio, in Utah, all of time and space hang in the balance. And a NASA astronaut is waiting.
As River Song would say – Spoilers!
Continue reading ‘Doctor Who – Season 6, Pt.2′
Description:
Sanctuary follows the adventures of the beautiful, enigmatic, and always surprising Dr. Helen Magnus (Tapping), a brilliant scientist who holds the secrets of a clandestine population — a group of strange and sometimes terrifying beings that hide among humans. Along with her new recruit, forensic psychiatrist Dr. Will Zimmerman (Robin Dunne); her quirky tech wiz Henry (Ryan Robbins); and her fearless daughter Ashley (Emilie Ullerup), Magnus seeks to protect this threatened phenomena as well as unlock the mysteries behind their existence. The series also stars Christopher Heyerdahl as the sinister John Druitt.
The third season of the Canadian science fiction–fantasy television series Sanctuary, premiered on Syfy in the United States on October 15, 2010 and consists of 20 episodes. Created by Damian Kindler, the series was adapted from a series of webisodes released in 2007. The increased number of episodes in this season allows the producers to include numerous story arcs. The second half of the third season premiered on April 15, 2011 until it was moved to Monday nights on April 25, 2011. — wikipedia
Having watched the first two seasons direct from DVD, we finally have Season 3 on free to air in Australia; 8:30pm ABC 2 on Friday nights. This season was first premiered on SCI FI Channel 125 & 165 Thursday, October 21, 2010.
(Beware! Spoilers after the jump)
Continue reading ‘Sanctuary – Season 3′
Description:
A thrilling new series of Doctor Who begins in the spring of 2011. The Doctor returns, alongside newly weds Amy and Rory, to face monsters and mysteries and adventures all across time and space. Together they’ll find themselves in sixties America, battling the invasion the world forgot, then journey on the high seas of 1696 aboard a pirate ship, to solve the mystery of the Siren. In a bubble universe at the very edge of reality, the Doctor will meet an old friend with a new face, and in a monastery on a remote island in the near future, an industrial accident will take on a terrible human shape. And waiting for them, at the end of all this, is the battle of Demon’s Run, and the Doctor’s darkest hour. Can even the truth about River Song save the Time Lord’s soul? Only two things are certain. Silence will fall. And a good man is going to die…
As I never seem to be home on Saturday nights, I am watching the new series on ABC iView and I also caved in and purchased a season pass via iTunes so it also resided on the iPad.
As River Song would say – Spoilers!
Continue reading ‘Doctor Who – Season 6, Pt.1′
AN Smith Lecture in Journalism
© The University of Melbourne, 2009. All rights reserved.
Live@Melbourne – AN Smith Lecture
Speaker: Mr Mark Scott, Managing Director, ABC
Wednesday, August 14, 2009
Start time: 6:30pm AEST
Duration: 51 min 27 sec
“For those now in media empires, those who want to survive, endure, be part of the future, there is little time to be wistful. Little time to be angry at how things have turned out. They were great days, but they are gone. Certainly there are things that can greatly concern us. Is there a business model for newspapers? How will Australian stories be told in a world awash with global content? What will we share as a community if there is no shared media experience? Where is our commons?
Certainly we see ourselves at the ABC playing an important role in meeting some of these needs. But we all know for sure, there is a greater thirst for knowledge, for insight, for entertainment, for engagement, for viewing and sharing media today than at any other time in history. Never has the audience been bigger. Never has news travelled faster, or been more accessible in more places more quickly. Never has a big news story reached larger audiences in more ways. Ways of telling stories, making them immediate and compelling and alive, have never been more vibrant.The opportunities to connect and engage have never been more exciting.”
– David Scott [3]
In relation to the Murdoch push for pay for view online content;
“You can almost hear the other proprietors urging Murdoch on, assuring him that they are right behind him and they are pushing him through that pay wall as they then scurry away to make as much as they can, for as long as they can, outside the pay wall, to be free to pick up the traffic that flees the sites that now want payment for access.“
– David Scott [4]
Cyber bullying special – ABC Melbourne (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
… ABC Melbourne Field Reporter Richelle Hunt spent an afternoon with a group of year 12 students who opened up about how severe cyber bullying is and what we can do to stop it.
On Monday 5 October from 3-4pm Richelle was joined by Web Psychologist Sally Ann McCormack for a radio special on cyber bullying. …
Available as an MP3
