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Whatever happened to the Nitpicker’s Guides? We asked Phil Farrand!
Back in the mid-1990s, Phil Farrand debuted a book, “The Nitpicker’s Guide for Next Generation Trekkers,” which catalogued how often communicators and holodecks didn’t function the same from episode to episode, as well as other incongruities, foibles and oddities. The book was wildly successful and led in short order to nitpicker’s guides for Classic Trekkers,…
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MST3K Box sets – now four for $100!
Oh, man, I’m telling you about this and then I’m sending the link to my wife! I just found out that Amazon dropped its prices on the first five volumes of the MST3K Box Sets! They are now only $26.47 each, which is even $10 cheaper than the price at DVDPacific (which before this had…
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Threshold Canceled?
Threshold may be getting the ax.
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Dr. Who news that’ll have you dancing
This really makes my day: Sidekick K9 returns to Doctor Who! Robot dog K9 will be reunited with Doctor Who in the new series after 24 years apart, say the show’s producers. K9 and Sarah Jane Smith will return for one episode. K9 will be voiced by John Leeson again. I wonder whether they’ll improve…
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King Kong on Turner Classic Movies tonight!
Libertas points out that King Kong will be on Turner Classic Movies. I think this will give me the proper motivation to hook up my cable box tonight. I’ve been paying extra for the expanded range of movies on my cable, except that it requires the use of this box that I really don’t want…
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South Park controversy on CNN!
Here is the video which CNN is running that covers the recent controversial anti-Scientology episode of South Park. You have to love that CNN cites Madonna for a quote because she practices Kabbalah…which, by the way, is nothing like Scientology. (I’m guessing it’s because no Scientologist would give them a quote.) Madonna says that, “I…
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South Park takes its biggest risk yet.
They’ve fought against the intolerance of the politically correct establishment time and again. They’ve been willing to shout epithets against steroid users while Mark McGwire grins. They’ve portrayed global warming environmentalists as brain-washers. They’ve screamed “CONFESS! LIAR!” to O.J. Simpson and the Ramseys. They’ve even pointed out some of the… less-believable elements of Mormonism in…
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‘allo! Wot’s all this gravity then?
British Idiots In Space! A new reality show filming in England will choose contestants from amongst some sequestered candidates and tell them that they are going to be space travelers, then film them during their “travels” while faking the whole thing. I dunno how they could fake weightlessness so I imagine they’ll just tell these…
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Is Sarah Conner Dere?
Arnold will not be back. Coming Soon! reports that there will be a Sarah Conner TV series chronicling events happening between T2 and T3.
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Why Gordon Purcell did so well on Millionaire:
Some contestants aren’t as bright as others.