Archive for November 23rd, 2010
Mars Needs Moms trailer
by Doc on Nov.23, 2010, under Movies
Walt Disney Pictures and Imagemovers Digital are releasing the animated motion-capture feature Mars Needs Moms, based on the illustrated book by Berkeley Breathed (Pulitzer Prize winner for the comic strip Bloom County) on March 11th, 2011, and features the talents of Seth Green, Dan Fogler, Elisabeth Harnois, Mindy Sterling, Kevin Cahoon and Joan Cusack, and is directed by Simon Wells, who also shares the screenplay credits with Wendy Wells. The movie is produced by the team of Robert Zemeckis, Jack Rapke, Steve Starkey, and Steven Boyd.
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Doctor Who reaches 47 years
by Doc on Nov.23, 2010, under Television
The Doctor may be 907 years old (give or take – continuity is a problem with time travel…), but his show is 47 years old today. The very first episode of Doctor Who, “An Unearthly Child”, aired on the BBC on November 23rd, 1963 at 5:15PM GMT, running continuously for 26 years, [sfs=1083]a TV movie in 1996[/sfs], and has since been revived with 5 more series and several TV movies. What would be an appropriate drink to toast the Doctor?