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Darth Marenghi
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Yeah... that guy.
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Must say I'm intrigued by the Valvetendo SteamCube.
Valve's new version of the Steam Machine, a 6 inch black cube of a device.
November 12, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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Another classic Vworp Dr Who Anniversary Party beckons - stick it in your diaries!

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Poster for Vworp's Doctor Who 62nd Anniversary Party on 22/11/2025 at the Seven Oaks, Manchester. Guests are DW authors Rob Shearman & Mark Griffiths, Jonathan Carley, Annie Wallace and Susan Twist. Don't miss out! Tickets at:https://www.fatsoma.com/e/ug9mo0io/vworp-manchester-doctor-who-62nd-birthday-bash
November 4, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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Hopefully the ongoing future of Doctor Who:
Tobias Funke tells Lindsay: "Y'know, other streaming companies optioned the Doctor Who rights to turn it into a big Marvel style franchise." Lindsay: "Well, did it work for those people?" Tobias: No, it never does. I mean these people somehow delude themselves into thinking it might, but... [turns to face Lindsay] But it might work for us."
November 3, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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Can only picture this guy to Iain's report. "...and that, is a SCIENTIFIC FACT!"
Champ Kind from Anchorman, shouting in an anguished manner.
November 1, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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New Omega, Rassilon and The Other/Tecteun just dropped.
Gary Barlow (l), Howard Donald (middle) and Mark Owen (r) dressed in Adam Ant coats looking moody; Barlow and Donald have clipped beards.
September 19, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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Sometimes the passing of a cinematic icon can leave you breathless... RIP Robert Redford. 😢
September 16, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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Back in the day when Paul Greengrass wanted to do a Watchmen film but updated to 2000s politics I thought "YOU WOT, MATE?" but after reading Pax Americana I ended up thinking he could've done that kind of film but with the Charlton Comics characters instead.
Illustration by Frank Quitely of the Charlton Comics characters used in his and Morrison's Pax Americana: the blue skinned Captain Adam in the centre - flanked on the left by Peacemaker and The Question and on the right by Blue Beetle and Nightshade.
September 5, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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The anti-piracy ad from the early 2000s, but captioned "You Wouldn't Life A Brian". https://youwouldntsteala.website/editor.html
August 30, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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Therapist: 'Tashless Man At Arms Head isn't real, it can't hurt you.

Tashless Man At Arms Head:
A hand holding up the variant Man At Arms action figure head which *doesn't* have a moustache - and will replace the whale in my nightmares tonight.
August 23, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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This is from a 2017 BBC agreement with the Writers' Guild of Great Britain, but the language the BBC uses to describe physical media is very likely to be the same as the contract the Coburns would've signed before Stef Coburn took over... So Unearthly Child on Blu-ray is still on the cards IMO.
Excerpt from a BBC PDF: "Videogram Rights”: the right to exploit physical audiovisual recordings of the Programme (“Videograms”) by whatsoever means now or hereafter known, intended solely for private use by the public (but not including Download to Own Rights or so-called video on demand rights)
August 19, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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Someone needs to explain why nearly all the good movies this summer have been preceded by one of the worst corporate logos I've ever seen...
August 16, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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Me, at the international audience for their lagging behind (to the tune of at least $100m) in watching the new Superman:
Keegan-Michael Key as the Substitute Teacher Mr Garvey, pointing at the door and and yelling at a pupil to go to the principal's office.
August 16, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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"These days, if you're a donkey who..."
Stewart Lee at the mic stand doing his stand up routine.
August 16, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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"The merger with Skydance is probably the best thing that could've happened to Paramount."
Norman Rockwell painting where a blue collar guy stands up in a town hall meeting to declare what he believes.
August 14, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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My favourite doctor and companion.
Mr Terrific looking deeply unamused as the David Corenswet Superman goofs around him with one arm around him and the other above doing a noogie on his head.
August 9, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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No cheating. Your last saved celebrity photo is your therapist. Who is it?
George Lucas, looking startled at his SDCC 2025 panel.
August 2, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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The Pirates! In An Adventure With Scientists! Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves and Paddington 2 are the no-brainer choices here.
Hugh Grant as (voice of) The Pirate Captain from Aardman film THE PIRATES! IN AN ADVENTURE WITH SCIENTISTS Hugh Grant as Forge Fitzwilliam in DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS: HONOR AMONG THIEVES Hugh Grant as Phoenix Buchanan in PADDINGTON 2
July 16, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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Every time I see a recent trailer for an Edgar Wright film I think - this really is Glen Powell's audition tape for DCU Batman, isn't it? 👀
Glen Powell walks through a street, brow furrowed with intense purpose. [From the trailer for THE RUNNING MAN] Glen Powell eyeballs an insane looking Josh Brolin who is smirking at him. [From the trailer for THE RUNNING MAN] Glen Powell grabbing a shock-stick, resisting the electric charge on with a furious intensity. That's Bruce Wayne right there. [From the trailer for THE RUNNING MAN]
July 3, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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Pretty exciting seeing this about. #Superman #LookUp
Photo of Manchester's Printworks with a Superman poster showing on the giant advertising screen.
July 3, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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Happy birthday Mel Brooks.
A be-suited Homer Simpson at the family table, spluttering to Lisa: "Mel Brooks is ninety-nine?!"
June 28, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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Starmer's treatment of the PLP:
Chief Wiggum smiling in front of some clearly furious police dogs penned in the back of a police van: "YEAH, I'VE BEEN STARVING 'EM, TEASING 'EM... SINGING OFF-KEY..."
June 24, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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Strange New Worlds S3 looking good in that trailer but it's a shame Poochie is back...
Jim Carrey's Lt. Kirk, who keeps popping up on Captain Pike's Enterprise every 5 bloody minutes.
June 8, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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What makes a man turn into a Doctor Who leaker? Lust for gold? Power? Or were you just born with a heart full of leakality?
Zapp Brannigan standing on his ship's bridge, arms crossed with eyes narrowed - pontificating to Kif who is on his left.
June 1, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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When the reveal of the Big Bad in an RTD2 finale once again accidentally provides a massive sales opportunity for @cutawaycomics.bsky.social
Jesse from Breaking Bad tearfully yells "He can't keep getting away with it!"
May 24, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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RTD getting those IP rights from Pip Baker:
Alan Partridge in the office of a BBC exec who's just collapsed and died, completing the unfinished signature on his new contract by moving the dead exec's hand - saying "Tedious, all this contract business." [Dialogue caption]
May 17, 2025 at 9:21 PM