(1) Giant Robot In Japan... Really: A life-size Gundam robot (about 60ft tall) has been erected in Tokyo to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Mobile Suit Gundam anime.
(2) Cthulhu Britannia: Cubicle 7, the Doctor Who RPG people, are to publish a Call Of Cthulhu supplement of adventures set in Britain.(3) Torchwood To Get Who Treatment In Cardiff: The designers of The Doctor Who Up Close exhibition in Cardiff want to build a Torchwood-themed display in the same region.
(4) Choose Wisely, Young Padawan: A series of "choose your own adventure" books are being published for Star Wars: The Clone Wars, featuring an online element of play as an added bonus.
(5) Free RPG Day: Don't forget Saturday, June 20 is free RPG Day (at participating stores).
(6) Carpe DM: Published under license by Alephtar Game, Chaosium has just released a 220-page sourcebook for its Basic Roleplaying System detailing Ancient Rome as a game setting, during during its Monarchy and Republic periods.
(7) Dunst Back For Spidey 4 Says Producer: Producer Todd Black says Kirsten Dunst will return in Spider-Man 4, which is due for release in May, 2011.
(8) Yoggie Takes The Prize: Lovecraftian Tales From The Table, the Yog-Sothoth.com 10th anniversary DVD, won the "Best Roleplaying Game Product" category at the recent UK Games Expo awards.
(9) Judge This: Mongoose releases its first preview of the forthcoming Judge Dredd rules for Traveller. Looks very pretty, but still not sure it's worth £30.
(10) Vamping It Up: The first Vampire Con will be held in Hollywood, California, this August.
(11) Pirates 4 On The Horizon: Jerry Bruckheimer says Pirates Of The Caribbean 4 is a priority for Disney and a script is in the works.
(12) Movement On Mars: A live-action version of John Carter Of Mars draws ever closer, with production said to begin in November.
(13) King Of The Remakes To Tackle Conan: Marcus Nispel, who directed the remakes of Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Friday The 13th, has signed on to helm the remake of Conan The Barbarian.
(14) Whedon Not On The New Buffy: Joss Whedon doesn't want anything to do with the planned remake of Buffy The Vampire Slayer - despite the producers approaching his agent "after the news broke".
(15) ITV Axes Primeval: Money issues lead to the end of one of ITV's few decent shows, Primeval, leaving the storyline hanging in the air...
WHAT!!
ReplyDeleteI hope Primeval finds a new home!
Personally I'd love the BBC to pick it up, but that's just a wild flight of fantasy. There's always hope that a US network will "adopt" it and there's still talk of a film... but none of this is going to satisfy our immediate need for Primeval goodness.
ReplyDeleteI still find it mind-blowing that I laughed off the first season as a joke (it was very poor), but now I'm crusading to save the programme!!!
Wow, that really sucks about Primeval. I was really getting into the show and thought it had some good stories. I am still only one or two episodes into Series 3 and hope something happens before I get to the end. Maybe SciFi can grab it.
ReplyDeleteSeries Three was the best by a mile, Tim. The show had really found its feet by then and was really going places.
ReplyDeleteLike you, I hope there's good news about season four before too long - but sadly it's yet another sign of the times that quality geeky shows (that need big effects budgets) are not popular with the cash-conscious networks at the moment :(
Primeval was getting a lot better although I found that the last episode of series 3 was somewhat lacking. Many things were left unresolved (and I'm not talking about the cliff-hanger type ending) and a few things didn't make sense. Perhaps they were hoping for another series to explain everything?
ReplyDeleteStill, it would be a pity if this was the end of it.
Definitely.
ReplyDeleteFrom what I have read, the storytellers were in full-swing and everyone believed a 4th series was certain because of the great ratings the show was getting and the number of viewers it was pulling over from the BBC.
That's why everyone was so shocked by ITV's announcement that the show wouldn't be continuing... and why we are left with a cliffhanger that may never be resolved!
I never warmed to Primeval. I have this slightly snobby attitude to ITV in general, but even so that first series was incredibly poor, and I felt no need to go back for the second. I gave a few episodes of the third series a go, but I found them pretty similar; it reminds me of that 90's BBC show Bugs, only with really shocking cgi, and a cast made up of kids TV presenters. Awful, and I won't miss it.
ReplyDeleteGood news on the Cthulhu book though, as there's not enough UK-produced stuff for this game which lends itself so well to British settings; I do wish someone would revise and re-release Games Workshop's Green and Pleasant Land.
Kelvin, while I agree with views on ITV in general and thought the first season of Primeval was car-crash TV, it grew on me over the years and I went from laughing at it to really enjoying it.
ReplyDeleteOn the Cthulhu front, however, couldn't agree with you more!