La-La Land Records releases a 2-CD set of Michael Kamen’s complete score from the 1988 action movie Die Hard. Despite a larger print run than the label’s usual limited edition soundtracks, this release sells out in 48 hours.
The first episode of Charlie Brooker’s anthology series Black Mirror premieres on the U.K.’s Channel 4. Roy Kinnear (Quantum Of Solace, Spectre, Penny Dreadful), Donald Sumpter (Being Human, Game Of Thrones) and Shazad Latif (Star Trek: Discovery) guest star.
Syfy airs the 64th episode of the science fiction series Eureka, starring Colin Ferguson, Salli Richardson-Whitfield, and Joe Morton. Matt Frewer (Max Headroom), Edward James Olmos (Battlestar Galactica), and Jim Parons (Big Bang Theory) guest star in an animated Christmas special (and also the fourth season finale).
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The second episode of Charlie Brooker’s anthology series Black Mirror premieres on the U.K.’s Channel 4. Daniel Kaluuya (Get Out, Black Panther), Jessica Brown Findlay (Downton Abbey) and Rupert Everett (My Best Friend’s Wedding) guest star.
Soundtrack specialty label Intrada Records releases a CD featuring Leonard Rosenman’s soundtrack from Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home. The set includes the complete soundtrack (presented for the first time) as well as an alternate main title theme, never before released, that was not used in the movie itself.
NASA’s unmanned Dawn spacecraft, having completed its high-altitude mapping of the asteroid Vesta, drops to a lower altitude for more detailed mapping of Vesta’s surface. On average, its new orbit will allow Dawn to circle Vesta at an altitude of 130 miles, down from its previous 430-mile-high altitude. Dawn is imaging Vesta stereographically, allowing for precise measurements of surface features and the asteroid’s overall shape. In 2012, Dawn is scheduled to fire its ion thruster again, breaking orbit and leaving Vesta for a three-year cruise to the largest body in the asteroid belt, Ceres, arriving in 2015.
The third episode of Charlie Brooker’s anthology series Black Mirror premieres on the U.K.’s Channel 4. Jodie Whittaker (Doctor Who) guest stars in the first season’s finale.
Silva Screen Records releases a 2-CD set of Murray Gold’s soundtrack music from the 2011 season of Doctor Who. Music from all 13 episodes of the sixth season of the revived series is included.
Part of the 30th full-time crew of the International Space Station lifts off from Russia’s Baikonur Cosmodrome aboard Soyuz TMA-03M. Oleg Kononenko, André Kuipers and Donald Pettit take up residence on the ISS for 194 days, becoming part of the Expedition 29/30 crews. All three return to Earth in July 2012 aboard the same vehicle.
The Doctor, The Widow, And The Wardrobe, the 786th episode of Doctor Who (the 88th since the series’ revival) airs on BBC1. This Christmas special guest stars Claire Skinner, Alexander Armstrong (The Sarah Jane Adventures), Bill Bailey, and Arabella Weir.
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