Big Finish Productions releases the sixth Doctor Who Unbound audio drama, a limited series of unconnected audios that are also unconnected to the larger continuity of the Doctor Who universe. Arabella Weir stars. 
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The eighth full-time crew of the International Space Station lifts off from Russia’s Baikonur Cosmodrome aboard Soyuz TMA-3. Alexander Kaleri and Michael Foale take up residence on the ISS for 194 days, both of them veterans of long-term stays aboard the Mir space station; arriving on the ISS with them for a ten-day stay is Spanish astronaut Pedro Duque, who returns to Earth aboard Soyuz TMA-2 with the Expedition 7 crew.
RCA Records releases The Strokes‘ second album, Room On Fire, featuring the singles “12:51” and “The End Has No End”. (more…)
Pay cable channel Showtime premieres the 22nd episode of J. Michael Straczynski’s post-apocalyptic series Jeremiah. (more…)
Warner Bros. records releases the R.E.M. compilation album In Time: The Best Of R.E.M. 1988-2003, featuring the new single “Bad Day”. This collection is limited only to the band’s output on Warner-issued albums, and omits their earliest work. (more…)
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Big Finish Productions releases the 49th Doctor Who audio drama in its main monthly range, starring Sylvester McCoy. (more…)
Pay cable channel Showtime premieres the 23rd episode of J. Michael Straczynski’s post-apocalyptic series Jeremiah. (more…)
Pay cable channel Showtime premieres the 24th episode of J. Michael Straczynski’s post-apocalyptic series Jeremiah. (more…)
Maverick Records releases Don Davis‘ soundtrack from the movie The Matrix Revelations, featuring collaborations with Juno Reactor. (more…)
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Pay cable channel Showtime premieres the 25th episode of J. Michael Straczynski’s post-apocalyptic series Jeremiah. (more…)
Pay cable channel Showtime premieres the 26th episode of J. Michael Straczynski’s post-apocalyptic series Jeremiah. (more…)
Big Finish releases a free CD with a stand-alone Doctor Who audio story starring Paul McGann and India Fisher, attached to the cover of Doctor Who Magazine issue #337. (more…)
Bridging the gap between Star Wars Episode II and Episode III, Cartoon Network premieres the first three-minute mini-episode of The Clone Wars, with character design and direction by animator Genndy Tartakovsky. Executed in a cel-animation style (rather than the full CGI of the later Clone Wars series), the shorts chronicle the battles between the Republic Clone Army and the Jedi vs. the Droid forces of the Separatists. (more…)
Bridging the gap between Star Wars Episode II and Episode III, Cartoon Network premieres the second mini-episode of Genndy Tartakovsky’s The Clone Wars animated shorts. (more…)
The first four inductees – two real and two fictional – are inducted into the Robot Hall Of Fame created by Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Computer Science.
- Unimate (1961, General Motors) – the first robotic arm used in car assembly
- HAL-9000 (1968, from 2001: a space odyssey)
- R2-D2 (1977, from Star Wars)
- Sojourner (1996, NASA) – the first successful Mars rover
The panel of judges in future years will pare down the number of nominations awarded to fictional creations. R2-D2 actor Kenny Baker and Douglas Rains, the voice actor behind HAL, are in attendance.
Bridging the gap between Star Wars Episode II and Episode III, Cartoon Network premieres the third mini-episode of Genndy Tartakovsky’s The Clone Wars animated shorts. (more…)
Bridging the gap between Star Wars Episode II and Episode III, Cartoon Network premieres the fourth mini-episode of Genndy Tartakovsky’s The Clone Wars animated shorts. (more…)
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A new animated Doctor Who adventure, Scream Of The Shalka, premieres on BBCi, the BBC’s web site, starring Richard E. Grant as the ninth Doctor, Sophie Okonedo, and Sir Derek Jacobi. Written by popular Doctor Who novelist Paul Cornell, this story is heavily promoted well in advance with the announcement that Richard E. Grant is the official ninth incarnation of the Doctor; BBCi is unaware of the behind-the-scenes negotiations elsewhere in the BBC with Russell T. Davies. (The BBC’s unexpected announcement of Doctor Who’s imminent return as a live action series invalidates Shalka before its premiere.) (more…)
Bridging the gap between Star Wars Episode II and Episode III, Cartoon Network premieres the fifth mini-episode of Genndy Tartakovsky’s The Clone Wars animated shorts. (more…)
Bridging the gap between Star Wars Episode II and Episode III, Cartoon Network premieres the sixth mini-episode of Genndy Tartakovsky’s The Clone Wars animated shorts. (more…)
Astronomers using NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope announce the discovery a tiny planet, with a diameter of only 2,000 kilometers, orbiting the sun three billion kilometers past Pluto. That places it at an average ten billion kilometers away from Earth – with a solar year that lasts around 10,000 years. Sedna is also spotted from ground-based telescopes as well, using the initial observations made by the Spitzer Telescope; its diameter, only 300 kilometers less than that of Pluto, intensifies the “Pluto as a planet” debate that has been raging since the discovery of Quaoar.
Former Alan Parsons Project songwriter and vocalist Eric Woolfson releases the concept album Eric Woolfson’s Poe: More Tales Of Mystery & Imagination. (more…)
Bridging the gap between Star Wars Episode II and Episode III, Cartoon Network premieres the seventh mini-episode of Genndy Tartakovsky’s The Clone Wars animated shorts. (more…)
The Tori Amos comiplation album Tales Of A Librarian is released, including newly re-recorded versions of previously released songs. The album only covers her material from her years with Atlantic Records. (more…)
Varese Sarabande releases the first volume of Michael Giacchino’s soundtrack from the TV series Alias. (more…)
Bridging the gap between Star Wars Episode II and Episode III, Cartoon Network premieres the eighth mini-episode of Genndy Tartakovsky’s The Clone Wars animated shorts. (more…)
Bridging the gap between Star Wars Episode II and Episode III, Cartoon Network premieres the ninth mini-episode of Genndy Tartakovsky’s The Clone Wars animated shorts. (more…)
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Bridging the gap between Star Wars Episode II and Episode III, Cartoon Network premieres the tenth mini-episode of Genndy Tartakovsky’s The Clone Wars animated shorts. This concludes the 2003 run of The Clone Wars; the series resumes in spring 2004. (more…)
Big Finish Productions releases the 50th Doctor Who audio drama in its main monthly range, starring Peter Davison, Colin Baker, Sylvester McCoy, and Paul McGann. This story, which unites many past stars of TV Doctor Who in unusual roles, celebrates 40 years of Doctor Who. (more…)
Big Finish Productions releases the 51st Doctor Who audio drama in its main monthly range, starring Colin Baker and Katy Manning. (more…)
Big Finish Productiions publishes the hardcover non-fiction book Doctor Who: The New Audio Adventures – The Inside Story by Benjamin Cook, a history of the series of licensed Doctor Who audio plays and audio spinoffs that the company has been producing since 1999; the book is timed to coincide with the 40th anniversary of Doctor Who. (more…)