The trade paperback collection of the comic Tron: Betrayal is published, bridging the gap between the movies Tron and Tron Legacy. 
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Cable channel AMC premieres the fourth episode of The Walking Dead, a series based on the popular zombie comic of the same name. (more…)
Big Finish Productions releases the Doctor Who: The Lost Stories audio drama box set The Lost Stories: The First Doctor, containing audio versions of scripts that were intended for, but never produced by, Doctor Who on television. William Russell and Carole Ann Ford star in a story originally intended for the first season of Doctor Who. (more…)
British toymaker Character Options releases a wave of five action figures depicting the New Dalek Paradigm introduces in the 2010 season of Doctor Who. These toys reflect the extremely colorful redesign – somewhat controversial in Who fandom – of the Doctor’s arch enemies. (more…)
Cable channel AMC premieres the fifth episode of The Walking Dead, a series based on the popular zombie comic of the same name. (more…)
Big Finish Productions releases the 30th episode of the new Eighth Doctor Who audio dramas, starring Paul McGann and Sheridan Smith. (more…)
Big Finish Productions releases the 141st Doctor Who audio drama in its main monthly range, starring Sylvester McCoy and Sophie Aldred. (more…)
Soundtrack specialty label La-La Land Records releases a limited edition 2-CD set featuring – for the first time – the entirety of Jerry Goldsmith’s soundtrack from Star Trek V: The Final Frontier. For the first time, the complete score is presented, including alternate takes and arrangements. The limited edition of 5,000 sells out in four months, and the album later gets an unlimited reissue with slightly different cover artwork on the Intrada label. (more…)
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Character Options and Underground Toys release a box set of action figures from the 1985 Doctor Who episode Vengeance On Varos, including the first figure of the sixth Doctor’s companion Peri. (more…)
Years in the making, the live-action adaptation of the classic anime series Space Battleship Yamato premieres in Japan, starring Takuya Kimura, Meisa Kuroki and Tsutomu Yamazaki. The movie takes some liberties with the basics of the Yamato storyline laid out in the early 1970s, but is surprisingly true to the look established in the animated series. (more…)
BBC subsidiary AudioGo releases the fourth Doctor Who audio drama in the Demon Quest story cycle, starring Tom Baker, Richard Franklin, and Susan Jameson. (more…)
BBC subsidiary AudioGo releases the fifth and final Doctor Who audio drama in the Demon Quest story cycle, starring Tom Baker, Richard Franklin, and Susan Jameson. A third series of adventures will follow in 2011, prior to the fourth Doctor’s Big Finish audio debut in 2012. (more…)
Cable channel AMC premieres the sixth episode of The Walking Dead, a series based on the popular zombie comic of the same name. This episode concludes the first season. (more…)
Walt Disney Records releases Daft Punk’s soundtrack from the movie Tron Legacy. (more…)
Japan’s AKATSUKI unmanned space probe fires its thrusters to slow down enough to be captured into an orbit around Venus, a maneuver which will take place mostly in the planet’s shadow, out of communication with Earth. But when ground controllers reacquire communications with AKATSUKI, it is in safe mode, and not in its predicted orbit around Venus. The main orbital engine, damaged by overheating due to salt deposits on a fuel valve, fired for less than three minutes and cannot safely be fired again, leaving AKATSUKI into a solar orbit. Mission planners put AKATSUKI into a hibernation mode to preserve it for another opportunity to orbit Venus in 2015.
Syfy airs the 53rd episode of the science fiction series Eureka, starring Colin Ferguson, Salli Richardson-Whitfield, and Joe Morton. Matt Frewer (Max Headroom) guest stars in a Eureka holiday special.
Big Finish Productions releases a bonus Doctor Who audio drama starring Peter Davison, Colin Baker, Sylvester McCoy, and Paul McGann. (This title was initially exclusive to Big Finish’s subscription program, as an incentive for those whose subscriptions included The Demons Of Red Lodge.) (more…)
Part of the 26th full-time crew of the International Space Station lifts off from Russia’s Baikonur Cosmodrome aboard Soyuz TMA-20. Dmitri Kondratyev, Catherine Coleman and Paolo Nespoli take up residence on the ISS for 159 days, becoming part of the Expedition 26/27 crews. All three return to Earth in May 2011 aboard the same vehicle.
The 47th episode of The Sarah Jane Adventures airs on CBBC, starring Elisabeth Sladen (Doctor Who). Tommy Knight returns in the season four finale. (more…)
The pilot episode of Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency, based on Douglas Adams’ novels and starring Stephen Mangan, airs on BBC4. The pilot achieves a high enough rating for a short series to be commissioned for the following year. (more…)
Disney releases Tron Legacy, a sequel to 1982’s Tron, produced by Tron creator Steven Lisberger and directed by Joseph Kosinski. Garrett Hedlund and Olivia Wilde star; Jeff Bridges and Bruce Boxleitner reprise their roles from the 1982 film. Daft Punk provides the soundtrack (with a significant assist from Joseph Trapanese). (more…)
Big Finish Productions releases the 38th Doctor Who audio drama in its Companion Chronicles range (short stories performed audiobook style with one or two actors). Carole Ann Ford and Tara-Louise Kaye star. (more…)
The 772nd episode of Doctor Who (the 74rd since the series’ revival) airs on BBC1, the first Christmas special under showrunner Steven Moffat’s reign. Michael Gambon and Katherine Jenkins guest star. (more…)
Big Finish Productions releases the 142nd Doctor Who audio drama in its main monthly range, starring Peter Davison and Sarah Sutton. (more…)
Big Finish Productions releases the Doctor Who: The Lost Stories audio drama box set The Lost Stories: The Second Doctor, containing audio versions of scripts that were intended for, but never produced by, Doctor Who on television. Frazer Hines and Wendy Padbury star in a story originally intended for the first season of Doctor Who. (more…)
Big Finish Productions releases the 31st episode of the new Eighth Doctor Who audio dramas, starring Paul McGann and Carole Ann Ford. (more…)
Big Finish Productions releases the 143rd Doctor Who audio drama in its main monthly range, starring Colin Baker and Maggie Stables. (more…)
Big Finish Productions releases the 32nd episode of the new Eighth Doctor Who audio dramas, starring Paul McGann and Sheridan Smith. (more…)
Forever known as the Brigadier (and thus the only ranking UNIT officer who counts), actor Nicholas Courtney dies at the age of 81, the only actor to have appeared alongside every Doctor in Doctor Who. After appearing as a one-off guest character in the Hartnell era, Courtney is drafted into the role of Colonel Lethbridge Stewart for a 1968 Doctor Who story, proving popular enough to return the following season with a promotion to Brigadier. In this role, Courtney guest starred with every television Doctor (including, thanks to a cameo in a 1993 charity skit, Colin Baker); he would also appear alonside Paul McGann in a Big Finish audio play, a medium that also saw him appearing with David Tennant, years before being cast as the tenth Doctor. Courtney would play the role for Big Finish several times, and even reprised the Brigadier in a 1995 fan-made video production, before bringing the character back in a two-part episode of The Sarah Jane Adventures.
Space Shuttle Discovery lifts off on the 133rd shuttle flight, a 13-day mission add a new (but familiar) module to the International Space Station. One of the logistics modules that has flown in the cargo bay of seven prior shuttle missions is attached to the ISS permanently, adding nearly 2,500 cubic feet of storage space to the facility. Also delivered to the station is Robonaut 2, an experimental robot designed to assist with routine tasks as well as spacewalks. Discovery’s 39th and final crew is Commander Steve Lindsey, Pilot Eric Boe, and mission specialists Alvin Drew, Nicole Stott, Steve Bowen and Michael Barratt.
Big Finish Productions releases the 144th Doctor Who audio drama in its main monthly range, starring Colin Baker and Maggie Stables. (more…)
Big Finish Productions releases the 33rd episode of the new Eighth Doctor Who audio dramas, starring Paul McGann and Sheridan Smith. (more…)
The U.S. Air Force launches a second unmanned X-37B spacecraft into Earth orbit atop an Atlas V rocket. Designated USA-226, this is the second Boeing-built X-37B to reach orbit, and is the first to remain in orbit for over a year, re-entering the atmosphere and successfully conducting an automated landing in June 2012. This X-37B also features a solar panel array that is deployed from its cargo compartment, allowing it to generate constant power during its classified 15-month mission.
The short Doctor Who sketch Space / Time, starring Matt Smith, Karel Gillan and Arthur Darvill, airs during the BBC’s annual Comic Relief charity telethon. (more…)