The short Doctor Who story Death Is The Only Answer, starring Matt Smith, airs during Doctor Who Confidential. The story was written by the winners of a Doctor Who Confidential writing competition. 
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The 48th episode of The Sarah Jane Adventures airs on CBBC, starring Elisabeth Sladen (Doctor Who). (more…)
The 49th episode of The Sarah Jane Adventures airs on CBBC, starring Elisabeth Sladen (Doctor Who). Sinead Michael joins the cast. (more…)
BBC subsidiary AudioGo releases the second Doctor Who audio drama in the Serpent Crest story cycle, starring Tom Baker, Richard Franklin, and Susan Jameson. Michael Jayston guest stars. (more…)
The internet-based fan film Star Trek: Phase II releases a short vignette episode, No Win Scenario. (more…)
RealWorld Records releases the Peter Gabriel album New Blood, featuring orchestral versions of songs from Gabriel’s previously released material. (more…)
The 50th episode of The Sarah Jane Adventures airs on CBBC, starring Elisabeth Sladen (Doctor Who). (more…)
The 51st episode of The Sarah Jane Adventures airs on CBBC, starring Elisabeth Sladen (Doctor Who). (more…)
Cable channel AMC premieres the seventh episode of The Walking Dead, a series based on the popular zombie comic of the same name, starring Andrew Lincoln. This is the second season premiere. (more…)
The 52nd episode of The Sarah Jane Adventures airs on CBBC, starring Elisabeth Sladen (Doctor Who). (more…)
The 53rd episode of The Sarah Jane Adventures airs on CBBC, starring Elisabeth Sladen (Doctor Who). This is the final episode of the series. (more…)
Cable channel AMC premieres the eighth episode of The Walking Dead, a series based on the popular zombie comic of the same name, starring Andrew Lincoln. (more…)
Cable channel AMC premieres the ninth episode of The Walking Dead, a series based on the popular zombie comic of the same name, starring Andrew Lincoln. (more…)
Big Finish Productions releases the 153rd Doctor Who audio drama in its main monthly range, starring Paul McGann and Julie Cox. (more…)
BBC subsidiary AudioGo releases the third Doctor Who audio drama in the Serpent Crest story cycle, starring Tom Baker and Susan Jameson. Andrew Sachs (Fawlty Towers) guest stars. (more…)
Film Score Monthly releases a CD containing the soundtracks from the obscure TV movies Nightwatch by John Williams, and Killer By Night by Quincy Jones, both scores featured in their entirety. (more…)
Film Score Monthly releases a remastered and complete 2-CD edition of Jerry Goldsmith‘s soundtrack from the 1984 movie Gremlins, including related singles such as Peter Gabriel’s “Out Out”. (more…)
Cable channel AMC premieres the tenth episode of The Walking Dead, a series based on the popular zombie comic of the same name, starring Andrew Lincoln. (more…)
La-La Land Records releases a 3-CD set of selections from Shirley Walker’s soundtrack from the military science fiction series Space: Above And Beyond.
Cable channel AMC premieres the 11th episode of The Walking Dead, a series based on the popular zombie comic of the same name, starring Andrew Lincoln. (more…)
Part of the 29th full-time crew of the International Space Station lifts off from Russia’s Baikonur Cosmodrome aboard Soyuz TMA-22. Anton Shkaplerov, Anatoli Ivanishin and Daniel Burbank take up residence on the ISS for 165 days, becoming part of the Expedition 29/30 crews. All three return to Earth in April 2012 aboard the same vehicle. This was the first Soyuz mission to the International Space Station following the end of the American space shuttle program.
A short Doctor Who sketch, starring Matt Smith, airs during the BBC’s annual Children In Need charity telethon. (more…)
The Mars Science Laboratory mission is launched toward the red planet on an Atlas V rocket. The ambitious unmanned mission is intended to deposit a car-sized, nuclear-powered rover, nicknamed Curiosity, on the surface of Mars for an extended survey of the planet’s surface. Heavier than any of its predecessors, Curiosity will use an unprecedented means of slowing itself for descent, dangling from a “sky crane” for a soft touchdown after descending through the Martian atmosphere behind a protective heat shield.
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. (more…)
Big Finish Productions releases the 154th Doctor Who audio drama in its main monthly range, starring Paul McGann and Julie Cox. (more…)
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. (more…)
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).
BBC subsidiary AudioGo releases the fourth Doctor Who audio drama in the Serpent Crest story cycle, starring Tom Baker, Richard Franklin, and Susan Jameson. David Troughton guest stars. (more…)
BBC subsidiary AudioGo releases the fifth and final Doctor Who audio drama in the Serpent Crest story cycle, starring Tom Baker, Richard Franklin, and Susan Jameson. David Troughton guest stars. (more…)
Big Finish Productions releases a bonus Doctor Who audio drama starring Peter Davison. (This title was initially exclusive to Big Finish’s subscription program, as an incentive for those whose subscriptions included Army Of Death.) (more…)
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. (more…)
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. (more…)
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. (more…)
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. (more…)