News

The countdown is on!

Chip and Joanna Gaines’ Target collection, Hearth and Hand with Magnolia, is hitting stores in just over a week, and Fixer Upper fans everywhere can’t wait to get their hands on the farmhouse-inspired finds.

To drum up even more excitement for the line, Target has just released its first commercial spot starring the Hgtv favorites, who announced in September that the fifth season of their hit show will be their last.

Related: Drew and Jonathan Scott Just Launched the Collection That ‘Fans Have Been Asking For’: Get Your First Look Here

The video opens...

Fixer Upper fans are in for the treat of a lifetime: Chip and Joanna Gaines are launching another huge home line. Even better, it will be available at a store you probably already have in your town.

Joanna took to Instagram to announce the Hgtv stars’ newest collection, Hearth & Hand with Magnolia, which launches at Target on November 5th, just in time to make your holiday gatherings Gaines-ified.

Slated to include 300+ items spanning tabletop, home décor and giftables, this collaboration — which will be ongoing, with new offerings every season — is sure to be your next inexpensive obsession. Prices start at...

The announcement of a Charmed reboot pilot being ordered by The CW conjured mixed responses from diehard fans of the classic WB series on Thursday. But what do the original cast members have to say about it?

PhotosCharmed 10 Years Later: Showrunner Talks Prue’s Death, Phoebe’s Tragic Love, Billie’s Rumored Spinoff and More

Holly Marie Combs, who played Piper Halliwell for all eight seasons, was the first to weigh in, offering kind words for the next generation of Charmed Ones:

We wish them well.

— Holly Marie Combs (@H_Combs) January 5, 2017

Alyssa Milano, who played sassy psychic Phoebe Halliwell,...

Charmed, I’m… not so sure.

After years of rumors and false starts, a Charmed reboot is once again in the TV cauldron, with The CW ordering a one-hour pilot script that is being billed as a prequel-ish reimagining of the beloved WB original. One very promising sign: The project is being shepherded by Jane the Virgin Ep Jennie Snyder Urman.

RelatedCharmed Stars React to News of The CW’s Reboot: ‘We Wish Them Well’

Featuring an all-new cast, I’m hearing the potential series revolves around three witches who are brought together to fight evil in a small...

World’S Most Powerful Femalesuper Heroes Navigate Thetwists And Turns Of High School Aswarner Bros. Home Entertainmentreleasesdc Super Hero Girls:hero Of The Yearon DVD August 23, 2016

Burbank, CA (June 9, 2016) – Where can you find the most powerful and prominent Super Teens in the galaxy? Super Hero High of course! Wonder Woman, Supergirl, Batgirl, Harley Quinn, Bumblebee, Poison Ivy and Katana band together to navigate the twists and turns of high school in DC Super Hero Girls: Hero of the Year. Produced by Warner Bros. Animation and DC Entertainment, the film will be distributed by Warner Bros. Home Entertainment (Wbhe) on August 9 on Digital HD and August 23, 2016 on DVD (Srp $19.98).

These young Super Heroes discover unique abilities, develop powers, and combat an abundance of overwhelming, exciting and awkward moments to master the fundamentals of being a hero – one day at a time! The group includes:· Wonder Woman was raised on Themyscira, a...

What better way to celebrate Mother's Day than with these inspiring women who stood up to the people who tried to shame them for breastfeeding - or in one mom's case, for using formula. Because at the end of the day, these moms are just trying to do what's best for their children. Emily Locke paused to nurse her son in a Cleveland, Ohio, museum after a long day taking photos for her sister's wedding. Mostly covered, she was surprised when a female employee came up to her and bluntly said, "You can't do that here," Locke recalls. Determined to stand her ground,...

What better way to celebrate Mother's Day than with these inspiring women who stood up to the people who tried to shame them for breastfeeding - or in one mom's case, for using formula. Because at the end of the day, these moms are just trying to do what's best for their children. Emily Locke paused to nurse her son in a Cleveland, Ohio, museum after a long day taking photos for her sister's wedding. Mostly covered, she was surprised when a female employee came up to her and bluntly said, "You can't do that here," Locke recalls. Determined to stand her ground,...

facebook

twitter

google+

The Yeti attack at Covent Garden in recently recovered Doctor Who episode, The Web Of Fear, is a masterwork. Here's why...

The Web Of Fear was commissioned after a positive response to The Abominable Snowmen by then Story Editor (soon-to-be Producer) Peter Bryant, with the intention that it would close out Doctor Who’s fifth season. Rewrites for Fury From The Deep resulted in it becoming the penultimate story (one of many variables that resulted in Nicholas Courtney playing the role of Colonel Lethbridge-Stewart). Previously available as an audio soundtrack narrated by Fraser Hines, the film of The Web Of Fear was returned to the BBC archives in 2013.

I first experienced The Web Of Fear as a Target Novelisation at some point in the Nineties (I can’t remember if it was in Uddingston Library – so many Targets, so many Asterix books – or my primary school’s...

facebook

twitter

google+

As her absence from Hasbro's Star Wars Monopoly game leaves fans asking "Where's Rey?", we look at a curious merchandising decision...

Nb: The following contains spoilers for Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

Sometimes, public pressure really does work. Over the past few days, you may have heard the stories that Rey, the character played by Daisy Ridley in The Force Awakens, is notably absent from Hasbro's Star Wars Monopoly set.

The board game comes with four playable characters from the Star Wars franchise, and they're all male: Luke Skywalker, Darth Vader, Finn and Kylo Ren. Mysteriously, the lead character of the entire new franchise is nowhere to be seen. As reports of Rey's absence circulated around the net, a letter written by an eight-year old Star Wars fan was also widely shared on Twitter.

"How could you leave out Rey?!," Annie Rose wrote. "She belongs in Star Wars...

Companions new and old combine as Strax makes the transition to the world of Big Finish's Doctor Who audio adventures…

While rumours of a Paternoster Gang Doctor Who spin-off have been floating around for ages, no one could have predicted this – an audio production that teams up Dan Starkey’s Strax with Tom Baker-era companions Jago and Litefoot, played by Christopher Benjamin and Trevor Baxter (they first appeared in Tom Baker’s The Talons Of Weng-Chiang in 1977).

While classic companions are normally fair game to Big Finish (indeed, there's already 9 series worth of Jago and Litefoot material), Strax’s inclusion here makes him the latest in a very-recently-established trend that has seen the Torchwood cast, the main show's Unit characters, Alex Kingston’s River Song, and Ian McNiece’s Winston Churchill all swap the televisual realm for Big Finish audio adventures, all in the space of the last year.

Welcome to the April 6, 2015 edition of Outrage Watch, HitFix's (almost) daily rundown of all the things folks are peeved about in entertainment. Today's top story: Mindy Kaling...'s brother has come under fire for some dumb stunt. After revealing on his blog AlmostBlack.com that he got into medical school 15 years ago only after pretending to be African-American -- and that he plans to write a memoir about his experiences -- the "Mindy Project" star's older brother Vijay Chokal-Ingam has become the target of criticism from folks who aren't too happy with his affirmative action-bashing. His most prominent critic may be his famous sister, who allegedly told Chokal-Ingam that his revelation would “bring shame on the family.” "Frankly, I think it’s kind of funny that Chokal-Ingam’s point seems to be that affirmative action is bad, but apparently riding on your sister’s coattails is just dandy," writes Salon's Mary Elizabeth Williams,...

Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering Target The Hunting Ground

By

Alex Simon

Director Kirby Dick and producer Amy Ziering's 2012 documentary The Invisible War took a look at the epidemic of rape within the American military and won 2014 Emmy Awards for Best Documentary and Outstanding Investigative Journalism, Long Form; a 2013 Peabody Award; and the 2012 Sundance Film Festival Audience Award. It was also nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. They now shift the focus to sexual assault on the American college campus with their new film, The Hunting Ground, a Radius TWC release which premiered at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival and opened in theatrical release February 27.

Among the sobering statistics documented in the film are the following:

1. One in five college women will be sexually assaulted.

2. One in 33 college men will be sexually assaulted.

3. Only five percent of campus assaults are reported.

4. Experts say false reports account for...

Ken Marino and Ryan Hansen‘s little bromance is about to encounter a big rough patch.

The real-life pals and frequent co-stars (Party Down, Veronica Mars, Play It Again, Dick, etc.) will play potential adversaries when Hansen guest stars on Marino’s NBC comedy Marry Me, TVLine has learned exclusively.

In an episode set to shoot next week and air later this season, Hansen will portray Lee, the ex-boyfriend of Marino’s onscreen fiancé Annie (Casey Wilson).

The gig also reunites Hansen and Wilson, who, coincidentally, played love interests in a Season 2 episode of Happy Endings.

Hansen is coming off...

We doubt Daddy Warbucks would approve!  Consumers are slaming Target for a series of in-store ads for the new Annie For Target line of kids' clothing line, calling the company "utterly disrespectful" in a petition created on Change.org. The controversy occurred after Target customers began noticing that the campaign features white models, despite the fact that the newly released version of Annie stars African-American actress Quevenzhané Wallis, who also attended the brand's launch.  Read: Check out the review round-up for Annie! A petition was subsequently created asking for Target to apologize to Wallis in addition to requesting that they remove...

From the Macra to The Mysterious Planet, Andrew finds the gold in oft-unloved Doctor Who episodes from across the decades...

For the show's fiftieth anniversary, Doctor Who Magazine ran a new poll ranking the 241 stories up to and including The Time Of The Doctor. The Twin Dilemma came last again, having done so in 2009 survey, and though it does have many faults, it isn't completely bad. Colin Baker blazes his way haughtily through it, and the story noticeably lacks energy when he's off screen. Perhaps it might have been marginally better just to have had the Sixth Doctor and Peri go to a Little Chef so he could complain about the service.

In the lower half of the poll (compiled by people rating all the stories out of ten) are some pretty good stories, or at least ones that arguably don't deserve to be there. We've therefore compiled a list...

For Immediate Release

Enter A Wacky Realm As Warner Bros. Home Entertainmentand The Lego Group Release Lego®DC Comics Super Heroes: Justice League vs Bizarro Leagueon Blu-raytmcombo Pack, DVD and Digital HD, On February 10, 2015

All-New Original Lego®DC Comics Movie Featuring Exclusive Batzarro LEGOMinifigure

Burbank, CA (November 13, 2014) – In the follow-up to Lego®Batman, The Movie: DC Super Heroes Unite, the Justice League is newly solidified yet faces a peculiar set of villains when Warner Bros. Home Entertainment, Warner Bros. Animation, DC Entertainment and The Lego Group release Lego®DC Comics Super Heroes: Justice League vs. Bizarro League on Blu-rayTMCombo Pack, DVD and Digital HD on February 10, 2015. The Blu-rayTMand DVD releases will include an exclusive Batzarro LEGOMinifigure on-pack, while supplies last.

Lego®DC Comics Super Heroes: Justice League vs. Bizarro Leaguewill be available on Blu-rayTMCombo Pack for $24.98 Srp and on DVD for $19.98 Srp. The Blu-rayTMCombo Pack includes a digital version of...

The BBC has unveiled its broadcasting plans for this year's Glastonbury Festival.

It will broadcast over 250 hours via radio, TV, the red button and online streaming, with coverage from six stages.

Presenters include Chris Evans, Jo Whiley, Fearne Cotton, Dermot O'Leary, Huw Stephens, Lauren Laverne, Steve Lamacq, Greg James, Stuart Maconie, Pete Tong, Cerys Matthews, Mark Radcliffe, Gemma Cairney, Annie Mac, Toddla T, MistaJam, DJ Target, Yasser and Alex Jones.

Controller of BBC Radio 2, 6 Music and Asian Network and director of BBC Music Bob Shennan said: "Glastonbury is one of the world's most famous music festivals, and once again the BBC will be providing audiences with a magical weekend of coverage, in a way that only the BBC can."

The full outline of coverage is as follows:

BBC TV

30 hours of coverage across BBC One (The One Show), BBC Two, BBC Three and BBC Four.

BBC Radio

50 hours of coverage...

Feature Alex Westthorp 16 Apr 2014 - 07:00

Alex's trek through the film roles of actors who've played the Doctor reaches Peter Davison, Colin Baker and Sylvester McCoy...

Read the previous part in this series, Doctor Who: the film careers of Patrick Troughton and Tom Baker, here.

In March 1981, as he made his Doctor Who debut, Peter Davison was already one the best known faces on British television. Not only was he the star of both a BBC and an ITV sitcom - Sink Or Swim and Holding The Fort - but as the young and slightly reckless Tristan Farnon in All Creatures Great And Small, about the often humorous cases of Yorkshire vet James Herriot and his colleagues, he had cemented his stardom. The part led, indirectly, to his casting as the venerable Time Lord.

The recently installed Doctor Who producer, John Nathan-Turner, had been the Production Unit Manager on...

Feature Alex Westthorp 9 Apr 2014 - 07:00

In the next part of his series, Alex talks us through the film careers of the second and fourth Doctors, Patrick Troughton and Tom Baker...

Read Alex's retrospective on the film careers of William Hartnell and Jon Pertwee, here.

Like their fellow Time Lord actors, William Hartnell and Jon Pertwee, Patrick Troughton and Tom Baker also shared certain genres of film. Both appeared, before and after their time as the Doctor, in horror movies and both worked on Ray Harryhausen Sinbad films.

Patrick George Troughton was born in Mill Hill, London on March 25th 1920. He made his film debut aged 28 in the 1948 B-Movie The Escape. Troughton's was a very minor role. Among the better known cast was William Hartnell, though even Hartnell's role was small and the two didn't share any scenes together. From the late Forties, Troughton found more success on the small screen,...

Meredith Burdett is a writer at Kasterborous Doctor Who News and Reviews - All the latest Doctor Who news and reviews with our weekly podKast, features and interviews, and a long-running forum.

With Christmas coming up, you might be looking for suggestions for those Whovians in your life – and we recommend the Target book reading of fan-favourite adventure, The Talons of Weng-Chiang. The unabridged reading of Terrance Dicks’s Target novelisation is performed by Christopher Benjamin; depending on how far your love of Doctor Who goes you’ll either

The post Christmas Ideas: The Talons of Weng-Chiang appeared first on Kasterborous Doctor Who News and Reviews.

Top 10 Andrew Blair 20 Sep 2013 - 07:00

Andrew counts down Doctor Who's 10 best Cyberman stories from across the TV series, audio dramas and comic strips...

Cybermen; Doctor Who's other monster. The one no-one knows quite what to do with, who show glimpses of what they can do, but don't look like dislodging the upper echelon from its perch.

They're Arsenal, basically. What is Nightmare in Silver if not Mehmet Ozil? A big name attached with lots excitement generated, and sure there are some clever ideas, but ultimately it's not what was necessary. I'd apologise to Arsenal fans but what are they going to do? Throw a trophy at me?

Like the Cybermen presumably do between their on-screen appearances, the writers will be heading back to the drawing board to discuss what they've learned. Meanwhile, here's our list of the top ten Cybermen stories across the entirety of Doctor Who.

Doctor Who: The Spear of Destiny

I hope it isn’t oversharing to say that I read this book sitting in bed with a cup of tea and a plate of biscuits, on a Saturday morning, warm and cosy, while the snow fell heavily outside and my local radio station played Duran Duran. No, I’m not 10 years old and it isn’t the early 1980s, but reading this book transported me back to my childhood.

The Spear of Destiny is a short Doctor Who story featuring the third Doctor, as portrayed on TV by Jon Pertwee, and his assistant Jo Grant, played by Katy Manning.

It is part of a series of 11 books, one for each Doctor, to celebrate the TV show’s 50th anniversary. And it’s a good one.

The writer, Marcus Sedgwick, clearly knows the Pertwee era of the show very well. The characterization of,...

Review Andrew Blair Feb 14, 2013

Based on the unaired Douglas Adams Doctor Who 1979 serial, Gareth Roberts' novelisation of Shada is a brisk, entertaining read...

Shada is a challenge for a writer. Firstly, it's based on a Douglas Adams script, rush written in 1979 (the show's production was never finished due to industrial action), that its author was not hugely enamoured of anyway. Those aspects Adams did like he used in other stories, most notably in the first Dirk Gently novel. Footage from Shada was used to represent the Fourth Doctor and Romana in The Five Doctors (Tom Baker having declined a return to the role), and what was shot was released on VHS in 1992 with linking narration by Tom Baker.

There have been several fan adaptations, including a Target-style novelisation by Paul Scoones which is available as an E-book, and in 2003 Big Finish and the BBC produced an audioplay with Paul McGann as the Doctor,...

Getty Images Adele arrives at the Grammys on February 12, 2012 in Los Angeles.

The Grammy Awards are taking place tonight in Los Angeles and Speakeasy is live blogging the show.

This evening’s broadcast features performances by Adele, Bruce Springsteen, Coldplay with Rihanna, the Civil Wars, Chris Brown and Katy Perry as well as a tribute to the late Whitney Houston from Jennifer Hudson.

You can join in the conversation by posting your thoughts in the comments.

Christopher John Farley is...

Mark Gatiss' superb tribute to Doctor Who Target novelisations, On The Outside It Looked Like An Old- Fashioned Police Box from BBC Radio 4 on Tuesday June 23rd, is currently available for repeat or delayed enjoyment via the BBC iPlayer. The 30 minute show featured contributions from Terrance Dicks, Philip Hinchcliffe (who even throws in a Tom Baker impression) and Anneke Wills to name but a few, and was a hugely warm and affectionate tribute to a series of books whose influence we can...

Classic Doctor Who Spring Sci-Fi from BBC Audiobooks... Tim Pigott-Smith reads Philip Hinchcliffe’s complete and unabridged gripping novelisation of a classic Doctor Who adventure, first published by Target Books in 1977 and based on the Fourth Doctor and Sarah Jane Smith adventure from Season 14 in 1976. Forced off course by the Mandragora Helix, the Tardis lands in the province of San Martino in fifteenth-century Italy. Here, the court astrologer, Hieronymous, has been taken over by...