This is exciting news. The Beeb continues its renewed love affair with the best kind of science: fictional! Following in the footsteps of BBC FOUR’s popular success The Quatermass Experiment last year, comes another compelling adaptation of a science fiction classic: A for Andromeda. The …
There is always plenty for the football fan to think about when news reaches you of the passing of another great from generations past. In Peter Osgood’s case, we might think of the swagger in the image of a young man that we never saw …
Stretching from Euston Road to the Thames, the inscrutable red marking appeared a couple of months ago. Londonist was unable to get to the bottom of it, despite walking the entire route. BBC London TV also investigated, but were similarly baffled. Step up to the …
The BBC are reporting that Jack Wild, Londonist’s favourite Artful Dodger, has died. Wild was nominated for an Oscar when he was just 16 for his role in the movie. He suffered from mouth cancer and had his voice box and tongue removed. Wild’s agent …
The BBC have some interesting stats on the Giant Squid on display at the Natural History Museum and there’s another image gallery here. But what you really want to see is behind the scenes footage of the thing being slopped around Carry On style by …
In the here and now, all thoughts about Arsenal Football Club are concentrated around the uncertainty generated by their inconsistent first team. Can they finish the job and beat Real Madrid? Can they overcome their abject away form and qualify for next season’s Champion League? …
Another date for your diaries. Wednesday the 15th of March sees The Wonderstuff play the Carling Academy Islington: Suspended By Stars (released February 2006), is the brand new album from The Wonderstuff, which follows on from the band’s 2004 release, Escape From Rubbish Island, their …
As the BBC’s five day forecast so succinctly puts it: “Thursday’s predominant weather is forecast to be sleet.” If you want to be a bit more precise then tomorrow is very likely to go something like this: rain, sleet, snow, cold, ice, hail, rain, snow, …
It was going to happen eventually but who knew it would be so soon: the RMT have delivered their 2012 ransom note already by asking Transport for London to agree to an ‘attendance bonus’ for its drivers during the Games. Their reasoning: the organisers of …
TV Troll is hyperventilating right about now. Footballers Wive$ (Thur 9pm ITV1) is back on for a fifth series!!! YESSS!!!!!!!!!!!! (We know, we know, multiple exclamation marks are a sure sign of a diseased mind, but … FOOTBALLERS WIVE$!!!! Oops, there we go again.) For …
Steptoe and Son are coming back to London. Not alas to Oil Drum Lane as both Wilfrid Brambell and Harry H Corbett went to that great rag-and-bone yard in the sky many moons ago, but the much loved duo are back nonetheless: A stage play …
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