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Junior's Reading And Viewing List: December 11 - 21, 2011

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Last Update - January 23, 2011 at 2:34 AM EST

Junior's 'Reading And Viewing List' for December 11 through December 21, 2011 contains title links, along with snippet teasers, from items published in the middle of December 2011.

Film, television, music, Washington Capitals hockey, Formula One racing and WRC rally news are among the topics to be found here.

December 21, 2011

'A Blue Box For Christmas' - DWO Christmas Video 2011
Posted at Doctor Who Online

...The video, which features a poem written and performed by DWO site editor, Sebastian J. Brook, takes a look at a couple of the main Doctor Who related stories from 2011, coupled with festive scenes and a warming Christmassy backing track...

Helen Mirren Wants Doctor Who Role?
Posted at Doctor Who TV

...The Stars quotes Mirren as saying: “I would like to play the new female Doctor Who. I don’t want to just be his sidekick.”...

December 20, 2011

Caps trounce Predators
By Chuck Gormley at CSN - Washington, DC

Over the course of the next four months there will be days Dale Hunter needs to convince his players that his suffocating trapping system not all work and no play...

Video: Assessing Dale Hunter’s impact on the Capitals
Posted at Washington Post's Capitals Insider

The Post's Tarik El-Bashir assesses Dale Hunter's impact on the Capitals, discusses Alex Ovechkin's role in Hunter's system and talks about the goaltending competition between Tomas Vokoun and Michal Neuvirth.

Check out the video below:

Moffat on his Doctor Who future
Posted at Doctor Who TV

The Scotsman has a great interview with Steven Moffat. He talks about his long-term future as lead writer of Doctor Who...

December 19, 2011

The Trailer for The Dark Knight Rises Officially Online!
Posted at Super Hero Hype

Revealed in theaters with Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, Warner Bros. Pictures has now posted the new trailer for Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Rises online and you can watch it below!...

Further Videos From The Final Auditions (5th December)
Posted at The Queen Extravaganza

...As the day drew to a close the final band slowly came together. Here we see what is almost the full line up run through 'Another One Bites The Dust' and 'Crazy Little Thing Called Love'.

Paul Rodgers Releases Charity Song
By mdome at Classic Rock

...It’s called With Our Love, and the money raised will be going to The Racehorse Sanctuary, The Rocking Horse Children’s Charity and the Seraphim 12 Foundation...

Solberg delighted by Ford switch
Posted at WRC.com

Petter Solberg says he's finding it hard to express in words his delight at signing a one-year contract to drive for Ford in next season's World Rally Championship...

Glenn Hughes Readies Live Release
By mdome at Classic Rock

...Called Live In Wolverhampton, it was recorded in June 2009 over two nights in The Voice Of Rock’s home town. The first night featured some of his greatest songs, including his time with Deep Purple. The next night concentrated on his time in Trapeze...

Gillan on Series 7 & More
Posted at Doctor Who TV

Karen Gillan was interviewed on Australian radio show ABC Nightlife last week. She talks a little about Series 7, 50th anniversary and plenty more.

Note: This was recorded before it was announced that Gillan was leaving Doctor Who.

Tom Baker in vintage festivities
By Chuck Foster at Doctor Who News

Back in November, the BBC Northern Ireland programme Those Were The Days broadcast a vintage clip of Tom Baker visiting a school, which had been part of a number of news items following the actor as he visited Belfast during the 1970s...

...Additionally, Tom Baker was filmed as he turned on the Christmas lights...

Tom Baker turns on the Christmas Lights, BBC Northern Ireland

Tom Baker visits a school and shopping centre, BBC Northern Ireland

December 17, 2011

POSTGAME NOTEBOOK: Avalanche 2, Capitals 1
By Mike Vogel - Senior Writer at WashingtonCaps.com

...Don’t look now, but after going nearly eight years without that type of sustained offensive futility, the Caps have done it for the third time in just over a month (33 days). By virtue of Saturday’s 2-1 setback to the Avs in Colorado, Washington has again registered but a single tally in each of its last three games...

December 16, 2011

Shooting Starts!
Posted at Red Dwarf (Official Website)

New Red Dwarf in front of the cameras.

Shares in latex have gone through the roof. A warehouse-sized curry order is on the way. The false fangs are polished to gleaming. And Dwarfers the world over try not to explode with excitement. It's time...

Moffat & Smith on Series 7, 50th, Movie...
Posted at Doctor Who TV

...got 45 minutes to spare, be sure to check out this great interview from Radio 5. Richard Bacon presents the Doctor Who special featuring Matt Smith and Steven Moffat...

...Note: This was recorded before the news broke of Karen Gillan and Arthur Darvill’s departure from the show.

Revisitations Box 3 - DVD Cover and Details
Posted at Doctor Who Online

2|Entertain have sent DWO the cover and details for the Doctor Who DVD release of the Revisitations Box 3...

Watch Sam Raimi's Original Green Goblin FX Test
By Silas Lesnick at Super Hero Hype

...FX house, Amalgamated Dynamics, Inc., has released an older piece of test footage: a very different Green Goblin mask from Sam Raimi's original 2002 Spider-Man.

As you can see in the video below, this version of the Goblin would have kept the look a lot closer to the original comic book design. Listen, too, for Raimi himself giving direction off-camera!

The Face Of Evil - DVD Cover and Details
Posted at Doctor Who Online

...Featuring: Tom Baker as The 4th Doctor

When the Tardis arrives on a jungle planet, the Doctor encounters two warring tribes, the Sevateem and the Tesh. The Sevateem worship a god called Xoanon and the Tesh are supposedly keeping Xoanon prisoner...

U.N.I.T Files - DVD Cover and Details
Posted at Doctor Who Online

2|Entertain have sent DWO the cover and details for the Doctor Who DVD release of U.N.I.T Files.

The Third Doctor faces ravenous prehistoric monsters in deserted London, while the Fourth Doctor battles robot duplicates in a strange village – but are the forces of UNIT friends or foes? Find out in these classic adventures!...

The Sensorites - DVD Cover and Details
Posted at Doctor Who Online

...Featuring: William Hartnell as The 1st Doctor

The Doctor and his companions land on a spaceship orbiting a distant and mysterious world, where a human crew lie frozen somewhere between life and death...

Ford confirms WRC entry
Posted at WRC.com

Ford has committed to the World Rally Championship for the next two seasons - and Petter Solberg will drive one of its Fiesta RS WRCs in 2012 as number two to new team leader Jari-Matti Latvala...

Amy and Rory to Leave During Series 7
Posted at Doctor Who Online

Karen Gillan and Arthur Darvill - who play Doctor Who companions Amy Pond and Rory - are to leave the show during the next series...

Moffat Talks Doctor Who Series 7
Posted at Doctor Who Online

Speaking in Issue 442 of Doctor Who Magazine, Doctor Who showrunner, Steven Moffat, gives an insight into how Series 7 is shaping up.

"I'm back at work and I've started on Epiosde 1. Other writers are out there writing. It really is a chance for us to get several scripts - quite a few scripts, I'd say - in place before we get anywhere near actually filming. We're making more episodes than ever before, we've got other things planned for the big year [2013, the show's 50th anniversary]."...

December 15, 2011

POSTGAME NOTEBOOK: Capitals 1, Jets 0
By Mike Vogel - Senior Writer at WashingtonCaps.com

Road Hockey – After losing five straight on the road for the first time in more than four years, the Capitals have now won consecutive contests on the road. Goaltender Michal Neuvirth made 26 stops – including 14 in the first period – to earn his first shutout of the season...

'Captain America' Co-Creator Joe Simon Dies
By Jeremy Gordon at MTV's Splash Page

Comic books weren’t always such a big deal. Back in pre-war America, comics and their characters were produced by the dozen, each hoping to capitalize on some zeitgeist or current of interest to make its company some money before moving onto the next potential concept. When Joe Simon co-created Captain America in 1940, literally no one could have seen where the comic book industry would eventually find itself -- and that 71 years later, his patriotic creation would see the silver screen en route to a larger “Avengers" film...

The Daemons DVD Release
By Chuck Foster at Doctor Who News

The five part story stars the third Doctor, Jon Pertwee in one of the stories most loved by fans and production staff alike, with Jon Pertwee often naming it as his favorite Doctor Who story.

The Doctor is joined by Katy Manning playing Jo Grant as well as UNIT regulars Nicholas Courtney, Richard Franklin and John Levene with Roger Delgado appearing as the main villan of the piece...

Hirvonen completes first Citroen test
Posted at WRC.com

Mikko Hirvonen has completed his first test in a factory Citroen DS3 WRC. The Finn covered 500 kilometres over a three-day period late last month although the terms of his contract with former employer Ford means he can’t discuss it publically...

WRC Face to Face on sale now
Posted at WRC.com

...Charting the epic battle for the 2011 drivers’ crown through the use of stunning images by author and chief photographer Richard Balint, the book is a must for all WRC fans...

December 14, 2011

The Doctor, The Widow and The Wardrobe: three preview clips
By Chuck Foster at Doctor Who News

The BBC have released three preview clips for the Christmas Special, The Doctor, The Widow and The Wardrobe, which will no doubt be seen several times throughout the lead-up to Christmas Day on various television promotions!

In addition, as well as an earlier video of Matt Smith discussing the Christmas Special, the BBC's Doctor Who Adventure Calendar has also included one of producer Marcus Wilson discussing the Special, and a special Merry Christmas message from the cast and crew.

The Amazing Spider-Man Official Site Reveals Photos,
Confirms Sequels!
By Silas Lesnick at Super Hero Hype

The official website for Marc Webb's The Amazing Spider-Man is now online and with it comes a bunch of brand-new images from the July 3rd release. Check them out below, beneath the official story and character descriptions, which officially promise that this film is the first of several in the works!...

December 13, 2011

Fear of Flying
By Joe Beninati (Capitals Play-By-Play) at CSN - Washington, DC

Even without the NHL’s leading point-scorer, the Flyers displayed a very solid offensive attack. The No. 1 offensive team in the league flexed its muscles, especially in the second period, and powered its way out of Washington with a 5-1 victory. On a turbulent night filled with bouncing pucks and deflections, it would be Philadelphia that had no fear of flying with lady luck on their side...

6 Music News: Brian May On Queen's Future
Posted at Queen Online

2011 has been quite the year for Queen who celebrated their 40th anniversary.

As well as re-releasing, remastered versions of their back catalogue they also picked up a number of awards including Lifetime Achievement at the Q Awards and were named Global Icons at the MTV Europe Awards...

...Click here to hear full interview.

Big Finish: Counter Measures update / December Sale
By Chuck Foster at Doctor Who News

More details have now been released on the forthcoming Big Finish audio series Counter Measures.

The series stars Simon Williams as Group Captain Gilmore, Pamela Salem as Rachel Jenson and Karen Gledhill as Allison Williams, all of which reprise their roles first introduced back in 1988's Doctor Who adventure Remembrance of the Daleks. The team are re-assembled into the new specialist organisation Counter Measures in order to investigate strange phenomena and dangerous new science...

2011-what a year!
Posted at Home Of Metal

What a year 2011 has been for Home of Metal! The project really came into its own, as we produced a full and ambitious season of events all celebrating Heavy Metal and its birthplace - the Black Country and Birmingham...

Solberg completes Citroen stint with victory
Posted at WRC.com

Petter Solberg has signed off from his stint as a Citroen driver by winning the Garnier Fructis Memorial Bettega rallysprint in Italy for the first time on Sunday...

December 12, 2011

Christopher Nolan Talks The Dark Knight Rises
Posted at Super Hero Hype

Publicity for The Dark Knight Rises has kicked into high gear with press screenings of the the IMAX prologue, the viral Operation Early Bird and the release of a brand-new teaser poster over the weekend. Today, The LA Times had the opportunity to speak with director Christopher Nolan about the highly-anticipated release, discussing the reasons for choosing Bane as the film's primary villain...

Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows Video Interviews
Posted at Super Hero Hype

When Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law first took on literary icons Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson back in 2009, audiences across the world took notice. The Arthur Conan Doyle adaptation grossed $524 million worldwide and fans were immediately clamoring for more big screen adventures. This Friday, Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows arrives in theaters and proves that you can, indeed, go "Holmes" again...

WRC champions honoured in India
Posted at WRC.com

Sebastien Loeb and Daniel Elena were in the Indian capital New Delhi to be officially crowned FIA world rally champions for the eighth time during the annual FIA Gala...

Vettel and Webber celebrate with Milton Keynes home run
Posted at Formula1.com

World champion Sebastian Vettel, Red Bull team mate Mark Webber, team principal Christian Horner and chief technical officer Adrian Newey all attended a celebration show run event in the team's UK home of Milton Keynes on Saturday...

December 11, 2011

Two Lost Doctor Who Episodes Found!
Posted at Doctor Who Online

Christmas has come early for Doctor Who fans as two previously missing episodes of the show have been found, as announced at todays 'Missing Believed Wiped' event at the BFI in London.

Episode Three of Galaxy 4 (1965) which was previously missing all 4 episodes, has been confirmed as found.

Episode Two of The Underwater Menace (1967) which was previously missing episodes 1, 2 & 4 has also been confirmed as found...

*Dan, Jr. / Junior's Eyes Note: Clip from each episode is included.

Film Review-Another Earth
By Martyn at Bad Wilf

...I can’t recommend this film enough, this deserves a lot of praise. I would love a mini-series follow up exploring the consequences of another Earth being so close to ours and also to see what was happening to the inhabbitants on mirror Earth...

Junior's Reading And Viewing List: December 1 - 10, 2011

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Last Update - January 16, 2012 at 4:05 AM EST

In the 'Reading And Viewing List' for December 1 through December 10, 2011, Junior's Eyes looks back at the first part of December 2011 through a sampling of title links, with article snippets.

News on films, television shows, music, Washington Capitals hockey, Formula One racing and the WRC is touched on here.

December 10, 2011

David Narrates Shrek Documentary
Posted at David Tennant - Fan News Blog

David Tennant will be narrating Shrek: Once Upon A Time, a look back at the animated series of films centred on a green ogre...

December 9, 2011

Capitals 4, Maple Leafs 2
By Mike Vogel - Senior Writer at WashingtonCaps.com

...the folks in attendance at Verizon Center on Friday got a glimpse into the past as four power play goals powered the Caps past the visiting Toronto Maple Leafs...

Extra Dies On 'Dark Knight Rises' New York Set
Posted by Kevin P. Sullivan at MTV's Splash Page

Sad news from the city of Gotham. Both Warner Bros. and the Screen Actors Guild have confirmed that an unidentified male extra died of natural causes while working as a background actor last month on the New York City set of "The Dark Knight Rises"...

Red Dwarf X Is Go
Posted at Red Dwarf (Official Website)

You'll have to forgive us if we get a little giddy as we type these words, but it really is a rather special thing to be able to say: Series X of Red Dwarf is now officially in production...

2012 team and driver line-ups - the story so far
Posted at Formula1.com

The 2012 grid will feature no less than six Formula One world champions, at least two rookies, and plenty of exciting talent in between. Below are details of which teams have confirmed who for next season, when Renault become Lotus, Lotus become Caterham, and Virgin become Marussia...

Could Bettega run be Solberg's last in a Citroen?
Posted at WRC.com

Petter Solberg could drive a Citroen DS3 WRC in competition for the final time when he contests the Garnier Fructis Memorial Bettega rallysprint event at the Bologna Motor Show in Italy...

Alice Cooper Documentary In The Works
By mdome at Classic Rock

...It’s being made by Banger Films, who were responsible for acclaimed Iron Maiden and Rush documentaries, as well as Metal: A Headbanger’s Journey. This is to be called Vincent Goes To Hell: An Alice Cooper Doc Opera, and should be premiered in September at the Toronto International Film Festival...

December 8, 2011

The Queen Extravaganza band line-up will be...
Posted at The Queen Extravaganza

QUEEN’S ROGER TAYLOR ANNOUNCES WINNERS OF “THE QUEEN EXTRAVAGANZA” COMPETITION

WINNING LINE-UP TO TOUR NORTH AMERICA IN 2012 WITH GRAND PRODUCTION FEATURING CLASSIC QUEEN SONGS...

SHERLOCK returns New Year's Day
By Dan Owen at Dan's Media Digest

..."A Scandal In Belgravia" (written by Steven Moffat) will be followed by two more feature-length instalments (Mark Gatiss' "The Hounds Of Baskerville" and Steve Thompson's "The Reichenbach Fall") over the next two Sundays. Paul McGuigan (Gangster No1, Push) returns to direct the first two adventures, with Doctor Who's Toby Haynes directing the finale...

Tom Petty To Headline Isle Of Wight Festival
By mdome at Classic Rock

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers are to play their first European show next summer for 20 years...

Webber revels in return of Tasmania Challenge
Posted at Formula1.com

...Webber's charity multi-sport race, which is back on the calendar after a three-year break, sees two-person teams take on some of Australia's most rugged scenery...

December 7, 2011

POSTGAME NOTEBOOK: Capitals 5, Senators 3
By Mike Vogel - Senior Writer at WashingtonCaps.com

...On Wednesday night in Ottawa, the Caps again came from behind to take the Senators down 5-3 in their barn, a win that comes immediately after a lengthy stretch of struggling and stumbling in the standings...

'X-Men', 'Daredevil' And 'Fantastic Four' Remain Top Priorities,
Says Fox's Tom Rothman
Posted by Kevin P. Sullivan at MTV's Splash Page

Each time the topic of a follow-up to "X-Men: First Class" comes up, everyone seems eager to do it. Michael Fassbender and James McAvoy have both opened up about collaborating on ideas. Now top Fox exec Tom Rothman says that he wants it to happen...

Single Father To Have North American TV Debut
Posted at David Tennant - Fan News Blog

David Tennant's four-part drama Single Father will have its debut broadcast in North America via Toronto-based channel TVO. The series will run as part of the channel's January season and will air on Sunday nights at 10pm ET starting on 8th January 2012...

All systems go for Austin 2012
Posted at Formula1.com

The Formula 1 United States Grand Prix's place on the 2012 calendar was confirmed by the FIA on Wednesday after organisers revealed they have reached an agreement with Formula One Management over the new race in Austin, Texas...

Delecour plans Monte Fiesta run
Posted at WRC.com

Francois Delecour is planning a shock return to the World Rally Championship when he contests Rallye Monte-Carlo, the opening event of the 2012 season...

FIA ratifies 2012 rule changes
Posted at Formula1.com

Following Wednesday's meeting of its World Motor Sport Council in New Delhi, India, the FIA has confirmed a number of Formula One rule changes for the 2012 season...

Your Chance To Remix Queen Classic
By mdome at Classic Rock

As part of Queen’s ongoing 40th anniversary celebrations, Brian May and Roger Taylor have teamed up with global social networking website Talenthouse, inviting musicians to remix one of their biggest songs...

December 6, 2011

Queen Extravaganza: Video Footage
Posted at Queen Online

...The Queen Extravaganza auditions continue with the 3rd line-up of the day. Introducing Marc Martel and Michelle Jameson on vocals, Brian Gresh and Roy Ziv on guitars, Zach Mullings on drums, Brian Weaver on bass and Brandon Ethridge on keys...

...The judges bring the great day to the end and chat with the contestants about how tough it has been to decide who they should send through, as everyone has been so great. They will now take time to look at footage and chat before announcing the final band that will tour the US in 2012 very soon.

The Prequel to The Doctor, The Widow and The Wardrobe
Posted at Doctor Who Online

The BBC have unveiled a prequel video for The Doctor, The Widow and The Wardrobe...

Nissen to offer Vettel WRC test
Posted at WRC.com

Volkswagen Motorsport chief Kris Nissen has vowed to get Formula One world champion Sebastian Vettel behind the wheel of the German make's new-for-2013 Polo R World Rally Car...

Metallica Play First 30th Anniversary Show
By mdome at Classic Rock

Some major names from the world of rock and metal guested with Metallica last night (December 5), when the band played the first of four shows at the Filmore in San Francisco as part of a week-long celebration of their 30th anniversary...

...Perhaps most surprising of all was the presence of Diamond Head pair Sean Harris and Brian Tatler for four of their own songs...

Q&A with Sauber's Kamui Kobayashi
Posted at Formula1.com

Kamui Kobayashi reviews his 2011 season, his second in Formula One racing. By coming fifth in the Monaco Grand Prix, the Japanese driver put in Sauber's best result of the year, and by finishing ninth in Brazil he achieved a positive result in the season's finale. The 25-year-old scored points in nine out of 19 races and with 30 points in total he finished 12th in the drivers' championship...

December 5, 2011

Panthers 5, Capitals 4
By Mike Vogel - Senior Writer at WashingtonCaps.com

Regression – Two nights after earning their first win under head coach Dale Hunter, the Caps dropped a 5-4 decision to the Panthers in Florida...

9 Clips From Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
Posted at Super Hero Hype

Warner Bros. Pictures has released nine clips from director Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows that you can watch using the players below. Opening in theaters on Friday, December 16, the anticipated sequel stars Robert Downey Jr., Jude Law, Noomi Rapace, Jared Harris, Eddie Marsan, Stephen Fry and Rachel McAdams...

Board of Governors Approves Four-Conference Format
Posted at WashingtonCaps.com

The National Hockey League Board of Governors tonight approved a four-Conference alignment format and authorized Commissioner Gary Bettman to implement this proposal, pending input from the National Hockey League Players’ Association. The format would create two eight-team Conferences and two seven-team conferences...

Solberg committed to WRC future
Posted at WRC.com

Petter Solberg has revealed that he has no intention of calling time on his World Rally Championship career despite conceding that he has no deal in place for 2012...

Race of Champions joy for Ogier
Posted at WRC.com

Sebastien Ogier has won the annual Race of Champions event in Germany as the World Rally Championship came out on top against a number of other motorsport disciplines...

McLaren become world's first carbon-neutral F1 team
Posted at Formula1.com

McLaren revealed on Monday that they have achieved a long-held ambition in becoming fully carbon-neutral - the first Formula One team ever to receive such certification...

December 4, 2011

Brian May on Freddie's Legacy - 1 Dec 2011
BrianMay.com posted at Brian May's YouTube Channel on Dec 4, 2011

Brian May spoke to STV in Edinburgh, prior to the Press Night show of We Will Rock You, about Freddie's legacy following his death 20 years ago and situation with AIDS at the present day.

Book Review-Elisabeth Sladen’s autobiography
By Martyn at Bad Wilf

I can’t be critical about this book. Lis was a lovely, affectionate person who touched the heart of everyone she met and, everyone she didn’t. I remember hearing that she was going to be in the series 2 episode, school reunion. Despite never having seen an episode with Sarah Jane in, I knew who she was. Sarah Jane is the definitive companion.

Sadly, Elisabeth died in April 2011. Even now, a few months a way from the anniversary, it still feels fresh and some how unreal...

December 3, 2011

POSTGAME NOTEBOOK: Capitals 3, Senators 2, OT
By Mike Vogel - Senior Writer at WashingtonCaps.com

That’s More Laich It – Brooks Laich’s overtime game-winner a dozen seconds into the extra session gave Caps coach Dale Hunter his first NHL win as a head coach, a 3-2 triumph over the Ottawa Senators on Saturday at Verizon Center. The victory also halted a four-game losing streak in regulation, the Capitals’ longest such skid in more than four years...

The Doctor's Guide to Cardiff
By Chuck Foster at Doctor Who News

Matt Smith has recorded a video extolling the virtues of Cardiff and Welsh locations for VisitBritain, as part of their Great Britain - You're Invited promotion to encourage more visitors to the UK...

Lou Reed And Metallica: New Video
By mdome at Classic Rock

Lou Reed and Metallica have just posted the video for the song The View...

...View it here.

No More Queen Albums
By mdome at Classic Rock

...With rumours circulating that Brian May and Roger Taylor were putting together a new album, with unfinished Freddie Mercury tracks, the drummer told Pulse Of Radio:...

December 2, 2011

The Android Invasion: talking Kraals
Posted by Chuck Foster at Doctor Who News

A clip from the forthcoming DVD of The Android Invasion has been released on the BBC Classic Doctor Who YouTube channel, featuring producer Philip Hinchcliffe discussing the design of the Kraals' costumes in the story...

Steven Moffat Promises 'Doctor Who' Movie Won't Be A Reboot
By Rachel Molino at MTV's Splash Page

If you’re a time-tested “Doctor Who” fan, the past month may have found you in an emotional tumult of sorts. In mid November it was revealed that David Yates—director of the “Harry Potter” franchise since “Order of the Phoenix”—would be the main man behind bringing “Doctor Who” to the big screen within the next 3 years. With no actors or plot details attached to the project, fans wanted to know if a “Doctor Who” film would fit in the universe that had spent decades—along with a good few years worth of reprisal—adding to its vast continuity...

Ogier set for full WRC season in 2012
Posted at WRC.com

Sebastien Ogier will contest all 13 rounds of next year's World Rally Championship, despite his Volkswagen team's Polo R WRC not due to make its competition debut at world level until 2013...

December 1, 2011

POSTGAME NOTEBOOK: Penguins 2, Capitals 1
By Mike Vogel - Senior Writer at WashingtonCaps.com

Same But Different – Tonight’s 2-1 hockey game between the Caps and Penguins at the Verizon Center was eminently more exciting than Tuesday’s 2-1 hockey game between the Caps and St. Louis Blues in the same venue, although the result was the same. Washington came up on the short end of Thursday’s battle with Pittsburgh...

Public Image To Release New Album
By mdome at Classic Rock

Public Image Ltd are to release their first studio album in two decades next spring...

Block keen on Finland debut
Posted at WRC.com

The start of Neste Oil Rally Finland might be more than nine months away but that hasn't stopped Ken Block counting the days to the high-speed gravel spectacular, round eight of next year's World Rally Championship...

Tyre trivia - Pirelli's debut season in numbers
Posted at Formula1.com

You don't need to be a number-crunching statistics fan to appreciate how successful Pirelli's debut season as Formula One racing's official tyre supplier has been. The impact the Italian manufacturer has had on the sport has been pretty clear throughout this year's 19 Grand Prix weekends. But sometimes a healthy dose of facts and figures can press a point home...

Ducks hire Bruce Boudreau as head coach
By Lindsay Applebaum at Washington Post's Capitals Insider

Many assumed that Bruce Boudreau wouldn’t be out of work for long after the Capitals fired him Monday and named Dale Hunter head coach. Turns out, it took less than three days for Boudreau to find himself back behind an NHL bench...

Junior's Reading And Viewing List: November 21 - 30, 2011

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Last Update - January 2, 2011 at 2:24 AM EST

Publications from the end of November 2011 are in Junior's 'Reading And Viewing List' for November 21 through November 30, 2011.

Here are your film, television, music, Washington Capitals hockey, Formula One racing and WRC rally news links.

November 30, 2011

Shada - BBC Book Cover and Details
Posted at Doctor Who Online

...The Doctor's old friend and fellow Time Lord Professor Chronotis has retired to Cambridge University - where nobody will notice if he lives for centuries. But now he needs help from the Doctor, Romana and K-9. When he left Gallifrey he took with him a few little souvenirs - most of them are harmless. But one of them is extremely dangerous...

November 29, 2011

POSTGAME NOTEBOOK: Blues 2, Capitals 1
By Mike Vogel - Senior Writer at WashingtonCaps.com

...On Tuesday, the Caps closed the November portion of their schedule with a 2-1 home ice loss to the St. Louis Blues in the NHL head coaching debut of Dale Hunter. The setback gives the Caps consecutive home ice losses in regulation for the first time in a span of 19 games, since they dropped three in a row at home last February...

Kimi Raikkonen Q&A: I wouldn't be back if I lacked motivation
Posted at Formula1.com

It's official - Kimi Raikkonen will compete again in Formula One racing after the 2007 world champion signed a contract to race with Renault in 2012. In an interview with the team's press office, Raikkonen discusses why he's decided to return to the sport and his preparations for the season ahead...

Kimi: WRC stint was useful
Posted at WRC.com

Kimi Raikkonen, who will return to Formula One after signing a two-year agreement with Lotus Renault GP, has said the two seasons he spent in the World Rally Championship helped him as a driver...

Raikkonen to return with Renault in 2012
Posted at Formula1.com

After weeks of speculation Renault confirmed on Tuesday that Kimi Raikkonen will make a comeback to race for the team in 2012. Raikkonen, who left the sport at the end of 2009 to pursue a rallying career, has signed a two-year agreement with the team...

November 28, 2011

Bleeding Kansas
By Brian Lumley at Rumblings From The Man Cave

...A recent high school field trip to Topeka, Kansas to meet the Jayhawk state's governor has turned a small, seemingly private conversation between a high school girl and her friends into a veritable battle over our sacred cow: The First Amendement of the U.S. Constitution...

Two Coaches, Same End
By The Peerless at The Peerless Prognosticator

...Bruce Boudreau was relieved of his duties as head coach of the Washington Capitals this morning, almost four years to the day since he was named head coach – November 22, 2007. And there is an eerie similarity between his departure and that of his predecessor, Glen Hanlon...

Caps Tab Hunter to Replace Boudreau
By Mike Vogel at Dump 'N Chase

Just over four years ago, the Washington Capitals turned to Bruce Boudreau 21 games into a season that had gotten off to a rocky 6-14-1 start. The Caps hired Boudreau from its AHL Hershey affiliate as the team’s interim head coach on Nov. 22, 2007 to replace Glen Hanlon.

Now, 22 games into the 2011-12 season, the Caps are replacing Boudreau behind the bench with former Caps captain Dale Hunter...

Loeb beats Rossi to Monza glory
Posted at WRC.com

...Loeb’s wife Severine partnered him in his Citroen DS3 WRC for the nine-stage event, based at the Italian Grand Prix venue near Milan from Friday until Sunday...

Latvala stars on French practice rally
Posted at WRC.com

Jari-Matti Latvala continued his strong end-of-season run of form when he drove his Ford Fiesta RS WRC to victory on Rallye du Var, the final round of the French Rally Championship last weekend...

November 27, 2011

People Roundup - The Doctors
Posted by Chuck Foster at Doctor Who News

Tom Baker appeared at the launch of Elisabeth Sladen’s autobiography which took place on Saturday at the Doctor Who Experience in London. Baker said that meeting Sladen changed the direction of his life as it made him so happy in the role of The Doctor that her realised he could play the character for the rest of his life and didn’t need to act any more. He spoke of how they adored each other and how he fondly remembered standing arm in arm with her inside the TARDIS, giggling while they waited for their cue...

November 26, 2011

POSTGAME NOTEBOOK: Sabres 5, Capitals 1
By Mike Vogel - Senior Writer at WashingtonCaps.com

...With nine regulars missing from their lineup and nine rookies suiting up for the Sabres on Saturday, you’d have figured the Capitals might have an advantage in this one, maybe an advantage they could exploit with a fast start against a makeshift and inexperienced Sabres team.

You’d have figured wrong...

Good-bye Barrichello? The Brazilian's past, present and future
Posted at Formula1.com

It's 1993. Bill Clinton has been inaugurated as the 42nd President of the United States. Jurassic Park is the top-grossing film in cinemas. Apartheid is being gradually dismantled in South Africa. The very first internet search engines are being devised. And in Formula One, Williams are dominating with their innovative FW15, whilst young Brazilian hopeful Rubens Barrichello finds his feet at Jordan...

DOCTOR WHO series 7, due autumn 2012
By Dan Owen at Dan's Media Digest

As many people speculated, it looks like Doctor Who won't be back for its seventh series until next autumn. Steven Moffat said as much in the latest edition of Doctor Who Magazine, saying: "Doctor Who in the summer? All that running down tunnels, with torches, and the sunlight streaming through your windows and bleaching out the screen? All those barbecues and children playing outside, while on the telly there are green monsters seething in their CGI-enhanced lairs? It's just not right is it? Be honest...

November 25, 2011

POSTGAME NOTEBOOK: Rangers 6, Capitals 3
By Mike Vogel - Senior Writer at WashingtonCaps.com

Sloppy Second – Washington played well in its own end in the first period of Friday afternoon’s game against the New York Rangers, allowing just five even-strength shots on goal and three while the Rangers held the man-advantage. None of them got past Caps goaltender Michal Neuvirth. The Caps attempted 19 shots on goal to New York’s 18 and the period ended with Washington and New York tied at 0-0...

One Weekend, Two Hollys and a Lister
Posted at Red Dwarf (Official Website)

When sci-fi conventions invite actors from most popular TV series, they'll expect to get the usual mixture of autograph sessions, Q&A panels and photo opportunities. But when they get someone from Red Dwarf, they usually get a lot more into the bargain...

People Roundup
Posted by Chuck Foster at Doctor Who News

...Bill Bailey is under strict instructions not to talk about his role in the Christmas Special: "I will be just about to tell you what happens and then a tranquilliser dart will thud and the phone will go dead. They’ll [the Beeb] be all over me like a rash if I divulge any of the secrets, but yes just to say I have a cameo in it and great fun it is too. It’s fulfilled a lifetime's ambition for me, being a Doctor Who fan." [East Anglian Daily Times, 19 Nov 2011]...

Review: The Lost Stories - [3.02] Hexagora - CD
By Matthew Davis at Doctor Who Online

...Hexagora is chockfull of quite frankly bonkers ideas and set pieces. Yet it has the most wonderful underlying story. However it has to be said that while there is a great deal to enjoy here, not everything about the play works...

Gibson Guitars Announce Photo Exhibition
By mdome at Classic Rock

...It’s called Gibson Through The Lens, and is located at The British Music experience in the O2.

Running until January 31, the exhibition has 60 vintage and rare photos of iconic guitarists with their Gibson or Epiphone models. And entry is free...

November 24, 2011

FIA Thursday press conference - Brazil
Posted at Formula1.com

Drivers - Rubens Barrichello (Williams), Jenson Button (McLaren), Felipe Massa (Ferrari), Daniel Ricciardo (HRT), Michael Schumacher (Mercedes) and Bruno Senna (Renault)...

Review: [154] The Witch From The Well - CD
By Matthew Davis at Doctor Who Online

...The Witch From the Well, the second in the new trilogy of Eighth Doctor adventures, is a rather fun story, filled with great concepts and characters. As you may have guessed from the title, there is no shortage of witch related moments, most significantly in the sequences set in the Seventeenth Century...

November 23, 2011

POSTGAME NOTEBOOK: Capitals 4, Jets 3, OT
By Mike Vogel - Senior Writer at WashingtonCaps.com

Northbound – Monday’s 4-3 win over the Phoenix Coyotes was needed to stem the bleeding for a sagging Capitals team that was 3-7-1 in its previous 11 games and 1-5-1 in its prior seven. But that victory might have rung hollow had the Caps not come back with another strong effort in their next game, Wednesday’s home ice tilt with the Winnipeg Jets...

48th Anniversary of Doctor Who
By Marcus at Doctor Who News

Today marks the 48th Anniversary since the first broadcast of Doctor Who on 23rd November 1963...

...The programme is listed in Guinness World Records as the longest-running science fiction television show in the world, and as the "most successful" science fiction series of all time, in terms of its overall broadcast ratings, DVD and book sales, iTunes traffic, and downloads...

The first appearance of The Doctor

Review: The Lost Stories - [3.01] The Elite - CD
By Matthew Davis at Doctor Who Online

...The Elite is very good indeed. A gripping and intriguing narrative, coupled with exciting all out action, particularly near the story’s conclusion. Everything about this release feels like authentic Peter Davison era Who from the characterization, to the suitably Peter Howell-esque musical score...

GB domination a new WRC record for Ford
Posted at WRC.com

Citroen might have ended the 2011 World Rally Championship season with both the drivers' and manufacturers' titles but Ford rounded out the year by setting a new record when eight of its Fiesta RS WRCs finished inside the top 10...

Dmitry Orlov interview
Posted by tj at Alex Ovetjkin

Dmitry Orlov talked to sports.ru after his first NHL game...

Ogier to Volkswagen
Posted at WRC.com

Sebastien Ogier will be a Volkswagen driver when the German manufacturer makes its World Rally Championship debut in 2013...

Robert Kubica to miss start of 2012 season
Posted at Formula1.com

Robert Kubica has informed Renault that he can't commit to driving for the team from the start of the 2012 as he hasn't yet recovered sufficiently from the injuries he sustained in his February rally accident. Kubica severely injured his right hand during the crash and has missed the whole of the 2011 season...

November 22, 2011

More guests added to Diffcon one
By Martyn at Bad Wilf
Some new names have been added to the guest list of Diffcon. These include:

● Kai Owen
● Andrew Hayden-Smith
● Brian Blessed...

Christopher Eccleston wins an Emmy
By Martyn at Bad Wilf

Christopher Eccleston has won an international Emmy, for his role in Jimmy McGovern’s Accused. The show also won best drama series...

Colin Firth On 'Oldboy' Villain: 'I'm Thinking About It'
Posted by Kevin P. Sullivan at MTV's Splash Page

The last we heard, Colin Firth had been approached to play Adrian, the villain in Spike Lee's upcoming "Oldboy" adaptation.

When MTV News sat down with the Academy Award-winning actor for his new film, "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy", Firth remained more or less mum about potentially taking part in the revenge thriller...

New 'Amazing Spider-Man' Photos Reveal Rhys Ifans' Lizard Hand
By Rachel Molino at MTV's Splash Page

Recent “Amazing Spider-Man” reshoots have yielded a surprising crop of new stills from the Manhattan-based movie, and they may be some of the most revealing yet...

Pass Masters - overtaking in 2011 analysed
Posted at Formula1.com

Following the arrival of DRS and Pirelli tyres, overtaking has been a frequent topic of discussion this season. With nearly 1500 passes over the last 18 races, the level of overtaking has certainly climbed, but the debate about the merits of the rule changes continues. As we approach the season finale in Brazil this weekend, Mercedes have compiled some facts and figures to help you make an assessment...

Latvala: consistency is key to WRC glory
Posted at WRC.com

Jari-Matti Latvala has told Wrc.com that he needs to be more consistent in order to challenge for next year's World Rally Championship crown.

The 26-year-old from Finland is being tipped as a genuine title contender in 2012 following several standout performances this season...

November 21, 2011

POSTGAME NOTEBOOK: Capitals 4, Coyotes 3
By Mike Vogel - Senior Writer at WashingtonCaps.com

That’s More Like It – Heading into Monday’s game against the Phoenix Coyotes, the Washington Capitals found themselves in very unfamiliar territory. They occupied ninth place in the Eastern Conference standings, one spot south of the final playoff spot and a mere two points out of 13th place in the conference...

'Avengers' And 'Thor' Villain Tom Hiddleston On His 'Amazing' Year
Posted by Josh Wigler at MTV's Splash Page

Tom Hiddleston is having an awesome year. He stunned the comic book and movie communities as Loki in "Thor", and he'll once again play the Asgardian mischief-maker in next summer's "Avengers". Looking past his impact on the comics scene, Hiddleston also had a memorable turn in Woody Allen's critically acclaimed "Midnight in Paris", has a big role coming up in Steven Spielberg's "War Horse", among other triumphs...

New Photos From The Dark Knight Rises!
Posted at Super Hero Hype

...In the article, Nolan reveals that the story picks up eight years after The Dark Knight. "It's really all about finishing Batman and Bruce Wayne's story. We left him in a very precarious place. Perhaps surprisingly for some people, our story picks up quite a bit later, eight years after 'The Dark Knight'. So he's an older Bruce Wayne; he's not in a great state. With Bane, we're looking to give Batman a challenge he hasn't had before. With our choice of villain and with our choice of story we're testing Batman both physically as well as mentally."...

Smith, Gillan & Darvill Live Q&A
Posted at Doctor Who TV

Matt Smith, Karen Gillan and Arthur Darvill are taking take part in a Q&A session hosted by Doctor Who fan Jo Whiley. The event will be streaming live on Youtube from 4pm. Fans can ask questions through the comments on the right hand side of the video page.

UPDATE: If you missed it live, click the video below for the whole session.

Smith on BBC Breakfast (Nov 2011)
Posted at Doctor Who TV

Matt Smith was interviewed on BBC Breakfast today to promote the Series 6 box set. At the start, Matt confirms the filming date on Series 7 and mentions the 50th anniversary: “We shoot another 14 starting in February…It’ll be a whole series and a Christmas special. And going into the 50th anniversary, a 50th anniversary special.”

Hirvonen hopes Kimi stays in WRC
Posted at WRC.com

World Rally Championship runner-up Mikko Hirvonen wants Kimi Raikkonen to continue in the WRC in 2012 rather than returning to Formula One...

Junior's Reading And Viewing List: November 11 - 20, 2011

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Last Update - December 14, 2011 at 3:02 AM EST

Junior's 'Reading And Viewing List' for November 11 through November 20, 2011 will hook you up with items published during the middle of November 2011.

Film, television, music, Washington Capitals hockey, Formula One racing and WRC rally news stories are in this batch.

November 20, 2011

That Was The Week That Was -- Week 6 (November 13 - 19)
By The Peerless at The Peerless Prognosticator

Week Six was a week to forget. The Caps looked bad on the ice, were subjected to any manner and number of “what’s wrong” navel-gazing exercises from hockey intelligentsia, and fell almost all the way out of the Eastern Conference’s top-eight. Four weeks ago they were 7-0-0 and dreaming sweet dreams of success. Four weeks later they are 3-7-1 since then and have nightmares that they are playing like also rans. So what did this week have in it?...

November 19, 2011

POSTGAME NOTEBOOK: Maple Leafs 7, Capitals 1
By Mike Vogel - Senior Writer at WashingtonCaps.com

Oh For The Road – Coming off Thursday night’s 4-1 loss to the Jets in Winnipeg, the Caps wanted to come out strong on Saturday against the Leafs in the final game of a three-game road trip...

TRAILER: DOCTOR WHO – "The Doctor, The Widow
& The Wardrobe"
By Dan Owen at Dan's Media Digest

Every year Doctor Who teases its Christmas special during Children In Need, and this time we were given a brief sketch with Matt Smith as The Doctor (below) and a 66-second trailer for "The Doctor, The Widow & The Wardrobe" (above)...

November 18, 2011

More 2012 Tour Dates
By Joe Siegler at Black Sabbath Online

That didn't take long. I always assumed it would be longer until more 2012 Tour dates were announced. This appears to be similar to the 1998 "tour", when Black Sabbath played a bunch of European festival dates. This isn't the full fledged "World Tour" which will commence once the new album actually comes out. Although.. By this point in the process, I'd imagine they'd have all the songs mostly written. It wouldn't surprise me to hear at least one new song on these festival dates...

Joss Whedon Talks Marvel's The Avengers
Posted at Super Hero Hype

Following yesterday's debut of two new banners, Yahoo!'s Movie Talk posted an interview with The Avengers writer and director Joss Whedon. Here are a few highlights from the article:...

[Red Dwarf X] Audience Tickets Update
Posted at RedDwarf.co.uk

We expected there to be a healthy amount of interest in the free tickets to see Red Dwarf X being recorded at Shepperton in December and January... but even we didn't quite expect this...

Brazil preview quotes - FIA, Ferrari, Force India, Pirelli & more
Posted at Formula1.com - Updated November 23, 2011

After the hi-tech modernity of Abu Dhabi, the paddock heads back to one of the classic venues for the final round of the 2011 FIA Formula One World Championship and Sao Paulo's Autodromo Jose Carlos Pace at Interlagos. It's been the venue for plenty of drama over the years, and don't expect this season to be any different. The teams and drivers explain what makes it so special...

November 17, 2011

POSTGAME NOTEBOOK: Jets 4, Capitals 1
By Mike Vogel - Senior Writer at WashingtonCaps.com

From Torrid To Tepid – Thursday night’s game against the Jets in Winnipeg marked the third straight contest in which the Capitals scored the game’s first goal. It also marked the Capitals’ third straight setback...

Watch a New Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows Featurette
By Silas Lesnick at Super Hero Hype

Warner Bros. Pictures has released a new behind-the-scenes featurette for their upcoming Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows. Check it out in the player below!...

Early Ronnie Dio Recordings Released
By mdome at Classic Rock

...They all come from 1971, when Dio was in Elf, and are on an album titled And Before Elf…There Were Elves. This was released by Niji Entertainment, and has a special 3-D cover...

Latvala confirms Rallye du Var bid
Posted at WRC.com

Jari-Matti Latvala's bid for the 2012 World Rally Championship is already underway after the Finn was entered for Rallye du Var, the final round of the French championship from 24-27 November...

Cozy Powell Documentary In The Works
By mdome at Classic Rock

...To be called Dance With The Devil: The Cozy Powell Story, it’s being put together by independent film maker Lee Hutchings, who would like to hear from anyone who knew Powell and is interested in being involved. Click here to get in contact with him...

November 16, 2011

Big Finish: The Lost Stories - Fourth Doctor Box Set?
By Chuck Foster at Doctor Who News

...To be released in January 2012, the six disc audio collection will feature two unmade stories from the 1970s, starring Tom Baker as the Fourth Doctor and Louise Jameson as Leela:...

The Cage 3 Details!
By Joe Siegler at Black Sabbath Online

Back in 1999, Tony Martin hooked up with Italian guitarist Dario Mollo to produce a project called "The Cage". It proved popular, so a second Cage album came out a few years later in 2002. But that was it. Until now. Announced today is a third Cage album from the Martin / Mollo combination, entited "The Third Cage". Not a terribly imaginative album title (heh), but if the first track available from it is any indication, it's gonna kick ass...

Roundup: NHL general managers’ meeting
By Katie Carrera at Washington Post's Capitals Insider

The NHL’s general managers discussed a number of topics at their annual fall meeting Tuesday, from concussions and protecting the goaltender to realignment and how to monitor strategy, such as the Flyers’ action against the 1-3-1...

EXCLUSIVE Q&A: Malcolm Wilson
Posted at WRC.com

After six years as a member of the factory Ford team, what's your reaction following Mikko's departure to Citroen?...

Hirvonen replaces Ogier at Citroen
Posted at WRC.com

Mikko Hirvonen and co-driver Jarmo Lehtinen will switch to the Citroen works team in a two-year deal from next season...

Doctor Who Online Children In Need Charity Auction
Posted at Doctor Who Online

Children In Need is upon us, and this year Doctor Who Online are getting behind the cause more than ever! We've put together a fantastic collection of goodies to be auctioned on eBay that every Doctor Who fan will love, and of which 100% of the proceeds will be going to Children in Need!...

November 15, 2011

POSTGAME NOTEBOOK: Predators 3, Capitals 1
By Mike Vogel - Senior Writer at WashingtonCaps.com

Familiar Script – Tuesday night’s 3-1 setback to the Predators in Nashville marked Washington’s sixth loss this season (including overtime and shootout setbacks) and it was also the fifth of the six in which Washington went into the third period with the score tied...

Kenneth Branagh Explains 'Thor 2' Departure
By Danica Davidson at MTV's Splash Page

Because so many people liked Kenneth Branagh’s work as the director of “Thor”, just as many were surprised to learn he would not be returning as director for the sequel. Chris Hemsworth himself made it clear he was disappointed. And Branagh said he would love to work on another “Thor” movie, so what gives?...

BBC Shop Launches Exclusive Doctor Who Tree Decorations
Posted at Doctor Who Online

This year BBC Worldwide has a fantastic Christmas gifts for Doctor Who fans with a terrific new range of Doctor Who hand crafted glass tree decorations...

November 14, 2011

The Dark Knight Rises Wraps!
Posted at Super Hero Hype

It's been 179 days since The Dark Knight Rises officially announced the start of production (though filming actually began a little earlier in India). Now, actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt has announced, via his hitrecordjoe Tumblr, that filming is officially complete...

Harry Potter Director to Direct New Doctor Who Movie
Posted at Doctor Who Online

Harry Potter director David Yates is teaming up with the BBC to turn its iconic sci-fi TV series Doctor Who into a big screen franchise.

Yates, who directed the last four Potter films, told Daily Variety that he is about to start work on developing a Doctor Who movie with Jane Tranter, BBC Worldwide's L.A.-based exec VP of programming and production...

On The Set Of Sherlock Holmes: Game Of Shadows
Posted at Super Hero Hype

...He and his crew jump from set-up to set-up with a fierce determinacy that has them in small made-up hotel restaurant one minute and, just hours later, directing a hundred outdoor extras (all in period costumes and some riding in horsedrawn carriages) on how to react to a tremendous explosion that will be added in post-production...

Funding boost for Wales Rally GB
Posted at WRC.com

Wales Rally GB, which brought the curtain down on the 2011 World Rally Championship season yesterday (Sunday) and forms the 10th round of next year's global contest, has been handed a huge funding boost...

November 12, 2011

POSTGAME NOTEBOOK: Devils 3, Capitals 2, SO
By Mike Vogel - Senior Writer at WashingtonCaps.com

Ouch – Seeking to sweep their home-and-home set with the New Jersey Devils after Friday night’s 3-1 win in Newark, the Washington Capitals came out and played a strong first period in their own F Street barn on Saturday night...

UFO Name New Album
By mdome at Classic Rock

...It’s to be called Seven Deadly (changed from the original title of Last Of The Bone Riders), and is due out at the end of February on SPV/Steamhammer...

November 11, 2011

POSTGAME NOTEBOOK: Capitals 3, Devils 1
By Mike Vogel - Senior Writer at WashingtonCaps.com

...After spotting the Devils an early goal, the Caps found themselves in a familiar position, all even after 40 minutes of play. This time, they seized the game for themselves with a pair of third-period tallies...

Big Finish: Cherie Lunghi - The Emerald Tiger
By Chuck Foster at Doctor Who News

Big Finish have announced that Cherie Lunghi will join Peter Davison for their forthcoming audio adventure, The Emerald Tiger. The actress joins the Fifth Doctor team of Janet Fielding, Sarah Sutton and Mark Strickson for the story that opens a new mini-season in April 2012...

Be in the Audience for Red Dwarf X
Posted at RedDwarf.co.uk

Flash back, if you will, to the world as it was exactly thirteen years ago, in November 1998. Tony Blair was Prime Minister. Cher's 'Believe' was atop the UK singles chart. A "google" was just a very big number. And for the last time, new episodes of Red Dwarf were being shot before a studio audience.

Well, for the last time... until now...

Russell Tovey Leaves Being Human
By Martyn at Bad Wilf

...“Well, I’ve actually left Being Human but no one knows yet. Aidan’s left to film The Hobbit in New Zealand and going on without him on this fourth series felt strange.”...

Black Sabbath Reunites!
By Joe Siegler at Black Sabbath Online

...At a press conference in Los Angeles this morning at 11:11AM on 11/11/11, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler, Bill Ward, & Ozzy Osbourne appeared to announce that Black Sabbath Mk I is back together again and will be releasing their first new full album of material since 1978's "Never Say Die!"...

Friday practice - selected team and driver quotes
Posted at Formula1.com

In the bright afternoon sunshine at Yas Marina it was McLaren's Jenson Button who proved the fastest runner. Once the sun set and darkness fell McLaren remained ahead of their rivals but it was Lewis Hamilton who came to the fore. All the drivers, and senior team personnel, reflect on their early progress at Yas Marina...

Official Doctor Who Convention
Posted at Doctor Who Online

BBC Worldwide today revealed details of the first ever official Doctor Who Convention since the series’ regeneration in 2005. The event will take place on the 24th and 25th March 2012 at the Millennium Centre in Cardiff, Wales - the current home of the show...

CR AWARDS: The Scorpions
By Dave Ling at Classic Rock

...Given that the Scorpions are out on a farewell tour, how do you feel about this Metal Guru award?

Rudolf Schenker: The timing makes the whole thing extra special. We are so proud of all that this band has achieved...

CR AWARDS: Steve Marriott
By Dave Ling at Classic Rock

...An alien comes down from space and doesn’t know who Steve Marriott was. How would you explain his genius?

Frampton: Steve he had more talent in his little finger than a hundred others. He oozed soul from every pore of his body. He was also the greatest teacher; he’d get you in a room and play you one new song or artist after another. He would educate you. And another thing: You haven’t lived until you’ve shared a microphone with him – or tried to...

Junior's Reading And Viewing List: November 1 - 10, 2011

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Last Update - November 21, 2011 at 6:30 AM EST

The 'Reading And Viewing List' for November 1 through November 10, 2011 looks back at the beginning of November 2011.

The following articles and videos include film, television, music, Washington Capitals hockey, Formula One racing and WRC rally news.

November 10, 2011

Saxon To Release Live DVD
By mdome at Classic Rock

Saxon are to release a live DVD in early 2012.

It’s to be called Heavy Metal Thunder Live: Eagles Over Wacken, and will feature performances from the Wacken Festival...

CR AWARDS: Queen
By gbarton at Classic Rock

Queen won the Best Reissue Of The Year Award – come inside for exclusive chinwags with none other than guitarist Brian May and drummer Roger Taylor...

...Do you have any theories about why those old Queen albums are still so popular?

Taylor: That’s such a difficult question to answer, there were so many great bands that didn’t last the way we have. We definitely put our hearts into what we did back then. It was beautifully crafted; Freddie and Brian were always utter perfectionists.

May: We were also very competitive at the beginning, and that contributed to our high standards. Being so critical of each other definitely helped to raise the bar. We could all be self-indulgent, but between the four of us we managed to stop that.

Are the newspaper rumours true, is Lady Gaga going to join Queen?

Taylor: No. Even though she nicked the name [from Radio GaGa].

May: It’ll never happen.

FIA Thursday press conference - Abu Dhabi
Posted at Formula1.com

Drivers - Sebastien Buemi (Toro Rosso), Paul di Resta (Force India), Timo Glock (Virgin), Heikki Kovalainen (Team Lotus), Vitantonio Liuzzi (HRT) and Vitaly Petrov (Renault)...

Abu Dhabi preview - DRS to dial up electric Yas Marina
Posted at Formula1.com

Last year the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix saw Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel snatch the world championship crown from Ferrari's Fernando Alonso and his own team mate Mark Webber, but the dearth of overtaking played a key role in the final outcome. This year both the drivers' and constructors' titles are long settled, but the use of DRS could make for a much more exciting race...

Petter plans to push in Wales
Posted at WRC.com

Petter Solberg is planning a "big push" on Wales Rally GB this week as he bids to end a sometimes frustrating 2011 World Rally Championship season on a high in his privateer Citroen DS3 WRC...

November 9, 2011

'Iron Man 3' Seeks 1,000 Extras For North Carolina Shoot
By Kevin P. Sullivan at MTV's Splash Page

If you live near Wilmington, North Carolina, you might have a chance to be an extra in "Iron Man 3", and your chances are actually pretty good. A Facebook post by Premiere Casting stated that production would call for 1,000 background actors for the shoot in Wilmington starting in May 2012 and finishing in January 2013...

Lou Reed And Metallica Play On TV
By mdome at Classic Rock

Lou Reed and Metallica performed last night (November on Later...With Jools Holland...

...Check out the footage here and here.

Title rivals go face-to-face in Wales
Posted at WRC.com

The two contenders for this year's World Rally Championship squared up to one another today as the start of Wales Rally GB drew ever closer...

November 8, 2011

POSTGAME NOTEBOOK: Stars 5, Capitals 2
By Mike Vogel - Senior Writer at WashingtonCaps.com

No D vs. Big D – For the last two-thirds of the 2010-11 season, the Washington Capitals were the league’s stingiest defensive team. And they were the stingiest team the league had seen in a decade or so...

Racing against the clock - 2011 pit stops analysed
Posted at Formula1.com

The combination of DRS and Pirelli tyres has made 2011 a bumper year for the sport, but not just in terms of on-track passing manoeuvres. The characteristics of the Pirelli tyres, designed to improve the racing, have also seen the total number of pit stops rise steeply - so far, there have been an average of 58 stops per race. Slick pit work has always been important in Formula One racing, but the frequency with which the pit crews have been in action this year has brought both speed and consistency to the fore. Mercedes explain more...

GB preview notes: Part two
Posted at WRC.com

Petter Solberg (anxious to make up for his pain in Spain): "After my short drive in Spain, I’m so looking forward to drive here in Wales. We started with a few hours of testing [on Sunday] and everything looks very promising. The often muddy and slippery conditions in Wales suit me very well, and we have had many good results here in the past. My aim is to finish of the 2011 season on the podium."...

World Rally Radio preview: Wales
By Becs Williams at WRC.com

...Last year the drivers’ championship was decided in France, two rounds before the end of the season. This time around we get a fight on the very last round. It’s Seb Loeb (who else?) versus Mikko Hirvonen. 2009 ring any bells?...

November 7, 2011

Punk Exhibition In London
By mdome at Classic Rock

...Called Punk And Beyond, it runs from Friday, November 25 to Saturday, December 17, and is being curated by Gaye Advert. There will be artwork on display form her, plus Billy Childish, Marco Pirrone, Thurston Moore, Savage Pencil, Mark Mothersbraugh, Jamie Reid and Robyn Hitchcock among others...

We want YOU in the next Doctor Who "Best of" Special!
Posted on YouTube by BBC America

Record your wittiest, most festive answers to the any of the questions in this video and submit it as a response video here on YouTube!

Submissions must be in by WEDNESDAY November 23RD!

Other things to know: You do not have to live in the US to participate. There are no age limits but you will need the consent of a parent or guardian if your video is chosen.

Thin Lizzy Name New Guitarist
By mdome at Classic Rock

Thin Lizzy have announced that Damon Johnson is now a full-time member of the band...

Hirvonen chasing GB glory
Posted at WRC.com

Mikko Hirvonen will start Wales Rally GB this week knowing that he will almost certainly need to win the event to stand any chance of preventing Sebastien Loeb from making it eight World Rally Championship titles in a row...

GB preview notes: Part one
Posted at WRC.com

The World Rally Championship is set for a dramatic climax on Wales Rally GB this week with Mikko Hirvonen and Sebastien Loeb facing off for the world title. This is a summary of what the leading contenders have had to say in the build-up to the battle in Britain...

November 5, 2011

POSTGAME NOTEBOOK: Islanders 5, Capitals 3
By Mike Vogel - Senior Writer at WashingtonCaps.com

Caps Can’t KO DiPietro – Through the game’s first 20 minutes, Washington had the homestanding New York Islanders right where they wanted them. The Caps owned a 2-0 lead, Isles goaltender Rick DiPietro looked shaky to the point that the fans were chanting for back-up Al Montoya as the clock wound down in the first frame, and the offensively challenged Islanders were up to more than 100 minutes since they scored their last goal...

Review: All-star cast shines in 'Masterpiece' film 'Page Eight'
By Alan Sepinwall at What's Alan Watching? via HitFix.com

..."Page Eight" was written and directed by David Hare, who wrote the scripts for "The Reader" and "The Hours" but is a playwright by trade. And there's a very stage-like quality to the film, much of it consisting of Johnny sitting in conference rooms and drawing rooms discussing his life, his legacy and the current state of British intelligence with friends and colleagues, most of them played by a murderer's row of British (and/or Australian) character actors. In addition to Bill Nighy as Johnny, we have Michael Gambon as Benedict, Judy Davis as their colleague Jill, Rachel Weisz as Johnny's inquisitive neighbor Nancy, Ralph Fiennes as the British prime minister, Alice Krige as one of Johnny's many ex-wives and Felicity Jones as their estranged daughter...

Alice Cooper - Welcome 2 My Nightmare
By Ollie at The Ripple Effect

He’s back ... the man behind the mask. Well, strictly Alice has never really gone away. Now Alice, in my humble opinion, has never made a truly terrible album although some do shine far brighter than others. 1975’s original Welcome To My Nightmare set, however, stands head and shoulders above anything else in his solo career. As a die hard Alice fan, when I heard in 2010 he was working on a sequel to that album, Hell, I was intrigued...

November 4, 2011

POSTGAME NOTEBOOK: Capitals 5, Hurricanes 1
By Mike Vogel - Senior Writer at WashingtonCaps.com

Five Unanswered – Washington came into Friday night’s game with Carolina as the league’s most prolific offensive team with an average of 3.9 goals per game. That average will get a bit of a bump northward after the Caps trounced the Hurricanes 5-1 at RBC Center in a four-point Southeast Division contest...

New Pirates! Trailer
Posted at David Tennant - Fan News Blog

David's DWM Lis Sladen Tribute
Posted at David Tennant - Fan News Blog

The above interview with David is included in the latest issue of Doctor Who Magazine, which is a special tribute issue for the Sarah Jane Smith actress Elisabeth Sladen who so sadly passed away earlier this year.

Benjamin Cook who conducted the interview with David has some fab sound bytes on his official website at www.benjamincook.net...

Wrc.com preview: Wales Rally GB
Posted at WRC.com

...After 12 thrilling rounds in four continents, the 2011 World Rally Championship concludes in Great Britain next week with the title battle finely poised between Mikko Hirvonen and defending champion Sebastien Loeb...

November 3, 2011

The Prison In Space - Scriptbook
Posted at Doctor Who Online

...Eager to inject some humour into the series, producer Innes Lloyd called upon experienced scriptwriter, Dick Sharples, to come up with a story that would inject a lighter tone into Doctor Who. That adventure was The Prison in Space, originally envisioned to write out the character of Jamie and introduce a new companion called Nik - and it's a story that was just a hair's-breadth away from being made...

See Exclusive Rush Video
By gbarton at Classic Rock

Come inside to watch an amazing four-and-a-half-minute clip from the Canadian maestros’ brand new Time Machine 2011: Live In Cleveland DVD...

Twisted Sister - Double Live DVD/Live At the Marquee CD
By Woody at The Ripple Effect

A few months ago I wrote a frantic, drooling review of the reissue of Twisted Sister's debut album Under The Blade. It came with a bonus live DVD of their hell raising performance at the 1982 Reading Festival in the UK. As great as that package is, 2 others have come out and blow it away. In July the Double Live DVD was released containing a full live show from 1982 and their reunion at the 2001 NY Steel benefit, and just a few weeks ago Rhino released an audio CD called Live At The Marquee recorded in 1983...

Loeb won’t hold back on Rally GB
Posted at WRC.com

Citroen legend Sebastien Loeb insists he won't settle for second place on the World Rally Championship decider in Wales next week...

November 2, 2011

Primeval Season 5 Exclusive Trailer
Posted on YouTube by BBC America

This November, PRIMEVAL comes roaring back to BBC America's Supernatural Saturday - bigger and badder than ever before. Don't miss the all new season *** premiering Saturday November 12 at 9/8c ***

In the highly-anticipated new season, dark secrets bubble to the surface, testing relationships to the limit as anomalies - holes in the fabric of time - become more unpredictable and numerous, with more far reaching consequences than ever before. An underground creature causes chaos to a city, a nuclear submarine encounters an anomaly in the sea and a raptor roams the same streets of the infamous murderer Spring Heeled Jack in Victorian London.

Will there be a Torchwood season 5?
By Simon Brew at Den Of Geek

...While it never reached the commercial and critical heights of Torchwood: Children Of Earth, this year’s long-awaited fourth season of Torchwood, Miracle Day, appears to have been a solid enough success...

Hear ‘N Aid Single To Be Reissued
By mdome at Classic Rock

...Originally put out at the start of 1986, it was the heavy metal world’s contribution to raising money to help fight famine in Africa. Conceived by Ronnie James Dio, the single featured members of Iron Maiden, Motley Crue, Twisted Sister, Quiet Riot, Blue Oyster Cult and Spinal Tap, plus the likes of Ted Nugent ad Yngwie Mamsteen...

...Here’s the original video for Stars...

Block relishing Rally GB return
Posted at WRC.com

Ken Block is relishing his return to Wales Rally GB next week citing it as one of the events that first attracted him to the sport...

November 1, 2011

POSTGAME NOTEBOOK: Capitals 5, Ducks 4, OT
By Mike Vogel - Senior Writer at WashingtonCaps.com

Laich Line, Life Line – For the first half of tonight’s Caps-Ducks game, things weren’t going the home team’s way. Although they stayed out of the penalty box and generally limited Anaheim’s chances at even strength, the Caps found themselves on the short end of a 3-0 score

Bill Bailey In Metal - Out Now!
Posted by Pete at BillBailey.co.uk

Today sees the launch of the eagerly awaited album Bill Bailey In Metal, a collection of nine solid rock tracks that were forged for Bill’s headline set in the fiery furnace of the Saturn Stage at Sonisphere 2011. Each of these pieces were then hammered into shape in the studio furnace using the voodoo brilliance of a superb band of musical sorcerers...

November 2011 Concerts In Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia And Washington, DC

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Here is a current list of some of the music concerts and stand-up comedy performances scheduled to take place during the rest of November 2011, at venues in the Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Washington, DC areas.

November 17, 2011

Blood, Sweat & Tears at Rams Head On Stage in Annapolis, MD
- 6:30 PM EST Tickets / 9:30 PM EST Tickets

Russell Brand at Patriot Center in Fairfax, VA - Tickets

November 18, 2011

Buddy Guy, Indigenous and Michael Williams Band
at Hershey Theatre in Hershey, PA - Tickets

November 19, 2011

André Rieu at Patriot Center in Fairfax, VA - Tickets

November 25, 2011

Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band at 1st Mariner Arena
in Baltimore, MD - Tickets

November 30, 2011

Vanilla Fudge at Rams Head On Stage in Annapolis, MD
- 6:00 PM EST Tickets / 9:00 PM EST Tickets

*All details are subject to change!

Junior's Reading And Viewing List: October 22 - 31, 2011

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Last Update - November 14, 2011 at 3:21 AM EST

In the October 22 through October 31, 2011 'Reading And Viewing List', Junior's Eyes provides links that help you to revisit the last ten days of October 2011.

As usual, the list covers films, television shows, music, Washington Capitals hockey, Formula One racing and WRC rally news.

October 31, 2011

'Spider-Man' Villain Rhys Ifans: The Lizard Is Not 'Pure Evil'
Posted by Terri Schwartz at MTV's Splash Page

...The actor explained that he's a big fan of his "The Amazing Spider-Man" villain The Lizard because of his complexity. Unlike other villains that serve as foils to their superhero counterparts, Ifans has said that he think he and Spider-Man have a "moral" bond, and shared this time around why he thinks Connors is such a special character...

Dee Snider Records Broadway Tunes
By mdome at Classic Rock

...Snider recently told Goldmine: “It’s sort of a Twisted Christmas taken to Broadway. But there are some pretty metallic moments there, I’ll tell you. Sweeney Todd translates into a metal song amazingly — bass, drums, guitar — so some of the songs are really metallic, but it’s a rock record”...

Motley To Reissue Back Catalogue
By mdome at Classic Rock

Motley Crue are to reissue five albums on November 14...

...On the same day, four other albums will be made available on standard CD. Those in question are:...

...And on December 5, the band put out the Greatest Hits album on CD, deluxe CD, 180g vinyl and DVD. The track listing is:...

Huge entry for WRC finale
Posted at WRC.com

Close on 80 cars will contest the final round of this season's World Rally Championship, Wales Rally GB...

Loeb looks to sportscars with new team
Posted at WRC.com

Sebastien Loeb will target a return to the Le Mans 24 Hours when he calls time on his career in the World Rally Championship...

October 30, 2011

Memorabilia MCM Expo Q&A
Posted by Brian at EveMyles.net

In this special episode we bring you an extended interview with four of the stars of Torchwood Miracle Day: Eve Myles (Gwen Cooper), Kai Owen (Rhys), Arlene Tur (Dr Vera) and Alexa Havins (Esther Drummond), recoorded at a press Q&A at their London Comic Con/Memorabilia MCM Expo appearance October 2011.

Gillan Will Welcome New Companion
Posted at Doctor Who TV

...Speaking on Graham Norton’s Radio 2 show yesterday, she said: “I know the time is going to come when Rory and Amy have to leave. It’s inevitable and that will make me really, really sad. But that’s the nature of the show and what’s so good about it...

October 29, 2011

POSTGAME NOTEBOOK: Canucks 7, Capitals 4
By Mike Vogel - Senior Writer at WashingtonCaps.com

Tough Trip, Tough Towns – Washington will be heading home empty-handed from its two-game Western Canada road trip. The Caps fell 7-4 to the Canucks in Vancouver on Saturday night...

Doctor Who - Cast & Crew Special
Uploaded to YouTube by GuarroRock

To The Proclaimers "I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)", here's the cast and crew special for the end of David Tennant's tenure as the Doctor.

It was watched at the wrap party with all the cast and crew.

Enjoy!

Anvil To Reissue Three Albums
By mdome at Classic Rock

Anvil are to reissue three of their albums in deluxe digipacks through SPV/Steamhammer on November 28...

October 28, 2011

'Iron Man 3': Robert Downey Jr. Goes To North Carolina
By Josh Wigler at MTV's Splash Page

Robert Downey Jr. makes his grand return as Tony Stark in next summer's "The Avengers", fighting the Asgardian master of manipulation Loki and his minions alongside Earth's Mightiest Heroes on the streets of New York City — and once he's done cruising through the Big Apple, ol' Shellhead's taking an extended trip to Wilmington, North Carolina...

Primeval: New Order Details
Posted at Cult Fix

More details on New Order, Primeval’s new 13-episode American spin-off, have emerged.

Primeval co-creator Tim Haines explained the basic premise to SFX and said the spin-off won’t ignore the UK show and will crossover...

*Dan, Jr. / Junior's Eyes Note: Why do they keep killing off good shows by making US versions? Just show the original UK versions, even old episodes first, if the program hasn't been shown in America before. They do speak English, you know.

52k Say “Save Doctor Who Confidential”
Posted at Doctor Who TV

...Today marks “Save Doctor Who Confidential Day” and a count will be taken at midnight and sent to BBC Trust. If you haven’t done so already, show your support by taking a moment to sign it.

Note: the petition will still remain open after midnight, so you can still sign it after this time.

Save Doctor Who Confidential - Campaign Update
Posted at Doctor Who Online

The campaign to save Doctor Who Confidential, which was recently axed by the BBC is doing exceptionally well with over 50,000+ fans having now signed the online petition!...

Canton Back in Series 7?
Posted at Doctor Who TV

Mark Sheppard has hinted that we may be seeing more of his Doctor Who character, Canton Delaware, in future...

Alice Cooper To Appear In Vampire Movie
By mdome at Classic Rock

...He’ll be playing himself in Dark Shadows, which stars Johnny Depp, Michelle Pfeiffer, Eva Green and Helena Bonham Carter...

India preview - a new dawn near New Delhi
Posted at Formula1.com

It has one of F1's longest straights, a big corner like Istanbul Park's, goes up and down in places, and has a 62 percent capacity for DRS in qualifying that mirrors Spa-Francorchamps. Small wonder that the inaugural Indian Grand Prix at the Buddh International Circuit outside New Delhi has everyone very excited this weekend...

October 27, 2011

POSTGAME NOTEBOOK: Oilers 2, Capitals 1
By Mike Vogel - Senior Writer at WashingtonCaps.com

Shots Down, Shot Down – Prior to their departure from the District on their current two-game Western Canada road trip, the Capitals identified limiting opposition shots on goal as an area in which they’d like to improve. On Thursday in Edmonton, the Caps made some strides in that area. They also lost a 2-1 decision to the Oilers...

Michael Shannon on Playing Zod in Man of Steel
Posted at Super Hero Hype

Both Digital Spy and Empire got a chance to talk to Michael Shannon about playing General Zod in Zack Snyder's Superman movie Man of Steel. Spoiler alert for those who don't want to know about specific scenes ahead of time!...

October 26, 2011

'Red 2' Targets August 2013 Release, Plot Revealed
By Josh Wigler at MTV's Splash Page

...In addition to the just announced release date, we also have a new log line for the "Red" sequel. According to Summit, "Red 2" will "reunite our team of retired CIA operatives as they use their old-school style to take on a new set of enemies all across Europe"...

Rush Announce Three Box Sets
By mdome at Classic Rock

Rush are to release three box sets on November 28 – and these will cover their entire period on Mercury Records...

October 25, 2011

Read Extract From Ace Frehley’s Book
By mdome at Classic Rock

Ace Frehley is publishing his autobiography next week. But you can read an extract from it now...

Into the not-so unknown - Mercedes on simulating new circuits
Posted at Formula1.com

The Formula One drivers will only turn a wheel for the first time at the Buddh International Circuit on Friday morning. But although those practice laps will mark the beginning of a new learning process, the teams and drivers are far from starting from zero when they actually take to the track...

October 24, 2011

Meat Loaf Slams Aussie Football Organisers
By mdome at Classic Rock

Meat Loaf has hit back at those who’ve criticised his recent performance at the Australian Football League’s Grand Final...

..."...And I hope the AFL hears this and I want this everywhere. Because I will go out of my way to tell any artist: ‘Do not play for them’”...

Fans urged to Paint It Orange
Posted at WRC.com

Leading drivers from the World Rally Championship have helped to launch the Paint It Orange campaign to raise funds for the Richard Burns Foundation, the charity established following the death of the 2001 world rally champion...

October 23, 2011

Review: BOSS, 1.1 - "Listen"
By Dan Owen at Dan's Media Digest

Kelsey Grammer's struggled to find a hit since Frasier came to an end in 2004, with dreadful sitcoms like Back To You and Hank bombing with audiences. A gifted comic actor, but also just a great actor, it's no wonder he's decided to try his luck with cable drama (which often seems like the only place to find good work these days)...

Q&A: Jaime Alguersuari
Posted at WRC.com

Six days after bagging a career best seventh in the Korean Grand Prix, Spanish Scuderia Toro Rosso driver Jaime Alguersuari was in Salou yesterday (Saturday) to spectate on RallyRACC-Rally de Espana...

October 22, 2011

POSTGAME NOTEBOOK: Capitals 7, Red Wings 1
By Mike Vogel - Senior Writer at WashingtonCaps.com

And Then There Was One – Two undefeated teams came into Verizon Center for Saturday night’s game at Verizon Center, but only one left the building at night’s end. That was the Capitals, who downed the Detroit Red Wings 7-1 to add to their franchise record of wins at season’s start...

Davison Not Expecting 50th Return
Posted at Doctor Who TV

5th Doctor, Peter Davison has said that he isn’t ruling out returning for Doctor Who’s 50th anniversary, but would be very surprised if he was asked back again...

Doctor Who - Children In Need Special: 'Time Crash' 2007

Review: The Silver Turk - CD
By Marc Platt at Doctor Who Online

...The Eighth Doctor without Lucie Miller?; Surely we all said the same thing when Charley Pollard left the TARDIS and now without Sheridan Smith in sight, how will the Doctor cope? Well he won’t need to as this Doctor has not met both of those well loved companions. This is a younger, less hardened Doctor, and it is with this trip to the past that Big Finish brings Paul McGann back into the main monthly range...

Review: The Companion Chronicles: The Memory Cheats - CD
By Simon Guerrier at Doctor Who Online

...This is an excellent two hander between Wendy Padbury reprising the role of Zoe and Charlie Hayes, Padbury’s own daughter in the role of Jen, Zoe’s interrogator. Both play the mutual suspicion of one another convincingly, and it is the strength of their performances which draw you into the story...

Junior's Reading And Viewing List: October 11 - 21, 2011

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Last Update - November 5, 2011 at 7:04 AM EDT

Junior's 'Reading And Viewing List' for October 11 through October 21, 2011 contains title links, along with snippet teasers, from items published in the middle of October 2011.

Film, television, music, Washington Capitals hockey, Formula One racing and WRC rally news are among the topics to be found here.

October 21, 2011

India preview quotes - Ferrari, FIA, Renault, Force India & more
Posted at Formula1.com

If there's one thing the Formula One paddock loves, it's a challenge, and the inaugural India race is set to be one of the biggest challenges of the season. Newly built, the Buddh International Circuit is a real unknown quantity. And while all will have studied the circuit map and sampled it on a simulator, they are yet to experience the New Delhi track for real. The drivers and team personnel reveal their preparations...

More live streaming in 2012 following France trial
Posted at WRC.com

The World Rally Championship's trial of live internet streaming from Rallye de France Alsace earlier this month proved such a hit with fans and teams that it could pave the way for similar coverage of some or all of the WRC's 13 rounds in 2012...

October 20, 2011

POSTGAME NOTEBOOK: Capitals 5, Flyers 2
By Mike Vogel - Senior Writer at WashingtonCaps.com

Six Pack – Three goals in a span of just 2:25 early in the third period propelled the Capitals to a sixth straight win to start the 2011-12 season, a 5-2 win over the Flyers in Philadelphia. The victory extends Washington’s franchise record for most consecutive triumphs at the start of a season...

Q&A: Mikko Hirvonen
Posted at WRC.com

Mikko Hirvonen is one of three drivers locked in battle for the World Rally Championship drivers' crown. He spoke to Wrc.com on the eve of the penultimate round, RallyRACC-Rally de Espana...

Rhys Ifans on Amazing Spider-Man Director Marc Webb
Posted at Super Hero Hype

Rhys Ifans chatted briefly with the Orlando Sentinel about The Amazing Spider-Man director Marc Webb.

"I dipped my toe into 'Harry Potter', but I put my whole body into 'Spider-Man'," said Ifans, who plays Dr. Curt Connors / The Lizard...

Joe Walsh: Solo Album And Eagles, James Gang Activity
By mdome at Classic Rock

Joe Walsh is planning a busy 2012, with a new solo album, celebrating The Eagles’ 40th anniversary and plans for more James Gang activity...

Wolfsbane Name New Album
By mdome at Classic Rock

...The Tamworth terrors are to call it Wolfsbane Save The World and, says guitarist Jase Edwards: “It’s a suitably modest title… self-effacing, not too ambitious!!!! But the world does need saving and we are gonna start doing it with the help of our fantastic Howling Mad Shitheads...

October 19, 2011

'Avengers' Villains Will Please The Fans, Says Tom Hiddleston
By Josh Wigler at MTV's Splash Page

Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, Hulk, Black Widow and Hawkeye — when it comes to the roster of Earth's Mightiest Heroes, we've got that well and covered by now. But what we don't have quite as clear a sense of is who our heroes will be facing when "The Avengers" assembles in May 2012...

Stetsons are cool, series gimmicks aren’t
By Pete at Bad Wilf

Pete makes a stab at identifying what worked and didn’t in the 2011 series of Doctor Who.

Delivering television seasons in halves and specials is nice; it’s convenient for producers and puts the show higher in the audience’s recent memory. Taking notice of this structure in the stories, however, seems like a waste of time, especially with so much good already in the 2011 series of Doctor Who...

Spain preview notes: Part two
Posted at WRC.com

Petter Solberg (aiming to bounce back from his exclusion in France): “With the pace we have had on the past events, I am really excited about Spain. It has been so much fun being able to put up a really good fight with the other drivers, and I have enjoyed every minute of it. As the first day in Spain is gravel, we do have a good start position, which hopefully will benefit us. The next two days are Tarmac only, and I think we showed in France that we could be really fast on Tarmac.”...

2011 [Doctor Who] Christmas Special details
Posted at Blogtor Who

The latest issue of Doctor Who Magazine has released more news on this year's Doctor Who Christmas Special, here are some cast details:

Claire Skinner - Madge Arwell
Alexander Armstrong - Reg Arwell
Maurice Cole - Cyril Arwell
Holly Earl - Lily Arwell
Arabella Weir - Billis
Bill Bailey - Dorxil
Paul Bazely - Ven-Garr...

Nogier expects Solberg to fly in Spain
Posted at WRC.com

Benoit Nogier, whose Citroen Racing Technologies operation oversees the preparation of Petter Solberg’s DS3 WRC, has tipped the Norwegian privateer to be a major threat on RallyRACC-Rally de Espana this week...

The New Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows Trailer!
Posted at Super Hero Hype

Warner Bros. Pictures has revealed the new trailer for Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows which you can watch using the player below! Hitting theaters on December 16, the Guy Ritchie-directed film stars Robert Downey Jr., Jude Law, Noomi Rapace, Jared Harris, Eddie Marsan, Stephen Fry and Rachel McAdams...

Carey Mulligan On The Late Late Show "October 18, 2011"
October 19, 2011 EDT Show Clips posted to YouTube by DrPinch2190

October 18, 2011

POSTGAME NOTEBOOK: Capitals 3, Panthers 0
By Mike Vogel - Senior Writer at WashingtonCaps.com

Five Alive – For the first time in franchise history, the Washington Capitals are 5-0. On Tuesday night at Verizon Center, the Caps authored their best 60-minute outing of the young season and the result was a 3-0 triumph over the Florida Panthers...

Latvala pace will boost Hirvonen, says Wilson
Posted at WRC.com

Malcolm Wilson says Jari-Matti Latvala's strong pace on the all-asphalt Rallye de France Alsace earlier this month is the confidence boost Mikko Hirvonen needs to beat Sebastien Loeb on RallyRACC-Rally de Espana...

Matt Smith On The Late Late Show "October 17, 2011"
October 18, 2011 EDT Show Clips posted to YouTube by DrPinch2190

October 17, 2011

Fright Night Released On DVD and Blu Ray In The US In December
Posted by Jack at David Tennant - Fan News Blog

Fright Night will be released on Blu Ray Combo Pack, DVD and Digital on 13th December 2011...

Review: Colony in Space - DVD
By Dale Who at Doctor Who Online

...The Doctor (Jon Pertwee) manages to get the TARDIS working... almost, and he and his companion Jo Grant (Katy Manning) arrive on the planet Uxarieus in the middle of a feud between a band of Colonists and a division of the Interplanetary Mining Corporation. En route to sort out the dispute is an Adjudicator from Earth, who may not be all he seems either. Can The Doctor overcome killer robots, giant lizards, primitive tribesmen, prune headed priests and Gail from Coronation Street, save the day and get Miss Grant safely back to Earth, or will an old adversary win the day? You can find out on this new single disc DVD release from BBC DVD / 2|Entertain, out now. With all six episodes looking sharp and sounding great and some entertaining and fun extras to compliment the story, it's time to step inside the TARDIS for her first flight of the Pertwee era...

Damien Molony joins BEING HUMAN
By Dan Owen at Dan's Media Digest

SFX have reported that Irish actor Damien Molony has been confirmed to replace Aidan Turner on Being Human, playing a new upper-class vampire character called Hal...

NYCC: Avengers Footage Description and B-Roll!
Posted by Edward Douglas at Super Hero Hype

New York Comic Con is over, but we have some more fun stuff from the hugely-popular panel for Marvel's The Avengers for anyone who missed our live-blogging of it. Disney and Marvel Studios have supplied us with some B-roll footage of the stars meeting the fans, the panel and interviews, but we also have a much more detailed description of the new scene shown. In this scene, we first encounter Mark Ruffalo's Dr. Bruce Banner in India as he's approached by Scarlett Johansson's Natasha Romanoff (aka Black Widow) to come back to America to help S.H.I.E.L.D. deal with a "global catastrophe"...

Title rivals: it's full attack in Spain
Posted at WRC.com

Spain is set for a World Rally Championship thriller this week with two of the three title protagonists, Mikko Hirvonen and Sebastien Loeb, promising to go on maximum attack in their pursuit of WRC glory...

Spain preview notes: Part one
Posted at WRC.com

The World Rally Championship heads to Spain this week for the only true mixed surface event of the season, RallyRACC-Rally de Espana...

Doctor Who takes top slot on BBC iPlayer Downloads
for September 2011
Posted at Doctor Who Online

Doctor Who took the top slot as well as 4 other entires in the BBC iPlayer Top 20 requests for September 2011.

Torchwood: Miracle Day aslo faired favourably with three placements in the Top 20 figures...

October 15, 2011

POSTGAME NOTEBOOK: Capitals 2, Senators 1
By Mike Vogel - Senior Writer at WashingtonCaps.com

Historic Start – For just the third time in franchise history and the first time since 1997-98, Washington has opened the season with four straight wins. The Caps moved to 4-0 with Saturday night’s 2-1 shaving of the Senators at Verizon Center...

Single Tickets Availability
By Ted Leonsis (Capitals Owner) at Ted's Take

As promised we have kept some single game tickets available to sell directly to our fans. This is important to our fans via our research and frankly to me personally. I want access for all at reasonable prices. Directly from us. If and when possible...

...We have a waiting list of people that want to buy season tickets. We could absorb that demand with these single tickets available; but that would be counter to our strategy of access...

Steven Moffat On Plans For Doctor Who's 50th Anniversary
Posted at Doctor Who Online

Thursday saw the launch of BBC Books The Brilliant Book of Doctor Who 2012, and lurking within the (completely awesome) 164 pages of Doctor Who goodness, lies a wonderful interview with showrunner, Steven Moffat, who goes on to talk about the 2013 series...

October 14, 2011

Marvel's The Avengers Breaks iTunes Movie Trailers Record
Posted at Super Hero Hype

Marvel Studios announced today that the trailer (viewable below) for Marvel's The Avengers broke the 24-hour download record at iTunes Movie Trailers...

Friday practice - selected team and driver quotes
Posted at Formula1.com

Rain dominated proceedings during the opening day of action in Korea. With Mercedes' Michael Schumacher topping the very wet morning session and McLaren's Lewis Hamilton taking charge during the much drier afternoon session, there's plenty to discuss. All the drivers, and senior team personnel, reflect on their early progress at Yeongam...

October 13, 2011

POSTGAME NOTEBOOK: Capitals 3, Penguins 2, OT
By Mike Vogel - Senior Writer at WashingtonCaps.com

Eight Straight – Dennis Wideman’s power play goal in overtime pushed the Caps to their third straight win to start the season, a 3-2 triumph over the archrival Penguins in Pittsburgh on Thursday night. The win was the Capitals’ eighth in a row in Pittsburgh...

Save Doctor Who Confidential Petition
Posted by Jack at David Tennant - Fan News Blog

Doctor Who fans are not taking the decision lying down and have decided to try and persuade the BBC bosses to change their minds by starting a petition.

Whilst David was the Doctor the show saw some memorable episodes such as 'Do You Remember The First Time' which was directed by David himself!

If you'd like to see the show continue then you can sign the petition here...

Elisabeth Sladen The Autobiography - All the info
plus win yourself a copy!
Posted by Jack at David Tennant - Fan News Blog

Elisabeth Sladen The Autobiography with Foreword by David Tennant

The autobiography of Elisabeth Sladen, the actress behind Sarah Jane Smith, Doctor Who’s most popular companion is to be published posthumously, with the support and participation of Elisabeth’s family, this is a warm and witty celebration of an actress who delighted generations of children and is fondly remembered by fans young and old alike...

Cash worries won't slow Petter
Posted at WRC.com

Petter Solberg says he had no hesitation in committing to the season-closing rallies in Spain and Great Britain - even though it's costing him his own money to do so...

Traditional colours for Ford in Spain
Posted at WRC.com

The Ford Abu Dhabi World Rally Team Fiesta RS WRCs will revert back to their traditional colour scheme on RallyRACC-Rally de Espana next week...

Korea preview - still everything to play for
Posted at Formula1.com

The Korean Grand Prix proved a dramatic and popular addition to the Formula One calendar last year, and even though the 2011 world championship has been settled in Sebastian Vettel's favour once again, there is plenty to look forward to...

New Scorpions Live Release
By mdome at Classic Rock

Scorpions are putting out a live release on October 14.

Called Get Your Sting & Blackout, it will be available on Blu-ray and CD, and features a gig recorded in Saabrucken, Germany on April 15 this year...

October 12, 2011

EXCL: Aaron Eckhart Talks I, Frankenstein
Posted at Super Hero Hype

...Set to begin filming in Australia in January, the film tells the modern-day tale of Dr. Frankenstein's creature, Adam, who nearly centuries after his "birth", has found himself in a gothic city, caught up in a war between two immortal clans. Though based on the comic by Kevin Grevioux, Eckhart explained that Mary Shelley's original novel is where he's currently focusing his attention...

'Iron Man 2' Was 'Disappointing', Says Robert Downey Jr
By Terri Schwartz at MTV's Splash Page

...it's hard for Downey to say anything bad about the Marvel franchise that made him a star. In fact, he referred to the first "Iron Man" as the film that "changed everything for me" during the interview. But it's refreshing for him to admit that the second film was not quite up to the same standard...

Memorabilia London
By Brian at EveMyles.net

...Daleks and Cybermen beware! TORCHWOOD stars Eve Myles (Gwen Cooper) and Kai Owen (Rhys Williams) and Freema Agyeman (Martha Jones) from DOCTOR WHO are the latest great guests confirmed for Memorabilia London.

The trio join Alexa Havins (Esther Drummond) and Arlene Tur (Dr Vera Juarez), the US stars of TORCHWOOD MIRACLE DAY, at the 29-30 October show. Other DOCTOR WHO guests attending the Memorabilia London weekend include Andrew Hayden-Smith (Jake Simmonds), Ayesha Antoine (Dee Dee Blasco); Daniel King (Davenport) and John Levene (Sgt. Benton)...

McLaren: We are 100 percent behind Hamilton
Posted at Formula1.com

The last few weeks have been amongst the toughest of Lewis Hamilton's career. Not only has he seen another championship chance slip away, he's been overshadowed by McLaren team mate Jenson Button and found himself scolded by fellow drivers and harangued on the back pages by the press. It's not surprising then that much of a Vodafone McLaren Mercedes Phone-In with managing director Jonathan Neale on Wednesday was dedicated to Hamilton's recent troubles...

Prince Albert starts Rallye Monte-Carlo countdown
Posted at WRC.com

The countdown to Rallye Monte-Carlo, round one of the 2012 World Rally Championship, has begun after Albert II, Sovereign Prince of Monaco, formerly opened the WRC’s stand at Sportel in the Principality on Monday...

Talking Point: if a TV series changes its cast,
do you tend to switch off?
By Dan Owen at Dan's Media Digest

...Of course, some shows thrive on a fast turnaround of actors. Spooks has burned through many leads over 10 series (from Rupert Penry-Jones to Richard Armitage), while Doctor Who has change built into its very DNA, with eleven actors having played The Doctor since 1963. But are there any shows where tinkering with the cast would be a big enough no-no for you to turn your back on a good show forever?...

October 11, 2011

The Trailer for The Avengers is Here!
Posted at Super Hero Hype

Marvel Studios has revealed the first full trailer for writer/director Joss Whedon's The Avengers, starring Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Hemsworth, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner, Tom Hiddleston, Stellan Skarsgård and Samuel L. Jackson...

More Man of Steel Set Photos Featuring Amy Adams
Posted at Super Hero Hype

...In the June 14, 2013 release, Henry Cavill plays Superman in director Zack Snyder's "Man of Steel." The film also stars Laurence Fishburne as Daily Planet editor-in-chief, Perry White. Starring as Clark Kent's adoptive parents, Martha and Jonathan Kent, are Diane Lane and Kevin Costner. Squaring off against the superhero are two other surviving Kryptonians, the villainous General Zod, played by Michael Shannon, and Faora, Zod's evil partner, played by Antje Traue. Also from Superman's native Krypton are Lara Lor-Van, Superman's mother, played by Ayelet Zurer, and Superman's father, Jor-El, portrayed by Russell Crowe...

Citroen boss wary of Hirvonen's gravel threat
Posted at WRC.com

Mikko Hirvonen's gravel pace has been identified as the biggest threat to Sebastien Loeb's bid to make it eight world rally titles in a row this season...

Junior's Reading And Viewing List: October 1 - 10, 2011

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Last Update - October 23, 2011 at 5:12 PM EDT

The 'Reading And Viewing List' for October 1 through October 10, 2011 contains title links and snippets from places Junior visited at the beginning of October 2011.

Film, television, music, Washington Capitals hockey, Formula One racing and WRC rally news clippings are featured this time.

October 10, 2011

POSTGAME NOTEBOOK: Capitals 6, Lightning 5, SO
By Mike Vogel - Senior Writer at WashingtonCaps.com

Winning Ugly – Two points are two points, and every goal is a rocket from the slot in the box score. But neither coach is likely to be overly happy about his team’s performance in tonight’s sloppy, ugly yet fast-paced and exciting game, a 6-5 Capitals win over the Lightning that required a skills competition to determine a victor for standings purposes...

Talking Point: do you stream TV more than movies?
By Dan Owen at Dan's Media Digest

Netflix have revealed that 60% of their US subscribers prefer to stream TV shows instead of movies. Does this fit with your own online habits? I've only ever streamed a few movies online, and because the quality was sub-DVD standard (with no surround sound), my choices were always old "classics" I'd never ordinarily bother to buy or rent...

Impressive entry for Spain’s WRC counter
Posted at WRC.com

A total of 62 crews will contest Spain's round of the World Rally Championship later this month with 20 new-generation World Rally Cars appearing on the provisional entry for the mixed-surface event, which runs from 20-23 October...

Thin Lizzy - Live in London 2011
Posted by Racer at The Ripple Effect

...Phil can never be replaced. He remains one of the most galvanizing, mercurial figures in rock history. But the new version of Thin Lizzy playing his music are good. Damn good...

...So really, the question is the front man. Who could do it? Who has the balls and the proper charisma to take the place of Phil on stage. Talk about being set up to fail! Well, let me tell you, the Lizzy boys couldn't have found a better man than Ricky Warwick. Nothing in his resume of the Almighty or New Model Army prepared me for what I heard...

October 8, 2011

Postgame Notebook: Capitals 4, Hurricanes 3, OT
By Mike Vogel - Senior Writer at WashingtonCaps.com

No Place Like Home – The Caps kept their good home karma going with a 4-3 overtime win over the Carolina Hurricanes in their 2011-12 season opener at Verizon Center on Saturday night...

Doctor Who Encyclopedia on Book and iPad
Posted at Doctor Who Online

BBC Books recently confirmed that the latest revision of the Doctor Who Encyclopedia, compiled by Gary Russell and out on 13th October, will be released as both a book and an iPad app...

October 7, 2011

Lady Gaga To Front Queen?
By mdome at Classic Rock

...Talking to the Daily Express, the guitarist had this to say about the idea: “We talk about going out on the road all the time but there’s a bit of a singer problem to put it mildly. We get a lot of offers to work with other people. I worked with Lady Gaga and she’s very creative and is someone we’ve talked...

Friday practice - selected team and driver quotes
Posted at Formula1.com

McLaren's Jenson Button seemed to rule the roost in Japan, dominating the timesheets in both opening practice sessions, but with changing track conditions affecting proceedings, the pecking order is yet to be settled. All the drivers, and senior team personnel, reflect on their early progress at Suzuka...

October 6, 2011

The David Tennant Years DVD Collection
Posted by Jack at David Tennant - Fan News Blog

Lucky fans in America have a big shiny new Doctor Who boxset to look forward to as BBC America gear up for the release of The David Tennant Years on 11th October 2011...

Nativity 2 Update
Posted by Jack at David Tennant - Fan News Blog

Doctor Who Magazine has reported on the fact that David Tennant is attatched to the BBC Film Nativity 2 which is of course a sequel to the Martin Freeman film, Nativity, which was released in 2009...

...Earlier this year Debbie Isitt spoke about the possibility of a sequel to the original Nativity!

*Dan, Jr./Junior's Eyes Note: For now, revisit the original Nativity!
via this trailer.

BBC cost-saving measures announced
By Dan Owen at Dan's Media Digest

...The radio and daytime TV cuts I can live with, but a BBC with no foreign imports and less entertainment shows doesn't fill me with happiness. But BBC1 is set to benefit, as it becomes an even bigger focus of the BBC, and the corporation's promised to invest more in comedy/drama. I think we'll have a better idea what this has done to the quality and output of the BBC in a few years time, but it's definitely a concern...

Alice Cooper Hosts Horror Night
By mdome at Classic Rock

Alice Cooper is to have his own horror movie night in London on Friday, October 28.

It will happen at the BFI, where Alice will discuss his love of the genre, accompanied by clips from some of his favourite movies...

Motorhead: New Live Release
By mdome at Classic Rock

...It’s titled The World Is Ours Vol 1 – Everywhere Further Than Everywhere Else and features the band’s entire set from Santiago, Chile, filmed on April 9 this year, plus selected highlights from gigs in New York and Manchester on the last tour. Thee will also be new interviews...

Ripple Library - Spray Paint The Walls: The Story Of Black Flag
by Stevie Chick
By Woody at The Ripple Effect

Leave it to an English writer to tell the tale of one of America’s greatest bands. Given the long standing bad vibes that continue to exist between most of the key players it’s a good thing that someone with an outside perspective decided to deseed Black Flag’s dark history...

FIA Thursday press conference - Japan
Posted at Formula1.com

Drivers - Jerome d'Ambrosio (Virgin), Jenson Button (McLaren), Paul di Resta (Force India), Kamui Kobayashi (Sauber), Heikki Kovalainen (Team Lotus), Sebastian Vettel (Red Bull)...

October 5, 2011

Interview with Biff Byford of Saxon
By Miguel at The Age Of Metal

...The Age Of Metal had the chance to talk with Biff Byford lead singer of the band, during their stop here in Tempe, AZ last night, we talked about the new album, their current tour, the band, and their legacy, this is what he told us:...

October 4, 2011

Entertainment Media Special
By Martyn Havell, Pete and Chris (The Pharos Project) at Bad Wilf

In which Martyn, Pete from Bad Wilf and Chris from the Pharos Project attend the Entertainment Media Show and bring you interviews with...

...Dave Prowse...Eve Myles...Arthur Darvill...Paul McGann...

Tom Baker Signing at St Michaels Hospice
Posted at Doctor Who Online

...The signing will take place on Sunday 30th October at The Arthur Eastern Centre, St Michaels Hospice, Upper Maze Hill, St Leornards on Sea, East Sussex, TN38 0LB, between 12-4:00pm [GMT].

Tom will be signing photographs on the day and all proceeds will be going to the hospice...

Scorpions To Release Album Of Re-Recorded Songs
By mdome at Classic Rock

...They have done a new version of Still Loving You with French Pop Idol winner Amandiner Bourgeois, and this is currently being streamed here...

Loeb felt for the fans after France exit
Posted at WRC.com

World champion Sebastien Loeb has told his official website that one of the most disappointing aspects of his retirement from Rallye de France Alsace was a feeling that he had let down his thousands of fans...

October 3, 2011

Rock Radio To Change Its Name
By mdome at Classic Rock

...They claim that the emphasis will still be on classic rock, and veteran radio DJ Tom Russell is being retained in Glasgow. But a number of other DJs have already left, with the new schedule yet to be confirmed...

Hirvonen: title race wide open
Posted at WRC.com

Mikko Hirvonen says a thrilling climax to this year's world championship is in store after he drew level with Sebastien Loeb in the standings in the aftermath of Petter Solberg's exclusion from Rallye de France Alsace on Sunday night...

Nogier: Solberg exclusion a disappointment
Posted at WRC.com

Benoit Nogier, who oversees the running of Petter Solberg’s Citroen DS3 WRC in the World Rally Championship, has spoken of his disappointment following the Norwegian's exclusion from Rallye de France Alsace...

October 2, 2011

Postgame Notebook: Capitals 4, Blackhawks 1
By Mike Vogel - Senior Writer at WashingtonCaps.com

...In Sunday’s 4-1 win over the Chicago Blackhawks, the Hawks picked up where they left off in Friday’s 4-3 overtime win over the Sabres. Washington was dominant in the first 30 minutes of Sunday’s game against Chicago, and when the Capitals – leading by a slim 2-1 margin at the time – did hit a lull midway through the second period, goaltender Michal Neuvirth was there to deny Chicago’s ongoing bid for the tying marker...

BREAKING NEWS: Petter excluded from rally
Posted at WRC.com

Petter Solberg has been stripped of his third place on Rallye de France and excluded from the results altogether after his Citroen DS3 was found to be under the regulation minimum weight for a World Rally Car...

October 1, 2011

Season finale review: 'Doctor Who' - 'The Wedding of River Song':
All at once
By Alan Sepinwall at What's Alan Watching? via HitFix.com

...Steven Moffat laid out such a complicated story arc for himself this season that "The Wedding of River Song" had an awful lot to live up to. It had to explain how the Doctor wouldn't die at Lake Silencio - since, great as Matt Smith is, no one has any intention of having the series end with him - had to tell us more about the Silence and the Question, provide the kind of emotional resolution to the Amy/River/Melody story that "Let's Kill Hitler" didn't have time to, and more...

DOCTOR WHO, 6.13 – "The Wedding Of River Song"
By Dan Owen at Dan's Media Digest

...I'm all for big ideas, expensive location work, and lashings of special effects, but it's ultimately a brilliant story and engaging characters that keeps me watching. There was some of that here, but it had a tendency to get lost in the noise, like a mother reading a fairy tale in the middle of a booming music festival...

October 2011 Concerts In Maryland, Virginia And Washington, DC

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Here is a current list of some of the music concerts and stand-up comedy performances scheduled to take place during the rest of October 2011, at several venues in the Maryland, Virginia and Washington, DC areas.

October 14, 2011

Saxon and Croatoan at Jaxx Nightclub in Springfield, VA - Tickets

Tony Bennett at Warner Theatre in Washington, DC - Tickets

October 15, 2011

Tony Bennett at The Lyric in Baltimore, MD - Tickets

Wanda Sykes at Patriot Center in Fairfax, VA - Tickets

Yngwie Malmsteen at The Fillmore Silver Spring in Silver Spring, MD - Tickets

October 17, 2011

Stephen Stills at Rams Head Onstage in Annapolis, MD - Sold Out

October 19, 2011

Anvil at Jaxx Nightclub in Springfield, VA - Tickets

Stephen Stills at Rams Head Onstage in Annapolis, MD - Sold Out

October 20, 2011

Brad Garrett at Rams Head Onstage in Annapolis, MD - 6:00 PM EDT Tickets / 9:00 PM EDT Tickets

October 21, 2011

Brian Regan at Weinberg Center For The Arts in Frederick, MD
- 7:00 PM EDT Tickets / 9:30 PM EDT Tickets

Jackson Browne (solo acoustic) at The Lyric in Baltimore, MD
- Tickets

October 22, 2011

Lewis Black at The Lyric in Baltimore, MD - Tickets

October 23, 2011

Jackson Browne (acoustic) at Warner Theatre in Washington, DC
- Tickets

Anderson / Wakeman at Lisner Auditorium in Washington, DC
- Tickets

Lewis Black at The Fillmore Silver Spring in Silver Spring, MD
- Tickets

October 24, 2011

Little River Band at Rams Head Onstage in Annapolis, MD - Tickets

October 25, 2011

The Tubes at Rams Head Onstage in Annapolis, MD - Tickets

October 29, 2011

John Oliver at Warner Theatre in Washington, DC - Tickets

Nils Lofgren at Rams Head Onstage in Annapolis, MD - Sold Out

Blaze Bailey, The Maiden Project, Man The Destroyer and
Death Penalty at Jaxx Nightclub in Springfield, VA - Tickets

October 30, 2011

Nils Lofgren at Rams Head Onstage in Annapolis, MD - Tickets

*All details are subject to change!

Junior's Reading And Viewing List: September 21 - 30, 2011

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Last Update - October 7, 2011 at 5:41 AM EDT

This is Junior's 'Reading And Viewing List' for September 21 through September 30, 2011. Title links and a taste of each item published at the end of September 2011 are included.

Below, you'll find news on television shows, films, Washington Capitals hockey, music, Formula One racing and the WRC.

September 30, 2011

Capitals 4, Sabres 3, SO
By Mike Vogel - Senior Writer at WashingtonCaps.com

For the second time in as many games, the Capitals struck first in Friday night’s pre-season tilt against the Buffalo Sabres. And for the second time in as many games, they found themselves trailing in the game before they were able to build on that first marker...

Japan preview quotes - McLaren, Sauber, HRT & Mercedes
Posted at Formula1.com

Ask a Formula One driver to name his favourite tracks and chances are Suzuka will get more mentions than almost any other circuit. Its mixture of gradient, high-speed turns and technical corner combinations make for one of the sport's ultimate challenges - and one that gives a huge sense of satisfaction if you get it right. And with Japan still recovering from a devastating earthquake and tsunami earlier this year, the teams are especially eager to return and show their support...

Formula One Fantasy - Sauber's Kamui Kobayashi
Posted at Formula1.com

Since his debut for Toyota back in 2009 Sauber's Kamui Kobayashi has made a strong impression on F1 racing. A fearless overtaker, Kobayashi is a real entertainer on the track, and ahead of his home race next weekend he reminds us of how entertaining he is off it, too. The Japanese driver explains why his Formula One Fantasies would include racing around a V20-engined Brabham around the streets of Tokyo with Ayrton Senna as a team mate and more...

September 29, 2011

Block boosted by strong pre-event test
Posted at WRC.com

Ken Block says his pre-event test for Rallye de France Alsace was one of the best he has done since he became a regular in the World Rally Championship two years ago...

September 28, 2011

Predators 4, Capitals 1
By Mike Vogel - Senior Writer at WashingtonCaps.com

Washington finished up the road portion of its pre-season slate with a 4-1 loss to the Predators in Nashville on Wednesday night. The setback drops the Capitals to 1-3-1 in the pre-season with two games to go...

Doctor Who Confidential Axed by BBC
Posted at Doctor Who Online

...Doctor Who Confidential, which features behind-the-scenes footage from the making of Doctor Who as well as interviews with the cast and crew, has aired in an early evening slot on BBC3 since 2005, when the corporation revived the main series with Christopher Eccleston as the ninth Time Lord.

However, with the corporation facing budget cuts of up to 20% across its output as part of its Delivering Quality First initiative, BBC controller Zai Bennett has chosen to axe the show at the end of its current series...

France preview notes: Part two
Posted at WRC.com

...Petter Solberg: “I was really happy with our third in Australia. That was a great bonus for both the team and myself. Now I hope we can keep the same pace in France, and hopefully we can defend our third place there from last year.”...

France preview notes: Part one
Posted at WRC.com

...Mikko Hirvonen: “The stages are bumpy and abrasive in some sections, but the biggest surprise last year was how much we could cut the corners and the amount of mud and dirt that was dragged onto the roads. Winning in Australia removed some pressure, but we must carry that success forward and fight for the championship in the final rounds.”...

September 27, 2011

"Best Companion Ever"?: EXCLUSIVE DW Insider, Ep 12
Uploaded to YouTube by BBCAmericaTV

Cliff Burton R.I.P.
By mdome at Classic Rock

On September 27, 1986, Metallica bassist Cliff Burton was tragically killed in a road accident in Sweden. Today marks the 25th anniversary of his death...

Hamilton wows Indian crowds on streets of Bangalore
Posted at Formula1.com

The residents of Bangalore enjoyed a taste of Formula One action on Tuesday as McLaren's Lewis Hamilton took to the streets of the India city in his 2008 world championship-winning MP4-23. Over 40,000 fans lined the temporary track to watch...

September 26, 2011

Postgame Notebook: Capitals 3, Blue Jackets 1
By Mike Vogel - Senior Writer at WashingtonCaps.com

After suffering through an 0-2-1 start to the 2011 NHL pre-season, the Capitals took advantage of their first taste of home cooking on Monday night. Washington downed the Columbus Blue Jackets by a 3-1 count...

India goes Gaga; McCartney & Spears Abu Dhabi bound
Posted at Formula1.com

Organisers of next month's 2011 Formula 1 Airtel Grand Prix of India have announced that American pop icon Lady Gaga will be the star attraction at the post-race party that will follow Formula One racing's inaugural outing in the country at the all-new Buddh International Circuit...

Shakedown qualifying set for 2012
Posted at WRC.com

Priority 1 and 2 drivers contesting next year's World Rally Championship will be handed one run in shakedown to earn the right to be the first competitor to choose their starting position for the opening day of competition on gravel events...

WRC calendar for 2012 confirmed
Posted at WRC.com

The calendar for the FIA World Rally Championship has been confirmed at a meeting of the FIA's World Motor Sport Council in Singapore earlier today...

September 25, 2011

6.13: The Wedding of River Song - Prequel Clip
Posted at Doctor Who Online

The BBC have released a prequel clip for 6.13: The Wedding of River Song:

*Dan, Jr. / Junior's Eyes Note: Check out this other official
season finale trailer.

Doctor Who: Wedding Of River Song/NEW Season Finale Trailer

September 24, 2011

Review: 'Doctor Who' - 'Closing Time': Partners in parenting
By Alan Sepinwall at What's Alan Watching? via HitFix.com

At first, I took "Closing Time" to be a light-hearted one-off before the fireworks and tears that will presumably be coming with next week's season finale. After all, it reunited the Doctor with Craig, his goofy flamate from last season's "The Lodger", had a lot of jokes about the Doctor speaking baby, the Doctor getting a job in a department store, and his new co-workers assuming that the Doctor and Craig were a gay couple...

September 23, 2011

Blackhawks 3, Capitals 2
By Mike Vogel - Senior Writer at WashingtonCaps.com

Aiming for their first pre-season victory in three bids, the Washington Capitals nursed a 1-0 lead into the third period of Friday’s game against the Blackhawks in Chicago. The Caps were somewhat fortunate to have that lead; they followed up a strong first frame in which they forged that 1-0 lead with a sluggish second. Washington went without a shot on goal for the first 10 minutes of the second and it took Tomas Vokoun’s strong netminding to hold the Caps’ slim lead heading into the final 20 minutes...

The Black Country Weekender Round-up
Posted at Home Of Metal

People of the region rolled up and rocked on as the black country weekender came to their town...

'Captain America' Sequel Not Likely Until 2014, Says Chris Evans
By Josh Wigler at MTV's Splash Page

Captain America next throws his mighty shield at audiences in "Marvel's The Avengers", but after that, Steve Rogers might be on ice again for a little while...

Friday practice - selected team and driver quotes
Posted at Formula1.com

As the light dimmed in Singapore on Friday the Formula One cars came out to play for the first time this year. McLaren's Lewis Hamilton led the way during the opening practice session, but the second saw Red Bull and Ferrari come to the fore. The leading teams and their rivals reflect on their progress at Marina Bay...

Washington Capitals 2011-2012 Previews: Mike Knuble
By The Peerless at The Peerless Prognosticator

In late March of 1997, Comet Hale-Bopp was making its closest approach to Earth, and Mike Knuble was making his debut in the National Hockey League. The comet was probably the bigger story at the time, but Knuble has managed to skate in almost 1,000 regular season games in the NHL since then. That is a lot of experience. It commands a certain amount of respect, and it was on display last winter...

DOCTOR WHO series 7 delayed till autumn 2012?
By Dan Owen at Dan's Media Digest

This has yet to be confirmed by the BBC itself, but Doctor Who Magazine's latest issue has "officially confirmed" that Series 7 of the sci-fi drama won't reach UK screens until autumn 2012, according to Doctor Who TV...

September 22, 2011

What Alexander Semin Is and Isn't... Yet
By J.P. at Japers' Rink

Even his harshest critics recognize Semin's on-ice brilliance. And it's the failure to consistently perform to the best of his ability when it matters most (along with his $6.7 million salary) that are the primary reasons he has so many and such vocal critics...

FIA Thursday press conference - Singapore
Posted at Formula1.com

Drivers - Sebastien Buemi (Toro Rosso), Timo Glock (Virgin), Sergio Perez (Sauber), Daniel Ricciardo (HRT), Nico Rosberg (Mercedes) and Sebastian Vettel (Red Bull)...

Former Atomic Rooster Member Dies
By mdome at Classic Rock

Guitarist John Du Cann has passed away after a suspected heart attack.

He first made his name with Atomic Rooster, playing on hits like Devil’s Answer. Subsequently he was a touring guitarist with Thin Lizzy on their 1974 German tour...

Washington Capitals 2011-2012 Previews: Marcus Johansson
By The Peerless at The Peerless Prognosticator

If one was to tell you that among all the Caps in last season’s playoffs, that at 5-on-5 no Cap posted points with greater frequency than Marcus Johansson, would you believe it? Well, according to the folks at behindthenet.ca, Johansson’s 2.96 points/60 minutes at 5-on-5 led the team. You might think it more a commentary on the Caps’ playoff performance as a whole, but Johansson finished 15th among all players in the playoffs in that statistic...

September 21, 2011

Blue Jackets 4, Capitals 3, OT
By Mike Vogel - Senior Writer at WashingtonCaps.com

A late rally enabled the Washington Capitals to draw even with the host Columbus Blue Jackets in Wednesday’s NHL pre-season game a Nationwide Arena, but the Caps ultimately absorbed a 4-3 overtime setback...

Captain America Blu-ray Trailer Featuring Avengers Sneak
Posted at Super Hero Hype

Marvel Studios has posted this trailer for the Captain America: The First Avengers Blu-ray and DVD hitting stores on October 25th. The video gives us a quick glimpse at the bonus feature on Marvel's The Avengers and you can view screenshots of it below thanks to 'Rashad'! We've also added the press release for the Blu-ray and DVD...

Review: NBC's 'Prime Suspect'
By Alan Sepinwall at What's Alan Watching? via HitFix.com

...by far the biggest problem in this pilot was the almost cartoonish degree of sexism that Timoney faces. "Prime Suspect" is based on the groundbreaking '90s British drama of the same name, which starred the great Helen Mirren. And as Cunningham says, sexism at the workplace has evolved significantly (if not disappeared) in the 20 or so years since Mirren first put on the badge, and the disgust that the American "Prime Suspect" men show for their Jane could just as easily come from her abrasive personality as from their lack of desire to let an icky girl into their private club. There's an obvious flaw in the pilot, and it's one that Cunningham, director Peter Berg ("Friday Night Lights") and company have recognized and promised to fix moving forward...

*Dan, Jr. / Junior's Eyes Note: The first episode is absolute garbage. The biggest problem is actually that the people running the American remake think that New York is the center of the universe, and that overusing New York stereotypes makes the show more edgy and cool. Helen Mirren played Jane Tennison as a strong women. In this version, they try to make the lead female character (Jane Timoney) a "street tough" man.

Bonus Track Of The Day: Gary Moore
By mdome at Classic Rock

...Live At Montreux 2010 was filmed in July last year. It was the great guitarist’s last gig to be filmed, before his death on February 6 this year. This features some of the finest moments in his career, taking in both his hard rock and blues talents, Three of the songs were due to be included on his next studio album, which was sadly never finished...

...It’s the last of these, Oh Wild One, which you can download for free right here. And this is footage from the DVD, so you can see and well as hear Moore in prime action...

Huge numbers attend Rally Australia
Posted at WRC.com

Rally Australia, which took place from 8-11 September, attracted 92,223 fans, organisers of the Coffs Coast event have confirmed...

Review: The Doomsday Quatrain - CD
By Matthew Davis at Doctor Who Online

...Florence in the 16th Century. As the city runs about its normal business, the people are in intrigued and puzzled by the prophecies of the local seer Michel de Nostradame, for he has predicted the end of the world; An end that will come, when ships sail in the sky, bringing monsters from the heavens to unleash fire upon the world. So when the doomsday quatrain starts to come true no-one is more surprised than The Doctor, after all he has seen the end of the world, and it certainly shouldn’t be happening now.

Throwing the seventh Doctor together with the famously celebrated and debunked seer Nostradamus, should make for a delicious cocktail of a story, but what we get is something quite unexpected...

Christmas Special Update - September 2011
Posted at Doctor Who Online

Production has started on the 2011 Doctor Who Christmas Special in which the Doctor (Matt Smith) finds himself in war-torn England embarking on a magical and mysterious adventure with a young widow and her two children.

A stellar guest cast including Claire Skinner (Outnumbered), Bill Bailey (Black Books), Arabella Weir (The Fast Show) and Alexander Armstrong (Armstrong & Miller), join Matt Smith in the emotional festive special, packed full of Christmas thrills and chills...

Rush Announce Three Live Releases
By mdome at Classic Rock

...The celebrated Canadians will be putting out the Time Machine 2011: Live In Cleveland on Blu-Ray/DVD through Eagle Rock and also on a double CD via Roadrunner...

...In addition, the band are to put out on vinyl a live version of Moving Pictures, under the title of Moving Pictures: Live 2011. This will also be available in digital format...

Washington Capitals 2011-2012 Previews: Matt Hendricks
By The Peerless at The Peerless Prognosticator

...Matt Hendricks is carving out a niche in the National Hockey League by being a practitioner of the latter set of talents. Checking? Hendricks was credited with 169 hits in 882 minutes of ice time last season, or one hit every 5:15 of ice time. By way of comparison, Alex Ovechkin was credited with 241 hits in 1,688 minutes, or one hit for every 7:00 of ice time. You might not think of or want your top scorer to be such a big hitter, but Ovechkin ranked eighth among forwards in hits recorded last season. Hendricks just did it more often...

Today's Tune: "I'm Your Captain (Closer To Home)" By Grand Funk Railroad

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Happy Birthday to Ian McShane and to Mark Farner! We celebrate the birthdays of both the actor McShane and musician Farner with this 'Today's Tune'.

Ian McShane was born on September 29, 1942 in Blackburn, Lancashire, England. McShane's films include 'Ordeal By Innocence' (1985) and 'Too Scared To Scream' (1985). He's also appeared in the television shows Space: 1999 (1975) and Trust (2003). He portrayed an East Anglia antiques dealer in the comedy / mystery-drama television show Lovejoy. The song choice this time however, has to do with McShane voicing Captain Hook in the animated movie 'Shrek The Third' (2007), and then a captain again (live action) in 'Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides' (2011), as the infamous pirate known as Blackbeard.

American guitarist, singer and songwriter Mark Farner was born in Flint, Michigan on September 29, 1948. He's mostly known for his years rocking with Grand Funk Railroad. One of their most popular songs is "I'm Your Captain (Closer to Home)" (1970), which Farner wrote, and the band released as a single and as part of the album, 'Closer To Home' (1970)

Grand Funk Railroad - "I'm Your Captain (Closer To Home)" (1970)

GFR - "I'm Your Captain (Closer To Home)" 1971 Shea Stadium

Junior's Reading And Viewing List: September 11 - 20, 2011

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Last Update - September 26, 2011 at 12:04 PM EDT

Junior's 'Reading And Viewing List' for September 11 through September 20, 2011 contains title links, along with snippet teasers, from items published in the middle of September 2011.

A whole lot of news on television shows, films, Washington Capitals hockey, music, Formula One racing and WRC rally events can be found here.

September 20, 2011

Predators 2, Capitals 0
By Associated Press - Posted at WashingtonCaps.com

...It was the first hockey game in the city since the Baltimore Bandits of the American Hockey League left town 14 years ago. The Capitals last played in Baltimore in 1992, against their then-AHL affiliate, the Baltimore Skipjacks.

Dubbed the 2011 Baltimore Hockey Classic, the game drew a near-sellout crowd of 11,082 - even though ticket prices ranged from $34 to $147...

Predators - Capitals game highlights and postgame report
from Baltimore - 9/20
Posted at CSN - Washington, DC

Washington Capitals 2011-2012 Previews: Jeff Halpern
By The Peerless at The Peerless Prognosticator

...Halpern returns as a role player in the latter stages of his career. But not, perhaps, as just a fourth liner filling out a roster. He did record 11 goals last season for the Montreal Canadiens, and he averaged almost 18 minutes of ice time in the post-season in four games after he returned to the ice from a lower-body injury...

Season premiere review: 'Two and a Half Men' - 'Nice to Meet You, Walden Schmidt': And good riddance, Charlie Harper
By Alan Sepinwall at What's Alan Watching? via HitFix.com

...some of those people may have just sworn the show off altogether after Sheen was canned, but I imagine many of them tuned in last night out of curiosity about how the show will be without their man. (Those big overnight numbers weren't made up entirely of new fans.) And to those people - and people somewhere in between, who maybe think Sheen is a jerk but wish he was still on the show - the funeral scene and many of the scenes that followed must have played out as a big eff-you to them as much as to Sheen...

Washington Capitals 2011-2012 Previews: Jason Chimera
By The Peerless at The Peerless Prognosticator

Jason Chimera has scored three goals in the post season in his career. Each of them was a game-winning goal. If only he could do that more often…score goals, that is. Chimera is gifted as one of the fastest skaters in the league, capable of beating defensemen wide with speed or jumping into a rush to pressure defenses...

September 19, 2011

Videos From Sunday's The Dark Knight Rises Shoot
Posted at Super Hero Hype

Filming for Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Rises is still going on in Los Angeles and thanks to 'smokeysify', here are some videos of the action that took place on Sunday. They include a truck crashing from a road to a lower level road as well as explosions on Grand Avenue...

Pirates! Gets It's First Screening
Posted by Jack at David Tennant - Fan News Blog

David's new movie, Pirates! In An Adventure With Scientists got it's first public screening yesterday and it went very well.

David voices the character of a young Charles Darwin and the creative director of Aardman, Peter Lord, praised his role saying "David Tennant gives an absolutely fabulous comic performance...

Metallica, Lou Reed Post First Track Clip
By mdome at Classic Rock

...The track is The View, which is to be released as a digital single on September 27. You can hear the clip now...

British heroes shine at Rallyday
Posted at WRC.com

Britain's World Rally Championship stars Kris Meeke and Matthew Wilson wowed several thousand fans at the Rallyday event in the United Kingdom last weekend (17 September)...

Washington Capitals 2011-2012 Previews: Troy Brouwer
By The Peerless at The Peerless Prognosticator

Last year at this time, Troy Brouwer was coming to camp with the Chicago Blackhawks basking in the glow of a defending Stanley Cup champion. This year, he comes to camp for a team wanting to experience that glow. And he is expected to be one of the bricks-and-mortar pieces to see that that happens...

September 18, 2011

Washington Capitals 2011-2012 Previews: Nicklas Backstrom
By The Peerless at The Peerless Prognosticator

...Backstrom’s 2010-2011 season was by no means a disaster, but it was a step backwards. Backstrom finished the 2010-2011 season 18-47-65, plus-24. And it was something of an across the board drop in numbers. In his career year of 2009-2010 Backstrom was 22-42-64 at even strength, but these numbers dropped to 13-29-42 last season. On special teams he dropped from 11-26-37 in 2009-2010 to 5-18-23 in 2010-2011...

Semin Speaks
By Mike Vogel at Dump 'N Chase

...I conducted a short interview in English with Semin on Saturday, the first he has ever granted in English to my knowledge. While there are those who believe Semin can speak English and chooses not to, I can refute that...

September 17, 2011

2011-2012 Capitals Training Camp -- Day 1
By The Peerless at The Peerless Prognosticator

Day 1, or as the players might call it, “Are You #@$%ing Kidding Me Day”.

All three groups took the ice today in what is the official opening... or un-official... or quasi-official... whatever... of the 2011-2012 season. History will record (if by “history”, you mean “me”) that Brooks Laich was the first Capital to take to the ice for the season...

Review: 'Doctor Who' - 'The God Complex':
The minotaur's labyrinth
By Alan Sepinwall at What's Alan Watching? via HitFix.com

...last week's "The Girl Who Waited" (by Tom MacRae) was one of my favorite episodes of the modern "Who" era, and the Toby Whithouse-penned "The God Complex" was pretty damn splendid as well, both as a creepy iteration of the show's familiar "Ten Little Indians" riff(*) with a random group of characters(**) being hunted and killed while the Doctor tries to save them, and as a character study for Amy and the Doctor...

Quo Making Documentary
By mdome at Classic Rock

To be called Hello Quo!, it’s being directed by Alan G. Parker, but won’t be released for another year...

September 16, 2011

YES Legends Jon Anderson and Rick Wakeman To Undertake
Fall U.S. Tour
Posted by Nightwatcher at Nightwatcher's House Of Rock

Music legends and former YES members Jon Anderson and Rick Wakeman will be playing a select number of engagements this coming Fall 2011. The legendary duo performed a series of successful concerts in the UK in 2010 in support of their critically acclaimed CD release 'The Living Tree', and are now bringing their highly anticipated show to America...

Hopes of new Ford deal increase
Posted at WRC.com

Hopes that Ford will continue to fight for World Rally Championship glory in 2012 have improved after Gerard Quinn, the company's European motorsport boss, confirmed talks are ongoing over a new five-year commitment to the series...

September 15, 2011

Caps Fall in Philly
By Mike Vogel at Dump 'N Chase

Washington’s complement of rookie camp freshmen piled onto a bus early Thursday afternoon for a trek up I-95 and a date with Philadelphia’s own bunch of kids. The fifth annual Caps-Flyers rookie game was a late afternoon affair played at Wells Fargo Center in Philly. The Caps kids were seeking to do what neither the 2007 nor the 2009 bunch could do, namely come home with a win gained in enemy territory...

Slash To Release Stoke Live Album
By mdome at Classic Rock

Slash is to release a live album in mid-November. Titled Made In Stoke 24/7/11, it was filmed and recorded with Slash returned to his childhood home of Stoke, to play at Victoria Hall on July 24 this year...

Metallica to headline at F1 Rocks™ in India
Posted at Formula1.com

Rock aficionados are in for a treat at next month's 2011 Formula 1 Airtel Grand Prix of India after organisers announced award-winning USA heavy metal band Metallica are to headline the inaugural F1 Rocks™ in India concert...

France the focus for Oliveira
Posted at WRC.com

Daniel Oliveira has refused to get downhearted following his early exit from Rally Australia last week and is instead looking ahead to the upcoming Tarmac round, Rallye de France Alsace...

September 14, 2011

Bad Wilf Podcast: Episode 44
By Martyn Havell and Imran Charles at Bad Wilf

In Which Martyn returns for one last outing. Vodka is drunk. We talk about Fight For The Remote and Doctor Who:The Girl Who Waited.

FILM REVIEW - Fright Night
By Martyn Havell at Bad Wilf

I approached this remake with a lot of trepidation. But, unlike most remakes, this is entirely enjoyable. It’s faithful enough to the fun, of the original, whilst ramping up the tension and putting a modern spin on it. It’s a good, strong cast. Farrell is really intimidating as Jerry. He owns every scene he is in. The dialogue is sharp and witty and the movie is well paced. Dare I say it, but the acting is so much better in this, than the original. In fact, the only thing letting this movie down is the 3D...

West End Bares Auction Back On!
Posted by Jack at David Tennant - Fan News Blog

We could make a joke about the pants being back up, but we're like well classy so we won't...

The Much Ado About Nothing pants signed by the cast for the Make A Difference Trust are back up for auction on eBay. The pants were removed from the site last week after it was noted that David actually hadn't had the chance to sign them yet..but fear not! David has managed to sign them now and you can bid for them here!

David To Co Host Manchester Rocks For Children In Need
Posted by Jack at David Tennant - Fan News Blog

Children In Need Say:

Gary Barlow is bringing together the biggest and brightest stars of the music industry for BBC Children in Need Rocks Manchester, a one-off concert to help change young lives right here in the UK.

Performing live will be an international stellar line-up including Coldplay, Ed Sheeran, JLS, Elbow, N Dubz, Hugh Laurie, Snow Patrol, Michael Buble and the fabulous Lady Gaga!...

*Dan, Jr. / Junior's Eyes Note: "...sold out within minutes
of going on sale!"

David Wins Best Actor At TV Choice Awards
Posted by Jack at David Tennant - Fan News Blog

David Tennant picked up the award for Best Actor for his role as Dave in the BBC drama Single at last night's TV Choice Awards!

David beat off stiff competition for the award from Colin Morgan (Merlin), Benedict Cumberbatch (Sherlock) and Matt Smith (Doctor Who)...

CBS developing Sherlock Holmes TV pilot! The lame's afoot?
By Dan Owen at Dan's Media Digest

In possibly the most unnecessary development news of recent times, The Hollywood Reporter have revealed that CBS have ordered a script for a modern-day take on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes. All this despite the fact there already exists Sherlock; a brilliant contemporary version on the BBC starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman...

Father’s praise for Wilson
Posted at WRC.com

...The young Briton’s capture of fourth spot on the New South Wales event means he has now scored points on eight WRC rallies this season at the wheel of the Ford Fiesta RS WRC he shares with co-driver Scott Martin. Only Mikko Hirvonen, Jari-Matti Latvala, Sebastien Loeb and Petter Solberg possess more consistent finishing records in 2011...

September 13, 2011

'Amazing Spider-Man' Villain Describes Transforming
Into The Lizard
By Josh Wigler at MTV's Splash Page

We've known for a while that Spider-Man is fighting the Lizard in his next big-screen battle, but we still don't know what the reptilian menace will look like. Now, courtesy of Rhys Ifans, we have a clearer picture… and it looks a lot like Ifans!...

DVD REVIEW: X-Men: First Class
By Martyn Havell at Bad Wilf

After the abysmal X-Men 3 and the enjoyable, but forgettable Wolverine. I’ll admit that I was skepticle about another trip to the X-Men well.

I was wrong, X-Men:First Class is brilliant...

Whitesnake To Release Major Box Set And Tour
By mdome at Classic Rock

...Titled Box O’Snakes: The Sunburst Years 1978-1982, the box has every studio and live album from the period, two previously unreleased BBC concerts, a limited edition seven inch, a DVD and a 90-page book with new interview and unseen photos...

September 12, 2011

'Dark Knight Rises' Is 'Massive' And 'Beautiful',
Says Nestor Carbonell
By Kara Warner at MTV's Splash Page

Obviously there are many things to be excited about as we inch closer and closer to the release date of "The Dark Knight Rises", chief among them for me, is seeing a cast of the highest quality assembled in order to bring beloved characters, old and new, to life. And while a lot of attention is paid to the high profile roles that Batman newcomers Anne Hathaway, Tom Hardy and Marion Cotillard are playing, I'm always intrigued about what Christopher Nolan's equally impressive returning cast will be up to...

Kerrang Magazine
Posted at Home Of Metal

This week's Kerrang Magazine features a great article about our Home of Metal Exhibition at Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, which is now into it's final fortnight...

Judas Priest To Release Compilation Chosen By Other Musicians
By mdome at Classic Rock

Judas Priest are to release a new compilation next month, with tracks chosen by other musicians.

Called The Chosen Few, the full track listing is:...

Nicko McBrain To Hold Drum Clinics
By mdome at Classic Rock

...In association with Premier Drums, he will be showcasing his talents on dates being dubbed An Evening With Nicko – A Night Of Drums, Drumming And Entertainment With Iron Maiden’s Nicko McBrain...

September 11, 2011

REVIEW – The Girl Who Waited
By Martyn Havell at Bad Wilf

The Girl Who Waited heralds something we haven’t seen in a while: three episodes in a row that are good. Let’s think about that – the past three episodes have all been good...

Today's Tune: "Photographs And Memories" And "Time In A Bottle" By Jim Croce

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We lost the great American folk singer, songwriter Jim Croce on September 20, 1973. Junior's Eyes therefore celebrates his meaningful cultural contributions on this anniversary.

Croce's musical creations are the kind that are life changing. When I hear his songs, in my mind, I'm transported back to the happier and easier time of my childhood. There is an emotional link to his music that I never want to lose.

This 'Today's Tune' is a double feature. I've chosen to include a bonus track for a couple of reasons. I love both songs, and they both fit the situation so well that I couldn't pick just one.

"Photographs And Memories" comes from the 1972 album titled 'You Don't Mess Around With Jim'. It was picked because, other than the brilliant five studio albums and a couple live recordings, that's basically almost all we have left of Jim Croce. That might seem greedy, but he was only 30 years old when he died.

When a tremendous musical talent perishes at such a young age, or as in Jim's case, when you realize how special a person that someone is even during their life, you wish you could save their "Time In A Bottle". This song is off the same album, and was released as a single later on, in 1973.

Jim Croce - "Photographs And Memories" (1972)

Jim Croce - "Time In A Bottle" (From 1972 Album, 1973 Single)

Jim Croce talks about early days of his career.

Today's Tune: "Close My Eyes Forever" By Lita Ford

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Lita Ford at Rocklahoma July 12, 2008. Photo by Mark Weiss.

Happy Birthday to Lita Ford! Born in London, England on 19th September in 1958 as Carmelita Rossana Fordson, American singer, songwriter and guitarist Ford moved to the United States at the age of four. She is well known for both her time with the all-female rock band The Runaways (1975-1979), and her solo work since the 1980s.

The 'Today's Tune', Lita Ford's hit single "Close My Eyes Forever" (from 1988 album 'Lita'), was originally recorded in studio (1987) as a duet with Ozzy Osbourne.

Lita has been on tour this year, and is currently working on material for a new album.

Lita Ford & Ozzy Osbourne - "Close My Eyes Forever" (1988)

Lita Ford & Dee Snider - "Close My Eyes Forever" 2010 Las Vegas,NV

Lita Ford Interview at M3 Rock Festival 2011 in Columbia, MD

Lita Ford - "Close My Eyes Forever" 2011 in Columbia, MD

Junior's Reading And Viewing List: September 1 - 10, 2011

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Last Update - September 16, 2011 at 7:52 AM EDT

Junior's 'Reading And Viewing List' for September 1 through September 10, 2011 contains linked samples of some interesting items that came out at the start of September 2011.

Television shows, movies, Washington Capitals hockey, music, Formula One racing and WRC rally news make it into this group.

September 10, 2011

Review: 'Doctor Who' - 'The Girl Who Waited': Let the right one in
By Alan Sepinwall at What's Alan Watching? via HitFix.com

..."The Girl Who Waited" was in many ways a very familiar tale, both in terms of the Steven Moffat era of "Doctor Who" and science fiction in general. Moffat has told many stories about characters who have traveled through time the long way while waiting for the Doctor to come back. And practically every sci-fi series at some point or other does an episode featuring an apocalyptic future (or otherwise alternate) version of a main character...

'Torchwood: Miracle Day' - 'The Blood Line': Die another day?
By Alan Sepinwall at What's Alan Watching? via HitFix.com

...The season was too far gone for the finale to do much in the way of redeeming it, but we at least could have gone out on an interesting note. Instead, there were lots of explosions, lots of yelling, and very little that held my attention or made me feel anything in the way that, say, some of the sacrifices in "Children of Earth" did...

September 9, 2011

Dennis Wideman raring for return after recovering
from leg hematoma
By Katie Carrera at The Washington Post's Capitals Insider

Dennis Wideman hadn’t been able to skate all out at Kettler Capitals Iceplex since late March, but on Friday morning, as the Capitals defenseman participated in an informal workout, it appeared as though he had never been sidelined at the end of last season...

Exclusive: Thor's Drinking Buddy, Stellan Skarsgard
By Edward Douglas at Super Hero Hype

Having appeared in movies and television on both sides of the Atlantic for nearly 40 years now, Sweden's Stellan Skarsgard has reached an odd point in his career where he's probably more recognizable to American moviegoers than he was a year ago, and that's even after appearing in two of the blockbuster "Pirates of the Caribbean" movies...

Friday practice - selected team and driver quotes
Posted at Formula1.com

Monza is all about speed, but it was hard to tell which team held the advantage around the Italian track on Friday. The morning session was dominated by McLaren's Lewis Hamilton, but in the afternoon championship leader Sebastian Vettel leapt to the fore for Red Bull. The leading teams and their rivals reflect on their early progress...

Stones To Release 1978 Show On DVD, Blu-ray
By mdome at Classic Rock

...This is to be put out by Eagle Rock Entertainment on November 21. This will be released in four different formats: DVD, DVD + CD, Blu-ray, Blu-ray + CD. It was shot at Forth Worth, Texas on July 18...

Red Bull and Renault announce enhanced engine agreement
Posted at Formula1.com

Red Bull Racing and engine suppliers Renault have confirmed a five-year extension to their successful partnership. The new fuel efficient 1.6L V6-turbo power unit to be introduced under revised 2014 regulations will be incorporated in the framework of the enhanced collaboration...

Classic Rock’s New Releases Round-Up
By mdome at Classic Rock

This week we’re dealing with the final five Queen reissues.

So, the huge campaign of Queen reissues through Universal reaches its conclusion, with the band’s last five being released just as we celebrate what would have been Freddie Mercury’s 65th birthday...

September 8, 2011

Profiles in Cowardice
By Brian Lumley at Rumblings From The Man Cave

So we're approaching the tenth anniversary of 9/11. Everywhere you look: TV, magazines, Facebook and other internet sites, there are memorials and remembrances of a date that has become the contemporary of either Pearl Harbor or V-J Day, depending upon how you look at it...

FIA Thursday press conference - Italy
Posted at Formula1.com

Drivers - Fernando Alonso (Ferrari), Kamui Kobayashi (Sauber) Vitantonio Liuzzi (HRT), Felipe Massa (Ferrari), Jarno Trulli (Team Lotus) and Mark Webber (Red Bull Racing)...

KHL vows to rebuild Lokomotiv team after plane crash
By Katie Carrera at The Washington Post's Capitals Insider

A day after a Russian jet crashed killing nearly every player and coach of KHL’s Lokomotiv Yaroslavl, the league is already working to rebuild the team...

Nothing to fear for Patterson and Solberg
Posted at WRC.com

Leading navigator Chris Patterson says he and driver Petter Solberg will have nothing to fear on Rally Australia this week, despite a frustrating start to their world championship campaign...

Alice Cooper - Old School box set
By Woody at The Ripple Effect

...The Alice Cooper Old School box is what freaks like me have been dreaming of for years. Two CD’s full of shit you’ve never heard before, an interview CD with all 4 surviving original members (Alice, Neal Smith, Dennis Dunaway and Michael Bruce), a DVD that includes rare live footage and interviews, an insanely great live show from 1971 on CD and LP, a 7” single from their pre-Alice Cooper band the Nazz, a fancy hardcover book and a folder full of reproductions of posters, tour programs, etc. It’s all housed in a massive school desk that revives the School’s Out album cover. FUCK YEAH!!!! That’s what I call totally mint deluxe...

September 7, 2011

Alex Ovechkin Russia Tour: Part 2
Bauer Hockey posted video at YouTube

Crews braced for tricky test in Australia
Posted at WRC.com

Road position and the challenging 30-kilometre Plum Pudding test are among the early talking points as the World Rally Championship entourage began to assemble in Coffs Harbour for this week's Rally Australia...

Michael Shannon Confirms Man of Steel Mo-Cap
By Silas Lesnick at Super Hero Hype

Two weeks ago, an actor who appeared to be Michael Shannon was spotted on the set of Zack Snyder's upcoming Superman reboot Man of Steel in a full motion-capture suit. Since it's known that Shannon will playing General Zod, the outfit sparked much online discussion about the final look of the character, especially given the fact that he was photographed next to the practical costume of fellow Kryptonian Faora (Antje Traue). Now, expect the debate to heat up even further as Shannon confirms to Moviefone that it was, indeed, him in the suit...

EXCLUSIVE 'Thor' Blu-ray Clip Takes You Inside Asgard
By Eric Ditzian at MTV's Splash Page

If "Thor" director Kenneth Branagh has a hidden superpower, it's getting his actors to fall in love with him...

Russian plane carrying KHL’s Lokomotiv crashes, at least 43 dead
By Katie Carrera at The Washington Post's Capitals Insider

The hockey community suffered another significant loss Wednesday in what has already been a tragic summer. According to various reports, 43 people are dead and one is critically injured after the plane carrying the KHL’s Lokomotiv crashed while taking off in Yaroslavl, Russia...

KERS - the secret success story of 2011
Posted at Formula1.com

Amid the attention attracted this year by both DRS and the performance characteristics of the Pirelli tyres, the return of KERS has been somewhat swamped in the public eye...

September 6, 2011

Bauer team flew to Moscow to meet with Ovechkin (Part 1)
By tj at Alex Ovetjkin

In this video Ovi shows Bauer team his Dynamo training facility in Moscow, and how he trained there when he was a kid... Turned out this summer he was working out at Dynamo junior hockey school, not in Novogorsk!

Japers' Rink Radio - Episode 52
By Stephen Pepper and Russell Waxman at Japers' Rink Radio

Pepper and Russell are back for a special Labor Day episode, where they welcome to the show hockey writer Dmitry Chesnokov, regular contributor to Yahoo!'s Puck Daddy to discuss the prospects of Messrs. Alex Ovechkin and Alexander Semin this season for the Washington Capitals ... We'll also have an exclusive interview with Caps' F D.J. King...

NBC remaking FRIDAY NIGHT DINNER
By Dan Owen at Dan's Media Digest

Worrying US remake news, folks. NBC are making a version of Channel 4 hit comedy Friday Night Dinner, which stars Simon Bird and Tom Rosenthal as two grown-up brothers who visit their eccentric middle-aged parents for a weekly meal...

Capitals On The Hot Seat, 2011-12 Edition
By J.P. at Japers' Rink

Just about a year ago, we took a look at the Caps' players and suits who would be under the most pressure heading into what probably was the season with the highest pre-season expectations in franchise history. And what we said then is just as true today, so rather than reinvent the wheel...

Alice Cooper Joined In London By Arthur Brown
By mdome at Classic Rock

Alice Cooper has added Arthur Brown to his London Halloween show on October 29.

It happens at Alexandra Palace, with New York Dolls also on the bill, plus fire breathers, stilt walkers and angle grinders...

Australia preview notes: Part two
Posted at WRC.com

...Owner/driver Petter Solberg is back competing in Australia for the first time since 2006. With a solitary podium to his name this season, the ex-world champion will be anxious to add to that tally in New South Wales at the wheel of his privateer Citroen DS3 WRC. He interrupted his preparations for the event with a visit to Sydney’s Sky Tower last Sunday...

September 5, 2011

September 5th - Action This Day!
Posted at Queen Online

Birthdays, Album & DVD Releases, Freddie For A Day & a Doodle!

September 5th 2011...Five For The 5th!

1. Freddie Mercury's 65th Birthday!

2. The release of the final five albums in Queen's re-issue series!

3. Live At Wembley Stadium DVD: 25th Anniversary Edition
and You Tube Stream!

4. Freddie For A Day!

5. The Freddie Google Doodle!

As you can see the 5th of September 2011 is very much Queen Day

Freddie's 65th Birthday is being celebrated by Roger and Brian with a spectacular party at The Savoy Hotel, which has been billed as a night of 'comedy and rock n' roll'. Freddie channelled and spirited attire is the dress code for evening with a mandatory moustache! There is to be a live band, a number of varied acts entertaining the guests, plus a charity auction and raffle all in aid of the Mercury Phoenix Trust. Look out for updates and pictures on www.queenonline.com. Watch the Official Freddie Mercury Birthday video here...

Australia preview notes: Part one
Posted at WRC.com

The World Rally Championship is back on gravel in Australia this week. This is a summary of how the main contenders have prepared and what some of the leading drivers have had to say in the build-up to the Coffs Coast-based event...

September 4, 2011

Inaugural Grand Prix Winner Crowned
Posted at WJZ TV News / CBS Baltimore

BALTIMORE (WJZ) — The Baltimore Grand Prix crowns a winner. After a weekend full of racing excitement, Will Power crossed the finish line first...

Shockwaves / Hardradio Podcast #53
Posted at Hardradio.com

On this episode host Bob Nalbandian interviews legendary Diamond Head founding guitarist Brian Tatler, Dangerous Toys/Broken Teeth/Ignitor/Evil United vocalist/frontman Jason McMaster and vocalist Dave Williams and drummer Chris Challice from the great new band Killinger.

ANVIL, BW&BK "Bury The Hatchet" In New Video Interview
By "Metal" Tim Henderson at Brave Words & Bloody Knuckles

...Check out the chat - which BW&BK cameraman David Cardoso said was the most heart-felt and honest interview we did all weekend at Heavy T.O. - below:

September 3, 2011

'Doctor Who' - 'Night Terrors': Welcome to the dollhouse
By Alan Sepinwall at What's Alan Watching? via HitFix.com

I'm on vacation, but I got to see tonight's "Doctor Who" before I went away for a few days. "Night Terrors" was penned by Steven Moffat's "Sherlock" co-author Mark Gatiss, and I thought it was very strong on the creepy imagery (the dolls in particular) but a bit less effective on the sentimental side of things...

American Le Mans Series Kicks Off Grand Prix Races
Posted at WJZ TV News / CBS Baltimore

...The American Le Mans Series is taking place Saturday that features cars like Ferraris and Porsches. This is exactly what fans have been waiting for, and now that it is here, they cannot get enough of it...

Power Secures Pole For Baltimore Grand Prix
Posted at WJZ TV News / CBS Baltimore

Power used a late surge to earn his seventh pole of the season, a point in the Izod IndyCar Series standings and some peace of mind heading into Sunday’s race on a difficult street course...

September 2, 2011

Nicklas Backstrom: ‘Time for us to grow up’
By Katie Carrera at Capitals Insider

After working with the same personal coach the past four years, Nicklas Backstrom decided to switch up his offseason conditioning routine with the understanding that this year there will be tougher workouts, practices and a more tone around the Capitals’ dressing room...

Loki Is 'More Gangster' In 'Avengers,' Says Tom Hiddleston
By Kara Warner at MTV's Splash Page

...I had the pleasure of chatting with Hiddleston recently to discuss the upcoming Blu-ray release of "Thor" (out on September 13). We also got to chat about his "gangster" new costume, a set photo that leaked for which he did not receive the appropriate credit, and the challenge of playing nice during fight scenes with his fellow cast members. Check out what he had to say...

Ford to capitalise on team member's visit
Posted at WRC.com

Factory Ford drivers Mikko Hirvonen and Jari-Matti Latvala will be aiming to make the most of their tyre engineer George Black's visit to Australia in June when the Scot gained an early glimpse of the challenge awaiting the WRC runners next week...

Knowing What We Don't Know About Zone Starts?
By David Getz at Japers' Rink

When it comes to nitty-gritty hockey discussions, ones on zone starts are among the most interesting because they touch on just about every aspect of the game. From on-ice strategy, to what goes on behind the bench, to front office management and statistical analysis, how to treat zone starts provides ample discussion for just about any hardcore hockey fan...

Formula One Fantasy - Lotus's Jarno Trulli
Posted at Formula1.com

Ranking fifth on the list of most race starts, with 245 to his name, Lotus's Jarno Trulli has been around the F1 block a fair few times. And though he may have won just one race during his 15-year career, Trulli's seen and done just about everything there is to do in Formula One racing. Even so, there's still plenty left on the Italian's F1 fantasy wish list...

Italy preview quotes - Renault, FIA, Ferrari, Force India & more
Posted at Formula1.com - Updated September 7, 2011

With average speeds of 250 km/h and top speeds of 340km/h, Monza is the quickest circuit on the calendar, as well as one of the oldest. Also home to Ferrari superfans - the Tifosi - the track isn't short on atmosphere either. Drivers and team members explain why they love Monza and discuss their prospects...

September 1, 2011

'Avengers' Sneak Peek And 'The Consultant' Short Arrive Online
By Danica Davidson at MTV's Splash Page

...Posted over at Movies.com, the "Avengers" sneak peek offers several cool things. You get to see short clips from the movie and glimpses into each of the characters...

Progress 'beyond expectations' in India
Posted at Formula1.com

FIA race director Charlie Whiting says progress at India's new Formula One venue, the Buddh International Circuit (BIC) near New Delhi, is 'beyond expectations'. That is according to Vicky Chandhok, head of the Federation of Motor Sports Clubs of India, who accompanied Whiting on an inspection of the facility on Thursday...

Farewell to a Broadcast King
By pucksandbooks at On Frozen Blog

As summer comes to a close we learn of another important and impassioned media voice for hockey leaving Washington for an exciting career opportunity. Comcast Sportsnet’s Russ Thaler begins the on-air portion of a new chapter in his broadcast career with NBC Sports next week, having worked as an original talent at Sportsnet Mid-Atlantic since its inception more than 10 years ago...

Black Country Communion Release Video Trailer
For Upcoming 'Live Over Europe' DVD
By Nightwatcher at Nightwatcher's House Of Rock

Black Country Communion, the Anglo - American hard rock supergroup ... have released the trailer for the upcoming DVD release 'Live Over Europe'.

The DVD is set for a release date worldwide October 24, 2011...

Webber: It would have been a mistake to quit now
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Today's Tune: "The Last Time" By The Rolling Stones

2011-09-09T10:42:00.003-04:00

The current season (4th series) of Torchwood, known as Torchwood: Miracle Day, comes to a close tonight. Many millions of fans are anxiously awaiting the final twists to come in this story.

However, it will probably be a few million less than the audience that were watching back in July, when the new Americanized (Oooh God!) BBC Worldwide / Starz combo version started. The overall production quality has been top notch, but the story's flow and logic have been at times, a bit uneven. So much so, that at least one television critic almost stopped reviewing the show he had previously adored.

I still love the show, and hope creator and executive producer Russell T. Davies can smooth out the wrinkles. There has been improvement over the couple episodes leading up to tonight's finale, which will hopefully end up being something special.

Torchwood: Miracle Day - San Diego Comic-Con International 2011

If 'Miracle Day' is seen as a success, the show will likely continue with it's Starz affiliation. Otherwise, this could be the end. I don't foresee the BBC taking back full ownership and keeping it alive, so this could be the last time you see it.

Please, check out tonight's episode. "This could be the last time. This could be the last time. May be the last time, I don't know." The track selected for this 'Today's Tune' comes from one of rock's most successful bands. Here's "The Last Time" (1965), by The Rolling Stones.

The Rolling Stones - "The Last Time" (1965)

The Rolling Stones - "The Last Time" September 18, 1997
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