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BBC Micro Celebrates 40th Birthday With Retro Sounds Contest Winner!
For those of you who attended school in the UK between the 1980s or early to mid-’90s, you were probably more than familiar with the BBC Micro. Designed by Acorn Computers (perhaps best known for the Electron), the system was specifically commissioned by the BBC in order to, basically, bring…
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BBC Releases ‘The War of the Worlds’ TV Adaptation Trailer
I think many would agree that the best adaptation to date of ‘The War of the Worlds’ has to be the Jeff Wayne album that released way back in 1978. Yes, there was the (relatively recent) Speilberg film that was alright, and also the (even more recent) stage adaptation. Neither…
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BBC Plans To Release Their Own Smart Home Assistant
The chances are these days that if you’re really into your technology, you probably have a smart home assistant. I personally have an Amazon Alexa and, although I mostly use it as a glorified egg-timer, it is rather useful for providing you with information and controlling various devices within your…
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New Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy TV Series Heading to Hulu
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams’ beloved sci-fi comedy BBC radio broadcast will soon be a television series. The project is under development by ABC Studios and will reportedly stream on Hulu. According to Deadline, this new adaptation will be a modern retelling of the story. Hitchhiker’s Guide may…
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HBO and BBC Present First Full Trailer for ‘His Dark Materials’
Sir Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy is finally getting a second attempt at film adaptation. Thankfully this time, HBO and BBC have teamed up to do the fantasy property justice. Especially after the failure of the movie adaptation The Golden Compass 12 years ago. Now at San Diego Comic…
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Blackadder Stars Meet to (Possibly) Discuss A New Series
Blackadder Without a doubt, Blackadder is one of the most popular and best-loved TV comedy series that has ever been created. It has, however, been a rather lengthy amount of time since the show last appeared on TV. In fact, following its (apparent) conclusion in 1989, the only other instance…
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VTech Urges Parents To Update Tablets To Fix Security Issue
VTech Strongly Urges Security Update VTech, as the producers of some of the worlds most popular children’s technology, has a pretty strong reputation for the quality of their products. It’s for that reason that many homes throughout the world have at least one of their products. In recent years, their educational…
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Sir David Attenborough Teams Up with Netflix for ‘Our Planet’
Netflix Continues ‘Planet Earth’ Legacy There is perhaps no duo more iconic than beautiful scenes in nature narrated by Sir David Attenborough. Which is why Netflix‘ latest docu-series titled ‘Our Planet’, essentially a clone of BBC‘s Planet Earth, series is a welcome announcement. According to the 92-year old broadcaster and…
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BBC Announces Cast for ‘His Dark Materials’ TV Mini-Series
Big Budget BBC Fantasy Mini-Series The BBC is going to be making their biggest budget TV show production yet. This time it is the adaptation of Philip Pullman’s ‘His Dark Materials’. The series is of course, a trilogy which saw a movie adaptation attempt with The Golden Compass (2007). Although the…
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ITV Pull Shows From Netflix Amid Rumours Of UK Based Service
ITV Pull Shows From Netflix Amid Rumours Of UK Based Service For a significant period now many TV channels have used Netflix as a means of distributing their programs online. For a time, it seemed that Netflix was going to be the dominant force in streaming packages and certainly, to…
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BBC Radio Chief In Talks With App For Top 40 Podcast Chart
BBC Radio Chief In Talks With App For Top 40 Podcast Chart One of the longest standing institutions of BBC Radio is the top 40 music chart. There are probably a few of you who, like me, can remember listening to it every week with our cassette recorder on standby…
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BBC iPlayer Crashes During England Quarter Final Win
BBC iPlayer Crashes During England Quarter Final Win Last Saturday saw what was probably one of the biggest TV and sports events in the UK for nearly 30 years. England, for the first time in 28 years, reached the semi-final of a World Cup. It was an event which has…
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PlayStation 4 BBC iPlayer App Now Has A 4K UHD Mode
4K UHD Now Viewable on the PS4 Pro BBC iPlayer In case you have a PlayStation 4 Pro hooked up to a 4K UHD TV, then there is good news. You can finally enjoy 4K UHD content from the BBC via the console’s iPlayer app. This version 2.0 update outputs…
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BBC To Stream World Cup In 4K But You’ll Need Fast Broadband
BBC To Stream World Cup Matches in 4k But Only If You Have Fast Broadband We are literally just weeks away from the World Cup. For those of you who are football (or, dare I say, soccer) fans, it represents one of the biggest events on the calendar. With 4K…
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BBC 3 To Broadcast Dota 2 Finals This Weekend
BBC 3 To Broadcast Live UK Dota 2 Finals The world of eSports has grown incredibly in the last five years. With prize funds in the millions now it is clearly if not a sport, then certainly a competition of note to play. With it regularly hitting major milestones, another one…
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