Jamie Hewlett of Tank Girl and Gorrilaz fame has created the animated film that will be used to introduce the BBC's coverage of the summer Olympics with music by his fellow Gorrlaz compatriot, Damon Albarn, inspired by Monkey, the cult classic television program.
posted on Jul 25, 2008 - View this thread

TV Dinner, the third part in Simon Tofield's award-winning animated series Simon's Cat (Previously Let Me In, Cat Man Do)
posted on Jul 15, 2008 - View this thread

Rambo Sings! In Spanish! (... may not be the real Rambo)
posted on Jul 11, 2008 - View this thread

Bonsai! The Karate Kid Fan Documentary… 1 2 3 4 5
posted on Jul 10, 2008 - View this thread

Seventy years ago today a world land speed record was set that has never been broken... on July 3, 1938 LNER Class A4 4468 Mallard reached the giddy speed of 126mph.
posted on Jul 3, 2008 - View this thread

The Tunguska Event. A century ago, something exploded over Russia...
posted on Jul 1, 2008 - View this thread

RIP Tartan Films. The UK-based film distribution company has gone into administration, laying off it's entire staff.
posted on Jun 28, 2008 - View this thread

Gnar Wars = Star Wars + Snowboarding. (SLYT awesomeness). Better quality video. Creator's website.
posted on Jun 18, 2008 - View this thread

In Bed With Chris Needham (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7) A BBC video-diary documentary from 1991 depicting the trails and tribulations of a teenage metal fan as he tries to knock his band, Manslaughter, into shape for its first gig, with many digressions into his philosophy of life along the way. Some NSFW swearing.
posted on Jun 8, 2008 - View this thread

A Day In The Afterlife of Philip K Dick - An Arena documentary first broadcast by the BBC in 1994 (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
posted on Jun 6, 2008 - View this thread

Take Britain’s favourite poem and add it to Scotland’s other national drink and here’s the result (mildly NSFW).
posted on Jun 4, 2008 - View this thread

First it was Blake's 7, now another Terry Nation cult classic sf television programme is to return. The BBC have announced they are remaking Survivors. Telling the story of the survivors of a plague that wipes out most of Britain, the original was famed for its gritty and somewhat controversial story-telling.
posted on Jun 3, 2008 - View this thread

When you are ascending the side of a building with your Boy Wonder, you really don't know who is going to pop out of that window.
posted on May 24, 2008 - View this thread

The classic post-pub television program of the nineties, In Bed With Medinner had a simple format - Bob Mills would present and comment on clips from the many documentaries he had made over the years.
posted on May 21, 2008 - View this thread

Canadian writer Craig Davidson is pretty intense (read mad) when it comes to research and promoting his work, entering into an officially sanctioned boxing match to promote The Fighter. But even he thinks he went a bit too far when he went on a full 'steroid cycle'.
posted on May 19, 2008 - View this thread

10 optical illusions in 2 minutes - SLYT, Samsung promotion.
posted on May 15, 2008 - View this thread

Comrades! Glory once again in the display of Soviet Russian military might at the revitalized May Day Victory Day Parade!
posted on May 11, 2008 - View this thread

From The Adventures of Twizzle to the reboot of Captain Scarlet - for nearly fifty years - Gerry Anderson made television shows, but is still best remembered for the classic 'Supermarionation' period were, as this documentary shows (1, 2, 3, 4) he really was making the 21st century.
posted on May 9, 2008 - View this thread

La Cabina (The Telephone Box) 1, 2, 3, 4 Emmy winning short Spanish film. Saw this once as a kid and I’ve never forgotten it… There's no subtitles but that doesn't really matter.
posted on May 2, 2008 - View this thread

Indian Superman sings and dances with Indian Spider-Woman. (SLYT) (Previously)
posted on Apr 27, 2008 - View this thread

Blake's Back! British science fiction classic Blakes 7 is getting the Battlestar Galactica treatment.
posted on Apr 25, 2008 - View this thread

High-Tech Noon. What makes a classic Western even more classic? Blasters and force-fields, that's what. (SLYT)
posted on Apr 21, 2008 - View this thread

Growing up in 70s and 80s Britain you were exposed to some rather disturbing Public Information Films on the television. But that was nothing...
posted on Apr 7, 2008 - View this thread

I'm baffled why these science fiction tv pilots never made it to series... especially Leonard Nimoy's Baffled!.
posted on Apr 6, 2008 - View this thread

Attention drummers! Want to take all the attention away from the rest of the band... then just watch this masterclass. (SLYT)
posted on Apr 4, 2008 - View this thread

Seventeen years Steve Feltham sold up everything, bought an old mobile library van and parked up alongside Loch Ness to look for Nessie... He's still there.
posted on Mar 24, 2008 - View this thread

Space Alone and The Circle Of Life, award winning short Flash animations by Ilias Sounas
posted on Mar 17, 2008 - View this thread

Drawing Superheros... Youtube videos of comics artists sketching and inking. Direct links: John Romita and Joe Kubert, John Buscema and Bill Sienkiewicz, Dave Gibbons and Travis Charest.
posted on Mar 15, 2008 - View this thread

One rather strange minor cultural phenomena you experienced as a kid growing up in 60s and 70s Britain was a number of television programs that originated from beyond the Iron Curtain. Most infamous was the downright scary The Singing Ringing Tree from East Germany (Radio4 doc), later spoofed by the Fast Show but there were several others...
posted on Mar 13, 2008 - View this thread

Star Trek orgasms (nsfw). Bonus: Kirk, ultimate ladies man.
posted on Jan 31, 2008 - View this thread

Mark Kermode reviews Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End. "Is that a nest of tables? No, it's Orlando Bloom and Keira Knightley having some red hot passionate embrace that is positively teaky."
posted on Jan 9, 2008 - View this thread

The return of BIG acting. Daniel Day-Lewis in There Will Be Blood
posted on Jan 5, 2008 - View this thread

Hammer films are back! ... The classic British horror film company has returned from the dead with the first new film in 20 years to be first broadcast in instalments via MySpace. This has allowed some news programs to camp it up just a little... See the trailer here. Behind the scenes.
posted on Dec 18, 2007 - View this thread

Ace In The Hole. The best movie about a reporter ever?
posted on Dec 16, 2007 - View this thread

The Plank, classic British comedy (Youtubed: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5)
posted on Dec 4, 2007 - View this thread

"Hello, and welcome to Mainly For Men (part 1, part 2). And, as the title implies, this is a programme, fellas, just for you." Yes, everything the BBC thought the red-blooded male back in the late 1960s would be interested in (ie women, cars and shark fishing). The result was so hideous it was never broadcast until a TV Hell themed night many years later. Possibly NSFW... some brief nudity ('artistic', naturally) and mild swearing. And rampant mind-blowing sexism.
posted on Nov 29, 2007 - View this thread

Ronnie Hazlehurst RIP. Who? Well if you've seen any of the BBC's sitcoms and light entertainment programmes from the 70s onwards, you would have probably heard his work...
posted on Oct 3, 2007 - View this thread