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Billie Piper Leaves Doctor Who

Friday, June 16th, 2006

billie_piper.jpgBBC has released a press release, stating that the actress who played Rose Tyler with the ninth and tenth Doctors, from Doctor Who, will leave in a two part series finale.

Billie Piper says: “Rose and I have gone on the most incredible journey with Russell T Davies and the cast and crew of Doctor Who over the past two years.”It has been an amazing adventure, and I can confirm it comes to an end, for now at least, as series two climaxes. “I am truly indebted to Russell for giving me the chance to play Rose Tyler, and to all the Doctor Who fans old and new who have been so supportive of me in this amazing role. Thank you so much.”Russell T Davies, writer and Executive Producer adds: “It has been a wonderful experience working with Billie – we will miss her – and wish her all the success in the world for her future. “However, the Doctor Who team have had a whole year to plan this final scene and have created a stunning exit for Rose Tyler.

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ADRIENNE BARBEAU writes a book

Saturday, June 3rd, 2006

200px-Adrienne_Barbeau.jpgADRIENNE BARBEAU is interviewed over on UGO, in the interview she discusses why she decided to write the book and also goes on to discuss the stuff that is not in the book, and her journals.

“‘I’ve done daily journals for every day for 40 years. So once I got the contract and they said, “Ok, we want you to write this book.” I thought that was terrifying. But I had all of that research material so whenever I needed to remember how something had occurred I just went back and read those pages.”

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Connor Trinneer Speaks out over the last Enterprise Episode

Saturday, June 3rd, 2006

Trek WConnor Trinneer.jpgeb have a in interesting report on Connor Trinneer’s views of the last episode of Enterprise, later renamed Star Trek Enterprise . It seems that there were some unhappy cast members on the starship NX-01 Enterprise, when it was revealed they could have no input in the story line.

“I was more bothered, and I think we were as a cast more bothered, by the fact that the episode itself was sort of taken from our hands and ultimately made as a Next Generation episode,” said Trinneer onstage. “That really bothered us. I think that, you know, we felt as though we’d done all this work, and devoted four years of our lives to this show that, at the very end… I don’t really know what they were thinking, quite frankly.
“I love Jonathan Frakes and Marina [Sirtis], they’re fantastic people, great actors — but we really sort of felt like, ‘Let us put it to bed,’ and we were unable to do that.”

With regards save enterprise he said “I don’t think that Paramount ever, for a moment, was considering a season five … Save your money, I mean, it’s hard enough out there’

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Batwoman comes out!

Friday, June 2nd, 2006

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Gotham City’s sexiest socialite knows more than how to throw a party. Kathy Kane also knows a bit about throwing punches—and she introduces herself to comic book readers by striking her ex-girlfriend right across the jaw.

In various incarnations, Batwomen have had a long history in Batman comics, starting in 1956 when Kathy Kane first appeared. But this new version of Kane shares only a name with her predecessors. The campy heroine who once carried a utility purse while clad in a full-body yellow one-piece now sports a new, dark costume, and she’s got an attitude to match. Batwoman will be the highest profile gay superhero to ever grace the pages of DC Comics.

Batwoman reemerges from obscurity in the pages of 52, the real-time weekly limited series chronicling a year in which the big three—Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman—have all mysteriously vanished from Gotham City. In Batman’s absence, a major crime organization called Intergang moves into town only to find a new Bat already roosting. Read the rest of this article on out.com

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