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Back in 2001, The Fast And The Furious wasn’t about sending cars into space. It wasn’t about smashing cars through skyscrapers, or driving cars across frozen lakes, or cars being picked up by magnet-planes. It was about TV-dvd combos, and it was about quarter-mile street races – with souped-up cars speeding through empty roads in the dead of night. Ever since then, the scale of Dom Toretto’s full-throttle Fast Saga has Nos-boosted into all kinds of gravity-defying stunts. And while Fast X has plenty of bonkers setpieces up its (torn-off) sleeves, it’s also going back to those quarter-mile races. Well, of a kind anyway.

“There are many ways of doing quarter-mile races,” director Louis Leterrier_. “We’ve landed back on Earth,” laughs Leterrier. “What we did was go back to the original tone. You have to have stuff that feels real.”

As ever, plenty of vehicles took the brunt of the action.

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The Gerry Anderson toys that arrived in the 1990s may have been a little bit shonky, but they provided hours of fun...

Millions of years ago, in 1992, the BBC made a very wise decision: it broadcast the Gerry Anderson series Thunderbirds on its second channel. Back in those days BBC 2 on Sunday mornings (and 6pm weekdays) appeared to be curated entirely for geeks, with episodes of Star Trek, Doctor Who, Battlestar Galactica and further Gerry Anderson series such as Stingray and Captain Scarlet being broadcast alongside Shooting Stars and This Morning With Richard Not Judy. It was hella formative.

The renewed popularity of Thunderbirds had led to Matchbox releasing a Tracy Island playset. This became a must-have Christmas item, to the extent that fights were reported over the remaining sets in stores. With supply failing to match demand Blue Peter - the BBC’s flagship-show-named-after-a ship’s...

Not all Hollywood blockbusters are about rampaging dinosaurs, time-traveling cyborgs or spandex-clad heroes.

Some big-budget movies get by just fine focusing on real-life moments of danger and drama. "Apollo 13" is one of those films.

Released 20 years ago today on June 30, 1995, here are 20 things you need to know about how director Ron Howard and star Tom Hanks worked to deliver one of the best space movies in the history of always.

1. It may be one of the most iconic lines in movie history, but "Houston, we have a problem" isn't exactly what was said during the mission. Jim Lovell actually said, "Houston, we've had a problem." The edit was made for the film because "we've had" implies that the problem is over.

2. On that note, Jim Lovell wasn't the only astronaut to speak that famous line. Jack Swigert first radioed in with "Okay, Houston -- we've had a problem here.

Don’t the name fool you. Freaks Of Nature is a reality show that introduces viewers to extraordinary people who possess the power to control, manipulate or conquer nature, performing feats that could harm or kill the average human. Sounds like super-heroes to us! We talk to show host Tyler Harcott (Junkyard Wars) about the amazing people he’ll showcase on the new Weather Channel series. Plus The Killing is back – again – and some big bucks for Brave & Bold #28.

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Exclusive: Nancy Dubuc is not wasting any time putting her stamp on A+E Networks. While she doesn’t officially transition into her new role as president and CEO of the company until June 1, I hear Dubuc already is working on plans for the brands. With A&E and History in top shape and Lifetime well into the rebuilding process, Dubuc is focusing her attention on the group’s next tier of networks, Bio, Lmn and H2. As part of her turnaround plans, I’ve learned that veteran BBC executive Jana Bennett, who helped usher TLC into mainstream programming in the early 2000s, has been tapped to run Lmn and Bio. (Dirk Hoogstra is in charge of H2.) Bennett spent more than 30 years working for the BBC, most recently as president of worldwide networks and the global BBC iPlayer for the corporation’s commercial arm, BBC Worldwide, a position she...

Refresh for latest… Keshet International‘s UK office has hired producer Amelia Hann as head of unscripted programming to oversee a new factual production venture. Hann was most recently executive producer on Channel 4’s The Undateables and her other credits include the BAFTA winning Ross Kemp On Gangs, Wife Swap USA, Baby Bible Bashers, Scrapheap Challenge/Junkyard Wars and The Hunt For Britain’s Sex Traffickers. AMC/Sundance Channel Global has made a trio of exec promotions bumping Harold Gronenthal to Evp, programming and operations; Jennie Morris to VP affiliate marketing; and Mark Fareri to director of operations, AMC/Sundance Channel Global. The group has also pacted with Passion Distribution to acquire Push Girls for We tv Asia and with We tv Us for Cyndi Lauper docu-soap Cyndi. Sweden’s Svt, Finland’s Yle and Denmark’s Dr networks have acquired Restless, the adaptation of William Boyd’s spy novel that stars Hayley Atwell,...

Now that U.S. upfronts are over and the new and returning shows have been announced, it's the Canadian networks' turn to fight for shows that'll air in the 2012-13 fall season.

Citytv was up first, and quickly made it known that bringing the funny was their main goal -- the network has filled six of seven nights with comedy blocks. But don't count out dramas just yet. Citytv also added four new dramas to their lineup.

Mondays might be City's strongest day, simulcasting with CBS for the first half of the night. "How I Met Your Mother" kicks off at 8 p.m., followed by the new comedy "Partners" and the second season of "2 Broke Girls." "Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23" follows the three CBS sitcoms, and NBC's "Revolution" (from J.J. Abrams and Erik Kripke) ends the night.

City's Tuesday is dominated by Fox, with "Raising Hope," "Ben and Kate,...

Playstation All-Stars Battle Royale sounded like a fake game. For a while there, noone really expected to see it announced for real, but now Sony Ce have announced that we will indeed get to play the cross-over fighter that will reportedly bring all of the best and most beloved Playstation characters under one fight banner, and have them square off to the death.

In anticipation of the day that we can pick up controllers and smash Sony’s finest brawlers to pieces, and of the full reveal of the game’s roster, we thought it might be fun to offer some of our own picks from the Ps annals. We already know of six characters – thanks to early previews of the game – for certain (and a seventh one appears to have leaked since then) but the final roster of playable characters is bound to be much bigger.

So, which Playstation...

Last night saw the great and the good of the games industry; notable public figures and Blue attend the Game British Academy Video Game Awards to celebrate what appears to have been a fine year for gaming. The jamboree took place at the classy Park Lane Hilton (which, according to one source, would cost a mere £350 to buy). As guests arrived, the assembled media, including Blogomatic3000, were ready to catch titbits of information from the glamorous celebrities. Here is what we learned…

First up, we met Kryten himself, Robert Llewellyn.

Hi Robert, what is your involvement in the awards tonight?

I get invited to a lot of these kinds of things and usually I’m lazy and don’t go along… I do a lot of after dinner speeches and things, but to come along to one of these things and not have to work sounds good to me! I...

My current tussles with the Linux command line have kept my radar swinging pretty slowly lately; therefore thanks to Mark C for pointing me to Robert Llewellyn's blog. Llewellyn, the presenter of Scrapheap Challenge for 10 years, but beloved of Sf TV fans for playing servile robot Kryten in the BBC's Red Dwarf, has commented on the Daily Mail's joyous re-reporting of Craig Charles' announcement on Real Radio: TV channel Dave is planning a new series of the science-fiction comedy for 2012, in the wake of the channel's 2009 21st-anniversary specials, which proved hugely popular, with viewing figures that trumped BBC2 and C4 combined.

Speaking to presenters Ditchy and Salty on the Real Radio breakfast show, Craig Charles, who played Lister in Red Dwarf for most on the 1990s, and is currently featuring in Coronation Street, told listeners "They've just commissioned another series of Red Dwarf. We're gonna film at the end of November,...

Gregg Wallace and John Torode have sent through all three contestants on Celebrity MasterChef. The judges were unable to choose one competitor to eliminate in the second episode of Knockout Week, so decided to send the full trio to the next round. Lisa Faulkner, actor Chris Walker and Scrapheap Challenge's Dick Strawbridge join Wednesday's victors Christine Hamilton and Neil Stuke in the next stage of the competition. Before revealing the news, Wallace said: "I'm struggling, John. I'm really struggling, John, to find one of these to go. I think the standard is high and they have pushed themselves." Torode added: "They all have skill. (more)...

Athlete Dean Macey and Scrapheap Challenge's Dick Strawbridge won their Celebrity MasterChef heat last night. The duo impressed judges Gregg Wallace and John Torode and edged out fellow contestants Marcus Patrick, singer Kym Mazelle and TV presenter Jennie Bond. In the final challenge, Macey served up scallops on pea puree with smokey bacon for starter, with a main course of steak and chunky chips, alongside a poached egg and cherry tomatoes. Praising the main course, Torode said: "Very nice rare steak. Beefy, almost sweet. A sticky egg on top. Very, very good chips. Seasoned well. Very good!" Meanwhile, Strawbridge cooked kidneys on a celeriac rosti with cream vermouth sauce, followed (more)...

Never mind the bloated version of Robin Hood in theatres now; what you're really looking for is some quality time with a more murderous kind of merry men, right? If so, you'll be happy to hear that some more casting news and concept art have come in for John Regan's Sherwood Horror. Dig it!

From the Press Release

Two more join Sherwood Horror, a contemporary set reimagining of the Robin Hood legend with bite. Ex-con Rob Locksley (DJ Perry of Dean Teaster's Ghost Town, 8th Plague, Blood Ties, and upcoming thriller Renovation) returns home after a six-year absence to find his town under the rule of vampires. He must join forces with his old roughneck hunting buddies to wage war against the evil Sheriff and his horde of blood-sucking minions.

Paul Proios (Gps, Dean Teaster's Ghost Town) is in talks to take on the role of Guy Gisborne, Nottingham's wicked deputy and right-hand vampire.