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Movie Review | Luke Whiston | 1st March 2019

It's sometimes fun to imagine what aliens would make of our planet. What would they think of the huge green mass on the left committing a gross act of spiritual harm by putting a smaller orange mass in charge, for instance? Or the ones wearing bowler hats destroying their economy just because the neighbours are into Eurotrance? Madness. And pogs - what the fuck?! But probably the strangest thing to them would be seeing half the planet's population bleeding from their reproductive organs once a month as part of an essential species-prolonging biological function, and the other half going "ewww!" and repressing them since the beginning of time.

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Xena Agents of SHIELD cameo even better than Warhammer, say geeks

TV News | Ed Williamson | 22nd July 2014

"This is unprecedented," a geek told us on hearing the news that Lucy Lawless is to guest-star on Agents of SHIELD season two. "Like all my Christmases come at once. Oh God you've put up a picture of her with Seven Of Nine off Voyager oh God OH GOD." He died later that day.

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Five other Marvel spin-offs in which the most interesting person just left

TV Feature | Ed Williamson | 19th May 2014

In Marvel's Agent Carter, announced last week as a star vehicle for the quite splendid Hayley Atwell, Peggy Carter must "balance doing administrative work and going on secret missions for Howard Stark all while trying to navigate life as a single woman in America, in the wake of losing the love of her life - Steve Rogers". You've got to hand it to them: they're confident enough that we're on board with their 14 movies a year that they'll try a TV series where the most interesting person has just nipped out to the shops. Here's five more they've got in the pipeline.

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The 10 best things about Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

TV Feature | Iain Robertson | 18th December 2013

Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., a spin-off from Marvel's hugely successful Avengers film series, has gone from being one of the most eagerly anticipated shows of the year to something of a damp squib. Expectations were stupidly high, based on the fact that the Marvel movies have defied the odds and not been dreadful, and that show creator Joss Whedon had managed to pull off the nigh impossible task of making a great Avengers movie.

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Women of S.H.I.E.L.D. set feminism back 30 years by standing up

TV News | Ed Williamson | 14th May 2013

As a terribly exciting new trailer for Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. physically hit the internet tonight, heavy was my heart. Their standing poses in this promotional picture indicate that the female characters will conform to the feminine archetypes used in TV action shows since the dawn of time. Did Black Widow burn her bra for nothing? (*pictures Scarlett Johansson's bra, forgets what he was saying*)

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A possible creative direction for the Hulk TV show

TV Feature | Ed Williamson | 18th May 2012

Hulk: I love that little guy, now he's avenging all over the place and everyone wants to hug him all of a sudden. Let's build a TV show around that very premise.

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Who's the fairiest of them all?

TV Feature | Kirsty Harrison | 31st March 2012

Once Upon a Time and Grimm: both shows based on fairytales. But which has the edge in the fairy stakes? Let's line them up and get them to fight each other with, I don't know, wands or something.

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Once Upon a Time to bolster Nazi-free Channel 5 scheduling

TV Video | Ed Williamson | 20th March 2012

I haven't smoked in over 48 hours. So what I really need is a FUCKING VIDEO OF SOME FUCKING FAIRYTALE BASTARDS AND sorry, sorry. I'm sure this is great, really. Even though it's got FUCKING PIXIES IN IT I MEAN WHO THE FUCK MAKES TV WITH PIXIES AND

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Only Fools and Horses US remake: cast revealed

TV News | Ed Williamson | 7th March 2012

Revealed by other people days ago, mainly. But now copied and pasted here with the odd mean-spirited comment lobbed in like a grenade. A grenade of TRUTH.

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Let's check in with Once Upon a Time, shall we?

TV Feature | Ed Williamson | 26th January 2012

See, I was already 100% sure I didn't want to watch a show about fairytales starring Dr Cameron off House even before Channel 5 picked it up to air in the Spring. But fair's fair: let's have a quick look and see how it's getting on in the States by way of a series of oddly low-res images I nicked off Digital Spy.

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