Quest for Wonder is a web-based children’s science program hosted by puppet versions of comedian Robin Ince and Professor Brian Cox. It is available for free at CosmicGenome.com with extra features available for paid Cosmic Genome subscribers. TV science presenter Brian Cox has lost his wonder. Oh no! He and his Infinite Monkey Cage co-host Robin Ince…
In 2007, I saw a production of Wicked starring Nigel Planer as the Wizard, and in my search for a clip of it on YouTube later, I discovered Robert Llewellyn’s YouTube channel. I’d already been a fan of Red Dwarf and was thrilled to find all his great non-televised content at my fingertips. Carpool, which existed long before Jerry Seinfeld’s Comedians in…
The Incomplete Map of the Cosmic Genome is a paid subscription-based online popular science magazine, produced by Robin Ince and Trent Burton. Each issue is made up of short videos (and complete transcripts) with various high profile guests: renowned scientists, comedians with an interest in science, and other science popularizers. By purchasing a subscription, you not only get…
A cinema-obsessed young woman attempts to direct her life as if it were a romantic comedy. Starring JOSIE LONG and RUPERT HILL.
Craving some Python-esque comedy in the modern day? Eric Idle’s new “aural cinema” production, What About Dick?, is a The Importance of Being Earnest costume comedy meets murder mystery but penned in the innuendo-heavy Eric Idle style. This is a radio comedy where performers read from script and rely on inflection, doing different voices for different characters, and a…
What is it? Help! I’m Trapped In A Movie is an in-progress British film that’s looking for your Kickstarter support. Check it out and if you like it, visit their Kickstarter page to see what you can get and how you can help. The movie follows Tom, a man who wakes up in his dream of one…
Sea Wall is a 35-minute film written by Olivier Award-winning Simon Stephens and starring BAFTA-winning actor Andrew Scott. I’m not going to tell you anything about the story because it will ruin the experience for you, and I fully expect you to spend seven dollars to rent or buy the short film from seawallandrewscott.com. I do want…
Becoming YouTube is a new 12-part weekly web series that is exactly the web series I never knew I’ve always wanted someone to make, and with all the people I would have wanted to be in it. YouTube’s a relatively new thing, in the sense that we don’t know yet how it affects the way…
I discovered Channel Flip in a much earlier version of it, probably about three or four years ago, because Robert Llewellyn had a channel on there where he talked about machinery called Machine of the Week Report. I wasn’t into machinery, but I noticed that Channel Flip had a lot of cool shows. For those…
I’m told it’s Andrew Scott’s birthday. For that, you should watch this 12-minute short film called Silent Things.
IdeasMag is the online magazine that comes from the IdeasTap social media platform. It’s based in the U.K., so there are a lot of British and Irish television actors, directors, writers, etc. (as well as musicians like Kate Nash). Here are a few highlights…
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