Here's to the Great News o' the Day! The extremely clever BBC America has renewed its very excellent, smart, twisty new mystery clone original series Orphan Black for a second season, returning in 2014. But Season 1 isn't over yet, [...]
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Watch This Featurette on the New TARDIS Before Tonight’s DOCTOR WHO Journey to Its Center
Ah, these halcyon days of new Doctor Who episodes. Does it get any better? Tonight's "Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS" certainly has an intriguing title, and has my bigger-on-the-outside brain all a-quiver. I'm hoping for a tiny bit [...]
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TV Spot and Featurette for Tonight’s ORPHAN BLACK Major Episode
Please say you've been watching this show, it is SO GOOD. And if you've enjoyed the previous episode, you're going to love tonight's, it's a major episode. But then again, they all are. Things continue to move right along in [...]
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Time for Your 4th Doctor Education on DOCTOR WHO: DOCTORS REVISITED
Everyone has their first Doctor, and Tom Baker is mine. Doctor Who: Doctors Revisited is back for our monthly celebration of each Doctor and it's time for the 4th Doctor's special. Most often seen in a striped scarf long enough [...]
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Featurette, Clip and TV Spot Keep Us Warm for the DOCTOR WHO Cold War to Come
We've had our first Doctor Who "regular" Clara episode now, meaning a Clara episode that wasn't a first appearance or a special or a midseason premiere; what did you think? Are we thinking that little "not a ghost" bit was [...]
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New ORPHAN BLACK Featurettes, Clip and TV Spot Prep Us for the Excellent New Episode
Hopefully you've seen the first two episodes of excellent new series Orphan Black on BBC America. If you felt that the second episode was slightly less twisty or fast-paced than the first, don't worry, because Saturday's new episode definitely moves [...]
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BBC America Announces Co-Production of JONATHAN STRANGE & MR NORRELL
BBC America has announced that it is coproducing a seven-part adaptation of the giant book that has been sitting on my shelf for years, that I will now avoid until after the series airs in 2014, entitled Jonathan Strange & [...]
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Clips and Featurette from the DOCTOR WHO Midseason Premiere Plus TV Spot for the New Episode
Wasn't it wonderful to have new Doctor Who on our screens again last weekend? And have seen where that promo picture comes from? And are in that happy place of knowing that there are many more to come? BBC America [...]
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BBC America Announces Premieres for UK BEING HUMAN and Mini Series IN THE FLESH
Clearly BBC America saw that we posted the SciFiMafia.com Spring and Summer Primetime TV Schedule yesterday and realized they needed to get moving on their programming announcements. Our crafty plan worked! They have now released the premiere date for the [...]
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The SciFiMafia.com Spring and Summer Prime Time TV Schedule (Updated)
Happy Spring, Mafiosi! Now that we're starting to get June premiere dates it seemed like a good time to move on from the Winter and Spring list and start a new Spring and Summer list of season and series premieres [...]
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TV Review: Orphan Black, Season 1 Episode 1 “Pilot”
Genre: Action | Drama | Sci-Fi Air Date/Time: March 30 at 9/8c Network: BBC America Creators: Graeme Manson and John Fawcett Director: John Fawcett Writer: Graeme Manson Summary: Sarah hopes that cleaning out a dead woman’s bank account will solve all her problems. Instead, they multiply at an unnerving rate. Smart, sexy and [...]
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More Clips to Get Us Ready for the Saturday Premiere of ORPHAN BLACK
We've been keeping an eye on BBC America's new original series Orphan Black since it was first announced as part of their "Supernatural Saturdays" lineup. I've now seen the pilot; look for my review here on SciFiMafia.com this Friday. Until [...]
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