The latest Doctor Who episode Boom sees the Doctor (Ncuti Gatwa) Caught in the middle of a devastating war on the war torn planet of Kastarion 3, and trapped when he accidentally steps on a landmine, made by Villengard, the Biggest weapons manufacturer in recorded history. He also encounters an Artificial Intelligence Anglican marine named John Francis Vater (Joe Anderson) And an artificial intelligence-powered ambulance, which seeks out combat situations and then administers help as it sees fit. Regrettably, that can lead to some very dubious employment of euthanasia.
It transpires that all The war’s equipment is manufactured by Villengard, which controls its products with an algorithm that balances cost and profit. The Doctor explains to the soldiers that the war was falsely created by the algorithm; there are no enemies, and the soldiers have instead been fighting their Villengard-controlled equipment, which includes the landmines. Then Vater’s daughter, and two other soldiers, arrive on the battlefield. Unfortunately Ruby is mortally injured and It is up to the Doctor to solve the situation without moving….
Fallout takes place in a retrofuturistic time where vacuum tubes, atomic physics, advanced robots, nuclear-powered cars, directed-energy weapons, and other futuristic technologies exist alongside 1950s-era computers, televisions and Advances in nuclear technology in the aftermath of a devastating Nuclear conflict caused in part by an energy crisis and oil depletion, First there was a war between the European Commonwealth and the Middle Eastern states, the disbanding of the United Nations, the U.S. invasion of Mexico and annexation of Canada, and a Chinese invasion and occupation of Alaskacoupled with their release of the “New Plague” that devastated the American mainland. Tensions between the United States and China eventually culminated in the “Great War” , a two-hour nuclear exchange on an apocalyptic scale, which subsequently created the post-apocalyptic United States.
Following the Great war the United States divided itself into 13 commonwealths which has devolved into a post-apocalyptic environment commonly dubbed “the Wasteland”. Various factions of humans formed in the Wasteland, with three of the most prominent being (A) the Brutal Militaristic Brotherhood of Steel, The New California Republic (NCR), which was formed by a group of Vault 15 dwellers who would go on to found the town of Shady Sands, and The Enclave, a secret enigmatic cabal of wealthy industrialists, members of the military, and influential politicians who operated in the shadows and held a great degree of control over the United States’ government. Prior to the great war One hundred and twenty two vaults were also built by The U.S. government and designed by the Vault-Tec Corporation as public shelters. Each Vault is self-sufficient, and could theoretically sustain up to a thousand people indefinitely. However most Vaults were actually unethical social experiments designed to determine the effects of different environmental and psychological conditions on their inhabitants.
Thrust into this nightmarish dystopian future wasteland is Cooper Howard, also known as The Ghoul. Cooper Howard is one of the very few men who lived to see the world before, during, and after the bombs fell. Howard was once a US Marine. He fought in the Sino-American War, specifically defending the frontlines in Alaska. He was also a Hollywood actor following this he took a lucrative advertising deal with Vault-Tec before the Apocalypse, that would change his life. Howard’s wife, Barb, worked at Vault-Tec. Howard used his celebrity to sell the bunkers his wife believed would save humanity when the nukes fell. Howard inspired the classic Vault Boy.
However he started having serious misgivings about Vault-tec. So He met with Charlie Whiteknife, whom he both acted and served alongside and a researcher named Miss Williams ,who also have misgivings about Vault Tec. Cooper Howard discovers that his wife and Vault Tec are involved in some sinister activities. Without acting opportunities, Cooper Howard became an entertainer for parties. At one such birthday party on the outskirts of Los Angeles On October 23rd, 2077 the Nuclear bombs hit Los Angeles. Howard suffered direct exposure to the nuclear blast and was mutated into an immortal creature known as a “ghoul. Nearly 220 years later, Cooper, has etched out a living in the post-apocalyptic Wasteland of what was once Los Angeles and its surrounding communities, now a part of the NCR (New Californian Republic) as a gunslinger and bounty hunter. Cooper is freed from his coffin by a trio of bounty hunters, who ask him to find Siggi Wilzig a member of the secretive Enclave.
Meanwhile A young vault dweller, named Lucy Maclean also finds herself thrust into this nightmarish dystopian wasteland when she is forced to leave behind her home in Vault 33 after it is attacked and her father is kidnapped by raiders led by Lee Moldaver/Miss Williams. So she ventures out into the dangerously unforgiving wasteland of a devastated Los Angeles in order to find her father, encountering many hazards along the way including feral “ghouls” who now roam the wasteland, plus ferocious Creatures mutated by the nuclear fallout including “Gulpers” and “Deathclaws” Lucy Maclean arrives at the town of Filly and meets Siggi Wilzig. However the ghoul bounty hunter Cooper Howard also arrives in the town of Filly, looking for Siggi.
Knight Titus of the Brotherhood of steel is also sent to look for Siggi Wilzig, unfortunately he is killed by an irradiated bear, so his squire Maximus assumes the identity of Knight Maximus Titus and heads for the town of Filly to took for Siggi Wilzig. Knight Maximus Titus confronts Cooper the Bounty hunter to get to Siggi Wizig first. Luckily Lucy and Siggi Wilzig manage to escape the Carnage in Filly However Cooper and Maximus are not far behind. Cooper tracks Lucy down but discovers Wilzig’s head has been taken by a Gulper, so he uses Lucy as bait to lure the gulper and recover the head. Cooper then tries to sell Lucy to a group of organ harvesters in exchange for medication to prevent him going feral. However the organ harvesters are killed by feral ghouls. Back in the vault Norm and Chester discover that something rather disturbing happened in vault 32 and discover that Vault Tec is not the saviour they thought then find themselves in grave danger.
Having escaped Cooper, Lucy and Maximus find themselves in Vault 4 led by Flame Mother, however Lucy discovers that a chilling secret is hidden beneath the surface Vault 4 When she visits Level 12 and discovers Unethical experiments being carried out. So Lucy and Titus Maximus decide to leave vault 4 to continue their search for siggi Wilzig’s head. However Titus Maximus finds himself in danger when he returns to the Brotherhood of Steel with Siggi Wilzig’s head. Meanwhile Cooper is confronted by A group of sheriffs led by an old associate. He gains important information concerning the whereabouts of Moldaver. Lucy arrives at Moldaver’s hidout and discovers her Father’s whereabouts, unfortunately so do the Brotherhood of Steel as does Cooper and a massive battle ensues…
There is an upcoming six episodes Dune TV series entitled, Dune: Prophecy, inspired by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson’s novel Sisterhood of Dune. It set 10,000 years before the events of Dune. It Stars Emily Watson as Valya Harkonnen, Olivia Williams, Travis Fimmel, Jodhi May, Mark Strong, Sarah-Sofie Boussnina, Josh Heuston, Chloe Lea, Jade Anouka, Faoileann Cunningham, Edward Davis, Aoife Hinds, Chris Mason, Shalom Brune-Franklin, Jihae, Tabu, Charithra Chandran, Jessica Barden as a young Valya Harkonnen, Emma Canning and Yerin Ha.
Sisterhood of Dune features, the Butler family, who under the name Corrino, have a tenuous hold on the human-occupied universe. The head of the Corrino family, Emperor Salvador, lives in splendor on the planet Salusa Secundus with his brother and trusted advisor, Roderick, however their control of the Imperium is threatened by Manford Torondo, popular leader of the anti-technology Butlerian movement. Torondo, leads Swordmaster Anari Idaho and millions of people across the Imperium to cleanse humanity of its reliance on convenient technologies. In opposition to the popular movement is the unscrupulous businessman Josef Venport, who holds a near-monopoly on space travel. His great-grandmother Norma Cenva, discovered the secret to creating space-folding “Navigators”, Josef and his wife Cioba plot against his few remaining competitors and funds a secret group of scientific researchers who hold personal grudges against the Butlerians
Meanwhile, on the planet Kepler, war hero Vorian Atreides attempts to keep his neighbors free from the threat of slavers. However Vorian is sent into exile by Salvador and Roderick, who are concerned that the Jihad hero may, incite a rebellion against their authority. On the planet Lankiveil, the Harkonnen family live an impoverished existence after Vorian Atreides disowned the disgraced Abulurd Harkonnen. However The two oldest children, Griffin and Valya, seek to rebuild their family fortunes and get revenge on Vorian Atreides.
Vorian’s granddaughter Raquella Berto-Anirul, leads the Sisterhood. She thwarts Butlerian sympathizers within her own ranks. Raquella is aided by Sister Valya Harkonnen. However Valya finds her efforts to rebuild her family’s glory impeded when the spoiled Princess Anna Corrino (sister to Emperor Salvador and Roderick) is sent to Rossak. Anna, is viewed as an embarrassment by the royal family. Meanwhile the new director of the Suk Institute (and former Rossak Sister) Dr. Ori Zhoma also plots against Salvador.
The Mentat Gilbertus Albans attempts to maintain order in his Mentat school on the planet Lampada while hiding the existence of his old mentor, the robot Erasmus from the Butlerians, Howwever he finds himself dragged into the Butlerian movement’s anti-technology campaign by the fanaticism of his most vocal students, and is coerced to serve as special advisor which forces him into many confrontations. Meanwhile, on the planet Arrakis, the Free Men of Dune, have abandoned the easier life of the Arrakeen villages, to live in the desert, where they encounter various enemies and allies….
American Producer screenwriter, director and Entreprenuer George Lucas was born May 14th 1944 in Modesto California. He is best known as the creator of the space opera franchise Star Wars and the archaeologist-adventurer character Indiana Jones and is one of the American film industry’s most financially successful directors/producers.Lucas grew up in Modesto and his early passion for cars and motor racing would eventually serve as inspiration for his USC student film 1:42.08, as well as his Oscar-nominated low-budget phenomenon, American Graffiti. Lucas originally wanted to be a race-car driver. However, a near-fatal accident on June 12, 1962, changed his mind and he attended Modesto Junior College instead and got accepted into a junior college where he developed a passion for cinematography and camera tricks.After George Lucas graduated from USC in California he met an experimental filmmaker who toured local coffee houses and screened the work of underground, avant-garde 16 mm filmmakers. Lucas regularly went to San Francisco to hang out in jazz clubs and find news of these screenings. Already a promising photographer, Lucas became infatuated with these abstract films and transferred to the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts. where he became very good friends with fellow acclaimed student filmmaker and future Indiana Jones collaborator, Steven Spielberg. Lucas was also deeply influenced by the Filmic Expression course taught at the school & saw many great films, which inspired him to make many 16 mm nonstory noncharacter visual tone poems and cinéma vérité concentrating on camerawork and editing, defining himself as a filmmaker as opposed to being a director.
After graduating with a bachelor of fine arts in film, Lucas re-enrolled as a USC graduate student in film production. and directed the short film Electronic Labyrinth: THX 1138 4EB, which won first prize at the 1967–68 National Student Film Festival, and was later adapted into his first full-length feature film, THX 1138. Lucas was also awarded a student scholarship by Warner Brothers.Aside from the nine short films he made in the 1960s, he also directed six major features. His work from 1971 and 1977 as a writer-director, which established him as a major figure in Hollywood, and consists of just three films: THX 1138, American Graffiti, and Star Wars. Lucas acted as a writer and executive producer on another successful Hollywood film franchise, the Indiana Jones series.
In addition, he established his own effects company, Industrial Light and Magic (ILM), to make the original Star Wars film. Lucas also co-founded the studio American Zoetrope with Francis Ford Coppola—whom he met at Warner Brothers, and then created his own company, Lucasfilm, Ltd. His new-found wealth and reputation enabled him to develop a story set in space – Star Wars, which quickly became the highest-grossing film of all-time, displaced five years later by Spielberg’s E.T.the Extra-Terrestrial. Due to the overwhelming success of Star Wars George was able to finance the sequel “Empire Strikes Back” himself. Since Star Wars, Lucas has worked extensively as a writer and/or producer, on the many Star Wars spinoffs made for film, TV, and other media, and was also executive producer for the next two Star Wars films as well as as executive producer and story writer on all four of the Indiana Jones films.
For the 20th anniversary of Star Wars, Lucas was able to enhance the trilogy and add certain scenes using newly available digital technology, which were released as the Star Wars Trilogy: Special Edition. In 1994, Lucas began work on the prequel Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace, which was released in 1999, beginning a new trilogy of Star Wars films. Lucas also directed Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones and Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith. In 2008, he also reteamed with Spielberg for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. The American Film Institute awarded Lucas its Life Achievement Award on June 9, 2005, shortly after the release of Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, and On June 5, 2005, Lucas was named among the 100 “Greatest Americans” by the Discovery Channel,and was also nominated for four Academy Awards: Best Directing and Writing for American Graffiti, and Best Directing and Writing for Star Wars.
He received the Academy’s Irving G. Thalberg Award in 1991. He appeared at the 79th Academy Awards ceremony in 2007 with Steven Spielberg and Francis Ford Coppola to present the Best Director award to their friend Martin Scorsese. In 2006, the Science Fiction Hall of Fame inducted George Lucas and three others and On August 25, 2009, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver announced that Lucas would be one of 13 California Hall of Fame inductees in The California Museum’s yearlong exhibit. Then On September 6, 2009, Lucas, along with the the Pixar team was presented with the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the 2009 Biennale Venice Film Festival. George Lucas was also involved in Star Wars episode VII The Force Awakens, directed by J.J.Abrahams and starring Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Adam Driver, Harrison Ford, and Carrie Fisher and Episode IX The Rise of Skywalker the final part of the Star Wars saga which also stars Daisy Ridley, John Boyega, Adam Driver, Harrison Ford, and the late great Carrie Fisher.
Swiss surrealist painter, sculptor and set designer Hans Rudolf “Ruedi” Giger sadly passed away 12 May 2014. He was born 5 February 1940 in Chur, capital city of Graubünden, the largest and easternmost Swiss canton. His father, a chemist, viewed art as a “breadless profession” and strongly encouraged him to enter pharmaceutics, Giger recalls. Yet he moved in 1962 to Zürich, where he studied Architecture and industrial design at the School of Applied Arts until 1970. Giger Started with small ink drawings before progressing to oil paintings. For most of his career, Giger has worked predominantly in airbrush, creating monochromatic canvasses depicting surreal, nightmarish dreamscapes.
Gradually he abandoned large airbrush works and Stated working with pastels, markers or inks. His most distinctive stylistic innovation is that of a representation of human bodies and machines in a cold, interconnected relationship, he described as “biomechanical”. His paintings often display fetishistic sexual imagery His main influences were painters Ernst Fuchs, Salvador Dalí and the American horror fiction writer H.P. Lovecraft, particularly his first compendium of images Necronomicon, he was also a personal friend of Timothy Leary. Giger suffered from night terrors and his paintings are all to some extent inspired by his experiences with that particular sleep disorder. He studied interior and industrial design at the School of Commercial Art in Zurich (from 1962 to 1965) and made his first paintings as a means of art therapy.
Giger’s style and thematic execution have been influential. His design for the Alien was inspired by his painting Necronom IV and earned him an Oscar in 1980. His books of paintings, particularly Necronomicon and Necronomicon II (1985) and the frequent appearance of his art in Omni magazine continued his rise to international prominence. Giger is also well known for artwork on several music recording albums.In 1998 Giger acquired the Château St. Germain in Gruyères, Switzerland, and it now houses the H. R. Giger Museum, a permanent repository of his work and was inducted to the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame in 2013. During the 1960s and 1970s, Giger directed a number of films, including Swiss Made (1968),Tagtraum (1973), Giger’s Necronomicon (1975) and Giger’s Alien (1979). Giger has created furniture designs, particularly the Harkonnen Capo Chair for a movie of the novel Dune. Many years later, David Lynch directed the film, using only rough concepts by Giger. Giger had wished to work with Lynch. Giger has also applied his biomechanical style to interior design and a “Giger Bar” sprang up in Tokyo, Sadly though Within a few years, the establishment was out of business. However two more Giger Bars were built in Gruyères and Chur, under Giger’s close personal supervision and reflect his original concepts for them accurately.
At The Limelight in Manhattan, Giger’s artwork also decorates the VIP room, the uppermost chapel of the landmarked church, but it was never intended to be a permanent installation and As of 2009 only the two authentic Swiss Giger Bars remain. His art has greatly influenced tattooists and fetishists worldwide. Under a licensing deal Ibanez guitars released an H. R. Giger signature series: the Ibanez ICHRG2, an Ibanez Iceman, features “NY City VI”, the Ibanez RGTHRG1 has “NY City XI” printed on it, the S Series SHRG1Z has a metal-coated engraving of “Biomechanical Matrix” on it, and a 4-string SRX bass, SRXHRG1, has “N.Y. City X” on it. Giger is often referred to in pop culture, especially in science fiction and cyberpunk. William Gibson (who wrote an early script for Alien 3) seems particularly fascinated: a minor character in Virtual Light, Lowell, is described as having New York XXIV tattooed across his back, and in Idoru a secondary character, Yamazaki, describes the buildings of nanotech Japan as Giger-esque. Giger’s artwork continues to inspire film makers and artists alike and his work can be seen at the Château St. Germain in Gruyères, Switzerland, which houses the H. R. Giger Museum, a permanent repository of his work. Giger was also inducted to the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame in 2013.
The latest Doctor Who episode Space Babies begins at the end of “The Church on Ruby Road,” with the Doctor’s latest companion, Ruby Sunday (Millie Gibson), entering the TARDIS for the first time. The Doctor introduces himself as an alien, adopted by the Time Lords of Gallifrey, quasi-immortal time travelers who can go anywhere in the universe.
The Doctor’s takes Ruby to a space station in the far future, where they find themselves being chased by something sinister in the bowels of the Space Station. They Discover that they are on a baby making Space station, which has apparently been abandoned due to a financial crisis, after The government of the planet below pulled funding for the stations and ordered the adults to leave. however Because the planet is anti-abortion, they won’t terminate the as-yet unborn babies, preferring to let them die slowly from external factors while leaving the Station operational.
They discover that the Space station is now being run by talking space babies with the minds of preschoolers and the mouths of adults. They are growing babies on the space station for colony projects by using an ingenious system of pulleys and cables letting them control specific onboard functions, and smart strollers to carry them around. The only other presence on the ship is an AI, NAN-E, which acts as a comforting voice for the kids. who turns out to be a person. Jocelyn Sancerre (Golda Rosheuvel) is the last adult crew member, who stayed on the station to care for the children.
However the Doctor and Ruby Discover that The bowels of the vessel are being stalked by an eyeless, teeth-heavy and rather disgusting monster called The Bogeyman. So The Doctor and Ruby hatch a plan to save the babies, by taking them to another planet in the system. However Eric, one of the, space babies takes matters into his own hands and decides to head down to the lower level to tackle this terrifying bogeyman himself…..
Dr Who – The Devil’s Chord
The Devils Chord Begins in a concert hall in 1925 as a teacher outlines the basics of music theory for a young child. He shows off that he has “discovered” The Devil’s Chord unfortunately by playing it, he unwittingly unleashes the evil Maestro (Jinkx Monsoon), godlike elemental force who is the embodiment of music, who After praising the musician for their genius, sucks the music out of their heart and eats it.
The pair sneak into George Martin’s producer’s booth in 1963 to watch The Beatles rehearsing but quickly spot something is wrong when The Beatles do not play any of Please Please Me. Next door, famous British singer / TV presenter, Cilla Black is similarly stricken, as is a concert orchestra. After investigating further The Doctor uncovers a sinister individual, called The Maestro who has spent the last few decades swallowing all of the music out of people’s hearts. So The Doctor and Ruby set about luring the Maestro into a trap. Ruby plays a tune she wrote to help a friend get over a breakup. Maestro arrives and causes chaos before outlining a diabolical plan to rid the universe of music. so the Doctor and Ruby confront Maestro but find the walls of reality collapsing around them….
Best known as the author of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, English author Douglas Adams, sadl died 11 May 2001. He was born in 11th March 1952 in Cambridge, England, and attended Primrose Hill Primary School in Brentwood. At nine, he passed the entrance exam for Brentwood School, an independent school whose alumni include Robin Day, Jack Straw, Noel Edmonds, and David Irving. Griff Rhys Jones was also a year below him. He attended the prep school from 1959 to 1964, then the main school until December 1970. He became the only student ever to be awarded a ten out of ten by Halford for creative writing, Some of his earliest writing was published at the school, such as reports or spoof reviews in the school magazine Broadsheet He also designed the cover of one issue of the Broadsheet, and had a letter and short story published nationally in The Eagle. in 1965, he was awarded a place at St John’s College, Cambridge to read English, Which he attended from 1971, though the main reason he applied to Cambridge was to join the Footlights, an invitation-only student comedy club that has acted as a hothouse for some of the most notable comic talent in England. he graduated from St. John’s in 1974 with a B.A. in English literature.
After university Adams moved back to London, determined to break into TV and radio as a writer. The Footlights Revue appeared on BBC2 television in 1974 and also performed live in London’s West End which led to Adams being discovered by Monty Python’s Graham Chapman. The two formed a brief writing partnership, earning Adams a writing credit in episode 45 of Monty Python for a sketch called “Patient Abuse”, which plays on the idea of mind-boggling paper work in an emergency, a joke later incorporated into the Vogons’ obsession with paperwork. Adams also contributed to a sketch on the album for Monty Python and the Holy Grail. During this time Adams also continued to write and submit other sketches elesewhere, though few were accepted. In 1976 his career had a brief improvement when he wrote and performed, to good review, Unpleasantness at Brodie’s Close at the Edinburgh Fringe festival.Some of Adams’s early radio work included sketches for The Burkiss Way in 1977 and The News Huddlines. He also wrote the 20 February 1977 episode of the Doctor on the Go,television comedy series, with Graham Chapman, and later became the script editor for Doctor Who.
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy was a concept for a science-fiction comedy radio series pitched by Adams and radio producer Simon Brett to BBC Radio 4 in 1977. Adams came up with an outline for a pilot episode, as well as a few other stories (reprinted in Neil Gaiman’s book Don’t Panic: The Official Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Companion) that could potentially be used in the series. It started life in 1978 as a BBC radio comedy and a after the first radio series became successful, Adams was made a BBC radio producer, working on Week Ending and a pantomime called Black Cinderella Two Goes East. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy was also developed into a series of five books that sold over 15 million copies in his lifetime, a television series, several stage plays, comics, a computer game, and in 2005 a feature film. Adams’s contribution to UK radio is commemorated in The Radio Academy’s Hall of Fame.
Adams also wrote Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency (1987) and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (1988), and co-wrote The Meaning of Liff (1983), Last Chance to See (1990), and three stories for the television series Doctor Who. A posthumous collection of his work, including an unfinished novel, was published as The Salmon of Doubt in 2002. Adams sent the script for the HHGG pilot radio programme to the Doctor Who production office in 1978, and was commissioned to write The Pirate Planet . He had also previously attempted to submit a potential movie script, which later became his novel Life, the Universe and Everything (which in turn became the third Hitchhiker’s Guide radio series). Adams then went on to serve as script editor on the show for its seventeenth season in 1979. Altogether, he wrote three Doctor Who serials starring Tom Baker as the Doctor: The Pirate Planet, City of Death and Shada Adams also allowed in-jokes from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to appear in the Doctor Who stories he wrote and other stories on which he served as Script Editor. Elements of Shada and City of Death were also reused in Adams’s later novel Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency, Adams is also credited with introducing a fan and later friend of his, the evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins, to Dawkins’s future wife, Lalla Ward, who had played the part of Romana in Doctor Who.
Adams also played the guitar left-handed and had a collection of twenty-four guitars when he died in 2001 and also studied piano in the 1960s with the same teacher as Paul Wickens, the pianist who plays in Paul McCartney’s band (and composed the music for the 2004–2005 editions of the Hitchhiker’s Guide radio series). The Beatles, Pink Floyd and Procol Harum all had important influence on Adams’s work. Adams included a direct reference to Pink Floyd in the original radio version of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, in which he describes the main characters surveying the landscape of an alien planet while Marvin, their android companion, hums Pink Floyd’s “Shine on You Crazy Diamond”. This was cut out of the CD version. Adams also compared the various noises that the kakapo makes to “Pink Floyd studio out-takes” in his nonfiction book on endangered species, Last Chance to See.
Adams’s official biography shares its name with the song “Wish You Were Here” by Pink Floyd. Adams was friends with Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour and, on the occasion of Adams’s 42nd birthday (the number 42 having special significance, being the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe and Everything and also Adams’s age when his daughter Polly was born), he was invited to make a guest appearance at Pink Floyd’s 28 October 1994 concert at Earls Court in London, playing guitar on the songs “Brain Damage” and “Eclipse”. Adams chose the name for Pink Floyd’s 1994 album, The Division Bell, by picking the words from the lyrics to one of its tracks, namely “High Hopes”.
Gilmour also performed at Adams’s memorial service following his death in 2001, and what would have been Adams’ 60th birthday party in 2012. Douglas Adams was also a friend of Gary Brooker, the lead singer, pianist and songwriter of the progressive rock band Procol Harum. Adams also appeared on stage with Brooker to perform “In Held Twas in I” at Redhill when the band’s lyricist Keith Reid was not available. Adams was also an advocate for environmental and conservation causes, and a lover of fast cars, cameras, and the Apple Macintosh, and was a staunch atheist. Biologist Richard Dawkins also dedicated his book, The God Delusion, to Adams, writing on his death that, “Science has lost a friend, literature has lost a luminary, the mountain gorilla and the black rhino have lost a gallant defender
Star Wars takes place annually on May 4th to celebrate Star Wars culture, books and honour the films. The date was chosen because of the popularity of a common pun “May the fourth be with you”. (If you wanted To prolong the celebrations you could also try Revenge of the 5ith, The la5t Jedi, Ro6ue One or Revenge of the Si(x)th).The original quote is derived from the famous quote ‘May the Force be with you” and was first used in an advertisement placed in the London Evening News when Margaret Thatcher was elected Britain’s first female Prime Minister on May 4, 1979, and The Conservative political party placed an advertisement in The London Evening News which read “May the Fourth Be with You, Maggie. Congratulations.” The line was also recorded in the UK Parliament’s Hansard. Star Wars creator George Lucas was also asked to say the famous sentence “May the Force be with you” during a 2005 interview on German news Channel N24 and the interpreter simultaneously interpreted the sentence into German as Am 4. Mai sind wir bei Ihnen (“On May 4 we are with you.”). The first organized celebration of Star Wars Day took place in Toronto, Ontario, Canada at the Toronto Underground Cinema in 2011 festivities included an Original Trilogy Trivia Game Show; a costume contest with celebrity judges; and the web’s best tribute films, mash-ups, parodies, and remixes on the big screen. The second annual edition took place on Friday, May 4, 2012. In 2013, Disney’sHollywood Studios celebrated the holiday with several Star Wars events and festivities.
Phantom Menace
The first film in the Star Wars saga “the Phantom Menace” takes place during a trade dispute between The greedy Trade Federation and the Galactic Federation Over the Taxation of Trade Routes, and the Trade Federation blockade many trade routes. So two Jedi Knights Qui Gonn Jinn and Obi Wan Kenobi are despatched to negotiate. Meanwhile the evil Darth Sidious, a Sith Lord and the Trade Federation’s secret adviser, uses the situation to his advantage and orders Federation Viceroy Nute Gunray to kill the Jedi and invade Naboo with an army of battle droids. The Jedi escape and flee to Naboo. During the invasion, Qui-Gon encounters a Gungan outcast who leads the Jedi to an underwater Gungan city. The Jedi unsuccessfully try to persuade the Gungan leader, Boss Nass, into helping the people of Naboo. So They journey to Theed, and rescue Queen Amidala, the ruler of the Naboo people, before escaping on her royal starship,
Amidala’s ship lands on the desert planet Tatooine. Qui-Gon, Jar Jar, astromech droid R2-D2, and Amidala visit Mos Espa where they meet the shop’s owner Watto and his nine-year-old slave, Anakin Skywalker. Qui-Gon senses a strong presence of the Force within Anakin and is convinced that he is the “chosen one” of Jedi prophecy who will bring balance to the Force. Anakin wins his freedom in a Podrace, And joins the group to be trained as a Jedi. Before leaving Tattooine, Qui-Gon is attacked by Darth Maul, Darth Sidious’s apprentice,
Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan escort Amidala to the Republic capital planet of Coruscant so that she can plead her people’s case to Chancellor Valorum and the Galactic Senate. Qui-Gon asks the Jedi Council for permission to train Anakin as a Jedi, Naboo’s Senator Palpatine persuades Amidala to make a vote of no confidence in Valorum and to elect him instead. Amidala then decides to return to Naboo accompanied by Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan and persuades the Gungans To join the Naboo and fight against the droid army of the Trade Federation on the ground.
Attack of the Clones
The Second film “Attack of the Clones” takes place Ten years after the Trade Federation’s invasion of Naboo, now peace in the Galactic Republic is threatened by a Separatist movement organized by former Jedi Master Count Dooku. Senator Padmé Amidala comes to coruscant and narrowly avoids being assassinated. So she is placed under the protection of Jedi Knight Obi-Wan Kenobi and his apprentice, Anakin Skywalker. a second attempt is made on her life by the assassin, Zam Wesell so The Jedi Council assigns Obi-Wan to investigate further, while Anakin is assigned to escort Padmé back to Naboo. Obi-Wan’s investigation leads him to the remote ocean planet Kamino, where he discovers an army of clones is being produced for the Republic. Obi-Wan follows the bounty hunter Jango Fett and his clone son, Boba, to the desert planet Geonosis. Meanwhile, Anakin becomes troubled by premonitions of his mother, Shmi, in pain, and travels to Tatooine with Padmé to save her.
They meet Owen Lars, Anakin’s stepbrother and the son of Shmi’s new husband, Cliegg Lars. Cliegg tells Anakin that Shmi was abducted by Tusken Raiders weeks earlier and is likely dead. Determined to find her, Anakin ventures out and finds Shmi at the Tusken campsite, where she dies in Anakin’s arms. Enraged, Anakin massacres the Tuskens and returns to the Lars homestead with Shmi’s body. On Geonosis, Obi-Wan discovers a Separatist gathering led by Count Dooku. Obi-Wan is captured. With knowledge of the droid army, Supreme Chancellor Palpatine is voted emergency powers to send the clones into battle. Anakin and Padmé journey to Geonosis to rescue Obi-Wan, but are also captured. The three are sentenced to death. However procedings are interrupted by a battalion of Jedi and clone troopers led by Mace Windu and Yoda who battle the Droid army. Then Obi-Wan and Anakin pursue Dooku, then Yoda arrives, however Dooku escapes…
Revenge of the Sith
Three years after the start of the Clone Wars between the Galactic Republic and the Confederacy of Independent Systems, Jedi Knights Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker lead a mission to rescue the kidnapped Supreme Chancellor Palpatine from Separatist commander General Grievous during a battle over the skies of Coruscant. After infiltrating Grievous’s flagship, the Jedi battle Count Dooku meanwhile Grievous flees.
Padmé Amidala, reveals some unexpected news, Then Palpatine appoints Anakin to the Jedi Council, however the Council declines to grant Anakin the rank of Jedi Master. They then ask him to spy on Palpatine and Anakin discovers that Palpatine is actually an evil Sith Lord. Elsewhere Obi-Wan travels to the planet Utapau to deal with General Grievous, and Yoda travels to Kashyyyk to defend the planet from invasion. Anakin is torn between loyalties between his friend Palpatine and the Jedi Order. However Things come to a head when Mace Windu, confronts the Sith Lord and Anakin makes a fateful life changing decision, meanwhile the clone troopers massacre the rest of the Jedi. The remaining Separatist leaders hiding on the volcanic planet Mustafar meet a similar grisly fate. Meanwhile on Coruscant Palpatine addresses the Galactic Senate, transforming the Republic into the Galactic Empire and declaring himself Emperor. Obi-Wan and Yoda return to Coruscant and learn of Anakin’s treachery. So Padmé and Obi-Wan travel to Mustafar however this ends in tragedy. Yoda battles Palpatine before fleeing to Dagobah
Rogue One
Rogue one sits between trilogies. It begins when An Imperial technician named Galen Erso leaves the evil Empire with his family Jyn and Lyra and disappears to the the remote planet Lahmu. Unfortunately though the Empire eventually locate him, catch up with him and take him prisoner and send his daughter Jyn to Wobani Labour Camp. However She is rescued by Guerrilla leader and Rebel extremist Saw Gerrera who teaches her to become a fighter with his militia as well as a smuggler and criminal.
After being abandoned by Gerrera, Jyn is rescued by a Rebel named Ruescott Melshi and taken to the rebel base where she meets Mon Mothma and Cassian Andor. Meanwhile an Imperial Pilot Defector named Bodhi Rook is being held by Saw Gerrera at the holy city of Jedha having been sent by Galen Erso to warn the rebels that the Empire Is constructing a superweapon of unimagineable power named the Death Star, which is capable of destroying whole planets. Jyn Erso and rebel pilot Cassian Andor journey to Jedha where they encounter two Mystic Warriors Chirrut Imwe and Baze Malbus battling the Imperial Invaders. They also encounter Saw Gerrera who is also waging his own guerrilla warfare on the Empire. Meanwhile the Empire led by Grand Moff Tarkin and Scientist Orson Krennic decide to demonstrate the Death Star’s destructive capacity on Jedha. And Cassian, Jyn, Bodhi Rook, Chirrut Imwe and Baze only just manage to escape the subsequent carnage.
They are then sent to an Imperial Research Facility on the windswept, inhospitable planet Eadu on a mission to find and extract Galen Erso. Whilst on Eadu Jyn, Cassian, Bodhi Rook, Chirut Imwe and Baze Malbus discover that the technical blueprints for the Empire’s superweapon are being stored in another Imperial Facility on the planet Scarif. So they set off, unbeknownst to the Rebels, on an unsanctioned and very dangerous mission to Scarif to recover the technical blueprints for the Death Star…
Star Wars
Star Wars is The first film in the original Star Wars Trilogy and was originally released 25 May 1977. (Technically it is the fourth film, and chronologically the prequels take place before Star Wars, but were released sixteen years after this date). Star Wars features a young farm boy named Luke Skywalker who finds himself thrust unwittingly into a Rebellion to rid the galaxy of an evil empire after acquiring two droids C3POandR2D2, who have escaped from a spaceship which has come under attack from the Empire and landed on the desolate planet Tattooine. Along the way He meets an old Jedi Knight named Obi Wan Kenobi and discovers that one of the droids is carrying the technical data for the Empire’s terrifying new weapon ‘The Death Star’ which is capable of destroying whole planets. Luke also learns that he has a special power and asks Obi Wan to teach him to master it. On Tattoine he also meets charismatic smuggler Han Solo and his wookiee first mate Chewbacca, who are asked to take them to the planet Alderaaan, home of Princess Leia to help mount an attack on the Death Star. However Princess Leia has been captured by the evil Empire, led by The Evil Sith Lord Emperor Palpatine and his sinister apprentice Darth Vader and taken to theDeath Star and Alderaan has been destroyed. so the rebels mount a daring rescue attempt to free Princess Leia and Luke finds himself swept up in the battle to destroy the Death Star…
Empire Strikes Back
Empire Strikes Back takes place Three years later, and sees the Rebels attacked by the Empire on the ice world of Hoth and Luke traveling to find Jedi Master Yoda, who is living in exile on the swamp-infested world Dagobah, to begin his Jedi training. The Rebels manage to escape Hoth hotly pursued by the Empire. However, Luke is interrupted from his training when Vader lures him into a trap by capturing Han and the others who have journeyed to Cloud City on Bespin seeking help from Han’s old acquaintance Lando Calrissian. During a fierce lightsaber duel, Vader reveals that he is in fact Luke’s father and used to be Anakin Skywalker, and attempts to turn Luke to the dark side.
Return of the Jedi
Return of the Jedi sees, Luke journeys to Tattoine to save Han from the clutches of the vile gangster Jabba the Hutt and then return to Yoda to complete his training. However, now over 900 years old, Yoda is on his deathbed. Before he passes away, Yoda confirms that Vader is Luke’s father; moments later, Obi-Wan’s spirit tells Luke that he must face his father before he can become a true Jedi, and that Leia is his twin sister. The Rebels then attempt to destroy a second Death Star which is being built near the forest moon of Endor and manage to pursuade the local inhabitants to help them.
Meanwhile Luke confronts Vader as Palpatine watches; both Sith Lords intend to turn Luke to the dark side and take him as their apprentice. During the subsequent lightsaber duel, Luke succumbs to his anger and brutally overpowers Vader, but controls himself at the last minute; realizing that he is about to suffer his father’s fate, and he spares Vader’s life and declares his allegiance to the Jedi. An enraged Palpatine then attempts to kill Luke with Force lightning. However Darth Vader Redeems himself at the last moment, switching loyalties from the Empire to his Son, but pays the ultimate price. Subsequently Luke becomes a full-fledged Jedi. Meanwhile the Rebels attack the second Death Star.
The Force Awakens
Thirty years have passed since the Death Star was destroyed and Emperor Palpatine defeated, however a new evil power has risen in the form of the First Order led by the Sinister Supreme Leader Snoke and his acolyte Kyle Ren. (Adam Driver). Meanwhile on the remote planet of Jakku a young woman named Rey (Daisy Ridley) eeks out a meager living by scavenging parts from obsolete space ships in exchange for food, she finds a droid BB-8, which contains a top secret map. Then a defector named Finn (John Boyega) crash-lands on Jakku, where he meets Rey (Daisy Ridley), Together, the young duo try to escape theFirst Order who are in hot pursuit and encounter Han Solo (Harrison Ford) before finding themselves drawn into the fight against the evil First Order, led by Princess Leia (Carrie Fisher) and the search for Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill), the last of the Jedi Knights, who mysteriously vanished after a former pupil turned evil.
The Last Jedi
Rey locates Luke and begins training as a Jedi, meanwhile the First Order led by Supreme Leader Snoke and Kylo Ren continue to pursue the Resistance led by Princess Leia. Kylo Ren lures Rey into a trap and After capturing Her, Kylo Ren also decides he has finally had enough of Supreme Leader Snoke and resorts to drastic action before fleeing. Kylo REN then pursues the remnants of the resistance to a remote planet where they face a desperate battle against Kylo Ren and the First Order before somebody unexpected turns up and manages to buy them enough time to escape…
The Rise of Skywalker
Rey continues her Jedi training under the tutelage of Princess Leia. Meanwhile Kylo Ren ventures to the uncharted planet of Exegol where he discovers an ancient evil has been biding it’s time and building up a massive army ready to take over the galaxy. Elsewhere the Resistance follow clues which they hope will also lead them to Exegol. However Chewbacca gets captured by the Knights of Ren, so they set off to rescue him, while Rey confront Ren. Then Poe Dameron makes a suggestion and they venture to the planet Kimaji where he finds himself reacquainted with an old flame Who may be able to help them. Unfortunately the First Order are not far behind. Meanwhile After hearing some unsettling news from Kylo Ren, Rey decides to confront the ancient evil herself and ventures into the unknown regions….
Following the events of return of the Jedi Boba Fett manages to escape from the sarlacc that swallowed him and is left for dead by Jawas who steal his armor. He is captured by Tusken Raiders and fails to escape their camp. During Fett’s time with the Tuskens: he and a Rodian prisoner were forced to dig for black melons in the desert. They are attacked by a large sand creature that killed the Rodian. Fett killed the creature, saving a Tusken child and earning the respect of the tribe. the Tuskens teach Fett their style of combat and desert survival skills. The tribe is attacked by a Pyke Syndicate spice train, Fett stole speeder bikes from a nearby Nikto gang and taught the Tuskens how to ride them. He led the tribe in a successful attack to stop the train and warned the surviving Pykes that they would have to pay a toll to enter Tuskens territory in the future. Fett is admitted into Tusken tribe, after undergoing an initiation which involved creating his own gaffi stick. Fett then tries to reclaim his heavily guarded Firespray-class gunship from Jabba’s Palace. When he discovered Fennec Shand dying from a gut wound, Fett takes her to a Mos Eisley mod parlour who save her life with cybernetic parts. Fett requested Shand’s help to break into the palace, now ruled by Bib Fortuna. After fighting the guards and retrieving Fett’s ship, Shand decided to stay with Fett. Unfortunately while Fett is absent, the Tusken tribe is destroyed by the Nikto gang. They kill the biker gang instead which Fett believed to have massacred his Tusken tribe, before flying to the sarlacc pit to retrieve his armor. Shand killed the attacking sarlacc.
Five years later, Fett and Fennec Shand have taken control of‘s criminal empire on Tatooine. They receive tribute from local dignitaries and gain the services of two Gamorrean guards. Fett and Shand visit the Sanctuary, a cantina in Mos Espa run by Garsa Fwip, who also offers tribute. Outside the cantina, the group are ambushed by assassins. Shand captures one of the assailants. The guards take an injured Fett to the palace and place him in a bacta tank for healing. Fett and Shand interrogate the captured assassin, who claims to have been hired by Mok Shaiz, the Mayor of Mos Espa. Shaiz denies this but offers payment to Fett for capturing the assassin and suggests that they visit the Sanctuary again. Fwip informs Fett that two of Jabba’s cousins, a pair of Hutts known as “The Twins,” want to claim Jabba’s throne for themselves. The Twins arrive with the Wookiee bounty hunter Krrsantan and try to intimidate Fett.
Fett is asked by water-monger Lortha Peel to punish a gang of cyborgs who are stealing his water in Mos Espa. Upon seeing that the gang has no work, Fett employs the cyborgs as enforcers. Fett is attacked by Krrsantan. Fett, Shand, the guards, and the cyborgs fight off and capture the Wookiee. The Twins soon apologize for sending Krrsantan, claiming that Shaiz has promised Jabba’s territory to another syndicate. The Twins vow to leave Tatooine and gift a rancor to Fett. After releasing Krrsantan and resolving to train the rancor, Fett goes to Mos Espa with Shand and the cyborgs to question Shaiz. They discover that Shaiz is working with the Pykes. Later, the Pykes begin arriving in Mos Espa en-masse and Fett decides to prepare for war. Fett hires Krrsantan and urges Mos Espa’s other crime bosses to unite against the Pyke Syndicate, but they refuse. With the rancor’s presence, Fett convinces them to remain neutral while he fights the Syndicate alone. Shand suggests that they hire reinforcements.
Meanwhile Din Djarin tracks and kills a bounty, he delivers the bounty’s head for directions to a Mandalorian hideout. There, he finds the Armorer and Paz Vizsla, survivors of their tribe of Mandalorian warriors, who inspect the Darksaber that he won from Moff Gideon. The Armorer explains that whoever wins the Darksaber in combat can become the ruler of Mandalore. The Armorer turns Djarin’s beskar spear into a gift for his former charge, Grogu. Vizsla, a descendant of the Darksaber’s creator, Tarre Vizsla, challenges Djarin to a duel for the saber. Djarin then takes a commercial transport to meet Peli Motto on Tatooine, who has an old N-1 starfighter to replace his previous ship, the Razor Crest. Working together they fix and modify the starship and Djarin takes it for a test flight. Upon his return, Fennec Shand arrives and asks Djarin to assist Boba Fett against the Pykes.
Cobb Vanth marshal of Tatooine’s Freetown (formerly Mos Pelgo), confronts and shoots Pyke spice runners. Djarin flies to a forested world to visit Grogu, where he is greeted by R2-D2 and Ahsoka Tano. Djarin then returns to Tatooine after asking Tano to deliver the gift—a beskar chain mail tunic to Grogu. Meanwhile Jedi Mastsr Luke Skywalker begins training Grogu to use the force. Djarin travels to Freetown to enlist Vanth and his people. However After Djarin leaves, hired gun Cad Bane arrives on behalf of the Pykes and shoots both the marshal and his deputy. Two Pykes later bomb the Sanctuary in Mos Espa. Skywalker ,offers a choice to Grogu. Meanwhile Cad Bane and the Pykes confront Fett, Shand, and Djarin and Reveals who actually killed Fett’s Tusken tribe and framed the biker gang. Heavy fighting ensues throughout Mos Espa. when The other crime families betray Fett join the Pykes. Leaving Boba Fett, Din Djarin, Fennec Shand, Kyrrrsanton, and the Cyborgs to fight against Cad Bane and the Pyke syndicate…
English English Actress Jenna-Louise Coleman was born 27 April 1986. She is best known for her role as Clara Oswald in the British television series Doctor Who and Jasmine Thomas in the British soap opera Emmerdale. Coleman was born in Blackpool, Lancashire and began her acting career at a young age as a member of a theatre company called “In Yer Space.” She got her big break While auditioning for drama schools in 2005, And was chosen to play Jasmine Thomas in Emmerdale in 2005. She received critical acclaim and was nominated for the Most Popular Newcomer award at the 2007 National Television Awards. She went on to play “hard girl” Lindsay James in the BBC school-based drama series Waterloo Road, Susan Brown in a BBC Four television adaptation of the John Braine novel Room at the Top, Annie Desmond in Julian Fellowes’ four part mini-series Titanic, and Rosie in Stephen Poliakoff’s original drama series Dancing on the Edge. Coleman made her feature film debut in 2011 as the character Connie in Captain America: The First Avenger
At the 2009 British Soap Awards, she was nominated for the Best Actress, Sexiest Female, and Best Dramatic Performance awards. She received a nomination for the Best Actress award from the TV Choice Awards. In May 2009, it was announced that Coleman would be joining BBC drama series Waterloo Road as “hard girl” Lindsay James.As she was 23 at the time of her casting, Coleman found the experience of playing a schoolgirl “surreal”.
In December 2010, it was announced that Coleman would be playing Susan Brown in a BBC Four television adaptation of the John Braine novel Room at the Top and In 2011, she made her feature film debut in Captain America: The First Avenger. She also landed the part of Annie Desmond in Julian Fellowes’ four part mini-series Titanic, describing her character as a “cheeky little Cockney” and “the Eliza Doolittle of the ship”. Coleman provided the voice for the character Melia in the English dub of the 2011 video game Xenoblade Chronicles. In 2012, Coleman was cast as Rosie in Stephen Poliakoff’s original drama series Dancing on the Edge, which follows the fortunes of a black jazz band in the 1930s. The show aired on BBC Two in February 2013. On 21 March 2012, Doctor Who producer Steven Moffat confirmed at a press conference that Coleman would play the companion of the Eleventh Doctor (Matt Smith). Moffat chose her for the role because she worked the best alongside Smith and could talk faster than him. She auditioned for the role in secrecy, pretending it was for something called Men on Waves (an anagram for “Woman Seven”, as she would first appear in the show’s seventh series).
Although originally announced as beginning her run as companion in the Christmas special in 2012, Coleman made a surprise appearance on 1 September 2012 in the first episode of the seventh series, “Asylum of the Daleks” playing Oswin Oswald. She subsequently debuted as a series regular in the Christmas special episode “The Snowmen”, playing the Victorian governess and barmaid Clara Oswin Oswald; like her previous incarnation, the character dies. At the end of that episode, Coleman is seen playing a third version of the character, this time from contemporary London and named simply Clara Oswald. The Doctor finds the third version of her, and from the episode “The Bells of Saint John”, Clara became the Doctor’s regular Companion and also accompanies Twelfth Doctor, played by Peter Capaldi, in the 2013 Christmas special episode “The Time of the Doctor.” As of 20 June 2013, she began using the name Jenna Coleman for stage credits, having previously used Jenna-Louise Coleman. She was first credited as Jenna Coleman in Doctor Who Live: The Next Doctor, which aired on 4 August 2013. She starred as Lydia Wickham in the adaptation of Death Comes to Pemberley. The three episodes were shown on BBC One during Christmas 2013.
Russell T Davies OBE
Welsh Television producer and screenwriter Russell T Davies OBE was born 27th April in 1963 in Swansea. Davies aspired to work as a comic artist in his adult life, until a careers advisor at his school suggested that he study English literature; he consequently focused on a career of play and screen-writing. He attended Oxford University and After he graduated from Oxford University, Davies joined the BBC’s children’s department on a part-time basis in 1985 and worked in varying positions, including writing and producing two series, Dark Season and Century Falls. He left the BBC in the early 1990s to work for Granada Television and later became a freelance writer. Davies moved into writing adult television dramas in 1994.
His early scripts generally explored concepts of religion and sexuality among various backdrops: Revelations was a soap opera about organised religion and featured a lesbian vicar; Springhill was a soap drama about a Catholic family in contemporary Liverpool; The Grand explored society’s opinion of subjects such as prostitution, abortion, and homosexuality during the interwar period; and Queer as Folk, his first prolific series, recreated his experiences in the Manchester gay scene. His later series include Bob & Rose, which portrayed a gay man who fell in love with a woman, The Second Coming the UK and Ireland and the, which focused on the second coming and deicide of Jesus Christ, Mine All Mine, a comedy about a family who discover they owned the entire city of Swansea, and Casanova, an adaptation of the Venetian lover’s complete memoirs.
He has worked on many television prograns includng Queer as Folk, Bob & Rose, The Second Coming, Casanova, perhaps his most notable achievement is reviving and running the science fiction series Doctor Who after a sixteen year hiatus, with Christopher Eccleston, David Tennant and Matt Smith, in the title role of the Doctor. Davies’ tenure as executive producer of the show oversaw a surge in popularity that led to the production of two spin-off series, Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures, and the revival of the Saturday primetime dramas as a profitable venture for production companies. Davies was awarded an OBE in 2008 for services to drama, which coincided with his announcement that he would step down from as the show’s executive producer with his final script, The End of Time (2009–10). Davies moved to Los Angeles, California, in 2009, where he oversaw production of Torchwood: Miracle Day and the fifth and final series of The Sarah Jane Adventures. He returned to the United Kingdom in late 2011 after his partner developed cancer and worked on the CBBC drama Wizards vs Aliens.
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