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September 25, 2008 in
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- The BBC brought Torchwood to the radio as Captain Jack Harkness ran around trying to shut the Large Hadron Collider down, because it was really a portal to an evil dimension. In reality, the LHC was tested successfully with two proton beams fired the length of the $4 billion campus.
- Scientists have theorized that aliens could possibly send messages using Cepheid star pulses as an intergalactic Morse code.
- CBS has ended all Fox shows the production company, Benderspink, was working on, including Kyle XY and a tv spin-off of the Butterfly Effect.
- A live action Incredibles will be brought to TV by ABC; the Nelsons will air, but Craig T. Nelson may or may not reprise his role.
- Russel T. Davies wants Catherine Zeta Jones to play the Doctor’s companion in an upcoming Dr. Who feature film, but David Tennant must be available to be the Doctor.
- Scientists have concluded that a visible stream of gamma radiation from a collapsing star was almost exactly centered on Earth, almost as if it was aimed…
- Frank Miller’s All Star Batman and Robin have been ordered destroyed due to language. Miller had censored the language, but the bars were printed in a lighter black than the words, making them fairly easy to read.
- A real chemist named Louis Slotin was exposed to the same radiation as Watchmen’s Dr. Manhattan while improperly using a screwdriver to work on a fission reactor. The critical reaction caused a dose of radiation equal to being 1500 meters away from an atomic bomb. He died nine days later.
- Marvel is denying that Will Smith has ever been offered the role of Captain America.
- Aaron Eckhart has confirmed he is not signed on to do another Batman and Christopher Nolan will not be doing the next film. Frank Miller might be doing the next film, not as a sequel, but as a stand-alone, with Stallone as Batman.
- Harold Ramis has announced that there will be a Ghostbusters 3, perhaps to coincide with the release of the game. No word on if it is a reboot or a new generation yet.
- Sam Raimi and Tobey Maguire have signed on for Spiderman 4 and 5.
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