3+ hour, 55+ min ago  (607+ words) Award-winning Cornish director Mark Jenkin said he watched the science fiction TV series Quantum Leap as part of research for his new time travel film. Jenkin and co-writer Mary Woodvine's film, Rose of Nevada, tells the story of a fishing…...

5+ mon, 2+ week ago  (289+ words) Sixty years ago, anthology series Out of the Unknown premiered on the BBC. It served up serious, one-off sci-fi dramas exploring our relationship with technology, among other things. The series began broadcasting in 1965, with its first story, John Wyndham's No…...

5+ mon, 3+ day ago  (462+ words) French actor Tch'ky Karyo, who had a starring role in the film Nikita and the TV series The Missing, has died aged 72. Karyo, who was born in Turkey but grew up in Paris, died of a cancer on Friday, AFP…...

7+ mon, 2+ week ago  (229+ words) The new comedy drama starrng Alex Lawther, Laurie Kynaston and Jamie-Lee O'Donnell will be coming soon to BBC iPlayer, BBC Two and BBC Northern Ireland ... The new comedy drama starrng Alex Lawther, Laurie Kynaston and Jamie-Lee O'Donnell will be coming…...

8+ mon, 2+ week ago  (1552+ words) The first Space Shuttle was originally going to be named Constitution. US President Gerald Ford agreed to rename it Enterprise " here's how Star Trek fans persuaded him. It's 17 September 1976. The world's press has gathered in Palmdale, California, for the revealing…...

9+ mon, 1+ week ago  (465+ words) A museum holding a "lifetime collection" of Doctor Who memorabilia, along with Star Wars and Red Dwarf props, is putting its entire collection up for auction. The Time Machine Museum of Science Fiction holds props and costumes from both the…...