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Full Trailer For Twilight: Eclipse!
by admin
11 Mar 2010 at 2:17pm

Twi-hard alert! Calling all 14 year old girls!

The full trailer for the next installment in the Twilight saga is now online and we’re bringing it to you!

Material has been slowly leaking onto the web for the past two months and now we’ve finally got a full trailer to show you.

Edward and Bella are anxious to start their new life together but she’s got to decide whether or not she wants to be a vampire. Meanwhile Jacob doesn’t want to let her go over to the dark side, but will he stand in the way of true love?

Meanwhile, Victoria is still loose and out for revenge on Edward but will she get it?


New Posters For Kick-Ass
by Emily Moulder
11 Mar 2010 at 2:03pm

We love a poster at OTB but we have to admit, we’re not loving the new Kick-Ass posters.

Previously released artwork for the superhero movie have been, well, kick-ass, so we’re a little disappointed at the latest images.

The film follows high school loser Dave Lizewski as he tries his hand at being a superhero, not letting the fact that he has no powers stand in his way.

Calling himself Kick-Ass, he soon encounters heroes with a bit more experience and a lot more firepower than he in the shape of Big Daddy and 11 year old daughter Hit Girl.

We previously posted some behind the scenes interviews with star Aaron Johnson and the writer/director Matthew Vaughn and Jane Goldman and while we might not love these posters, you just might. Enjoy.



Rapunzel Renaming Mystery Revealed
by Emily Moulder
11 Mar 2010 at 1:16pm

We pondered over why Disney Animation had changed the title of their next project Rapunzel to Tangled because it’s seemed rather pointless.

Some fans think that the new title will take away from the integrity of the fairytale, others think that it’ll signal a moderisation of the story but now we know the real reason that they did it.

We should have known really. It turns out that Disney just wanted the film to appeal to boys who might be less inclined to see a princess movie named after a long haired lovely.

Ed Catmull, president of Pixar and Disney Animation Studios explained the situation. “We did not want to be put into a box. Some people might assume it’s a fairy tale for girls when it’s not. We make movies to be appreciated and loved by everybody.”

To be fair, that’s a good common sense approach. Of course boys aren’t going to want to see the film if they think it’s a pretty in pink movie, but will calling it Tangled make a difference?

They’re also targetting the boys more with the addition of the Flynn Rider character which is not included in the original story. But will one swashbuckling rogue cancel out the princess effect?

Take another look at the teaser trailer and see what you think.


New Robin Hood Trailer
by admin
11 Mar 2010 at 12:16pm

Russel ‘Grrr’ Crowe returns to our screens as classic British hero Robin Hood in Ridley Scott’s new film.

Maybe one day we’ll actually get an English actor to play him. Anyway, this version will follow the typical story of Robin fighting in the Crusades with King Richard then returning to merry old England to find that Prince John has ballsed everything up while they’ve been gone. Putting peasants under extreme taxation, Prince John uses sidekick Sir Godfrey to help him gain power and keep the country under his thumb.

With a little help from his band of merry men, Robin tries to fight back and restore England to it’s former glory. Cate Blanchett also stars as love interest Maid Marion but at least in Scott’s version she looks like she could kick some serious ass.

Check out the trailer and let us know if Crowe looks like he can pull it off.


Jeff Bridges ‘I Could Relate To The Dude’
by Emily Moulder
11 Mar 2010 at 12:00pm

Jeff Bridges may have won an Oscar for his portrayal of a hard living country singer in Crazy Heart but it turns out he had a lot of experience to go on.

In an interview with The Sun, Bridges revealed that in his youth he was pretty wild and how that not only influenced Crazy Heart, but the role that made him famous, The Dude in The Big Lebowski.

“When I was younger there were stories about me doing drugs and how I was ‘torturing’ my family. Actually, it was pretty accurate. In my 20s I was experimenting with drugs like pot, LSD and coke. That part of my life was in the past by then, but I could relate to The Dude.”

As well as having an effect on his family, Bridges’ drug use had a pretty big effect on his dad’s car.

“I did it before I had a driver’s licence. Dad had a ‘63 Lincoln, a beautiful car, that he let me use near the garage. The car was going backwards and I thought, ‘I can’t be pushing the gas hard enough for it to go forward’. So I pushed harder and the car went through a brick wall.”

He’s calmed down a lot since those days and that’s mostly down to his wife and children. Unlike most Hollywood relationships, Bridges has been happily married since 1977 and are still going strong. “I’m so in love with her. The relationship just keeps getting better and more intimate and sexier and all that stuff. My wife supports me and it makes me love her more.”


UK TV Programme Highlights
UK TV Programme Highlights
Pick of the day UK TV programme highlights for covering news, films, comedies, sci-fi, sport and all other programme categories picked daily by the DigiGuide staff.

: UEFA Europa League
by DigiGuide Staff
11 Mar 2010 at 6:00am

Live Europa League football action as Liverpool visit French side Lille OSC for the first leg of their Round of 16 tie. The action is presented by Colin Murray, Pat Nevin and Stan Collymore, with commentary from Dave Woods. Kick-off is at 18.00. (more...)

UEFA Europa League showing on Five at March 11th - 5:45pm


: Country House Rescue
by DigiGuide Staff
11 Mar 2010 at 6:00am

Country House Rescue returns for a second series with fearless and peerless Ruth Watson trying to knock some of Britain's crumbling stately homes back into shape. (more...)

Country House Rescue showing on Channel 4 at March 11th - 8:00pm


: Too Poor for Posh School?
by DigiGuide Staff
11 Mar 2010 at 6:00am

London's elite Harrow School is one of the world's most famous private schools. Renowned for producing the finest statesmen, including Churchill and Nehru; writers like Richard Curtis and Anthony Trollope; and numerous captains of industry, Harrow is one of the last remaining all-boys boarding schools in Britain and one steeped in history. (more...)

Too Poor for Posh School? showing on Channel 4 at March 11th - 9:00pm


: Michelin Stars - The Madness of Perfection
by DigiGuide Staff
11 Mar 2010 at 6:00am

Food writer and critic William Sitwell investigates the passions, pressures and obsessions behind that apparently all-important description, 'Michelin-starred chef'. (more...)

Michelin Stars - The Madness of Perfection showing on BBC 2 at March 11th - 9:00pm


: A League of Their Own
by DigiGuide Staff
11 Mar 2010 at 6:00am

James Corden hosts an all-new comedy sports quiz. Jamie Redknapp and Freddie Flintoff line up as team captains, and this week's guests include heavyweight champion David Haye. (more...)

A League of Their Own showing on Sky1 at March 11th - 9:00pm


backstage.bbc.co.uk :: Backstage.bbc.co.uk: Ideas

Music in TV Programmes
10 Jan 2008 at 6:40pm

From the Mailing list,

Personally I'm waiting for the time when we can pause a program and scroll over the items on-screen and it'll tell us what they are and where we can buy them, like when Ed Norton describes his apartment at the beginning of Fight Club.
Ideas/prototypes repository
18 Apr 2007 at 5:47pm

Is there some kind of organisational structure of prototypes and ideas similar to sourceforge or 43things.com that can create more of a group around specific projects? Could there be?


BBC clocks as a widget or gadget
30 Jan 2007 at 5:38pm

Following the Clock which was created by the guys at NHK. I thought it would be a really good idea if we did some kind of clock based on the old BBC school clocks which most of remember. Jem actually found a site which has a load of old BBC clocks in Flash form. I'm sure it wouldn't be too difficult to repurpose one of the clocks or build one using SVG or something else.

Anyone interested in building one?


A new witty slogan and design for Backstage T-shirts
30 Oct 2006 at 5:39pm

backstage.bbc.co.uk

We're considering changing the Fabulous but somewhat bland Backstage T-shirts. Yes they're great schwag but we can certainly do better.

So we thought it would be great if we'd ask you guys what you think is the best T-shirt schwag you've seen or owned and what witty slogan or design should be included to make a even better backstage T-shirt?

Let us know what you think...


PDA RSS
11 Oct 2006 at 4:45pm

What would be really handy for people like myself with newish mobile phones (or PDAs) that have RSS readers onboard (Sony Ericsson K800i in my case) if for there to be RSS feeds linking to the PDA and Low Resolution pages as well as the "Hi" ones. Ideally these would be included in the regular pages as the normal application/rss links. In the meantime there is a quick demo at http://kswindells.34sp.com/bbc.php/X/Y Where X is "n" for UK News or "s" for Sport and Y is the category - e.g. rugby_league or motorsport__formula_one (the / between motorsport and formula_one is replaced by two underscores) This simply takes the BBC RSS feeds and reparses them for the low res versions. Ideally this would also work for the PDA version but the URLs are structured differently. Source Code: http://kswindells.34sp.com/bbc.phpi



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