Articles by Kirsty Walker
Kirsty Walker turned an obsession with screens into a patchy and unsuccessful media career. A Manchester University graduate in TV Production, she was employed variously as a runner, corporate video director and radio station manager before she turned to teaching. She is the content editor for endofshow.com and travels from Cannes to Comic Con using her press pass to score free drinks and easily impressed men. She lives in Runcorn, in the north west of England.
In the run up to the finale of the epic Torchwood mini-arc Miracle Day we have interviews from the main cast which took place at San Diego Comic-Con this July. We kick off with Bill Pullman who plays executed child rapist and murderer Oswald Danes. Danes finds himself a media darling after becoming an advocate [...]
Straight off the back of the squeeful news that Zachary Quinto will make a return to TV in American Horror Story we learn that bosses have cast stone cold fox Teddy Sears as his on-screen boyfriend. AHS features a haunted house which becomes inhabited by an unlucky [...]
In an ambitious cross promotion actors Anton Yelchin and Christopher Mintz-Plasse visited the Big Brother house to plug their new movie Fright Night. In last night’s highlights viewers were treated to an extended trailer in the first ad break before Yelchin and Mintz-Passe entered the house to deliver tickets to a special screening of the [...]
August 9th – usually around this time we would be tuning in to 24 hour footage of a group of misfits trying to get attention through anger and volatile behaviour. Funny how things change. With riots happening across the country and the government largely absent it was left to former Big Brother contestant Sam Pepper [...]
Spare a thought for JJ Abrams. When he took on the Star Trek reboot he inherited not only one of the most loved and obsessed over franchises in TV history but became responsible for delivering something that fans had clamoured for for over 30 years – more stories in the Original Series Universe. Star Trek [...]
This is End of Show’s fourth consecutive year at San Diego Comic-Con and the first year where it was the independent off-site events which made up most of the highlights for us. Off-sites have been happenning at SDCC for a long long time but this time something was different – suddenly the off-sites weren’t just [...]
New channel Epix chose Comic-Con to launch the William Shatner documentary The Captains in which he interviews all previous captains of the starship Enterprise. The panel was moderated by Kevin Smith and fetaured Shatner along with Deep Space 9‘s Avery Brooks and a surprise appearance by Enterprise‘s Scott Bakula. The film premiered last night on [...]
Heroes and Star Trek actor Zachary Quinto was amongst those who took part in one of many off-site panels at the converted Jolt ‘n’ Joe’s restaurant – rebranded as Nerd HQ by Chuck’s Zachary Levi. The venue is being used to host a number of conversation panels with only 200 tickets in aid of Operation [...]
Game of Thrones Thursday, 3pm, Ballroom 20 Fan fave Game of Thrones brings Peter Dinklage, Emilia Clarke, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Kit Harrison and Jason Momoa and jumps straight into B20 capping a day of big TV panels. Spartacus : Vengeance Friday, 5.4pm, 6BCF One of last year’s most raucous panels will this year [...]
HBO’s Bored To Death is now available on DVD for you to catch up ahead of its third series which will air at a so far undisclosed date. We have an exclusive DVD extra for you to watch while you patiently wait. Bored To Death – Season 1 is available on DVD now
Outside of conventions and maybe an annual trip to Comic-Con, TV shows tend not to stray off set. Other than The Monkees and S Club 7 TV to concert tours have been rare, but when you have a product which relies on pop music you’d be wasting an opportunity, as well as some serious money, [...]
The Starz/BBC co-production Torchwood : Miracle Day will be accompanied by an interactive app and 10 motion comics which will provide clues to the mystery on the broadcast shows. The app, titled Torchwood : Web of Lies, is voiced by Dollhouse star Eliza Dushku who plays Holly Mokri. She is investigating a day in the [...]
Starz have announced that they will be bringing both Spartacus : Vengeance and Torchwood : Miracle Day to this year’s San Diego Comic-Con. New Sparty Liam McIntyre will be introduced to fans at a panel also featuring Lucy Lawless, Dustin Clare, Manu Bennet, Katrina Law and Exec Producer Steven S. DeKnight, on Friday July 22nd. [...]
30 Rock Star Tracy Morgan has caused controversy after a blistering rant against gay people at a stand up gig in Tennessee. According to several patrons Morgan, who plays dimwitted TV star Tracy Jordan in the comedy, stated that being gay was a choice because “God don’t make no mistakes” and said that if his [...]
Click below for brand new behind-the-scenes footage from the STARZ original series “Torchwood: Miracle Day,” premiering Friday, July 8th at 10pm et/pt! The 10-episode, hour-long series stars Torchwood alumni, John Barrowman, Eve Myles, and Kai Owen and new headliners, Mekhi Phifer, Bill Pullman and Alexa Havins. Miracle Day
