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Harley Quinn
US animated tv series (2019-current). DC Universe. Based on the character created by Paul Dini and Bruce Timm. Developed by Justin Halpern, Dean Lorey and Patrick Schumacker. Directors include Cecilia Aranovich, Vinton Heuck, Ben Jones and Juan Jose Meza-Leon. Writers include Jess Dweck, Justin Halpern, Dean Lorey and Patrick Schumacker. Voice cast includes Diedrich Bader, Lake Bell, Kaley Cuoco, Ron Funches, Tony Hale, Matt Oberg, Jim Rash, Alan Tudyk. 47 23-minute episodes. Colour. / ...
Wilson, Geoffrey
(? - ) South African author currently resident in the UK, whose Land of Hope and Glory series, beginning with Land of Hope and Glory (2011), is an Alternate History sequence set mostly in a nineteenth-century Britain centuries after the Moors have conquered Europe, only to have lost much of this territory to the Rajthana Empire of India. The narrative shifts ...
Resident Alien
US tv series (2021-2025). Production companies Amblin Television, Dark Horse Entertainment, and Universal Content Productions. Created by Chris Sheridan. Executive producers include Justin Falvey, Darryl Frank and Keith Goldberg. Directors include Shannon Kohli, Robert Duncan McNeill, Brennan Shroff and Lea Thompson. Writers include Sarah Beckett, Emily Eslami, Jeffrey Nieves and Chris Sheridan. Cast includes Elizabeth Bowen, Levi Fiehler, Meredith Garretson, Linda Hamilton, Judah Prehn, ...
Caprica
US TV series (2009-2011). David Eick Productions for Syfy. Created by Ronald D Moore and Remi Aubuchon for Syfy. Producers include Moore, David Eick, and Jane Espenson. Writers include Moore, Aubuchon, Espenson, Michael Taylor and Michael Angeli. Directors include Moore, Michael Nankin, Wayne Rose, and Roxann Dawson. Cast includes Eric Stoltz as Daniel Graystone, Alessandra Torresani as Zoe Graystone, Esai Morales as Joseph Adama, Polly Walker as ...
Boys' Life
US monthly Magazine for boys in Boy Scouting, and the leading US equivalent of the UK's Boys' Papers. Claiming 1.1 million circulation in 2009, Boys' Life aims to provide wholesome reading for boys aged 9 to 15. Founded in 1911 by George S Barton, the magazine was purchased in 1912 by the Boy Scouts of America, who remain its publisher. Beginning at 6.5 by 9.25 in (165 x 235 mm), in 1912 the Boys' Life format became ...
Langford, David
(1953- ) UK author, critic, editor, publisher and sf fan, in the latter capacity recipient of 21 Hugo awards for fan writing – some of the best of his several hundred pieces are assembled as Let's Hear It for the Deaf Man (coll 1992 chap US; much exp vt The Silence of the Langford 1996; exp 2015 ebook) as Dave Langford, edited by Ben Yalow – plus five Best Fanzine Hugos ...