The BBC stands to make big money off "Doctor Who" toys.
The BBC's commercial arm will take an undisclosed royalty from the more than 500,000 themed toys and more than one million action figures sold over the next 10 weeks.
As a result, the corporation is expected to collect more than £5 million from the merchandise.
See the Best Doctor Who Sites on the Web.
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IDW Publishing is launching a new line of "Star Trek" comics, beginning in January with a six-issue mini-series focusing on the Picard years.
"Star Trek - The Next Generation: The Space Between," begins by setting
the scene during the first year of the Enterprise-D' s mandated mission
to explore strange new worlds, seek out new life and new civilizations,
boldly going "where no one has gone before."
At the helm of this first venture is writer David Tischman (Bite Club),
who is joined by artist Casey Maloney (Children of the Grave). Artists
Dennis Calero (X-Factor) and Zach Howard (Shaun of the Dead) will
provide 50/50 covers for the first issue.
But that's just the beginning. IDW Publishing will be producing
additional Star Trek titles with a new line of comic book projects in
the rich tradition of 40 years of science fiction excellence.
More Star Trek.
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Via Journalista: On his blog, cartoonist Jay Stephens looks at the Archie Comics origins of "Sabrina: The Teen-Aged Witch."
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Toronto's Eye Weekly interviews "Love and Rockets" cartoonist Jaime Hernandez.
"My wife doesn't like what's going on with the main character, Maggie," Hernandez says. "She says if I don't stop bad things from happening to her, she's gonna quit reading the book altogether."
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Speaking of Jaime, Abrams Books has an "Art of Jaime Hernandez" tome in the works.
According to the Beat: ...the book will reprint all of the LA MAGGIE LA LOCA strip that ran in the New York Times
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Stan Lee talks about his cameo on "Fantastic Four 2." More Fantastic Four.
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Via BoingBoing: An effort to bring back Disneyland's People Mover. More Disneyland.
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The White Stripes plan a collaboration with London's Royal Ballet.
Three of the rock band's famously pared-down songs have been scored for a 35-piece orchestra by composer Joby Talbot - formerly of pop band The Divine Comedy - including The Hardest Button To Button.
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Sharity: Welcome to the Beat Generation.
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