Recently by Alison Jones

I admit I lost the plot with Lost somewhere around season two when Sky disappeared from my cable provider.
It has since been returned but such was the complexity of the story that had been woven by then, I felt it was simply too late to start watching with any hope of understanding or appreciating it.
But help is at hand. Thanks to the those multi-tasking thespians at the Reduced Shakespeare Company I can be all caught up in 10 minutes.

They are a talented lot in Tettenhall and also, apparently, a bunch of Whovians. These stunning pieces of snow art of the Tardis and a Dalek were spotted by 10-year-old Victoria Cowie (pictured) and her mum Alison.

While Ginger-gate still rages on in the Doctor Who community, David Tennant's tenure as (not quite) the last of the time lords has been recognised by sci-fi watchers. They have voted him best actor in the inaugural Total Sci-Fi Awards 2009.

Winner David Tennant in his seasonal swansong The End of Time

Now here is a sight that will strike fear (or possibly feelings of covetousness) into the heart of anyone who thinks The Big Bang Theory is surveillance footage of their life.
A furniture maker has found another use for original comics that might otherwise be gathering dust in the attic - or being carefully stored in protective bags in the bedrooms of men whose approach to maturity is on a par with Peter Pan.
Instead the enterprising artisan has applied the pages to drawers and side tables, stuck some chrome knobs and made nice arty additions for the living room.
You can choose from a French style chest of drawers with Marvel images or a Comic Dollar side table, which at £395 and £495 respectively could buy a lot of comic books.
The furniture is being sold at Belle Interiors in Kent (0208 467 0290) and apparently "bespoke commission are undertaken" if you have ever wondered what to do with all your old copies of Whizzer and Chips.

Hero du jour Sam Worthington got a surprisingly low tech introduction to his role on Avatar, one of the most technologically advanced films ever made.
Terminator Salvation and Clash of the Titans star Sam, along with co-star Zoe Saldana - who helped resurrect Star Trek as Uhura earlier this year - went to Hawaii so they could get a feel for living in the rain forest, just as their characters in Avatar do.
The blue-skinned Na'vi of the planet Pandora are at one with nature and know how to hunt and live off the land, and Cameron wanted his cast to look comfortable outdoors while wearing little more than loin cloths.

Being dubbed Dancing with Smurfs has rather unfairly reduced the efforts of James Cameron to a punny headline. But it has also rather successfully nailed the story line that this most closely resembles. And by that I mean the Kevin Costner epic rather than the rather obscure Belgian films about cyan coloured cartoon gnomes.
At the heart of Avatar is a fighting man's attempts to integrate with an indigenous species - the Na'vi, ten foot tall tree huggers who live on the planet Pandora - until he is won over so entirely by their lore, their respect for the land and by a particularly feisty female member of the clan that he abandons his mission and takes up arms against his own kind.

"Hello. Is that my agent? I may have a gap coming up in my schedule."

ABC have reportedly called a time out on FlashForward but maintain they are not pulling the plug, even though ratings are plummeting and the exec producer Marc Guggenheim has jumped ship.

They claim the six day break was built into the schedule to give the writers a chance to rest their creative brains and keep quality standards high.

Every little helps but it is worrying sign that, right from the start, they didn't feel confident that they could sustain the torpor, sorry, tension across an entire series without taking a comfort break.

Perhaps they've already had their own flashforward and seen the future of the series is looking about as healthy as Noh's.

And for the littlest anorak...

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In Twilight: New Moon, Taylor Lautner, who plays Edward's love rival Jacob, the new best friend and protector of Kirsten Stewart's character Bella Swan, could help to deflect some of the admiration away from Robert Pattinson.

Because Jacob can morph into a giant werewolf, Taylor had to pile on 30lbs of muscle. It was clearly something director Chris Weitz was keen to show off as Taylor is topless for many scenes - though Robert also whips off his shirt when Edward tries to reveal to the world that he is a vampire (they sparkle in sunlight).

Twilight star Taylor Lautner literally did beef up to hang onto his role as Jacob Black in the teen vamp saga.
Just 16 when the first film was released, there were doubts that he would be able to put on enough muscle mass to play a character with a real wild side (hint: you wouldn't like him when he is angry) in New Moon.