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Continuing in the vein of the best last stand scenes in movies that cinema has to offer, television has also played host to a number of standout examples capable of giving their silver screen contemporaries a run for their money. Blending electrifying high stakes with evocative displays of courage, defiance, and selflessness, a number of said standouts have preceded some of the saddest deaths on television, compounding the unforgettable nature, emotional heft, and lasting impact of these moving dramatic sequences.

Whether the character in question stays behind to hold off a horde of enraged pursuers, forfeits their life to save others in a courageous act of sacrifice, or simply goes down swinging enthusiastically in one epic final gesture of rebellion, there's no one-size-fits-all approach to a perfect last stand. Scattered throughout many of the best television shows of all time, these immortal sequences come...

Andrew argues that Doctor Who series 8 could do worse than look to Hinchcliffe/Holmes story The Ark in Space for inspiration...

4C or not 4C? (Yes, it's a cryptic start, but frankly we don't have enough production code puns on the website). Let us speculate, just for a change, about what series eight of Doctor Who holds in store.

Is Peter Capaldi's Twelth Doctor going to be a less risky version of the Sixth? Initially unlikeable, but with the audience warming to him as he progresses?

Is Clara going to become a more rounded character, with the writers raising their game to reflect the quality of Jenna Coleman's performance?

Will you read a comment along the lines of 'Actually there were twenty six seasons of Doctor Who already, so I don't see why you're referring to it as “series eight”'?

Maybe, maybe, and yes.

For those of...

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Doctor Who has never been short on things blowing up and hapless characters falling, fighting or flying through the air! An interview with Who stalwart Stuart Fell sheds some light on what it was like working as a member of Havoc, the stunt team who made up much of Unit’s numbers when there were dramatic

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Here are a few small clips from the early AIDS storylines on daytime soap operas. There isn't much of the Dawn Rollo story online. It wasn't very long or that well written, but it was the first one that started. The Cindy Parker story was fantastic with Ellen Wheeler giving one of the best performances in daytime history. You can find bits and pieces of it online. The Jessica Blair storyline was well done by Bill Bell and only a small portion of it can be found online. The Stone Cates storyline continues to impact to this day (his ghost returned in 2010) on General Hospital. Look for interview with Michael Sutton later today.

Another World: A musical montage of Scott and Dawn after Dawn's death from AIDS in March 1988. Barbara Bush played Dawn Rollo. Dawn, who was a virgin, had contracted HIV from a blood transfusion she received from her prostitute mother.

Tonight on I’m A Celebrity, the remaining camp mates decided that Stuart Manning and Gino D’Acampo should do the Bush Tucker Trial.

Greeted by hosts Ant & Dec, today’s trial was called Slip N Slide. There were two Perspex tubes, placed on top of each other. Gino would be in one and Stuart in the other. Working as a team they need to stay balanced as the ends of the tubes are open ended and they could fall out into the water below.

The top tube contained stars attached to the side, they would have to collect the stars in numerical order, one at a time and push them through the hole to the bottom tube where the other will have to attach the stars to the magnates. Within teach tube was slime and they would have 15 minutes to get as many stars as they could.

Stuart went...