Sleepydog’s forthcoming television series, Slingers has been featured in the latest issue of SFX magazine. Talking about how we developed the Slingers concept, writer Mike Atherton said: “Our approach was always that Slingers would be a ’60s-style heist show that just happened to be set in space. I’m not trying to dismiss the SF element because I live and breathe
On the set of the Slingers sizzle, Sean Pertwee talks to writer, Mike Atherton about his thoughts on our TV project and their shared love of
Slingers writer, Mike Atherton, was lucky enough to attend the world premiere of James Cameron’s AVATAR last week. He published one of the very first reviews of the movie for TWITCH, which we thought we’d share here. Tickets are on sale already… go, go go! I just got back home from the world premiere of Avatar here in London. It’s
Don’t they scrub up well? Toby Moores, Mark Hilton and Mike Atherton getting into character on the set of Slingers. Having been lucky enough to blag roles as extras, we’re hoping their performance was good enough to avoid the cutting room floor!
Working for the past few months immersed in a science fiction show has been a lot of fun. Lots of work too, of course, but when a big part of the research has been revisiting shows that ran and ran such as Mission: Impossible, Columbo and The Man from U.N.C.L.E. it’s not the kind of work day that you drag
Building on some initial forays into politics and social media that myself and Christian Payne made last year, the Sleepydog team have been playing an advisory/brainstorming role with Thomson Reuters that evolved into something we like to call a social media greenroom. So far we’d used a combination of Twitter and LifeCast to pull in questions / feedback and then
My name’s Mike Atherton, but most people know me as Sizemore. I have nothing to do with cricket or helping Tom Hanks win World War II (but occasionally get email intended for both of those guys anyway). I have a blog over here, but this guy called me nine kinds of wrong so you may want to skip that. I’m
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