This past Saturday, March 31st 2007, Doctor Who’s 3rd series premiere, “Smith and Jones”, aired on BBC One. This marks an important turning point in the series, as the Doctor — no longer with Rose, his counterpart for the past 2 seasons — has now found a new companion in Martha Jones.

Please note: the following episode summary contains spoilers. Those who wish to see the show for themselves need to either put on an eye patch and get online, or wait until their local affiliates air this series.

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Two new television commercials for Transformers appeared online today.

The first, came from IGN. I’ve provided a Youtube mirror above. You can download it if you choose here. This spot contains new footage of Prime, Frenzy, Ironhide, Starscream, Jon Voight, and Megatron. Also of note is original Transformers narrator Victor Caroli voicing the ID at the end.

The second appeared on alternate reality site SectorSeven.org. Access it by using this link and double-clicking the red hard drive icon in the top left corner. You’ll get a different 30 second spot with Bumblebee, Bernie Mac, and Starscream. Keep an eye on the car lot for a yellow bug that isn’t Bumblebee.

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Don’t let the novelty of the song get to you in the beginning, the video gets disturbing later on.

As a massive promotion for The Simpsons Movie this summer, 7-11 has agreed to full convert 11 of its stores in the US into replicas of the infamous Kwik-E-Mart.

MTV Reports a 7-11 spokesperson refused to confirm or deny, but apparently it was revealed in a company event last week. The stores will take on the appearance of Kwik-E-Mart, serve Squishies and other popular Simpsons food. I can only pray this happens and I can get a Duff Beer. Or an appearance from Duff Man!

Thanks Robbie!

Mash-ups like this are appearing with greater frequency every day, but I’ll be darned if I don’t enjoy them when they’re good.

Here’s the opening titles to The A-Team with footage from Gears Of War.

With Doctor Who’s 3rd season just around the corner producer Russell T. Davies has already mentioned that Doctor Who is set to have a 4th season. No specifics of whether or not David Tenant will be returning as the Doctor or if Freema Agyeman will be reprising her role as his assistant Martha have been mentioned at this time.

Series 3 of Doctor Who premieres next Saturday, March 31st, in the UK and later this year in the US and Canada. Stay tuned to Powet.tv as we follow this season’s development as well as all things Doctor Who.

Doctor Who seasons 1 and 2 have both premiered on TVs in the west and are available on DVD:

Maybe you’ve been listening for the last several weeks to the radio program, and actually sat through the credits. Or perhaps you visit the website for archives, and came across one of the various available YouTube trailers. Or, if you’re like me, you just so happened to be watching watching basic cable when one of their spots came on. If not, you probably had no idea that Chicago Public Radio’s This American Life is making the jump to television, airing the first of six episodes tonight at 10:30 pm ET on Showtime.

The most surprising thing to me? Ira Glass, far from having “a great face for radio”, is somewhat evocative of David Foley (if he had aged much better), maybe with a dash of John Flansburgh of They Might Be Giants thrown in there for good measure. It’s gotta be the glasses.

Earlier I said it airs tonight, but — if you have a Digitial TV service with OnDemand — the first episode has actually been available since March 1st. I took at look at it yesterday.

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The Doctor Who Information Network reports that CBC in Canada will be airing season 3 of Doctor Who in June 2007 and season 1 of the spin off series Torchwood sometime in the fall.

This is much sooner than season 2 which didn’t begin airing until October of last year and wasn’t even done airing when the DVDs were released.