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How much Benedict Cumberbatch can you take? Do you think you can take some more? I think you can take some more. A new Star Trek Into Darkness trailer just dropped, and it features Cumberbatch's villain doing a whole bunch of, well, villainous things. There's also a bunch of Kirk, Spock, and Uhura to go around, but this is the Internet, so Cumberbatch is clearly the main draw here.

We said it was coming, and now it's here. BBC 4 Radio has already aired their radio drama of Neil Gaiman's novel Neverwhere. Even better than that, you can listen to the whole thing for free. It's not going to be up forever, though, and I'm sure it'll be for purchase and download at some future date. But you can stream it right now!

Benedict "Sherlock" Cumberbatch really dislikes us -- or at least our futuristic descendants, in the new Star Trek Into Darkness trailer that hit the web. You can give it a watch, and check out the slick secret poster that director J.J. Abrams and the Star Trek marketers are teasing us with, below the fold.

Excellent news for fans of Neil Gaiman and/or sci-fi and/or radio dramas: It's been announced that the radio drama of Neil Gaiman's urban fantasy novel Neverwhere on BBC's Radio 4 will begin airing on March 16th. In case you missed it, Neverwhere the radio drama is voice-acted, among others, by Sherlock Holmes as Smaug the Dragon -- errr, Benedict Cumberbatch -- and some others you may know.

There are days when it's just not worth it to get out of bed. Days when the only reasonable thing to do upon waking is hit the snooze button, draw the blankets back over your head, and roll back over into the welcoming arms of sleep. This is not one of those days, folks, as we just woke up to the just released teaser trailer for Star Trek Into Darkness, and if that's not worth waking up for, we don't know what is. So rouse that sleepy head, put on a pot of coffee and check out what you're in store for next summer -- lava lakes, terrified stares, and no shortage of things exploding, all narrated by a guy who sounds way more menacing and intimidating than someone named Benedict Cumberbatch has any right to. Then click replay and watch it again, because seriously, this looks kind of sweet and now that we're actually recalling how good JJ Abrams first foray into the Trek universe was, getting pumped for this one has officially commenced. In all seriousness though -- if you can watch the trailer after the jump without getting out of bed...we recommend that pretty highly.

How do you take a classic franchise and make it incredible in a whole new way? Elementary, my dear readers: You have Steven Moffat, executive producer and head writer for the most recent, quite stunning season of Doctor Who, create a miniseries that incorporates his quirky humor and modernizes the story. And that's just what BBC is doing with the upcoming three-part miniseries Sherlock, which takes Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's master detective and places him in modern London.