Last night, the NFT was running an evening dedicated to Roger Moore’s TV career. Starting with a double bill of TV shows that Moore directed and starred in, it was followed by an interview with the man himself, complete with eyebrow-raising and celebrity audience members.
Day: 14 October 2008
Review: Doctor Who – Time Reef
There’s always something more to look forward to with a fifth Doctor Big Finish play. Okay, so Colin Baker’s still the best audio Doctor and he’s usually partnered with India Fisher (best audio companion/actress), Nicola Bryant (ah, Peri…) or Bonnie Langford (nearly best audio companion/actress. Honest). But his stories tend to be considerably poorer than the ones Peter Davison ends up with.
Whether it’s the TV era itself that encourages the writers to come up with cleverer storylines or the editor of the fifth Doctor range (whoever that might be) simply commissioning better pieces, you can usually assume that a fifth Doctor piece is going to be good, with just the occasional minor fluff-up (such as The Boy That Time Forgot.
Here, though, we have Marc Platt, author of the Sylvester McCoy TV story Ghostlight, who can normally be guaranteed to over-write his audio plays something chronic. So we have a battle on our hands: the pretension of the seventh Doctor’s era versus the cold sci-fi of the fifth Doctor’s. Who will win? And should you spend money on the spoils of the war?
Review: The Sarah Jane Adventures 2×3
Do you know, I really can’t think of an introduction to this story that won’t be a spoiler in some way to Americans and people who haven’t seen this episode? So instead of wobbling on for a bit out on the front page, I’m heading off for the protective enclosure of the jump.
Join me if you will.
Tuesday’s Canadian taxi news
Doctor Who
- Rusty answers questions
Film
- Don Cheadle to replace Terrence Howard on Iron Man 2
- Script to Wall Street sequel being worked on
- Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin to vie for Meryl Streep
Theatre
- Come Dancing extends its run
British TV
- Beeb working on iPlayer for Freeview
US TV
- Samantha Bee and Jason Jones writing a sitcom for themselves at CBS
- Starz greenlights Rob Thomas sitcom Party Down
- Production (temporarily?) stopped on Easy Money and Valentine
- Rights picked up to French-Canadian comedy Taxi 0-22
- Showtime picks up Matthew Perry’s The End of Steve
- Two more episodes of Gossip Girl ordered