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Big Finish for 2009

To save you the hassle of listening to the 40-odd minutes of Big Finish podcast that is their preview of 2009, I thought I’d give you the precised highlights of what you can look forward to this year in their Doctor Who range.

The big draws are, unfortunately, subscriber bonuses, both of them starring Paul McGann as the Eighth Doctor and also featuring, among others, Jemima Rooper (Lost in Austen) and Matt Di Angelo (Hustle). I say unfortunately, because at the moment, there’s not a lot really drawing me in – you’ll see why – which means to get to the good stuff, you’ll have to buy everything else, too. Ho hum.

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Thursday’s two Merlins news

Doctor Who

  • RTD comes down on Stargate
  • Pipes talks Smith

Film

British TV

Theatre

  • National to premiere Alan Bennett, Terry Pratchett and Hanif Kureishi plays in 2009…
  • …and beam performances into cinemas

US TV

US TV

Review: 24 – 7×1-7×4

In the US: Mondays, 9/8c, Fox
In the UK: Mondays, 9pm, Sky One

Sometimes a year off can be a boon. Like a gap year or backpacking round Europe, it can give you new perspectives and distance on things you used to take for granted.

24‘s been stuck on the TGV of TV for over a year now, its last season cancelled by the writers’ strike, with only an anaemic and turgid TV movie to keep us going since then. But as this four-episode, two-night intro to the new season shows, it’s come back a whole lot more vigorous than when it left and it’s brought a bunch of old friends with it.

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Wednesday’s Bad Nemo news

Doctor Who

Film

Radio

Theatre

British TV

US TV

Things I learned surfing the Internet this evening

  1. Mark Lamarr has not disappeared from the world altogether, but currently hosts a Radio 2 music show on Thursdays.
  2. In its January 1988 issue, Cosmopolitan ran a feature claiming that women had almost no reason to worry about contracting HIV. that unprotected sex with an HIV-positive man did not put women at risk of infection, and went on to state that "most heterosexuals are not at risk" and that it was impossible to transmit HIV in the missionary position.
  3. Safety Catch is being turned into a TV show