Dear God. Curse that Steven Moffat and his heterosexual agenda. Sexiness in Doctor Who? No. No, no, no, no, no. Since when has Doctor Who been anything more than innocent, unsexual fare for kiddies? I’m going to write a strongly worded letter to the…
Oh hang on.
Well apart from her. She was a brainy scientist type in a totally authentic outer space librarian outfit.
And her, cos she was a brainy Cambridge scientist type. They all wore mini-skirts like that in the 70s.
Oh definitely apart from her. She’s from outer space – that’s authentic outer space tribeswoman that is.
She doesn’t count – she’s Australian.
She’s American. And the producer was gay, so it was entirely innocent.
I’m Rob Buckley, a journalist who writes for UK media magazines that most people have never heard of although you might have heard me on the podcast Lockdown Land or Radio 5 Live’s Saturday Edition or Afternoon Edition. I’ve edited Dreamwatch, Sprocket and Cambridge Film Festival Daily; been technical editor for TV producers magazine Televisual; reviewed films for the short-lived newspaper Cambridge Insider; written features for the even shorter-lived newspaper Soho Independent; and was regularly sarcastic about television on the blink-and-you-missed-it “web site for urban hedonists” The Tribe. Since going freelance, I've contributed to the likes of Broadcast, Total Content + Media, Action TV, Off The Telly, Action Network, TV Scoop and The Custard TV.
The TV programmes the BFI will show in March 2020, including a Yes Minister Q&A with Jonathan Lynn and a showing of the Doctor Who story The Talons of Weng-Chiang with Louise Jameson […]