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Review: The Companion Chronicles 3×2 – The Great Space Elevator
Well, there’s good news and bad news for this, the second of the now-monthly Companion Chronicles. The good news is that after two spectacular misses (Fear of the Daleks and Helicon Prime), we finally have a second Doctor Companion Chronicle that actually feels like a second Doctor story. The bad news is that it’s just not very memorable.
Told by Deborah Watling, who played Victoria during the second Doctor’s reign, it’s one of those future Earth stories that were so beloved by the era (eg The Moonbase, The Invasion, The Seeds of Death), in which some exciting world-changing doohickey has been invented and some aliens come along to take it over.
The trouble is that it’s pretty much that – a regular old second Doctor story – rather than something more exciting, such as a chance to give Victoria some decent characterisation.
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Thursday’s bloodier news
Doctor Who
- So what’s David Morrissey doing exactly? (spoiler alert)
Film
- 20th Century Fox picks up Nicole Kidman’s The Eighth Wonder
Books
- Candace Bushnell to write two ‘Carrie Bradshaw: the teenage years’ novels
British TV
- Red Dwarf cast reunite for new episodes, John Cleese and Johnny Vaughan get new series – all on Dave
- Mutual Friends‘ ratings down to 3.3m
- Channel 4 could face £100m annual deficit
US TV
- True Blood picked up for second season…
- …after its and Mad Men‘s ratings pick up
- Jada Pinkett Smith to star in and exec TNT’s Time Heals
- The Daily Show‘s Jason Jones to guest on How I Met Your Mother
- USA greenlights Iraq war comedy pilot Operating Instructions
- Six clips from the first new episode of Heroes
- Fringe ratings pick up after House
- Matt Lucas to guest star on Krod Mandoon and the Flaming Sword of Fire
Wednesday’s further hitchhiking news
Film
- Michael Douglas to star in Solitary Man
- Photos of Colin Firth, Ben Barnes and Emilia Fox in The Picture of Dorian Gray
- Ben Affleck to write, direct and star in adaptation of The Prince of Thieves
- Andie MacDowell, Cary Elwes and Brian Cox to star in As Good As Dead
Book
- Artemis Fowl author to write sixth Hitchhiker’s Guide
Theatre
- Jason Donovan to star in Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
- Burn Notice‘s Jeffrey Donovan to star in Don’t Dress for Dinner
British TV
- BBC Worldwide buys 25% stake in Baby Cow
- Peter Jackson quits ITV
- The Peter Serafinowicz Show gets a Christmas special
US TV
- Fox to do contemporary Snow White and the Seven Dwarves
- TNT renews Raising the Bar and Saving Grace
- Sarah Connor audiences drop to new low
- Lori Petty to guest on House
- The CW gets its best ever Monday