Radio and podcasts

An archive of blog entries about radio, radio production and podcasts.

Tuesday’s post-Easter news

10 April 2007 Rob Buckley 2 Comments

Everyone have a nice Easter? Not too many hot cross buns, I hope.

Doctor Who

  • The Shakespeare Code (which I still haven’t watched. Sorry) got ratings of 6.8 million, peaking at 8.1 million

Film

Radio

  • Lauren Laverne quits XFM [free registration required]

British TV

  • HBO and the BBC are teaming up to film plays, starting with Caryl Churchill’s A Number starring Tom Wilkinson and Rhys Ifans
  • Will Ferrell would love to be on Extras

US TV

  • Spoilers for the second season of Kyle XY
  • Brit Stephen Moyer’s found himself a new pilot, after losing Company Man
  • Drive is mostly green-screen work
  • Traveler is finally going to air on May 30
  • Why 30 Rock has been renewed and Studio 60 won’t be
  • A US version of British show Top Gear is being developed
  • Andy Barker PI has been cancelled
Audio and radio play reviews

Review: Doctor Who – Human Resources (parts 1 and 2)

22 February 2007 Rob Buckley 2 Comments

Human ResourcesThought I’d wait until both parts of the story had aired before reviewing this one. Then I thought I’d wait until I’d fixed my iPod, but I’m still waiting on a part off eBay (£10) – which seemed a better plan than getting Apple to fix it (£169) – so what the hell, I listened to it off my Mac directly. No obstacle can get in my way when I put my mind to it. Go me!

Rather than a rip-roaring, undeniably impressive two-parter to match the season opener, Blood of the Daleks, Human Resources was a reasonable, slightly dull, but flawed ending to Paul McGann’s first set of original Doctor Who plays for the Beeb. With the return of another old-series monster, the Cybermen, we might have hoped for more, but you can’t have everything.

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News

Thursday’s chilly news

8 February 2007 Rob Buckley 8 Comments

Keppler and Grissom

Snow problem.

Doctor Who

Film

Theatre

  • Coming soon to a theatre near you: Legally Blonde, the musical

British TV

US TV

  • A preview of Grissom’s return to CSI
  • A Q&A with Ben from Lost. Spoilers for last night’s episode.
  • Pilot pick-up and casting news
  • Stan Lee is to cameo in Heroes
Audio and radio play reviews

Review: Doctor Who – No More Lies

5 February 2007 Rob Buckley 1 Comment

Immortal BelovedYou know a play is going to start off badly when the station announcer warns you not to be confused that it starts in the middle of a story. Don’t worry, you won’t haven’t missed anything, she promises, clearly worried the audience isn’t used to difficult concepts or standard Big Finish plot techniques.

She was right, though. It was confusing.

Surprisingly, despite already starting with the second half of an adventure, No More Lies is still a play of two halves. The first one is very stupid and very science-fictiony; the second is a far more emotional, far less stupid affair. In fact, if they’d lopped off that first half (which, of course, was also a second half), it would have been a very good play indeed.

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