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Liz Shaw’s Best Bits: Doctor Who and the Silurians

8 July 2010 Rob Buckley 5 Comments

Liz Shaw in Doctor Who and the Silurians

We’re now over halfway through our low-budget, four-part series showing the best bits of premier Doctor Who companion Liz Shaw. Liz appeared during the first season of Jon Pertwee’s reign as the Doctor 40 years ago and is still unmatched when it comes to being the smartest, most assertive, most useful, most adult of all the Companions Who.

After last week’s look at her introductory story, Spearhead from Space, we look at what is the first of the “true” season 7 stories and the only one to really give the game away about the Doctor’s real name, Doctor Who and the Silurians. And since this is Liz Shaw’s best bits, I should point out that Liz Shaw uses science to save the entire human race from destruction by plague and takes control of a nuclear reactor – top that, Peri.

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Wednesday’s “Red Riding Hood Sr” news

7 July 2010 Rob Buckley Post a comment

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  • Virginia Madsen to play Red Riding Hood’s mum
  • New Green Hornet trailer with Cameron Diaz and Christoph Waltz
  • Jet Li to star in 3D remake of Dragon Inn

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Review: Identity 1×1

6 July 2010 Rob Buckley 17 Comments

Keeley Hawes in Identity

In the UK: Mondays, 9pm, ITV1/ITV1 HD

I’d really like to be able to cheer on ITV. For years, it made some of the best dramas and comedy this country ever produced. Then it fell into a deep, dark hole which looked like it had no bottom. But under Michael Grade and Peter Fincham, it started to look like it had a future again and even began to put out some semi-decent programming.

I’d like to say that Identity, which stars as Ashes to Ashes‘ Keeley Hawes, The Wire/Queer As Folk‘s Aiden Gillen and Soldier Soldier‘s Holly Aird as a crack police squad dedicated to foiling identity thieves, is at the spearhead of ITV1’s resurgence, a gleaming piece of taught drama, intelligent plotting, realistic dialogue and plausible characterisation that any network could be proud of.

I’d like to.

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