An archive of blog entries about UK TV programmes and production.
UK TV
Tuesday’s Chris Chibnall wins an award for something news
Doctor Who
- Writers’ Guild gives award to series three writers. Yes, even Chris Chibnall and Helen Raynor
- Sweet FA to appear on The Omid Djalili Show
Film
- Ben Cross to play Spock’s dad in Star Trek XI
- Sarah Michelle Prinze ‘too scared‘ for Buffy movie
- High quality trailer for Cloverfield now available
- Sienna Miller cast in GI Joe
- The X Files 2 to include Millennium crossover?
- Angels and Demons, Bruno, JLA postponed by strike
British TV
- Christian group wants to sue the Beeb over Jerry Springer
- BBC HD channel approved
- Pipes is up for porn award
US TV
- Journeyman on verge of being cancelled?
- Red Hot Chili Peppers suing Showtime over use of the word Californication
- Warner Bros trying to launch global on-demand networks
- ‘Celebrity’ contestants for The Apprentice named
- New promo for BSG: Razor
- US version of Little Britain delayed by strike
Something to buy: Absolutely DVDs coming soon
Good news in case you missed it (like I did) – all of Absolutely will be coming to DVD some time soon. Go watch some clips at the Absolutely web site to find out why this is good news if you’re too young/whatever to remember this classic early 90s TV show. I particularly recommend the “Radical Television” clip from the pilot episode, which is possibly the funniest half hour of anything ever made.
Review: Doctor Who – 3×14 – Time Crash
So what are you all thinking about Time Crash, the sort-of, maybe official fifth and tenth Doctor meet-up on Children in Need? It was a bit short to warrant a full review and it would be a tad odd to do a full review anyway, but I liked it – with a couple of reservations.
On the one hand, it was rather a touching love letter from Steven Moffat (and David Tennant) to the Peter Davison era of Doctor Who. It was also rather lovely to get probably the only Doctors meet-up we’ll ever get from the RTD era of new Who.
On the other, it was a tad Blinkish in its “the future creates the past” plot and it was perhaps a little too super-textual, with all that love implausibly coming out of the Doctor’s mouth directly from Moffat.
All the same, good fun, very likeable and I’ll probably re-watch it a couple of times in the immediate future. Plus it was for charity so let’s not quibble too much.
What did everyone else think though? I know Anna liked it, but everyone else has been silent (post links to your blog below if you haven’t been silent and I’ve lazily/blindly missed your comments elsewhere).
Incidentally, my wife, on the strength of this and implausibly enough Learners (which SHE WATCHED WITHOUT ME), has decided she’s falling in love with David Tennant and would quite like him to move in with us. Him and Peter Jones from Dragons’ Den.
I’ve put my foot down and said no.
In case you missed it, here it is on YouTube.
Monday’s ever-so-brief news
Film
- Casting on Justice League?
- Next Bond villain Mathieu Amalric?
British TV
- ITV’s 2008 comedy line-up
US TV
- Talks to end the strike begin
- SNL staff cut because of strike
- Dirty Sexy Money gets a full season
- Lost‘s Carlton Cuse crosses the picket line

