Audio and radio play reviews

Review: Doctor Who – Valhalla

ValhallaFirstly, can I just ask, “What the Hell happened to the Big Finish web site?” Have a look at it: it’s horrible!

Putting that to one side for a moment, though, does anyone actually look forward to the Sylvester McCoy releases? Just before I’m about to listen to one, I always feel like I’m in that Revels ad – you know, the spoof of Deer Hunter – and someone’s pre-loaded the bag with toffees.

For one gleaming moment, though, it looked like I was going to get a coffee-flavoured audio play with Valhalla. No Sophie Aldred. Good. Sylvester McCoy playing the Doctor all quiet and melancholic, with scarcely a word beginning with ‘r’ in sight. Excellent. Hints that we’re going for season 25 or 26, rather than 24, with the Doctor having a cunning plan up his sleeve from the beginning. Excellente.

Then, oh dear. Mango-flavoured.

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Thursday’s “two more days until I’m on holiday” news

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Commercials

  • Val Kilmer for the next Orange cinema ad [free registration required]

British TV

  • Channel 4 stops all but one premium rate phone-in
  • Latest episode of Cape Wrath gets just 845,000 viewers
  • Ten single mothers and kids to live together for Pramface Mansion on BBC3. Seriously

US TV

Wednesday’s “three more days until I’m on holiday” news

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Monday’s “five more days until I’m on holiday” news

Joker

Naughty Heath. Don’t be so mean to Maggie

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Books

Theatre/Comedy

  • Amnesty launches Behind The Fringe vodcasts

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Thursday’s news aka the news that is Thursday’s

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Film

  • Yes, Greg Grunberg will be in JJ Abrams’ secret movie
  • Guy Ritchie to direct a movie based on his own comic
  • How many Blade Runners do you want? Well, there’s five on this DVD set

Commercials

  • Morph shows us how to be green [QuickTime required]

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