Audio and radio play reviews

Review: Doctor Who – I.D.


I.D.0 REM This is my review of one of Big Finish's latest audio plays;

10 PRINT “Hello world”;

20 PRINT “Didn't you love the Colin Baker years of Doctor Who? ”;

30 PRINT “No?”;

40 PRINT “Okay. They were mostly rubbish.”;

50 PRINT “If you didn't, you're not going to like this, I can tell you”;

55 PRINT “because it's very much like a typical Colin Baker story”;

56 PRINT “except it doesn't even have Peri in it.”;

57 PRINT “What's the point of a Colin Baker story without Peri in it?”;

58 PRINT “Particularly one with Gyles Brandreth instead?”;

60 PRINT “More to the point, however, is that”;

70 PRINT “the play's about as exciting”;

80 PRINT “as reading computer code.”;

90 GOTO 100;

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News

Thursday’s news of fun

Freema's got some brand new clothes



Doctor Who

  • Freema says she hasn’t been sacked (video – as well as some wiggle room – included)
  • She’s also just won Best Newcomer at Glamour magazine’s Women of the Year Awards (second story, some more wiggle room included)

Film

Music

British TV

US TV

Wednesday’s perfectly acceptable news

Doctor Who

  • Christopher Eccleston talks a bit about Doctor Who, his potential return to Heroes and The Dark is Rising

Film

Commercials

  • Heineken is back [free registration required, I think]

British TV

  • Simon Amstell is developing a sitcom based on his own life
  • Sky One nabs the rights to Prison Break from Five

US TV

UK TV

Review: Doctor Who – 3×8-3×9 – Human Nature/The Family of Blood

Family Of Blood

I’m a big man.

I say this not to boast – although wey hey! – but because it’s a truism that it takes a big man to admit it when he’s wrong.

I admit it. I was wrong. Paul Cornell can write. He can write very well (subject to any possible script edits made by RTD, Helen Raynor, et al).

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News from over the weekend

It might be news, it might not: I’ve been in a bubble for a week. Have we started any new wars?

Doctor Who

Film

Theatre

British TV

  • Kim Cattrall to play Daniel Radcliffe’s mum in a World War I ITV1 drama. I thought Rupert Grint was supposed to be ITV’s saviour?
  • Which of the forthcoming new US shows are the British networks interested in: news from the LA screenings
  • Reality TV: the US has a show about pirates, we get one about local planning offices

Polish TV

US TV