Doctor Who

An archive of blog entries about British science-fiction programme Doctor Who.

Audio and radio play reviews

Review: Doctor Who – The Year of the Pig

10 January 2007 Rob Buckley 4 Comments

The Year of the Pig Ah, truffles. Rich, indulgent, expensive, an acquired taste and ultimately not very satisfying.

Why do I mention truffles?

  1. I’ve never started a review with a discussion about truffles and I like a bit of variety.
  2. Big Finish’s The Year of the Pig is in many ways like a truffle
  3. It’s a lazy metaphor and I’m also quite lazy
  4. You need pigs to find truffles.

All good reasons, I’m sure you agree.

Anyway. Truffles. Much like the truffle, The Year of the Pig sounds good on paper, but isn’t so good in practice. It’s also found buried in forests. Hang on. Metaphor stretched too far.

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News

The end of days news

5 January 2007 Rob Buckley 3 Comments

David Tennant in drag

Well, Friday’s news anyway.

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Film

  • There are two batches of pictures from The Golden Compass on Ain’t It Cool News. That’s His Dark Materials in disguise, BTW.
  • George Clooney and Robert de Niro are set to appear in a remake of French film 36 Quai des Orfèvres, which starred Daniel Auteuil and Gérard Depardieu. Because all French films star Auteuil and Gérard Depardieu.

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Events

Thursday’s news

4 January 2007 Rob Buckley 6 Comments

Gordon Ramsay in Spain

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Books

Theatre

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Audio and radio play reviews

Review: Doctor Who – Blood of the Daleks (part one)

3 January 2007 Rob Buckley 8 Comments

Blood of the DaleksBastard was up to his little tricks again at the weekend. I asked him very nicely to record Blood of the Daleks on BBC7 on Sunday night, since I had better things to do like… oh, I don’t know, celebrate the New Year. But after first attempting not to record it at all, the cunning little thing then decided to cut the first episode off after half an hour. Git. Fortunately, I’m made of sterner stuff and went to the BBC7 Listen Again site to listen to it over the web.

Blood of the Daleks is the first in a series of Doctor Who audio plays starring Paul McGann. They’re designed, if certain parties are to be believed, to show how Paul McGann’s Doctor (number eight) ended up turning into Christopher Eccleston’s some time before, during or after the great big Time War with the Daleks. Since it’s BBC7 doing the commissioning, the budget’s a bit higher so we have a new companion for the eighth Doctor, an all-star cast and some decent music.

And judging by the first episode, it’s all going to be pretty good.

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Events

Wednesday news

3 January 2007 Rob Buckley 15 Comments

Sarah Jane with pictures of Harry and K9

?ɂǨ la recherche du temps perdus.

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Art


Film

US TV

  • NBC has greenlit three new pilots: Fort Pit is a cop show from the Rescue Me team, who claim for some reason that TV is missing a cop show at the moment; Chuck is an action-comedy about 20-something spies, in the vein of Grosse Pointe Blank; and David Eicke’s Bionic Woman remake has been given the go-ahead as well.
  • There are a few BSG, Heroes and The OC spoilers over on Ask Auriello, although nothing staggering. The rumours of misery on the Medium set are far more interesting.
  • USA Network has picked up Mary Sunshine, starring Murder One/The West Wing‘s Mary McCormack. It’s about a US Marshal “who tries to balance her intense job at the witness-protection program with her equally intense and amusingly dysfunctional personal life”.
  • CBS is doing a nifty job of promoting Liev Schreiber’s arrive on CSI:
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