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Friday’s beamed up news

Star Trek

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Thursday’s double news

Yesterday’s and today’s, all in one

Doctor Who

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Tuesday’s eruptive news

Up Pompeii

Doctor Who

  • David Tennant and Catherine Tate take Peter Capaldi, Tracey Childs and Phil Davis over to Rome for a week’s filming for the new series [spoilers]

Film

  • Jessica Biel to be the Justice League‘s Wonder Woman?
  • The Rock to play either hero or villain in Shazam!
  • Die Hard director John McTiernan sent to prison for four months for lying to the Feds

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Questions and realisations from television last week: Burn Notice

It’s back, but it’s mutated. “Things I learned from watching television last week”/“Things I learned from television last week”/“Things I learnt from last week’s television” (style guide? What style guide?) has returned – but in a different guise (as promised). After a brief experiment last week, it has now emerged from the pupa of my brain into something hopefully more butterfly-like than the original caterpillars.

Here goes: this week’s question(s) – which I throw open to the floor to answer, whether you’ve seen the show or not – and realisation(s) – for which I also invite comment – come from having watched the rather good finale of Burn Notice on Friday.

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Tuesday’s choice selection of news nuggets

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