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The best drink in existence is the Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster: the drink’s effect is like having your brains smashed out by a slice of lemon wrapped round a large gold brick – or watching a Doctor Who season finale by Russell T Davies

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

Stephen Fry recently gave a speech at the BBC about the importance of the licence fee (you can listen to him retell it for his latest podgram). In it, he recalls tuning in to watch the very first episode of Doctor Who. It was the most exciting thing he’d ever seen and the seven days until the next episode were almost unbearable.

Ring any bells?

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Review: Doctor Who – 4×11 – Turn Left

22 June 2008 Rob Buckley 17 Comments

The 1970s. A lot of people get all nostalgic about them, forgetting the constant strikes, power cuts, massive inflation and white dog poo that came with the era.

One good reason to get nostalgic is the TV. Ignore fluffy stuff like The Good Life or jaw-dropping programmes like The Black and White Minstrels Show – the essence of 70s TV was bleak, miserable and pessimistic despair, whether it was in sci-fi like Doomwatch, The Survivors, Blake’s 7 or The Changes or dramas like Callan, The Sandbaggers, Special Branch or Law and Order.

Fan-bloody-tastic TV, in other words. This is what we want.

And praise the Lord, Rusty gave us misery in spades with tonight’s episode.

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Friday’s doomsday news

2 May 2008 Rob Buckley Post a comment

News will be back on 6th May because of the UK bank holiday on Monday

Doctor Who

Why Rose’s return in Partners in Crime was a ‘secret‘
Bradley Walsh and Russ Abbott to appear in The Sarah Jane Adventures

Film

Rick Yune to play villain in Ninja Assassin
Iron Man 2 production to start soon
Maggie Gyllenhaal to replace Toni Collette in Sam Mendes feature

British TV

Channel Five chief executive Jane Lighting resigns from Five
Ian Hislop doing another documentary for BBC Four
Dave commissions three game show pilots [free registration required]
ITV tried to poach The One Show team [free registration required]
Double pay for Hamster?

US TV

Michael Rosenbaum leaving Smallville, to be replaced by other villains
ABC Family unveils its schedule
Catherine O’Hara and Andie MacDowell join pilots
Characters revealed in Little Britain US
Gary Dourdan might return to CSI

Thursday’s energy-saving news

7 February 2008 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Doctor Who

Sarah Jane – series two confirmed

Film

Sam Rockwell to be stranded on the moon for three years
Hayden Panettiere joins the Daydream Nation
Josh Brolin to be a Terminator?
Dominic Monaghan to play the lead in Pet
Larry David and Evan Rachel Wood to star in Woody Allen’s next movie

British TV

Grange Hill gets axed after 30 years…
… to be replaced by dramas including one by Jeanette Winterson
Aardman makes eco films for Animal Planet [free registration required]
Beeb planning adaption of the six Palliser novels

German TV

Wolfgang Petersen to produce English-language mini-series for TV

US TV

Val Kilmer replaces Will Arnett as the voice of the new KITT

Tuesday’s ausgezeichnet Doctor Who news

29 January 2008 Rob Buckley 1 Comment

Look! It’s Christopher Eccleston and Billie Piper! What do you mean they seem a bit different?

Doctor Who

BBC denies making its mind up about a second series of The Sarah Jane Adventures
Now Germany can watch Doctor Who
James Marsters talks Torchwood and seagulls

Film

Guillermo del Toro to direct The Hobbit films?
Julianne Moore to star in supernatural horror film Shelter
Directors Guild board unanimously approves new contract
Dennis Quaid and Arnold Vosloo join GI Joe

Books

Fancy composing a Bond theme tune?

Technology

Woolworth’s to stop selling HD-DVDs because Blu-ray more popular

British TV

It’s the Ashes to Ashes press pack
BSkyB told to cut stake in ITV by government
Nick Broomfield signs first-look deal with Channel 4
BBC to launch a Gaelic service
ITV to make version of Val McDermid’s A Place of Execution

US TV

CBS to team with Canadian TV to make police drama
Starz first ever drama to be based on Crash
Possible 30 Rock/Office crossover?
Supernatural interview with Eric Kripke (spoilers)
Sam Raimi to adapt Terry Goodkind’s Sword of Truth books
How to legally write for A/The Daily Show during a strike

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Review: Doctor Who – 4×13 – Journey’s End

Review: Doctor Who – 4×11 – Turn Left

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Thursday’s energy-saving news

Tuesday’s ausgezeichnet Doctor Who news

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