Torchwood

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

7 July 2008 Rob Buckley 31 Comments

Journey's End - Davros

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?

Continue reading “Review: Doctor Who – 4×13 – Journey’s End”

Friday’s standing still news

4 July 2008 Rob Buckley 1 Comment

Happy Independence Day, America!


Doctor Who

Film

  • Trailer for The Day The Earth Stood Still
  • Stills from recovered Metropolis print
  • Trailer for Nicolas Cage/Alex Proyas’s Knowing
  • Clive Barker adapting Down, Satan!

Theatre

British TV

US TV

Is there any way to stop her?

3 July 2008 Rob Buckley 6 Comments

I’ve pleaded. I’ve put my foot down. I’ve said I won’t have it in the house. I’ve told her it’s appalling and one of the worst TV shows in recent memory.

But she won’t listen. She misses him.

Is there any way I can stop my wife getting her John Barrowman fix through buying the first series of Torchwood on DVD? I wouldn’t have minded if it was the second series…

UK TV

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.

Continue reading “Review: Doctor Who – 4×11 – Turn Left”

Monday’s “RTD OBE” news

16 June 2008 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Doctor Who/Torchwood

Awards

Theatre

Film

British TV

US TV