Can a Post-Millennial Prometheus revive Who fortunes?
The Villa Diodati, near Lake Geneva in Switzerland, 1816: A group of people who will have a huge effect on centuries of literature to come gather for their own decadent … Read More
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Who’s next season shoots from September – late 2021 broadcast?
Though this season of Doctor Who isn’t over for several weeks, there are three episodes left to go – there’s been much discussion over when the next run of the … Read More
Who goes Scare? – A tale of Fingers, Fear, felons and Fam…
The Doctor drops off her companions in modern-day Sheffield and is somewhat conflicted about how to spend the next day by herself. But the Tardis alerts her to an unusual … Read More
Who’s ‘Praxeus’ is a Wasted Opportunity…
An astronaut’s shuttle veers wildly off-path, a blogger goes missing in a Peruvian beauty-spot turned rubbish-dump and in Madagascar birds are behaving very strangely indeed. Even the Doctor and her … Read More
Our Fiends Electric: Who’s current war powers up…
Nikola Tesla (Goran Visnjič) is a man with vision – sometimes fanciful, sometimes pragmatic but clearly a man ahead of his time. But when funding is pulled for his latest … Read More
Who’s ‘Orphan 55’: Cut Price Vacation, too much baggage…
With the Doctor still trying to process the news about Gallifrey – not to mention a rather drastic clear-up mess from a recent squiddish encounter (who knew it was mating … Read More
Doctor Who: Spy-fi debut for Whittaker’s sophomore salvo…
Readying to meet up again and head off on more travels, The Doctor and her companions are all individually summoned to MI5 by ‘C’ (Stephen Fry) to help investigate the … Read More
BBC’s Christmas Carol: deep and crisp and getting even…
Ebenezer Scrooge (Guy Pearce) runs his company with a cold, some would say heartless outlook on life and the human condition. In his mind, the ‘hypocrisy’ of the masses is … Read More
The Walking Red: BBC’s Martians invade maudlin period drama…
It’s 1905 and George Lynton (Rafe Spall) is a journalist still looking for his first real scoop and facing the quiet wrath of his brother Frederick (Rupert Graves), a government … Read More
Who: When, What? Tracking the Tardis trail into 2020…
The last season of Doctor Who caused much consternation with certain parts of the show’s fandom and beyond. It was the first full season to feature the character played by … Read More
BBC/HBO weave complex magic from impressive ‘Materials’…
A baby girl called Lyra is left in the care of Jordan College, Oxford as her previous guardian – Lord Asriel (James McAvoy) vanishes into the flooded grounds and night, … Read More
Is Earth prepared for the War of the War of the Worlds?
Oh, isn’t that just bloody typical. The chance of anything coming from Mars were a million-to-one, they said. .. then two come along at once. Yes, in two very different … Read More
What the Dickens? ‘Christmas Carol’ has all-star cast…
There are a raft of familiar names now attached to a three-part adaptation of the Charles Dickens classic A Christmas Carol which is due for broadcast this coming winter season … Read More
Herculean Effort: The ABCs of Being John Malkovich’s ‘Poirot’…
England, 1933: In Andover, a woman named Alice Asher doesn’t answer the door of her store but it will be some time before her violent death is public knowledge. A … Read More
Doctor Who: Talking about a ‘Resolution’ (of the…)…
The Doctor (Jodie Whittaker) is giving her team a treat, a successive string of ‘New Year’ celebrations across the galaxy. But their celebrations are cut short when the Tardis alerts … Read More