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If ‘Mando’ is going to be able to get his young companion back to his own kind, he realises he’ll need help. Word comes of another Mandalorian soldier in the backwater Tatooine town of Mos Pelgo and so that is the next destination. But on arrival, it is quickly...
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CBS are the first American tv network – but surely not the last – to announce that the episodic count for many of their primetime series are being reduced. Because of COVID, many of the dramas started production far later than normal and have had to operate under far...
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With so many new platforms entering the marketplace over the last year or so, it was inevitable there would start to be some high-profile casualties that wouldn’t make it. It would appear that one of the first to fall will be Quibi. The selling-point of the service was bite-size...
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The Discovery and Michael Burnham have been separated as they are buffeted by the forces of the wormhole. There’s no way to know the time or distance that divides them, but for the moment, it looks as if the ship’s arrival in the future will be short-lived, if it...
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Over a decade ago, a falling meteorite led to a rapid mutation of many creatures on the Earth’s surface. Now even crabs, frogs, snails could prove perilous if you cross their path. That’s the reason that survivors live underground and only venture out when they have to. On the...
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If all the world’s a stage and all the men and women merely players, then the best productions are the ones that make you forget the stage exists at all and it’s a tribute to the legacy of the seminal Aaron Sorkin show and all involved in this ‘The...
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After saving the galaxy from a massive, temporal AI threat, an armoured Michael Burnham and the Discovery have been propelled through a wormhole and flung far into the future. Still separated from her ship and crew, Burnham crash-lands on a desolate planet, or more accurately crashes into a ship...
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London, the 1980s… American Dani Clayton is looking for reasons not to return to the US and answers a newspaper ad wanting an au pair. Businessman Henry Wingrave is not that impressed with her, but she’s not too impressed with him either. Despite that, she gets the job and...
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Jonathan Melville’s A Kind of Magic shows that important combination of being an invested fan and a good researcher. In some cases the attention to detail will appeal more to a die-hard Highlander fan than a casual cine-buff, but he draws in accounts from stars and day-players and treats...