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  • 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 season?) – perhaps there’s time for a holiday. Graham’s rather eager construction of a travel cube spirits the team...
  • 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 bizarre killings of several operatives scattered around the world. In each case, their DNA has been totally scrambled, something...
  • 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 no substitute for his money ledger and he can reduce every decision his made to a justifiable balance of...
  • 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 spokesman, who has distanced himself from George over the latter leaving his wife for his truer love, Amy (Eleanor...
  • 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 a woman (Jodie Whittaker) and though that raised interesting discussions about the fluid nature of the Doctor’s form, it...
  • 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, telling the learned custodians at the door that he is invoking scholastic sanctuary for her. She can not, must...
  • 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 ways, the Red Planet will be making its influence felt on television screens over the next few months. The...
  • 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 on FX in America and the BBC in the UK.  Following in the steps of George C. Scott, Alastair...
  • 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 short time later, Betty Barnard from Bexhill, a bed-hopping social-climber is found butchered. The police become aware of the...
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