The Ninth Doctor Adventures: Old Friends – audio boxset review

Old Friends is the last in the first batch of Big Finish’s adventures for Christopher Eccleston’s Ninth Doctor.  As the cover makes clear, and indeed they concealed until release, it features a further encounter with the Cybermen. Not only that, but this incarnation of the Doctor enjoys a first encounter with his stalwart ally Brigadier … >

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Michelle Fairley and Robert Sheehan join ‘Fortitude’ cast for Season 2

Sky Atlantic has announced a number of high-profile cast additions for the second season of Fortitude. Set in a fictional community located on Svalbard in Arctic Norway, the psychological thriller series launched in January 2015 and is Sky Atlantic’s biggest drama commission to date. Season 1 has been sold to over 170 territories around the … >

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‘Luther’ soundtrack album review

Check under your bed before you put your headphones on, because here comes the Luther soundtrack. Or, to use its unwieldy full name, ‘Idris Elba presents Luther: Songs and Score from Series 1, 2 & 3′. Whatever you decide to call it, it’s music that DCI John Luther and his (now very wet) coat have solved crimes to.

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‘Luther’: Series 3 finale review

Idris Elba has said he would like to see a John Luther movie one day – possibly an origins story. This would not just befit a character who is more superhero than sleuth, but also seems like the only conceivable way of telling a fresh story.

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‘Luther’: Series 3 Episode 3 review

Although this episode ostensibly concerns the hunt for Twitter-savvy, scumbag-executing vigilante Callum Marwood, it’s also about the enduring bond between DCI Luther (Idris Elba) and DS Ripley (Warren Brown).

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‘Luther’: Series 3 Episode 2 review

It’s manna from heaven for fans of John Luther’s coat in this episode (surely the greatest villain we’ve yet to meet in the show is a killer with a fetish for grey tweed outerwear) as a search of his house by anti-corruption cops Stark and Gray reveals not just one but a whole rack of them.

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