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Steven Moffat is the finest writer in British television. There – we said what you were already thinking. His episodes of Doctor Who are as densely packed as Imelda Marcos’s holiday shoebox, each story brimming with inspiration, emotion and an endless stream of mind-boggling moments.
In the second episode of the new series, the Doctor and his companions find themselves split up across America as they struggle to evade the FBI and the terrifying aliens that none of them can remember. We’ve picked out ten teasing lines of dialogue from the episode!
Despite a profound inability to work together without breaking the law, making horrendous cock-ups or screaming at each other, Captain Laure Berthaud (Caroline Proust) and her CID team finally start making some progress in their pursuit of the titular killer this week.
I recently reviewed the Doctor Who DVD release of ‘Planet Of The Spiders’ for CultBox. I didn’t have a great deal to say about the story that was complimentary, but one of the few bright things that shone through the padding and the cosiness was the performance of Elisabeth Sladen as Sarah-Jane Smith. In only … >
In the concluding part of ITV1’s tense thriller, Sally (Ashley Jensen) and her boyfriend Mark (Max Beesley) finally discovers the truth behind the multi-million bequest and what connects Sally to the other people in the chain. Here’s some teasing lines of dialogue from the episode!
When call-centre worker and former nurse Sally Wilson (Ashley Jensen) discovers she has been bequeathed five million pounds in the will of someone she’s never heard of, it should be the windfall that she needs to provide expensive treatment for her seriously ill daughter.
BBC Four’s imported French police drama Spiral reaches the halfway point of its third season this week, maintaining its ability to disturb and distress but never disappoint with its unstinting gore and unending bleakness.
Sarah Jane Smith is investigating strange goings-on at a meditation centre in rural England; spooky alien spiders are controlling the minds of human beings in a fiendish plot to take over the world; and the Doctor is wearing a bowtie, because bowties are cool.
The final part of ITV1’s latest medical drama brings the series to a suitably watchable conclusion, although this is not a Casualty-style blockbuster climax, with no major calamity leaving bodies strewn all over the landscape and the hospital struggling to cope under the weight of the blood and gore.
As guiltily enthralling as your neighbours having a screaming row in their back garden, unaware that you’re peeking through a hole in the fence, BBC Four’s French police drama series Spiral is not exactly enjoyable; it’s hard to even define it as entertaining. Yet once you start watching, it’s increasingly difficult to stop.