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BBC One’s new Tuesday night drama focuses on communication, as it tells the tale of a family who learn their youngest member, five year old Joe, is on the autistic spectrum. Through this first episode, we meet the combined Scott and Hughes clan. Its patriarch Maurice (Christopher Eccleston) is a sprightly, newly retired widower. As … >
After the reputation Line of Duty gained for providing jaw-dropping moments in its first run, 2014’s second season had plenty to live up to. Focusing on slippery central suspect DI Lindsay Denton (Keeley Hawes) and delving more into the personal lives of the AC-12 team investigating her, we think it delivered admirably. With more twists … >
With barely time to catch our breath since December’s epic Only the Monstrous, this second box set presents three further adventures for John Hurt’s missing incarnation of our favourite Time Lord. Surrounded by terrific, thumping version of the theme, these stories ostensibly deal with attempts to employ super-weapons in the struggle against the Daleks. In … >
With the Doctor taking a gap year in 2016, save for a Christmas Special, we can at least look forward to the debut of BBC Three’s new Doctor Who spin-off series, Class. Based in Coal Hill School, where the parent show first began in 1963 and returned too as recently as ‘The Magician’s Apprentice’, the … >
Featuring the impressive vocal talents of sometime Sontaran and Hobgoblin Dan Starkey, the latest from the Big Finish Classics range features the Edwardian supernatural investigator, Thomas Carnacki. While the company has tackled grander and rather more well-known titles like Frankenstein and The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, William Hope Hodgson’s ghostly tales are more contained affairs. … >
Whereas the first four box sets contained adaptations of existing scripts, this latest set of Lost Episodes breaks new ground. ‘Girl on a Trapeze’ is an adaptation of a surviving episode while the other three have been developed from the scant details that survive – storylines, tele snaps and cast lists. For the uninitiated, the … >
With both young George Quaintain and Johnny Blackwood now freed from their conspiracy, this final episode seemed to dedicate itself quite blatantly to laying foundations in the hope of a second season. As romance blossomed in the open between Annie and Johnny, barmaid Alma prepared for her wedding to Davey Sharpe and Ralph Coates supposedly … >
It may have simmered for seven weeks, but the townsfolk of Jericho have finally caught up with the conspiracy surrounding the first episode’s explosion and the death of the saboteur Red Killeen. As this penultimate episode began, the discovery of Red’s body buried surreptitiously beneath his victims had hit home and Johnny Blackwood’s name was … >
Since returning to the Earth defending game, post-Miracle Day, Gwen Cooper has been working primarily from the boot of her car with only her long-suffering husband Rhys as backup. As Torchwood’s hub was destroyed in ‘Children of Earth’, Gwen is seeking to re-establish a new base of operations in the Cardiff Bay. The major obstacle … >
After last week’s uneasy agreement between the brothers, we saw Johnny (Hans Matheson) assuming his responsibilities, taking keys and ruffling feathers, even before the credits rolled. There was scant time to enjoy his elevated status though, as the spectre of Red Killeen’s death threatened to overwhelm events. His body, buried below the grave of the … >