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When Shannon Matthews disappeared in 2008, the resulting search and eventual fallout felt like something straight out of a TV drama, so shocking and unimaginable was the result. How appropriate then that, almost a decade on, the tale finds itself the subject of a major BBC One drama. Wisely, The Moorside steers clear of obvious … >
The earliest Doctor Who serial starring Patrick Troughton as the Second Doctor known to exist in its entirety, ‘The Tomb of the Cybermen’ is the first serial of the show’s fifth season. The four-part story originally aired from 2 September to 23 September 1967 Buy ‘The Tomb of the Cybermen’ on DVD on Amazon here. … >
Written by Paul Cornell, ‘Human Nature’ and ‘The Family of Blood’ were the eighth and ninth episodes of the modern Doctor Who era’s third season. The story aired from 26 May to 2 June 2007. Buy 2007’s season on DVD on Amazon here. The story England, 1913. A schoolteacher named John Smith dreams he’s a mysterious time-travelling hero called … >
‘The Talons of Weng-Chiang’ was the final serial of Doctor Who‘s fourteenth season. The six-part story originally aired from 26 February to 2 April 1977. Buy ‘The Talons of Weng-Chiang’ on DVD on Amazon here. The story The Doctor and Leela arrive in Victorian London, whereupon they stumble upon an investigation into a series of strange … >
The Doctor takes Ace back to her home in Perivale, where they find that her friends have all mysteriously disappeared; a discovery that leads them to a dying planet full of savage Cheetah People and one of the Doctor’s greatest enemies… Buy ‘Survival’ on DVD on Amazon here. Best moments The Doctor goes shopping … >
Even as it enters the realms of big apocalyptic demon carnage, Crazyhead can’t help but surprise and delight with its now-trademark anarchic style. Over the past six weeks, it’s taken the standard ‘chosen one versus supernatural’ formula and given average genre tropes an injection of tongue in cheek fun. The demon drama draws to a … >
At first glance, this penultimate instalment of Crazyhead would appear to be business as usual. There’s the usual display of cheekiness, intelligent wit and endearing character work, but it hardly feels like its building to any huge revelatory crescendo. But whilst ‘Downward Facing Dog’ doesn’t exactly shake everything to the core ready for the big … >
Say what you like about E4’s Crazyhead (though we’d rather you didn’t, as we’re growing quite fond of it actually), but the one thing you can never accuse it of is being a slow burner. As we enter the second half of the season, the various story strands are beginning to tie up rather nicely. There’s no … >
It would have been way too easy at this point for Crazyhead to slip quietly into the comfortable Freak of the Week format so coveted by other genre shows. It’s telling then that so far this hasn’t happened, with this third instalment feeling like an organic extension of the first episode, as opposed to just … >
Howard Overman clearly loves a good grave digging. Just like the early episodes of his other E4 hit Misfits, this week we find our main characters getting rid of a corpse under cover of nightfall. Deliberate running trend or just a bit of a coincidence? We may never know… What we do know though is … >